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A Genie Named King
Chapter 3
"How about why you didn't tell us there was a freaking genie inside the lamp?" Diane started. Meliodas and Elizabeth nodded their heads in agreement. It was as good a place as any to start.
"Honestly?" Ban rubbed his chin in thought, ignoring what she had called King. "Really didn't think you guys would be able to release him."
"What?!" King cried outraged. "Why the hell would you sell it to them then?!"
Ban grinned evilly. "Was sick of lookin' at it." King practically puffed out in anger as he glared daggers at the man. Just as he was about to speak up, Ban interrupted him. "Figured I could get it back if I needed to. I had a hunch alright? I wasn't a hundred percent on it or anything but…"
King's anger vanished as quickly as it came. "... had a feeling?" The genie finished for him.
The white haired man nodded. Meliodas raised an eyebrow at their whole exchange. What the hell was going on here? How did these two know each other?
"Ugh! Stop being so confusing!" Diane demanded as she tugged on her pigtails.
"S-Sorry!" King gave her a sheepish look as Ban rolled his eyes.
"What did you mean when you said release him?" Elizabeth spoke up, her expression thoughtful. "He's a genie right? Wouldn't anyone be able to release him?" Leave it to his girlfriend to pick out that little bit of information. She knew entirely too much about genie folklore it seemed.
Or maybe he just didn't know anything.
Ban snorted. "Is that what you told them you were?" His crimson eyes seemed to be dancing in amusement as he stared at King.
The three friends turned in sync to look at the (apparently) non genie. King sunk back into his pillow and gulped nervously.
"I didn't say I was a genie per say. I just didn't disagree when they suggested it." King attempted to defend himself.
Meliodas walked up to him and flicked his forehead. "I knew there was something off with the way you answered that question." King frowned and rubbed the sore spot. Elizabeth gave a slight scowl at his action, but he wasn't sorry about it. He could have done worse then flick the guy's forehead for lying to them.
"If you aren't a genie…. Then what are you?" Diane observed King a bit warily. The non genie frowned at her questioning tone. It seemed he wasn't a fan of her giving him that disapproving look.
"I'm a fairy," King answered simply.
The group fell into silence.
"Fuck," Ban swore running a hand through his hair. King's own eyes widened, before falling into a crestfallen expression. "I figured. Shit," he cursed again. "I really was hoping to be wrong, but the clues are piling up here."
"What are you talking about?" Meliodas spoke up. He was getting a bad feeling about this whole thing (not to mention frustrated). Clues? What clues?
"I shouldn't have been able to tell you what I am." King answered him thoughtfully. "It seems getting more of us together loosens the rules a bit."
Diane's eyes flashed with realization. "The terms of your imprisonment right?" A spark of hope was back in her eyes. "That's why you didn't correct us before?"
The fairy nodded, a small smile gracing his face at her renewed faith in him. Which she returned full force. "I knew you wouldn't lie to me on purpose!" She boasted and then blushed.
"Just to you huh?" Meliodas couldn't help teasing. "You guys sure you didn't do more than cuddle while we were gone?" He asked cheekily, a cocky grin set on his face as he watched the two sputter, red as tomatoes.
"Nothing happened!" King insisted, waving his arms frantically in front of him. "Really!"
Ban laughed, slamming a fist on the counter. "You're kidding right? This fuckin guy was actually cozied up? With her?" He asked through his chuckles, gesturing widely with his other hand between King and Diane.
"You should have seen it!" Meliodas declared, excited to find someone who found the situation as hilarious as he did.
"Let me guess," Ban interrupted holding up a hand to stop him from speaking. "He was a bumbling idiot who gives off the whole I've never talked to a girl in my life vibe?" He pointed an accusing finger at King.
"Hey!" The fairy tried to deny it.
"Yep," Meliodas smiled cheekily. "Not that Diane was much better," he added in a mock whisper to Ban.
"S-shut up!" Diane forced out through gritted teeth. Her face red from both embarrassment and irritation. She clenched and unclenched her fists, wondering if it would be wrong to attack a stranger. She had no issues with hitting Meliodas.
