Part 1: The beginning
A long, long time ago approximately 400 years before the war between the Alvarez empire, Acnologia and humanity started, there was a certain little boy who was living his life, without any serious worries, nor had he ever experienced war or the horror connected to it.
Or well, there was a certain kid who felt he was really close to get into war with his mother Alva.
"No!" the four year old Acnologia stomped with his tiny foot, while sending the larger woman a challenging look.
"I promise you it'll be fun" she encouraged him, her fingers carefully sliding through his hair as she tried to comb it, but it was no use since it just kept pointing out in all directions.
"Nu-uh!" he shook his head, looking absolutely certain.
"You'll get new friends and get new toys to play with" Alva smiled warmly, but it did nothing to improve her son's mood.
"I don't care! I wanna stay here!" Acnologia huffed dramatically, his arms crossing in front of his chest.
"You know you can't" Alva sighed before placing her hands on his tiny shoulders "But you know what?"
"What...?" he pouted defiantly, staring in annoyance as his mom in a swift movement, swept some of her own much longer silver hair behind her ear.
"If you behave I'll bake you a cake once we get home"
"Really?!" Acnologia's eyes glistened with unrestricted happiness.
"Yes, but you need to be a big boy and go to daycare, kay?" she giggled before poking his nose "So are you a big boy?"
"YAAAARSH!" he squealed in a high pitched tone, as he stormed out to fetch his shoes and jacket, in order to put them on. However his attempt failed miserably, making him grunt and growl in anger, before Alva came to assist him.
"You silly goof ball" she laughed wholeheartedly while helping him get untangled from the jacket.
"But mooooom, we gotta gooooo!" Acnologia squirmed feeling frustrated that he needed her help. After all he was a big boy now, so he shouldn't need help for anything.
"In a minute, dear" Alva smoothly put on her own shoes, before equipping a long white cloak which had a huge golden cross on the back, that was soon partially covered by her long silver hair.
"You're so slow!" Acnologia ran outside, his mom following close behind.
"Don't run off on your own" Alva called "Now come here and take my hand, okay?"
"No!" he answered feeling deeply annoyed at his mom at this point.
"Suit yourself" she smirked to herself, before they started walking down towards the village.
"Mm..." mulling to himself, Acnologia was starting to have doubts about his decision of willingly going along, which made a knot spawn in his stomach. Sure he really wanted to eat delicious cake, but the prospect of her leaving him, was actually rather scary.
Biting down his lip, he somewhat smoothly caught his mother's hand with his own, while averting looking in her direction.
Alva didn't say anything, but smiled to herself and gave his hand a gentle squeeze. After that they walked in silence, the pain in Acnologia's stomach increasing until they eventually reached their destination.
Once inside he immediately felt baffled by the high volume of kids playing. Since he had never experienced anything like it, it shook his confidence so much, his knees started to shake with fear.
"Howdy there" a tall woman with a weird accent and brown braided hair greeted them "Good seeing ya' again Alva"
"You too Georgette" his mother smiled, before she exchanged a handshake with the other female.
"Mmm..." feeling utterly uncomfortable by that point, Acnologia gulped loudly before he ever so smoothly tried to hide behind his mother.
"Looks like he's a shy one, aye?" Georgette said in a kind tone "What's ya name, kid?" she asked while crouching down on her knees.
"Mom..." he gently tugged at her cloak "... she's scary"
"No she isn't, on the contrary she's quite friendly" Alva gently patted his head, her words ringing like large bells inside his skull "Now can you tell her how old you are?"
"I... I'm 4 years old" he counted the numbers on his fingers and showed her four fingers "Like this"
"A then you're a big kid ain't ya?" Georgette's lips slid back into a smile, revealing that one of her frontal teeth was missing.
"Ye-yeah..." he blushed while unconsciously letting go of his mother's cloak.
"And ya know what?"
"Nu-uh?" Acnologia shook his head.
"I know ya like dragons, so I brought you this lil' pet you can have" she brought forth a bag, from where she fetched a miniature plushie, that looked like an orange dragon.
"I... I... can have that?" Acnologia looked at his mom and the plushie in turn, unsure of what to do.
