Coming Home
AN: Hey guys! This is Doc here bringing you with the new chapter of Twin of Scarlet!
Now before we begin, I am REALLY sorry for the slow updates. There were a lot of things that I need to do and since I'm now finished with them I could start writing my stories again. However, I won't promise that the updates will be quicker since I still have my part-time job to do.
Also, I've read some of the reviews from the last chapter so I'm just gonna answer only a few of them...
Firstly, yes it is somewhat confusing that both Ezra and Erza most likely have similar names. However, if you would just take the time to read the lines carefully it wouldn't be so frustrating. Plus, I'll at least try to minimize from Ezra's name to Ez.
Secondly, yes the twins don't know who is the oldest among them, however, I've always depicted Erza to be the elder sibling. So let's just go with that.
Now that's done, hope you enjoy this chapter!
P.S - Beta done by Ryujomaru15 and altajir95
(Year X782)
Six years have passed ever since the incident with the Tower of Heaven. And inside on a train returning home to Magnolia after completing another successful job, Ezra couldn't help but think to himself.
He was happy that he and his sister escaped that nightmare long ago, but he couldn't help but think about his other friends...
Wally, Millianna, Simon, Shô, Rob, and everyone else...Especially Juliet...
Ezra gave a mental sigh once he reminded himself of that name. Aside from his sister, Juliet was another person who he trusted the most out of everything. She would always help him, support him, and comfort him like his older twin does.
He looked up to Juliet and despite being imprisoned, Ezra couldn't help but feel his heart pound every single time she smiled at him. No matter how many times she was tortured or exhausted, Juliet would always keep her head high no matter the pain.
In all honesty, if Juliet or his sister especially hadn't been there to consult him every time, he would have lost it...
Though...after what happened six years ago Ezra couldn't help but grimace slightly at what happened with Juliet's sudden change...
He never knew what came over her and his sister would always avoid answering his questions regarding what happened. He didn't want to be forceful to Erza. No, he could never be forceful with her at all.
Ez knew it too, that his twin didn't want to recall bad memories from long ago. Ezra loves his older twin more than anything and he'll respect her decision to keep things secret for now...
"Ezra, is something wrong?" Ezra turned his attention to his older twin sister who was sitting in front of him with a plate of strawberry cake in her hands.
The younger twin noticed that there was a slight look of concern in her eyes as Ezra quickly waved her off, "N-No! Nothing's wrong. I-I'm sorry for worrying you, Nee-san."
Erza smiled a bit at her twin and said, "It's nothing to worry about. I was just wondering why you were staring off into space. It is very unlike you, especially since you have some pie crust on the bottom side of your lips."
Ezra looked at his twin confusingly before looking at the reflection of his face from the window and found small crumbs of pie crust and jam on the side of his bottom lip. The redhead blushed in embarrassment, "A-Ah! My bad..."
Erza giggled at her brother as she took out a handkerchief from her pocket and leaned towards her younger twin, "Here, let me get that for you..."
Ez found himself blushing again at the closeness of his twin. It wasn't because Erza was babying him, no, it was because how close their faces were. He mentally screamed at himself to stop his rapid heartbeats.
As Erza finished cleaning the crumbs off of Ezra's face, she soon looked up to lock her brown eyes with his own. The older twin blushed herself not before sitting back down in her seat. The twins continued to sit in silence for a few more moments before Ezra broke it, "U-Um, thank you, Nee-san."
"Y-Yes, it's no problem, Ezra." She said as she began to eat her cake again in silence. Wanting to get rid of the current mood, Ez quickly changed to a new topic, "So, what do you think everyone back at Fairy Tail is doing? I bet they're all doing what they usually do, especially Natsu and Gray." Ezra gave a light chuckle of remembering the two certain rivals.
Erza gave a low sigh and said, "I must agree with you, though I do hope those fools haven't caused too much trouble for the Master. Especially that white-haired harlot..." She muttered the last one to herself.
Ezra however still heard her and gave a small smile, "You're still angry at Mira-san, huh? It was only an accident you know..."
The older twin shook her head and scowled, "That was no accident, Ezra. That slut tried to forcefully have her way with you while your guard was down. If I hadn't been to stop her you would have fallen into her clutches...!"
"Nee-san, she wasn't trying to seduce me. Mira-san tripped on one of the mugs by accident during the guilds last brawl and I caught her. That's all." He tried to reason with her.
"That was only a ploy! That wench wanted you to catch her to believe it was an 'accident'! It's just one of her devious ploys to seduce you!" Ezra lightly shook his head at his twin but still gave a small smile in amusement.
For as long as he and everyone else knew it, both Erza and Mira had a very serious type of hate rivalry going on between each other. He didn't exactly know what started it in the first place, but it was to say it did not start off on a good note.
Ez could still remember the day that his twin sister and Mira nearly trashed the entire guild for the first time going at it at like mad dogs. No one was safe that day...