Seeing the signs of one of Diane's possible tirades on the horizon, Elizabeth put a hand on her boyfriend's shoulder. "Um, Meliodas," she attempted to warn.
Her pleas went unheard as the shop owner continued to converse happily with her boyfriend. She sighed, knowing what was about to happen. Elizabeth knew Diane too well for her not to recognize the possible outcome from her being embarrassed. But she also knew Meliodas well enough to see he was too engrossed with his teasing to pay her little warnings mind. So instead she simply backed away from him, taking refuge by the only other person not in the line of Diane's tantrum, King.
Meliodas saw Ban's eyes bug out the back of his head, his body hunching over the counter. Uh, what? Was the only thing he was able to think before a splitting pain erupted in the back of his own head.
"Ouch!" He cried. Meliodas glared at Diane, her fist still held high from striking him. He should have seen this coming, but he was having too much fun to acknowledge the warning signs. He was usually better at this.
He blamed Ban.
"Damnit," Ban mumbled as he pushed himself up off the counter. "Didn't think you could hit so hard in this form."
King's mouth dropped open as he looked between the confused (but still angry) Diane and the suddenly uneasy shop owner. "What?" Diane's eyebrows pulled together. "Form? What is that suppose to mean?"
"Uh…" Ban looked at King, hoping for help in answering the question. "What should we all be telling them again? I'm a little rusty on the rules here."
The fairy practically fell off his pillow from Ban's horrible redirection. "Y-you have to be kidding!" He yelled. "I only know that I couldn't say somethings without certain conditions being met! How the hell am I supposed to know what guidelines you need to follow?!" He raged at the white haired man who merely cleaned wax out of his ear during the tirade.
"Well, just try answering her question," Ban answered as he flicked the wax off his finger away from the group. "That will at least let me know we can tell them that much."
King raised an eyebrow, seemingly surprised that he could come up with such a solution. Diane crossed her arms, irritated with the both of them. "Well?" She expected an answer. Now.
"You used to be bigger." King said.
Diane's eye twitched as Ban and Meliodas roared in laughter. That was definitely not a good thing to say to a woman. Elizabeth's mouth was hanging open and King's face paled. The look on the fairy's face alone was enough to make the other two men continue their ridiculous laughing fits.
"What was that?" Diane's nostrils flared. "I know you didn't just call me fat!"
"What? NO!" King cried horrified. "I would never say that!"
She took menacing steps to him. "Then what do you mean bigger," she seethed getting entirely too close to his face. Diane grabbed the front of his shirt, bringing him even closer as her other hand formed a fist behind her.
The girl didn't take insults well.
Even if there wasn't an insult to begin with.
The poor guy didn't stand a chance. Meliodas had a few years experince at least dealing with the girl's short temper. King, unfortunately, did not have that same luxury.
"You used to be a giant!" He squinted his eyes shut. At least that way he wouldn't be able to see the blow coming. Or the way her amethyst eyes sparkled so brightly with her anger.
King really shouldn't be noticing such things when she was threatening his life.
He waited but the blow never came. In hindsight, telling a girl she used to be bigger probably wasn't the best way to start off this whole exchange. He really hoped he wouldn't ever have to explain to someone they were a giant ever again. At least not her.
His words never came out right around her.
Of everything Meliodas was expecting the fairy to say, that was not one of them. He looked to Diane and the girl had frozen. It seemed she wasn't expecting him to say that either. Elizabeth too, was in a state of shock, her eyes wide. A dainty hand covered her open mouth.
Meliodas almost snorted his amusement. Even in a situation like this she couldn't forget the manners from her more formal upbringing. The girl really was too adorable sometimes.
Was it bad that they were in this strange situation for the second time (third if he count the initial meeting with Ban) today and all he could think about was dragging her out of here to go find a corner to make out in again? She really brought out the young hormonal teenager in him sometimes. He was 23, damnit! He should be able to control himself better.
"Uh…" King's voice shattered the silence that had fallen over the shop after his declaration. He also broke Meliodas out of his internal thoughts, which he wasn't too upset about. Thinking about Elizabeth in such ways really wasn't something he should be fantasizing about at a time like this.
