Friends Forever

**Friends Forever** is a story made by alditoquerido, this story focus on the friendship between Rain and Aldo and their conflict.

## Plot (provided by alditoquerido)

Dawn and Rain sat down with their smoothies to talk about Dawn and her friends. However, she wanted to know more about us and how we met each other. And so, Rain started talking through a flashback.

Two years ago, Rain (cosplaying as Roxas from Kingdom Hearts) was working on AniManga, a shop of both Anime and Manga, and his co-worker/friend is Xaldin Wolfgang. I was just a customer and I picked up a random Anime blu-ray: Neon Genesis Evangelion, which Rain said it's a classic. I paid for the blu-ray and I left.

Two days later, Rain was taking out a dakimakura (a pillow body) of Miku Nakano from the Quintessential Quintuples as I went out... Gushing over the Anime I've just saw.

We both discussed about the Anime I've seen. As time went on, I eventually met his childhood friend, Hayley. Then we go to the beach to running on the sand, playing with a beach ball, swimming and chatting in front of a wood fire.

I met Xaldin, which seemed like a good guy and we all love pizza. Even after my confession of my feelings towards Hayley, which she told me to remain as friends, he comforted me...

So far, Dawn found our friendship unbreakable... Until he brought out... The darkest days of our friendship.

It all began at Xaldin's house, and we were talking about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. At first, I was happy that me and Xaldin think Twilight Sparkle is Best Pony. Then Rain brought out the next subject matter... Which one it's the worst season of the show. Very confident, I thought the answer is very obvious, so Xaldin suggested to say it at the same time.

And so we did: I said it's season 1 and they said it's... Season 8. Wait, what?

That's right, they found Season 8 a very disappointing season. However, I told them my reasons of why I think Season 1 was the worst. And after a few minutes explaining, they both also explained why they think Season 8 is the worst...

They were still open about what I think about the season, but I didn't say anything else and I excused myself, saying that tomorrow I work (which I work at the arcade with Mr. Biteo), so I left Xaldin's house.

Back at my apartment... I was very upset.

Three days later, I stopped visiting the AniManga shop, something that found Rain weird. However, Xaldin was more concerned about certain follower he got on Twitter: 'TruthTeller92'. Even Rain said the user follows him.

TruthTeller92 was asking them some pretty disturbing questions related to their tastes. For example, Rain hates Flash Sentry from Equestria Girls, and the user asks if he wants him dead.

I finally arrived, much for Rain's surprise, and Xaldin told me about TruthTeller92. I didn't know who I was talking about, so Rain decided to forget about it for a while and we decided to go to the store's back room to watch My Hero Academia: Two Heroes.

However... They both didn't know TruthTeller92 was ME. And I was already planning my next move...

I was working on the arcade until Biteo told me about TruthTeller92 and expressing his disapproval to his actions. I got upset of his commentary and I just simply dismissed it, saying that I, I mean, TruthTeller92 was spitting out FACTS. Biteo got suspicious for that.

Back at my apartment, I was totally in denial for my actions, saying that the ones who criticize are nothing, but crybabies. Suddenly I started hearing a feminine voice... Telling me to stop. Maybe I was just working too hard, so I quickly went to sleep.

The owner of the voice was some kind of female spirit, telling me to do the right thing.

Suddenly I was in a very dark place. I stood up and started walking. I encountered Rain and Xaldin (their eyes aren't shown for some reason) and they were talking. I tried to call them, but they only hear me as an 'annoying noise'.

Then Rain snapped his fingers to make me disappear, like (SPOILER ALERT) Thanos did in Avengers: Infinity War.

I woke up and got relieved that it was just a bad dream. I finally realized that I needed to tell the truth, so I got out of bed to dress-up.

At Rain's house, he and Xaldin were still looking for TruthTeller92's identity. Despite blocking him, the user was still spitting out lies about them like calling them a gay couple that love watching tasteless Hentai.

I finally arrived with a sad face and I told them the truth...

I thought they were gonna be cool with it... I was wrong... VERY wrong.

Rain asked Xaldin to leave the living room for a moment. And then we both had the most heated argument of our life. We were both pissed off, so much so that the voice in my head begged me to stop, which I outright ignored.

However, I crossed the line when I told him that I'd wish I never met him.

My words broke his heart...

As Adam Sandler from Billy Madison would say 'YOU BLEW IT!'

Rain furiously told me to get out of his house. Never in my life I've seen him so angry, so without hesistation, I left the house and ran as fast as possible, back to my apartment.

I cried in my room... This was the worst day of my life...

Dawn was shocked for the fight me and Rain had as Rain continued with the story.

