"...You've become more frail." Midas spoke.
As he observed Null freeze entirely. To him it was him seeming to go into a shock of surprise, yet to Null...
Null saw, Midas bending his forearm and his blood gushing black and oozing, as if it's been let to dry.
His iris's began to unravel once more as-!!!
*PAW*
"Olive..." Null heard the golden skulled teen as he felt at his cheek, back to his senses, and Midas having let go of his arm after slapping him.
He nodded at Midas, which confused the boy, "We're here." Null spoke as he finally said something the boy could comprehend.
Midas got out, as Null chose to go do his own thing, as Midas approached the gate where Ron was with the group of guards, some turned their heads at his direction, they seemed a bit caught off guard by his appearance but approached him after collecting themselves with a smile.
"Hey big guy, now why don't you introduce us to your bodyguard?" One of the three who approached out the ten questioned teasingly.
"Like brother, you already got a stone build and here you are with a set up cybernetic guard, we need some too you know." The second said jokingly.
"Please, like we get to do anything or get into anything." The third said, with a more feminine tone though the armor of sliver and gold garment head to toe made it difficult to affirm, including that the lazy tone did no favor.
The helmet of the armor was slim, there was a dagger at all their waists and a arm length gun in hand, the guards Infront of him held to them firmly and securely.
Completely unbothered by it, like having hands in their pockets, it seemed conditioned into them, probably training of some sort.
They seem to be all around the same height except some other three people talking with the large soldier.
"Oh no, his no bodyguard, his getting inlisted to the military, along with my nephew." Ron said approaching with the other guards.
"Ooo, that's why his so small." The joking guard said.
"You know dwarves exist right?" The famine toned guard said.
"Ya, but the thing is his way skinner, than those buff shortcakes, and more lengthy too" the other guard said.
Midas looked at this with no expression, obviously, but still let out a disbelieving feeling.
Then one of the taller guards, still though quite shorter than Ron, interrupted the 'Bickering Three' which was the nickname given to them.
"Calm down before you three riot, anyways thanks for giving us some of your time, from here you go straight too Noon." The man said.
"No worries, anytime." Ron replied back, than he felt a hand on his shoulder a firm one from the tall guard.
"Tear what stands against the light." The tall guard said, confusing the bickering three, but all the other guards understood as a grave sense sowed in their stance.
Ron nodded, "No worries, everything will go as planned."
The three youngest seemed more confused than they were before, they looked at each other confused as they shrugged and shaked their heads at each other, conveying they got no clue either.
"Hey."
The three turned their heads to Midas who spoke, "I'm not short enough to be a dwarf but, the kid on the grass is pretty short, he might fit the requirement."
Midas pointed in the direction of the light blue cloud haired boy who seemed entranced by the green atmosphere, taking in landscape around him, he layed sprawled as a sense of awe, sketched itself in his emotions, as he stayed under a tree.
'I never, like never seen this type of green.' he thought eyes dilated in some sort of observing trance, he felt at the grass. His finger tips seemed to go tender and sensitive as he flinched at the points of the grass, he didn't flinch in pain rather the surprise it was sharp, a not threatening sharp.
His hand never lifted when he flinched, rather he pressed down on it gently as, he layed his head further in the grass, his hair seemed to pushed at it, as it formed around his head, then he saw the leaves above rustle, it was like a less annoying chime when entering a shop.
The air brushing at the leaves carried a light dryness, from a place which was a stark contrast, compared to where he layed.
Then light from the gaps of the leaves
landed on his eye and he didn't blink, which was something that confused him.
The lighter one's eye colour is, the more light is let through into it, making them sensitive to light, which caused people with lighter eyes, to react negatively to bright light.
But his glowing eye stared at the sun, with no problem, it wasn't this blinding spread out light to him, it was a vague ball. The light still effecting his sight of it.
He breathed in and chose to continue his sense of the space around him.
But it didn't last long, as four people looked down on him, three of them were covered in armour, which caught his eye.
Then the fourth was the golden nugget, called Midas.
"Ya, he is quite short." The famine toned guard said.
"Sure, but his no dwarf." The teasing guard said.
"But, a shortstack he is eligible." The joking guard said.
Null, silently heard all these comments.
Then he spoke, "I'm not sure if you all are trying to insult dwarfs, by masking it through talking about my height, but not cool."
He said as he planted a palmed on the ground he pushed and spun landing on his feet.
"Could you teach me that." The teasing guard said impressed.
The other two agreed as well.
Then the famine toned guard spoke up, "Also no, we weren't trying to disrespect dwarfs, it just became a topic. Though your companion in gold there said you might be a dwarf."
"I said he might fit the requirements, not that he is." Midas corrected.
Null looked at Midas a vein actually appearing on his forehead, Null shaked his head, and his malleable hair spread out, shrouding his face partially.
Null seemed to try to keep it in place in some way and how yet failed in the end.
"You know we live in Noon, so I can help you out with the hair and show you both around the city, at least the Noon section of it." The famine toned guard said.
"Ya, you can wait for us tomorrow at the fountain." The joking guard said.
Null quirked a brow, "A fountain?"
"Their talking about the one placed some where close to the best housing for visitors, when they come here, and pay to live in." The teasing guard said.
Null, just kept quiet for a moment as he pondered.
"You know it's not that serious, we're just going around the city." The famine toned guard said.
