Still shouldn't have done this.
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Catherine woke up with a tired yawn, stretching her arms above her head as she slid her legs over her old bed. Her tired gaze was stilled on her old closet. She then stood up, walking towards her bedroom door and twisted the handle open, exiting her room and moving towards the kitchen. She paused when she heard snoring next door. She shrugged her shoulder, thinking it must be her brother who decided to sleep on the couch. Opening the cabinet, she took out a glass and filled it up with tap water. But disgust ran over her face when she took a swift sniff of the water in her hands. She dumped it not a moment later, putting the glass on the counter.
Sighing sadly, she went around to the living room, where she found her brother sleeping on the couch. Smiling slightly, she took a seat near his head, shuffling a bit and moved his head onto her lap. She combed his hair with one hand, wondering what kind of dream he is having right now. A tired sigh escaped her again as she shuffled once more to get comfy. She looked where the window would be.
It must be early morning if the sunlight slowly rising means anything.
She continued to comb his hair.
And not a moment later, she joined him in his sleep.
I groaned in bliss as I felt my hair being played around with. My eye twitched and they opened themselves to reveal Catherine who had fallen into deep slumber. I slowly sat up, careful to not wake her less she became angry, and quietly muffled my yawn with my hand to my lips. I stood up and went to her room quietly, hoping not to disturb both girls in this household. I came back with a light blanket, draping it over Catherine's shoulders.
I also then went to the kitchen, only to find out that tap water here is the gross thing to drink right now. Fixing pipes is not my thing. And this house is over hundreds of years old, no wonder tap water here is disgusting. I concentrated to find where I could find my emergency water bottles right now, and when I did, a small black portal opened beside me, hissing quietly as I gleefully put one hand in and took several bottles out of my pocket dimension.
I put the six bottles down on the counter, took one, and twisted the cap and took a drink from it. I gulped down the water greedily till none were left.
A sound of shuffling from the living room alerted me that my sister is awake.
I grabbed a water bottle and walked to her location, offering the bottle when she rubbing her eyes from drowsiness.
She muttered a 'thank you' and took the bottle out of my hand and drank from it.
I stood next to her, watching her as she drank from the bottle of water. After she was done, she handed the bottle back.
"Your hair is a mess." I said.
She gave me a half-heated glare and stood up. She mumbled something but I couldn't hear it. She went to the bathroom to freshen up, leaving me alone.
Shaking my head, I glanced at the clock.
10:45 AM.
Huh, I doesn't sleep that long to begin with, always waking up early to do things for the day. Did my sleep schedule change?
Shrugging, I went to Veleria's room, slowly opening the door just in case she is still sleeping. I peeked in, and sighed in relief when she is just rubbing her eyes, yawning cutely, and looked at the door. Her eyes didn't register me at first - eyes surprised before falling into recognition.
"Morning Veleria." I greeted, slightly opening the door more. I watched her nod and put her legs over her bed, stretching her arms and standing up. Veleria Lucifer, the heir of the Lucifer Clan, one who has Divine Dividing, a fighter, and a young growing up girl. I didn't ask what kind of training she was put through, but with the scars all over her, that were healed, I didn't bother to ask. Probably due to her having bad memories. I doesn't want her to remember that. Even so, she'll need the training to survive.
She stood in front of me quietly, nervous. "Can I go to the bathroom?"
"You don't need to ask Veleria." I said, shaking my head. "No one here is going to tell you to do something you can't." I stepped aside, making room for her to leave. She walked pass me and to the bathroom, knocking on the door and being let in once Catherine heard Veleria's voice through the door.
I took a good last look at her room before closing the door behind me.
Walking to the kitchen again, I opened the fridge and checked if Catherine had decided to put some food into here.
None, no food but the rotting smell of the fridge itself.
Sighing, I closed the fridge and took out my phone. Dialing a number, I waited for it to pick up. A couple seconds later, it answered.
"Hello?" A female voice answered.
"Zoe, my little sweet cook, can you bring some food to our location? Preferably breakfast food?" I said.
"D-Dark?" A sound of something crashing happened in the background. I heard her curse and spoke. "Sorry, I was cooking food for the others and David decided to help out-" The sounds of an alarm went through the phone. "Ugh..." She groaned.
