Màu nền Màu tối Mặc định Xám nhạt Xanh nhạt Xanh đậm Vàng nhạt Màu sepia Vàng đậm Vàng ố

Font chữ: Palatino Linotype Bookerly Segoe UI Patrick Hand Times New Roman Verdana Tahoma Arial

Chiều cao dòng: 100 120 140 160 180 200

Kích cỡ chữ:

(adj) unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvelous

◇─◇──◇───◇──◇─◇

The Paradox screeched at Chuuya and Y/n as it reached towards them. Chuuya and Y/n quickly jumped away as the Paradox crashed into walls, basically destroying the small house that it was in from the inside out.

Y/n spun his pole in his hand as he ran at the Paradox. However, the creature screeched as Y/n neared it. It tossed and turned spreading ink wherever it desired. The floor below it and the two humans began to crumble and crack from the tantrum the Paradox was making.

Y/n aimed his weapon at the Paradox as he was about to stab the creature with it. Suddenly, he lost his balance as some debris flew past his face at an insane speed, making Y/n stumble in order to not get hit. The debris hit the Paradox, piling rocks and concrete on top of it as it hollered in pain.

Y/n could feel his eyes twitch when the Paradox only consumed the debris that was trapping it making it larger. The floor below him started to crack more and soon collapsed on itself. The second floor came crumbling down, taking the two humans and the creature with it.

Chuuya coughed as he waved the dust away from his face. His eyes suddenly widened when he saw the Paradox right in front of him, and it didn't look to happy that it had debris thrown at it. Chuuya gritted his teeth as he jumped back from the ink slamming onto the ground.

Chuuya scoffed as he touched the ground. Large bundles of concrete and earth lifted itself with a red hue to it. Putting his hands into his pockets, Chuuya kicked the large bundles towards the Paradox. However, it was unsuccessful at the Paradox completely tanked the hits.

The sudden impact of Chuuya's hits created a low earthquake. Shaking the ground below as the rest of the building just collapsed. Chuuya made sure to use his ability to block or dodge the fall walls around him. He turned to the Paradox and scowled at it as it was standing back up again.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a pole went flying through the Paradox, creating a huge hole in its side. The Paradox screeched in pain as he began to panic, rushing around the area. The pole sparked with (f/c) as it seemed to also be rushing at Chuuya with an insane amount of speed.

Chuuya was quick to move his head to the side as the pole grazed his cheek, leaving a small cut on it. Chuuya angered at the small cut as he looked at the direction where the pole came from. He glared at Y/n who had his arm out and was holding another pole in his other hand.

"Watch where you throw those things!" Chuuya shouted over the cried of the Paradox. "Just stay out of the way!!"

Y/n slightly irked as he spun the other pole and putting it in his dominate hand. "You don't even know how to defeat the damn Paradox!!" He yelled back. He pointed the pole at Chuuya. "You need to stay out of my way!"

"Shaddup!!" Chuuya yelled as he glared at Y/n harshly. "I was figuring it out!!"

Y/n deadpanned behind his hair as he could feel a small wave of frustration from Chuuya wash over him. He was about to shout again but, in the corner of his eye, noticed that the Paradox had healed itself and was making a beeline for Chuuya. Chuuya, being too caught up in yelling at Y/n, didn't seem to have notice the Paradox rushing towards him.

Y/n gritted his teeth as he ran towards the redhead. "Move, Chuuya!" He shouted as he reaches out and grabbed him.

Y/n yanked Chuuya by the arm as he pulled him away from the Paradox rushing towards him. However, this caused Y/n to take Chuuya's place, making the Paradox basically bulldoze itself into Y/n's stomach. Y/n hissed in pain as he raised the pole he had at hand and stabbing it into the Paradox below him. The Paradox screeched once more in pain as it rushed away from Y/n, letting the man fall and hold onto his stomach.

"Y/n!!" Chuuya shouted in shock as he quickly went over to the taller.

Chuuya would've said more but noticed how the Paradox screamed at him and started to rush at him like before. His eyes widening, he was quick to use his ability to lift Y/n from the ground and rushing to hide in a nearby, worn down, warehouse entrance. He panted slightly as he hid behind large boxes, the sound the screeching and the gooey ink monster strayed close as it entered the warehouse as well.

Chuuya carefully set Y/n down as he helped him lean against the boxes. He had to keep quiet even though the Paradox lost sight of him, he knows that that thing is still hunting him and Y/n down like its life depended on it. And, with the way Y/n described it, it might as well be true.

Chuuya gritted his teeth. "Are you an idiot?!" He whispered sharply. "If anything, I could've taken that hit and you just had to play hero~! Now, look at you! You're-! You're..." He stopped himself as he finally noticed Y/n's state.

Y/n lightly hissed at his pain as he was holding onto his stomach where the Paradox hit him. Chuuya would've thought that he would see the usual crimson red color of wine blood, but instead it was black, like the ink monster, like the Paradox. It seemed like the Paradox had just plastered itself onto Y/n. Y/n's clothes were slowly turning darker into black, along with the hand that was holding onto the 'wound'.

"Hey, hey, hey, what the fuck is this??" Chuuya whispered as he hovered his hand over the ink splotches covering Y/n slowly. "Hey, hey! What's up with the ink!?"

"As long as the Paradox is killed, this ink won't hurt me," Y/n huffed out. "However, now that this happened, we are on a time limit. I don't know how much longer I have until this ink infects my nervous system, and it was a large amount of ink too..."

