Chapter 4 Zatch's social life
Authors note: is this getting repetitive? Zeno spying on Zatch's life…Yeah I know it's weird but it's not out of Zeno's nature, In England Zeno spied on Zatch, and Zatch and Kiyo had no idea Zeno was doing it. Don't worry though it won't stay this way forever, Zeno does only have 10 days left to make a choice about Zatch ya know…until then (and maybe after too) I'm going to adhere to the child side of Zeno after all he is still only 4 years old.
Thanks to the rampage of the mighty Brago, the entire school had to close the day after because of a gas leak and the kids were given the day off.
5 AM and Zatch was awake
Zatch woke up in his little torn up bed and he only had one small pillow and blanket that had a couple of holes inside.
The sun wasn't even up yet. Zatch gave a quick glance at his surroundings making sure that he was alone. The room was dark, so dark that you couldn't really see anything, but there was nothing to see, no dressers, some cloths stacked in a neat pile near the corner of the wall, no toys, a book bag that was beside Zatch at all times, Zatch even had a small amount of coins hidden inside his room, he had two windows but one of them had been boarded up with wood.
Giving a sigh in relief "She's not awake yet" Zatch said with a small smile. "Unu, today is going to be a good day" Zatch whispered to himself as he silently got dressed and got out of his house as quickly as possible.
Zatch headed down the road to his favorite fishing spot to go get breakfast.
Meanwhile with Zeno still sleeping in his large bed
"Zeno get up" his instructor demanded
"Uhh…5 more minutes" Zeno begged and covered himself up in his large white and purple blankets
"You gave me an order, and that was to wake you up when Zatch got up" The instructor explained
"wh..what time is it?" Zeno asked with his eyes still closed
"5 AM" The instructor responded
"Leave me alone….too early" Zeno mumbled
The instructor pulled the blankets off of Zeno and put them on the floor. Zeno was wearing a t-shirt and boxers.
"You told me to wake you up, so I will" the instructor stated
"I order you to leave me alone" Zeno said as he plunged his face into his fluffy pillows.
"Nice try, but you told me not to listen to you when you just woke up" The instructor said as he picked up a bucket of water basically out of nowhere.
"What idiot would tell you that?" Zeno asked
"You also told me that I could wake you up by any means" The instructor said with a smile as he splashed Zeno with a bucket of cold water
"AHHHH what the HELL!" Zeno shouted as he jumped off his bed, Zeno got up soak and wet.
"Ah now you're up, go down stairs breakfast is ready" the instructor said as he walked out of Zeno's room
"WHY DO YOU THINK I LOCK ROOM!" Zeno pouted as he got ready for the day.
The instructor laughed as he ventured downstairs
(Damn it…why the heck is my brother up at this time anyways?) Zeno wondered as he put his white cloak on, and quickly brushed down his hair.
Zeno headed out of his room to see that his instructor didn't head far down the stairs and was still waiting for him.
"So how did you find out that my brother woke up anyhow?" Zeno asked
"I used a magical trip wire that is activated by Zatch's certain weight, it's right outside Zatch's house, and it's also invisible so Zatch wouldn't know about it. It's not like I'm going to stay up all night waiting for him to wake up and use my orb" the Instructor explained
"Trip wire? Hmm interesting, you have to teach me that trick someday" Zeno responded as he headed down stairs.
After heading downstairs…
Zeno ate his mamodo sized breakfast in the large dining room and head off to see what his younger brother was up too.
"Last time I seen him he was at the Gorge river, his favorite fishing spot" The instructor explained
"Got it, where I first seen him" Zeno stated as he used his cloak to teleport to Zatch's location.
Zeno teleported into the same tree as last time
It was still dark outside and all you could hear was the splashing of someone in the river.
"Again with the same spot" Zeno said as he hid in the same tree which over looked Zatch swimming around in the river chasing a medium size fish.
Zatch swam quickly through the water and caught a fish the same size as him.
"Hmm, the only thing is fishing" Zeno said to himself as he laid back on the large branch and accidently fell asleep.
Zatch thought he had heard something out of the darkness but he didn't seem to care. Zatch carried his fish to the shoreline and started to happily eat his raw fish mamodo style.
6 AM
The sun started to break to somewhat break through the horizon but it was still dark and quite outside.
"Unu time to see Ponygon" Zatch stated happily, he then set out to walk to Ponygon's house.