"Sure ya can" Georgette handed over the dragon, which he took with eager hands, before hugging it closely against his chest.
"Thank you" he almost purred with happiness, as he kept hugging his new treasure.
"I have to go, so I'll see you later Acnologia, be sure to be a good boy, okay?" Alva said, but her son was so caught up being happy about his new toy, that he ignored her.
"Don't worry we'll take good care of him" the caretaker smiled at Alva who nodded stoically in return.
"I know you will, after all miss Dragneel speaks very fondly of you"
"Ahhh she does that, now does she?" Georgette blushed while scratching her neck.
"But of course" Alva smiled genuinely.
"Well I'll be... heh, well please give ya regards to miss Dragneel, when ya meet her at the church then!" Georgette chuckled warmly.
"I'll make sure to do that. Now I'll see you later" Alva confirmed before turning to look at her son "You take care too Acnologia, be a good boy okay?"
"Mmm... hm..." he answered, still so focused on his plushie that he almost didn't notice, that his mother suddenly vanished out through the door. But hearing the door closing, he turned to look at the place mother had stood only moments before causing the knot of pain to suddenly come back, as he sprinted towards the door.
"Now, now there little fire cracker, she's gone to work" Georgette caught his waist, preventing him from storming outside.
"But... my mom" small tears gathered in Acnologia's eyes, his lips quivering with sorrow for suddenly being abandoned in a place that was unknown to him.
"She'll be back later" the caretaker tried soothing him, but it didn't help. He felt so lost and lonely, because suddenly his whole world had changed, from being alone at home with his mom, to suddenly being in a strange place, with weird sounds and smells.
If only his dad hadn't died all of a sudden, then this might never have happened...
"NO!" Acnologia squirmed and fought, trying to get free but his captivator was actually quite strong, so he was prevented from going anywhere "Moooom! Come back!"
Why did she do that? Had he been a bad boy?
His mind was in such a chaos, so once Georgette let him go, he quickly sprinted past the woman, with tears and snot streaming down his face. Acnologia was so sad and distraught that he didn't see any of the other kids nor the rooms themselves, until he suddenly spotted a castle build out of pillows he quickly crawled into, so he could hide from his surroundings.
Fortunately for him, there was no one in there, so he could sit by himself while bawling and crying like there was no tomorrow.
"Mom..." he whispered in a fragile voice, as he wrapped his arms around his soft orange dragon, as if his life depended on it.
Acnologia didn't sit there for long, before he noticed that there were a lot of voices coming from outside the castle, that was whispering and talking about something he couldn't hear.
For some reason the aspect of suddenly being confronted by a lot of other children scared him, making him shake uncontrollably, as he carefully slid himself into the corner, hoping that it would make him less visible.
Still crying he noticed that the other kids suddenly went silent, which confused him at first, but after a second he felt slightly relieved, because he hoped that meant they had left the room.
That was until he suddenly heard someone crawling on the floor and noticed that the sound was coming closer, until a tiny girl with long blonde hair suddenly popped into the castle.
"Go away..." he sniffled loudly, while looking at the female who didn't listen to him, but only got closer until she sat down right in front of him.
"Hey!" she beamed with happiness, as her lips curled back into a friendly looking smile "I'm Anna"
"I don't care..." he grumbled in a sour tone.
"Who are you?" she inched a few millimetres closer "Why are you crying?"
"Just leave me alone..."
"Come on!" her smiled increased "There's nothing to be sad about"
"But my mom left me" Acnologia admitted his stomach clenching with pain.
"Ohh! Don't worry about that!" Anna mouthed, earning a sceptic look from the boy "She'll come back when we're done having nappy and play time!"
"..."
"I was sad when mama and dad left me too, but they always come back!" she said in an eager voice, before grabbing his hands.
"Kay...?" feeling really confused about the girl's action, he just sat with his mouth wide open.
"What's your name?"
"I uhm... Acnologia"
"Let's play Acnologia!" she let go of his hands, before she started crawling out of the castle "Come on it's boring in here!"
"Ohhhh kay..." he nodded weakly to himself, but followed the girl outside, while clenching his dragon close to his chest. Once there he turned to look around and to his surprise it was actually a rather huge room, filled with a lot of different toys and of course other children, who looked at him from a distance.
