"Good morning James!" Henry said, walking by his work space. James nodded back as he kept writing emails. Henry then jumped back to his chair and started to work on some editting.
He went home to immediately lie in his bed, tired. Though he thought to himself. "It was a good day!" He laughed. As he then turned on his phone to read some silly comics. Soon, he found himself drifting off to sleep.
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Jacko slowly opened eyes, seeing the familiar yellow walls of a certain Nurse. "Told ya you couldn't handle it." The Nurse sighed. "The quest...I have to go finish it!" Jacko exclaimed, taking out the Slime Crystal from his pocket. "Dandy cancelled the quest the moment he realized you took it. Everyone wanted to keep you alive, maybe being soft and sweet gets you somewhere." The nurse groaned. "But Nurse Petal!-" Jacko kept showing her the crystal. "I don't care, just rest for tonight. Go back to being an errand boy. The world isn't for you yet, and you just proved it." The nurse said, as she left the Nurse Hut. Jacko tried to stand up and felt incredible pain from his chest. He finally took a long terrified look at his chest, seeing that it was covered in bandaid and slime good of different colors leaking out of his chest. Jacko was terrified, he tried to remember what happened when he passed out. He couldn't even process what happened and kept touching it. The slime mass began to pulsate more, then it slowly began to continue it's process within Jacko. Jacko screamed again as the slime mass continues entering his heart.
"JACKO WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!?" Nurse Petal immediately rushed to open the door and sees Jacko, staring blankly at the wall...and noticing the slime mass on his chest completely disappeared. "Hmm, I thought you wouldn't notice that...what the hell did you do to yourself this time?" She sat down beside him, excited for his answer.
Jacko then slowly turned to her.
"I ate it." Jacko said. No emotion. Just blank stare and pain.
"You fuckin what?" Petal is so done with this.
"It was having a hard time getting inside me so I ate the rest of it." Jacko said.
Petal just stared back at Jacko, not knowing what to even say at this point.
Vines immediately followed after he also heard the scream. "PETAL! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" He yelled. "Vines, take this kid back before I lose my fucking mind." Petal said, while keeping his stare at Jacko.
Vines laughed. "Oh he did something weird again did he? Did he swallow the fairy slime whole again?" Vines said, as he grabbed Jacko by the foot and then slumped him on his shoulder like he was just a towel. "I don't want to even talk about it and I don't want to know why you are so excited about shit that are not humanly possible. Just take him back before I kill myself trying to piece the fucking information from this fucking child." Petal ranted. "...So he did swallow a slime." Vines concluded. "GET OUT!" Petal raised her knife at Vines, promptly having Vines leaving as well.
As Vines carried the wet towel known as Jacko, he looked at his blank and tired face. "I heard about the quest kid, looks like you were right. You were too weak for it. 8 years of kidding around really got you nowhere." Vines said, hoping to get some sense into him. "I was going to finish it..." Jacko mumbled. "Oh yeah? What got you down at Petal's place?" Vines said sternly, not wanting any more of Jacko's excuses. Jacko sighed. "I could try again next time, Sir." Jacko said. Vines didn't respond, he wanted Jacko to get stronger, but he didn't want the kid dead. "Mr. Vines?" Jacko was getting uncomfortable with the silence. "You're grounded." He said. "But you said it yourself that I'm too old for getting grounded now..." Jacko complained. "You turned 18 three days ago. You're still way you get than I thought.
Jacko say down at the bed on his room, looking at the Slime Crystal he got from the Grove. He was so sure he could do it, if it wasn't for the Elder Slime, he could have done it. Jacko sighed, angry to himself for being as weak as they say he was. He opened the window to throw the Slime Crystal out...but before that his hand with the Slime Crystal was suddenly covered with Slime Runes. "What's going on now!?" He wasn't in the mood for summoning slimes...until he saw what was happening around the Slime Crystal.
