AN: It is time...for Clockwork POV and Astral being a little shit.

May the Ancients have mercy on them both.

Timeline/Location: Non-specific timeline, Clockwork's Tower

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Day Three: Fangs

"Clockwork, you need to look more intimidating."

…So, Astral was visiting again.

The Master of Time, currently in his older form, turned his head slowly to towards the small deity. Astral was inspecting Clockwork's cape, not touching him, but his eyes trailed up and down Clockwork's body. His eyes couldn't have actually caught any small details, considering how little time he spent on one area. However, he had a feeling Astral knew his attire so well at this point, that he was just putting on a show.

As per usual.

Clockwork shook his head, amused, "Intimidating?"

"Yeah," Astral replied, finally disregarding the no touching rule and picking up his cape between his fingers. He narrowed his eyes at it, "Intimidating. You're supposed to be this super powerful master of time, and you look…friendly."

"You say as if this is a bad thing." Clockwork switched to his child form. He smirked when Astral lost his balance. "You know, this is why you don't touch other people without permission."

Astral huffed at the retreated cape. "Excuse me for being helpful and trying to give your advice."

"Astral, you constantly wear an oversized sweatshirt and your hair looks like it's constantly in a bedhead. If you want to give me advice on intimidating clothes, I suggest you start looking less like a college student after three midterms."

"Hey, firstly, some college students are scary after midterms. Sleep deprivation is one of the multiverse's worst evils, let me tell ya, secondly," Astral said, as he moved to float in front of him, "Just because I won't take the advice, doesn't mean you can't be intimidating."

"What's your reasoning behind this makeover?"

"Well, duh, if you're going to be the Master of Time, you've got to have some sort of scary presence. You're not exactly scary with your chubby baby cheeks."

"I have a scar."

"It looks like facepaint, and it doesn't even go through your eye. "

He switched to his adult form.

Astral arched an eyebrow, lips quirking into a smirk. "And now you look like someone's dad with a pendulum instead of a stomach."

"Do you enjoy insulting my looks?"

"I enjoy getting you to listen to me."

Clockwork let out a long suffering sigh, and he closed he eyes when Astral let out a low sneaker in response. "Oh pray, do tell," He said, finally giving in to his fate, "How would you make more intimidating."

"Fangs," Astral replied immediately.

Clockwork paused, took a moment, then looked Astral straight in the eyes. "Fangs," He repeated, not even bothering to hide his tiredness.

"Yep! Giant spine inducing fangs like these!"

As Astral transformed his teeth into fangs entirely too big for his mouth, he just shook his head and laughed…and laughed…and laughed lowly under his breath.

"Clockwork? Come on! Clocky-man, Timmy Time Master! Will you stop laughing? Hey! Don't turn your back to me!" He started poking at Clockwork's head. "We were having a serious discussion on your lack of intimidation skills!"

The Time Master allowed his chuckles to grow louder before his voice turned icey, "I can intimidate quite well if I want to. Would you like to understand?"

Astral stopped poking him. Amusement bubbled up in his chest, as the silence stretched on. Then finally, he felt the small master hover away, and he heard him whisper under his breath, "Well shit, you don't need me after all." There was another pause. "…Teach me your ways."

"It comes with working with the Observants," Clockwork replied dryly.

"That makes way too much sense…so, no on the whole fangs thing?"

Clockwork had no guilt when he smacked Astral with his staff nor at the resulting cry of pain.


AN: (Word Count was a little under 650 words). Thanks for reading! Tell me what you liked. Tell me what you disliked. Tell me what you think I can improve upon. Clockwork and Astral banter will be a running theme, so get ready to see my two masters banter. A lot. And argue.

Just expect a lot of interactions that involve Astral being a little shit, sometimes yelling, a bit of betrayal, and just an unquantifiable amount of years of their friendship and drama wrapped up into little moments in time.

Also warning you guys now, the next prompt is gonna be angsty. As in, someone's gonna die and we're dealing with the emotional aftermath type of angsty.

On that note, hope you guys had a nice time, and I'll see you next time!

~LunagaleMaster