Or in public.
King popped an eye open cautiously. Diane was still there. As close as she was moments ago when she was going to pummel him. Her fist still raised even. "Diane?" He spoke warily, not wanting to upset her in anyway.
"Wha…" She lowered her fist finally and King let out a sigh of relief.
Only to start choking a second later as she shook him like a rag doll.
"What did you just say?" She growled loudly in his face as she continued shaking him. "Is this some kind of joke to you?"
King's face turned green with all the movement. He should have known she wouldn't do so well with an outright statement like that. A more gradual approach leading up to the whole thing would have been better. But subtlety was never something he was good at.
He caught a glimpse of white streaking in and out of his vision. King should have let that idiot Ban do the explaining. He was the one who let the whole form thing slip anyways! This was all his fault!
Shit, the fairy thought as he brought a hand up to try and keep down the contents of his stomach.
"Diane," a gentle voice broke the haze. "You're making King sick," Elizabeth attempted to save the bobble headed fairy from her friend.
"I don't care!" Diane declared as she continued her onslaught. King wasn't sure how much longer he could last.
"He'll throw up on your dress," Meliodas came to his rescue and the shaking immediately stopped. The poor guy slinking pathetically back on his pillow. The auburn haired man attempted to stop the world from spinning as he tried to collect his thoughts.
"He meant what he said," Ban spoke up after a few moments of silence.
"Ugh!" Diane growled in frustration. "What does that even mean!? Used to be a giant," she snorted.
"In your past life," King tried again shakily. "You were a giant in your past life." He received odd looks from the three and sighed. "Have any of you ever heard of reincarnations?"
"Oh yes!" Elizabeth exclaimed brightly. "Some people believe that when you die your soul goes on living in a new body! If one was to believe that, then it would go to reason that our souls have lived more than this life we are currently living!"
She went on to explain ignoring the slack jaws of her traveling companions.
"Of course this is just a general definition. There are many in depth conversations about it depending on who you talk to. It's really known more as a philosophical or a religious concept, but it's a pretty well known idea," she paused in her musings to stare at her audience and blushed from the dumbfounded expressions she was receiving.
"Um yes?" King stated as more of a question, still in awe of her over the top answer. It seemed this Elizabeth wasn't one to beat around the bush when she had the answers to a question. He shook his head to clear the thought. There were more pressing matters here then to dwell on the possible differences. "Right, well-"
"That's what you all are," Ban jumped in with a big crooked grin. King's brow furrowed as he glared at him. He was going to say that! Damn Ban always taking the fun parts while he gets stuck with explaining the hard shit. Well Ban wasn't going to get the drop on him!
"Yeah well, that's not the only thing! There's actually o-"
"Uh, what was that King?" Meliodas eyed him curiously. Truth be told his mind was still reeling from the information he had just received.
A reincarnation? Really? Of who?
He didn't want to think about where they could possibly be going by telling them that information (going by that bad feeling he had gotten earlier), so he clung to King stopping mid sentence for no apparent reason. He watched as King opened and closed his mouth, trying to speak.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Meliodas tried again.
"Looks like we found the extent of what the bastard can talk about," Ban commented lazily as he too watched King impersonate a fish out of water. "Good to know. Guess I won't talk about that either then."
"Talk about what?" Elizabeth spoke up. "What was King going to say?"
"No can tell little lady. If he can't talk about it, then I probably can't either." Ban shook his head.
"Bullshit," Meliodas grumbled.
"It's nothing that can't wait until a later day," King assured him, trying not to let his happiness from being able to speak again, seep into his tone. He hadn't known what would happen if he tried to speak about something that he shouldn't have. While he's glad that there wasn't any pain involved and it was merely losing his voice;
It was still terrifying.
Not being able to speak was something he had never thought of before. He didn't like it. Not one bit. He would not be talking about the other reincarnation anytime soon it seemed. But he couldn't talk about the whole of the situation without mentioning the others in general.
It seemed the only information he could give them at this time was details on their own past lives.