Feeling insecure and slightly shy, he was grateful when Anna took his free hand and dragged him over to a huge box which contained a lot of different plushies. After a minute of rummaging through the pile the girl found a pink unicorn, she held out proudly for him to see.
"This is Popo! I got him when I got here" she giggled before giving it a tight hug "What's yours name?"
"Mine?" Acnologia questioned and held up his dragon "I dunno"
"Ohhh, you got a dragon!" her eyes beamed with happiness as she stood staring at it "You should call it something cool, like... fluffy"
"That's not a cool name" he shook his head, questioning the girl's logic.
"Sure it is... mmm" placing her finger against her lips, she looked like she was in deep thought "How about we call him Barty?"
"Barty?"
"Uh-huh but then..." she leaned in closer to whisper into his ear "... his real name will be Farty, but the others doesn't know that"
"Ohh!" Acnologia's eyes widened before he whispered back "Then it would be our secret?"
"Yah" she nodded before both of them started giggling.
"Okay" he smiled warmly and completely forgot about his former misery.
"What's so funny...?" another kid with black hair approached them and sent both of them a puzzled look.
"Nothing" Anna answered while winking towards Acnologia, who winked back in return.
"... kay..." the other kid sulked, while hugging something that looked like a white tiger against his chest.
"Wooooow!" Acnologia mouthed his surprise when he saw the other kids toy "That's cool!"
"Uh-huh..." he smiled somewhat nervously, not looking at either of them.
"This is Zeref!" Anna pointed at said kid, who was looking down at his own feet.
"He-hey, I'm uhm... I'm Acnologia"
"Nice to meet you" Zeref blushed while looking intensely at the girl.
"Wanna play with us?" Anna asked earning a very small nod from the shy boy.
With that being said and done, the three kids found a spot by themselves where they started playing with their plushies, where Acnologia quickly learned that the tiger plushie Zeref had was called Cat.
They were having so much fun, that time for lunch quickly came and after that it was time for them to take a nap in another room, where a lot of mattresses was placed all over the floor.
Complaining loudly about not being tired, Acnologia found himself being tugged in anyway before Georgette left the kids alone.
"I'm not tired..." he pouted even though his body and mind felt completely exhausted "I'm really not"
Because Acnologia was so tired, his mind started playing tricks on him, making him suddenly feel extremely gloomy, which caused tears once more to stream down his cheeks.
"Are you sad?" Anna asked from beside him, making Acnologia shake his head.
"Mmm-mm" he denied all though he was sniffling loudly, making it obvious that he was crying.
Not saying anything Anna made her way over to him and before Acnologia got a chance to react, the girl had crawled underneath his blanket and was suddenly hugging him.
"What are you doing?" he wondered loudly.
"My mama, always hugs me when I'm sad and can't sleep" Anna admitted before turning her head to look directly into Acnologia's face who was mere centimetres away.
"Kay..." feeling a bit confused, he shrugged to himself before wrapping his arms around the girl.
It felt weird hugging a girl that wasn't his mom, but before he really let that sink in Acnologia started to drift off and soon he was snoring ever so peacefully dreaming about wondrous adventures.
~ o ~ O ~ o ~
The rest of the day went by so fast Acnologia almost didn't want to leave, once his mother came to fetch him. It was just so much fun playing with Zeref and Anna, so he didn't want to go home.
Because of that the tiny silver haired kid was fuming with anger, trying to squirm as much as he could, so his mom couldn't put his jacket or shoes on.
"What's gotten into you?" Alva sighed loudly and for a second gave up getting clothes on her son.
"I don't wanna go!" he yelled furiously.
"Listen to me" she gently placed her hands on his shoulders "You'll be back again tomorrow and then you can have even more fun with your friends"
"... mmm..." he growled, kicking the shoe off Alva had succeeded putting on him.
"Acnologia" she raised her voice a bit "We have to go home now"
"I don't want to!" he roared while shaking his head, knowing he was being unreasonable, but not caring about it. After all he was tired by all the new impressions, but also because he had played so much more than he was used to on a daily basis.
