prolouge
Sins. Everyone has them. Of course, a living person would do some sins, from childhood like lying to your parents, to adulthood, maybe just a simple lie, or a huge sin like murdering someone.
But what would you do when your life is affiliated with a sin? A sin so great it haunts you everywhere in your daily life, from when you wake up, to sleeping again at night, from childhood to adulthood, and even following you till death, and then, onto the next life.
It seems quite unfair. Doesn’t it?
Yet they had to survive.
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“Thank you! Come again!” the man said with a huge smile, his convenience store apron was neat, with a leaf green color to it. At the chest, spelled the name of the cashier of said convenience store.
‘Dandy’
The man then went to the shelves of some of the snacks he displayed and went to re-organize it, making it more neat than before. He was always prideful about his store, and he wants to make sure its always in the best condition.
“Arf!!” a bark from a pup caught his attention. The pup was beside him, snuggling to his legs. Dandy smiled and went down to pet the pup.
“Hey pebble! Are you already hungry now? Come along then” dandy said cheerfully while bringing the dog to the room behind the store, not forgetting to put a sign on the cashier counter where its said hes resting.
“Pebble, you're such a glutton…only a few hours in and you’re already hungry pal, haha!”
“Arf!!”
~~
Shelly had always been proud of her findings. She now had just found another new theory about one of the dinosaurs that some archeologists found. It became a great theory, but sadly, nobody really heard it when Shelly explained, and instead, her co-worker that said it again was praised for it.
Shelly could only try and keep up a smile. She had always been ignored like this, it’s not something new. She does have some close friends, but they became friends and live under the same roof because of their special.. ’predicament’ and not because they were actually really close friends…
Shelly grabs her hand as hard as she can while taking deep breaths, seeing her co-worker get praised for HER idea, and HER theory.
‘Control your wrath, Shelly!!...Control it….’
Shelly’s face looked like she was holding back what she wanted to say. And she’s doing it as best as she can.
~~
Vee smiled as she saw her paycheck roll in. She was a host at the local gameshow, a popular one at that. So of course, she was happy to see the numbers in her bank account. Being an influential person means lots of bucks after all.
Also, she craves the attention of the masses. She wants them to see her, to have their eyes on her. She loved it and she wanted more. she wanted more and more. Nothing seemed to be able to fill it for her, she always wanted more, more and more!
She was so greedy of the attention that she sometimes forgot about herself and her own predicament. Well, she cant really forget her predicament since she was living with other people like her but it still sucks.
Vee dreamed of having a place of her own, a house, car and more all to herself. But hey, she knows what could happen if she does so, she dismisses the thought every time. She can't always listen to her greed anyways.
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Sleepy. Astro was always sleepy in his room. He just woke up and went to see the time, he picked up his phones and looked.
12:42 PM
Astro then took around 5 minutes to sit on his bed. He then took another 5 minutes trying to stand up from his position. Astro had always been sleepy, even dozing off when his friends were all together with him.
He had always felt like he doesn’t wanna do anything. He barely goes out of the house. So when his friends would come back from their jobs, he would probably just be there at home, watching movies, sleeping or reading some book if he felt like it.
Astro lazily walked to the kitchen and got to make something to eat, brunch since he missed breakfast time already. Thank god there was something to eat. Well, Sprout probably left some food for him, knowing Astro’s tendencies to be slow and sleepy.
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“Sprout, are you alright? You barge into my place like this too much these days.” Dandy said as a familiar tall leafy haired person went in. Sprout, and he was taking deep breaths as if he just ran a marathon.
Sprout went to see Dandy’s face which was smiling as usual which kinda irritated him since Dandy of course knew why he had just came rushing to his little convenience store. He’d done this a few times already afterall.
“You know well why I’m here Dandicus” Sprout said as he regained his posture and took a drink from one of the fridges at the store.
“These days, I wont be surprised to see your body count getting higher Seedly, you really gotta let out some steam, you barely do. Especially with your whole predicament there”
Sprout looked at Dandy as if he was offended by his words. Of course, since sprout did take an offend at the other’s words.
“I’m not that desperate to just run around and do that Dandy, besides this just kept happening since…”
“Cosmo went to work with you at your little café?”
“…Yeah”
“Well, good luck Sprout!” Dandy said with his wide smile
“Also, pay up please” he continued which Sprout just sighed in response and handed Dandy 2 dollars.