Worry went over me face. Did she say David was going to help her out with cooking? David can't even cook at all! What is that idiot doing?! It also sounds like David messed up and starting to burn my house down. At least Zoe is there to stop the house from burning.
"Zoe?" I asked. I heard the screams of 'I'm on fire!' in his call.
"David..." Zoe sighed. I heard her scream too. "I-Idiot! Don't come near me! You're on fire and you didn't douse yourself in water yet?!" The sounds of a storm blew into phone speaker. I chuckled silently. David had actually called a small storm over himself. And Zoe was caught in the storm.
I waited patiently. My little sister spoke again. "Dark... Can you tell Catherine to get over here?"
"So she could fix your problem?"
"No... Just get her over here..." Zoe sighed. "I'll cook your breakfast for you and Catherine then."
"Wait-" She ended the call there.
I put my phone away, frowning at the sudden ended call. Zoe isn't the one to end calls there, I usually do it to her. This means it does take someone like Catherine's caliber to do the job.
The door to the washroom opened and Catherine stepped out.
"Catherine, Zoe needs your help back at our place." I said.
Catherine nodded, ready to rip a Dimensional Tear through this old house. "What does she need help with?" She asked.
"Something, I don't know what but I think it needs your specialty to fix it." I said, still frowning. "Can you also get her to cook some breakfast for Veleria too? She ended the call before I could even tell her to do that. Plus, I think you need to get changed too."
Catherine hummed a bit before opening a Dimensional Tear through the middle of the room. She entered it immediately. The rift closed itself soon after.
I shake my head, wondering why my sister decided not to change her sleepwear into casual clothing. I took a couple steps to lean against the counter, and checked the the clock, counting down in my head when Catherine will be back.
Two minutes. I will give it two minutes for Catherine to be back.
I stared at the wall after I was done staring at the clock.
I hummed as I listened to imaginary music. Giving time for my humming to quiet down, I looked at the clock again.
One minutes and thirty seconds left.
I took out my phone, fumbling with it, getting my password right, and looked at my notes. I thumbed through it as I look around in my phone that might be interesting to read.
I looked at the clock on my phone instead.
Thirty seconds left.
I heard the door from the bathroom open. I looked at Veleria before going to look through my phone again.
A vortex opened in front of me. I gave it a glance before looking at Veleria who had her eyes wide for what was happening before her.
"Veleria, it's just Catherine coming back with some food." I said.
Veleria nodded dumbly as she stood still. I shook my head and watched in surprise when Catherine didn't exited the portal, but Zoe instead.
Long black hair tied into a ponytail. Blue eyes. A apron over her black shirt and blue jeans. And a smiling face as she took a glance around her surroundings. She was holding a plate of breakfast food. Her eyes found mine and walked towards me, one arm out stretched as she gave me a hug.
Meet my younger sister, the youngest actually. With Zoe just being eighteen, with the rest of the family being older than her, she is the most upbeat sister we have since she was born. The prankster, the trouble maker, and a great cook. Although I'm the oldest of the bunch, with me taking things seriously sometimes, this is the most laid back sibling I have. While Catherine is the teasing sister of the family and taking things seriously like me too, this one is a little too much on the happiness side.
I returned the hug awkwardly while not trying to disrupt her balance on the food she was carrying. Not that it matters, she is way too good on her feet.
"Zoe? Where is Catherine?" I questioned the youngest.
"Beating up David right now." Zoe answered.
"For almost burning the house down?"
"Yup."
I sighed and let go of her, watching her take a step back and bounce on her feet.
Veleria was still gaping at the both of us and when I turned to look at her, Zoe followed my eyes and gaped.
"Don't tell me you gotten yourself a girlfriend already? And a young girl too, shame on you Dark for not telling us about this!" Zoe hissed, one hand on her hip as she glared at me. I began to sputter nonsense and when I heard Zoe started to giggle, I stopped my blundering and glared at her.
"Not funny." I said.
"It was funny though." She pouted. She looked back at Veleria. "So you are the girl Dark has to watch over now right?" Zoe asked.
Veleria composed herself and nodded slightly.
"Then-" Zoe put the food on the dining table. "-Here's some food for your troubles!" She smiled when Veleria looked at the food, heard her stomach rumble, blushed, and said 'thank you'. Zoe magically called in plates and utensils from the vortex as it went through the portal and landed on the table. Two glass of water went through the vortex, not spilling as it flew through and placed itself near the plates.
