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Chapter 38 – Extra : Lost Fairy Far From Home
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People called the vast forest that stretched across North Britannia as "The Fairy King's Forest". At the heart of the forest, laid a clearing free from trees that grew so thick, they blocked anyone from entering. In its center stood a massive tree with a canopy of pink leaves and at the top of the tree, there was 'The Fountain Of Youth', the treasure was guarded by Guardian Saint. That was what people knew, but little they knew, that Guardian Saint who guarded the treasure was twin. The older one was Elaine, the Holy Maiden and Fairy Princess who had the power to control Wind. The younger one was Elias, Fairy Prince who usually hid behind the shadow and had the power to control the living of nature. Like usual, that day they protected the Fountain Of Youth in the Fairy King's Forest from the intruders. Unlike his older sister who wore white dress, Fairy Prince who had short blonde-hair and honey-colored eyes wore black shirt under his green jacket and navy blue trousers which the design matched with his older brother's clothes.
"Oslo and the birds told me there are the intruders, a group of mercenaries", Elias floated down but before he went to the woods, he told her "just take care of the Fountain Of Youth, sister. I've got this".
"yes, yes", Elaine sighed with note in her head, those mercenaries wouldn't survive. Unlike her, Elias was rather merciless and usually he wouldn't leave any survivors when it came to someone who would bring harm on them or whoever had an ill intention to them "take care".
"I believe it's my line", Elias scoffed before he went flying down deep to the woods where he found a group of intruders, the mercenaries "human never learns, huh?".
Elias only needed to move his hands, using his power Animancy to take control of the living around him to get rid these mercenaries once he knew that the mercenaries were just the same with other greedy humans who had sneaked out here. It was not that he liked this job, but he had no choice. He promised his older brother to protect not only his twin and the Fountain Of Youth, but also Fairy King's Forest with its people, to protect their home, their family and their clan as long as his brother left. Disappeared more exactly. Usually, it was him who did this dirty job to protect his sister.
"what a mess", Elias said as he cleaned the dirt on his hands before a bird perched on his shoulder. His eyes widened "what? Another intruder?".
"have a lick and live ten more years~ take a swig and live a hundred more years~ drink the whole thing and you live forever~".
Elias did nothing to this spiky-haired man because he believed his twin sister but he saw something so unusual, for the first time "...okay, this is weird. Why should this forest protect and save this human?".
No matter how many times Elaine blew the strong wind to send this human flying off of the tree, he would survive somehow. Either he grabbed some branches on the way, fell on some trees growing close enough to cushion him of his fall or lucky enough to land on some giant mushrooms. Even Oslo didn't attack him after the bandit landed on top of him, the black hound only continued to sleep instead. Elias floated down and asked the sleeping black hound when the bandit started to climb up the tree again.
"Oslo, why did you not attack him?", Elias frowned when he earned the black hound's answer "...this Forest said he's not dangerous at all, you said?".
Well, it was true that the Fairy King's Forest never showed this kind of reaction to the intruder. This was also the very first time for him to see this happened. Elias decided to watch over and observe for a while from above. Neither his sister nor the bandit would realize his presence, after all he had special ability to suppress his presence and disguise his own presence with the nature, so people would mistake him as part of the nature, to the point even his brother and sister also could mistake his presence as the part of nature when they were playing hide-and-seek back then and it was impossible for them to track him as long as Elias used his ability.
Panting, the bandit grabbed the nearby branch as support "would you just knock that off!~ You sure are persistent!~".
Elaine huffed, having her own irritation on the same level with him "it's my line! You're so stubborn!".
Elias covered his mouth, his other hand clutched his stomach as he tried hard to hold his laughter. They were so funny, maybe he could tease them later. When the bandit was able to steal the grail that contain the Fountain Of Youth using his weapon that imbued with magic, Elias lifted his hand "not so fast".
Once Elias snapped his finger and tree branches wrapped itself around the bandit's body, Elaine realized her brother had come back, using this chance to scold the bandit about how important this Fountain Of Youth for Fairy King's Forest.
"why are you playing around, sister?", Elias floated down as he ordered the tree branch to put back the Grail into its place "if you can't kill him, I will do it".
Be it her own brother, Elaine didn't want to see her twin to kill this strange unusual human in front of her eyes "Elias, wait!".
