The next morning, Tyson was waken by a slam of the guest room door. He shot up in suprise to see Harley rush in with an excited look on her face.
"Morning Sharky!" She said brightly, jumping to sit down on the bed. Tyson shifted back slightly, feeling a little odd at the girls sudden entrance.
"M-morning" He mumbled, clutching the sheets. The purple haired girl smiled excitedly.
"Time to get up." She said, tugging on the sheets that Tyson clutched onto for dear life. "We have a lot to do today!" Tyson blinked in confusion.
"We?" He asked.
"Yes we " She said in a tone that was almost mocking. "If your going to stay here, you will have to help me." Tyson glared at the girl with a even more confused look on his face.
"Help you with what?"
~x~x~x~
Scarlet was still angry with Will that morning and had told him he was not welcome in their bedroom until Tyson was found, which meant he would be sleeping on the sofa. William had protested at first but when she threatened him with a death scythe to his specific area, he decided not to argue. Scarlet could be very persuasive, espescially when she was angry. The red head had gotten up and dressed early in order to get a head start on searching for Tyson. On her way through the living room, she saw the raven haired man sleeping on the sofa. For a second, she felt sorry for him, until she realised exactly why he was there in the first place. She scowled and made her way out and towards the house where Robyn and Grell lived. She arrived at the house and knocked on the door. After getting no answer, she knocked louder. Minutes later a very tired looking Robyn opened the door, wearing her dressing gown.
"Scarlet?" She yawned, rubbing her eyes. "What are you doing here?"
"You said we would continue our search in the morning." Scarlet said as she rushed past the raven haired female and inside the building.
"Yes I did..." Robyn yawned. "But not this early...it's not even 6:00 yet"
"I know!" Scarlet snapped in a scoulding tone. "But put it this way.." She said flicking her hand. "I could have came here as soon as the sun rose..." Robyn rolled her eyes.
"Fine..I'll go get dressed" She groaned heading up the staircase to her room. Scarlet suddenly realised something was missing from the house...or someone.
"Wait! Robyn!" She called out making the black haire girl stop at the top of the stairs to look down at her. "Where's Grell?" She asked.
"He's still in the hospital" Robyn sighed. "They won't let him come home for a few days." Scarlet looked down at the floor dissapointedly.
"Does he know Tyson is-"
"No" Robyn interrupted. "I don't think he needs the stress right now. So please don't tell him" Scarlet nodded in agreement before watching Robyn continue to walk towards her room. The red head then sighed and leant against the wall, thinking of places they could look for the child.
~x~x~x~ Scarlet's POV ~x~x~x~
The first place I could think of looking was Undertaker's shop. Tyson enjoyed his visits to the retired Shinigami's quarters. Like me, he found the Undertaker's day to day jobs interesting. But Will never let him help the Undertaker like I used to when I was young. He thought it improper of his son to be carrying out such an 'innapropriate task'. I had a feeling that Undertaker would have told us if Tyson had gone there last night, but come to think of it, he was pretty forgetful with stuff like that sometimes. Plus, Tyson probably asked him to not say anything just incase Willy went looking for him. Not as if he would! He's too caught up in his stupid paperwork and acting his usual cold self!
"Okay let's go" I hear Robyn say still yawning. I looked up to see the dark haired Shinigami making her way down the stairs and towards the door. "You coming?" She asked. I nodded and followed her out the door.
~x~x~x~
Inside the large hall of the Francis Manor, Harley was rushing around to prepare the room for the birthday party that would take place in a fortnights time. The purple haired girl was currently putting up black and purple ribbons and streamers for decoration. Tyson was stood around, holding a few of the ribbons, awaiting for Harley to take them off his hands.
"How does that look?" She asked, turning to Tyson. The black haired boy, who was in mid daydream, snapped out of it and looked at her.
"Yeah" He answered. "It looks fine" Harey smiled and leapt down from the chair she was standing on. Tyson found it strange that a girl who had a bulter who was more than capable of doing all this, decided to spend time to do all the work herself. The demon could have easilly done all this in seconds, but there she was, spending hours carrying out the tasks on her own.
"Harley?.." Tyson called to the girl who was picking up another streamer. She turned to the young Shinigami.
"Yeah?" She answered.
"Why are you doing all this stuff, when you have people here who will do it for you?" Harley giggled.
"Unlike most spoilt rich kids, I actually like doing things for myself." She answered as she tied one of the bows to a chair in a bow. "Harrison does the things i'm unable to do, like paperwork, cooking, stuff like that."
"What about the garden?" Tyson asked. He remembered seeing how wonderful and organised the garden looked when he was on the balcony. It seemed to have so much time and effort put into every aspect of it. It looked amazing.
