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Pairing: Heavily implied KuroFay.
Part 2
"Is it really safe to trust us so quickly?" Kurogane snorts in the end, as Fay had been able to collect himself in the end, as the worried woman had panicked and gotten him some tissues. It seemed the mage had gotten both his eyes and hair from his mother, and probably his petite looks too. "We are just random travelers after all."
"I trust you. You all seem like such nice men after all." She giggles, as she pats Syaoran on the head, then the happy Mokona, which skipped over how nice and cute Fay's mother was. "And Fay also seem to like you a lot."
Everyone looks confused at her words, before she looks down at a small form that had been hiding by her feet. "Say hello to the travelers, Fay."
A horrible sting in their Fay's chest, as he looks down at the small form, which he recognized as his twin brother. It was weird, but even with all the years between them now. He could still feel the bond. The weaker magic from the other felt like his own, and their bond was undisputed.
"Hello…" The small form whispers, not meeting their eyes as he just clutched to his mother's dress. His mother is about to tell him to introduce himself, when the eager Mokona jumped over to him.
"Little Fay is so cute! I'm Mokona! Be nice to me!" The boy looks confused at the magical creature, before he giggles, and gives a bright smile.
"Fay will be really nice to Mokona!" He cheers, and even Kurogane had to admit that if the mage had been anything like his twin as a child, he had been an adorable child. "What is Mokona?"
"Mokona is Mokona!" It cheers, before it jumps to sit on his head. "That is Syaoran, the big scary one is Kurogane, and that other one there, his name is Fay too!"
The boy looks confused up, and finally meets the sorrowful eyes of his older twin. He knew that no matter what, he could not bring the dead back to life, but, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to spend some time with the dead before their time to leave again came? Just to spend some time with those he had only looked upon with the eyes of a broken child.
Fay gets down on his knees before the boy who were unable to look at him, and he smiles as he pats him on the head. "My name is Fay D. Fluorite, please be nice to me too, little Fay." The child blushes a little, before he gives another bright smile, and nods to his new friends. He was always so lonely, so it would be fun to have friends to play with!
However, one of them looked scary. Small nervous eyes moved over to the glaring Kurogane, who were trying hard to figure out what was going on. Yet, also he panics, as Fay starts sniffling, looking horrified at the glaring warrior. He looked so scary!
"Ah, don't be afraid of Kuro-tan, Fay. He looks really scary, but he is such a big softie!" Fay cheers, and the child looks confused.
"Kuro-tan?" He echoes, and Fay grins as he nods.
"It is a magical charm, and as long as you use it, he becomes tamer and tamer, like a big puppy dog!" Little Fay looks amazed, as he started seeing the scary man in new eyes now. He was a pet! Like one of the guard dogs his uncle had! "Come on, try it too now."
"What are you teaching the kid, mage?" Kurogane growls, as he looks nervous at the boy, who were staring hard at him, looking like he were trying to command him with his will.
"K… Kuro-wanko!" He yells out in the end, he looks stern, waiting for the big man to become nicer looking, and he is shocked, as Kurogane gives a defeated sigh. Then he walks over to him, and pats him on the head. Wow! He had tamed the big dog too! Just like big Fay! "Yay! Fay did it!"
Fay and Mokona dances around the groaning Kurogane, as the mage and Syaoran chuckles. It was somewhat cute was it not, but Kurogane seemed to have a soft spot for kids. On the other hand, maybe it was just because this kid was his companions' twin?
"Fay-san. Is this really safe?" Fay looks down at Syaoran, as he suddenly looked worried. "I have read books on time travel, and one thing is to change the future, as we did. But, isn't it also supposed to be a bad thing if you meet your past self?"
"I have heard that too. But only that you can't touch your past self." Fay whispers, as they watch as Kurogane decided to humor the child and let him climb up his back with Mokona. "So as long as I don't touch myself, it should be ok."