"kidding", Elias deadpanned, innocently added "I've watched over what happened. Even I'm interested, it's unusual for this forest to save the outsider, especially of human race. I have the principle to not kill whoever that will not bring harm or didn't have an ill intention on us like him".
Elaine dropped forward before she straightened and yelled "please don't give such dry joke on me! It's unlike joke at all when it came from you!".
"she's right, kid. You shouldn't say something about kill someone so easily like that. Your parent will cry because I think no one parent would want their kids to be murderer~", the bandit asked him to let him go already "speaking of which, where is your parent?".
"we are not a kid anymore. I bet we're far older than you, human. We don't have parent, anyway", Elias snapped his finger, he knew this human didn't lie when he said he would give up after his twin scolded him "my name is Elias and she is my twin sister".
"to be more precise, from the time we born, his older sister", Elaine floated beside him "my name is Elaine".
Ban grinned after he cracked his shoulders "I am the Bandit Ban. Nice to meet you two!".
The twin exchanged glances and that was how the twin started to spend their time with the Bandit Ban.
When they were talking about why Ban wanted the Fountain Of Youth, Elaine asked "but what if you become immortal and still nothing good ever happened to you?".
"we've been watching over this forest ever since the King of this Forest, our brother disappeared. It's been 700 years and not one good thing has ever happened in all that time", Elias looked forward to the direction of the outside world where his brother had gone. Narrowing his eyes, he clenched his hands "actually, where have you been, Harlequin?".
"7... 700 years? You two must be bored out of your mind!".
The twin fell forward and staggered after listening to the bandit's reaction before they straightened their body.
Looked behind over his shoulder, Elias twitched his eyebrow "of all things... that's all you have to say about? Seriously?".
"it's the first time anyone's said that", Elaine showed the same disbelief and shock before she burst out in rage "but you are right! we are so bored! Bored! Bored! Bored! We may not feel too lonely because we have each other but still!".
"that's righ! Without we even know where is he or if he's still alive or not, we have spent all those 700 years in this forest so we don't know anything of the outside world or what's happening in it!", Elias joined his twin and gave up his own outburst "thanks to my ability though, we still can spend time to play together here".
Ban asked in curiosity "what is your ability, actually?".
"my sister's power is Miracle Wind and my power is Animancy. Maybe it's not as strong as our older brother's Disaster ability but I still can control and manipulate the living with my power", Elias snapped his fingers and some leaves from the tree turned into bird and butterfly "usually, we play hide and seek, or we play together with the Golems that I created, like this".
Ban caressed his jaw before he jumped down the tree "I can't bear this boredom".
They thought Ban was leaving for good, so when Ban came back to show the book of his personal Ale Label Collection, telling him that they thought he had gone for good.
Ban laughed it off "and leaving you lonely kids here? No way! I figured since you were bored, you two might like to look at it. Though, unfortunately I only have two books with me".
When Ban handed the other book to him, Elias furrowed his eyebrow "the Fairy Tales for children".
Ban smiled sadly "belonged to my late little sister. I tried my best to keep it, though".
"...thank you", Elias nodded solemnly before started flipping the pages of the book. Looking up to Ban after he looked at the book for a while, Elias asked "will you show us more of your Ale collection and tell us about the world outside, Ban?".
"sure thing!", Ban settled Elaine on his lap and pulled Elias to sit beside him "now, it's what I'm gonna talking about!".
When the night came and Ban thought sadly it was too dark to read, the fireflies came flying to lighten up their surrounding. Elias smirked, he snapped his finger to call the luminosity butterflies, the butterfly who could glow in the dark. The three of them were lying on the ground on the midnight when they felt like sleeping.
"say, Elias, Elaine, your older brother is the Fairy King of this forest, so it means you two are the Fairy Princess and Fairy Prince, right?".
"yes, we're kinda like one", Elaine giggled "brother always tried to act tough while in fact, he's such a crybaby".
"so he's nothing like you two~".
Elaine blushed "huh?".
"what do you mean?", Elias blinked but he had to admit, he never thought of it before "it's a coincidence that our older brother is the King".
Ban deadpanned "how laid-back, typical of Fairy".
Elias groaned and rolled to the side "needn't to talk about him. Maybe he's dead already".
Elaine instantly sat up "no, he's not! Gerharde said it, right? As long as the Fairy King is alive, the Fairy King's Forest will live no matter what!".
