A/N: hey, decided to end the story. ik its bery abrupt but im burnt out and stuff. so this chapter is a bit longer then usual to wrap everything up. enjoy.
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Slowly opening my eyes. I feel myself starting to wake up. The only thing covering my vision is a sea of blue shifting colored fur.
A sight I'll never get tired of.
As if on cue, the moment I start waking up. The sea of the nonmoving blue fur starts to shift. Followed by hundreds of small yawns.
Yes, the hundreds of small yawns coming from my children. The mountain of blue fur shifts even more. Starting the ritual of me about to get lost amongst the mountain. Feeling myself fall into the pile I accept my fate and wait for my children to find me.
"Wak?"
"Ye, I awak"
"Hav gud dweam"
"Ye ye, gud dream, foun partner"
"Woaa, much gud dweam"
"Me hungwy"
"Me tu"
"Hai, stap doin dat"
"Wut? Me loafing :3"
"Oh? I loaf tu den"
"Sthap loafing, we du dat latr"
"Awww :("
"We loaf latr wit dad"
"Ohh!! Wight!! Me forgor :3"
"Wher dad?"
"Dad?"
"Dad? Wher go??"
"Fin dad!"
"He noat ove here!"
"Noat ova here eiter…"
"Did dad leav :(?"
"Nu! Dad neve leav us!"
"Don wory babies! Joey wud neve leav us!"
Amongst the countless voices amongst my children, I hear Inv's voice assuring them all.
"Mom!!"
"Hai mom!!"
"Mom wher dad??"
"Mom awak!!"
"Hai babies!!! Help lok for Joey!"
"Ok!" All the voices say in unison.
After this, the sea searches for me. This entire time I've been stuck under the sea getting smothered.
I'm not suffocating or anything. Just stuck. It somehow ends up like this at the beginning of every cycle.
I've tried to tell my children I can just sleep at the bottom of the pile but they always insist that I sleep at the top with Inv.
Which ends up with me being lost at the start of every cycle.
I don't find this annoying however. I find it really cute.
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After a bit, I finally see a shred of light amongst the sea of blue fur.
The light being immediately replaced with the face of one of my children. A huge beam of happiness the moment their eyes land on me.
"I foun dad!! :3"
Reaching for me, my child picks me up out of the sea of fur, my head finally breaking free from all the shifting blue fur.
"Hai dad!!"
"Hey Inva" I say back to my child. Who is literally twice as big as me.
"Dad??"
"Dad foun?!?!"
"Omg et dad!!"
"Dad noat leav us :)"
"Helo dad!!"
"Hav gud slep dad??"
Hearing all the voices chattering at once asking me questions and greeting me, I can only let out a chuckle. Not able to keep up with all the voices I look back at Inva.
"You can let me down Inva"
"Oh! Ok!"
Being let down, I'm finally able to stretch my body and move around.
All my children still talking away.
"Joey!" I hear Invs voice beside me.
"Good morning Inv, happy to see you too" I say as I'm picked back up and hugged by Inv. Of course returning the hug back.
"Hug?"
"Hug?"
"Hug?"
"Hug?"
"Hug?"
"Hug!!"
Hearing all the voices, I feel more sources of fur start to wrap around me and Inv. All of our children starting to hug us as well. Turning into one huge hugging session.
After letting the hug go on for a bit I finally speak up. Knowing that we can't do this forever.
"Alright kids, we have stuff to do. We can do all of this later when your chores are done" I say aloud.
"Awww :("
"Bu I lik hug…"
"Dang chors…"
"Du chor quik! Mor hug"
"Oh woaw, neve tought of et lik dat!"
"Wel noaw u kno!!"
Feeling the hugging session end. I end up back in only Invs arms. Who still hasn't let go.
"Wana lay on bak toda??" Inv asks me.
"Hmmmm… sure, feeling a little lazy today" I say back to Inv.
"Ok!" With a happy nod, Inv brings me to his back and his fur starts wrapping around me with familiarity.
Secured to his back. I let myself go completely limp, knowing that I won't fall off.
"So wut we duin toda Joey?" Inv asks me as I look over his shoulder.
"Well, today we say goodbye to some of our kids. It's time we finally let them see the world for themselves. If we can expand into other worlds we don't have to worry about food anymore" I say to Inv as I watch our children scrambling off in different directions to their assigned regions.
"Oh… et finaly tim?" Inv mutters back with a hint of sadness.
"I know how you feel Inv, I really do. I don't want them to go anywhere either but we can't keep them trapped here forever. You know how much they want to find partners of their own…" I explain to Inv, the field were in growing emptier and emptier by the second.
"I kno… et jus dificult…" Inv whimpers back.