"W… what about changing the past then?"
"That is not something I can or will do." Syaoran looks sad at him, as he understood his resolve. "I might be able to make a happy future, where my father lives, and my mother lives, even one where Fay lives, but the cost of it would be too great. It might even break down logic again, as me and Kurogane would not have been there to fight Fei Wong Reed. It is a taboo to change time, and I won't break it, since the things I would lose, might not be able to outweigh what I would reclaim."
"Fay-san…"
"You, Kurogane, Sakura and Mokona started out just as fellow travelers, but I like to think of you as my family now. It is a good thought for a person without a family or a world to ever return to."
"I think the same about all of you as well." Syaoran laughs gently, before he turns pale, as he looks at the growling Kurogane, who had gotten enough and grabbed Mokona from the crying boy's head, and were about to bounce Mokona off the walls. "Ah! Kurogane-san!"
"Kuro-pyon! Be nice or no food the next time you get sake!" Kurogane growls, as he puts the white bun down again, and the boy looks amazed at Fay. "It takes years of taming before you will get the same skills as me, so be sure to think of better and better spell names, ok?"
"Yeah!" The boy looks determined, as he knew he had to train and get better. Then he could have his own Kurogane pet too! Then he could ride him around and look down on everyone! "Kuro-pi! Kuro-tango! Kuro-mimi!"
"Don't go around and teach the kid stuff like that you weirdo!" Kurogane yells, beat red as the boy keeps yelling weirder and weirder call names at him. Those two were really twins! Moreover, the worst part was that the boy was so excited, as he kept yelling louder and louder! "It is ok now. I won't toss the white bun around anymore."
Little Fay blushes a little, as Kurogane pats him gently on the head. Wow, the magic really worked, the big man really got nicer. He liked the big man! Kurogane looks confused, as the boy hugged him hard. "Fay likes Kuro-tama!"
"Hyu, Kuro-sama is so popular." Fay snickers, as Kurogane looked panicking over the sudden affection, as Fay did not want to let go of him. "Be sure to not break his little heart."
"Don't make me sound like that sort of a person!" Kurogane yells in panic, as the others laughs at his frustration, as Fay were just laughing gently at the commotion.
"Ah! Little Fay! Where is Yuui?!" Mokona suddenly cheers, as it jumps from Kurogane to Fay, who looks confused at it as he lets go of Kurogane, who had wondered about the same too. "Mokona always imagined Fay and Yuui never being apart!"
"Yuui?" The boy looks confused at the excited Mokona. "Who is Yuui?"
Everyone looks shocked at the smaller half of the twin duo, Fay looking shocked at those words as well. What was going on? Was this not the world Fay came from? They had all seen Fay's memories, so even if he had been lying to them again, they had seen the truth he had lived. Just how could there suddenly be a Fay without his twin? If it wasn't for the fact this was the same world, they could see it as another world's Fay, but it was still Valeria.
"Yuui is Fay's twin brother!" Mokona stammers shocked, as it looks from the silent adult twin, to the equally confused mother. "Fay don't have a twin?"
"No, Fay has always been only Fay. So Fay is lonely when mommy is away." He whispers, as he takes a hold of his mother's hand, as she had come over to them again. "Daddy is away and doing lots of important work, so Fay has to protect mommy. But it is lonely…"
"Fay is so brave." Lady Elda whispers, as she hugs her son gently. "My family has been twins for generations. I myself had a twin sister, but my own son was born alone. As a twin myself, it felt like I had failed him, delivering him into this world alone." His mother cradles Fay gently, all while the twin that had never been born watches confused. Hadn't his mother cursed the fact that they had been born twins? He had always thought she would have been so much happier if she had given birth to only one.
"I… isn't it a bad omen to give birth to twins?" Syaoran asks, as Kurogane walks over to the silent mage, nudging him in the side as a sign to cheer up.
