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The slowly sun rose and hit against the windows of cleaners HQ the small steps achoe in the hallway. The smell of old spray paint and a hint of trash linger in all the halls. Small shifts fill the room of the recovery room.
“mmh… What happened.” Zanka raised his hand up in the air and noticed in his blurry vision a ring on finger.
Zanka slowly got up and looked over at his Lovely Assistaff and grabbed it, he set it down on his lap.
“ I haven't taken good care of you recently have I…. sorry about that.” he slowly grazed his hand on the staff for a second as the ring on his finger slowly dragged against the staff's wooded outline and scratches and dents.
“Where did I even get this from…wait, it's that stupied raiders.” Zanka gripped his staff but slowly let go and set it beside him.
Zanka looked down at his finger and tried to take off the ring but the ring wouldn't move at all. Zanka sighed and fell back on his bed.
“Did that dam..” Zanka was about to finish his sentence when the door opened.
Enijn walked in the room casually walking in with a cigarette in his mouth and sat in the chair next to the bed. He put out the cigarette by the window.
“Looks like you're up but doc told me to make sure you aren't up and moving around too much. You still have poison in ya.” Enjin said in a more smirking tone and leaned back in his chair.
Enjin looked up to see the ring on Zaka's finger and a smirk appeared on Enjin's face and he sat up from his chair and had a teasing glint in his eyes.
“Whered you get ring from Zanka I don't ever remember seeing you wearing any rings.” Enjin teased and took a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it and blew outside the window.
“What no, damn raider he must have put it on my finger when I passed out from the poison.” Zanka clenched his thinking if he just had trained better and was just stronger he would have beat him.
“Hey there, let's calm down there and whatever you think you're dinging into your hand too much there bud.” Enjin said and got up and grabbed bandages from the cupboard.
Ejin sits back down and grabs Zanka’s hand and starts first wiping off the blood that's already slowly dripping down Zanka’s arm and then wraps his hand and ties it off.
“There we go, and next time take your anger maybe on the pill or something not your hand,” Ejien said and sat up and walked to the door and closed it behind him.
Zanka sighs and slowly falls back, and looks back at the ceiling as he lays there for hours. He slowly gets up and stands up and steps on the floor and uses his staff to help prop him up. And he looks out the window the sun setting, the glow slowing set into the window as the golden razes fall upon the windows glass.
A knock on the door made an echo in the infirmary room, Rudo poked out his head and opened the door fully and walked over to Zanka.
“I came to check on you Enjin told us you woke up everyone should be here in a couple minutes to say hi.” Rudo said as grabbing a chair by the door and setting it down by the bed as Zanka still leaned against his staff looking out the window.
Zanka sighed and walked back to the bed and set his staff to the bed by the night stand. He looked down at the ring and sighed and looked at the door.
“Just tell them im fine I need space they can see me tomorrow morning.” Zanak said, his gaze fell from Rudo and back at the window.
“Alright I will but if you need anything just call us.” Rodu walks over and closes the door behind him with a small click.
Zanka sat up and walked over to the window his legs wobbled and he leaned against the windowsill and sighed and slid down the wall and hit the floor.
“Why… why I tried to hard but I lost now im here stuck in this rancid bed in the fucking room that stinks of bleach while everyone else is out there being useful. Why am I such a useless, useless,useless,useless person!” Tears stared to form in his eyes and put his legs to his chest.
He grabbed his hair and pulled on it as tears hit the cold ground as the cold night air hit his back from and small gap from the opened window from earlier. He sat up and grabbed his staff that was beside his night stand and used it to help im self get up. He slammed the window shut and locked it and wobbled over to his bed.
“To dam cold for this shity room.” He sat on his bed and set his staff and scotched to the backboard of his bed and rested against the pillows and dug in the nightstand drawer and found cloth and some glue with a old stitching needle.
After some time Zanak is wrapping cloth around his staff and gluing the cloth to the dents and scratches on it. While he was wrapping the last bit of cloth small clicks hit his window. Zaka looks over and sees Jabber tapping the taps where small and dainty but notable taps.
“What the fuck… why are you here!” Zanka grips his staff and points it at the window.
“How come so tense zan-tannn im just here visiting you making sure the poison hasn't got to ya.” Jabber said with a huge smile and unpicked the lock on the window and was siting on the windowsill.
“How did you even find this place and also I would never let a poison from you ever kill me!” Zanak yelled and tried to get up to fight Jabber but face planted into the concert floor.
