Golden Salmon

At night, Author feels utter loneliness. He has the urge to hug someone, but there was no one in his house. Kyle has gone to her home, and he is left alone. To satisfy his urge, he uses his tail as a pillow and hugs it tightly, pretending he was cuddling with someone on the bed in his bedroom. It didn’t work, however, as he still feels lonely. Author is surprised by a sudden entrance caused by the sound of his room door opening, and as he gets up, he sees Pete holding a cane, seemingly struggling to see his surroundings.

“John, what the **** are you doing at my house?!”

“Holy shit, George? That’s you? I was going on a walk, and I thought I was lost inside a cave!”

“This is my house you freak!”

He stands up and guided Pete out of his room, before sitting him down on a couch in the living room.

“Why are you taking a walking time at night?”

“Wait, it’s evening already?”

“I know you’re blind, but that doesn’t mean you can’t feel the cold temperature.”

“Don’t blame me, I miss my vision.”

Author sits beside him, before wrapping a blanket around his shoulders to warm him up. He starts a fire in the fireplace in front of Pete, and he groans in satisfaction. Author poured him tea and offers him bread, which Pete accepted happily.

“You can stay here, for the night. How did you even walked out this far from the city?”

Pete sips from his tea, before answering Author,

“All I do, is walk walk, and walk.”

“You really took ‘taking a walk’ seriously huh.”

Pete chuckled before taking another sip from his tea. He enjoys the sound of the fire cracking while is wrapped by the warmness of his blanket and the fires. Later then, it rains. The sound of the rain hitting Author’s roof creates a calming noise between the interior and the outside. Pete leaned to the couch and sigh in satisfaction. He told Author that living in a forest, especially a habitable cave might be not that bad at all, and he asked Author’s opinion about that.

“It’s comfortable for me.”

Author finally has company, as he no longer feels lonely and enjoys Pete’s presence. He brings a storybook from his bookshelves as he sits back beside Pete and reads the book. Pete continues drinking his tea until it is finished, along with the bread. And after that, he asked Author a question.

“What’s your favourite book?”

“Huh?-- Oh, yeah, I don’t have a favourite book, but any book would do just fine.”

“But, what book do you like the most?”

“Well-- It’s called ‘Mere Blood Illusion’, it contains various poems about creatures and its organs.”

“Does it consist of cannibalism?”

“No. Surely not.”

“Dammit.”

They both then talked until the rain had stopped and the time have reached midnight. Pete told him he would sleep on the couch, and Author agrees. Author brings him a glass of water and places it on the table beside the couch if he would needs it at night, and Pete patted his fluffy head which made Author flustered. He wished Pete goodnight before extinguishing the fireplace and lantern then goes asleep in his bedroom. Once the sun rose, Author heard the sound of shattered glass, and he rushed to the living room to see Pete, who fell from the couch as the glass had fallen beside him. He scurried over to Pete and helped him get up to the couch again.

“What happened?”

“Y-you didn’t told me you placed the glass right at my head’s direction..~!”

“I’m sorry, I must have forgotten.”

Author rushed to the kitchen and came back with a new glass of water, then hands it to Pete before proceeding to clean the broken pieces of the glass that has shattered on the floor.

“I miss my vision.” He sobs.

Hearing Pete sobbing, Author threw the shattered glass into the trash bin and then comfort Pete by pulling him into a warm hug on the couch, wrapped together with the blanket.

“It’s okay, I’m here to listen.”

Pete wraps his arms around Author’s waist and then starts to complain about his everyday experiences. He told Author that sometimes being a blind person is a good thing, but sometimes, people do not appreciate him enough due to his disability. He cries softly, and Author comforts him by tapping his back. Pete feels safe from his comfortable fluffy fur and warm hug, and the way he gives him comforting therapy. He stopped crying, as he tells Author that he is hungry.

“I-I’m hungry..~”

Author doesn’t have any food in his kitchen, and he was planning to hunt down some animals for his hunger today. And so, he asked if Pete wants to go with him deep into the forest and hunt animals together, to which Pete would agree. Once they grabbed enough equipment for the hunt, Author held Pete’s hand to guide him so that he would not get lost. They set off southeast, right to the river’s direction where fresh and delicious fishes would live. Author told Pete that they are going to fish, as he know Pete could not hunt down an animal due to his condition, but fishing would be a relaxing yet doable activity for him. They walked deep into the forest, passing through bushes and trees until they reached a higher area and see the city of Titanium. Huge and high walls surround the city, along with the forest around it, Author sees the river just right next to the city.

He guided Pete along as they talk while walking. They talk about nature, and Pete told him he was once licked by a deer because his mother accidentally poured syrup on his face while they were having a picnic in the forest. But, halfway through, Pete accidentally activated a bear trap just right beside his foot with his cane, and he was shocked by the loud sound it made. He jumped toward Author and both of them fell down, with Pete being on top. Author flushed, and Pete struggles to get up.

“Ge-George, where are you?!”

“I’m right under you, you’re on top of me!”

“W-what?!”