"It all depends on what happens when the twins are born. My mother and father lived happy lives, and nothing bad came from it, but I heard that my great grandfather and his twin had been the cause of much grief. The sad fact is that it is only rumors. No one can be cursed just for being born with his or her loved one. No god has the right to bring misfortune to someone for just being born." Kurogane looks confused, as he felt something jerk at his sleeve. A quick glance down and he sees the slender fingers of the mage clutch to it. Fay was shivering so hard.
Kurogane had no idea what sort of world this was, but maybe it was a hidden blessing? For the mage to hear just what his own mother had thought of him. It might even be able to calm his dreams again.
"Fay wants a twin! Then Fay will never have to be alone!" The young boy complains, before the mage walks over to him, and squats down before him, giving a big grin.
"How about I be your twin then? We have the same blue eyes, and blonde hair, it is almost like we are twins, right?" Fay looks confused at first, before he walks closer, and hold some strands of his own hair up before his eyes, so he could look at it together with the older man's hair. Then he pulls his face down, and looks stern into the blue eyes.
"It is true! Old Fay looks really similar to little Fay!" He giggles, as he keeps patting the other's face.
"So, I'll be your twin when we are here, right? And I'll spend all my time with you?" He nods happy, as he hugs unto him. "And since Old Fay sounds bad, how about just calling me Yuui?"
"Is that ok?"
"No problem at all." Fay laughs, as he brushes his hair gently. "So for the time we are here, you can be a little happier. Ok?"
"Um! Yuui!" He cheers, as his mother watches them with a monotone smile. For the chance of that one possibility, there would still be so much suffering. Until someone were strong enough to make a perfect outcome. "Does that make mommy your mommy too?"
"Oh? I have adopted such a handsome young man?" She giggles, but before the mage can say anything else, she had come over to them, and hugged unto both of them. "Suddenly having twins makes me happy."
The warmth overwhelms Fay, as his earliest memories returned once more. The never-ending warmth, the gentle heartbeats of himself and his brother, and the feeling that life would be safe and wonderful.
"So, what should we do?" Syaoran asks nervous, as they had been shown to their own chambers. It seemed they were treasured guests now, as the Lady had the greatest power in that country when both the emperor and his little brother was away. "We somehow ended up in a world without Fay-san being born. Could it be a deception?"
"No, I tried to sense if there was any magic involved here, but I sensed nothing. Everything we have seen so far is the truth." Fay whispers, as he takes out their warmer clothes from Mokona, and hands them to his companions. "We are in the past when I were a child, but I am not here."
"What do you want to do about it?" Kurogane asks, as he slips on the coat, as the palace were too cold to walk around in normal clothes.
"For now let us just observe. Even if I won't change anything, I still want to see it as long as I can." Fay chuckles, a warm smile on his lips as he pats Mokona on the head. "What you said about me not remembering it all right because I were so young might be true, so to see it all as an adult might let me move on better."
"Could Fay's dreams have been foreshadowing this?" Mokona asks, as it nuzzles against Fay's neck.
"I am not sure, I am not a dreamseer, but if someone is sending me dreams it might be possible. However, it don't seem like it is from someone else. It all seems to be from me." He hesitates, before he adds: "Somehow, it feels like memories, not nightmares."
"We'll figure it all out along the way." Kurogane hits him on the head, a little harder than he used to, as he felt like he needed it. "If this is your problem, it is ours too."
"There Kuro-pon goes again, being all adult and heroic." Fay whispers, as he took a hold of Kurogane's hand, as he had started messing his hair up.
"Kurogane-san is right." Syaoran smiles. "Together we will find out what to do."
Fay is about to thank them, when the door opens slowly, the sound of someone fighting hard to push It open, before running excited over to them. "Yuui! Play more with Fay! Ah!" The small form stumbles over the side of his robe, before he rubs his noses a little, drying his tears off, before he gets up again, continuing to run towards Fay and Kurogane. "Kuro-tango!"