"Dig in." Zoe said happily.
I rolled my eyes and sat down beside Veleria.
"Catherine should be done beating up David soon, so wait patiently Dark. But... Dark... What's her name?" Zoe asked. I paused as I was about to take a bite of the bacon.
"Veleria Lucifer." I answered, finally taking bite out of the bacon.
"Oh..." Zoe muttered.
Silence took over as me and Veleria ate, the only sounds was the utensils moving.
Catherine exited the vortex. She looked around to find her siblings frowning.
"What's up with this moody atmosphere?" Catherine asked. I looked at her to find her dressed in casual clothing.
"Nothing Catherine." Zoe said, shaking her head. "Nothing happened, just ignore it."
Catherine looked confused, but shrugged her shoulders. Taking a seat beside me, she sat there patiently as we ate silently.
The silence we had during breakfast was awful. But Zoe had suggested we all go shopping in the human world. Veleria was nervous but agreed when Zoe told her she needed new clothes. Then she excluded me from their shopping trip, with me looking like a puppy that lost its favorite treat. Veleria had at least asked the girls to let me join.
It came with a price though.
I had to pay for all the clothing the girls wanted. It won't do much to my money, since I did have all my riches back in the past and the Goddess was right when she said all my belongings will be back to me. Although I'm being forced to carry all the bags the girls had given me, it didn't hurt me at all due to the intense training I put myself through.
The bags though. I don't think I could carry all these bags in both hands...
When I asked if they could carry some, I was declined from Catherine who said with a smirk. "A man should know when to carry a lady's bags. If you are not a man Dark then you are just a boy, one who is discouraged from showing his strength to the world."
I looked at Zoe, who shrugged. Then I looked at Veleria, she offered to carry a few bags. I smiled in relief when she did take off some load from my hands.
"Thank's Veleria." I said, sending her a grateful look and a hateful look towards Catherine who stuck out her tongue in response. Veleria nodded and we continued to walk throughout the mall. We pasted by many stores that we all were already in.
I took a sneaky glance at Veleria and she seemed a little bit more happy with how the three of them are chatting naturally, she did laugh every once in a while and spoke with interest. At least Veleria has company with my sisters, with me being the tag along. I did speak with Veleria a couple of times but stayed quiet for most of the trip. I was thinking about the training we should give her; without the need to let her go panic and try to run away from us. If the training Veleria have been through was harsh, then we need to go easy on her. If a memory of her past comes back to haunt her after I saved her, then she won't improve to survive in this world.
Someone called my name but I ignored it, still thinking of how the training regime would go. I was still walking and when I noticed the three females weren't in front of me anymore, I paused and looked back. There was the eyes of three concerned females looking at me. Other people started to look at me strangely too but they instead passed by to continue on with the day.
"What's up?" I asked.
"What's up? What's wrong with you?" Catherine replied, walking over and poking her finger onto my chest. "Were you thinking of something to the point of ignoring us Dark? I thought you promised you wouldn't do that anymore?" Concern was all over her face. She grabbed some of the bags in my hands and shared them between herself and Zoe. "Walk with us, tell us what's on your mind Dark. It's really important if you ignored us like that."
I sighed, readjusting the bags in my hand and walked beside Catherine as the others caught up. I gave myself to think as seconds passed by. Then seconds turned into minutes. After a couple of minute I spoke. "Veleria?" I asked the Divine Dividing wielder.
"Y-Yes Dark?" Veleria replied, looking at me.
"How..." I paused, hesitant to ask. I take a deep breath. "...Would you like it if we trained you to fight back against beings that will harm your friends and family?"
We all paused on our walk as I looked at Veleria who stopped suddenly. Her eyes were surprised by the question. Her eyes were looking at me afterwards. Is this too much to ask? I saw her quiver on her feet before standing straight. She opened her lips, trying to speak but closed themselves after. Her light blue eyes were in fear but showed resolution. A commitment is in her eyes. But she does not speak.
She is afraid.
From the training? Her past? Even though we saved her a day ago, is she still not coming to terms her family is not able to get her now with us here?
