The Prince and His Pet Chapter Twenty-one
WOOHOO! Uhh, sorry, I'm a bit hyper at the moment.
HEADS UP: In FRAN'S point of view, other frogs have quotation marks, but Bel, obviously, can't hear anything but croaks.
Fran's POV
Fran looked around the room, suprised at how much of the human's room was the same color as blood. "Were human's hurt here?" he asked. Bel arched a brow.
"No?"
"Oh...," Fran sighed, confused. "This place is very red."
"Oh! Sorry, Fran, it's not blood," Bel said, "It's just the color of the fabrics."
"F... fa-brics?" Fran repeated. 'Ugh, another one that has that two-pieced layout...,' the frog thought. Bel held up a piece of 'fabric' to the frog, and said, "Do you want to come out so you can feel it?"
"Come out? Sure... but not for a long time," Fran said, climbing onto the human's finger and letting himself get set down on the bed. He croaked.
"I really think you shouldn't try to do that at your age," Bel sighed.
"Well you shouldn't try to 'shishishi' at your age," Fran snapped.
"Ushishi, Fran, that's just how I laugh," the prince said.
"What's a 'laugh'?" the frog asked, climbing around on the bed. "And this is really soft. Like algae. But it's not inside water."
"A laugh... well, that's probably something you'll understand better when you're human," Bel told the Fran, "Let me know when you need to get back in the water."
"I want to swim onto your fingers, Bel," the frog said, standing near the edge of the bed. Bel held out his hand, and let Fran climb up.
"Hop onto my fingers. You swim when you're inside water."
"'Hop' sounds wierd," Fran mumbled, standing in the human's palm. "Tell me how I become human."
Bel sighed. "I said no, didn't I?"
"Yes, you did. But I want to find out."
Bel held up his hand so that the frog was millimeters away from his face. When Fran took a step back, Bel lowered his hand again. "See, you won't like it."
"Oh, th-that's part of it?" Fran said, "I'm fine. I can do that. Really!"
"Shishishi, just wait for the right time, Fran," Bel said. Suddenly, Rasiel ran into the 'room.'
"Bel! Mother and Father are done with their meeting already! What are you doing?"
Bel placed Fran back in the glass, ignoring Fran's croak of suprise, and stood. "Alright, Fran, we have to get out of here."
"Why?"
"Because my parents... they probably won't like you," Bel said quietly. Fran was a bit hurt.
"Then... will they like me when I'm human?" he asked.
"... I don't know," the human returned.
Bel's POV
'Yes, would my parents accept a random human in the pure, royal bloodline?'
Bel walked out the door of the castle, Rasiel following him, and nodded to Rasiel. "Sorry, Jill, but..."
"I know, go on ahead," Rasiel said, "I'll stay back here."
"Thanks," Bel said, before taking off for the forest, Fran freaking out in his glass. Bel slowed down once he got up to the pond, and set Fran's glass down, panting.
"Kero."
Bel, for a second, was positive that Fran's mother had come back from the dead, but, instead, he saw Lussuria, only halfway out of the pond, looking hopeful.
"Fran, can your brother Lussuria join us?" he asked.
"Oh, sure," Fran said, "Mukuro and Spade probably hurt him, too..."
Bel held his hand out to Lussuria, and the older frog let out a croak that was high pitched, sounding almost like a squeal, before he hopped up into the prince's hand. Bel smiled, letting the frog slide into the glass beside Fran, and the two of them had a quick conversation, before both undeveloped frogs looked back to the prince.
"So, Fran, what should we talk about?"
"Luss wants to ask about Jill."
"Jill? What about him?"
The two talked for another moment, before Fran said awkwardly. "He's asking what Jill likes."
"Uh- ushishi- he likes... well... gold, he likes gold things," Bel said, "Fran, gold is like a shiny, metallic yellow. Okay?"
"Got it," Fran said, before passing the message onto his brother. He looked back. "Anything else...?"
"Hm... I don't know, he likes roses- uhm, I'll be right back."
Bel ran over to a rosebush and gingerly snapped one of the red blossoms off of it, before walking back to Fran and his brother. "These. Roses."
Lussuria seemed intrested, and he told Fran something else. "Okay, uhh, Lussuria says that he wants you to tell your brother that he likes him." Lussuria added something, and the two got into a mini arguement, before Fran gave in and said, "A lot."
"Ushishi, I'll tell him that," Bel said, thinking it was simply adorable that one of Fran's brothers seemed to have a crush on his own. Lussuria settled down after that, apparently at peace having given his little confession.
Fran's POV
"Oh, I can't wait to hear his repsonse~," Lussuria sang.
"Luss, are you serious?" Fran asked.
"If you can love a human, why can't I?" Lussuria pointed out. Fran felt his entire body heat up with embarassment at his brother's suggestion.
"We're both males, Luss, I don't love him."
"What are you saying? Isn't Bel's brother a male too?" the other frog said. Fran looked away.
"That's wierd."
"Well, I don't exactly mean... like... MATES, Fran, but you know... really, really close friends," Lussuria suggested.
"That sounds like a mate to me," Fran argued.
"W-well!" Lussuria pouted, "It's not! Besides, you heard what mother used to tell us. The story of the hawk and the frog who loved each other, even though they were sworn enemies..."
"You're such a sucker for forbidden romances," Fran sighed.
"And my brother is IN ONE!" Lussuria said dramatically.
"It's not romance, it's...," Fran trailed off, not quite knowing his and Bel's relationship. "It's... it's just not romance."
Lussuria looked perplexed. "I'm sure you have more than friendship to be this close," he croaked in a small voice.
"Hey, Fran," Bel called, pointing out to the pond, "Who's that?"
He was pointing to a fully grown frog who was resting on the lillypad that their mother used to sit on. Fran and Lussuria seemed to sigh in unison, and Lussuria kero'd the frog's name at the same that Fran grumbled,
"Spade."
"He's one of the frogs that hurt you two?" Bel asked. Fran nodded.
"But it's just instinct. He's actually afraid of humans."
"Is that so...," Bel hummed, lying down on the ground and watching the other frog, who seemed to be watching the three of them with extreme intrest. But Spade couldn't take the human's stare, and within seconds, he had leapt back into the pond.
"Fran," Lussuria whispered, "Spade's probably going to be mad with us for having Bel over."
"Shh," Fran said, "I don't want him to find that out. I don't want to... hurt his feelings."
Lussuria nodded. "I don't want to hurt ANYONE's feelings," he said.
"Thanks, Luss," Fran said. "For everything."
-End Chapter
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