Kurogane growls, as he catches the boy on reflex. He had tried to fight it, but had been unable to. He just felt rotten if the kid started crying now. Right now, he was happy that only one of them were small. If their mage had suddenly been a little kid too, he would have been unable to spoil him. "I have nothing more to teach you Fay, you are a first rate Kuro-wanko trainer."
Fay giggles, as he hugs Kurogane, before he starts pulling his face into funny grimaces. The poor Syaoran wondered how long until Kurogane snapped. He just didn't imagine him to be a kid person.
"Fay? You aren't being a bother to your mother's guests are you?" Everyone turns against the door, where a brown haired man came walking. He was wealthily dressed, as everyone else they had seen until now, but they could see from the guards following him, that he was an important person.
"No…." The boy pulls out his sentence, as he hides behind Kurogane.
"I'm sorry for him, honored guests. He isn't usually this bothersome." He chuckles gently, as he sends his guards away, and sits down as Fay runs over for a hug. "My name is Hideki. I'm the Emperors younger brother, and this little brat is my son." All the companions' gazes moves slowly over at their mage, as they all had a silent agreement that he had taken everything after his mother.
"AH! That is Mokona, and the young boy is Sylan, that is my new bigger twin brother Yuui, and that is Kuro-tan!" Fay cheers out, as he points at them in turn, his father nodding amazed.
Fay really didn't have much memory of his father. Since he was a strong warrior, he had been off to fight battles most of the time, other times he was off working on peace treaties. Nevertheless, neither twin had ever hated him, as they knew their mother loved him only second to them. Most of the time they thought she might have loved him more. Seeing his father now, he wondered if he might have forgotten how kind he had been. His father's death had started it all, so he might have held a grudge.
"Well, as long as you are here, you will be mine and my wives' honored guests." He laughs, as he picks up the proud Fay and gets up again.
"I am thankful and all, but isn't it weird to just accept travelers so sudden?" Kurogane asks, as he looks at the guards outside, that seemed to be nervous for them. He had heard someone complain earlier that the Lady had let her son play with strangers. Fay was the only heir born so far, as the Emperor had never married or gotten a child.
"Fay never likes anyone, so only the fact that he likes you is enough for me." Hideki whispers, as he brushes the bright blonde hair gently. "He has a gift, if someone is bad, he will know, and if someone is really nice, he will also know."
The boy beams with pride, as he felt like the smartest little boy in the world. Then the rest of that day went by calmly and peacefully, as they were invited for a grand feast that had been arranged for the return of the emperor's younger brother, so he could rest before he went on his next mission. It sounded like there had been many wars fought lately. There had been famines to the east, and some kingdoms had tried to take away the support Valeria had sent for the smaller provinces. Right now, it was getting uglier and uglier, so he had to be sure his troupes were ready to protect the villages so they could have their food in peace.
So far, it seemed to the travelers that the emperor was leader only in name only, and that his little brother was the one that seemed to run everything. They had yet to even lay their eyes on the emperor.
"Fay, your mother and father looked so pretty together." Mokona smiles to the mage, as they had all retired to their room for the night, the sadness they had seen in his eyes gone now, as he had a warm smile on his lips. "But Fay don't really look anything like his father!"
"Aha, I got all my good looks from my mother after all, also her magic." He chuckles, as he pats Mokona on the head. "But I wonder how long we are allowed to be here. I have faint memories of the feast this day… my father will leave for one of the small villages not long from here, where he will be struck by a fatal sickness. He will be dead tomorrow night. Then my mother will follow the night after."
"Fay… do you want Mokona to try and leave earlier? We can ask Watanuki…"
"No, if we are here for a reason, let us just see it through. I'm not so weak that I run away from my problems anymore."
