Wrath
Shelly woke up with a yawn. Her alarm went off and she had to listen to it. Quickly enough, she turned it off, not wanting to annoy herself with the sound of a loud alarm playing in her ears in the morning.
She just looked at the clock and went to the bathroom. Taking a bath, brushing her teeth and washing her face. She put on some clothes that she could use to go to work.
She worked at the local museum and lab as a Paleontologist, she loved dinosaurs, so why not? Talking about them made her happy and having someone listen to her sometimes yap about her findings was fun.
Well, except for the fact that some people would just ignore her anyway! And it pisses her off. Sure, Shelly understands that some people would ignore her if she just went to talk to them about fun facts or some little knowledge she had on the dinosaurs, but at the job, her opinions were sometimes blatantly ignored! And if someone heard it, they’d repeat her words and get praised for it, while she doesn’t get any credits.
Truth be told, Shelly sometimes wanted to just snap her co-workers in half.
But no no no, that would be stupid, Shelly knows herself well, and if she did do something as stupid as that, her life would be ruined, and her friends would probably follow since their luck was already bad anyways.
So she just bottled up her rage, anything that’s associated with Wrath. She wont do it again, she wont hurt anyone on an impulse because of her wrath ever again. She had been punished for that. Her being alive was proof of that.
Anyways, she finished getting ready and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked cute enough! So she just went to the dining room to see Sprout already making breakfast, and he was about to be done too.
The aroma of something being cooked couldn’t escape Shelly’s nose, it even made her stomach grumble. So she went to go look what Sprout was cooking, she was starving at this point.
“Sprout! What are you making?” Shelly enthusiastically asked. Sprout replied without taking his eyes off the pan, searing the thin meat on the hot metal.
“some bacon, and I did fry some eggs. Just a simple breakfast if I say so myself.” Sprout said as he puts the batch of bacon he just fried to a big plate which he then give to Shelly.
“Put it on the table can you? Theres already bread on the table too, help yourself Shelly.” Sprout said with a smile. Shelly nodded and smiled back, putting the plate at the middle of the dining table beside the eggs.
Sprout cooked a lot this morning. It’s probably because Pebble’s energy got drained last night because of Astro, well, the pup kept chewing on Vee’s suit coat, so she can’t blame Astro for putting pebs to sleep.
She went to the kitchen and made herself some tea, getting the teabag from a a cabinet then poured hot water into her cup.
“Heres the sugar Shelly” Sprout said as he gave a small jar filled with sugar to her. Which of course, Shelly took without any hesitation and put a few spoons into her tea.
She smelled the relaxing aroma of the liquid and then slowly skipped her way to the dining table. It was long, it had 8 chairs and to be fair, only 7 were used. Mostly 6 since Astro usually sleeps and don’t really gather with the others but still.
Shelly took 2 pieces of bread. She then proceeded to butter it up and put it in the toaster. She likes it toasted, she thinks its very much better than just plain old white bread.
After waiting for a few minutes, the bread came out, crispy and golden just as she liked it, and then put some eggs and bacon on top of it. She took a bite and savored the food as much as she could. She can’t help but always like sprout’s cooking. Maybe he could go and become a real professional if he wasn’t with them in their little predicament.
“Morning Shelly, early riser as usual huh?” Shelly heard a voice from behind. She then saw a familiar figure coming to the table. Shelly was gonna say ‘good morning!’ but stopped when she saw his state.
Eyebags as if he couldn’t sleep for the whole night.
“Oh Dandy you uh…look great!” Shelly said.
Dandy looked at her and gave her a side-eye. “Oh yeah, definitely great..” He said to himself. He looked to the kitchen where Sprout was still there, cleaning some stuff.
“Sprout, can I get a coffee, please? " he said while walking to the table and sitting on his usual seat, which was at the end, facing every other chair. Sprout nodded and whipped a quick coffee, not giving any comments since he saw Dandy’s condition right now.
“Um, Dandy, are you sure you’re fine to go and work? You uh, kinda look…” Shelly asked nervously before getting cut off by Dandy .
“im FINE Shelly, do you think I can't handle a bit of stress? Do you think of me to be so weak I can't handle a small problem here and there in my life??” Dandy said, passive-aggressive with his usual smile.
’Oh, he’s sensitive right now, bad move there…’ Shelly thought to herself, looking at Dandy and seeing his usual eyes had a little hint of red in them, basically saying that he’s not to be ignored right now and to not piss him off.
