In the morning you wake up with an empty bed, and some lukewarm tea settled atop of neatly piled up papers. You groan, already missing the touch of another persons skin and then take a sip of the tea.
Another day passes.
Radiant Day knocks on the door of his new friend. Some footsteps are heard before you open the door. You greet him, "Oh hey Radiant, what are you doing here?" He adjusts his tie before starting "Well as it happens, Im having a free day so do you wanna hang out? Theres a carnival nearby." He scratched the back of his neck, looking to the side.
"Uh huh sure let me just get ready"
He waits for you as he snaps and drums his fingers to an invisible tune in his head. The door opens and you're dressed up, wearing your uniform with that old cardigan and a white hair clip on. You two walk together. Radiant looks at you "Soo, have you thought about joining the crew? You have to deliver your message back y'know." Your hands were slightly brushing against each other, and Radiant couldn't stop noticing it.
You have arrived at the carnival, the smell of warm fresh popcorn and cotton candy fill the place.
"Mmm Im not sure I still wanna look for some other options just in case, do you want me to join?" He pulls out two tickets and gives it to the worker before you walk in, "How about, if I win you join, and I will let the Supreme Leader know, if you win you get to refuse. First to win 5 games!" You're being really indecisive about this idea all because of some bad feeling, you neither want to lose the opportunity of this job offer or accept it. So maybe letting some games decide for you will make it easier. "Alright, (ahem) I hereby accept this challenge" you strike a dramatic pose. Radiant giggles, then hiding half of his face with his hand like a supervillain, declares "Well, prepare to be brought to your knees foolish y/n."
You rush over to the first games you see. You spot a game "Whack - A - Night", you put some coins in and grab a hammer, Radiant Day mirroring you on the other side. Some unfamiliar characters wearing dark suits pop out, you try to whack them as fast as you can.
Radiant:42
Y/N:38
You lost by 4 points.
"Not bad not bad, pretty fast reflexes maybe with a bit of training from the Days Union, you can even beat me next time." He wipes off imaginary dust from his hand grinning at you.
"Im going to ignore how thats just an excuse to get me to join the union and - WAIT WAIT THERE'S A COTTON CANDY STAND."
The soft texture of the sweet cotton candy melts on your tongue, leaving you to bite on the sugar thats left of it. Radiant had insisted on treating you, practically shoving his wallet to the food stand attendant. After finishing, you continue the match - off with a shooting game.
This shooting game stand was themed like a duck shooting game. Lines of rubber duckies, and more ginormous awards lined the ceiling and walls.
Of course, Radiant won. You weren't even able to shoot one of them. He grabbed one of the huge duck plushies from the worker and handed it to you, saying it was too heavy for him to carry.
"Okay that was unfair, you obviously have an advantage over me. I'll pick the next one." You say nuzzling into the soft fuzziness of the plush. You look around, scanning for a game that you're familiar with.
Finally you spot a game YOU'RE good on. You smirk to yourself, this will be easy. As you approach the game stand of your specialty you tell him:
"Hold my plush, Radiant."
All the civilians attending the amusement park were gaping at two adults playing non other than Fishy Pond (tm). The chairs you and Radiant sat on were so small your knees went up to your shoulders. You won, getting the most bonus points, while Radiant had, unfortunately not - so - radiantly got all the negative points. You won by a mile in this round.
"Isn't this game purely based on luck?" Radiant said a bit irritated that he had not won a single positive point in the game. "Ahh, the sound of a sore loser" You mock.
Your reward was a rubber fish toy, you stuff it in your pocket.
Radiant:2
You:1
Two more games.
You shoot a game of hoops, you won again. You didn't have any particular skill with basketball you just somehow got lucky. Radiant wasn't so lucky. That is to say he wasn't bad at it but when he tried to throw the last ball, with all the strength he can muster, (you were tying with him and he needed just one more point to get over yours/ he probably was still bothered by let round so he needed to redeem himself in this game) he broke the goal. You later threw your ball in and scored a goal, gaining another victory. Radiant payed for the damage while apologizing profusely.
The competition stirred both of your stomachs as you spotted a stand selling funnel cakes. On top of it, lied powdered sugar, carefully settled strawberries with whipped cream. It reminded you of the waffle that you ate when you first met with Benevolent_Day.
You don't know if its the funnel cake or your hunger, but it tasted way too good to be true you practically shed a tear at it. Radiant takes a look at you, and buys you another one.
It's a tie, you both thought as you approached the last game.
A fortune telling machine. Whoever had the weirdest, and most scariest fortune, wins. Honestly this wasn't really a "game" but one of those fortune telling machines you used to be scared of as a kid from the stiff way it moved.
By the time you finished the three funnel cakes, it was getting late and the carnival was getting closed. So this was the last thing you found. The creepy machine was on the far back of the carnival, clearly meant for it to be discarded away. The animatronic inside it was a robot that was very similar from the character in that one old movie "Wizard of Oz". In front of the glass container there's a name tag. "Volter"
You both slip a quarter in it.
The animatronic, all rusty and glitched comes to life.
"A fortune thats good, or a fortune thats bad,
Put your worries away, let my gears decide that!
Please don't be scared, I know I seem jammed
My AI is smart and I'm greatly programmed!"
A slot beneath it starts to print out paper, the machine rumbles. You pick up your fortune.
"The wolf wears a sheep costume to fool the shepherds.
A close friend of yours may be deceiving you about their true motives or goals,
if you're not careful you may be doomed to meet a teeeeerrible fate!"
The font is in one of those "scary" Halloween looking fonts, y'know, the one that looks like slime.
You look over "Huh, apparently I have a fake friend, how about - " Your voice falters as you see an unusual expression on Radiants face.
It's so dark now that you can't see his face clearly.
"....What does it say ..?" You try hesitantly.
He crumples it up
"Nothing I don't already know."
YOU ARE READING
Duplication of Being (Days Union x Reader)
RomanceY/N is broke and in need of money, luckily the days union welcomes them with open arms! Y/N x Days Union (However there will be one person that ends up sticking) (Gender Neutral Y/N aka Y/N goes by them/them pronouns only) (Warning for possible f...