"No, it is ok Lady Elda, we would really like to offer any help for being allowed to stay here." Syaoran stammers, as he had been picked to be their official spoke's person. Kurogane were too busy babysitting, and Fay were mostly silent, as he did his best to take in everything for later. After all the sad years, he had decided he wanted to have more happy memories for later. "If you want us to, we can help out around the palace. Fay-san can make really good food, and I and Kurogane-san both know how to exterminate pests."
Kurogane growls, as he felt like he was some sort of pest exterminator. Both Fay's just snicker over his pain. It seemed that both twins wanted him to have a horrible life.
"You really don't need to think about doing anything while you are our guests, Syaoran-kun, just keep making Fay happy, and that is enough." Fay beams at them, and he jumps down from his seat by Kurogane, and starts running over to his mother, but stops dead in his tracks, hiccupping before he suddenly makes a u turn back to the confused Kurogane. Suddenly, both twins seemed terrified. He looks over at the newcomer, as an older man came walking in, dressed in the most expensive looking coat he had seen anyone wear so far, and with an iron crown. The years hadn't ravaged him yet, but this was the emperor they had seen in Fay's memories. "Ah, my Lord, you should have told us you were coming for dinner." Elda gets slowly to her feet, and bows to her brother in law.
"Lady Elda… I have sad news to you." He whispers, as he takes a gentle hold of her hands. Fay is unable to look, as he still remembered this moment so well. The words that had been said, that he just hadn't understood at the time. What had happened to his father that had made his mother so sad? At that age, he hadn't understood the thought of someone never coming back.
All conversations in the room stops, as the Lady screams out in sorrow, falling to her knees as she kept screaming for her husband.
"Mommy!" Fay jumps down from his seat between Kurogane and big Fay, and with Mokona on his shoulder, he runs to his mother. As he runs he do not notice all the dark looks towards him, as the travelers could hear whispers start spreading rumors.
"It is the curse isn't it?" One of the court ladies whispers. "All the children in that line has been twins, and now that the Lady gave birth to a single son, we are all cursed."
"All the famines and avalanches, everyone has said from the start it was that child's fault." Another one whispers. "And now the emperors loved brother… if he had only been born a twin."
The mage looks shocked around, as the same sort of gossip was going around now as if they had been twins. Kurogane notices his frustration, as he pats him on the head, mostly to just be sure that he didn't do something stupid. "It is like your mother said, people tend to just look for someone to blame. If you were born as twins, or just alone, they would still blame someone for it. If you hadn't been born at all, nor your brother, it would have been likely all blame would have fallen on your mother for not giving birth to any of you."
"Honestly… I don't get people half of the time… the need to explain natural happenings." Fay whispers, as he looks over at his brother and mothers, as she had pulled the confused boy into her arms, hugging him while she covered his ears. At least he wouldn't hear any of the poison spread about him then. Mokona comes jumping back to the mage, and with tears in its eyes, it hugs Fay hard, as it knew Fay probably wanted to cry a lot too.
The before cheerful and warm palace didn't warm up again after that night, as it was found out that the second prince had died painfully from a sickness alone in his tent. The Lady, who had already been weak, fell into depression. Yet she kept strong for her son, who spent most of his days with the travelers, and the time she could handle, with his mother.
"It don't fit." Kurogane point out, as it was the last day now, and they knew that according to Fay's memories, this would be the night before the Lady took her own life. But… "She is sad and broken, but her spirit is far from gone. She looks like a woman that will keep on fighting for her child."
"I thought about that as well." Syaoran whispers, as they were helping clean the table after the dinner. It sounded like the emperor were less kind when having guests, and now that he was back in the palace, they had to work for their stay. Both Kurogane and Syaoran had noticed that whenever he was close to any of the twins, they would look horrified, so Kurogane had on impulse started to come between any of them and the emperor if he walked past them. He also didn't like the way he looked after the mage at times, like he had seen him before. "She really looks too strong to take her own life. Neither does she look like the person to want to do that to her son."
