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Cat hero swoops in and kicks Dog villian down off of his thrown, and Dog let's out a bark as Cat gets ready to hiss at Dog. The crowd is cheering in he distance as they watch the two fight it off, Dog trying to become the king of britian and Cat trying to get Dog locked back up in jail where he should be

'You got this Cat hero!!' His loyal fans yell, which Cat is able to hear because of his super cat hearing! One of the benefits to being a cat! Dog barks loudly in his ear though, making Cat flinch for a second before getting back on track

"Nadwe! Look at this mess! What the heck, man!?" Meme intrupts Nadwe's thoughts, and Nadwe looks up at Meme with a frown and deadpanned eyed

"I'm just playing with my action figures, I can clean it up later" Nadwe says, and Meme huffs "no you can't! Socks is coming over today, remember? Ugh, come on, start cleaning up"

Nadwe groans dramatically and stands up slowly, starting to put his action figures away, taking them all into his arms and bringing them upstairs into his room, dumping them onto his shelf

"Are you not just going to be taking Socks out to Honest Burgers? Why make me clean up?" Nadwe complains, and Meme replies with "I don't always take him out! And anyway its more like hes the one taking me out.. Anyways we're staying inside this time so I'll take you to the fountain"

The fountain is in the middle of the small village their friend group lives in, its only three minutes away from their house

"Can I take at least two of my action figures with me? Pleeaaaase???" Nadwe begs, holding onto Meme's arm and swinging it around. "Yea yea ok! Just hurry up, I don't not wanna be here when Socks gets over!" "Ha ha your dating Socks-" "NO IM NOOOTTT!!"

Nadwe got Dog villian and Cat hero again, shoving them into his tophats and putting it back on his head, and he lets Meme take his hand and walk him over to the fountain in the middle of the village. Not much people are out today, yes its a nice day out but most of them are probably taking this time to sleep in after yesterday

What was yesterday you ask? It was the start of summer actually, they all hung out together all day, well, minus Laff, he said he was planning to do something else in his church, but that was great news to Nadwe because he never really liked Laff

When Meme dropped him off at the fountain, he made Nadwe listen to his rambles for a minute. "Make sure to stay here, don't get in any suspicious van, don't drown in the fountain" and Nadwe swatted Meme away, and watched as Meme walked away until he couldn't see the blue fur of his onesie anymore

Getting his figures back out from his tophat, Nadwe sat them both down and leaned onto the fountain, on the ground on his knees to get a better view

'Hahaha!! I know cats hate water, Cat hero! You'll never be able to catch me in here!!" Dog yells, and jumps into the water, making Cats eyes go wide

Was jumping into the water really worth it? Dramatic music starts to play at Cat watches Dog slowly swim away. He takes a deep breath, and dives into the water

It makes his fur wet which isnt comfortable, but its honestly not that bad, so he starts swimming his way over to Dog who's now picking up speed after noticing Cat had gotten the courage to jump into the water

'Ruff-roh!' Dog yelps, and let's out a bark as Cat jumps on top of him and wrangles his wrists into cuffs. "Now you can't run away from me, Dog villian!" The crowd cheers once again, happy for Cats victory, and Cat soaks it all up, including the water.. He really needs to go home and dry off!

Smiling, Nadwe sets his figures back onto the smooth concrete walls of the fountain, what should he do with the figures next? Should they have a swimming party? Maybe..

As Nadwe thinks about what he should to with his figures next, he notices a black spot forming in the water and peers in closer, trying to get a better look at it, when someone suddenly pushes on his back and Nadwe topples over into the fountain

Blue stingy water clouds his vision and he can't breath for a moment, and he quickly sits up in the fountain, coughing up water and rubbing his eyes with his hands, trying to get the water out so he can see properly

After coughing a few more times, Nadwe looks up over the fountain hes now in, still sitting in it as his head hurts a little from hitting it against the bottom of the fountain when he fell into it ungracefully

The person who decided to rudefully push him into the fountain was.. Laff!?