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“Ginger!!! What do you think of this bear?” Bobette said as she showed Ginger a stuffed bear that she just made to put on display.
“Well, I think its nice Bobette, everything you made are all so…beautiful”
Bobette giggled as she went to sit beside Ginger. They were in the mall’s cafeteria. Bobette worked on a toy/gift shop there and Ginger worked on a restaurant, a patisserie to be exact, which had some good food if Bobette said so herself. Ginger was on a break so she was hanging out with Bobette.
“well, I think your cakes are pretty…very so, I cant even decorate these as good as you…and the fact that you once brought a little crochet doll that you made yourselves. Your skills are amazing, im getting kinda jealous of it..”
“Don’t now, You’re amazing Bobette, trust me, no need to be getting envious to me because of some petty things, alright?”
The other just smiled and nodded before replying a simple, “yeah"
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These 6 all live together with the little pup. They promised to stay close, not wanting any of them to be separated to keep an eye out for eachother. They had to afterall. They’ve done this many times before, from life, to life.
….
“Pebble! Stop chewing on my jacket! This thing is expensive!!” Vee yelled as Pebble kept chewing on her green suit jacket, it was long afterall.
“Pebble…c’mere boy, here’s your chew toy!” Shelly said as she was holding a chew toy shaped as a bone to the pup, which the pup refused to continue on chewing Vee’s coat.
“Where’s Dandy when you need him oh my god!!!” Vee yelled in frustration.
Before Vee could pull herself to make Pebble let go again, the pup suddenly stopped moving and slowly, Pebble’s eyelids started to close, and the pup slept on the floor, letting go of Vee’s coat jacket.
Shelly who saw it turned to see a familiar figure entering the living room. “Oh! Thank You Astro!” She said with a warm smile.
The figure who basically covered himself from head to toe with his blanket nodded. Vee too, she looked at Astro and gave a nod.
“Thanks Astro”
Astro nodded to Vee and looked at the sleeping pup on the floor, he then went to pick the pup up and in the process, his arms, which he had 4 was seen.
“I just drained his energy…he’s gonna be back tomorrow, I just hope Dandy won’t get mad for this”
“Where is he anyway? Dandy I mean, usually he’s back by now, letting an employee take his place at his little convenience store for the night shift.” Vee asked.
“He said he had something to look into. He went with Bobette.”
“With Bobette? Is it something serious then?” Shelly asked the sleepy man.
“I think so, if I'm not wrong, puddles of ichor were seen around the city earlier, suddenly popping out of nowhere. I think he went to check on that.”
“Oh, that’s..bad..” Shelly’s face went to become worried after hearing that sentence come out of Astro’s mouth.
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The little creature melted back into the black puddle, the same one where it had appeared earlier. Dandy and Bobette stood side by side, watching as the little blob of a creature melt.
“Well! We really can’t catch a break for even one lifetime! Im getting annoyed! Oh heavens above, you guys really need to stop making us take care of your mistakes!!!!” Dandy said to himself while smiling which kinda freaked out Bobette.
“Want me to grab the little fella?” Bobette asked Dandy while she was pointing towards the puddle of ichor.
“Sure, might as well. Maybe Astro would eat the fella if we don’t have any use for it anyways” Dandy said while dusting off his green apron that he still used from the day.
Bobette nodded with a smile, she picked up a jar that she brought earlier before leaving from the ground where she put it.
“Hold the jar Please” she said to Dandy.
Dandy agreed and held it while Bobette went and got closer to the puddle of ichor.
In a flash, just in a flash, Bobette’s right arm was covered in black like the ichor. Her hand went in the puddle and as she pulled out, a blob was seen, struggling to be let go of her arm. She then put the blob in the jar and her arm went back to normal.
“There, that should do it!” Bobette said cheerfully.
“Now, let’s just hope we finish this ichor predicament before any people get caught up between this little affair of ours.” Dandy said while closing the jar’s lid.
“Don’t wanna add incompetence to our sin, right?”
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“Tisha, I think you should stop cleaning that now, you’ve been at it for like, a few minutes already!” Brightney said as she closed her book.”
“In a minute, this black stain won’t come off and it hurts seeing it stay on the floor!” Tisha said as she tried as hard as she could to make the stain disappear from their shared apartment room.
Well, Tisha just didn’t know that she needs to exterminate a little blob that was the core of that little black stain, which was roaming around their apartment already.
She just didn’t know.