"Can't you be a good boy and do as I tell you, please?" Alva tried appealing, but it fell on deaf ears.
"Nu-uh!"
"Mmm... " taking a deep breath, his mother picked up his shoes again "... did you meet any nice people today?"
"Yeah!" Acnologia beamed feeling all giddy "There was Anna and she has a a unicorn! A-a-and Zeref has a cat! Ohh and I got a plushie of a dragon mom! It's so cool!"
"Ohh wow! Have you named him?" Alva encouraged him to continue while smoothly clothing her energetic son.
"Yah! I called it fart... I mean Bartsy!"
"That's amazing" she smiled and got up on her feet, her task done "Let's go home, then you can tell me more about it on the way there"
"... I..." the tiredness suddenly seemed to overwhelm him right then and there, causing tears to trickle down his chins "... I don't wanna go home..."
"Aww come here sweety" Alva squatted down and raised her arms, encouraging the kid to get a hug. Which he wanted very much, causing Acnologia to storm into his mother's arms, not caring that she was suddenly carrying him outside.
After a while of crying against her shoulder, the tiny kid eventually fell asleep, drooling ever so slightly on the white rope his mother was wearing.
It had been a long but fun day for Acnologia and more days would come, where he would have fun with his new friends.
~ o ~ O ~ o ~
It was a sunny day and because of that all the kids were outside enjoying the sun, while being supervised by Georgette who made sure they didn't do anything dangerous.
"Yahoooo!" Anna giggled warmly as she ran around on the property, that contained a lot of grass, some trees and a lot of flowers.
"Mmm..." Zeref grumbled and hugged his tiger close against his chest, clearly not in the mood for playing any games. Well he seldom was, especially when they were outside because he preferred being inside and not out in the open nature.
"Come on, let's play something!" she ran over to the black haired kid, who shook his head.
"Maybe later" he responded before finding a place in the shade, where he could hide his pale skin from the sun.
Feeling slightly annoyed, she turned her head frantically around only to get reminded that Acnologia wasn't there today. Well fortunately there were other kids she could play with!
Taking long stoic steps she made her way over to a kid about the same size as herself, who also had blonde hair.
"Steven, do you wanna play with me?" she asked politely.
"Sure" he smirked warmly.
"Yay!" bouncing on the spot and feeling incredibly giddy she beamed at him "What do you wanna do?"
"You're it!" he eagerly poked her, causing her to squeal before pursuing him. They kept playing this game, while giggling like the kids they were, until they fell down flat on their backs underneath an apple tree.
"You cheated" Anna pouted at him, being sour that she ended up being it.
"Nu-uh" Steven shook his head.
"Yeah you did" she huffed while holding her head high.
"I'm hungry..." the boy said, followed by the sound of his stomach growling.
"Me too..." they exchanged a look, knowing that they should go tell Georgette that they were hungry, so they could get their lunch.
"You think we're gonna get pancakes today?" Steven asked curiously.
"Maaaaybe" Anna answered as she looked at the apples above her head.
"Or... or... perhaps she'll make fish for us!"
"Mmm-hm" not hearing what he said, she got up on her feet and brushed her dress, before she grabbed the nearest branch and started crawling up the tree.
"What are you doing?!" Steven gasped in horror.
"I'm gonna get us some apples" Anna giggled while climbing up until she reached a branch that contained a lot of delicious fruits. It wasn't hard getting up there and soon she was surrounded by the red glistening treasures.
"Be careful..." the other kid whispered to himself, his eyes glued to Anna.
"You want one?" she asked before throwing an apple down to Steven who caught it, with shivering hands.
"Thank you..." his voice was shaking, because he clearly didn't like the situation.
"Heheh" smiling a toothy grin her eyes wandered around the garden, seeing all the other kids playing. Or well almost everyone, since Zeref was still sulking in the shadow.
She had a pretty got view from up there, causing her to sit swinging with both her legs, as she just sat looking at different things. After a few minutes of doing so and ignoring Steven's callings, she suddenly noticed that a female with long beautiful gray hair had come by, followed by a kid who had the same hair colour.
"Alva and Acnologia!" she said in excitement, feeling incredibly happy as she raised both hands and started waving them frantically "Heeeey!"
