Baby Trouble

Deathly Magical Outbursts

Okay, so none of them knew exactly how to take care of toddlers, Hachi knows, but he can't simply be at three places at once, it was a mess since that spell.

Well, at least Shadow can't leave Rose alone for three minutes; Spade found out that Luna prefers books more than running around; and Scarlet listens to no one whatsoever, each of them decided it's either taking care of Luna or sending them to a phantom thief daycare.

Eventually after Rose's magic outburst, they've decided to bring them to a daycare, it's more appropriate and safe, considering their lives are so dangerous for babies. Rose's magic outburst happened with Queen.

"Rose… please just stay put for a second…" Queen whined as she stayed limp on the couch, taking care of her really took a toll on her energy and mental focus. But the pink haired child took no notice as she continued to bring havoc in the house.

Queen thanked her lucky stars that grandpa was on a trip this time, but having Rose is really messing up her schedule, she's dropping down to number 7 on the top phantom thief list… and she hates that more than a anything.

Her assistant Roko, tried to keep Rose down and calm, he's no match for the Holder of Time, even she hasn't unlocked her abilities, her senses and energy were still enhanced by her raw magic.

They two eventually got sick of her crying, they weren't the most patient phantom thieves in the world, Roko accidentally gave Rose a taste of his Sonic Voice, and they instantly regretted it.

She was startled by it, of course, but unexpectedly that her magic went wild, a pink aura surrounded Roko, and he was turned into a baby.

"Roko!" Queen yelped and dodged more incoming magic missiles, Rose eventually calmed down and everything was back to normal.

Well, almost everything.

Now Rose's using magic freely, Scarlet was often amazed and impressed when she uses it, Luna still took no notice and buried her face into more books.

One thing's for sure, it's Shadow's worrying lessened, but soon came back and even worse, Hachi asked him for what's going on, he simply strained himself from panicking: "They're Holders, their outbursts should be coming one after another, now Rose's here, the next should be Luna…"

He didn't have time to worry, for they decided to send them off to phantom care to cut themselves some slack. Shadow's the only one worried for it, Spade had to assure him that their skills and instincts are still intact.

Spade's also worried for Scarlet, her being his first crush and all, he really couldn't get mad at her for long, especially when she's now a baby, he couldn't fight back the thought that she's cute for his liking anymore.

"So… this is the place?" Shadow muttered as they reached a mountain with a well designed villa on it.

Queen shrugged, "guess so."

The airship landed and they walked out, before they even opened the door, the door exploded open itself and it was a mess inside, there was a reception, force fields and all sorts of security stuff in it, "what brings you guys here?"

"Dump?!" Spade gaped while Rose climbed on his head, "you're taking care of a daycare?!"

"I had nothing to do," he smiled, "uh… you… 'branched out'?"

It took a while for them to realise it, they spluttered, "n-no! These are our friends… *as babies*! Long story, we need to put them here for a few days until we figure things out."

He looked at them confused, "okay…"

"This place is awesome!" Scarlet's eyes sparkled as she looked at the daycare, it was a phantom thief heaven, Rose followed her and dashed around the place, they pushed Luna to go with them, but she focused on the thick book in her hands, it was a weird sight.

"Yeah…" Luna muttered as she flipped another page, "we're in the phantom care… hope some of the legends will show… yay."

"Yeah! It's so cool right?!" Scarlet squealed, but Luna raised an eyebrow.

"The legends are all dead, except for the Legendary Silver Magician Silver Heart," she explained blankly, "which… is the master of Kaitou Queen, Kaitou Spade and Kaitou Scarlet."

"Kaitou Scarlet? Hey! That's my name!" she huffed and her cheeks grew puffy.

"... and she looks like you," Luna shoved the book into her hands, which the weight squashed her, "coincidence much...?"

"But still, this place is awesome!" Rose squeaked, letting some of her magic loose holding the book up and down.

"I need my book back," Luna yawned and snatched the book out of her magic grip, "yeah, play without me… I'll go finish this book…"

Soon, Scarlet and Rose were already the top toddlers of the daycare, many other phantom thief toddlers in training tried to challenge them on a mock treasure fight, they lost every single time, and with Rose's magic magis makes every other girl drool out of jealousy.

Luna didn't care whatsoever, she sat in a corner silently reading her book, even Scarlet's magic outburst didn't make her lose focus.

"You ready?" Scarlet smirked cheekily as she saw her "challenger", their task was to run over a couple of explosives without getting hurt, Rose's healing spell was at bay.