The instructor's orb in response smashed Zeno in the head causing him to wake up.
"Can't you find more nicer way of waking someone up" Zeno growled as he rubbed his head then looked down below him to see Zatch missing,
Zeno looked up the road to see a small dark figure walking away
"And where are you going Zatch?" Zeno asked
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About 10 minutes passed until Zatch finally reached his destination
"Ponygon!" Zatch yelled as he knocked on Ponygon's house
"He's always up so early" one voice said
"He's is always energetic, Well I'll get the door" a women's voice said
Zatch waited patiently until Ponygon's mother opened up the front door.
"Good morning Ponygon's mom" Zatch greeted
Ponygon's mother was a standing upright brown haired horse wearing an apron
"Sorry Zatch but Ponygon is still sleeping" Ponygon's mother responded
Zatch whined a little and was about to walk away.
"Hey Zatch, it's still a little chilly out. Why not come inside?" Ponygon's father asked while drinking a cup of coffee.
"Come on Zatch, we still haven't given you your birthday present" Ponygon's mother stated and she nudged Zatch into the house
"Really! I got a present?" Zatch asked excitedly
Zeno tried to get close as possible to the house and hid his aura for he wouldn't be detected. Spying through a window, Zeno could easily hear their conversation. "That duck boy is a bad lair, Zatch has friends" Zeno stated
The mother went to go get Zatch's present
Meanwhile Zatch looked around the house; it wasn't unfamiliar to him since it wasn't the first time being inside. There was a square wood table that Ponygon's father was sitting at, wood counter, appliances which were customized for a horses hoof, life the coffee maker and mugs.
Ponygon's father was wearing a neat suit and looked ready for work.
"Sorry Zatch It's a bit late, I hope you like it, we all picked it out including Ponygon" Ponygon's father explained as his wife came inside the kitchen and handed Zatch a blue wrapped gift which was the shape of a box.
"Thank yo…" Zatch was interrupted by Ponygon's father putting his hoof up to Zatch's mouth.
"Shh, Ponygon is still sleeping" Ponygon's father responded
"Umm…should I wait for him to wake up before I open it?" Zatch asked
"No, it'll be fine, just show him it later on today" Ponygon's father explained quietly
Zatch jumped onto the table and begun unwrapping his birthday gift, which showed a red metal bottle container with engravings on it, and two mamodo symbols on it, and it also had a steel hook that could clip to a part of Zatch's cloak.
"I noticed that you're the type to stay outside for long periods of time, So we decided to get you a magic imbued container which purifies any liquid you put in there, and whatever temperature you wish it too be, hot or cold, it'll come out the way you want it" Ponygon's father explained
Zatch smiled "Thank you very much, it's the best gift ever" Zatch responded
Ponygon's parents smiled but they thought it was a little over exaggerated
"Glad you like it, we put our engravings in it too" Ponygon's mother pointed out
Zatch read the engravings
From Ponygon, Ponygon's mother, Ponygon's father to Zatch who saved our family
"Unu I'll keep it with me always" Zatch stated as he hook his present to his cloak
"It's been a couple of months since that incident happened Zatch, thanks to you Ponygon's heart has been opened up to other humanoid mamodo, and plus I'm still here because of you" Ponygon's father explained while finishing up his coffee.
A pretty big smile grew across the young boy's face
As the three talked about school or just random things that Zatch wanted to talk about
"So he saved someone's life huh? Strange, isn't he too wimpy to the point that he can't even protect himself?" Zeno laughed a little bit and stopped and thought about what Zatch had to do in order to save that person's life.
7 AM
About an hour passed and Zatch stayed comfortably inside until the sun finally raised, this illuminated the sky.
"Have a nice day Zatch" Ponygon's mother waved off
Ponygon's father had already left for work
"Unu you too!" Zatch waved off, Zatch left Ponygon's house with his container which was filled with milk.
"Finally" Zeno grumbled as he got up and followed Zatch from a good distance away
Ponygon's mother noticed this finally and thought she was looking at Zatch again.
"Zatch never mentioned that he had a brother" Ponygon's mother stated while looking out her window
Zatch had walked back near the school, where there was a large play ground with some kids playing around, considering it was still pretty early in the day.
"What with him? Normal kids are either sleeping still or just waking up" Zeno complained as he wished he were still sleeping.
Out of the children playing outside was Tia, Koruru, and Sugino, a couple other kids around a few years older than Zatch.