"Anna sit still!" Steven gulped loudly.
"Yooohoo!" calling to them she tried getting up on her feet, but unfortunately her foot slipped against the trunk causing her to yelp in surprise, as her body suddenly feel down from the tree before hitting the ground with a thump.
"I told you!" Steven ran over to where she had fallen.
"Nnn..." she slowly got into a sitting position, her body aching all over from taking the fall, not noticing that her blonde friend had run away. It didn't hurt that much, but the skin on her arms and especially her hands were scraped from where her body had collided with the ground.
Which actually hurt quite a bit, but she refused to admit that, as she sat shivering while repressing her feelings. After all it had been her own fault and she didn't want the adults to get angry at her.
"Anna!" Acnologia called her name, causing her to look at his approaching figure, noticing that Georgette, Alva and Steven was following close behind him.
Now there were two adults who would scold her, she thought and felt incredibly guilty which caused her to clench her hands together despite of it hurting very much.
"Are you okay?" the silver haired boy sat down in front of her and grabbed her arms gently.
"Mmm-hm" she nodded and bit down her lips, while her eyes started watering.
"Anna are you okay?" Alva asked as she leaned down and looked at the girl.
Not saying anything, she felt her best friend slowly opening her hands thereby revealing her wounds.
"Auch..." Acnologia said in sympathy "... does it hurt?"
Looking into her friend's eyes she could feel something inside of her pop, as she acknowledge the pain and guilt.
"It does!" Anna bawled loudly as liquid started dripping from her nose and eyes "Waaaaah!"
"There, there honey It's gonna be okay" Alva said in a kind voice, before she placed her hands above Anna's own.
Feeling curious the crying girl watched as the older woman's hands started to glow, which caused her own hands to feel pleasantly warm. They hovered there for a few second, before they moved over her arms, lingering there for a second until scanning the rest of her body.
"Let me see!" Acnologia grabbed Anna's hands "Look it's all gone!"
"Huh?" sniffling she looked down at her hands and to her surprise the wounds weren't there any more.
"It's okay now" he chuckled and hugged her tightly "I'm here"
"Uh-huh..." the feeling of guilt still haunted her though causing her to cry even louder.
"What's wrong my dear?" Alva asked carefully, causing the girl to shake her head.
"I... I... did bad..." she shivered uncontrollably feeling incredibly scared all of a sudden, as she hugged Acnologia even tighter "... I'm sorry..."
"No, you didn't do anything wrong" the woman gently placed a hand on Anna's back, causing her to flinch in surprise by the sudden touch.
"It's almost time for lunch, I gathered the kids inside" Georgette said while approaching the group "How is the little pumpkin doing?"
"She's fine, just a little scared" Alva said in a cryptic voice.
"Mmm..." the newly arrived woman sucked on her tongue "Anna are you alright?"
"I did bad..." Anna whispered in a barely audible voice "I'm sorry... I promise I'll never do it again"
"My dear little sugar cube, you didn't do anything wrong" Georgette gently spoke before placing her hand on the girl's head "I admit you frightened me for a second there, because I was scared you got hurt, but you didn't do nothing wrong. In fact it's my fault for not seeing you going up there in the first place"
"Really?" still feeling incredibly sad and frightened, Anna turned her head to exchange a look with the caretaker.
"I wouldn't lie to you kitten, now come and give this old fart a hug" she opened her arms encouragingly, causing Anna to sniffle loudly before she stormed over to receive a hug.
"Why is she scared?" Acnologia bluntly asked his mother, as the group made their way inside.
"I can't say for certain" Alva answered before sending him a smile "But as long as she has you as her knight, I'm sure she has nothing to fear"
"Yeah!" he eagerly nodded with his head "I'll protect her, I promise!"
"Good boy" she ruffled his unruly hair, causing it to be even more messy for a few seconds.
Anna didn't hear any of their conversation, trying her best to ignore her surroundings while hiding her face against the woman's chest. She just felt so exhausted and emotional, that she didn't want to deal with anything else. Because of that the tiny girl eventually drifted off into sleep, not knowing or caring about the world around her.