Trying to soothe Inv, I free my paw from his fur and slowly stroke it across his head.
"It's ok, they can always visit us. I'm sure they'll come almost every cycle to say hi. Besides… Don't you want grandchildren?"
Hearing my question Inv goes still, his tail repeatedly thumping the ground.
"Hmmm… dat dos soun nic" Inv says back with a slightly happy tone.
With Inv not sad anymore I go back to resting on his back.
With only the 2 of us left in the field. Inv lays back down on his stomach, waiting for our children to return. The 2 of us in quiet silence, enjoying each other's company.
Amongst the purr's going back and forth between me and Inv, I think back on how I got here.
It's been such a long time since I met Inv. After we first kissed which I still remember to this very day. I found out for some damn reason kissing Inv actually made him pregnant.
Its fucking weird I know. I was beyond shocked when we woke up the next cycle and Inv didn't throw up an egg.
The cycle was a tough one but we somehow managed to get through it. Over several more cycles Inv's stomach got big which made me worried.
So when Inv spit out an egg that was twice as huge as usual. I saw Inv immediately wrap around the egg saying "baby".
I somehow became a father in 2 cycles meeting Inv.
I'm not exactly sure how I got to the point I am today.
All I can really remember is tirelessly getting food for my children and Inv. Inv would stay in the shelter with our children while I hunted for food. It sounds inefficient considering Inv was much more effective in hunting back then.
But I was still able to make it work. Inv was much better at taking care of the children then I could.
Before I knew it, our children grew up enough to get attached to the cycle and start properly hunting. With the fear of not losing them forever I allowed it.
With me and my children starting to hunt together. Food became much easier to get. From what became 1 child to 2 to 4…
It got to a point where we actually had to start expanding out to different regions just to procure enough food for the family.
It got so crazy that I had to figure out how to permanently destroy the karma gates so we could not worry about being trapped in a region for a cycle. Who woulda thought throwing around 100 egg bombs at a karma gate would destroy it?
By the way, yes, all of my children also produce egg bombs. I've gotten so used to them all spitting one out that when I wake up I don't even see or hear it anymore.
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Thankfully with the help of my system, I was able to make our lives a bit easier as well.
With enough karma points I was able to permanently get rid of the rain. Which made life so much easier. But with no rain, it also meant the predators could freely roam around without a worry as well.
Too bad for them, at that point I had a colony of Inv's to feed.
Securing each region and fully mapping them out. You could say I've literally taken over this world now. I've explored every inch of this world. Which is weirdly very small? If I try to go any further out all I'm met with is a never ending void of darkness.
The moment I felt like I took over the world, I guess my system agreed with me since it gave me a new passive called "world traversal".
Basically it lets me travel to different variations of Rain World. I've had it for a while, hesitant to use it.
But today I'll finally use it, letting some of my children that have fully grown to explore new worlds.
I also got rid of the stupid red filter that the outskirts had, which is where me and Inv are right now.
This was the only place with enough room for all of us to comfortably sleep together in one huge Inv pile.
You would think a better option would be the top of Five pebbles but that area was blocked off.
No matter how many egg bombs I would throw at the karma gate it just wouldn't budge at all. So I just simply gave up on it. More worried about my family.
And now here we are. Finally in a somewhat settled comfortable state.
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"You hungry Inv?" I ask a rhetorical question. I know he's hungry. I just want to hear his voice.
"Mhm! Me hungwy!!" Inv's head turns around, nodding to my question with fervor.
"Hmmm alright, what do you want today?"
"Hmm… i wan… i wan an apl- wai! I wan a hamburger :3" Inv was about to say apple but switched it to a hamburger.
"Alright, lemme just check something real quick" saying this to Inv, I close my eyes and open my system.
Joseph
Food: (redacted)
Successful cycles: (redacted)
Deaths: 67
Karma Points: To fucking many
In all honesty my system kinda started acting weird after a certain point. It doesn't really say much anymore. Nor does it tell me my usual stats.
Thankfully those don't really matter. I have only gotten 2 new passives this entire time.
Scrolling to my passives I look at the new ones I got.
World Traversal (Soul) (Vessel) (bullshit)
Effects: you have a literal fucking nuclear army. Go take over the universe or something.
You can travel to different parallel worlds. Can also bring along anyone you want.
Eg storage (Soul) (bullshit) (Unique)
Effects: Store as many eg bombs as you want. You can carry enough to destroy literal worlds at this point.
Eg storage count: 254,405,381
Yeah I honestly think my system has gone insane or something. These passives are pretty good though.
Seeing that I have enough karma points, I open my eyes.
"Ok Inv, walk over to the usual spot"
"Ok!!" Inv stands up and starts walking over to the spot where the trading booth is in this area.