"What the f-fuck, Laff!? Why did you do that!? Wh.." Nadwe starts to yell in anger, stuttering once from having a shiver from the cold water hes still in, when he realizes that was Laff has in his hands is a bat, like, a full on metal bat that looks like its about to be used

"M-Meme is totally gonna kick your butt once he realizes what you did! A-and why do you have a bat!?" Nadwe yells, backing up in the fountain as he stands up, shivering as the water drips off of him

"I must say, it was quite rude of me, but I'm allowed to have fun and play with my pray like you play with your food, right Nadwe?" Laff speaks, it sounds like he has a filter in his gas mask making his voice deeper and creepier than usual

".. You pushed me into the fountain because I play with my food!?"

"Oh Nadwe.. How naive." Laff lifts up his bat, and in a desperate panic Nadwe snatches his figurines and throws both of them at Laff, and all they do is land on his chest, but they do make him blink

So Nadwe runs around to the other side of the fountain, as fast as he can at least, and hops out of the fountain, but before he can even get two steps away it seems like Laff is already behind him

Nadwe feels something bash into the side of his head, and is eyes go wide for a moment before shutting as he falls down, his vision going black as somehing other than water starts to slowly run down the side of his face, and his leg twitches

Laff takes out a paper from his pocket, and takes a bit of the blood from Nadwe's head onto his pinkie finger and starts to write something, and sticks the paper under one of Nadwe's stupid figurines

If the child hadn't thrown the toys at him, he would've been gentler. But, it is what it is

~~~

"I'm surprised we didn't go out to Honest Burgers today, but its a nice change!" Socks speaks as he walks next to Meme, walking from Meme's house over to the fountain where Meme had dropped Nadwe off earlier in the day, about an hour and a half or so before

"Well Nadwe made a point this morning, that I usually bring us over to Honest Burgers, so I thought we could just hang out and watch a movie for once" Meme shrugs with a smile on his face

"Well, it was nice! Now we get to hang out with your kid in between us" Socks jokes, and Meme laughs, and looks up when they get near the fountain to spot Nadwe, which he can't see him..

"Uuuh, isn't Nadwe supposed to be here?" Socks asked slowly, rubbing the back of his neck in confusion

"Nadwe??" Meme calls out, walking closer to the fountain and noticing there's a bunch of water spilled off over the edge of it. He circles around the fountain, and his eyes widen as he sees blood on the ground next to Nadwe's two figurines that he brought over here

"NADWE!? WHERE ARE YOU!?" Meme starts to yell loudly, and Socks looks at Meme worriedly and places a hand on his shoulder

"Hey, maybe its alright! He could have gone into the water and then hit his head so he went to the clinic!" Socks tries to reassure Meme, who yells "I WORK THERE!! IM THE ONLY ONE WHO WORKS THERE!" "ok ok! It'll be alright"

Socks looks around near Nadwe's figurines and the blood, and notices some paper underneath one of them. Socks kneels down and picks it up

"Meme, come look at this.."

Meme comes over quickly and leans over Socks' shoulder, noticing the words on the paper were written with blood that says 'I will cleanse the boy for you'

Meme's vision gets blurry for a moment as all he can think about is beating Laffs ass into oblivion, how does he know its Laff? Who else in here is the only religious person, who else says cleansing as a meaning of murder? No one here but Laff

"..we need to get to the church, right this instant" Meme says with a blank tone and stands up, pulling Socks up with him who drops the paper

Socks nods in determination and they run beside eachother, as fast as they can

~~~

"Uugh.. O-ow.." Nadwe whimpers, slowly blinking his eyes open in pain. Where was he again?? He can't remember properly

Wasn't he playing at the water fountain? How did he get over here then, and why is his head killing him so much, it really hurts. Plus hes cold and wet. Did he fall into the fountain?

"Ah, Nadwe.. Finally awake, are we? Good, I wanted to do this while you where awake" Nadwe hears a voice from behind him, and hes confused who it is until they step out in front of him, or, more so ahead?

Nadwe finally notices hes laying down on some cold table surface, and Laff is above him, holding a sort of small knife and wearing his priest outfit

"L-laff..? Whuh happened..?" Nadwe slowly asks, feeling some wetness run down his face, he tries to wipe it off but can't. Nadwe looks down to see hes been strapped onto the table, and he starts trying to get up

"W-why am I tied down!? Whats going on!?'