After sleeping for a bit, Anna woke from her slumber when she felt something poking her shoulder.
"Mmm" carefully opening her eyes, she saw that Zeref and Acnologia was hovering above her body.
"Shhh" Zeref placed a finger above his mouth "It's nappy time"
"Ohh" her mouth formed a circle as she noticed they were in the sleeping room.
"We couldn't sleep" Acnologia whispered before exchanging a brief look with Zeref, before both of them laid down on each side of her, where they cuddled close against her body, underneath the blankets they had brought with them.
"Night" Zeref yawned loudly and placed his arm across Anna's stomach.
"Niiight" Acnologia said as he also placed his arm on the girl's belly.
"Heh" she smiled brightly and felt incredibly warm and happy, as she placed her arms around her best buddies shoulders "Night"
It only took a few heartbeats before all three of them were snoring peacefully, feeling secure and happy in each other's arms.
~ o ~ O ~ o ~
Zeref didn't like it when Anna was upset or sad, so it always made him happy when he succeeded in cheering her up. Not that he was an expert in doing that, because he didn't really like partaking in the usual stuff kids enjoyed.
No, he would much rather read books or just casual draw some stuff in the corner by himself.
The only time he would enjoy something else, was when Anna encouraged him to join her. She just had a positive effect on him, because she was always so happy and bubbly, which was such a huge contrast to himself. Of course this wasn't something Zeref really thought about, but he could feel it whenever he was with her.
After their nap, the trio of kids played some different games with each other, until it was eventually time for them to go home.
"Zey-Zey it's time to go home!" a male voice boomed all of a sudden causing Zeref's skin to crawl.
"I told you not to call me" he complained in an annoyed tone, which caused Anna to giggle.
"Don't be like that Zey-Zey" the tall man walked over and started ruffling his son's hair.
"Mmm" Zeref grumbled clearly annoyed about this act.
His father was always so gosh darn happy to the brink of it getting on his nerves. Or well unless something bad happened, then his father would turn into one scary beast that looked like he would breath fire any second, as the radiating heat from his light magic would fluctuate around his figure.
Actually he was a man who would get mad way too easily, by even the smallest things causing the man to stand cursing into thin air.
Zack, as his father was called, wasn't that tall, but he was muscular and had semi long pink hair that reached his shoulders. He also had a small goatee which the old man tended to stroke whenever he was thinking about something.
"Ohh are these the friends you've been talking so much about?" a female voice rang, which he recognised as his mother Nea, before she suddenly stood beside her husband.
"This is your mom?" Acnologia sat as if he was suddenly hypnotised, as he looked at the woman. She was rather curvy and had long dark blue hair. Her face was kind and there was something almost angelic about her.
"Hello there" Nea smiled widely "You must be Acnologia?"
"Ye-yes ma'am!" the silver haired kid bowed his head gracefully.
"Your mom is so pretty" Anna whispered into Zeref's ear, causing him to shrug.
"Come on, we need to get home" Zack sighed loudly and tugged some hair behind his ear.
"Do I have too?" their son looked at the two in turn, sending them his pleading puppy dog eyes.
"I guess you don't have to, but then I guess I'll have to eat that sugary dragon cake by myself" his father shrugged.
"WHAT?!" Nea's eyes glistened with stars "You bought one of them?!"
"Well yeah..."
"Zeref, we're going home right now!" she quickly snatched her son, who whimpered in surprise as his mom started storming towards the door, with their son underneath one of her arms.
"Honey wait for me!" Zack yelled before racing after his wife and son.
"Guhhh..." Zeref moaned, because even though he loved his mother her sudden hyperactive nature was something out of this world.
Parents! They could be such a hassle sometimes...
~ o ~ O ~ o ~
Acnologia had watched the interaction between the Dragneel's with interest, as he tried to remember what it was like having a father. It hadn't been that long ago, that he had received the news about his death and in the beginning he had actually been sad about it, but since he had actually never been that close to his father, it wasn't like he was devastated about it.
The reason for this, was his father often was away on missions, which meant Acnologia almost constantly was alone with his mother. Which suited him fine, because he didn't really need anyone else.
Ohh well whatever... he shrugged inwardly, before continuing playing with Anna. That was until it was her turn to go home.