Much like Natsu and Gray, both his sister and Mira had been butting each other's heads for years now which now became a daily routine for them.
Only a lot more violent.
Though despite his older twin and the elder Strauss hating each other, Ezra does, however, have a strangely friendly relationship with the white-haired demoness. Sure she does tease him from time to time, but that's only to annoy and irritate Erza to no end.
Plus, Ezra did learn from Mira's own siblings, Lisanna and Elfman, that their sister can be sweet and kind whenever she wants to be, she just rarely shows it to anyone. He kinda wished she would show it a bit more often. In his opinion, Ezra found it really cute.
Shaking the thoughts out of his head, Ezra turned back to his sister and grabbed her hand as he rubbed his thumb on her knuckles, "Nee-san, you know that no one is ever going to take me away from you. I promised you a long time ago that I would stay with you no matter what happens." He comforted her with his usual shy smile.
Erza had a small hint of red in her cheeks but gave a smile of relief, "I know you won't...Forgive me for being overdramatic, Ezra. It's just that I..."
The elder Scarlet sibling stopped speaking as she felt a warm hand cupping her cheek as Erza looked up and met her younger twin brothers brown eyes staring at her own, "I know...I'm not going anywhere anytime soon."
Erza placed her own hand on top of Ezra's and smiled beautifully at him, "Thank you."
The twins stayed like this for a few moments before stopping as the intercoms of the train were on, "Attention passengers attention. We have now arrived at the Magnolia Train Station. Please remember to collect all personal items before leaving the train. Thank you."
The twins separated from each other as Ezra spoke up, "Good to be home, huh?" Erza nodded, "Yes, now let's head back to Fairy Tail."
(Later) (Outside of Fairy Tail)
The twins were currently found standing outside of a massive building right in front of them.
The building consisted of three floors and incorporating several architectonic styles: it took on a shape reminiscent of a pagoda, with each floor being smaller than the one below it and sitting on the latter's roof.
The roofs also bore a great resemblance to those of real pagoda, consisting of extremely long, arched tiles lined up one after the other and possessing simple curved protrusions jutting upwards on the building's angles.
On the highest roof, topping the summit of the building, sat a simple, round and pointed dome, highly reminiscent of those seen on Arabian buildings, which bore a flag on its point. The roof below the one with the dome, the middle one, housed a large banner with Fairy Tail's symbol on it, held up by a pair of vertical poles.
The building's large entrance was again Arabian in design, with its shape being reminiscent of that of the dome on the summit, and above it was the guild's name, topped by a protruding, stylized heart shape and flanked by a pair of carved fairies. Stylized heart shapes were also visible on the frames of the numerous, large pentagonal windows located on each floor, with the top floor housing smaller, arched windows partially covered by banners. Also…
"What was that you ass?!"
"You heard me you loser!"
"Who took my alcohol?!"
"Who stole my fish?!"
"You just ate it!"
"Oh right!"
"MAN!"
"Shut it, Elfman!"
Loud screaming and yelling could be heard from the inside of the guild as both Ezra and Erza could hear all of the arguing and fighting from where they are standing in awkward silence (Ezra) and annoyed frustration (Erza).
*Crash!*
A random Mage was thrown from the window of the guild as he got right up back and jumped right back inside. Ezra awkwardly scratched his cheek with his finger and said, "Well...at least we know they're still lively...hehehe..."
And by the look of what his sister was having, it was to say that she was not amused, "Those idiots..." The older twin's annoying began to rise even further as the yelling and fighting became a lot louder than before.
*Crash!*
*Smash!*
If looks could kill, then just staring at Erza's eyes proves it all...
Noticing his sister was about to burst, Ezra quickly tired to stop her, "N-Nee-san! Please take a breath for a moment and calm down!" The last thing he wanted to see was his sister beating everyone inside the guild with every inch of their lives...Again!
Heeding to her brother's plea, Erza slowly took a deep breath and exhaled out, "*Sigh* Forgive me, Ezra, I almost lost it there." She said as she gave a thankful smile.
Sighing in content for stopping his twin, Ezra said, "It's okay. No harm done. Now how about we just calmly walk in there and tell everyone to-!"
*Boom!*
Ezra was cut off mid-sentence as a blast of bright flames shot out from the guilds roof and into the skies where the entire town could see the blast. Both twins starred with blank looks in their eyes as the flames slowly died down.
"Dammit, Natsu! Don't go blasting the roofs off, you dumbass!"
"Screw you, Ice Queen!"
"Oh no..." Ezra muttered lowly as multiple tick marks appeared on his sisters head. Before he could even say or do anything, Erza kicked the double doors down as everyone from the inside snapped their heads at the front entrance.
There were currently three things that everyone felt was crawling up their spines...
