You remained in silence for a while, with the three titanesses staring at you intently, waiting for you to name your choice.
You pondered it long and hard, and came to your conclusion: you hated to admit it, but Shantae wasn't your best option now. Not as long as there was the risk of her suddenly going evil again. Risky's device, if you had to make a guess, didn't fully change Shantae back, but rather split her personality in two halves.
Now she was the regular Shantae alright, but you feared she could change any moment and you couldn't risk being around for that.
So, feeling guilty, you discarded the half-genie and looked at the two other giantesses.
Your gaze first met Sky, who forced a nervous smile when she noticed you were staring at her.
Sky was nice and responsible in the games, acting as a big sister for Shantae at times; however, you knew she was into love much more than her friends and plus, her dad had the bad habit of letting bad things happen to all of his daughter's boyfriends, which you wanted to avoid as well. Never say never, right?
But that only left you one choice, and that was the red-eyed zombie that was holding you.
You looked back at her.
Rottytops.
She was mischievous, she was tricky, she was at times a backstabber and she ate brains.
She wasn't exactly the safest choice you had, but at the same time she was.
You couldn't believe that you were actually thinking that.
At the same time though, Rottytops had done nothing actually mischievous around you so far. Perhaps it was because she was too busy trying to find Nega-Shantae, but she had been quite nice to you before things started going crazy.
Perhaps this wasn't going to be a bad choice, after all, excluding Shantae's reaction. You wondered if she was going to take it well... who were you kidding, she was going to react awfully.
"So? Have you chosen or not?" the same half-genie asked, growing a bit impatient. She wanted to know who you wanted to stay with and, although she was sure that was going to be herself, the doubts were starting to grow.
You looked her way, then sighed.
"Look, Shantae, don't take this bad," you said, before looking at Sky,
"You too, Sky. You're both nice, but..."
You trailed off. Despite that, the two seemed to have understood without any more words necessary.
"Oh my gosh..." Shantae said breathlessly,
"No way..." Sky chimed in, surprised.
Both fixed shocked stares on you, while Rottytops finally figured out the meaning of your words as well, obtaining a huge smirk as a result.
"Oh, my," she said, starting to laugh. She was surprised when she was even considered as a choice, but being the chosen one was on an entirely different level. Seeing Shantae's expression was just priceless.
"Guess someone likes me, huh Shantae?" the zombie teased her friend, who decided to just ignore the comment and focus on you, feeling jealousy stinging the bottom of her stomach.
"Y-You... you want to stay with Rottytops?" she mouthed, bewildered at your choice,
"Why her? Why... not... me?"
Those words, along with the look she was giving you, were going to make you feel guilty over a lifetime, you knew that.
You couldn't tell her about Nega-Shantae currently running free in her, she just wasn't emotionally ready for that.
So you chose to just stick to the excuse Sky had already used.
"Frankly, I agree with Sky," you began, looking at the blonde giantess, who also stared at you with a but of a pout. She hadn't expected you to choose the least responsible one among them, and she had secretly been hoping you'd want to go with her, for 'safekeeping'.
"There's no telling when Risky is coming back and I... I don't want to be around for that. Rotty is the last person... zombie Risky would suspect to be entrusted with me."
"Hey!" the green giantess protested, turning you around so that you were facing her,
"Whatever do ya mean with that?"
You felt your blood becoming cooler.
"I, uh..." you tried to explain, but Rotty rose you up to her mouth where she... lightly pecked you.
Your cheeks flared up, though not by much, as the giantess snickered,
"Heh, we're going to have so much fun, me and you..." she commented, starting to sound more like herself.
The scene caused Shantae's blood to start boiling, but she was thankfully distracted when Sky approached.
"This may really be for the best, Shantae," she said,
"If Risky comes back, he's the one that's going to pay the price."
Shantae sighed.
"Maybe you're right..." she murmured, before saying,
"You know, that's funny. I beat the living daylights out of her and I have no memory about it. I mean, that's crazy, right?"
Sky had to fake obliviousness.
"Sure is..." she agreed, forcing herself to smile.
While the conversation between Sky and Shantae was happening, you and Rottytops were having a conversation of your own, only it was about a different topic.
"So, why me, huh?" the zombie asked, grinning.
"I'm scared." you admitted,
"Scared of Shantae. If she changes back to Nega-Shantae, I'd be the first in the line of fire. Plus... you're being really nice to me, Rotty. You are a lot when you want to, you knew that?"
The comment made the zombie blush and poke you with a finger.
"Heh, sweet talker."
You smiled.
It was settled, things were calm for now, though there was no telling how long that was going to last.
You just hoped it was going to be fine in the end.
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