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Sharpness has been going to Swords therapy for a few weeks now. Needless to say it has been somewhat improving his mood swings. He isn’t as quick to anger anymore, though he still doesn’t hesitate to bring out his sword if he feels threatened.
It also seemed that everyone else has been noticing his improvement lately too. They can actually joke around without worrying too much about accidentally angering Sharp and losing a strength. That is until today.
Flowtives and Sword had asked Sharpness and Twirps to spar with them. Sharp being the blood thirsty meat head he is, didn’t hesitate to jump in. It was all going well, a decent 2v2. But as the fight went on it looked as though Flow and Sword were winning, Twirps had been a little laggy and was kind of slowing down Sharpness.
This was very frustrating to Sharp, he hated losing fights, even a tiny spar like this was serious to him. Still, he was continuously calming himself down. Sword’s therapy sessions going in and out of his head.
Sharpness was taking on Flow, while as Twirps was with Sword. Flow and Sword seemed to have to planned to shove Sharp and Twirps together and jump them both with maces. Sword was repeatedly hitting Twirps backing him up to Sharp.
As Sharp and Twirps suddenly bumped into each other, Flowtives saw the opening and went for the attack. Sharp tried his best to duck down and dodge, instinctively closing his eyes as his knees hit the ground, a sharp slicing sound filled the air.
Time seemed to have stopped for a moment and no one made a sound. Sharpness was confused, he was expecting a snarky comment from Flow not complete and utter silence. As he opened his eyes, he saw blonde pieces of…hair? they were scattered around him. As the realization hit Sharpness someone put a hand on his shoulder.
“Um… Sorry, dude.” a voice spoke, the same voice that came out of the man who just took a part of Sharpness, a part that he held so dearly he never even let himself touch too much. And all he had to say was sorry dude? Seriously?
A burst of anger flooded Sharpness. How dare he, how dare anyone do that? Oh he’ll show why he should be sorry.
Sharpness sprung around and landed a heavy blow to Flow. Who seemed to have not expected that, before Flow could even recover Sharpness gripped his sword and aimed straight for his head.
Flow tried to bring out his shield and try to defend the harsh attacks but Sharpness’s speed was far different than usual. Just as he was about to hit the final shot Sword got in between them.
“Now Sharp, remember what we talked about!” Sword tried to sound calm and stable but it was obvious he was somewhat a little nervous to even say anything.
“What? You think your little sessions will be able to help me with THIS?” Sharpness yelled pointing to his hair that was very short and somewhat uneven now.
“It really isn’t that bad…I’d say short hair suits you! just needs a little more styling that’s all.” was all Sword could say, he knew being calm and positive worked on Sharpness.
Sharp didn’t even dignify him with a response and instead he shoved Sword out of the way and slammed his blade into Flow before he could heal. Even after the death message he continued to stab his sword into Flow’s lifeless body. There was blood everywhere on Sharpness now but he couldn’t care less.
Then Sharpness turned around and lunged for Sword.
Sword4000 was slain by conexion.
He was breathing heavily now, he couldn’t think straight he could literally see red. His eyes averted to Twirps.
Twirps was smashed by conexion.
Tai: ???
Twirps: DUDE
Twirps: CHILL DOWN
Dol9phin: tf is going on
Tai: did someone mention sharplow to him lmao
Sword4000: way worse bro
Sharpness gripped the communicator and threw it with so much force that it broke instantly when it the ground. He looked back to the piles of long blonde streaks of hair. He couldn’t hold back the tears anymore. Trying to muffle his whimpers he just stood there thinking about everything and nothing both at the same time.
Sword’s words playing in his mind over and over again. He was desperately trying to find a way to calm down, he wanted to feel the peace he felt when he went to those sessions.
“Usually, people tend to go to their favorite person to y’know vent out their frustrations to. Communication is key!”
Favorite person? Does he even have a favorite person? He had just ruthlessly killed his own teammate. This server was full of people he could never trust. He found them very irritating at times.
But there was a certain bunny he didn’t mind as much he did with others.
The soft sound of his voice when he wanted to teach Sharpness something. It was always pretty obvious that Sharp was a bit more slow compared to others. But he always had the patience to help Sharp understand.
His purple furry cute ears. Sharpness actually managed to touch and hold them once, they were the softest thing he had ever laid his hands on.
His beautiful bright magenta eyes that seemed to light up any room.
Well, Jude wouldn’t mind a visit right?
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Today was pretty uneventful for Jude, he repaired his griefed traps and made a few trap blueprint sketches for future projects. Parker hadn’t logged on cause of ‘private business’ so he didn’t really have anyone to talk to all day.
He thought about teasing and maybe trapping Sharp but he overheard about him dueling with Flow and Sword.
As Jude was trading with his villagers he noticed a death message in the chat.
Flowtives was slain by conexion.
Well it seemed like the spar was going pretty good for Sharp.
Sword was slain by conexion.
Okay…REALLY good.
Twirps was smashed by conexion.
What the fuck? Weren’t Twirps and Sharpness teamed up?
Jude saw the chat going crazy, reasonably so. He scrolled through them looking for an answer as to why Sharpness suddenly had gone haywire.
Tai: so u gon tell us y sharps pissed off orrrr?
Flowtives: nah its kinda personal 4 sharp… js meet him in person ull understand
The fuck does that mean? What could’ve happened at that duel? Just as Jude was thinking about all the possible scenarios that might’ve happened, his ears picked up a rough sound of heavy boots clicking against each other.
As Jude turned around there stood Sharpness, covered in blood, his face stained with tears and smudged eyeliner, and his hair was short now. Wait what?
Jude couldn’t believe his eyes, he rubbed eyes to double check. And sure enough Sharpness’s very long hair was now very short. Jude couldn’t contain his horror.
“WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR?!”
Jude rushed over to Sharpness, shaking him a little in a frantic manner. And at that Sharpness bursted into tears yet again.
Sharpness pulled Jude into a bear hug, his hands holding Jude’s waist a little too tight as he snugged his teary face into Jude’s neck. As he sobbed and his knees almost failing Jude hugged him back.
Gently rubbing Sharp’s back in a comforting manner and whispering to him that it’s gonna be alright and how they can fix this.
Sharp didn’t say anything back but his hold over Jude relaxed and his sobs quieted down. That was fine, Jude could wait an eternity for Sharpness to talk and he wouldn’t even complain about it.
All they needed was each other, and that was enough.