"I do most of the gardening" She answered proudly. "With the help of out gardener, Matthew from time to time." Tyson blinked in suprise.
"You have a gardener...but you do the gardening?" He asked in confusion. Harley rolled her eyes.
"Matthew has been here years before I was." She explained. "We can't just get rid of him because iv'e decided I like gardening." Tyson shrugged.
"I guess not." He muttered, even though he still didn't see the point in having the gardener at all.
"Anyway, nevermind my interest in gardening!" Harley scolded playfully. He handed Tyson a black tablecloth and pointed to one of the tables. "Go and put this on the fifth table" She said before returning to the pile of ribbons and clambering up onto the chair again with a purple one in hand. Tyson groaned and walked over to the table carrying black piece of fabric.
~x~x~x~
Scarlet and Robyn were still out searching for the boy when the clock chimed 12:30. After not finding anything, Robyn decided to go with Scarlet's first idea and visit the Undertaker. Since Robyn had never been there before, Scarlet led the way. She followed the worried red head down the streets which the led to the shop. The two stopped outside the shop and Robyn looked up at the crooked sign that hung over the door. She suddenly felt nervous about being here. She had heard a lot of rumours about the retired Shinigami and none of them were good rumours. Ofcourse Grell had told her that he was harmless but this was Grell telling her. He wasn't exactly harmless himself.
~x~x~x~ Robyn's POV ~x~x~x~
Scarlet walked inside first and looked around the room. She seemed to be waiting for something. I walked inside gingerly behind her. I looked around and saw dozens of coffins and a large bookshelf. There was no sign of the strange elder which made me even more nervous. I jumped when Scarlet suddenly spoke.
"Undy?" She called out in an almost scolding tone. "We have no time for games hun" I glared at her. She just seemed to know what he was doing, even without knowing where he was.
~x~x~x~ Scarlet's POV ~x~x~x~
He was doing it again. He did this everytime I visited, he hided. It was just to tease me, his little apprentice as he called me. The first few times it was amusing but now it was annoying. Not to mention I was worried enough already and was not in the mood for jokes. A few seconds later, I heard the all too familiar chuckled of my adopted dad who lifted the lid on a coffin he was in and poked his head out. He sat up and looked toward me with a playful grin on his face.
"Ah~ If it isn't my little apprentice" He cackled.
"Little Apprentice?" Robyn asked in a confused tone. I turned to her in order to explain.
"I used to help Undy with his work when I lived here as a human" I said. "Over the years, he began calling me his little apprentice"
"Oh..." Robyn muttered to show she understood. Undertaker clambered out of the coffin and walked towards us, stretching out one of his hands in order to poke my cheek with his long nail.
"That it did my girl." He chuckled.
~x~x~x~ Robyn's POV ~x~x~x~
The strange elder walked straight up to Scarlet and poked her on the cheek. She didn't even flinch, it was like she was used to him doing things like that. I shuddered as he chuckled the strange way that he did.
"Now then" He said pulling back his hand to entwine his fingers. "What do I owe the pleasure of you and Blackmore's visit to my shop?" He asked. After hearing my name, I jumped. How does he know my name?
"We wanted to know if you have seen my Tyson.." Scarlet answered, I could see just faintly from behind her that, she was holding back the urge to cry. Undertaker looked at her with a concerned look on his face.
~x~x~x~ Undertaker's POV ~x~x~x~
"I'm afraid not my girl." I answered, noticing that she was getting more and more upset by the second. I hated seeing my little apprentice look so upset. If it was anyone else, I wouldn't have cared, but she was like the daughter I never had. Her and Grell were my only family. "Why do you ask? Has something happened?" I asked, placing my hand on her shoulder. The girl looked up at me and began to cry more.
"Yes he...*sniff* we can't...*sniff*" My little apprentice was unable to finish as she burst into tears and fell to her knees. I sighed and knelt down beside her.
"Come here.." I cooed, holding out my arms to her. The girl leapt into my arms and hugged tightly. "Calm down now.." I said softly, running my hands through her hair soothingly. I then looked up towards Blackmore who was looking at me nervously. It did not suprise me as most Shinigami made a lot of rumours about me, which probably made her alarmed of me. "Since my girl is too upset to even speak.." I said. "Care to explain?" She nodded as she gulped.
"Y-yes Undertaker" She answered. "But it may take a while..."
~x~x~x~
Tyson and Harley had just finished decorating the hall and were drinking tea that Harrison had prepared on Harley's request. Tyson had been relatively quiet while being sat there. It made the purple haired girl feel awkward, like she'd done something wrong. But she knew why he was like this, it was over last night. He hadn't spoken about it and Harley really wanted to know, just so she could try and cheer him up a little.
