(In a grey-scale setting in a dimly lit room, Lyri's older sister Vego was lying on the sofa, with a chill, yet slightly bored expression)
(She then heard her flip-phone buzzing in her pocket of her jeans, and her half-closed eyes widened, as she pulled her flip-phone from her pockets)
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Vego: Uh Lyri, phone's for you!
Lyri: I'm taking a bath!
(Vego sat in silence for a bit, quickly scanning the room only with her eyes)
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(Vego dialed back, squinting a bit)
Vego: Shoot... I still don't understand why we have flip-phones now when it's literally still the beginning of the 19th century... Yeesh.
(Vego made grumpy expression, narrowing her mouth as she placed her phone up to her one rabbit ear, looking to right)
(Caine playfully picked up the phone on his office desk. A split screen was shown between Caine and Vego, both on the phone)
Caine: Mmm-yello?
Vego: Uh yeah, hi, who is this exactly? Did you get the wrong number or something, orrr...
Caine: Are you Lyri?
Vego: W...What?
Caine: A-are you Lyri, I said-
Vego: No, this is her sister.
Caine: Alllllllrighty then, my dear...
Vego: Wait, so... Who is this?
(Caine hangs up)
Vego: [stammers] Hello?! Damn it, I hate spam calls. They should be illegal...
(Lyri violently opens the bathroom door instantly, startling her older sister)
Lyri: Hey, wait a minute! Was that a call from my boss?
Vego: Who's your boss- Was his name Caine...
(Lyri quickly tiptoes toward Vego)
Lyri: Oh yeah. Wait, HEY! You probably hung up on him didn't now, you?
(Lyri snatches the flip-phone from Vego while squinting she looked and scrolled through her phone history)
Vego: Well I'm sorry, but if you never took so long in the damn shower I wouldn't have had to hang up on anybody.
(Vego shrugs with her eyes closed)
[Lyri sighs dramatically] - (and vaguely violently turns to Vego)
Lyri: Look Vego, the reason he probably called was because of the friend I made a few weeks ago...
Vego: Huh? What do you mean...?
[Lyri deeply sighs, burying her face in gloved paws)
Lyri: Guess I'll start from the beginning...
(Lyri glances to their left)
(FLASHBACK NARRATION)
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Lyri: So do you happen to remember when I got lost near the pumpkin patch and slipped on some pumpkin guts that were in the middle of the ground?
Vego: Yeah?
Lyri: Well, that's when I met another rabbit... He patched me up, actually... Heh-
Vego: Another rabbit, huh?
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(FLASHBACK)
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Jax: [Groaning excessively] Agricultural responsibility... Great. Just great.
Jax: [Sighs] Once again, everything I'm standing in means NOTHING to me.
[He grunts quickly as he pulls on another ear of corn)
It's ridiculous. Completely ridiculous that it's disgusting to me. Of all the punishments...
Jax: [Gently Gasps] No... no, not this...
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(Jax felt a wave of panic rising within him, his breath coming in heavy gasps as he clutched his head, his claws digging into the skin at his temples. The vision swiftly reveals a silent scene that explains Jax's fear of corn. It depicts a brief scene with an anthropomorphic frog character, with his back turned and his knees to the ground him as he presses his hands to his face, inaudibly crying as tears streamed down his face, making their way down to the ground while this frog presumably named Ribbit, was slowly forming abstraction marks as they kept getting larger and larger mainly on his back. This seen was depicted in the middle of a cornfield, the same cornfield Jax was in at present time)
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(Back in the present time, as Jax was nearly finished with his flashback, his hand began to glitch a bit. He pulled up his hand ever so slowly and widened his eyes to see such a god-awful sight of misfortune)
Jax: Oh God dammit!! Not right now!! [Groans]
Lyri: Uh... Hello?
(Jax snaps out of his panic attack as soon as her heard this small voice)
Jax: Huh? What... was that
(Lyri is found lying on her back on the ground, and then gets up a bit frivolously, yet still with a frown)
Lyri: Ughhh...
(Lyri whips pumpkin guts off of her face, grossed out while looking at the excess pumpkin guts on her fingers)
H...huh? Could you gimme a hand down here, big guy? haha... (She smiles at him for a moment only to glance down to her left with a frown) I... I fell.
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(BACK TO PRESENT)
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Lyri: Well, yeah, of course! He was completely traumatized, Vego! We talked for a while, didn't think things would get so... so serious, but–!
(Vego places her hands firmly on Lyri's shoulders)
Vego: Lyri, it's okay... I'm not mad, just please listen to me. Kay, please listen to what I am saying... Please just make sure he doesn't hurt you. Alright?
Lyri: Wel- Uh-... I-... [Softly stammers]
(Lyri looks into her elder sister's eyes)
Vego: Please... (Whispering voice)
Lyri: I... Uh-... Uh-h-huh...
YOU ARE READING
Stand By Me Lyri
FanfictionThe story of how Lyri healed and reformed Jax, as well as a brief glimpse as to uncanonically why he is so fearful of corn.