Zeno looked around to see a good hiding spot and found it, for some reason there was a very tall lookout tower with a missing latter…well it was missing because the parents didn't want their kids to be 100 feet in the air so they ripped off the only way to get up there.
"That'll work" Zeno said as he waited for Zatch to go into the playground
Zeno made then made a mad dash up the tower while using his cloak to propel him up the tower almost effortlessly
"Why would someone build something like this anyways?" Zeno wondered as he took a look around the small outpost
It was pretty small, only big enough to fit maybe 2 kids; the outpost was built out of wood though and would sway in the air.
Zeno stared at Zatch trying to play with the other kids, which seemed hesitant at first.
"This is starting to bore me" Zeno said annoyed as he pulled out a decent size book, about 300 pages long.
A few minutes later Zeno heard an explosion from below and decided to check it out.
The mamodo children were casting spells and taking turns at a large boulder.
Zeno looked at Zatch waiting for his turn.
"You're up Zatch" a few kids laughed
Zatch slowly walked up and stared at the boulder
Zatch opened his mouth and a yellowish glow started to form in his mouth, his eyes rolled into the back of his head.
A small erratic yellow lightning bolt came out of Zatch's mouth which simply grazed the boulder doing hardly any damage. Zatch then passed out then fell to the floor.
All of the kids started laughing at Zatch, Zatch slowly regain consciousness and sat back upright.
"Ha he can't even use a spell without passing out!" one kid laughed
"What a loser" another kid mocked
"Simply pathetic" Sugino remarked
Zeno observed the situation and nearly bit his tongue off from anger.
"HE CAN'T EVEN USE A SPELL!" Zeno shouted in disbelief
A few kids noticed the sudden up roar and looked at the tower
Zeno quickly used both of his hands to shut himself up as he banged his head against the wall.
(WHY THE HELL! Would someone that weak be given Baou? Damn it, damn it, he doesn't even deserve the other 50% of Father's powers!) Zeno thought as he tried to remain calm or he risked burning the tower down from unleashing random lightning sparks.
"Why would we be with someone like you?" a kid asked
Zatch looked around as he was being taunted by at least 5 different kids, all of which who were older then he was.
Tia stood in the back waiting for what Zatch usually does runaway and cry somewhere…but he didn't today for some reason
"What you looking at?" One kid shouted at Zatch
(Today…today is going to be a good day, a good day, I won't let them ruin it) Zatch thought to himself.
Zatch turned around and started to walk away trying not to provoke the kids from either teasing him or beating him up again.
"Go away already!" one kid yelled and threw a stone at Zatch
Zatch didn't turn around; he just started to walk a little faster.
Zeno couldn't even look at Zatch anymore; it either was too embarrassing or disgraceful.
"How can someone like him even hold the Bell family name?" Zeno growled.
Zeno looked at the instructor's orb again
"Can I kill him now?" Zeno asked annoyed
In response the orb hit Zeno in the head multiple times
"Ok, ok, I'm taking that as a no" Zeno said disappointed. "I didn't think it was possible, but I hate him even more now" Zeno said clenching his fists.
Meanwhile Zatch had run off somewhere secluded
Zatch was in his normal hiding spot where he usually just laid under a tree to catch a nap
This time around Zeno didn't follow Zatch around.
"I'll show them what a member of the Bell family can really DO" Zeno growled
Meanwhile in the palace….
"He's seriously not going to do what I think he's going to do….right?" The instructor thought as he watched Zeno. "No…he's not stupid, I taught him better than that" The instructor reinsured himself.
Then in the instructor's horror, Zeno jumped out of the lookout to softly land on the school playground.
"Damn it!" the instructor smacked his face
Back with Zeno
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"Zaker" Zeno responded summoning a large amount of lightning that completely obliterated the boulder the children were practicing on.
"What the?" the most of the kids responded then they all looked behind them to see a child in a white cloak that looked almost like Zatch.
"Zatch?" Sugino responded
"Zaker" Zeno growled
"SHIT!" All of the kids shouted as they barely dodged the lightning spell that was aimed at them.
"That's NOT ZATCH!" One older child responded
"Who cares! Let's freaking get this guy!" Sugino shouted and slammed his hand to the ground summoning a large root that went toward Zeno
Zeno extended his arm and opened up his hand to summon a large lightning sword
"To tell you the truth…I've had enough of this…I can't take it anymore…I can't keep on watching the BELL FAMILY NAME BEING DRAGGED IN THE MUD!" Zeno shouted as he slashed the large root in half.