Shelly knew Dandy had been staying up, probably thinking about the ichor problem. Well, he had always wanted to finish the problem everytime it appears in their life, the faster the better, and that would mean the faster it is to live a normal-ish life.
She just watched as Dandy drank his coffee, got some breakfast and sighed. “I’m going now, I think Poppy needs a rest from her shift.” He said and left the house quickly.
Shelly just stared at her food and finished it, not long after putting the dishes at the sink, she just went to her room, grab a bag and left the house to the museum.
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Today, a school had a field-trip to the museum. Shelly offered herself to be a guide, even though her work was supposed to be in the lab. She liked the kids, usually. They listen to her and all, it makes her feel cared sometimes and became a stress reliever so that she wont do anything to her co-workers.
Shelly was in the bathroom, looking at her own reflection and making herself look as neat as possible. She was going to meet children, of course she had to practice, it was so that they wont get scared of her of course! She’s not frightening if she says so herself.
Suddenly, a coworker of her came in, she looked tired, as if her energy was drained, and was rubbing her right arm as if it was sore.
“ah, Hello Shelly, are you getting ready to be the children’s guide today?” She said, still having a smile.
“Oh, hi Tisha! You look tired…are you alright?” Shelly asked in genuine concern.
Tisha nodded as a reply. “Yeah, im alright, just..tired. I’ve been cleaning since last night, a stain wont come off and it just ticks me off, I really need to keep my place as clean as possible! Not a stain in sight if im staying there!” She said enthusiastically, clearly forcing her energy.
“Aww, alright, but don’t forget to take breaks! You need it Tisha!” Shelly said as she waved to her, she needed to leave, since, the kids are gonna arrive any second.
Tisha smiled and waved back. But, as Shelly walked towards the door, she didn’t realize a little black blob coming out of Tisha’s pocket. The little thing followed Shelly and left the bathroom along with her.
“Weird…why do I feel my energy coming back?” Tisha murmured to herself. “Oh well! I can clean up more now!”
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“And next, were going to go ahead and see the biggest dinosaurs that we have on display!” Shelly said enthusiastically to the group of kids. They were all elementary kids, probably 8-9 year-olds.
“Careful though…maybe, the fossils will come alive and suddenly eat you…So stay close to me! “ Shelly let out a playful remark which made some of the kids giggle.
“Big sister! Why can’t we go to that area?” One of the kids tugged her and pointed towards an area where it was closed off. A gas pipe had leaked there and the museum also wanted the renovate the hall.
“Because if you do enter there, something bad will happen! So come on and keep following big sister! And pay attention to my explanations! I’m gonna hold a quiz after this and whoever gets a question correct gets a prize!”
The kids all cheered and followed her. Except for one, this kid kept looking at the restricted area until it was no longer seen. A smile appeared on her face when they all kept walking.
Shelly didn’t realize once again, that the dark black little blob had ran away, going inside of the restricted area tho. She wished she had seen it later, but that we’ll get to that later.
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Shelly stretched herself as she walked around the museum. It was a weekday, yet it was still crowded, and Shelly smiled to herself. The kids today were sweet, even If some were quite annoying to handle, but they all listened well.
She walked and stopped around the entrance to the restricted area, where something caught her eye. And it was bad. She froze when she saw it.
A little black stain, as if something was dragged into the restricted zone, left that small black trail.
Shelly had seen it too many times—too many to even doubt herself. Shelly went close to the stain, and suddenly, a huge explosion sound was heard as the building shook. She held on to herself while other visitors panicked.
Shelly was pretty sure the source of the loud noise was from the restricted area. So, she went in and hid a little, waiting as visitors and staff evacuated, seeing as there was already security telling people to go.
As the museum got quiet with no visitors or staff in sight, she went ahead to go in, if the little ichor got there and played with some items, she might lose herself since this part is one of the parts of the museum that she loved so much.
And there, she stopped moving when she saw what creature was in front of her. This place was supposed to be the display of the real constructed bones of a tyrannosaurus rex, a dinosaur everyone knows. And what she sees right now just pissed her.
The ichor covered the whole fossil, making a huge black version of a Tyrannosaurus. The creature was destroying everything in sight, using its tail to destroy display cases, bones, and even the ceiling.
Shelly was pissed by this. Alright, to be fair, she gets angry easily, she’s just good at holding back, she’s like, the best one out of them all to hold back herself when it comes to their little affinity with certain sins of theirs.
Shelly picked up a piece of debris with her hands and threw it to the monster, which just passed through and made its attention go towards Shelly.
