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The rain made it so much harder. That is, trying to see Jaden. He did told Wemmbu that he will "catch up" with him, but Wemmbu can't stop himself from looking for him in the crowd below. That's when he hears it. Something cracking. Not something, Wemmbu knows what it is the second he hears it. He hears it everytime he uses Gambit. It's such a similar situation to what happened with Rejoice. No! He can't let this happen! Not again! He promised that no one else that is dear to him will die! Wemmbu haven't heard the ding of his comunicator, that means that Jaden is still alive. And Wemmbu will ensure that it wil stay that way. Even if he have to accept that he was a ———
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"-mbu? Wemmbu?! Are you sleeping again?!"
Wemmbu jumps up a bit. Though, looking around reminds where he is. In the flower field behind their home, that Egg has been so adamant in saving when they first found the place. Wemmbu can still hear his voice loud and clear.
"We can not pass up such a good place, bro! Think about it!". Eggchan said spining around trying to let the sight sink it. He already took like a hundred photos on his communicator and now he was taking out the book, that how serious he was. "You, like, don't know what these flowers are, right? But I know! I have seen then only five times in all my stay at the server. And there were like only two or three of them, not the whole fields!"
How could they not build their new house there after that? And besides, it had a pond right next to it and Wemmbus new favorite place to nap.
He lookes at the sun from down under the willow tree. It truly is such a good place to sleep, so ignoring the screams from direction of the house he continues to laze around.
But of course this world isn't so merciful. And he once again is disturbed, by the flaps of the wings sending wind right into his face. Sitting up and Wemmbu can't help but cast an annoyed look at Eggchan. This chungus keeps disturbing his naps with most obnoxious of reasons. Now he is going to say that he somehow burned something at the kitchen and that Wemmbu just has to help him.
"Wemmbu, can you help me at the kitchen. I tried to bake that pie, that you did last week and... umm... it kinda got burned. Bro, come on!"
"Called it" Wemmbu thought. Sitting up, he starts untangling the mess that is his braid. While he was sleeping so many sticks and leaves get tangled it. When he fights and debris flies everywhere his hair is always clean and shiny, but the moment he lays down to sleep everything tangles, it's just another way the life is unfair! Wemmbu still doesn't understand how it works.
"So, like, what do you even want me to do?" Wemmbu said, looking up at his best friend.
"Bro, just show me how you do it. I won't ask you again! I swear that if the next time I try to do the pie and I will not go to you. Please!"
And as it always was, Wemmbu folded.
"Yeah, dalright." Getting up, with Eggs help, he quickly shakes off dry leaves and grass. Starting to walk to their house, he side steps all the flowers. He learned the lesson from the last time when he stepped on them. Egg isn't far behind and starts whining about the new recipe that he want to try doing, after he masters the pie of course.
Wemmbu feels the headache building. But he knows that if there is something that Eggchan is, other than a chungy of course, is that he is stubborn as a mule and won't stop until the recipe is perfect. It's going to be a fun week.
Walking up the porch Wemmbu quickly kicks off the shoes and comes into the house. It's isn't as bare as it was when it was just build, but there are still empty spots that are being contended for. For example there is a good spot right next to the backdoor, where Codmaster and Egg want to put a cabinet for their fishing gear, but Wemmbu wants there to be a shoe cabinet with something like a dressing table on top. The warfare that is happening for it is compared with the Mafia War by all those who see it.
Looking away from thay place, Wemmbu quickly moves deeper into the house. When Wemmbu asked Parrot and Yungy if they could contact some builders for him he did not expect that the house would be build by the next morning. Wemmbu still doesn't know how the fuck they build it so fast.
But fast doesn't mean that it isn't without fault. It this three-story house (five-story if you count the basement and the vault under it) there is only one kitchen and it's right in the middle of the house. At least there is at least one toilet and bath on each of the residential floors.
The kitchen is a mess. No, you know, calling it a mess is an offence to all the messes in the world. Modern art doesn't look half as bad as this kitchen. Egg didn't try to do something about it, judging by how the pie looks. The mees around it is one thing, but full black pie that has light seeping from it, together with smoke, would make anyone lose their cool.