Fear, horror, and dread. And almost half of them either wet themselves or even worse...
A dark and angry flow of aura poured out from the female red-haired monster right in front of them as she glared intensely and venomously at every single shaking soon-to-be-victims. Before anything thing else happened, she slowly began to speak, "Just what are you, idiots...THINK YOU ARE DOING?!"
Everyone began to sputter and freak out as the female twin roared at them. A Mage with a bowl undercut, Max, gulped down on his own spit and nervously asked, "E-E-Erza, you and Ezra are back early? I-I thought the mission was-!"
Max forcefully closed his mouth shut as Erza was giving him an intense glare. However, she regardless still answered back, "Ezra and I finished the mission much quicker than we have expected it to be. We were hoping to surprise everyone on our early return, however..."
The inside of the Fairy Tail guild hall was a complete disaster. Tables, chairs, and mugs were scattered everywhere. Plates and glasses were either cracked or shattered. Fist-sized holes were embedded in the walls and flooring. And to top it all off, there was a large smoking gaping hole just above the ceiling they were standing under.
"...It looks like all you were all misbehaving as usual..." The red-haired female twin glared at everyone in the building cause them to flinch. Beside her, Ez gave all of his friends and guildmates an apologetic look.
"Yo! Erza! Ezra! You're back! Now fight me!" Exclaimed a pink haired young with black eyes. He wore a sleeveless, gold trimmed, black waistcoat, often left open and untucked, exposing his bare chest, a gold trimmed, black cloth around his waist that reaches his knees, held by a leather brown belt with an oval-shaped silver buckle, white knee-length trousers with black ribbon ties, a thick black wristband on his left wrist, black open-toed sandals and a white scale-patterned scarf.
This was Natsu Dragneel. A Fire Dragon Slayer.
Natsu's fist was covered flames and charged straight towards the twins, "This time I'm gonna beat you for sure! Fire Drago -Gak!"
*Bam!*
Before the poor sap even knew it, Erza's fist connected with Natsu's gut as the pink haired young man slowly fell over comically with his eyes turned blank and small bits of drool escaped from his mouth.
Erza sighed tiredly and said, "I see you haven't been behaving yourself again, Natsu?"
Well, this is Natsu we're talking about right? His motto is 'Screw manners and shit! Let me kick someone's ass!' and some other stuff.
Ez gave a small smile of amusement towards the twitching pink haired male, "It's good to see you again, Natsu."
Natsu quickly recovered and stood back up to his feet and glared at Erza, "No fair! I only let my guard down! I demand a rematch!"
When Erza was about to say something, someone cut her off and scoffed, "That's such a lame excuse coming from you. Even if you were prepared, you'd still lose to Erza or even Ezra five-seconds flat." Natsu snapped his head towards the guy who said that as he gave an angry glare at him.
He was another young man with spiky black hair and dark blue eyes. He wore a short-sleeved shirt, dark green cargo pants with a silver chain hooked and hanging from his right side, and black boots.
This was Gray Fullbuster. An Ice-Make Mage. Another thing about Gray was...
Natsu smirked at Gray then said, "Well at least I don't lose my clothes every two-seconds!"
Gray looked down and found he was only in his boxers, "Shit! Not again!" He had a very strange of a habit of mysteriously taking off his clothes. Natsu began laughing at the Ice Mage's predicament as Gray began to search for his clothes.
While that happened, Ezra looked around the guild and asked, "Has anyone seen Master Makarov? We were hoping to give back a report on the mission."
"Unfortunately he left for a meeting with the other Guild Masters today." A man with slicked-back dark blue hair and black eyes, Macao, said.
Another man with brown hair with an ostentatious pompadour-like style, Wakaba, continued, "Yep, said it was something important or whatever. So he won't be back for the next few hours or so. Sorry, Ez."
Ezra however nodded in thanks, "It's fine. I'll wait until he returns."
The elder twin began to speak up, "Good, now while Master Makarov is away, everyone here has to clean up the mess you all caused before his return."
In response, the entire guildhall was filled groans and complaints as that didn't bode well for Erza, "Will that be a problem...?" She glared at everyone venomously as they all tensed and rapidly shook their heads.
"Good, now all you get cleaning!" She ordered them as everyone scurried around to pick up the mess. She then called out to Natsu and Gray, who was now fully clothed, "Natsu, Gray, I need you two to repair that hole on the rooftop."
Gray, however, looked at her in disbelief, "What?! Why do I have to do it too?! Natsu was the one who blasted it in the first place!"
"Well, I wouldn't if you would have just stopped moving!"
"Yeah right! Only because you suck at aiming!"
"Well how about I aim my fist at that stupid face of yours!"
"I'd like to see you try, ya flaming turd!"
"Well bring it on, ice perv!"