“O that looked like it hurt you ok zan-tann Are you sure that my poison aint going to take ya out looks like your struggling to even stand up.” Jabber giggled and hoped into the room and skipped over to Zanka.
“ Im feeling nice zan-tan let me help you up iv noticed you never have like the dirt before.” Jabber smiled and swung him up onto his feet.
Zanka still trying to re gain strength to even get off the floor, quickly grabbed onto Jabbers sleeve when he was flung onto his feet. His legs wobbling while trying to step back from Jabber.
“Aww dont back up so soon im just trying to help ya, also I don't think you'd even get that far your legs are like jello.” Jabber grind and a mischievous look in his eyes as he spined Zanka around in a circle in the middle of the room.
“What are you doing are you stupid why the hell are you spinning me like a doll!” Zanka yelled as he grabbed his staff and was a little stable to back up and use his staff to give him and jabber some space.
“All ready to fight me even with all the poison in ya well thats just cocky isn't it!” Jabber jinki slowly appeared with a pink glow and he ran toward Zanak with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
Jaber swung at Zanak but he blocked it but fell to the floor hitting the back of his head on the floor. Jabber jumped up in the air to strike Zanka from above but Zanka rolled over under the bed to get a slight bit of breathing time. Jabber smirked and grabbed Zanak by the ankle and drug him from under the bed.
“Aww look it one minute you your so cocky to fight me the next minute your running away, I could just so easily end you here but that you end someone that could be soooo powerful that I could fight against later on.” Jabber smiled and laid on his stomach kicking his legs back and fourth.
“You little pice of shit ill…” Zanka stoped taking as he felt a pike of pain threw the back of his spine as he looks down blood slowly coving the floor as a small tear of cloth that is on his admon.
“Well, well , well looks like zan-tan looks like he should have just let it be but of course it would be rude if I let you die.” Jabber smiled and took one of his claws slowly as Zanka went in and out of consciousness.
Jabber lifted his arm and let the tip of his jinki move Zanka’s mouth into a smile as a cut formed on the tip of his mouth blood slowly dripping down his face.
“You always have look cute with blood on your face all and when your just stuck here not moving I could just kill you at any time isn't that just enjoyable to you!” Jabber slowly moves his blade from Zakan's mouth and slowly grazes from his neck to his arms down to his waist while kicking his legs back and fourth.
“Just think your body covered in blood from me zan-tan but of course you do need to be able to put up a fight having you weak isn't as much fun as you being full of strength. I cant wait for the day you have your full strength and we can fight again and see who is truly better.”
Jaber moves the jinki from Zanka’s waist to his finger tip and cuts it and watches the blood drip down the side of his fingers. Jabber takes off his choker and lets the blood go into his choker. He puts the choker back on and they cuts one of his finger and lets his blood drip into Zanka’s choker.
“Well lets get ya back in bed and I guess ill get you patched up so you don't bleed out.” He got up and he grabbed Zanka and set him on the bed.
He walked over and stared oping all the cabinets trying to find bandages and rubbing alcohol. After he found them he brought over a chair and stared to poor rubbing alcohol on his wound on his side he lifted his shirt his skin was light the rubbing alcohol fuzzed against his skin. Janaka leaned Zanka against the pillows to help when he stared wrapping the bandages around his wound.
“Well that look good and also I guess you have more poison in ya then you did before I guess I could get you some antidote.” Jabber digs in his sleeves and finds a bottle of pills and slips one in Zanka's mouth and grabs some water from the sink with a paper cup and let the water slip down Zanka's throat. He grabs a pice of paper he finds while looking for bandages earlier and writes on it. “Take one a day for the poison to leave your system should take 1 week.” Jabber throws it in the nightstand drawer and walks over to the windowsill.
“ I’ll see you again until next time zan-tan~.” Jabber giggles and jumps out the window and closes the window behind him and locks it.
The moring rises the sun hits the window sill filling the room. The soft mumbles fill the room as Zanka wakes up.
“That dam jabber he beat me again and I wasn't strong though to beat him.” Zanka hissed and grabbed his side and looked down to see his bandaged side. He looked at it and smiled?
“Why the fuck am I smiling what is wrong with me.” He shook his head and sat up and he noticed it was a pice of paper sticking ou the draw at his nightstand. He open it and noticed with it was a bottle of pills that were the antidote to the poison.