" so you don't remember. I must have hit harder than I should have, but that's alright" Laff talks out loud to himself, not focusing directly at Nadwe anymore. Laff suddenly takes the bottom of Nadwe's suit shirt and lifts it up, making him squeak

Laff grabs a marker and starts adding dotted lines in a circle on Nadwe's stomach around his belly button

Nadwe just watches, trying to remember why the hell he ended up here, in the.. Church? Yeah, this is the church. He couldn't feel his top hat on his head and sees its placed down on a smaller round table a bit away from the metal table that Nadwe is currently on

"Nadwe, I know you are a dmeon child. With all the messes you've made, the things you've stole, I know your purpose in this world, and mine is the very opposite" Laff starts ranting, but Nadwe listens since its the only thing to listen to besides his own thoughts right now

"My purpose, is to cleanse you of this world, child. And I will"

Laff puts the marker down, and leans in closer to Nadwe's stomach, holding the small knife. "W-what does that mean?" Nadwe asks, but Laff doesn't give him an answer

Laff holds the side of Nadwe's stomach and presses the knife up to Nadwe's skin and digs it in, not too much of course, only a bit to get a bit of blood to peek out

Nadwe flinches when Laff makes the first cut and tears spring up in the corners of his eyes. "O-ow!! Stop it, that hurts!!" Nadwe yells, trying to get away from Laff

"Be quiet, child." Laff mumbles, focused on carving a circle into Nadwe's stomach, and Nadwe squirms as best as he can while being strapped onto the table

Laff follows the lines he made carefully, and watches the blood flow down Nadwe's stomach, matching the color that's running down Nadwe's face from the hit earlier. Quite a shame it has to be inside the demon child

Nadwe's cries get louder but Laff just ignores them, and as he is just about to get halfway into the carving, there's a loud bang from the door of the church swinging open

Laff swings his head around to look beyond him, stopping cutting, while Nadwe flinches and closes his eyes, worried it might be someone else who's also come to hurt him

"LAFF! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" Socks yells, and runs over. Before Laff could react properly, Socks had kicked his hand, making the scalpel drop to the floor, and Socks punched Laff onto the floor

Nadwe opened his eyes when he heard Socks' voice, and then felt gentle hands starting to loosen the straps over Nadwe, and then he noticed it was Meme

"Meme..? Meme!!" As soon as his arms where free, Nadwe wrapped his arms around Meme's neck and started crying into his shoulder, his suit falling over his stomach hiding the half circle cut

"Oh my god, its ok now Nadwe, I've got you..!" Meme whispers, hugging Nadwe close to him, and he hears the sounds of Socks punching Laff, making him scramble to get his phone out of his pocket while holding Nadwe

He calls 911, rubbing Nadwe's back and trying not to shiver from the fact that Nadwe's whole body is damp, and starts talking to the police once they pick up

Meanwhile, Laff wasn't having a good time, but Socks was for sure letting all his anger out on Laff as he slammed his fist into his masked face over and over, because how dare Laff hurt his best friend forevers' kid!?

He didn't care that blood was getting all over his fist, why should he? Laff deserves it

"-ocks! Socks!! Get off of him, the police are here now!" Socks can hear Meme yelling, and he delivers one last punch straight into Laffs stomach just for good measure, and gets off

As some police officers run in and roughly pull Laff up and push him outside, another comes over and helps the two bring Nadwe over to an ambulance quickly

"C-can we ride in the back with him?" Meme asks, wanting to stay and watch over Nadwe, and the paramedics inside nod, and all they can do is sit and wait anxiously and in worry while the docters make Nadwe fall asleep

"What the hell.." Meme mumbles, putting his head in his hands. Why did that happen? He always knew Laff didn't ever really like Nadwe, but to go that far? Its just..

Then, he feels a kiss on his cheek, and looks up to see Socks, and he blushes slightly. Things weren't ok right now, but he had company, so he leaned against Socks

"Thanks.. For helping, you know..?" Meme whispers, feeling like if he spoke up too loudly then Nadwe hurt get even more hurt. Socks just nods

Meme will most definitely keep Nadwe with him 24/7 for the next entire year