"It's ok if you decide not to train your powers." I spoke with haste. "It's just..." I looked at her. "...If you cannot protect yourself, then how will you protect your family and friends from harm? It's true if this world is filled with cruel people, but what happens if you can't protect your loved ones and you let them die? What will you do then Veleria? Get revenge? Vengeance? Get them for harming against your family? There is better ways to do it but it will lead you to a darker path, one you cannot stray from. If that happens, there will be no one to back you up, everyone you have loved will either leave you behind or have died to your mistakes. What is your deci-"
"I'll do it." She said, interrupting me as she stood and faced me. Fire was in her eyes which I liked. "I'll do it to protect those who now have been in my life. I promised myself I'll get away from my home if my grandfather continued to force me to do his dirty work. I was forced to train under gruesome terrain when I was young, however it didn't stop me from trying to get away from grandfather. When the time had come, I had escaped and found you Dark, my savior who had led me a new life. I must protect those who I have left, even you Catherine and Zoe." She smiled sweetly. Then her eyes hardened. "I must defeat my grandfather as he tarnished my clan under his sickening rule. I must protect everyone I care about before its too late."
"So... It's a yes?"
Catherine hit me hard enough to feel it. She rolled her eyes at me. "It's a yes Dark. Her speech is her way to say yes." Her eyes softened as she gave Veleria a small hug. "I'm proud of you Veleria." Catherine spoke softly. Veleria was shocked but hug her back. "I know you will be a fine young woman and a defender to your family and friends. Remember though, we all will be there to back you up." She let her go and smiled kindly.
When I searched for Zoe, I found myself cursing.
There is a symbol on her hand and Zoe was smiling dangerously at me. The symbol is a human shaped being with a cloak over the human. A finger to the lips was shown as I stared at it. I muttered a 'oops' and I backed away. I paused in relief when she shook her head and said. "Be careful next time kay?"
We entered the Food Court with multiple choices to pick from. Once everyone had pick their choices with Zoe helping out Veleria with picking a good choice of food. We found ourselves a small table of four and ate. I started a conversation and everybody joined in.
We left the mall after we finished up at the food court. It was getting dark as the day passes by. By the time we reached a alley, I transported us all back home.
"Ah~" Catherine groaned as she dropped the bags and stretched her arms. "Good to be back."
"Yeah." Zoe agreed with her as she sat on the couch.
I carried the bags they dropped and into their respectable rooms. After leaving, I found Veleria standing and leaning against the railing at the balcony with the door open. I went with her but leaned against the open door. We shared a comfortable silence.
"So training today or tomorrow?" I asked.
Veleria looked behind and stared me down. "Will the training be brutal?"
"No." I shook my head. "Not until I find you ready enough to take on the challenge."
Veleria nodded and patted the railing beside her. I nodded and stood with her, silence taking over again. A few minutes of silence took over as a small smile graced her lips.
"I like this." She said.
"Hmm."
She took my hand and stood. A pair of devil wings appeared behind her. "Can we do the training now?"
I chuckle. "Sure, why not?" I shrugged as I let out my own wings and flew above, with Veleria slowly catching up to me. I landed on the empty field and Veleria stood the opposite of me. Both ours wings disappeared.
A sword appeared in my hands. A standard steel sword and nothing else. I lazily let it fall to my side. An easy going smile on my lips.
"So what are the rules?" Veleria shouted across the field.
"If you graze me once or at least make me bleed I'll count that as a point for you. However try dodging Veleria as I'm no sloucher." I shouted back.
Catherine appeared in the middle of the field, in both hands on her opposite arms and gazing at both fighters.
"Veleria you can fight till you can't anymore or are too hurt to move." Catherine's voice echoed through out the field. Nodding that Veleria had listened, she then turned to Dark. "Dark, try to take easy on her?" She asked.
"No promises." I replied back.
Catherine nodded and turned again to Veleria. "Do you wish to fight with or without your Scared Gear?"
Veleria was surprised, did they know she had one of the thirteen Longinus? She called for her Sacred Gear anyways and it appeared on her right hand.
"I'll fight with it." Veleria replied back.
"Alright." Catherine disappeared and appeared from the side. Zoe was sat next to her.
"You may begin."
As soon she heard those words, she had to block instantly. Dark had appeared before her and came striking without warning. He hit harder too, which showed when she buckled underneath the strength of his attack.
'Fast!' Veleria thought as felt her arm go jelly.