~x~x~x~ Harley's POV ~x~x~x~
I knew what was wrong with him. He was making the same face he had last night when I found him..the same face he made on the carriage ride home. I thought perhaps if I got him to talk about it, he'd feel better.I sighed and placed my tea cup down on the table.
"Sharky?" I asked in a muttered tone. I felt a little silly for calling him sharky but it was like a forsive habit everytime I saw those teeth. He looked up at me, seemingly unbothered by the nickname. "What actually happened yesterday that made you want to run away from the Shinigami world?"
~x~x~x~
Tyson sighed and drummed his fingers on the table. He then looked down at the tea in his cup and frowned.
"You don't really want to know..." He muttered.
"Then why would I be asking?" Harley said softly. Tyson sighed and gave in, looking up at her again.
"My dad had an arguement with Aunt Grell..." He explained.
"The red head who...got hurt?" Tyson nodded.
"He was mad, that he said me and him wouldn't be able to talk to each other anymore. I was so angry...and I...I didn't mean to say it but..." Harley looked at him with a concerned expression.
"What did you say to him?" She asked.
"I said that I wished Aunt Grell was my dad and not him" Tyson groaned, feeling a lot more awful than he did before.
"Oh..." Harley muttered, looking down at the floor. "Well I don't really blame you since your dad is Wil-"
"Harley..." Tyson snarled, a frown on his face.
"Sorry..." She whined. Perhaps she shouldn't mention her hatred of his father to him. Not right now anyway, it would make things worse. "Did he lose his temper? What did he say?" Tyson shrugged.
"I don't know..." He answered. "Before he could say anything, I ran off" Tyson fell silent once again and stared down at his cup. He was missing his family, Harley could tell. She could relate to that, since she lost her family and missed them a lot. She knew the situation wasn't helping. He was probably confused with the fact that he had ran away and ended up taking refuge in his former enemy's manor, not to mention in the human world too. She felt sorry for him. Having Spears as his father must have been awful. She thought to herself.
"Has your father always been angry?" She asked. Tyson sighed.
"Most of the time" He answered in a muttered tone. "He's at his most miserable when he's around Aunt Grell. Iv'e never been that close to him and he never really took time off work to spend time with me. He hardly knows me and I hardly know him."
"Why would you want to spend time with-" Harley stopped herself. Saying that would definately not help. Plus she didn't want to upset the owner of those dangerous teeth. Tyson looked at her and grunted.
"I know what you were going to say..." He mumbled. "And I don't really blaim you...but he's still my dad...no matter how much of a miserable person he is.."
~x~x~x~ Harley's POV ~x~x~x~
I wanted to know more about his family, especially why he kept calling that red head Aunt Grell when he was obviously male. I wondered why he was so attatched to him. What was so great about him? He seemed nothing compared to my Harrison.
"I know it seems wierd for me to be asking..." I muttered. Sharky looked at me. "But what are the rest of your family like?" He sighed slightly but smiled at my sudden interest.
"It's a little wierd..." He chuckled. "But if you want to know, I'll tell you" Seeing him chuckle made me smiled. I had finally made him cheer up a little. "My mom is kind, loving and is just as exciteable as Aunt Grell. She is his younger sister. Me and my mother are quite close and whenever dad got a little mad with me, she would stick up for me."
"She sounds wonderful" I said sweetly, but I couldn't help thinking about my mother. "Do you have any brothers or sisters?" I asked. Tyson shook his head.
"No." He answered. "But i would love a younger sister. Y'know to drive crazy all the time." I giggled.
"What about this Aunt Grell?" I asked. "How are you two so close?...And why do you call him Aunt Grell? He's not a woman...is he?" Tyson smiled.
"No, hes not a woman." He chuckled. "He likes being adressed as a woman. He keeps saying that he is a lonely woman trapped in a man's body" He explained. "And we are as close as a Aunt and her nephew can be. He is always around when I need him and I think he is the coolest Shinigami ever. He always knows how to cheer me up, he understands me." I smiled, I could relate to that. Me and my dad had a relationship like that, until he got killed ofcourse...but Sharky's father. That ridiculous Shinigami who reaped my parents, he still lived and made my new friend Sharky miserable. He shouldn't deserve anything I thought. I clenched my fists at the thought, making Sharky look at me.
"What's with the face?" He asked me. I calmed myself down and giggled awkwardly.
"Nothing" I assured him, flicking my hand.
Finished this chapter!
I feel much happier now hehe
Hopefully next chapter will be up soon.