"then where is he? Why don't he come back home already? For heaven's sake, it's been 700 years, Ella!".
Elaine started crying "you're evil, El!".
When Ban narrowed his eyes with sour face, Elias started panicking and trying to calm her down "fine, I'm not serious! I also hoped that he's alive but where is he? We don't even know where is he, nor we know he's still alive or not and he's not someone who will break his promise so I bet something has to happen to him! I'm tired of waiting him, wondering how is he and when will he go back home!".
"and do you think I don't feel the same?".
Lowering his head in shame, Elias sighed "...I'm so sorry".
"kids, kids~", Ban clapped his hands before patting their head "let's just go to sleep, okay? Usually kids get fussy when they're sleepy~".
Elias and Elaine turned to Ban and yelled "we are not kids! / don't treat us like kids!".
The twin exchanged glances before they burst out into laughter along with Ban. Ban told the story for them before the three of them fell asleep together. Elaine slept as her head rested on Ban's shoulder, Elias slept with his head on Ban's thigh and Ban slept with his back lying flatly on the ground, snoring loudly. It was a miracle Elaine and Elias didn't wake up due to his loud snore, but one thing for sure, Ban loved them.
That day, there was the intruders and Elias went to kill them. When she was waiting on the tree with Ban, Ban asked if it was alright "I have to admit, he doesn't look like the type of someone who could kill people".
Elaine smiled sadly, she told Ban about what happened on that day ever since their brother decided to leave this forest and disappeared so Gerharde pointed them to become the Guardian Saint, protectors of this forest and the Fountain Of Youth.
"it's scary~ okay, I admit the type of woman like this Gerharde is the type of woman that I don't like at all. How could she just throw the burden of protecting this Forest on you and your brother when your older brother the King disappeared? How could she so heartlessly told you and your brother that you two have to kill the intruders when it needed?", Ban tucked his hands behind his head "no wonder your brother has cold demeanor and less cheerful compared to you, like he is so stressed over something".
"...it's because of me", Elaine hugged her knees, telling Ban about how her twin brother burdened all the weight on his shoulders ever since their older brother, the King's disappearance "he takes over all of responsibility included to kill humans. If only I'm stronger...".
"one thing I can tell for sure", Ban patted Elaine's head "your twin does it to protect you, because he really loves you, he doesn't want you to get hurt, so he takes the burden instead. I bet he wouldn't hate you just because of this".
"of course I am. We are twin, after all. Don't say something ridiculous like I'm gonna hate you".
Elaine waved her finger "s-s-s-since when did you here?".
"since Ban mentioned that Gerharde is the type of the woman he doesn't like at all", Elias lifted his hand to Ban "at least we have one similarity".
Ban smirked and tossed with the Fairy Prince "yup!".
Elaine only shook her head before she went to pick the leaves of almoka (to drink) and berries, but Ban asked if there was mushroom and chestnut because Ban felt like wanted to eat roasted mushroom and roasted chestnut or he could just cook it into soup. When Elaine read Ban's mind and knew Ban's plan to talk with Elias, she told Elias to stay with Ban while she would gather the ingredients.
After his twin went, Elias turned to Ban "so... what do you want to talk about?".
When Ban turned to him with shock, Elias snickered "oh, don't look so surprised like that. I also can read people's mind, just like my twin".
"deep down in your heart, you don't want to kill people, right?".
"I have no choice. It's not like I can choose from the first place", Elias sighed, already predicted it "I don't mind at all, as long as I can protect my twin and our home".
"you know, you can tell me everything", Ban offered "people said your feeling will get better when you just pour it out loud rather than you lock your feelings and keep everything to yourself".
Elias smiled "much appreciated. Thank you".
When Elaine came back with Oslo, the ingredients on the wooden basket, Ban cooked the ingredients and the food he had cook tasted like the gift from the heaven.
Both Elaine and Elias delightfully exclaimed and moaned in delightful "DELICIOUS!".
Seven days had passed and it was only half of the book left.
Elaine sighed heavily at that before she smiled fondly with flushed cheeks "if only... I wish Ban didn't come here to steal the Fountain Of Youth, but instead... came for me...".
Elias crouched himself behind her "are you in love with him?".
"KYAAA!", Elaine lifted both her hands, blushing furiously "do you hear that? since when did you...".