As the two began budding heads at each other again, Erza was not having any of it. Erza let out a threatening wave of aura as it caused the two boys to stop and shiver violently, "Either you two stop with constant bickering or I will see to it that both of you will know how it feels to-!"
However, she was immediately stopped as Ezra slapped his hand over his twin sister's mouth. The kinder twin faced the frightened duo and spoke, "Can you two fix the roof without causing any trouble, please? The last thing you want is a threat coming from my sister." Both boys quickly saluted to their savior and thanked him as they ran towards outside.
As they left, Ezra the turned to a blue-furred cat with black eyes and a green backpack, "Happy, could you go with them and make sure they don't break anything?"
The small cat saluted to Ezra, "Sure, but only if-!"
"I'll give you double the fish you want?" Ez said with a knowing smile.
The cat nodded as a pair of white angel-like wings sprouted from his back and flew off towards his partner and Gray, "Thanks, Ez!"
Ezra was obviously the nicest and the most merciful twin of two as he wasn't strict like his sister was. He was basically the only person, besides their master, to help calm Erza and even Mira down when something nasty happens.
It was then that Ez felt a tap on his hand and found that it was still on his twin's mouth, "Oh! Sorry about that, Nee-san."
As he removed his hand away from her, Erza gave a light glare at her twin's direction, "You are too kind for your own good, you know that?"
Ezra smiled shyly at his twin and said, "Yes, but the last thing they need was another violent lashing coming from you again, Nee-san. Um, no offence."
"None taken. Although it isn't wrong to direct some strict discipline in those empty heads of theirs. The last thing we need is more bad publicity to fall upon on the guild."
Ezra sweatdropped that statement, "Yeah...there was that..."
Fairy Tail was considered to the strongest and greatest guild of all of Fiore. However, it was also known to be the loudest and the most destructive guild of all of Fiore. Throughout the guild's history and generation, Fairy Tail has done a lot of crazy things that ended up gone wrong...
Stopping a band of bandits, accidentally destroyed half a town.
Hunting a monster, burning an entire forest to the ground.
Bodyguard certain people, have the client end up in a body cast and wheelchair.
Handing out flyers, demolished a bunch of random buildings.
...
...
...
Don't ask about that last one. No no, don't think about it, just let it sink in...
Either way, Fairy Tail has the highest number of collateral damage throughout their years as a guild. And yet somehow they managed to get away with it.
No matter how crazy, insane, loud, lazy, destructive, or even violent these people were. And speaking of violent...
*Bam!*
Everyone stopped to what they were doing as they turned their attention to a random guild member who came in through the front entrance like he's seen a monster. He was sweating rapidly, pale-faced, and panting in exhaustion. He then caught his breath then spoke up loudly, "Bad news guys! It's Mira! She's back earl-!"
*Bam!*
The poor guy didn't get to finish his sentence as the front entrance again was kicked open, causing the guy to be flung into the air and crashed into a bunch of tables.
They just cleaned that dammit!
Coming from the entrance were two figures. The first was a young petite girl with short white hair and blue eyes. She wore a short, dark red dress with a white collar and bow. Upon her arms above her elbows, she wore gold rings with a pale pink fabric flowing down from them. She wore tall, black socks along with brown shoes.
This was Lisanna Strauss. A Take-Over Mage.
The other figure was a slim young woman of below average height. She has long, white hair which curls slightly at the ends, with two bangs framing her face and reaching down to her chest; she has some hair covering her forehead and a slightly dark red ribbon tied to the back of her head. She has large blue eyes and a curvy, voluptuous body, with large breasts. She wore a black short tank top, a skimpy dark purple mini skirt with a white belt buckle, black thigh boots, and two silver bracelets on her right wrist.
This was Mirajane Strauss. Another Take-Over Mage, older sister to Lisanna, and one of the S-Class mages in the Fairy Tail guild.
Mira was the to speak, "Fairy Tail's strongest woman is back home!" The older sibling announced rather arrogant with a cocky smirk on her face.
"Hey, guys! We're back early!" Unlike Mira, Lisanna was more cheerful with an added warm smile.
"Nee-chan! Lisanna! Welcome back!" A large, muscular man with tan coloured skin, whose height causes him to tower over most of his fellow guild members. His long white hair is kept styled upwards in long, wavy spikes, and his dark eyes possess no visible eyebrows.
He wore a formal black Japanese school uniform, with five golden buttons on his jacket with a white trimmed collar, and brown shoes.
This was Elfman Strauss. Younger brother to Mirajane and older brother to Lisanna. Also another Take-Over Mage.
Lisanna smiled widely at the sight of her brother and ran up to him, "Elfman-nii-chan!" The two embraced each other while laughing joyfully.
Mira casually walked up to her siblings with her arms crossed over her chest, "Good to see you, Elf."
Elfman turned to his older sister and smiled, "Yeah! I'm happy to see you too, Nee-chan! So how was the job? I bet you two were manly out there huh?!"