What they didn't know, the boy that challenged them isn't going down without playing dirty, mini bombs were tucked away in his shirt.

"Go!" Rose chirped and the two darted to the finish line, as usual, his speed was no match for her.

He smirked and threw the bombs at her, it was small, but it was powerful enough to kill a person, let alone a toddler like her.

BOOM!

The bombs made contact, and the flooring was all wrecked and into bits, Rose stared in dismay, "Scar!"

All the children fled crying, Luna watched it all happen silently, her mouth was ajar, small tear streaks soon fell from her eyes; Rose is losing control of her own magic.

Is she gone?

She desperately used her own magic to clear out the smoke and burst inside trying to look for her friend, inside she found a lime green bubble surrounded her and she was pissed off inside.

"Ahh!" she yelled, the bubble burst and she was in midair, sparks flew off her. She was beyond pissed at the moment. "You're alive!" Rose sighed out of relief as she calmed down slightly and sat on the ground panting, Dump came running in and gaped at the situation.

"What, on, earth."

It wasn't much more of a mystery, for he called Spade and was notified that Luna's having the next outburst, Shadow's way more worried at this point.

There was no sign of her having an outburst, Rose and Scarlet were startled and their magic came out, but Luna's a different case, she was calm and depressed all the time, how are they going to make her magic burst out?

And she was currently outside reading a book.

"Woi," a group of girls cried out rudely to her and snatched her book away from her, Luna looked up to them blankly.

"What?" she asked.

"Why didn't you challenge Scarlet and Rose?" a girl with a braid asked rather rudely and scoffed, "because you're weak, are you?"

"How did your parents teach you?!" another one scowled, "oh wait, she doesn't have parents! Does she?!"

"Haha! Poor weirdo! No parents no nothing! Why did you come here anyway?! Boo hoo!"

"... stop," Luna sniffed; she hated being called an orphan, even if she lost her memories, she knew one fact: she was alone with no parents.

"Look at that! She's crying! You're so pathetic!"

Luna didn't answer, she wiped away her tears and brought out another thick book out of nowhere, not giving those meanies another thought, "whatever…"

"Are you listening to us?!" she yelled and a piercing pain jabbed through Luna's leg, she hissed and threw the book aside, she saw a dagger sticking out of her right leg, blood seeping through.

"Clover!"

"You are no use for us, child!"

"No!"

Those memories… when Clover killed her parents… "no."

"Huh? What did you say?! I can barely hear you! Hahaha!"

She didn't answer, she simply took the dagger out in a swift motion and stood up facing them, "I'm not running anymore, am I?" she said in a soft yet menacing voice, her blue eyes flashing red.

Those bullies are still not backing down, "you're still weak! Parentless! Lonely b****!"

"Say that again," she said calmly. "I dare you."

"You, are, weak," the bully said arrogantly, crossing her arms, "I'm the strongest one here!"

"Hey! Who's the strongest one here?!" Scarlet yelled out not looking outside, so she doesn't know what's going on exactly, she's busy being challenged by other kids.

"Second strongest," she corrected and they all sweatdropped, she got agitated once more and pushed Luna aside near the cliff.

"Stop, it," Luna warned, despite the deep wound on her leg, she was not fazed by it one bit, she held her ground firmly.

"Why should I?!" she laughed, the other girls followed her example sheepishly.

"Hey!" Scarlet and Rose both yelled from the window, "stay away from her!"

The bully not even realising the trouble she's in kept nagging about it, "why? She's just a pushover!"

She nudged Luna again towards the cliff, she didn't even know that the ground ends there, she stepped onto nothing and fell.

"LUNA!" Scarlet and Rose yelled in absolute horror as they watched inside, they tried to break the window get them now but it's hardness was enhanced.

She kept her eyes closed all the time, she gritted her teeth and tears streamed down her face, hating them for what they've did to her.

Those girls following her were just her pawns, they were forced to be her pawns.

One thing burned in her mind as she fell.

Revenge.

"Luna…" Rose fell to her knees, her eyes still locked outside.

That bully was still laughing. Scarlet's eyes burned with hatred and grief.

Tears streamed down their face uncontrollably and broke down into sobs, Ruby, who's working as a teacher here being a gray jedi, she could sense what happened in the staff room. Grief, hatred, sadness…

She stayed silent and put down the coffee on the table, "I can't stop this one… sorry… Luna."

The impact never came, her magic burst out at the last second.

But instead of blue, it was crimson red, her blue irises turned red and her blue hair was outlined red.

A different kind of outburst.