"Actually, it is. We know nothing about any of you." Midas interjected, which the three looked at each other, then the teasing guard asked.
"How old are y'all?"
"Recently turned 16." Midas said.
"..." Null kepted quiet, as he just tilted his head, expressing You expecting something from me?
"Uh-huh, okay, I'll just expect you also are 16 but short...obviously, but let me tell a bit about us." The famine toned guard began, "we're all 16 too, than probably in your heads you wonder, why are we not inlisted in the military?" The guard paused, as the other two did sort of drum roll imitation.
Which Null was confused by, why were they trying to think of the best way of explaining the subject and, did the drum roll help her in anyway? Then the guard connected "We choose to serve our city instead of being inlisted to the military! Which we get payed, we get our own housing if we choose to move out from our family home and still go to the school!" The famine toned guard said in a hasty manner.
Null and Midas looked at each other, then Null thought, 'Why am i even syncing with this dude.' Null punched the metal skull.
He comically shaked his hurt hand, then Midas having his head forcefully turned the other way, rather than get annoyed he just sighed, as his facial details substrated comically till it was 2D.
As he had a sweat drop appear on his forehead, which made no sense to him.
"Sooo, yes on the meet up?" The joking guard asked.
Midas nodded, "Yes, i would love having a guide."
'Mannerisms much?" Null thought with an annoyed mood.
After that they kept speaking back and forth.
Null saw how Midas was as tall, actually a bit taller than the tallest of the three...but everyone was-was...
Taller than him! Though the shortest was a head taller than him. He then looked down at the boots of their full body suits.
'The body suits probably give them a height increase.' Null thought, than he focused back on the conversation.
He did though recognize something.
Which was, the famine toned one seemed to speak to me differently than Midas.
But than we were interrupted, "Hey! Boys let's get going." Ron shouted mildly to them.
Midas, said his own mannered parting words, yet Null seemed to stare at them silently.
And, hesitantly he parted his lips and...
Asked, "Are you a girl?"
Midas about to enter the car, stopped as he looked back, "You were supposed to say goodbye or see you later."
Null looked back at Midas with a hostile glare, "Who said so? Why can't I ask a question rather than that."
"Because your question was completely out of pocket and unexpected." Midas replied back, agitation building.
"Not every question is expected! What are you even talking about?!" Null barked back, teeth grit.
The tallest guard looked at Ron through the windscreen, and Ron could feel the pity.
Null and, Midas were feeding each other's frustration and hate for the other.
Was hate a strong word? No it wasn't.
The first time they ever met, Midas chased him down to the point he climbed a two story building. Where he proceeded to kick him off the building, colliding with multiple pipes.
Null in turn deduced parts of Midas's past and used it to provoke him and mock him.
Midas having pummeled him without fail, always winning.
After their last fight, Midas seemed to have set a sort of trauma in Null, and Null having set a sort of caution in Midas towards Null.
So now the boys began to build system of rotating aggression that built on their current history with out speaking of it specifically.
Then they were at their limit as violence spilled into their actions, Null forming a fist and-?!
"Ya, I'm a girl, what of it?" The famine toned guard answered his previous question.
Then the structure that was built off violence creaked, and breaked as it tipped over, and fell dissipating into nothing.
Null his face falling from his high tensioned form of anger, then becoming lax and blank.
Then Null looked at the grass in thought.
"What of it? Hmm, well it just bugged me i guess." Null answered.
"Uh." That was the female guard's only reaction.
Then speaking, in a content tone due to the answer, "Then best get going small fry."
Null lifted a brow tilted his head at this, never the less he did enter the car's back seat.
As Ron happily accepted the strange way the fight was stopped.
Which the frozen Midas standing at the entrance of the car door stood, baffled at the drop of tension as he entered the car.
Ron said their last goodbyes to the group of guards, as they entered the city.
One of the waving teen guards, being the one to tease, spoke. "Did you guys notice the blood on both of their clothes?"
"Ya." The female guard answered, "That's why I answered when I did, their relationship has to be pretty violent, like brutal stuff." Then she continued, "Did the smaller one even get the chance to look at the city up close?" The female guard said, as they chuckled at the thought of his shocked face.
"Well then, i think when we meet up i have a place i could bring them too." The joking guard said.
The teasing and Female guard looked at each other, familiar with the place his talking about.
In the car Null was still pondering the situation and the trio of guards, and most specifically one of them.
Midas already moved on from that, as they drove in a tunnel with the yellow strips of light on each side of the tunnel walls.
Then something popped in Midas's head.
He turned to Ron, which the man didn't miss.
"Is this where am gonna get my face?"
That question got a part of Null's attention.
"Nope." Ron simply answered.
"Then where will I get a face?" Midas questioned.
"We ate up two days already and, I'm supposed to drop you all off to the military in a month, so in the time frame of 5 days and 3 weeks." Ron answered.
"Then are we staying here for long, like what? A week or so?" Midas asked once more.
"Something like that..." Ron answered.
Midas, was satisfied with that but Null on the other hand.
"Where will we be going?" Null asked.
Ron hummed in thought, "We will be
revisiting cites I have been in, as i made my way to Chrome City. We won't stay in every single one but, the main two we're visiting are quite known, and are where we'll get your face regrown, and your ability serum."
"The first is the rival city of Sun Hit, which is Moon Drop City, and one of the most economically rich and, ecosystem rich city..."
"Eco-City." He said.
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