“ well I guess ill take his word not like this wouldn't be as bad as his dam daggers with that poison." He slowly got out of bed and walked over and grabbed a cup of water and popped the pill in his mouth and swallowed.
He sighed and grabbed a jacket and put it on since it was still early in the moring and used his staff to walk. He opened the door and walked down the hall the sound of his staff hitting the floor each time he took a step filled the slight halls. He was used the slight halls since he was usually the one to wake up the earliest. He finally made it outside and took a deep breath and sat down on one of the betches on the court yard where sparing was most common.
He sat there in silence as he looked down at the ground re thinking of what happed yesterday last night. Why did that even happen to him why did he let that happen when he was first hit the poison on he was still in and out of it all he could remember was jabber calling him cute when he was covered in blood.
“That dam weirdo probably high off of one of his poisons thats all thats why he made that comment.” Zanka looked down at the ring on his finger why didn't he grab it when he was unconscious from the poison.
What was even his problem why is he even thinking about him its not like his good hes against us our rival. He was always taught at a young age that all villains are just heartless people that have no soul except for the evil that they spread across there victims.
“Was the school wrong?” Zanka looked down at the ring for a split second but snapped out of it and slapped him self across the face for even thinking that shit.
Foot steps appear behind Zanka and he turns around to see Riyo she stretches and yawns and sits next to Zanka.
“What got you in a pissy mood to slap your self.” Riyo said why putting her hands behind her head.
“Its nothing it was just a bug thats all.” Zanka said while looking at everything except for her.
“Now I know that some bullshit, you can talk to me you know and also the team where here for ya we all have shed blood for each other.” she said and set a hand on his shoulder for a second and then let go and looked up at the sky.
She looked back at him and noticed the ring on his finger and gave a devious smile.
“Who’s the ring from some lucky peron or something even on the ring finger and all.” Riyo says and smirks and kick his leg to mess with him.
“What no that stupied Jabber guy put it on and I cant get it off for some reason and also what the hell do you mean by ring finger?”
“ your joking, you out of all people dont know what the ring finger is I would not be surprised if it was like Rudo but you is shocking.” she laughed and almost fell of the bench but sat up.
“ How is that my fault it was nothing we learned in the school, but also my school never taught us about jewelry meaning it was useless in their eyes.”
“Your school sound like a boring one but the ring finger is usual for people who are in love usually put promise rings or wedding rings on the ring finger.”
“ maybe that raider has feelings for ya but also thats our rival so I recommend figure out y'all's thing out sooner or latter.” She kicks her legs up and gets off the bench and walks back inside and waves good bye.
“....what the fuck!” Zanka sits there in silence as shock and also embarrassment, and hate all come up at the same time.
This was the first time he had ever even had all these emotions so he takes Einji’s advice and walks back to his room slams open the recovery room and closes is and he walks over to the pillow and face slams into the pillow and grips the pillow.
“ Why the fuck would that stupied dum ass do that…. He was probably high off of poison and did that while thinking what else to get high off of.”
He sighed and looked up at the blank ceiling and looked the ring and tried to take it off and it worked the ring came off.
“ why the fuck did you not come off yesterday!” He sighed and put he ring on and slammed his head into the pillow.
Why would he even put on the ring why does he even want to keep this ring why is he like this.
“Oh…”
He laid there in silence he was..
“Hell no im not hes the rival and the top thing in the school was to be the best and to be perfect and also to never fall in love!” And also hes a guy he fall in live with another guy.
He laughs and grabs his hair and stars crying while laughing trying to re collect his feelings.
After a couple of hours he had run out of tears he just laid there in silence. When a voice popped up it wasn't one of his teammates it came from his choker… it was from jabber.
“Heyyyy zan-tan how ya feeling did the poison feel good to you!”
“Why the fuck are you even here and how the hell did you even abel to talk to me from my choker?”
Jabber giggled for a couple of minutes and hummed some rap to himself while the small background noise of glass beakers hit each other.
“Well while you where in za za land from my poison I took some of ya blood and I put some of my blood in your choker thats all.” Jabber said while the small thud of him putting the choker on the table.
“Your more crazy than I have ever even think you would be.” Zanka said while getting up and walking over to the window and opening it to let fresh air in.
Zanka hangs up the call and throws the choker on the bed and sits down in the chair next to him. The only noise if the small movements of the crows and the sound of his breathing. As hes looking out the window the door creeks open as Enjin opens the door.