Chuuya's eyes widened as his brows furrowed. "W-What?? Wait, wait, wait, so, you're saying that, if we touch or get hit by that thing, we'll turn into it?!"

Y/n let out a breath as he sat up correctly and gripped onto the pole he had. "You'll turn into a puppet for it. More like a minion for the Paradox to feast on. Chuuya, you have to listen to me if you want to make it out of here alive. And quite frankly I do too."

"How the hell do you know so much about these... ink... monster... 'Paradox'... thingies anyways?!" Chuuya questioned. "And why should I listen to you in the first place?!"

Y/n groaned in annoyance. He combed a hand through his hair as he looked at Chuuya dead in the eyes, his hair pulled back. He roughly grabbed onto Chuuya's face with his whole hand making the later shut his mouth with widen eyes at Y/n's actions.

"You're starting to piss me off, little red," Y/n muttered, keeping his voice low so that the Paradox nearby doesn't hear them. "Look here, if we let that Rudimentary go, it will grow into a Sophisticated Paradox, which can, quite literally, destroy everyone in this city with one hit. If you want that Paradox gone, I am the only one out of the two of us who knows how to kill it, so I suggest that you follow my lead."

Chuuya glared at Y/n before smacking Y/n's hand away from him, feeling himself from the blush that was raising. "You're crazy! There's no way I'm going to follow y-!"

Y/n deadpanned. "Don't be a brat."

Chuuya stopped himself as he narrowed his eyes at Y/n. He raised a brow almost as if he was waiting oh-so patiently. Y/n couldn't help but sigh, shaking his head and rolling his eyes. He was about to open his mouth to say something but a screeched cut him off. Immediately Y/n and Chuuya were on their feet as the Paradox had found where they were hiding and knocked the boxes away.

Large amount of ink started to fall, making Y/n and Chuuya split ways to dodge. "Just follow my lead!" Y/n shouted, pushing through the pain of the ink spreading across him.

"Right!" Chuuya shouted back, although a bit more hesitantly.

Chuuya slammed his hands onto the ground as he grunted. Large amounts of earth lifted into the air with a red hue to it, almost like he was making platforms. He narrowed his eyes at the Paradox as its attention was on him.

Chuuya ran around the old warehouse, brushing his fingers on the boxes to make them float. The Paradox churred in confusion as boxes around it started to float. Chuuya smirked as he forced the boxes to attack the Paradox. The creature screeched in surprise as it would try to get away but would run from the boxes that was floating around.

Y/n noticed his opening as the Paradox was not trapped, surrounded with floating boxes that it was now scared of. Jumping onto the floating platforms that Chuuya created for him. Y/n looked down at the screeching Paradox below him.

Y/n spun the pole in his hands, and he took a step off of the platform. "Divine in True Nightmare," he said under his breath.

A screech, no, a deafening shrill louder than the Paradox's screeching could be heard echoing throughout the warehouse. The Paradox and Chuuya stopped what they were doing as they looked up.

The Paradox panicked and Chuuya's eyes widened as the pole in Y/n's hand now took over his whole arm, making it look more like a blade on the end. It wasn't the grey color like before, but it looked like dark matter as it shifted from black and (f/c).

As much as Chuuya wanted to see the creature be destroyed, something told him not to. He shielded his eyes with his arm as there was a sickening crunch sound, almost like bone breaking and a dying screech from the Rudimentary Paradox. After the bone crushing in on itself, there was a splatter noise. A blotch of ink landed in front of Chuuya's view. Then, there was silence.

Chuuya panted, slowly adjusting himself from his ringing ears. Once the ringing cleared, he could now hear the sound of someone else panting, they were in front of him. Chuuya slowly looked up and noticed that Y/n was in front of him, kneeling as he was sitting. The blade now turned back into the pole, (f/c) sparks lingering on it before it shattered when Y/n let go.

Y/n opened his eyes, realizing that his head was hanging low as he was staring at the ground. He took in a deep breath in order to control himself. Once he did, he slowly looked up. His (e/c) eye caught Chuuya's blue ones, who was looking at him with wonder.

The two males stared at each other for a second before Y/n cracked a smile, to which Chuuya returned. The two then chuckled before starting to laugh a bit to themselves. Chuuya threw his head back in relief as Y/n flopped down on his back, exhausted but still laughing silently.

"You're insane..." Chuuya chuckled. "A daredevil even." 'I like that...'

"I'll..." Y/n panted out. "I'll take that as a compliment."

Chuuya's laughter died down a bit as he tilted his head towards Y/n, calming down. "Y/n, how'd you know of those 'Paradox' monsters anyways?"

Y/n sighed as he looked at Chuuya through the corner of his eyes. "My boss... he knows of this type of stuff since I came along. This area was suspected to have a Paradox egg nearby and he sent me to go fetch it. However, he nor I had no idea that it had already hatched.

"I collect information, yes, but I also take care of the loose Paradox's in Japan. I guess you can say my workdays are always busy."

Chuuya hummed as he looked back up at the ceiling before him. "I understand... I was also here to collect information, although I never knew Paradox's were a thing. Geez, they're annoying..."

"You can say that again..." Y/n sighed as he sat up. "What a day..."

Chuuya chuckled. "Definitely agree on that."

The two shared a chuckled with one another.

◇─◇──◇───◇──◇─◇

Words: 2158