“Great, it doesn’t react with normal attacks too. Annoying...” She said to herself. The dinosaur roared at her and went to charge at her. When it did, she jumped high until she navigated herself to the dinosaur's back, sitting as if she’s in a rodeo.
She clearly made the creature confused about how she was able to go there when the ichor probably didn’t let her touch it, she was supposed to just pass through. Well, she’s an exception after all.
“Where’s your little core buddy? Let's settle this nice and fast, would you?” she said with a passive-aggressive tone. The dinosaur just roared back at her and attempted to shake her off.
Which succeeded and Shelly was thrown off quite far until she hit a wall. “Ouch” She murmured to herself. She was perfectly fine though, she’s not a normal living being so this was fine for her. Not for the kid though.
“Big sister! Are you alright!” a kid yelled from across the hall, which made Shelly instantly look at where it came from. She recognized the little girl earlier, from the group of kids she took on a tour.
And Shelly wasn’t the only one who noticed her, the huge T-rex did too. It roared and started to charge at the kid, who froze in fear. Shelly panicked, she won’t make it in time at this point. But she could do that, and so she did.
The child closed her eyes, getting ready for impact, but instead, she felt 2 hands picking her up and moving her as a huge thud was heard as the T-rex hit the floor. When the child opened her eyes, she saw her. Shelly.
“Big sister..!!!” the child yelled happily, masking her fear. She can’t be scared, not now!
Shelly put the kid down on a corner of the room and that’s where the little girl noticed the strange thing about Shelly.
The lower part of her body was gone, it was replaced by ribs and 2 long legs with a tail, all covered in black. Her eyes were also different, the noticeable change to red was seen which made the child scared at first. But was quickly gone after she opened her mouth.
“Stay here, don’t want you to get hurt, alright?” She said with a smile. The child nodded aggressively and smiled.
“Yes, big sister!” she salutes to her.
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Toodles!!”
“Alright Toodles, don’t tell anyone what you’re seeing today, okay?”
The child’s face looked disappointed. “But why?!? This is so cool! My dad needs to know, maybe he can turn this into a case and then I can help with it!”
“no no, don’t tell anyone!! Let it be our little secret alright? You must not tell anyone, even your dad.”
Hesitantly, she nodded. “Alright…”
Shelly smiled warmly to the kid even though the kid almost made her want to chomp the little guy’s head off for barging into the room and making her job harder.
So, Toodles watched as Shelly went back out there and fought the huge dinosaur! A living dinosaur! Oh, and maybe big sister there was also a dinosaur..? Oh she was just so curious about all of this!
She watched patiently, looking at Shelly’s every move. How she roared back, how she was so fast, how she chomped on the big dinosaur…it was all too cool for her to miss out.
And she saw how the big bad dinosaur was defeated. A little blob was pulled out from its chest and the black stuff melted off the bones of the T-rex.
She then saw how Shelly proceeded to chomp on the little blob until it was basically gone.
“Gotta tell Dandy about this later…” Shelly murmured to herself.
“Big sister, can I ride on your back?” Toodles then ran up to her when she was done.
Shelly was dumbfounded by Toodles. “Maybe next time..yeah”
“aww..”
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“oh Toodles! There you are…!!” A teacher looked worriedly as Toodles came in Shelly’s arm to the evacuation point.
“Sorry miss, I got lost…but Big sister here helped me!” Toodles said enthusiastically while pointing at Shelly.
Toddles went down and gathered with her friends while the teacher thanked shelly so many times even Shelly felt like it was too much.
After all that, the museum launched an announcement that the huge sounds were because of gas pipes exploding, which was of course a lie but the public wont know. The museum were all confused on what happened, the only one who knew what exactly happened today was herself and Toodles.
Speaking of which, she made an agreement with the child, that she’s gonna help and give her sweet dreams every night, to be precise, she wants dreams about her being a super cool detective, helping her dad.
Well, she needs Astro’s help for this, but he won’t mind usually.
Shelly then stretched herself and went back to her resting place, earlier was a good stress relief, she poured out all of her anger on the ichor monster today. She can’t wait to go home and take a good rest though.
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An ichor puddle appeared in a little garden near the forest. Nearby, there was a house, some people lived there.
It was late at night and someone just arrived home.
‘Today was more exhausting than usual….hah…” the guy said to himself as he opened the door to his home. He then looked outside of the backyard, seeing that one of his hoodies was there as he forgot to put it in since it got wet this morning.
The puddle became a little blob and went with the guy as he closed the door, now being inside the house and hiding itself within the furnitures.
“well, today was a good day Cosmo, let’s look forward to tomorrow.” He said to himself.