"I said dodge." Dark chided as he swung his sword from the right. This time she dodged and jumped back a couple of feet. "Good. You understand the situation." He was upon her again and she dodged again.
"Is this when to evade or when to block type of training we're doing right now?" Veleria asked, eyeing the attacker in front of her. She massaged her arm. "Because it seems like you're hitting harder than usual and I don't want my arm to feel like it went through a grinder."
Dark nodded with a grin. "That's right, I'll be testing your reaction speed. It's pretty good, but you should have dodged if you can't gauge your opponents strength, especially when it is me." He warned at the end of his sentence. And with that, he went on the offense again.
Veleria dodged every time he was upon her. She dodged left to right, to jumping backwards when he came for a overhead slash and made a crater in the ground. She did shouted at him why the intent to kill is in this training regime.
"Because-" He rolled his eyes. "-Many enemies will be the ones with the intent to kill if you are there to protect your loved ones remember? However, sometimes there will be a friendly spar which no permanent damage shall happen. This is one." He saw Veleria open her eyes in surprise. "I'm training you to become a fighter and protector of your family and friends, I don't intend to make you tired from the start, I shall wore you out until you can't move. So, are you ready Veleria Lucifer?"
Veleria nodded and then stood with her guard ready.
Dark came again, but she was ready. She ducked when his sword came with a swipe from the left, trying to behead her. She then went for a punch for his stomach.
Her eyes widened when he disappeared. She jumped forwards in surprise when she felt a presence behind her and tapped her shoulder. She turned around and surprise was upon her.
"How did you do that?" She asked.
"Magic." Dark mysteriously said. Veleria rolled her eyes at the sudden change of combat to playful humor.
"No, seriously how do you move like that?" She asked again.
"It's my actually speed, I'm faster than anyone in this planet." He says. "I'm like the Flash, but faster than him."
"Who's that?" She asked, confused of who this 'Flash' is.
"Ah." He nodded in understanding. Veleria looked even more confused than before. "I totally forgot you never have watched any movies."
"Movies?"
"I'll show you when it's night and when you're not tired."
"Can we see this 'movies' you are talking about? After training of course." She hurriedly said.
"Of course." He said as he disappeared again.
He appeared the opposite of her.
"I'll be testing your limit's this time Veleria." Dark said as he twisted his sword left to right. Veleria's eyes followed it warily.
"Testing my limits?" She meekly asked. She only gotten a nod from him. He disappeared again.
She could only gasp when she felt him kick her from the side. She was launched faraway from him and landed on her side. She groaned in pain and when she tried to lift herself up, she could only make herself lay on her back. Catherine's face was in her vision instantly and she felt relieved from the pain that was given from Dark. Her head was on Catherine's lap and she felt comfortable.
"Are you alright Veleria?" Catherine asked worriedly as she glared at her older sibling. Said older sibling shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm fine." Veleria groggily said as she put her arm over her face. Diving Dividing disappeared from her other arm.
"Apologies Veleria, though I thought you would have dodged that if I was flaring my intent to kill aura." Dark snickered.
"Zoe." Catherine said. Said female was upon her brother, smiled, grabbed his arm, and they both disappeared.
A faraway scream was heard in the distance.
Veleria worriedly looked at that direction when she sat up.
"Ignore it." Catherine said as she helped her up. "He'll be fine." Another scream was heard and a explosion happened. "Probably... Maybe..."
They walked back to the house they all were staying in.
"Can I watch the 'movies' Dark was talking about?" Veleria asked.
Catherine hummed a bit but nodded. "Sure, we could watch some movies."
They left both siblings behind.
One fought for his survival while the other fought with the intent to kill.
Dark's scream's was heard in the distance.
Chapter 2 done. I'm actually hurt right now, with my left arm unable to straighten itself so I leave it be. Same goes to my right arm but I can finally straighten it after a couple of days. Hurts a lot when I unintentionally try to stretch my left arm and try to plug my phone charger around the back of my lazy chair. If only the couch wasn't there and my lazy chair was moved back a couple of spaces then I could just plug it beside me. And then the nights came. Hard to sleep with arms that hurt every time I try to make them straight. That was the first day, each day it gotten better but still... It's hurts man.
Here is chapter 2 everyone. I hope it is to your liking. I suffered the past few days typing this up, gave up when the arms came haunting back to me, and came back to this when I kinda felt better.
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