W: What? I couldn't come up with a good title ok.
D: Ok. Don't worry.
W: Oh wow. You're actually supporting me for once. This is incredible.
D: Yeah, don't get used to it.
Note: Jonny and Jak decide to relax in the public baths place. I'm still not naming it.
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Jonny and Jak had some pairs of clean clothes they could wear in their backpack. This way they wouldn't have to put their dirty clothes back on.
"What do you mean I've already paid? I just got here." Jonny said
"Don't worry Mr. Jonny. Everything's been taken care of. Please enjoy." She replied, smiling
Jonny felt strange. For a moment, it seemed like she looked scared and was trying her best to make him feel welcome.
Did she know that he was Death Dealer?
"Alright then. If you say so." Jonny replied to the smiley woman behind the desk.
"You don't have to fake a smile. It's not like we're that important." Jak said to the lady but Jonny chuckled and said 'sorry he can't help but be honest.' to the lady.
Jonny walked off and Jak was walking next to him.
"Let's go and shower first. You'll be sticking with me. I don't want you to get lost."
Jak nodded.
After they got changed and had a good scrub in the showers, Jonny and Jak walked out to the baths place with a towel wrapped around their waists.
They had matching white towels.
"Go to the shallower part of the bath. I think the deep end is too deep for you." Jonny said to Jak.
Jak sighed. He wanted to stay with him.
"The shallow part's lame. I won't like it there but I'll try and find something fun to do." Jak said
Jonny's jaw dropped when he saw a familiar face.
A familiar face who wasn't wearing anything but had decided to stretch his arms then do the splits!
"Jonny my friend. Loving the matching towels! Wonderful. And Jak. Hello there! I didn't expect to see you in this part of the bath. How brave." He said a bit too enthusiastically
"Hawkstorm! What the hell?! I thought I was the first one in here. Dammit!" Jonny said all surprised
Hawkstorm got up, smiled then shook Jak's hand then tried to shake Jonny's hand to which Jonny slapped his hand away then wrinkled his nose at him.
"Either keep a towel on or stay inside the water. No one wants to see that. You in the nude. Doing the splits. Grinning like an imbecile." Jonny said
Hawkstorm laughed off his words then dived into the water after making a battlecry.
"Cool battlecry!" Jak said
Jak tried to do the same thing.
He threw his towel off and dived into the deep water not realizing that the towel landed on Jonny's face!
Hawkstorm dove further inside the water like a submarine, grabbed Jak, tossed him up into the air making him flip numerous times making sure to catch him every time!
Jak was laughing and having fun.
Jonny put the towels away including his own one and got inside the water normally.
Jak decided to swim back to the shallow end because he was getting tired.
When Jak was gone, Jonny glared at Hawkstorm.
"That lady told me that everything was already paid for. You know who did it? And stop staring at my arms. It's creepy." Jonny said
"Oh. Actually, this area is my territory and I protect everyone here from danger. I told that lady that me and you are close friends. You don't have to pay for anything! Enjoy!" He replied
He moved closer to Jonny, brushing his cheek against Jonny's left arm.
"Invade my personal space why don't you." Jonny said sarcastically
"I can't help it. Your arms, they feel so great! It's just like a human arm. Oh wow, I could do this forever." Hawkstorm said, even going as far as to hug his arm, placing it on his smooth chest.
'What an incredibly smooth body.' Jonny thought
"So what's going on here? Don't tell me you want me as well? And don't touch my brand!" Jonny snapped
"My father did this to you. I recognize that brand. We had some tea together at Holly's house. I could've poisoned him by putting powdered pure coffee beans and salt in his tea. But I didn't do it. You know why?" Hawkstorm said
"Dunno." Jonny replied, crossing his arms so Hawkstorm could stop touching them
"I was thinking about you. You're proof that Arkhon can care about people. He's even been kinder to me these days. He regrets hurting you in the Great Forest. If you stop avoiding him, maybe he'll get even softer and his guard will be weak. If you could seduce him, we could kill him together and he'd never see it coming."
"I'm not seducing him. That's gross. No fucking way." Jonny replied, pulling away from the arm around his waist
Hawkstorm decided to casually move his arm from his waist and put his arm around his shoulder instead.
Surprisingly, Jonny felt too relaxed by the warm water to push him away again.
Hawkstorm lowered his voice, putting his lips close to his ear.
"You wanna get back at my evil piece of shit dad? It would be torture for him to see us getting along so well. Revenge can be sweet. What do you say, friend?"
