A/N hello everyone! I had a lot of fun coming up with this one.
Cana: You mean that I had fun, yes? *drains yet another barrel of booze*
Snowleopard: Yes, yes, of course that is what I mean.
Laxus: This time I don't think that Mira will like it... *sweat drop*
Cana: Then you should have said so earlier. *rolls on the guild hall floor laughing her butt off*
Snowleopard: Anyway, I do not own anything, I just have an over active imagination.
Laxus: She should say that last part again...
Snowleopard: back to the story. Another lovely couple, only this time Canna decided to tinker a lot... ~_~' I am almost ashamed to admit that I am laughing along with her
Part 4 (Evil Sisters)
Elfman didn't mind that his father wanted to remarry. He didn't mind that the woman had sisters. In truth, he always wanted sisters to protect. He thought that they would make him more manly.
His step sisters seemed to be almost just like him in appearances. One was older than him with long white hair. Her name was Mirajane. The other was slightly younger than him, and she had short white hair. Her name was Lisanna. Elfman was glad to be the middle child of the three.
At first, things were great. It was the family that his father wanted. But it all seemed to good to be true. And after his father unfortunately passed away, he was shown just how untrue the situation was.
His step mother never wanted a boy. Once his father was out of the way, she spent no time at all using the money to spoil the two girls rotten. The finest of everything that life had to offer was served on a golden plate to them. And they accepted it with little class and decency.
Before Elfman knew it, he was watching his childhood home start to get run down. The help left soon after, mumbling their pity to him. Not at he had those thoughts. To pity oneself was not manly at all. And if his father had taught him anything it was that he had to be a man.
That was getting increasingly harder by the day. Not only had his step mother and step sisters dissipate the fortune, but after the money started to come up dry, they made Elfman act the duties of a servant.
Once again he wanted to point out that it wasn't a very manly job. But his step family refused to listen to him anyway.
On one particular morning he woke up from a dream. Now a man has his dreams, don't get him wrong. He aspired to become one of the greatest men around. It would be a different life than the one he was living. A manlier one.
As if picking up on his good mood, the birds began to fly into his room. They were friends. On face the birds would only come to him. If his sisters were anywhere to be found they would fly away rather than be seen by the screeching girls.
They were silent as Elfman went through his morning routine. Getting up early in the morning was a mans job anyway. He made his way down from the attic room he had been staying in and started to look in all the usual places to start the cleaning.
Being of the male persuasion, he often cut corners while cleaning. But it wasn't as if the three he was forced to clean for knew the difference anyway.
Finding his way into the basement, Elfman spotted a mouse in one of the various traps his step mother had forced him to set up. Elfman hadn't wanted to, but the situation gave him no other options.
Making sure that none of his step siblings were around, Elfman carefully removed the mouse from the trap and smiled as it scurried away. Though he would never admit it due to his manliness, Elfman was too nice to hurt a creature that small without a reason.
"Elfman!" He heard his stepmother call from somewhere not nearly far enough away. "We are waiting for our tea!"
Tea, how stupid. Elfman couldn't help but think that it was unmanly for a man to serve tea. He hated the fact that he was forced to do trivial tasks every day on the whims of his step family.
"Coming," he deep voice called back without sneering as he somewhat wished he could do and get away with it.
Quickly walking to the kitchen, he wasn't surprised to see a number of small mice and birds already there. He was usually the only person who've tired into the kitchen anyway. His two step sisters feared that if they had to come in, they would get too filthy for words. And getting dirt in themselves was something that Elfman figured would be the death of them.
With the kettle and the cups, he started to make his way back through the house and to the once nicely decorated sitting room where the sisters and their mother always took their morning tea.
Little did he know that just as he was working on not getting on their bad side, outside forces were coming that could possibly ruin that for him.
The little mouse that he had saves and that had scurried away, had managed to run into the one thing that it should not have. He ran into the stepmothers cat! Th cat hissed and screamed before it swayed at the mouse.
Realizing the mistake, the mouse sprinted with the cat snapping at its heals like an angry dog more than a cat. Just when the mouse ran through a newly open door, the door to the sitting room in fact, the cat rushed in without looking and collided with the back of Elfman's legs.
If it was any other cat, Elfman would have been able to shake it off, but this cat happened to be the size of a large dog. Elfman lost what little balance he had and fell forward.
The tea, cream, and sugar on the tray he carried spilled all over the eldest stepsister; Mirajane.
(Laxus: Cana, why did you have to do that?
Cana: Oh shut *hic* up. I can do what I want!
Snowleopard: Guys, you're interrupting the story!
Laxus: Sorry. And Cana, if you go too far, I will have to stop you.
Cana: *hic* Sure, sure you will *hic*)
"You oaf!" Mirajane yelled with a glare that belonged with her most powerful take over.
After trying, and failing, to get a word in edge wise about the stupid cat, his stepmother scolded him for over an hour under the watchful eye of the two sisters.
When he thought about it, Elfman knew it was actually the mothers fault. If her cat hadn't been so reckless and while, he wouldn't have tried in the first place.
With a sigh he went back up to his room so that he could get away from the three glaring girls. He was dismissed anyway, and for the sake of his ears he wasn't going to come back down for an hour or so.
Though it was not manly to hide from woman, those three could barely qualify as that in his mind.
At the castle:
Princess Evergreen reported to her father as she was summoned to do. She had a feeling that a day like this would come, and since she was now of the right age, she couldn't help but feel a little excited.
If anything, she could probably make her father look bad in front of many guests. There was a reason that this princess preferred statues to man. In her eyes, men were like, or sometimes worse, than pigs. They didn't know a thing about honor and duty, and most that were male could hardly call themselves men.
"Ah, Evergreen, you're here," her father, the king,stated the obvious.
"One does not refuse your summons lightly," she replied with a smirk of her own from behind her glasses.
With a sigh her father looked at his only daughter and placed his hands on her shoulders. "You know that your mother and I love you very much. Unfortunately, it had become evident that we need to make some changes. Tonight we will be hosting a ball for you to find a suitor in."
Evergreen nodded her head. It was exactly as she predicted. Her glasses reflected the sun, blocking her eyes from view, as she answered "I understand father. But just remember that I will not marry a brainless oaf who has no class!"
Her father simply laughed at her. "Good to hear. The invitations were sent out earlier this morning."
When Evergreen left, she made her way to her balcony. Looking out over the kingdom, she felt incredibly small. She was going to be queen, that was good enough. But she couldn't shake the feeling that she was still missing something.
Oh well, it wasn't like she was going to find a man at her ball tonight anyway. That was her last thought as her tailors came in to get her into a stunning dress for the ball.
No doubt it would take her almost the entire day to get ready.
A/N: Gosh, those two are seriously hard to write...but I managed to do it somehow. I know that this chapter was slightly uneventful, but Cana has some really harsh changes for Elfman later.
Cana: Oi, *hic* don't give away too much. It would be no fun!
Laxus: At least remember that it is Mira's brother. She will kill us if we mess this one up.
Snowleopard: Any way, while those two try not to ruin Mira's evil plan, I hope you enjoyed, and review and tell me what you thought. Thanks.