The Slime Crystal started to grow bigger, turning into a slime like shaped, Jacko felt something different from this Slime, it wasn't like the other slimes he had summoned before. It was taking form of a Fairy Slime...but it was a lot smaller, with larger fairy wings, then taking shape of a small human shaped fairy...sitting on his palm. It still felt like a slime, though it looked more like a real fairy. It even had a face. Jacko was completely overwhelmed with this creation of his. "W-what? Hi!?" He wasn't prepared to introduce himself to the strange slime he just summoned. "Hi!" The Fairy Slime waved it's tiny hand at Jacko. "Oh wow, it talks...YOU CAN TALK!?" Jacko yelled louder, none of his slimes ever talked before. "Hiiii!" The Fairy Slime responded, laughing at its summoner's response. "Heh...HELLO!? Fairy Slime!?" Jacko needed to make sure that this wasn't just another strange dream. "Hiii!" The Fairy Slime laughed. "Erm...wait a minute, can you say something else?" Jacko was starting to notice a patten on what the Fairy Slime was saying. "Hi?" The Fairy Slime tilted it's head. "Oh...you can only say that...but whatever! You're like...super new!" He exclaimed, as he moved his guber to rub it's tiny head. "Hi! Hi!" The Fairy Slime laughed as it enjoys the rubs, as usual. Now Jacko was scared, he knew that the slimes he summons don't usually last long, they also needed to be unsummoned so he can use other slimes, they would usually die anyway if they weren't unsummoned within a day. This one looked special, Jacko thought. The Fairy Slime then flies around the room, being much faster than the regular Fairy Slime and kept saying "Hi". "Fairy Slime! Can you calm down a bit? I...I'm still so confused. You can understand me right?" Jacko said, wanting to test some things with the new slime. The Fairy Slimes flies in front of his face.Now that he sees the fairy slime better, he saw that it had a completely pink body, tho its shaped like a miniature human's body, and it had pink eyes with its wings being more beautiful and transparent. He couldn't figure out the gender of the slime either, which was relieving. The Fairy Slime nodded at his previous question, obeying it's master's command. "Ok, ok...umm... Soooo, What can you do now?" Jacko couldn't really think of anything else to ask, all it could say was Hi after all...
Until then he saw a pink laser, then heard wood being chipped off his wooden drawer. His eyes widened as he saw the Fairy Slime aiming it's little hand towards the drawer. "You're... you're pretty strong! What else can you do!?" Jacko was starting to get even giddier with excitement as the Fairy Slime was showing more potential than he anticipated.
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Vines took a swig of good beer, sitting at the chair within the bar counter. His male assistant, Roses, was getting annoyed seeing that his boss was just drinking instead of working. "Is it about Jacko again?" Roses asked. Vines looked at him, tired and groaned. Roses was jealous of Jacko, for he was the one getting more attention for the last few years, but he had come to the terms that it was really nothing to be jealous of recently. He no longer felt jealous, for when he talked to Jacko before, he was told that Jacko didn't really like being in the room all the time. Roses realized that Jacko felt so trapped, choosing to be trapped to be safe. Now that Jacko was let out of that cage for once, he was hurt, sent back to the cage once more.
He tried to understand what Vines was feeling, until someone threw a half eaten sandwich at him, turning to see some customers waiting for their drinks. He quickly apologize to them and got back to working. Still pissed that Vines ain't helping him tho.
Soon after, Vines finally got to calm himself down, successfully drinking only three drinks while preventing himself from getting too drunk. He still hated the time when he actually beat up Jacko one time, he didn't want that to happen again. He knocked at the door. "Jacko, let's talk." He said, concerned and fearful. What if Jacko was mad again? Not at him, but at himself. He knew the pain all too well. He knocked once more, giving Jacko more time to open. Nothing came. He thought about opening the door with keys, but he didn't want to intrude more. "Jacko, if you could hear me, I just want to let you know that you could help around the Tavern if you don't like working at the guild. You could just tell me." He said, waiting for Jacko to reply. He sighed, finally convincing himself that the kid might have been asleep the whole time. "I'll just ask the kid tomorrow, damn Jacko... being too good ain't gonna be too good for ya sooner or later. " He said to himself, before he soon hit the hay.