Fay wants to say that she had, but keeps it in, as he did like the thought that it might not have been suicide. Murder was a horrible thought, but a much calmer one.
"Maybe things will go different? Other things has changed already, maybe she will live?" Mokona whispers, as it looks sad at the yawning boy, who was picked up by his mother as she carried him to bed, before she returns to her guests. "Lady Elda… how are you feeling?" Mokona jumps to her, and she collects the creature gently in her hands. "Mokona knows how hard it is to lose someone you love! But you can never give up! Then they would be sad!"
"I know." She whispers, as Kurogane were glaring at the bun for having an emotional speech that could change the course of the past. "I always knew I could lose him at any moment. He always left for war after all. It is hard to get over, but I know I will, and I know he will be watching over Fay and me. After all, he was too kind of a man to have ever wanted us to die with him."
Kurogane turns confused, as the mage had gotten up and walked away. Syaoran gets quickly up to follow him, but Kurogane stops him. "I'll go after him, you stay here." The youth nods, as he sits silently down again. It must have hurt for Fay, to see all this. Even if it was the same course as it had when he had lived through it. He must have been wondering so hard over what made her break down her resolve in one night, and made her betray her children.
The ninja stops, as he saw the blonde out on one of the balconies. So far, they hadn't been out of the palace much, and in Kurogane's case it was because that world was too cold for him, but Fay didn't really seem bothered by it. Now he sat on the side of the balcony, and Kurogane wondered how he were able to keep from shivering in this weather. He sighs, as he pulls the crystalized ice door to the side, and walks over to his companion.
"Kuro-mu is shaking." Fay turns slowly, as Kurogane were trying to not show how cold he was right now. "This world is really cold isn't it? Those that are born here don't really feel much of it though. I was always the one that wanted to run out and play no matter what the weather was. Fay really got mad at me for it, since he didn't really like playing outside."
Kurogane pulls his coat better around himself, before he sits down beside Fay. Trying to overlook the small crystals that formed as they ran down the mage's cheek. "I used to play outside in the snow as well, but I would get myself sick. My mother would have to nurse me for weeks, while my father would pick on me."
"Wah, I imagine sick baby Kuro-tama must have been so adorable." Fay laughs, as he starts drying his frozen tears off his cheek. "I don't think I ever got sick, but my mother would at times. She was from a less cold part of Valeria, so living here took a lot out of her."
"Why wouldn't your father move her away then?" Kurogane asks, as he looks over the cold world ahead of them. They could see the lights of villages in the distance, but everything else than those lights was hidden in the seemingly never-ending storm.
"Ah, they made a palace to live in at her hometown, and lived quite content there. But because she was giving birth to the heir of Valeria, they had to move to the main palace." Fay explains, as he had gone back to smiling now. There was nothing he could do with the past, but at least he knew that at least for him it had all gone all right. He wasn't alone anymore, as Fay had wanted. "So this palace is all I remember from my early childhood. I know around 5-10 secret ways to get to my mother's chamber, and four to get to the kitchen. 20 to get out to play without the guards finding out."
"Honestly, even at that age you must have been a menace." Kurogane complains, as he looks at his breath hang in the air. It was really too cold in this world, he was amazed people could live in it. As he had understood, there was some areas where they had used magic to keep snow away long enough to have harvests, but it had been going bad for the last few harvests.
"I needed early training to be able to keep up with Kuro-tango!" He cheers, before he pulls the confused Kurogane closer, and hug around him to help him keep warm. "Thank you for talking to me. I think I needed it."
A snort to show it was ok, before he just let the mage hold unto him. The mage needed someone, and he was ice cold and needed some warmth, so it was ok.
Chaos breaks through the palace in the early morning, as it went as Fay had remembered. The guards that woke them said that the emperor had found the Lady when he had checked in on her that morning. She had pierced her heart with an ice shard, made from her own magic. She had already been dead when the healers came to try to save her.