Seeing the scavenger I see it still has its robotic look, but I swear nowadays it sometimes squints in disdain while looking at me.
Welcome to Trading post #67676767. What can I get for you?
"Uhhh, can I have 21 hamburgers? The really expensive kind? I'm really rich and stuff" I say back to the scavenger.
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For here or to go?
The scavenger says back as if I was at a counter in a fast food joint.
"To go"
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That will be 420,000 karma points. Accept?
>Yes No
"Yes, gimme the burgers"
Magically out of nowhere, 21 wrapped hamburgers appear out of nowhere on the table the scavenger is standing behind.
Please leave.
"What?"
Please visit us again. Have a nice day.
"Ok???" I say back in confusion while storing all the hamburgers in my system's inventory.
"Ok lets go back Inv" I say while giving Inv a small scratch behind the ears.
Walking back to our spot, me and Inv eat our hamburgers, waiting for our children to return.
While eating, I hear Inv speak up.
"Hey Joey… ar u hapy?"
Stopping myself from choking, I safely swallow my food before answering.
"What? Of course I'm happy. Why wouldn't I be?" I ask back, wondering why Inv asked this question all of a sudden.
"Wel i… i… hol on" Stopping his sentence I see him fiddle with a ring on one of his fingers.
Seeing him do this makes me grow a bit more serious. Inv rarely ever uses the rings i gave him.
Messing with one of the rings, Inv coughs a bit. Hearing this lets me know which ring he used.
"Phew…I'll never get used to this, I know I told you I prefer the way I usually talk but I want to be a bit more serious about this instead of sounding like a child" Hearing Inv speak in perfect English I'm fully alert now.
I gave him a specific ring I bought from the trading booth that lets Inv speak normally, cancelling out the effect the Corrupted Universal Mark of Communication passive has on Inv.
"Inv, what's wrong?"
"I just… was thinking about what you said earlier, about keeping our kids trapped here… and your right, we can't keep them here forever… but I also realized… aren't I doing the same thing with you?"
"What? Inv, no, you are not keeping me 'trapped' here. Why are you suddenly saying this?"
"I don't know… I just feel like… almost right after we met. I immediately had a child which forced you to take care of us…" Inv's ears droop down saying this.
"Woah woah woah Inv, you didn't know that would happen either!"
"I-I know… it's just ever since then, all we've done is take care of our children. I love them, I really do. But have we really had a moment of time when it was just the 2 of us? I know we're partners, but I feel I ended up doing exactly what a mate would do…"
"Inv, partners have children as well. There's nothing wrong with that. Everyday I've spent with you and our children has filled me with happiness. And I would do it all over again if I had the choice"
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Not hearing Inv reply back, I grow worried. Reaching my paw I slowly start stroking the back of his head.
"Inv, please tell me what's wrong…"
"Sniff… I don't know… I just feel like I'm not enough for you… that I only keep you tied down… that you could have a better life without me-
"Don't say that Inv! My life could never be better without you! You are the best thing that has ever happened in my life! You and our children are the only light I have in my life. So please… please don't say that… I don't know what I would do without you…" I hug the back of Inv's head, afraid to let go.
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"I'm sorry Joey… I don't know why I said all of that…" Inv whimpers while saying this.
"It's ok Inv, it's ok… I will never leave you…"
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"I love you Joey…"
"I love you to Inv, always"
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After a long amount of time of soothing Inv, I feel a slight purr come from him. Which I return back.
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"Sigh… I'm sorry Joey… I don't know why I got all emotional like that, I know how you feel with that weird passive thing you have, the soul bond one or something"
"It's ok Inv, sometimes saying it out loud can be better than just relying on our feelings…"
"Ok no more serious talk, it's draining talking like this" Inv says as he fiddles with the same ring he used earlier.
Coughing a bit Inv speaks up.
"Woaw, dat so muc betr" Inv says back in the usual way he talks.
Talking a bit more with Inv, we both finish eating our food. Along with soothing Inv more to show he has nothing to worry about. That I will never leave him.
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A little bit later, our children start coming back in groups. Having fulfilled their food requirements of the day.
"Hai dad! Hai Mom!"
"Es dad loafing??"
"Et loak lik he loafing wit mom!!"
"Se? I tol u we cud loaf wen we ge bak :3"
"Loaf tim!"
"I wana loaf nex tu dad…"
Seeing our children come back, they quickly start laying around us. Getting comfortable and loafing. I never thought teaching them how to loaf would turn into some weird cult tradition but I find it cute, so I'm not too bothered by it.