"Egg, how did you bake it? Genuinely, how? Did it become lava or smt?" Quizzically looking it over, Wemmbu took out a water bucket out of his inventory and using his tail pushed it the pie in water. It instantly started boiling and foaming. Wemmbu looked over at Eggchan.
"Bro, I had to use two water buckets on this pie before I run after you, 'cus it was cosplaying as Flame." Eggchan says.
Now that Wemmbu is actually looking at Egg he can see that poor angel have seen better days. There are blisters on his hands, some places on his clothes are burned and most importantly, he doesn't have a book in his hands. Usually he would start calculating what he did wrong by looking through his book, but when he is truly defeated at what to do he doesn't even hold it, just goes to mope somewhere.
That won't do.
Sending Egg off, to clean up and treat the blisters, Wemmbu starts working on the kitchen. He usually isn't permited here, usually his "cooking privileges" end at the campfire cooking, but there are a few recipes that he is allowed to cook. For example the chorus pie. Wemmbu was the one to come up with the idea of chorus pie and he was the only chorus pie baker who baked this pie. Even Egg didn't know if anyone has tried to bake with chorus.
So cleaning up the mess that was left after Eggs baking, Wemmbu thinks. "How long was Egg trying to bake it? Is this the first time that everything got so out of hand, or is this just the first time that Egg come to me after?". Ultimately it didn't matter. Egg could set the house on fire and Wemmbu would only care if the angel was alright or not.
Quickly getting kitchen to look presentable, Wemmbu sidesteps the water bucket. It continues to bubble and frankly speaking Wemmbu wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole if he could help it. Who knows, maybe the pole would also catch fire...
When he just starts to take the ingredients for a new pie out, trying to ignore the rudiculous amount of dirty kitchen utensils, Egg comes back into the room. Now all Wemmbu has to do is say to Egg what he needs to do, while he washes the dishes.
Egg IS good at cooking and baking. Not because he's some cooking genius, but 'cus he knows what exactly to do. That's why he works the best with precise instructions.
While intructing Egg, washing the dishes and baking a cake time flies by. Eggchan continues to write the recipe down, while Wemmbu repeats it to him for the twentieth time. The pie is almost done. All they need to do is put it in the oven.
"Let it bake like this for like 15 minutes, then open the oven for 5 minutes and after that bake it for 20 minutes more. Understood?"
"Sir, yes sir!" Egg couldn't help, but joke about how "to the point" Wemmbu becomes when you pass certain point in annoying him.
"Bro, if I hear you joke like that again..."
"Sir, understood sir!" Egg saluted before running off somewhere. The timer must have been set on the communicator.
Sighing, Wemmbu looks around the kitchen, if there is any mess that still needed cleaning, before starting to move. Wemmbu knew why Egg was so frantic about the pie. Surprising people with things that they already seen isn't as exiting as beating them on their home turf.
Today Jaden and Codmaster will finally come back from their trip in The Great Sea. When Jaden first started packing he only said that it was somewhere to the east and that Codmaster also will come with him, 'cus of some dealings between fishes and mermaids there. He promised to write or call if he thinks something is wrong, but Wemmbu couldn't NOT worry about these two.
Wemmbu knows that Jaden more than capable and knows that Codmaster can ran away if anything goes wrong, but it just feels wrong to let them out of his sight. When Wemmbu thinks about thosw he cares about one of the first thought isn't "how are they doing?", it's always "are they still alive?". There are so many scenarios like the rain obscuring his vision, like people surrounding him and, oh God, they look just like wardens from up here, like the sound of skull cracking, like reacting in less than a second, only to come back to yourself half an hour later not knowing where you are, like looking Jaden in the eyes and seeing that he is supposed to be dead that he can't get out of his head.
Parrot and Minute and even Flame (who knows who got Flame to say that) all tried to get Wemmbu to therapy after all that happened, but he doesn't need it. He is alright.
Passing by the field, Wemmbu goes back to his resting place. Willow continues to stand and that's all Wemmbu needs. Laying down, the voidling starts to look for constellations in the sky. All the cleaning up and baking took up so much time, the middle of the day became an evening. The sun is still just setting, but there are some stars that can be seen in the sky. The Clause star for example. It is one of the brightest star on the sky, the one that's usually used when you travel by sea. It is located in the north-east. Wemmbu learned it from Jaden when they were looking for the treasure.