Mira rolled her eyes as Lisanna giggled at her brother and answered, "Not to bad really. Mira-nee and I took care of the problem with no trouble at all."
The older Strauss smirked and continued, "Yup, even if it was such an easy task, the villagers thanked us by throwing a celebration in our accomplishment. I'm telling you, these jobs are getting a lot easier." She said in a cocky tone.
Lisanna continued, "Since we didn't expect to be finished early, Mira-nee and I wanted to come back and surprise everyone."
"Is that so? Well, I should tell you both that you aren't ones who finished so soon. Both Ezra and Erza just came back a few minutes ago like you two." Elfman said.
Both female Strauss siblings blinked their eyes a bit before Lisanna spoke up, "Really? Both Ezra and Erza are back?"
Mira, however, snorted a bit, "Bet the tomato head couldn't handle the pressure and begged Ezra to take her home." She mocked with a smirk.
Erza overheard of what Mira just said and angrily marched towards with a worried Ezra following behind her, "Says the harlot who casually walks around looking like some cheap street whore in broad daylight. I wouldn't be surprised if the townsfolk would have been offended by how you act and dress." She said as she stood several feet away from them.
Mirajane gained a tick mark and stomped towards Erza, coming in near face to face, "Well, well, well, look who it is. At least I'm not some armor wearing freak with nosebleed hair! I also don't need to hide my figure from people by wearing scrap pieces of metal, unlike you. And it's a real shame too, Ezra must be tired of carrying that fat ass of yours!"
This time Erza gained a tick mark and soon angrily butted heads with the older Strauss sibling, "Care to repeat that again, slut?!"
"I'd be more than happy to do so, but I prefer to shove that sword up your tight ass!"
"Bitch!"
"Fatty!"
"Whore!"
"Armor freak!"
"Demon slut!"
As the two continued to throw more insults at each other, Ezra, Lisanna, and Elfman stood by together while watching their elder sisters verbally assault each other. As they went on, Lisanna gave a low sigh, "Looks like they're at it again, no surprise."
She then faced the male Scarlet twin, "So anyway, Ezra, how was the mission with you and Erza? Elfman-nii-chan said you finished earlier like Mira-nee and I." Lisanna asked.
Ezra answered, "It went well. Nee-san and I handled that bandit problem without any trouble. How about you, Lisanna? I'm guessing you and Mira-san were easily successful in completing your task, huh?"
The younger Strauss sibling nodded her head excitedly, "Yep! The villagers were even kind enough to throw us a feast after we finished helping them. It was really exciting and fun!"
It was also fortunate that Lisanna left out the part where Mira threatened a guy for trying to flirt with her while he was drunk. The only thing the dude got out of it was two black eyes, a few missing teeth, some bruises, and needing therapy after having his dick kicked ten-times over...
The poor unfortunate fool never knew who he was dealing with...
"Hmph! It's no secret that my sisters are strong enough to get stuff done no problem! It's manly!" Elfman boasted with a large proud smile as Ezra and Lisanna chuckled at the muscular male.
"Oh, that reminds me, before leaving I bought a few souvenirs for everyone. I have yours right here, Ez." Lisanna pulled out her bag, she fished out a small wooden turtle carving in her hands and presented it to the red-haired twin.
Taking the item off Lisanna's hands, Ezra examined the small gift and spoke, "Wow, this is really handcrafted. Thank you very much, Lisanna." He said sincerely with a smile.
Lisanna smiled back, "I'm glad you like it. By the way, have you seen Natsu or Happy around? I'm pretty sure they'll be excited about the gift I got for them."
"Oh right, Natsu and Gray are-!"
*Pound!*
"Ow! Watch how you use that hammer, you moron!"
"Me?! How about you quit getting all over my space and let me do my work!"
"Are you kidding me?! It looks like you haven't done any shit except screw things up!"
"What you say?!"
"You heard me, ya Flaming Turd!"
"Fuck you, stripper!"
*Crash*
*Smash*
From above them, the three could hear the sounds of yelling and fighting. As the conflict went on from above, the group could faintly see the recent cover of wooden boards until...
*Snap!*
""Waaaahhh!"" The wooden boards broke into pieces as two certain nincompoops fell from the ceiling to the ground below.
*Crash!*
Ezra, Lisanna, and Elfman all winced at the sight of the fall, as both the Ice Mage and Dragon Slayer groaned and moaned in pain as a certain blue cat floated down with them.
"Natsu?! Are you okay?!" Lisanna quickly rushing over to her 'husband', kneeling to his level as the only response she got from him was a moan.
Yeah, he should be fine.
Both Ez and Elfman did the same for Gray as Ezra asked, "Gray, you alright?"
"That was one manly fall you both took!"
"Not the time, Elfman!"
Rubbing the back of his head in pain, Gray was still able to give an answer, "Yeah, I'm fine, but if it weren't for that idiot destroying the roof again!"
