6 counts of forced confinement
[To Jan Valentine. 90% unhackable. The syllables are slurred due to damaged anatomy.]
Celebration's canceled; I won't be at the Northern Lights for 'bout a week... A 'lil skirmish got me weathering unpleasant injuries... The flesh is fucking weak.
I gotta proposition for you. I'll tell ya when I got my health.
[To Teddie. 90% unhackable.]There's ( Read more... )
Celebration's canceled; I won't be at the Northern Lights for 'bout a week... A 'lil skirmish got me weathering unpleasant injuries... The flesh is fucking weak.
I gotta proposition for you. I'll tell ya when I got my health.
[To Teddie. 90% unhackable.]There's ( Read more... )
The shipyard? I know that place! It's the one that smells like fish!
And after leaving a note for his friends as to where he's gone, he runs as fast as his squeaky little blue paws will carry him, carrying some torn up, clean bits of cloth he'd been able to grab.
Because of the monsters, Teddie had, for once, exercised a bit of common sense and strapped on his bear claws in case something with enormous dripping fangs decided it wanted to turn him into bear stew.
He was making his way pretty well through the city, though once he got to the shipyard, he was utterly mystified. There were several three story buildings, all in varying states of disrepair and not exactly thinking straight, he decided to start with the first one.
Nope, the entrance to that was mostly blocked by a second floor that had fallen in.
The second? Well, he had walked in on some monsters snacking on some other poor creature, so that was definitely out. He slammed the door shut with a squeaked 'excuse me!' before taking off.
Third time may be the charm. The building he enters next seems empty at first. He creeps in cautiously, looking out for any monsters.
"T-Toshi? Are you here?" The bear calls, big round eyes searching the area and his little ears twitching.
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His arms were coiled around a guitar case poised vertically in between his knees, his skull eased against a wall. his breathes were shallow. He was asleep.
Toshi came to immediately, not upon hearing his name but once bear neared his vicinity. He looked at the being for several seconds before speaking.
"Here. The stairs." The man shifted nothing more than his eyes. "There's a gash on my cheek... Fucker keeps openin'..."
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But his face was most striking. Teddie had never seen someone who looked so hollow. Adachi came close, but this was something way beyond the bear's simplistic understanding.
"I brought clean bandages. It's all I could find. Did you get in a fight with a monster?"
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"Yeah," he replied, truthfully; the man he fought was a monster in body just like he considered himself a monster in soul. The periphery of his mouth jerked and he forced an askance smile, the black gap in place of his missing teeth contrasting the whites of his rows. "Pretty, huh?"
Toshi lofted two digits and indicated his jaw and the area of his forehead shaded by black strands. "Minor ones 'round there..." His smile tentatively diminished as if merely altering expressions caused him ache. "What the fuck are you waitin' for...?"
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"S-sorry!"
He knelt down, round eyes narrowed in concentration and the bear worked as quickly as he could, but he wasn't very good at this. He had enough sense to clean the cuts and gashes first, but the way he bandaged was almost childish. Toshiya was going to end up looking partially mummified at this rate. Still, the bandages were tight and they covered the wounds.
"There! That should hold you until you can see a doctor! D'you need help getting to the hospital?"
He beamed at Toshiya, surveying his handiwork.
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It was surreal to inspect this animated caricature as it attend to him. The thing resembled a conglomerate mascot. Toshiya titled his head under the subtle pressure of the soft paws and genuinely smiled. The expression left him with Teddie's question. "I ain't goin'," he said, chewing a scratched lip. Logic dictated his enemy was there that very moment. "I'll pull through this, a fuckin' breeze."
A metallic glint passed the corner of his vision. Toshi focused. It was the light reflecting off the metal track encircling the bear's head. How could it have escaped his attention before? Was this a counterpart of his outfit, or was the thing called Teddie a farce? His skepticism bet on the latter.
Toshiya stared, stared harder, then suddenly lunged, knocking the bear to the floor as the dust exploded about them. Liar, fucking liar. His hands shifted angrily to remove his head. "Take it off!"
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He was dazed for a few minutes, and it took a moment to register that Toshi was trying to pull his head off. With surprising strength, Teddie pulled himself away.
"Geez Toshi! What was that for? That hurt! You shouldn't be jumping around like that and I don't have Kamui here so I can't heal you!"
The bear mascot was frowning, trying to look as stern as possible. He didn't like when people tried pulling his head off like that. It was pretty painful.
"If you're not gonna go to the doctors then you should be trying to get better, not trying to play leap-bear!"
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"......." He paid a narrowed glance to the strict facade of his assistance. "I'm not playin'," he rebuked in a sharp whisper and reluctantly trudged to deposit himself heavily back on the stairs. "You're the one that likes games... Take off that ridiculous costume..."
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"I can show you the inside when you're better. Right now you look like you're gonna keel over any second."
There was definite worry there.
"Is there somewhere you can rest? I can help you get there."
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"Shit, ya don't need to mother me." His fingers lifted to brush into his black dyed hair to leave it as equally disheveled when they parted from his skull and a lightly wavering index finger indicated to Teddie. "Listen: I ain't goin' to the apartments, I'm not like those people... I'll survive right here..."
He scoured his memories of what little Teddie divulged on his person. The term "shadow" stood out among the trivialities. "The best thing ya can do... is offer me knowledge. In this life... the encounters fate orchestrated for me, a lot of 'em haven't been too good. You're not an obstacle in my path... who are ya?"
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"I don't really know what I am. Most of my memories from before Sensei and the others came into my world are beary hazy but I'm pretty sure I'm a shadow. That's all there was in my world after all. Fog and shadows."
He plops down in a cloud of dust, looking down at his blue paws.
"Naoto thinks that how people grow shadows over their lives, the reverse happened for me. I'm a shadow that grew a personality."
Teddie looked up and beamed at Toshiya.
"But you look like a normal human to me! Well, right now you look like a mummy, but with the bandages off, I'm pretty sure you're a human!"
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The hollow eyes silently looked at the bear who was pensively looking at himself. The action, Toshi thought, implied uncertainty in Teddie's place in the world and the mirthful expression the creature adorned thereafter did not mask his inmost cinders of anxiety from Toshi's shrewd perception.
"Hah..." he snickered and dropped one eyelid. "You've done enough. I... appreciate it. Now if you ain't going to show me the inside, ya can leave. I'll sleep or whatever."
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"I-if you're sure Toshi. I'll come by again! Just let me know if you need anything."
He gave a small salute, looking as serious as a bearsuit could.
"Doctor Teddie is always on duty!"
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