"ever since Ban left to get food", Elias floated down and mentioned about how red her face "hey, do you think Ban will leave for good after he finishes the story of his Ale?".
"perhaps", Elaine mumbled sadly, twirling her hair on her finger "what do you think about it, El?".
"honestly, listening to his story is fun, I even interest to take a sip of Ale, to know how its taste. Just like you said, it feels like we're going with him to all those places he mentioned. I want to see the world outside, to have a journey with you and Ban, freely flying on the sky to see the world outside, not stuck here with you just to protect this stupid treasure. Just if he allowed, I would like to ask him to bring us to come with him on his journey", Elias sighed heavily as he looked up to the blue sky above, wondering what omen the dark cloud had brought "but freedom isn't something we can possibly have, sadly".
Elaine stared to her twin in disbelief "Elias, you wouldn't mind if I decided to go to outside with Ban... and instead want to ask Ban to bring us?".
"well, it's not like he's gonna kidnap us and sold us, right? it's also unlike we can't fight him. I want to set off on the journey with him but I can't leave you here alone so if he let us to come with him, yes", Elias shrugged before crossing his arms before his chest, pursing his lips "well, I bet if older brother were here, he would against our idea but who care about his permission? Yes, I know he has his own reason to leave this forest, in order to save Helbram and our brethren but we haven't heard any news about him. He is the one who leaving this place first and I swear, if he never came back here because of a single woman, I'd like to strangle him once we meet him".
"I will change my question, then", Elaine rubbed her temples "Elias, I know what do you think of human race so tell me... you don't mind at all if... I love him?".
Looking at her blushing face, Elias deadpanned with deep scowl "Elaine, where in the world there's a brother who will gladly let his sister go only to hand over her to another man?".
"...I'm sorry", Elaine sighed and dropped her head forward before she smiled encouragingly "don't worry, I will not leave you".
"okay, then I'm just gonna steal you~".
"KYAAA!", Elaine squealed with blushing face "don't scare me like that and don't tease me! Are you grouping with my brother to scare and tease me now?".
"okay, I will give you two privacy, so just clear it out, you two", Elias rolled his eyes before lifting his hand "let me make it straight, it's not like I have given my blessing, especially not because you're from human race. I believe you are a good man but you have to walk over my dead body and get my older brother's blessing first if you want me to give my blessing. Here I go~".
Using his ability to disguise his own presence, Elias watched over as Elaine and Ban sheepishly talked to each other. When Ban promised Elaine that he would find their brother and bring him back here so they could free and they could come with him for his journey, Elaine hugged him and thanked him for letting them to come with him. Elias smiled, he felt glad for his sister but like he said, it was not like he could just give away his twin easily.
Suddenly, next second the red-skinned fat-bodied Demon landed on the tree. Using tree trunks as the shield to protect Elaine and Ban, Elias told them to run "Ban, take my sister to the safe place! I'll do my best to hold the Demon back!".
Unfortunately, both Elaine and Elias didn't have the Sacred Treasure like their brother so they fought only with their magic power. When he tried to create the opening so Elaine and Ban could run while Ban pulled out one of Demon's hearts, Elaine told them to run and mentioned something about Demon having more than one heart. The red Demon turned around and he was using his laser beam that create the gaping hole on Elaine's body, slashed Ban's body from his right shoulder down to his right stomach and cut off Elias' body into two on his midsection. Elaine and Ban cried out his name in horror as his body fell from the tree to the ground after the Demon slashed him again with his claw, this time only scratched his head though, but still enough to make blood flowing out of his head. Before his separated bodies hit the ground, someone caught him.
A woman with long silver hair and blue eyes caught his upper body, looking down to him in horrified "hold yourself together, kid!".
From the corner of his eyes, Elias saw a man with silver hair and blue eyes cradling his body from his midsection down to his legs with the same level of shock "Neiva, I've got his under body! Put it back together, quick!".
"well, I can put it back together but I can't do it here, idiot nephew! Let's just retreat for now so we can treat him, Triss!".
Elias coughed bloods as he closed his eyes "it hurts... am I gonna die like this?".
When he opened his eyes, Elias blinked his eyes as beautiful pale-skinned woman leaned down and touched her forehead into his. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She had long straight silver hair that felt smooth like the snow and gentle Emerald orbs.
She smiled when looking straight to his eyes, touching his forehead "ah, it's good to see you awake. It seems your fever has broken, finally. You have been sleeping for a half month, though it was no wonder, considering how terrible your wounds".