Letting time fly, more and more join the pile. Either loafing around or doing biscuits on some very big blankets I bought from the trading booth. The soft kind that's very durable, that can even withstand the sharp claws of my children.
Seeing this I feel at peace. Knowing that I did a good job at raising my children.
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After all my children return. I hear 100's of voices talking at once. Music to my ears. But today is a special day so i must interrupt it.
Standing up on Inv's back I look around. One by one my children notice me standing up on Inv's back and start looking at me, turning quiet. In a matter of moment all my children are now directly looking at me, patiently waiting for what I have to say.
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"Hey kids. How y'all doin?" I say to all of my children.
"Hai dad!!"
"I gud dad :3"
"Ate red bug toda, vry gud"
"Hoaw day ben dad??"
"I kil twain lizr. Et had nu chanc >:)"
"I ded flip, many flip"
One by one I hear my children speak, I patiently answer everyone. Letting them know that they are loved.
After talking to all my children I get around to why I stood up.
"As you all know. Today is the day some of your brothers and sisters will head out into the unknown, out… into the Rain Worlds!"
"Woaaaaa" all the Invlings say in unison.
"Inva, Invro, Invre, Enor and Enot. today is the day, you search for your mates" Calling out the names. My children part ways to the 5 that were called.
Walking up to me and Inv, I hop off of Inv's back, who stands up afterwards.
"My children… it's time for you to go. I know you wish to find partners of your own. It's time for you to live your own lives" I look at my five children, who look like they're on the verge of crying.
"Of course you can come back any time you want, all you have to do is wish for my presence and I will immediately answer. We will always be here for you"
Snapping my fingers, a portal opens behind me, leading to 5 different worlds that are much better than this one.
One by one, my children walk up to me and Inv. Giving us deep hugs, saying they love us and that they will return as soon as possible.
"I lov u dad…"
"I love you to son" I hug Invro, not wanting to let him go. But know that it's for the best.
"We wil be bak befor u kno et!" Invre says while walking through the portal. Off to search for their own partner.
"I know you will…"
"I'll brig gifs for u dad an mom!!" Inva says, tail wagging behind her.
"Much thank baby!!" Inv hugs Inva, then lets them go through the portal.
"I wil mak u proud dad, wil hav lot of babies" Enor says with a serious expression.
"Haha! I'll hold you to that Enor!" I give Enor a pat on the back while he hugs both me and Inv. then he goes through the portal.
With those 4 through the portal, that leaves only one left.
My first child.
"Enot…"
"Dad… Mom…"
In silence, our first child runs up to us, giving us a hug as best as he can with his small arms. Compared to his many brothers and sisters. He ended up being like me. Very small. But still as lethal as well.
Only being just the slightest bit taller than me.
"Do you think I'll really be able to find a partner?" Enot asks, also being the only one who can speak in perfect English for some reason.
"Of course you will son, I have just the perfect world for you"
"Really?"
"Yup, I checked around a little and spotted a particular yellow slugcat alone in a shelter. You should hurry to him the moment you step foot in that world. They're probably the best slugcat you could find"
"Wow… ok I will! Thank you dad!"
"Mhm" I respond back simply.
Letting us both go, he walks to the portal stopping right in front of it turning back around at me and Inv.
"I love you Mom, Dad"
"I lov u tu Enot"
"Love you to Son, now get going! Monk's are pretty rare to come by!"
"Ok! Bye!" Saying this Enot jumps through the portal.
With that, I close the portal. Feeling the connection between my five children despite being in a different world i calm down. Knowing that everything went smoothly.
"Alright kids, back to loafing around!"
And with that, I spend the rest of my day relaxing with my family. Loafing, biscuits and friendship.
Going to sleep at the top of the Inv pile, knowing that I will be smothered by it again when I wake up. Also taking over the universe with my Invlings.
And I couldn't be any happier knowing that.
The End
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'Uhh, maybe I shouldn't write anymore fanfiction. Letting my brain run wild like this is very dangerous at this point'
Invfanfiction.txt
I look at the note I just made, debating whether I should delete it or not. It's really weird making a fan fiction with the very being I'm already with, isn't it?
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'But I am still a fan of Inv… whatever, I'll keep it. Definitely no more letting my brain run wild like that though.'
'Children? Me and Inv? We're both guys, that isn't possible at all…'
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A/N: HAHAHHA, APRIL FOOLS!!! GOT YOU GOOD DIDNT I?? LOL!!!
... what do you mean it's been 10 days since April fools?
in all seriousness if you actually read the chapter I think you could tell that this chapter seemed a bit of a troll. No, I'm not ending the story, the story has just begun for me. sure, I'm not updating everyday but I'm not gonna force myself to write when I don't want to. I'm not obligated to. anyways have a nice day!