Pete managed to get up and fixes his clothes, followed by Author who picked up his cane and hands it to him, still flustered from the experience. He held Pete’s hand once again, but this time he feels a bit nervous about it. They didn’t talk that much after that moment, and just keep walking through the forest, until they finally reached the river and Pete sat down close to the water, while Author spears fished for him and himself. He caught various fish and placed them in a box that he and Pete brought. But then, he saw a gold salmon swim by just between his legs and disappear between the rocks in the clean river water. It surprises him, as he told Pete about what he saw.

“Pete! I just saw a yellow, shining salmon swims by me legs!”

“What? Yellow salmon?”

“Yes!”

“I heard from the legends, golden salmons live by this river, could that yellow salmon you speak of be the legendary creature?”

“I’m not lying, I really see it!”

“Try and catch it dear, maybe there’s more than just one!”

Dear. Author was flustered after Pete calls him that, but he remains neutral whatsoever, and aims his spear at the water, spying over the water flow, until he saw the golden salmon again, swimming to the surface. Once it is close enough, Author pierced the spear right through its’ body and rose it to the air then erupt in cheers.

“I caught it, I caught it! Look!--”

He went quiet after realizing what he said, but Pete laughs at his goofy behaviour, and so Author laughs too then walked toward him with the golden salmon. It shines through the sunrise, and he hands it to Pete. Pete stroke the scale, and it feels much harder than the usual fish scales. He smiled, before confirming that it is actually the legendary fish from the rumours he had heard, it was real.

“It’s real, it’s really, really real!”

“What should we do with it?”

“If there’s more, please catch it, but don’t kill it, I wanna adopt one as a pet!”

“So, we’re gonna eat this one?”

“Only if you insist.”

And so, Author gets up again and then walks over into the water. He grabbed a net this time, so he can catch one of the golden salmons without injuring it. He waits and waits, while Pete cooks the golden salmon behind him with spices that he brought from home. Pete worked as a cook, and though he was blind, his instinct in cooking is unnoticeable, therefore his cooking would always please anyone that eats his food. But a brief introduction about Pete that no one knew, is that he is a serial killer and loves to skin a person alive, just to cheer him up whenever he is pissed off. In conclusion, Pete is not an ordinary human, and just like Author, he has an abnormal ability. Pete can teleport through television and radio static, and he can also regenerate an injured limb or body.

Author saw one of the golden fishes swims from between the rocks and he dives down into the water and then caught the fish using the net. He succeeds in trapping the fish, and he rose to the surface before placing the fish beside Pete. He was so wet, but Pete hands him his cape, and so Author used his cape to dry himself.

“Thank you so much! I’m really interested in these fishes, and having one would surely help my curiosity!”

After he finished cooking the salmon, he gave Author his slice and they both eat together, watching as the sun sets down and spending some more time on the river after they were full. It is nighttime now and they both arrived home shortly after. Author grabs the golden salmon and places it in the sink full of water and closes it with a silver case. He then walks to the living room and helped Pete lays down on the couch and starts the fire and lanterns to light the room. Pete thanked him before falling asleep immediately, seems like he was tired from the today. Author yawns walk to his bedroom and sleep while using his tail as a body pillow.

Name: John William, A.K.A Pete

Age: 25

Sex: Male ♂

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Height: 157 Centimetres

Weight: 42 Kilograms

Personality: Enthusiastic, Active, Anxiety

Disability: Blind, Schizophrenic, Psychopath

Occupation: Cook

Family Status: In Long-Term Relationship, Not-Married

Description:

John, or Pete, is a local cook working in a four-star restaurant in the city. He is blind, but his instinct and skill in cooking serve him great status and even respect from the restaurant staff themselves. However, he was despised by people around him in his neighbourhood, as they don’t like blind men doing better than themselves, therefore they see Pete as a mock to them. Thus make Pete is often abused by his own neighbours, and due to this also, he is insane. Pete is a psychopath and a serial killer that loves to skin humans alive and hear as they scream in pain, and it is also one of his way to cope. Many of his neighbours had been killed, but he claims that they had moved from the city to another place.

Name: George Foxtail, A.K.A Author, A.K.A George Lucas

Age: 18

Sex: Male ♂

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Height: 142 Centimetres

Weight: 14 Kilograms

Personality: Quiet, Analytical, Irritable, Narcissistic, Friendly

Disability: ADHD, Erectile dysfunction, Single-sided deafness (SSD)

Occupation: Wizard

Family Status: In Long-Term Relationship, Not married

Description:

George, or Author, or Mister Lucas (as addressed by Waverley), is an anthropomorphic fox that came from a red fox species. He is a wizard that lives away but deep in the forest around the city of Titanium. George lives in a habitable cave that he had decorated with the magic book he has. One of George’s ears is deaf, and he uses the other ear to hear what the world has to offer to him. George tried his best to isolate himself from humanity, but ironically has a male human friend as his close friend. George has also a girlfriend named Diana Kyle, which is a fox too. And she would often visit his cave every two days a week. George has also a mentor, a wolf from the southeast, an anthropomorphic creature too, just like himself. She teaches George how to use his magic book, and George would look up to her like his own mother. Waverley Goingzoma, is her name.

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