"This is horrible, first the second prince, and now his wife as well." They can hear whispered around them at the breakfast table, as the silent Fay were trying to understand why everyone was saying he couldn't meet his mother, or father again. "If he only hadn't been born alone, they were supposed to be twins."
Kurogane gives a growl, before he kicks the table hard, and he gets the reaction he wanted, as the entire room went silent. Before he walks over to the sniffling boy, and pats him on the head. He knew they couldn't change the past, but there was nothing wrong with changing small things was there? "It isn't your fault at all. Your mother and father loved you a lot."
"Why won't they come back then?" He whispers, nothing but confusion in his eyes. If they loved him, why had they gone away? Didn't it mean you wanted to be with someone forever if you loved them? "If Fay did something bad, Fay will say sorry. Fay will always say sorry if they just want to come back!"
The older twin comes over as well. As he were wondering just what he could say. He still remembered when Fay had asked him this. They had used an entire week trying to find out what they had done wrong so they could say sorry for it.
"When someone dies, it means that they can never come back, even if they want to." He whispers, as he brushes the boy's tears gently away. "After all, if they could come back, there is no way they would leave you, right?"
"But… Fay has strong magic… Fay can learn to use magic to make them come back… right?"
"No, when someone dies, they can never, ever come back. No matter how much you want to." The boy starts crying again, as he hugs hard unto his older twin, which is unable to keep his tears in either. "But no matter what people say, nothing of this is your fault at all Fay, they both loved you over everything in the world."
Fay is about to ask more about what death was, but is cut off, as a bright light suddenly appeared from Mokona's earring. "Ah! What is that?!"
"We have to leave now Fay, but no matter what, remember that someone loved you." The mage hesitates, before he hugs his twin harder. "I never regretted being born with you… Fay…"
"Ah! Don't leave! Yuui!" The boy cries, as the travelers are pulled into the dimensional flow. "Yuui!"
Kurogane grabs unto the mage, as he could see his resolve crumble. Just who wouldn't, when their late twin brother cried and begged them to return? Nevertheless, this was just too cruel. Just what sort of sick joke was it to be sent to this time? Was it just an accident? Or had someone been pulling a horrible prank on them? For Fay to see all this didn't make any sense! Like with the dreams, just what would it change?
As they are let out of the portal, Mokona quickly jumps to Fay, and brushes his cheek gently, as he had finally broken down, crying as he was trying to collect himself again. Syaoran hesitates, before he pats the mage gently on the shoulder, doing his best to cheer him up as well. However, as Kurogane had been about to move over to him as well, he started noticing the room around them. Just what was going on?
This was the Lady's chambers wasn't it? Had they transported back to the room instead of away from this world? At least this was what he was thinking, until the doors opened, and the Lady's royal guards started flocking around them. Soon the entire follow notices this as well, and catches unto the things that Kurogane had already seen.
"What are you strangers doing in the Lady's chambers?" One of the guards once more yells, as everyone just tries to figure out what was going on. "Answer!"
The first thought is that it might just be that the guards were still protecting the chambers, and they hadn't been recognized again yet, but all those thoughts are quickly brushed aside, as they hear another voice from behind them.
"Grier Martel! Why are your men surrounding my guests?" Fay holds his breath, as he turns slowly around, and there, as if nothing had happened, his mother once more sat, smiling gently to them.
Just what was going on?
-to be continuned-
If anyone wonders, yes, I am a Higurashi and Umineko fan XD Also, updates will follow soon, since I have already written the entire story ^.^ I just need to read over it again. Also, sorry if I have lots of spelling mistakes. English is not my first language.
And I have a headcanon that Fay and Yuui's parents are Valeria's versions of Elda and Hideki from Chobits. But it is a long time ago since I watched that, so sorry if I somehow messed up their characters XD.
Also, I wondered a lot when writing this, if I should have a happy ending, or a bitter sweet one. We will just have to see what I went with.