Diane was the first to speak up after the silence that had followed King's last statement. "So I was a giant?" She timidly wondered aloud, her amethyst gaze set on King.
King smiled at her. This was territory he could manage. "Yes!"
Diane grinned at his excitement. "Really?" She almost squealed. "That's so cool! How tall was I? Was I really strong? I feel like I would be really strong ya know? Oh, oh! Did I have some kind of a weapon? I've always gotten this feeling that I was some badass warrior! That's why I took Taekwondo in the first place!" She rambled off her questions as she bounced around King.
He couldn't help but chuckle at her enthusiasm. It really did remind him of how she would have reacted in the same situation. Skeptical but curious nonetheless. It both warmed his heart and made him cold. He shouldn't be thinking about her like that. He pushed those thoughts out of his mind.
He had an eager Diane to answer after all. Nothing was more important right now.
"Let's see you were 29 feet tall-"
"Actually 30," Ban piped up. "You'd lie and tell everyone you were 29."
"When you're that tall what the hell kind of difference does a foot make?" Meliodas asked baffled.
Elizabeth shook her head and Diane blushed. "You wouldn't understand," Elizabeth attempted to explain to the quizzical look of the men. "Girls worry about that kind of stuff." She motioned for King to continue.
"Uh yeah, so you were, really tall," he opted to avoid saying the actual height this time. "You were really strong too! One of the strongest on our-" King's voice stopped mid sentence once again.
"Huh, not that either? Well shit." Ban frowned in thought. "Glad I've been letting you do all the talking." He grinned at the nasty look King threw him. "Can't say that looks too fun."
"Would the same thing happen to you Ban?" Elizabeth tilted her head curiously.
The man shrugged. "Not sure. Can't exactly remember all the mumbo jumbo that happened," he answered vaguely. His eyes looked back to the fretting fairy.
"-Ban's fault!" King's voice started once again. He sighed in relief. It seemed to have taken longer to come back this time. What a pain.
"What's my fault?" Ban raised an eyebrow.
"Probably a lot of things," Meliodas chimed in lazily. Ban shot the man a glare.
"He's not wrong," King grumbled. "Okay so can't talk about that either."
"What about me?" Elizabeth's eyes sparkled in wonder. This really was her kind of thing. Art, pondering life, the girl was a philosopher at heart.
"You were a princess," King settled for, after some thought. He figured being as vague as he could would be the best for now. "You were a druid as well, an apostle of the goddesses."
"Oh wow! So I could do magic?!" Elizabeth questioned. "What kind?!"
"Healing." Ban said and then smiled. "Was real helpful for our-"
Ban stopped talking. King grinned. "Ha! I'm not the only one who can't talk about-," he paused not wanting to put himself in that situation again. "Well that."
"That's so cool!" Elizabeth continued on as if King and Ban weren't having issues speaking. "Healing! Wow!"
"That's so you Elizabeth!" Diane chimed in with a happy smile.
"What about Meliodas?" Elizabeth asked knowing her boyfriend probably wouldn't. He had been oddly quiet throughout this whole ordeal.
"Uh," King started, looking a bit uneasy. He really hoped they wouldn't jump to conclusions. He wasn't sure what the world of 2017 thought of Meliodas' kind, but he knew his time was quick to judge. King glanced over to Ban looking for help.
"No way!" Ban shouted. "I don't wanna not be able to talk again if I say to much! That shit sucks!"
King sighed. Why is it always me?
"Well, you were a demon." He rushed out. Better to get it over with quick right?
A silence fell over the room once again.
That was happening a lot today.
"So here's my question," Meliodas started in an easy tone. But his eyes flashed to something harder, making King remember his claim of what Meliodas was in his past life. "How the hell do you two know so much about our past?"
A/N: And there it is! King isn't a genie, he's a fairy! Who knew? ;) Our three friends get a little background on the past, but this is only just the beginning! Get ready for some fun guys! Thank you so much to everyone who reviewed, favorited, and followed! It means a lot that you guys came back to this story after such a long absence! Thank you! See you all on the next chapter!
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