The pink haired mage snapped his head at the seemingly somehow now clothes-free Gray, "Me?! The hell you talkin' bout?! This is your fault, you ass!"
"It was so obviously your fault! If you hadn't distracted me, we would have finished sooner! Now look what you did! We gotta do it all over again!" Gray exclaimed as he pointed to the opened holed ceiling.
Natsu retorted back, "As if! You're just-!"
"Okay, that's quite enough you two." Ezra spoke up as he continued, "Guys, I know you two don't get along well with each other sometimes, but I asked you to fix that hole before Master Makarov returns."
Gods forbid how many times the old man nearly had several heart attacks of how expensive the cost of property damages were...
""He started it! What you say?! Fuck you Ice Prick/Flame brain! Raaah!"" Both the fire and ice nitwits pointed at each other childishly as they began to throw punches at each other with a comical dust cloud covered them.
From the sidelines, Ezra, Lisanna, and Elfman all looked at the scene before them while Happy was found being carried by the younger Strauss with a fish in his mouth.
"Not even after falling from the guilds ceiling, those two still have a lot of energy to throw punches at each other..." Ezra sighed.
"Yeah, but what else can you expect from them? They've been this way ever since they laid eyes on each other..." Lisanna said as both her brother and Happy nodded in agreement.
Speaking of which...
"The hell did you just say?!"
Everything attention, including Natsu and Gray's, were soon converted to the sides as they saw Erza holding out her sword threateningly at Mira who looked unfazed and smirking, "Mira...Would you care to repeat what you have just said...?"
The elder Strauss sibling smirked, not even caring if the point of Erza's blade was on the tip of her nose, "You must have really shitty hearing if you of all skanks are asking."
"Don't test my patience, you harlot! Now I'm going to ask again...And you better answer me truthfully..." The female said slowly as she brought her sword closer to Mira's face.
"Is. It. True?" She pressed on as the white-haired woman only smirked.
Right before Mira could answer, Ezra to intervene, "Nee-san! That's enough! You and Mira-san shouldn't be fighting or else the guild will be ruined! Now please put your sword away and let's-yipe!"
Ez was then suddenly pulled down to meet his twin sisters glaring eye level as she tightly gripped on his tie like a leash, "Ezra...I'm going to ask you this once and you better answer me honestly...understood?" The younger twin nervously nodded his head as he felt his sister's grip loosen but still keeping a firm hold.
It was not often that Erza would demand something out of her brother like this, it was mostly because it was for his own safety and Ezra knew that. But sometimes his older twin sister would take things a little to far...
...Maybe.
"Now...Ezra is it true that you and Mira...were planning to go on a date next week?!"
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...
...
""WHAAAT!""
Everyone around them went wide-eyed and yelled in shock. Ezra began sputtering, "W-W-What?! N-N-Nee-san, what are you talking about?! Mira-san and I...! W-We aren't like that! It's just...!"
"T-Then why did that skank say you two were planning on going out of town?! And why the hell is it you're going to be alone with her?! W-W-Were you planning on-?!"
Ezra shook his head violently, "N-No! Nothing like that! Mira-san, please to her you're only kidding, right?" The male twin pleaded to the white-haired she-demon as she then gave a mischievous smile.
"Ara, but Ezra, didn't you agree you would go out with me to another town for next week, alone together? You seemed pretty excited as I recalled." The demoness said 'innocently'.
The air around everyone was silent and still in place of what the older Strauss had said. Erza slowly rotated her head to her brothers and proceeded to shake him violently, "What is the meaning of this, Ezra?! Did that bitch corrupt while I wasn't looking?! Tell your big sister everything now and I'll help lead you back to the right path!" She exclaimed hysterically.
"Gah! N-Nee-san, wait! Please, calm-Bwah!" But to no vain, Ezra couldn't spill out a proper answer as his older twin sister kept shaking him rapidly.
From the sidelines, the others were watching the scene with various expressions on their faces of what was happening, "Oi, Ezra! It's not manly to do something like that with somebody else's sister!"
Lisanna, however, sighed as she already knew what her sister was doing, "Elfman-nii-chan, you should already know that Ez isn't like that, and Mira-nee is only making things worse, right?" She said as she held Happy closer to her chest. Unfortunately, Elfman ignored her as he kept ranting about how unmanly it was to take another man's sister.
"...I don't get it. What's going on?" The pink haired knucklehead asked in confusion while the blacked haired stripper scoffed at him.
"Have you not been paying any attention? Wait, don't answer that because you'll just say something idiotic anyway."
"The fuck you just say?!"
"You heard me!"
And like that, chaos has ensued once more in the Fairy Tail guild...
(One Week Later) (Scarlet Residence)
Inside of a regular small home in the middle of the night, Ezra was currently found cleaning around the house while his older twin sister was occupied somewhere else in the bathroom.
