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Sitting in the back of the classroom both oliver, zip, and edward sat together in pressed on seats with paper balls scattered throughout their desks and paper airplanes thrown at claire and laughing maniacally. Ms circle pretended like nothing was happening even if the planes irritated her to no end, she just didn't want to snap at her favorite students. Especially oliver. Edwards laughter slowly went to a halt as he noticed a mysterious black spike in the corner of where he sat at, however the color was different then the rather dark purpleish color he was used to seeing in this paper world. Completely dark. Seeming to look like a black hole if looked at a specific angle which was the angle he was looking at. His tail twitched as he looked towards oliver and zip before looking at ms circle who suddenly yelled out:
Ms. Circle - "Start packing up!,"
Of course, class had to end when he found something intresting that wasn't just science. Zip and oliver both high fived eachother in a conversation that was distant to him seeming like they successfully done something to claire judging by how annoyed she looked at the two. The two bullies stood up from their desks with oliver jumping over them and zip flying up and landing down onto the floor with a soft thud that echoed throughout the now empty classroom. She looked confident as ever with that smug smile and the small fang that peeked out of her mouth, her tail swaying side to side and her wings fluttering. As in a trance edward finally snapped out of it when zip got up in his face and threw a paper ball at his face. With a hiss of pain he rubbed his eye that teared up slightly and reddened upon getting poked as he looked up at zip with an annoyed, and belittling look, yet his face was flushed a soft pink which was a sharp contrast to the constant white and dark purple colors around the school.
Edward - "Now why the fuck would you do that?..."
He growled, his eyes narrowed as zip laughed condescendingly and leaned against his side and rested her arm on the top of his head, the two horns poked her cheek but his long white hair distracted her from the small stingy pain and the scratchy feeling of the elastic of his glasses. She put her claw into a fist and rubbed his head to which edward yelped and clawed at her arms,
Edward - "Ow stop it!"
He cried, his tail thrasing as he finally made her pull away. His "neat" hair was stringy and ruined from zips assult, but his thoughts wandered away back to the spike that he didn't take focus in, not wanting to draw any attention to it atleast until his friends left because he liked discovering things by himself.
Zip - "C'mon! Lets go we have to go to music!"
Oliver - "Ugh but Mr. Demi is annoying!
Oliver sneered and crossed his arms against his chest. His pencil arm creaking slightly at the pressure of being bent slightly as the stability of it was becoming shitty. Zip rolled her eyes and ignored him before signaling at edward to stand up
Zip - "Get up, we dont have all day"
Edward opened his mouth to retort back but huffed into his seat, he looked at the front of the desk where ms circle ended up leaving for her small lunch break. Abbie hasn't been seen for an hour. He sighed and muttered that he has to do homework before passing period ended, zip and oliver reasonably were shocked as it wasn't normal to see their friend do homework that wasn't science and they knew that edward always finished his homework even before class ended.
Zip - "Yo is he going insane..?"
Oliver - "Yeah i think so should we call the nurse?"
Edward - "Just go! I'll be in music in a bit."
Both zip and oliver looked at eachother before looking back at edward who sulked in his chair as he looked at the two silently waiting for them to leave as both zip and oliver shrugged and left the classroom with hushed voices. Edward quickly sat straight and his eyes locked onto the black spike that seemed to ooze with a strange black liquid that only made his curiosity grow stronger in an intoxicating mix of fear and wanting to understand. He pushed his chair and desk back into the others in a tangle of limbs to lean down to be in the same height as the said spike. He wrapped his claws around the base of the spike and the the other on the quarter end of it and began to pull trying to get the spike out of the wall. It wasn't the brightest thing to do. Why would it? Trying to get an unknown goo built to a solid object out of the wall is stupid. But edward wasn't the brightest. Edward wanted the spike to show it to Ms. Bloomie for her to have a new object to test on and understand what it is and how it works. The pulling didn't work and it seemed like it was burrowed deep into the wall that seemed to strengthened itself like oobleck. Edwards arms weakened slightly as he panted quickly, his brows furrowed together as he put all of his strength into his arms and pulled as hard as he could. In turns of events the spike seemed to detach itself from the wall and thrown into the middle part of his head. Blood splattered onto the object and on his face dripping down from his face to his pristine white labcoat and stained it a deep crimson color. The pain was immediate and a sharp exhale escaped his lips as he fell onto his back. His breathing labored and his vision blurred as he tried his best to focus on his surroundings but even as he tried his mind just wouldn't cooperate anymore, like it was having a mind of its own. His tail thrashing trying to understand the sudden pain and pressure coursing from his head to his body and twitching his limbs and convulsing relentlessly in a painful throb. His vision darkened at the ends. His eyes grew white and cloudy. His skin was clammy. Everything felt numb. And his consciousness faded. Events outside of his unconscious state the bell rang. Blood pooled around his head mixing with the oozing black goo that spiraled in a hypnotic illusion infecting his blood and turning it into a clumpy, organism like mush that slowly slithered towards edwards body. The mush clibed his hair and cheek with sticky suction cups that eased their way towards his wounds. As they neared towards the slit opening it grabbed the ends of the skin and widened it slightly before shoving its body inside with a squelching sound. The mush, or parasite, traveling through the spike burrowed inside that broke a hole into his skull as it slithered inside and latched itself to its brain penetrating it with small tentacles and pulsing in the black goo seen before.
first time posting on ao3 guys kinda nervous...