When she straightened her body, he just realized she had a pair of large wings with three colors. White like the snow, green like the lush-green-forest and blue like the bright blue sky. His impression of her for the first time, she was just like the woods in the middle of the winter under the bright, blue sky. Not only that, she also had a pair of horns from her head.
Someone with baritone voice cleared his throat "a-hem, I think it's rude to stare at people like that, kid. Especially to the Queen".
"sorry!", Elias unconsciously squealed before he squirming in pain. Looking to the side, he found the source of voice who had scolded him just now, clearly not human from how his body was entirely stone but before he could think of what or who was he, Elias remembered what he said "...Queen?".
"Spriggan", so-called Queen chided Spriggan, the middle-aged-looking man with stone-bodied who had scolded him. Gracefully, the Queen smiled and asked "could you bring my son here? I'd like to speak with him but it's about time to feed him".
Spriggan gruffly bowed his body "as you wish, my Queen".
After Spriggan sent last glare to Elias (which make Elias flinched, earning the Queen's narrowed eyes) and left this room, the Queen apologized "Spriggan is my advisor and trusted right hand, he's not too friendly to outsider".
"yeah, I can see it", Elias groaned in pain as he sat up, holding his bandaged-chest. When he looked up, he saw the unbelievable sight outside through the window "what... who are you guys? Where am I?".
Elias saw so many creatures who just like her, the creatures with horns on their head and a pair of wings from their back.
"welcome to the Enchanted Woods. My name is Lily Titania, Queen of Fay Clan. We call ourselves as Fay Clan, Dark Fairy. Our ancestors are born from the descendants of Goddess Clan who marry with Succubus Clan of Demon race and Fairy Clan, that's why we have these bird-like large wings, a pair of horns on our head and magic power to control the nature. Unlike Fairies, Demons or Goddesses, we are born like them but we also aren't part of them", Lily gently explained to him "once upon a time, it was only the survivors of Holy War, mostly elderly with women and children who lived on The Dark Mist Woods. Succubus named Lilith created Phoenix Clan and she become the first head of Phoenix Clan, but someday, Lilith cursed her own daughters. Some people weren't pleased, even pissed off by her actions and Phoenix Clan was divided into two factions. One was to Lilith's faction and the latter was Lady Bethany, my mother's faction. Once all members of Phoenix Clan who sided with Lilith left this land due to Lilith's disappearance and my mother was crowned as Fay Queen, she changed name 'The Dark Mist Woods' into 'The Enchanted Woods' due to my father's advice and this land totally belongs to Fay Clan".
"but that old man Spriggan didn't have horns and wings?".
"Spriggan had horns and wings just like us but he lost it when he fought against intruders of human race who tried to invade us. Spriggan helped my father to protect this land and has been the right hand of the Queen ever since my mother was crowned as the Queen. I was the only child of previous Queen and I was still too young to fight when it happened. The staff he used is to help him walking and it's also his Sacred Treasure".
"I see, no wonder his movement is rather stiff", Elias considered before bowing his body "thank you very much for saving my life, Queen. Is it you who bringing me here?".
"don't mention it", Lily bowed her head absentmindedly "my little sister who lives on Necropolis found out about what happened on the Fairy King's Forest because of how many lives who dead from the fire and she asked me to help you. Unfortunately, as the Fay Queen here, I can't leave this place as I please easily so I asked my family to get you".
"the ones with silver hair and blue eyes?".
"yes, his name is Tristan Ravenwolf. He is a Warlock and he is the one who bring you here, but the one who re-attach your body and treat your wound is my father's old friend, Nel Hativa, usually we call her Neiva. I will introduce you with them later", she tapped his cheeks before woman cladde in pink came with a sleeping green-haired baby with deer-like horns on his head, Lily smiled fondly as she accepted the baby from her "thank you, Silky. Oh, Silky here is Spriggan's wife. She is also my baby-sitter, the Chief of maids and household. You could say she is the one who manage the household on this castle so just ask her when you need something".
"Queen, I'm not surprised to know her job or position but I'm shocked to know she's that grumpy old man's wife", Elias ogled to Silky, he covered his mouth when he heard Spriggan cleared his throat again and squealed, apologizing after knowing that Silky couldn't speak "sorry!".