The following days was me lamenting over my actions. I was so depressed, I couldn't even concentrate at work, making Biteo to give me a couple of days off. All I did was sleeping and eating junk food.

However, Curi came in and he was very concerned for my situation while I acted like I don't care about anything. But, Curi didn't give up and told me that tomorrow I'll go out with him and Biteo to the park. I accepted it, as long he doesn't sing 'Be My Guest' from Beauty and the Beast.

Curi took me to the park, where we encountered Biteo who invited us to play frisbee. So, we decided to have fun... Though, only these two since I didn't even wanna be here. When it became my turn, I threw the frisbee away and I told to get it, just as an excuse to get out of the park.

Of course, Curi had a 'super mega fun Plan B'.

I tried to find the frisbee... Who am I kidding? I was so depressed, I just laid down on a bench and I expressed how much I was missing Rain.

Suddenly, somebody approached... Ruby Rose from RWBY? No, it was actually a cosplayer who works on Anime conventions. I admit, since Ruby is my #! Waifu, I found the cosplayer extremely attractive. She was concerned of my depression and offered to talk about it.

So, she sat down along with me as I talked about what happened between me and Rain. She, surprisingly, took it pretty well. She even told me that something similar happened to her and her mother. She also told me that she lost her father in a car crash. Luckily, her mother is a strong woman and they're very best friends.

She told me that if she and her mother gets along, so can I and Rain. I admit, our conversation made me a little bit better.

Then the cosplayer looked at her clock and panicked since she was getting late. So she grabbed her Crescent Rose replica, she told me her name was Chloe and left.

Suddenly... RAIN APPEARED BEHIND ME!

And... I guess what I did... I STRONGLY HUGGED HIM AND TOLD HIM I WAS SORRY!!!

I started sobbing on his shoulder as he comfort me.

I was confused why he forgave me so easily. He told me he was never angry at me and that he felt responsable for my behavior. I told him not to blame himself for that, I was really acting like a diaper baby.

Then he told me that he didn't act any better when he met Xaldin. That they used to fight a lot, especially about Starlight Glimmer (he loves her, but Xaldin hates her). It's ironic, since I used to dislike Starlight... Until I met Hayley, who told me how much she means to her.

I really wanted to be friends again... But I was too insecure. So, Rain did something unexpected: doing silly faces to make me laugh.

It worked so well and I laughed like I never laugh before...

After Rain made me feel better, Curi and Biteo showed up asking for the frisbee, which I completely forgot.

Rain offered to look for it, but Curi said to forget about. Then Rain invited us to go to AniManga to watch some Anime and eat cake.

We all went out of the park together... But, not before the 'spirit' who follows me saying 'I'm proud of you'.

We arrived at AniManga, which was very dark. So, Rain turned on the lights and...

SURPRISE! It was happened to be a surprise party, to celebrate my first anniversary here. I was very surprised.

Then it's revealed that the idea was Xaldin's. I wanted to apologize, but he told me that it won't be necessary. And Rain told me to cheer up and enjoy the party. I felt very lucky to have friends like them.

Hayley took out a knife, ready to slice the cake... Something that made Curi crazy for the cake as he was about to devour it.

Much later, we ended up singing karaoke and we sang 'My Best Friends' from the Pokémon 2.B.A. Master album (since we were all Pokémon fans). It was awesome...

Azul: If you thought that was awesome, just wait when you meet me...

## Characters

* Aldo Remriez
* Rain Fireheart
* Xaldin Wolfgang
* Chloe

## Trivia

* The story is based on when Aldo had his emotional breakdown with rainbine and how he became such an immature and psychopathic child. It's very different from what actually happened, but, this part wasthe darkest thing he made so far. Not to mention, it's his interpretation of how passionated fans of a popular franchise became toxic.
* rainbine64 in real life cannot swim, Unlike his in-universe counterpart.
* Aldo sings All out of love by Air Supply during the depressed scene.
* **References:**
	+ **Avengers: Infinity War (2018)** - Rain snaps away Aldo in his nightmare a similar way Thanos did to half of the universe in the movie.
	+ **Billy Madison** - A clip of the film is used where titular character shouts "YOU BLEW IT!!!".
	+ **My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)** - Rain and Aldo's argument is a similar way to where Twilight yelled at her friends after their adventure with the Seaponies.
	+ **Klaus** - The scene where Rain shouts at Aldo to get out is based on this movie where Jesper found out something from Klaus' past and he furiously told him to get out.
	+ **Beauty and the Beast (Disney film)** - Curi sings Be My Guest much to Aldo's annoyance.
	+ **RWBY** - Chloe cosplays as Ruby Rose.
	+ **SpongeBob SquarePants** - The time card; "One Minute, Thirty Seven Seconds Later..."