martinplier:

Freezing Cold

(Hey, hey, hey @magic-marvin-protection-patrol I got some um… angst? Violet, I tried my best to find away to hurt Signas lets see how I did):

They had only meant to be out here for a few days on a short trip. Not for a week, struggling to survive. Well, Marvin is, anyway. Robbie isn’t bothered by the cold, just his hunger.

The cave they are camping out in his dark and cold, barely keeping the blowing wind from hitting them. They’re running low on firewood, food and water.

Marvin is not doing well.

Robbie can only watch as Marvin grows weaker and weaker each day. The cold is causing the magician to freeze so badly he can hardly even start fires with his magic any longer. His entire body quakes with the cold and the zombie can’t do anything to help because even though he can’t feel it his skin is freezing to the touch. So, there’s no way Robbie could help with warming the magician.

And he hates it.

Currently Marvin is shakily dragging a piece of firewood from the pile. Robbie is standing to help when the magician falls over to the floor, body spasming from the freezing cold. The zombie hurries to his side as fast as his aching joints will allow, hands hovering over the magician, too afraid to touch him.

Marvin is a dark blue blob, just like the snow outside. There’s only a small flicker of dull orange in his stomach and Robbie knows this is not a good sign. His heart is beating too slow, stuttering occasionally.

“Mm-… Maaarrrinnn…” Robbie whimpered, heart seizing at seeing how cold and weak the magician currently is. They had only come here for a short trip. But of course that snowstorm had to blow in. Of course it had to cut off their service and strand them.

“I- it’s okay, R- Robbie,” Marvin stuttered and Robbie can hear his teeth clattering together, can see the cold breaths leaving his mouth in short gusts. He tries to push himself back up but his arms give out beneath him. The dull orange fades to a dark yellow and Robbie whimpers once more because that’s one more color until blue. “I’m.. in f-fine.”

Robbie knows that is a terrible lie but he can’t do anything to help warm. Well, maybe he could… he looks to the piece of firewood Marvin had been trying to drag and grabs it, the rough surface tearing at his already cracked skin. He drags it to where Marvin had been starting fires for the past few days and hurries to the pile of firewood, grabbing another piece and adding it. He then looks to Marvin because he has no idea how to start a fire. Marvin doesn’t seem to notice his questioning state because he only curls in further on himself, trying to capture any warmth leaving his body.

The zombie grits his teeth together and looks at the pile he’d made. This is the last few pieces of firewood before they are out. He has to figure this out. He has to help Marvin.

He stumbles to the bag that Marvin had saved from their tent which they had stayed in at first and sloppily zips it open. Now that he’s beginning to panic his movements are even choppier than before, all jerky and uncoordinated. He wracks his tired brain, hoping to find some memory from before or how to start a fire.

A small square… a silver gleam… click… click… flames.

He unceremoniously tears through the bag, much similar to a wild animal. He’d eaten his last piece of human flesh they had brought so he would be satisfied for another day or two when he would begin to lose control over his mind. That would be a problem if they were still here. But he’ll worry about that later. If it comes to that.

He throws anything that doesn’t look similar at all to what he remembers, fingers rubbing along the surfaces of each item in hope that it would be familiar. It’s when he reaches the bottom of the bag that his fingertips brush over the slick and square surface of something. He pauses and fumbles to grab that item, quickly pulling it out and smelling at it. He cringes at the scent. It smells of gas and flames packed into a small square.

But this is what he had been looking for.

He hurriedly crawls back to the small pile of firewood and quickly checks on Marvin. Relief hits him when he hears the sound of a weak heartbeat coming from the curled magician. Marvin had at some point wrapped his cape around him tightly, as though hoping to find some kind of warmth from it.

Robbie holds up the strange box in one hand and tries to use it. But he can’t seem to figure out how. He whines like a dog, the sound loud enough to catch the sluggish attention of Marvin who looks up worriedly to the zombie. As if something could be worrying about Robbie.

“Wha- what’s wr- wrong?” Marvin stammered and he sounds even worse then Robbie when talking but he can actually understand him so much easier. Maybe he could always talk like this. He shakes his head at the idea.

He holds up the small square to show Marvin and he can just see the magician slowly blink. A jumble of emotions surrounds him, his mind too cold to actually process a proper feeling. But he does seem to recognize the item after a moment.

He’s acting too much like Robbie for Robbie’s taste. He knows that’s not good for a human.

“Th- that’s a- a li- lighter,” Marvin explained and he lays his head down because it was too hard to hold it up. Robbie bites down on his tongue and whines again, crawling closer to the magician to prod at his side. That makes Marvin start. “You- you re- remove th- the top t- to st- start a f- fire.” He pauses, drawing in a shaking breath. “Th- there’s a swit- switch in- inside. Cl- click it..”

Robbie does as instructed, fingers shakily opening the top. His thumb runs along the edge until he finds the switch that Marvin had been speaking of. He presses down on it as hard as he could and a few red dots fill the air for a moment- fire! He gasps and hurries to the firewood, falling to his stomach just beside it. He sticks his tongue out and presses down many more times, trying to get those small dots to return. He holds the lighter to the wood and flicks. The small dots fly out, rub against the wood. He growls angrily when nothing happens, however.

No sound aside from his angry growling, the click of the lighter and Marvin’s slow breathing fills the cave. He knows he doesn’t have to worry as long as he can faintly heat the soft breathing from the magician laid out behind him.

He doesn’t know how long- too long- for the red dos to finally catch on the wood. But when they do the wood slowly is covered by the warm red of flames and he claps his hands together excitedly, looking back at Marvin with a grin.

But he loses the grin as soon as he hears that heart stop beating.

Robbie lets out a scream, scrambling back for Marvin. He grabs his arms, not caring how cold his hands are because Marvin needs the fire right fucking now. He lays the magician as close as he can to the flames without full on throwing him in and falls to his knees beside Marvin, actually breathing as worry fills him.

Now all he can do is wait.

____

Yea it’s kind of an open ending. Am I truly evil yet when it comes to writing?

Robbie would become a zombie that plagues the area that they are if Marvin died. He’d become a mindless monster that eats anything that gets near it, basically. Except for the corpse in his cave…

Hey, maybe I’ll continue writing this. But probably not. I wanna be evil lol