Lily giggled before she re-positioning her son to introduce him to Elias "this is my son, Oberon. We welcome you here as our guest as long as you're recovering, Elias".
"Elias... is it my name?", Elias touched his head only now he realized the bandages that wrapped around his head, other than the bandages that wrapped his torso "um, I know this sounded weird, but... who am I?".
Later, after Elias fell asleep, Lily put her son to sleep beside Elias so he wouldn't feel lonely or thought he was alone before Lily went to discuss about this further with Tristan and Nel Hativa.
When Nel Hativa touched Elias' forehead with her glowing hand to check his memory, Tristan asked "he doesn't remember who is he? At all?".
"well, we're lucky we could know his name is Elias from the bracelet on his wrist, but yes, he doesn't remember anything, not even his name. Either it's because of the hard blow on his head or he's locked his own memory subconsciously due to huge trauma. No wonder, he thought he saw his twin and his only friend died in front of his eyes in the middle of that fire", Nel Hativa told them what she knew after she touched his forehead before lifting her shining finger "should I use my Invasion to bring his memory back by force?".
"he said he only remembered that he was dying and barely died when you two found him in the middle of the fire", Lily shook her head "don't do it. I don't think bringing his memory back by force is a good idea, Neiva. Let him remember it all with his own will".
Nel Hativa lifted her hands in surrender when they discussed about what should they do with Elias "I don't think I can take him with me".
"me neither", Tristan caressed his jaw "Lily, you wouldn't mind to take care of him and let him stay here, right?".
"what do you think of me, brother? I am the Queen here. Take care of one lost Fairy kid will not bring harm", Lily scoffed before looking down fondly to her son and Elias who slept soundly, caressing Elias and Oberon's head "it's not like I can abandon or neglect the lost kid like him".
"so motherly~", Tristan clapped his hands with broad teasing grin that matching with his father "when you have your own kid, you turned soft, huh?".
Lily scowled "are you mocking me?".
"no, it's just...", Tristan smiled in nostalgic way "you're just like mother with that way, you know?".
"like you didn't spoil your own kids", Lily raised her eyebrow before she smiled fondly "but thank you, brother. I barely know anything about mother, so knowing that I have something similar with mother... it really makes me feeling happy".
"and whoever Meliodas and Elizabeth's kids who have children, I can enjoy my role as nice older sister with spoil them rotten~".
Tristan deadpanned "it's not older sister, but Aunt".
Nel Hativa glared as she stomped on Tristan's head "want me to spread your embarrassing moments to your siblings, brat?".
Tristan bowed with his forehead pressing on the floor "forgive me".
Lily wrapped her arms around Nel Hativa's shoulders "older sister~ tell me~".
"okay, you two can stop now!", Tristan clenched his fist "Merlin, I'm so sorry that I doubted you but you're right when you said she's the daredevil".
When Elias was healthy enough, still recovering though, Tristan and Nel Hativa decided to leave.
Elias looked up to Tristan and Nel Hativa, Lily carrying him "are you leaving?".
"don't worry, I will try to find your family or your home", Tristan ruffled his head "just stay here and be a good kid as long as you stay here, okay?".
Nel Hativa hummed "we will visit sometimes and when we get some news, we will send letter".
Succubus was known as Demons who could sneak into someone's dream to seduce people and having sex with them, so they naturally were born with an ability to read people's mind and sneak into people's heart (just like how Gowther's Invasion worked) but a bit different where they not only could dive into people's heart but they also could sneak into people's dream to seduce or persuade people. Lilith was using this ability when she was a Mistress of Demon King but they didn't want to use it for bad things. Nel Hativa, Lily and Isolde who also had this ability, decided to not use it on the bad way, but to use it for helping people. Like this time, using natural ability, she could see his nightmare.
"Elias, do you have a nightmare?", Lily sat on the bed, gently caressing his head. Earning no respond from him, Lily went to pick her son before she put Oberon in between him and her, pulled the blanket up to cover three of them. Patting the blanket, Lily smiled "would you want to hear a lullaby?".
