彼岸花

worm 1: my oh my this tastes like dirt

worm 2: it is(:

my life:

my death:

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With tears in his eyes, and a twisted smile on his face, Mimizu is whisked away to his doom not by a chain– but by prickly vines, which wrap themselves around his arms, legs, and neck. They dig into his skin, soaking his nice clean, white sweatshirt with fresh, bright red blood.

He ends up in a pile of dirt, which the vines begin to drag him down into very slowly, and he starts to claw at it helplessly for his life. His face is soaked with tears. He can’t die… he has people to see again, and friends to make, and worms to take care of! His hands are digging into the dirt, he won’t let go… he won’t–

That’s when it stops pulling him down, and there’s a giant shadow standing over his body. It’s a sparrow, though, it’s almost five times as big as him. His eyes grow wide all of a sudden the minute he makes eye contact with its beady eyes, and in one violent movement, he starts clawing and flailing even more, trying to pull himself out. It looks down at him curiously, bending its head down to meet his. It opens its beak up and down, as if it’s talking. Its voice is soft and comforting, like that of a young girl’s.

“Hoshino-chan!”

“Hoshino-chan, it’s me!”

“We’ll be happy together again!”

He doesn’t listen, he can’t listen… he doesn’t want to have to do anything with this bird. He hates birds. Birds kill worms. It keeps staring him down, twitching its head little erratic movements.

“I’ll take you with me!”

“We’ll be happy together!”

“Forever, and ever, and ever!”

“Forever!”

“I hate you! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!!!” He shrieks in return, a mixture of blood, sweat, and tears streaming down his face.

The bird screeches at his outburst, flapping its wings upwards, as it flies up and around Mimizu, out of his eyesight. He panics. This is his only chance to free himself while it’s gone. He pulls at the vines more, nearly freeing himself from the dirty grave, when…

The sparrow grabs him by the side, and takes his body in its mouth. Mimizu lets out a deathly blood curdling scream for a brief moment, as the bird cleanly splits his body into two halves in its beak with much ease, which then clatter lifelessly to the ground. It then proceeds to put the remainder of his body in its mouth and swallow, and that’s the last you’ll ever see of Hoshino Mimizu.

“I told you we’d be together forever!”