After clearing up a misunderstanding back at the guild last week, it was revealed that both he and Mira made some arrangements to go on a job together to another town for a while.
His sister was relieved that it wasn't a date, but she still didn't like the idea of him alone with that white-haired succubus of all people. Both she and Mira have hated each other for a very long time, and Ezra still remembered it long ago.
It was only a few years ago when he and his sister grew more adapted to the guild being their new home. He remembered first the doors opening to three white-haired siblings walking inside of the guild with curious, amazed, and slight cautious expressions, and then later hearing Master Makarov announcing them as new members to Fairy Tail.
He still remembered how both Lisanna and Elfman were open and friendly with everyone, while Mira, however, was quiet and distant. It reminded Ez how Erza was like that once when they joined Fairy Tail.
Speaking of his twin sister, Erza once tried to form a conservation with Mira, but instead brushed her off and kept to herself mostly.
Then suddenly, after a few days, Mirajane Strauss showed up with a major attitude change along with a whole new look to the boot. She was more lively, arrogant, rude, and haughty as she scared everyone who saw her that day.
Natsu and Gray were the very first two victims of the demoness' change...
Erza, being the strict and authoritative one, tried to talk down to Mira about her treatment with the other guild members, but it didn't go as she planned it to be.
Again, Ezra didn't how it happened, mainly because he stayed behind with his friends, but all he knew the very next moment the guild was trashed more than how it regularly was during the brawls. And thus began a very hateful rivalry...
So many people were hospitalized that day...
After Ezra finished cleaning, he was currently found packing some of his belongings in a large suitcase for tomorrow's job with Mira. He could have his Requip Magic to store all his things, but he didn't want to be lazy about it.
Both he and Mira agreed to meet up early for the morning train since the trip would take four hours or so upon the arrival. And honestly, Ezra was quite nervous a bit.
This was his first job working together with another person other than his twin sister. Don't get him wrong, Ez both admires and respects Mira for who she is and what she's capable of, but the thing was she had a very nasty habit of teasing him whenever the opportunity was open to her.
Damn his stupid shy personality! He thought he would grow that out of that once he got older, but no!
Maybe he let Erza baby him too much? I mean seriously their twins for crying out loud! Sure they both don't know who was the oldest since they were orphaned, and yes he was albeit a few inches shorter than she was as kids, but still...
"Ezra?" Speaking of which, the younger twin came out from his thoughts and focused his attention towards Erza was standing outside his bedroom with her pj's and her hair a little wet, "Oh, Nee-san, is there something you need?"
She shook her head, "No, I just came to tell you can use the bathroom now, I just finished using the tub...And I see you're packing for tomorrow, aren't you?" She said in a tone that he was familiar with.
Ezra gave a small sigh, "Nee-san, are you still upset about this?"
"Frankly yes, I am, Ezra. I understand if you wanted to go on a job with one of the other guild members, but going with her of all people was the very LAST thing I would consider you doing!" She exclaimed as she crossed her arms with a stern glare.
"Nee-san, I know you and Mira-san don't get along, but I promised that I would help her on the next job she wanted to do." He said.
"And she couldn't get her siblings or anyone else to help her?" The older twin questioned.
Ezra answered as he scratched the back of his head, "Well Lisanna wanted to spend some time with Natsu and Happy, and Elfman said he was helping Gray and Cana with another job. And you know how the others feel about working with her after...'you know what'?"
When Ezra had said that, Erza knew exactly what he meant. Apparently, when they were younger, Mira did once work with other Fairy Tail members before, but...
Let's just say they weren't heard from after three months of intensive care and therapy...
"I was around that time and I voluntarily asked if I could join her, and she said yes." Ez finished explaining.
"And why have you never told me about this?" She demanded with her narrowed eyed still pointing sharply at him.
"I knew you would be angry of the idea of me being alone together with Mira-san, even if I told you anyway. So...I uhh...kept it from...you...I'm sorry..." He bowed his head in apology.
Erza still kept her stern, authoritative gaze on her twin brothers form until moments before she relented and gave a defeated sigh, "*Sigh*, Very well, it can't be helped then. I still don't like you being alone with that harlot, but I'll let it slide for now because I can trust you are responsible enough to not do anything funny with her."
The red-haired male rose his head, "Really? That's great! Thank you so much-!"
"But!" Ez stopped speaking as Erza continued, "You aren't off the hook just yet, Ezra. You still hid from me about you and Mira going on a job together alone, and I think a proper punishment should be in order."
"P-Punishment? Nee-san, I don't think-!"
"Is that a problem?" Ezra fidgeted on the spot as the female twin gave her brother a glaring look which made Ez to rapidly shake his head, "No! No problem at all, Nee-san!"