Boom.

"Ahh!" she screeched, happily accepting this newfound ability, she levitated herself up to the cliff and gave them her best death glare, her laughing stopped and was replaced by fear.

"Luna!" Rose chirped happily for her friend that she was alive, another fact she's gulping for the power display.

"Sh*t," Scarlet cursed out of amazement and awe.

"What did you say about me parentless again?" she mocked, her voice became double-folded, it didn't ease the tension that her voice was still a child, she didn't answer, "what did you say?! I can't hear you!"

Scarlet and Rose both felt their connection with each other, their emotions, their intentions… they're bonding with it each other once more, but Luna's emblem felt dark, Rose took no notice, "pound them to the ground!"

"Go SRL!" Scarlet yelled and Rose looked at her confused, she shrugged, "our team name!"

"... when did you come up with that…?" Rose asked dumbfounded.

"Just.. kinda popped into my mind," she shrugged it off and watched the commotion outside.

Luna scowled herself and her magic was used more, a dark red emblem (use your imagination… I have no idea how to describe it) appeared on the ground near them, he bully took a few steps back seeming that she's so dead.

A red wing stretched out of the emblem followed by a body, a head and claws, a red semi transparent raven came out looking bloodthirsty and a red aura surrounded it, it gave a screech and everyone covered their ears.

Dump and Ruby came out astonished and gaped at the situation, Rose and Scarlet also came out a little worried, Dump sighed, "I guess this is what he means by 'outbursts'."

"Oh the force - Luna!" Ruby gaped, "karrablast this is crazy!" [A Star Wars curse]

"Luna!" Scarlet smiled cheekily at her, "awesome!"

"I know, right?!" she smirked back at her waving her hand at her, the raven also waved its wings, "cool! I can control it!"

"Why can you summon an animal?! And I can't?!" Rose sulked playfully puffing her cheeks.

"Catch up losers!" Luna hissed at the bully, the raven getting closer to her as she backed away in fear, "this is what you deserve!"

"Hehehehe…" the three snickered playfully as the bully ran away at their sight, they were currently having tea time as everyone wanted to sit with time, but they declined and Luna put up a shield.

"So how did you call that bird?" Rose asked curiously, Luna's hair and eyes turned to normal and more active and playful, "tell me!"

"Hm…" she cocked her head, "I've lost it then… maybe focus your magic and think of 'close friends'-"

"Omigosh it worked!" Scarlet squealed as her own green emblem appeared on the ceiling- wait. What?!

A green wolf came out landing on the shield which Luna winced, and looked at Scarlet loyally, another pink emblem appeared and a dolphin was in midair.

"What…" they said dumbfounded.

"Dump, you're telling me that Luna and Scarlet were almost murdered, had their outbursts and Luna summoned a human-eating bird," Spade deadpans, "did I get that right?"

"At least they're normal," Shadow shrugged, "but except for the fact that Luna did have a… 'rough' start… any leads on how to change them back?"

"... so far still no, we still have to restore their memories back first," Queen sighed and groaned, "now we're having twice the problem, magic toddlers? We had enough trouble already!"

"Hey! That's the meanie that almost killed me!" Luna shrieked and pointed at the braided girl who gulped.

"Get back here!" Scarlet yelled, their magic all spiking up at once. "That'll show what happens if you mess with SRL!"

"'SRL'?" Luna asked, Rose smiled and shrugged: "She came up with it, team name."

"Huh? What's this? Where's Joker?"

"Hehe… I'm having a cold, I'm controlling Mini Joker! Awesome right?"

"Might as well dig my own grave…"

"Uh… big brother's been looking forward to compete with Joker."

"Rose," Luna tapped her shoulder, "you okay? You zoned out there."

"Y-yeah I'm fine," she smiled forcefully, what was that…?

"... we're really coming back tomorrow… we have an important heist…" Spade sweatdropped and bashfully scratched his head.

"Sure," Dump nodded.

"What?!" the bully yelled, "no!"

"If you kill other kids I'll send you to the depths of hell!" Luna hissed and used her magic to throw the bully into the house, when the bully knew that their guardians were Spade, Queen and Shadow, she was horrified. Who would've thought that their guardians were the top phantom thieves?

"Why not make her suffer forever?!" Rose huffed.

Scarlet crossed her arms, "nah, might as well make her live in fear forever."

The teens sweatdropped at their conversation, "Shadow…"

"It's… normal when they're young."

"You call that normal," Queen narrowed her eyes.

"I call that insane and deranged," Spade seconded her comment.