"Dad" Anna bounced over to her father, when she spotted the tall man. He was rather slim and had long black hair, that was gathered in a ponytail.
"Hey kid" he smirked "you ready to go home?"
"Yes sir" she answered politely, before storming over to fetch her shoes and jacket.
Not knowing what else to do, Acnologia went out to the two and just stood staring as Anna quickly prepared herself to go home.
"So who might you be?" the man asked him all of a sudden.
"I'm Acnologia" he looked up into his dark eyes "You're Anna's father?"
"Yes I am, my name is John" bowing gracefully he turned his attention towards his daughter "You ready to go kid?"
"Ye-yeah!" Anna answered, her cheeks looking pink from rushing to get her stuff.
"Good, say goodbye to your friend then" John said in a neutral tone before going outside.
"Oh... uhm! See you tomorrow Acnologia!" she smiled towards him, before running after her dad.
"Yeah..." feeling somewhat sad about his friends going, he found his own jacket and shoes, putting it on so he was ready for when his mother came to fetch him.
Sitting there on a bench, he just swung his legs back and forth, feeling rather hot from wearing the jacket inside. It actually caused him to get rather sleepy and doze off a few times, before his mother finally arrived.
"Mom!" he yelled when she entered through the door, before he launched himself at her, engulfing the woman's leg in a tight hug.
"Ohh dear" she giggled warmly, while patting his head "I was only gone for a few hours"
"... it felt like forever..." he admitted, before grabbing her hand "... let's go home!"
"Hang on there little soldier" Alva stopped her son, who stood pouting in defiance at her lack of response.
"We don't have time for that!" he stomped with his foot "I wanna go home and have cake!"
"Ohh so that's your plan, huh?" she smirked at him "Ohh alright, Georgette I'll talk to you later!"
"Sure thing! See ya tomorrow" the caretaker yelled back.
Taking his mother's hand, they followed the path out of the small village, going down the narrow roads. Their house wasn't located in the city but a tiny bit outside, with vast fields surrounding it.
"Hey mom?" Acnologia asked looking up at the woman "Can I ask you something?"
"Sure thing, what is it my dear?" she gave his hand a squeeze.
"What is it like to have a father?" he asked bluntly.
"Ohh..." looking a tiny bit sad, Alva looked at her son "... you don't remember much about your own, do you?"
"No" Acnologia asked truthfully "Is it like having an older brother?"
"Mmm, you could say that..." she smirked briefly "... but I think it would be more accurate to say it's like having a second mother"
"A male mom?" his eyes widened with wonder.
"I guess so" Alva chuckled warmly, causing Acnologia to smile in return.
"Am I gonna get a new father?"
"Maybe" she shrugged "I'm not making any promises though.
"Can't you just go buy a new one?" he ask sincerely, causing his mother to burst out laughing.
"It's not that simple, honey" she hugged him and gently placed a kiss on his forehead "Besides why get a new husband when I have you?"
"Mooom!" he squirmed in her arms.
"My precious little prince" Alva giggled warmly, as she started covering his hair with kisses.
"Gaaaah, naaaaaw, eeeeew, moooooom!" complaining loudly he felt utterly relieved when his mother let go of him, causing him to sprint towards their home.
He loved his mom and the thought of gaining a second one, who would be just as overly affectionate caused an involuntary shiver to run down his spine.
Yeah... one mother was more than enough for him...
Acnologia had a fortunate life at the moment, no matter how others looked at it and fortunately it would continue like that for a long time.
A/N: Hey and welcome to my latest story!
The first part of this story is sort of an introduction to the different and vital characters, so I'm gonna move on a few years in the next part, as we see the characters grow older.
I could ohh so easily type a lot from their 4 year old's pov, but since I have more ground to cover before the important drama starts, I wanted to keep this one small and innocent.
This story is rated the way it is, not only because of the amount of profanity and violence, but also because there'll be hints towards some more adult material later on.
I guess that's all for now... the next parts will be a lot longer and I will post them rather soon, since I just need to type some minor parts in them before they are ready to get published.
I hope you enjoy the story and look forward to the next that is to come 3
/Hejmdal