Jaden was later telling something about there being legends of the Clause and the Sun being lovers and after rebelling against the order of life they were sentenced to never talk with eachother, only ever being able to look eachother in the eyes while the Sun is setting.
Wemmbu couldn't help but laugh at how rudiculously romantic most of the pirates mythos are. He knew that Egg would be facinated by all the myths and legends, but Egg wasn't there, so Wemmbu could laugh all he wanted. Jaden seemed to agree with the sentiment.
"What is romantic in sleeping next to twenty eight sweaty old mens? If I'm going to get a legend about myself, then it will be a legend of adventure!" He said then, looking into their bonfire.
Wemmbu couldn't wait to see Jaden and Codmaster again. He just knows that something thrilling will happen. All he can hope for is that it's a good type of thrilling.
Turning on his side and looking at the faint red that is left of the sunset Wemmbus eyelids grow heavier and heavier.
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"Wemmbu! Omg! You can not keep sleeping on the street! You are not a street cat!"
Opening one eye Wemmbu can see that it is dark outside, Egg is standing over him. Exasperated. Oops...
Trying to act as non-chalant as he can, Wemmbu looks around and sees a figure the backdoor of their house. It Jaden! Jumping up and scaring Eggchan a bit, Wemmbu ran to the house. Egg started running after him, screaming something about "impossible behavior".
Kicking off the boots, Wemmbu tackles Jaden. The half siren surprisingly finds his footing and doesn't fall. Wemmbu knows that Jaden and Egg must have already hugged everything out of their system, so it's his turn now.
"Bro, Jaden, it's so good to see you! Did everything turn out good?" Wemmbu says, though it gets muffled my Jadens shirt.
Jaden can't help but chuckle. "Yeah, everything alright. We dealt with mermaids and fishes. It turned out that fishes were selling illegal pearls, by killing the clam to not pay for it." Wemmbu got clingy with everyone, who he hadn't seen in a long time (read, two days).
"Bro, what it is with The Great Sea marine life that they get like that. I always hear more and more deranged stories from you." Wemmbu begrudgingly let go of Jaden. "Where is Cod by the way?"
"He is upstairs. Looking through his things to find where he PUT MY FISHING ROD!" Jaden and Wemmbu both jumped at Eggs loud voice, they also heard something that suspiciously sounded like "fuck off" and decided not to question anything, as always.
Moving to the dining room, where the main dish was the chorus pie, they heard some more sound of the struggle from upstairs as Egg and Cod tried to find the fishing rod, before deciding to look for it later, after the food.
Sitting here and sharing stories with eachother, Wemmbu can't help, but feel happy that he is home.
"Bro, you and Egg decided to live like... less then two thousand blocks from The Great Sea. Yes, I can live here and not be late to anything." Jaden said a year ago, when Egg and Wemmbu first moved into the house.
"Bro, I wasn't the one to choose this place! It was all Egg!"
Wemmbu pointed an accusing finger at his best friend.
"HUH?! It's my fault now?!" Egg screamed.
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After the dinner everyone gone to bed. Well... almost everyone. Two people were sitting at the porch.
"You know Egg, the flowers are doing great under your guidance. You sure that you aren't a gardener at heart?"
"Jaden, don't be silly, flowers are doing everything by themself, I'm just here to see that no one steps on them while they still only growing."
"Well, is it not guidance?"
"Forger-me-nots are resilient. I'm sure that they would grow even without me, just slower. And don't forget the pond. Without it, even with my help, their growth would be non-existent."
"Ahahaha, we can continue to go through all the reasons that the grow until the end of time, but I'm pretty sure thay Wemmbu won't appreciate that."
"Oh, yes. We should go to sleep before Wemmbu tries to get us into the cuddle pile."
Behind them they heard a creaking of the door. They looked eachother in the eyes.
"Well, do you bet on Codmaster still sleeping or already sitting in Wemmbus room?"
"Jaden, that's just unserious. Cod most likely is already seeing his third dream in Wemmbus nest."
The End.