In return the five other children who were picking on Zatch unleashed all of their spells at Zeno
A huge fire ball was hurdling toward Zeno, Zeno simply swipe it away like he was playing baseball.
Another child shot huge boulders at Zeno
In response Zeno dodged everyone and struck the child with his sword sending him flying 100's of feet away into the sky
Two other children shot out multiple energy beams at Zeno
Zeno blocked at slashed at all of the attacks with his sword
The kids were freighted of their adversary and started to runway, most of them were even crying.
"You're NOT GETTING AWAY!" Zeno shouted as he quickly gave chase and was about to finish the rest of his enemies off in one fell stroke
Until a large circular pink shield got in Zeno path,
Zeno tried cutting through it but failed
"That's enough" Tia responded
Zeno looked over to who created the shield, the person was to his right.
"Impressive, not many people can stop me with a simple spell" Zeno said with a grin
"…Who…Who are you?" Tia asked
"Me? It's better if I didn't say" Zeno stated
"You're Zatch's brother aren't you?" A voice responded
Zeno was a little shocked at the sudden answer and looked to his left to see a pink haired girl wearing a pink dress.
"How did you know?" Zeno asked
"Well you look like him" Koruru responded bluntly
Zeno scratched his head a little "maybe I should've worn a mask" Zeno said to himself
"Plus…you're defending him, so you must be a kind person." Koruru said softly
Zeno glared at her and his eyes opened very wide. "You THINK that I'm DEFENDING HIM? Why the hell would I do that? He's a nobody, a fool, a weakling and a coward. I would never defend someone like that!" Zeno shouted back at her
Koruru shuttered a little. "Then…why attack us?" Koruru asked
"Why? Because NO ONE mocks the family name while I'm here, I'm not defending Zatch, I'm defending our family name, plain and simple" Zeno explained
"Weird how Zatch never mentioned you" Tia responded while still on guard
"oh that…Zatch doesn't even know that I exist" Zeno stated
"Then…we should tell him" Koruru reacted
"I know Zatch…well sort of, and I'm sure he would love to see you, so how about we stop fighting…" Tia tried to explain
"Shit…" Zeno said and put his hand up to his face. "Well sorry about this, you two didn't drag my family name through the mud, but it seems like I'll have to give you the worst punishment out of them all" Zeno stated while his hands started to glow.
Zeno dashed at the girls, within a matter of seconds the battle was over
Zeno had wiped their memory clean of what happened today, only leaving a slight burn on the two girl's forehead.
"I don't want Zatch knowing who I am just yet" Zeno said as he teleported away leaving the girls alone.
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9 AM
Zatch just woke up from his nap. It had been two hours since he had run away from the playground and he decided to give it another shot.
"I wonder if Ponygon or Kanchomé is around yet." Zatch wondered as he tracked his way back to the playground to see a bunch of adults searching the area.
The playground was nearly destroyed with scorched marks all over the place
Kanchomé was standing and watching what was going on.
"Kanchomé what happened?" Zatch asked
"Someone attacked the kids here and destroyed the playground" Kanchomé explained
"WHAT! Is everyone ok?" Zatch asked
"No…I seen Tia and Koruru, and some other kid taken away by the medical team" Kanchomé stated
Zatch felt like he was going to be sick
"Tia…and Koruru…but their so strong" Zatch responded
"Not only that but it was done by one person, that's what the survivors said anyways" Kanchomé said with a scared tone
"I hope Tia and Koruru will be ok" Zatch hoped
Meanwhile in the palace
"You FREAKING IDIOT!" The instructor shouted at Zeno
"What?" Zeno responded
"What my ass, what made you think destroying a playground was a good idea?" The instructor shouted
"Well they started it" Zeno countered
"They started on your brother, NOT you!" the instructor shot back
"I couldn't let the family name be dragged through the mud any longer, and after those vacation days are up, it won't need to any longer" Zeno explained
"This isn't about the family name Zeno. You were mad, so you decided to take it out on someone, and since you couldn't go kill Zatch, you decided to do the next best thing" the Instructor explained
"You know what I frankly don't CARE!" Zeno shouted as he locked himself inside his room again.
"Zeno you bastard! I can still shout through the door, it isn't sound proof!" The instructor shouted through the door.
