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Who: Envy and Tulio
Where: Route 31
When: October 20th, early evening
Summary: Envy is an idiot who eats strange berries he finds in the woods. Have fun taking care of him Tulio :D
Rating: PG-13
Log:

Envy was sulking, wandering through the trees a little ways away from where the stupid human was working on getting the fire started. He'd said he'd go to get some extra wood, but maybe he'd take a little longer than necessary, just because. He was hungry damn it, who cared about "not eating everything", he'd only wanted a little. It wasn't like Tulio had been doing anything besides walking, Envy'd had to keep training himself too so he'd be able to get at least somewhat stronger. He kicked at a small rock in his way, looking very much like a ridiculous angry sixteen year old. Eventually he started gathering up some branches from the ground, wishing he could just kick the trees down like he would've been able to before.

But wait!

There was a very tempting sight: a bush with some interesting looking yellow and green fruits growing in bunches all over it. He grinned; they looked pretty big and juicy, it'd be fine if he ate one of those, surely. What could it hurt? He picked one and took a big bite out of it, grimacing at how damn dry it was, not juicy at all. He swallowed anyway, he was hungry enough, and wound up eating the rest of it too. Deciding that he wasn't going to bring any back to that stingy bastard, he started heading back with his wood. A few minutes later he started feeling…very off. Shivering and feeling flushed, it wasn't long before he was more staggering than walking. Shit, he couldn't afford this now, how was he gonna get to the city like this? He wouldn't put it past Tulio at all to leave him behind at the first opportunity, or take some kind of revenge for Envy's tricks. He'd just have to put up with it until it went away and hope it wasn't noticed. The wood was hanging out of his arms, some of it falling onto the ground when he finally got back to the little clearing they'd picked. He just swayed in place, trying not to fall over. "Hey…I got the stupid wood…" he tried to make his mouth form a smirk, but it came out more like a lopsided grimace than anything.

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Tulio drew up his legs a bit, grimacing slightly. If he'd known this is what he'd been signing up for by inviting Envy along, he wouldn't have. He was worrying again, but it was something he couldn't help but doing. Still, he fell asleep well before dawn.

Envy remained quiet for most of the rest of that day, occasionally tossing or muttering something or requesting more water, but no more major outbursts. And as evening began approaching again, he started becoming decidedly more lucid.

He mumbled a few curses and looked around, raising an eyebrow when he saw Tulio still around, but not commenting, "How...how long's it been?"

"Since you started this fine mess?"

Yeah, he was agitated. They'd been wasting so much time on this, and sure, he was glad to see Envy's gradual improvement, but as a result of that he found it easy to be angry with him again.

"A little more than a day", he muttered, almost spitting the words out after a brief silence.

He pushed himself up on one elbow, giving him with an odd, suspicious look, before shrugging, "Well we're almost there aren't we. Why're you in such a hurry anyway?"

He gave Chimera, who was still lying beside him, an absent pat on the head. Maybe the little thing was okay to have around after all. He hadn't taken his eyes off of Tulio, still looking wary. He couldn't remember much of what had happened while he'd been sick at all, but it probably wasn't anything he'd ever want anyone else to see. He considered his words carefully, "...What did I say?"

"Because this place is nuts." He'd never quite gotten over the fact that the creatures would all try to attack him randomly. Bicho could always ward them off, and nothing had happened during the night, but he still couldn't shake off that they kept doing that. And he could hear them and sometimes catch sight of them and he'd probably never get used to that.

It was a half-way lie, of course, covering up the fact that he really was just anxious to find Miguel. He didn't really feel like telling Envy this in case Miguel wasn't to be found - telling someone that "yeah, I'll probably just replace you once we get there" isn't a good idea if you find you could still make use of them.

At Envy's other question, he looked at him with a frown. He didn't remember? In many ways, this shouldn't have been surprising, but Tulio hadn't considered that he might not.

"You said you weren't human. And that you're sorry you killed me. I forgive you, by the way", he said with biting sarcasm, giving Envy a dark look, "if you tell me what the hell that was all about."

Envy was getting used to the attacking wildlife, but then again he enjoyed fighting them off. It was something to do at least, and Chimera was really starting to get stronger from it. But he could definitely believe that it was all crazy, because it really was. And he was anxious to get out of the woods too, so it made sense that Tulio was. That he could believe. But it made it even more curious as to why Tulio had stayed with him instead of just going on without him.

Then Tulio relayed what he'd said, and he didn't really want to think about why he might have apologized for anything, but the first part he could go with. "Yeah, that's 'cause I'm not human. Or I wasn't until I came here anyway."

"Right. So what were you, a horse?"

He'd known a horse who'd seemed surprisingly aware of what was going on. That didn't mean he believed Envy had been one, or for the record, that Envy'd been anything other than human. You didn't just change species like that. It didn't make any sense.

But, having thought of this before, his mind returned full circle to the constant conclusion that right now, nothing made any sense.

He snorted, "No, I was a homunculus, not an animal. I was supposed to be human when I was created, but it didn't exactly work out how my creator planned," he smiled in a way that wasn't happy in the slightest. "Some of the others wanted to be human, they were looking for a way how. Figures it'd be me that it happened to."

Tulio wasn't sure how to process this information, so he settled again for skepticism. Raising his eyebrows in part question, he answered.

"Right. Okay. So, what-" he threw out an arm "- what exactly were you?"

"I was created by alchemy, continue to exist because of it, I'm a golem, a monster. Is that enough for you?" he snapped, "I don't need to tell you everything, and I don't care if you believe me or not."

"Fine, then I won't!" He paused, giving Envy a good glare, measuring him mentally. If he fought like this, he was probably fine by now. "Are you done now? Can we leave?"

"Yeah sure, I'd be glad to get the hell out of this forest as soon as possible."

He pushed himself to his feet and grabbed his bag. He was still shaky, but he could walk and that would work out fine. As they started walking, he continued to give Tulio that odd look from earlier. Eventually he spoke, a bit quietly, "Well, thanks I guess."

He decided to let Bicho out of his pokéball after having grabbed his pack as well, and made sure the fire was put out properly. The Yanma was a happy bug, making little loops and small noises before swooping down to Chimera, presumably to play. Tulio stopped paying attention to them, knowing the big bug would be back in an instant if he needed him. It was strange, but he'd sort of started to trust the dragonfly.

He walked in silence and kept his eyes on the road ahead until Envy spoke up. He gave him a sideways glance, not entirely sure what he was talking about, but decided not to ask expand on it. He simply shrugged and kept walking. "You're... welcome, I guess."