She then nodded, "Good. Now clean yourself up first and then come to my bedroom afterwards. I shall enact your punishment there tonight." With that, Erza exited out from her twin's room to her own leaving Ezra to himself for the next few moments.
(Later)
After finishing his bath, Ezra was currently found outside his twin's bedroom door. He knocked on the door a few times before he heard her, "Come in."
Swallowing down a small bit of his spit, Ezra opened the door to where he found Erza sitting on the foot of her bed with her arms crossed along with the same stern look on her face, "Good, you came."
Ez scratched the side of his cheek with his finger, "Y-Yeah, you sort of made it that I couldn't say no..." He muttered to himself quietly.
"What was that?"
"Nothing! I was just wondering what my punishment is going to be...?"
"Oh, yes, umm...Ezra, you have to..." The twin brother looked at his sister questionably as he noticed she had an embarrassed look on her face with red cheeks as she slightly faced away from him.
"I'm sorry, what? Can you repeat that?" He asked.
Again Erza's cheek grew red as tried speaking up, "You have to...eep with me..."
"Nee-san, please speak up. I can't hear what you're saying." He pressed.
The female twins entire cheeks now turned blush permanently red as her brown eyes met her brothers own, "I...I want you...to s-sleep with me tonight..."
"...Heh?"
...
...
"EEEEHHHH! W-Why?!" Ezra yelled, shocked as his entire face turned beet red.
Erza looked equally red in embarrassment, "N-Never mind why! This is your punishment, so deal with it!"
"B-But we haven't slept together since we were kids! Why are you asking now so suddenly?"
The female twin looked away in embarrassment, "I-It's just only to keep an eye on you is all! I know I said earlier I can trust you to be responsible, b-but as your older twin it's my responsibility to make sure you don't have any deprived thoughts before tomorrow! So stop complaining and lay down next to me!" She exclaimed as Erza laid on one side of her bed, leaving the other side free for Ezra.
Seeing no more room for argument, Ezra nervously made his way towards the bed and slowly laid himself right next to his sister as said twin switched off the lamp on her nightstand. Darkness filled the room as the moonlight from the outside was the only source of outlet for the twins to see one another.
Laying face-to-face, a sense of awkwardness was filled in the air as neither twins bothered to look at each other in the eyes. After a few more moments of silence, Erza spoke, "E-Ezra..."
"Y-Yeah?"
"Come a little closer. That way we have more space to sleep on." She said.
"O-Okay..." Shifting their weights closer to each other, the twin's faces were now closer than ever as the tip of their noses nearly touched.
Red hues began to reform from their cheeks as the aroma of Erza's shampoo invaded Ez's nose, 'Nee-san...she smells like strawberries and vanilla...No! Bad thoughts! Bad thoughts! Gaaah!' He screamed at himself mentally.
"...Ezra?" The younger twin stopped himself as Erza called out to him quietly, "Yes, Nee-san?"
"I'm sorry for making you do this so suddenly...I know it's been a long time since we've done this, and it might make you feel uncomfortable to do so but...I just got so worked up and I couldn't-!"
"Nee-san." Erza stopped as her brother then spoke, "You don't have to worry about it, I understand."
"But-!"
"But nothing. Yes, this does make me feel a bit uncomfortable, yet...at the same time I'm glad..." He confessed which surprised the elder twin, "Y-You are?
Ez smiled gently, "Of course! I mean, we are older now, but I've really missed sleeping next to you honestly." He blushed as he admitted and continued, "Even when we were in that tower, you've always made sure that I was comfortable right by your side despite sleeping on the cold hard ground. But I didn't care about that, all I cared about was being in the warm embrace of my beloved Nee-san. And even if we were forced to work into slavery every starting morning, I would always try to back down my fears knowing you would be there right beside me when I open my eyes..."
"Ezra..." A lone tear slowly traced down her cheek to the pillow as the red-haired female twin couldn't make out any words to respond back to her brother.
Erza blushed as she felt his warm hand tightly grab on to hers as Ez gave his usual gentle kind smile, "So no more discomfort feelings. Tomorrow I have to meet Mira-san early for the job, but tonight I want to focus solely on Nee-san, okay?" Erza smiled beautifully and nodded as both she and Ezra leaned in closer together as their foreheads touched.
"Good night, Nee-san. I love you..."
"Mm, I love you as well, Ezra. Good night." And as that, the Scarlet twins peacefully laid their eyes to rest as their hands never lost grasp of each other until morning.
AN: And that's the end of this chapter!
Again I would like to apologize for the year-long delay, I have a VERY limited amount of free time to myself because of work and my old high school exams and graduation was ABSOLUTELY exhausting.
But I will say I've made some slight progress with my other stories, but don't expect them to be updated soon. The schedule I have now is really shitty.
Anyway, next chapter will involve around both Ezra and Mira working together for the first time and you people will get the chance to read Ezra's magic in full hand.
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