Zeno must've laid on his bed for about 10 minutes listening to his Instructor/teacher yell at him
"He has a point, my door isn't sound proof…time to see what Zatch is doing" Zeno said to himself as he teleported out of his room near to Zatch's location.
Around 10 AM
Back with Zatch at a mamodo hospital.
With the playground being gone and now a criminal investigation, Zatch found out where Tia and Koruru were being kept but he couldn't visit them until tomorrow…
"I'm Sorry but only family is allowed to visit those mamodo for the time being" the nurse told a blond haired child
"But.." Zatch was cut off
"No buts, rules are rules, come back tomorrow" the Nurse stated and started on other work
Zatch walked out of the hospital to see Kanchomé still waiting for him
"I don't know why you would want to see strangling Tia, or that other girl, you barely know her" Kanchomé said while eating some chocolate
"Well we're in the same class, isn't that a good enough reason?" Zatch countered
"She most likely to start choking you as soon as she sees you" Kanchomé laughed
"I just…feel like it's my fault" Zatch said in a depressed tone
"Now you're talking weird, you weren't even their" Kanchomé responded
"Exactly, maybe I could've done something" Zatch countered
"Like what? Die? Even Tia was hurt, and you can't even protect yourself Zatch. Be happy that you weren't their" Kanchomé explained
Zatch didn't like Kanchomé's answer and started to walk away.
"Where you going Zatch?" Kanchomé asked
"I'm going to make a get well present!" Zatch yelled as he ran to a certain spot he knew he could make a great present.
"The hospital huh?...I didn't hurt them that much. Their wounds should be gone by tomorrow" Zeno said to himself as he then started to follow Zatch to see what he was up too.
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It was about a 30 minute walk/jog for Zatch to reach his destination where there was a flower meadow
Zeno stayed hidden by floating in the air which was around 80 feet above Zatch.
Zatch went around picking a bunch of flowers, 30 in total.
"Unu, I'll give these to them tomorrow" Zatch said with a slight smile.
"He does know they will be released from the hospital by tomorrow right?" Zeno said to himself in a calm manner.
"Now what do I put these into?" Zatch asked himself.
Zatch didn't have any vases, nor cups he could borrow from his own home in fear of his foster mother objecting….
"Guess I have to make those too…" Zatch said to himself
"What does he do arts and craft?" Zeno mocked
And to Zeno's disbelief Zatch found an easy but thoughtful way of making his own vase
Zatch went to the woods where a certain type of tree had a very large leave which had a sticky paste to it.
Zatch took a bunch of those leaves which were the size of his head and shaped it into a cone like structure, and he used the paste of the bark, Zatch used the paste as glue. With that Zatch had made two easy ways of wrapping the flowers In a boneset like fashion.
"Well…he does spend most of his time outdoors. I guess he would pick up a few tricks" Zeno responded
Zatch then left the area with his two gifts
After Zatch left Zeno jumped off the tree he was staying in with a few of the large leaves in his hand.
"How hard can it be?" Zeno asked himself as he tried to make a mold the leave in a cone shape and use the glue like paste to keep it's shape…
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Time and time again Zeno failed to do it, his wrappings looked more like crunched up hand fans.
"Why won't it work?" Zeno asked himself as he tried his 6th one and yet again the shape didn't hold, trying to applied more pressure Zeno again crushed his leave wrapping. "Damn it!" Zeno yelled then threw it on to the ground. "Screw it, time to spy on my brother some more" Zeno sighed then sensed out his brother's location, then teleported to him.
Zatch was heading back home and it was around 12 o clock
"I don't usually see him head home this early" Zeno said to himself as he followed Zatch thinking that this was his chance to see Zatch's perfect family lifestyle…
Zatch approached his own home and hesitated
Zatch looked at the house and gulped not wanting to enter.
But he knew he couldn't carry around flowers all day, where else would he put them?
Zatch slowly, Very slowly walked to the front door hoping that Yuno was in the bathroom or something and he could go in and out very quickly.
Is luck on Zatch's side?
Meanwhile Zeno is still waiting for Zatch to enter his own home.
Authors note: I guess I'll end it here, next time on Alternate Events: Zatch and Zeno!
Zatch will encounter Yuno, and Zeno will observe Zatch's family lifestyle. What will happen to Zeno's opinion of Zatch? Will he intervene? Will he stand by and let it happen? Or will he join in on Zatch's suffering?