"An enemy of my enemy is not my friend. Also, you have a serious case of daddy issues. If you want to kill him so bad, why don't you do it already?" Jonny replied
That is true but lately, I realized I don't actually want to kill him. I just wanna hurt him 4 times as much as he hurt my mum. Yes it happened years ago and he abandoned us when I was just 10 years old which was ages ago. Come on, Jonny. Anyone would hate their dad after going through all that." Hawkstorm explained
"Hawkstorm. Do you know why he might have hurt your mum? Arkhon taught me about the strong and the weak. He taught me that it's not manly to torture, humiliate or kill someone much weaker than you who has no chance of fighting back. It goes against his beliefs! He doesn't even kill spiders or flies! He said to me, 'To be heroic is to protect the 'Struggling Weakling' for the 'Struggling Weakling' faces all obstacles with the best of 'his' abilities seeking to overcome it and to overcome 'his' state. To undergo a metamorphosis. The strong admire themselves as well as the Struggling Weakling but not the Weak'. " Jonny said
"...And for the 'Strong' to transcend to the next mortal level, he seeks out the strongest of them all to face 'him' in a warrior's duel offering to 'him' his overflowing strength and conquering 'his' warrior body thus, the 'Strong' transitions to a 'Winner'. Oh dear. The amount of entitlement my dad has! It's insane." Hawkstorm finished off Arkhon's quote.
Jonny couldn't help but shake with disgust.
"Anyway, he's very entitled. He's quite beast like, even for a demon. He doesn't even try to control himself or his desires. Anyone who won't satisfy those burdensome wings of his will get forced to and even get hurt in the process. He's like some kind of overly dominant ape! Apparently, people tell me this bullshit that he really can't help it. He doesn't feel love for anyone. What he thinks is love isn't really love. Arkhon forced himself on my mum twice but that was 139 years ago. Then I was born. Then he had the nerve to pretend to care about me. Then he dipped out the house when I was 10 and said that I have the strength to look after myself, muttered something about me practicing self-reliance before he left."
"That's unfortunate. Arkhon saved my mum and healed her when I was a kid then in the Great Forest we had a duel. I expected him to respect the duel etiquette but he branded me by force and forced himself on me. The man I respected since I was little. Let's not speak about this stuff. I came here to relax. And please don't give me this bullshit about me being a tease because I got screwed by the demon who branded me and turned me into a level 1 demon and I didn't enjoy it."
"No Jonny! Of course I don't think that! That's terrible. You must've gone through a lot. When he said he hurt you I thought he meant, he only slaughtered all your friends and broke all your bones." Hawkstorm said
"You're actually one of the few people I've told this to. It's too late. No one will do anything. He's always been above the law. He's a 'Winner' like you said."
After that, a few other people started coming in and went inside the bath.
Some people were keeping shorts on and some people weren't wearing anything after they've removed their towels.
Jonny and Hawkstorm eyed each of the men that were coming in.
4 men were walking together and talking.
They were all wearing shorts.
"They must be city folks." Jonny muttered to Hawkstorm quietly
Hawkstorm sniggered, causing Jonny to chuckle a bit.
Moments later, Jak got out of the pool and walked to the deep end where his dad was and dived in then got his face out of the water.
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Jonny asked him
"This stupid kid tried to drown me. He's a dumbass for trying to drown me in the shallow end!" Jak complained
The other guys who overheard the conversation tried their best not to laugh.
"Why would he do that? Did you do anything to annoy him?" Jonny replied
"I punched him in the nose and he started crying like a bitch." Jak explained
Jonny sighed but continued to question him.
"Why?" Jonny asked
"This idiot thinks that just because he's older, he knows more about guns than me. He was saying all this silly shit that wasn't true. And I corrected him and told him I was right because my dad has a gun collection. That's real proof! I told him we have guns in every room! I told him that I practice with them sometimes so I know what I'm talking about. So, I got angry and called him a big fat liar. He said that my mum's the fat liar! That's when I punched him in the nose! Then he tried to drown me but I headbutted him and escaped. I'm not going back there with those fools!" Jak explained
"I see. Good job, son. Knock the bastard out next time he starts chatting shit!"
"Ok, dad."
"And what are you all looking at? He's my son, not yours!" Jonny said, glaring at them
"Yeah and he's a good friend of mine. If you have a problem with him, then I have a problem with you. Got that?" Hawkstorm warned them
"Ok, Mr. Hawkstorm. D-Don't worry. We understand." They said immediately
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Hawkstorm, Jak and Jonny got out of the pool and changed back into their clean clothes then went to rest in their designated rooms. Jonny and Jak were sharing. Hawkstorm had his own room.
And so, they enjoyed some comfort and relaxation.
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W: Next chapter- New problems might occur. This chapter is very lighthearted for volume 2! Hope you enjoyed this fun chapter. Ok now I just feel awkward.
D: All right, just finish this chapter already.
W: Ok! Bye Bye Bye.