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The empty can skidded across the sidewalk, followed by a loud grunt by scary, her boot still held high in the air.
“We aren’t making any progress! Oh my god!” She grumbled, thrusting her foot to the ground, speeding on slightly ahead of the others, exiting Teen High.
“It’s gonna take time scary!” Normal pleaded, almost shuffling behind her to keep up. “I get it’s annoying, and I’m trying my best to council him through this, but even with my expertises and all… it’ll still take a-bit! He’s gone through a lot!”
“Wait- hold on Normal..” Taylor interjected, swooping in-front of normal, causing him to stifle back a-bit as Taylor shot his hand out, walking backwards, to face normal. “I’ll believe it’s been my perfect anime recommendations that truly helped overall!” He boasted, recoiling his hand suddenly, stuffing them into his pockets, as he torqued his head to the sky.
“Right… But look, guys! I’m the one with a connection to the doodler, I think.. it’s best we keep doing this, it’s slow, but- but, hey! It’s still progress.” Normal said, griping slightly onto his chest, believing almost, that he could still feel the pain of the doodler, the pain of sitting down on the throne, he knew this was what was right, he just wanted to help, he knew what it felt like to be lost, and he never wanted anyone, especially another teenager, to feel that way.
“But aren’t we on.. some like, stupid time limit!” Scary asked, her hands dramatically moving as she put emphasis on the time limit, making Normal’s Head reel even more.
“I don’t get all this doodler stuff.. but, atleast with Willy frozen in D.A.D.D.I.E.S, we should hopefully.. atleast get some extra time.”
Linc’s face scrunched up slightly, looking down at Normal, shooting a pitiful look
“It’s only Hermie watching over them though.” He
exhaled a little, “with how he helped in the battles, how much can he hold up?”
“He’s- he’s trying! He’s really risking it for us link!” Normal replied, alittle flustered
“Which is why I’m worried. I don’t want anyone getting hurt.” Linc looked off, crossing his arms, as if he was going into himself. “As much as I’m mad at him right now.. I don’t want my dad getting hurt. Out of everything happening right now, we need to ensure, that no one else gets hurt.” Link continued “And Willy’s a ticking time Bomb, he’s horrible! We can’t trust him with them. So we really can’t leave him there.”
“Really!” Scary snapped, “look, I hate Willy as much as you guys, but we can’t be taking risks like this! We need to take control in our hands, deal with Tony in the way WE see fit.” She said, skittering to a stop, and snapping around, almost smashing right into Normal, pointing at them all, “we’ve been dealing with all this shit this whole time… I- I, honestly don’t know why I’ve been so helpful this whole time, I’m not even related to Terry-“
“Scary..” normal muttered.
“Scary.” Linc interjected, looking at her. “That’s why our dad’s messed up. They turnt to violence and I’m sick of it. It’s dangerous.”
“Yeah, YOUR parents.” Scary said through grated teeth. “Why am I helping?”
“Because we’re your friends. We need to do this Scary, and right now it’s only us that we’ve got to fix all of this.” Linc replied, hoping Scary would understand.
“Maybe Willy did what he had to. Yknow? Take shit into his own hands, real metal shit, like we should. Like we should’ve been doing.” She asked, slowly getting closer to Linc.
“No scary! Jeez!” Normal shouted out again
“Scary, please.” Linc spoke over Normal, “we need to think as a team, hurting Tony isn’t going to do anything good, we don’t know what we are even dealing with! What if that messes with the anchor!” Normal could feel the tension growing especially as he stood opposed to both Linc and Scary, both of them, only staring daggers at one another.
“Right! Right guys! Jesus!” Taylor interjected, slotting right beside Normal, “you’re all acting so weird, you want to act like the hero, such as I! But are still guided by your parents. We need to make this our own story, hasn’t the anime we’ve been watching taught you anything!”
“No, Taylor, surprisingly, Toy Story anime hasn’t been teaching us anything!” Scary admitted, “and that’s easy for you to say, you didn’t even-“
“Don’t scary. Please. Look, I’m going home guys, I think we should talk about this in the morning. It’s late.. and I don’t want to keep Marco waiting.” Linc said, beginning to turn around.
“Ditto.” Scary said, removing the bitter look she had shot at Linc, after he had spoken over her. Taking her own leave.
“Normal.. it looks like I’m going need to really think about my anime for tomorrow.. this is gonna take ALOT of fixing..” Taylor said breaking the awkwardness.
“Yeah man.. yeah.” Normal absently replied. “I should probably get going aswell..”
“Wait.” Taylor grabbed Normal “are you.. alright?”
“No! How could anyone be.. Jeez, I’m sorry.” Normal said, breaking away from his touch, setting distance between the two.
“I’m scared to shout, all of this is so stressful, and it always goes back to our stupid parents! I’m afraid.. I’m afraid that if I start being guided too much by my fear, and I snap out again, then I’ll just be repeating the mistakes of Lark and Sparrow.. and my grandad.. just another Oak.”
“Look man, this shits fucked up! You got to look out for the hero of this story, you.”
The mention of a hero stung Normal, he knew he wasn’t the hero of the oaks, this quest was going to shit, and he felt lost. He felt like his connection to the doodler only made things worse, that’ll never gain a full understanding.
“Well, look man.. I’ve gotta get going too, so… cya?” Taylor said as he began to walk off. Hitching a small wave at Normal.
Back at his room, Normal could feel his head reeling. He felt everything up to now, all the information bouncing around in his head, feeling like it could all just burst out. “Jeez.” he grumbled, as he tossed Teeny’s head into the corner, falling straight onto his bed. Shifting til he felt comfortable, staring straight at Teeny’s head, Hoping for respite as he drifted to sleep.