Elias said nothing, he only moved to Lily's other side so he could cuddle on her while Oberon slept on the other side. Lily smiled warmly as she patted his head and started singing the lullaby "when the wind meets the sea~ there's a fire sunk down to the earth~ sleep, my darling, safe and sound~ your parent waited on your bed~ carefully, she touched your broken heart, hoping for your powerful, flawless, perfect future~ the sky is so blue, just like long-forgotten sadness unstoppable shattered for the sake of next day~ the sky is so vast, the wind feels like melody~ Hopefully, human will realize someday, of happiness from pursuing a dream~ from the eyes of a child, you always believe I always will stay by your side, passing through the frozen woods together~ so the sadness of the world never stain you~".
As long as he lived here, Elias learned to be far stronger. He learned magic skills from Lily and various martial arts from Spriggan. Sometimes, he helped Lily and Silky to take care of Oberon or following Spriggan to the Capital. There was once when Spriggan allowed him to drink Ale with him, which Lily and Silky didn't really approve it and they ended up getting scolded by them. Elias didn't remember his family but he thought, if someone asked him, he would say that he thought Lily as a perfect image of a mother for him.
Four years later, Tristan visited here with a kid named Lancelot, telling Lily something about Danafor was destroyed, Liz's death and their father's whereabouts. Lily didn't cry, only encouraged Lancelot and Tristan but when she was alone, Elias saw she was crying. When he hugged her from behind, she looked surprised before she hugged him while crying silently, telling him that she was gonna be alright.
Three years later, Nel Hativa visited with beautiful Lady named Merlin who carrying toddler on her arms, beautiful little princess with unique heterochromia eyes named Guinevere Cameliard but for now, they only had to call her 'Gwen'. Merlin didn't tell them why, only telling Lily to carry her and Gwen was her sibling. Lily carried her with so much love and affection, but there was also relief and yearning as she held the little princess.
Three years later, Tristan came with Merlin and Gwen, or should they call her 'Guinevere' from now on, to tell Lily what happened on Liones Kingdom to their father which Merlin and Guinevere ended up to live on Camelot Kingdom.
Ten years later, princess Guinevere who had turned into 16 years old came with Nel Hativa, Merlin, a man named Escanor and Vampire named Gelda. After Nel Hativa used her Broadcast to show what happened to Ban, Elaine and King Harlequin due to Guinevere's request, Elias remembered everything after knowing what happened to King Harlequin and Elaine, his siblings.
For the first time after for so long time he kept everything to himself, Elias reached his breaking-down point but when he tried to hold himself back, Lily touched his cheek with disapproval frown "you stupid child. No matter how you tried hard to keep everything to yourself, every people have their break-down point. Don't hold it back".
Elias choked on his own tears "but... just if I haven't failed them...".
"yeah, I know", Lily hugged him tenderly "you fought so hard. Great job".
Just like a lost child who yearned his mother's presence, he let out his break-down and when Lily sat him on her lap, he looked up as they sat on the tree "so... Lily also has ever had break-down point?".
"of course, I do. You saw one of them, right?", Lily smiled sadly "when the man that I love, Oberon's father died. When my parent died. I even cried when I knew someone's death, doesn't matter they are our enemy or our friends. I'm really a crybaby, right?".
"no, I think it's just because Lily is too kind", Elias swung his legs up and down "but who is Oberon's father?".
Lily smirked "you will be surprised when I told you~".
Elias jaw-dropped "eh! The Fairy King Dahlia!".
After Elias was having mother-son bonding with Lily, Guinevere told him out loud about her intention to come here "we need your help to join our force, to fight against what's gonna come to us".
Elias was conflicted, he couldn't deny the fact that he wanted to go outside but he also didn't want to leave Lily. When he felt someone squeezing his shoulder, he looked up and he saw Lily encouragingly smiled to him.
"you have wings on your back. You can fly wherever you want and remember, blood may stop flowing but as long as there's someone who still alive, you will find the light", squeezing his shoulders, Lily told him that she knew this day would come, the day when he would flight with his own wings "when you can no longer find the light to lighten up your path, then it's time for you to protect the light. Go, protect the light of hope for this world".
Because Lily asked him, because he wanted to help and meet again with his siblings, he had to leave and he knew it. Despite disheartened a bit, he resolved to himself before Elias squeezed her hands "can I visit here sometimes?".
Lily smiled brightly "of course. I'd like to welcome you and your siblings here, even".
When Elias said goodbye and thank you to Silky and Spriggan, Silky smiled as she hugged him before Spriggan said "no need to give thanks. It's been our obligation to give help to those who needed it".
Before Elias went, Lily lifted both her hand and started singing the lullaby that she usually sang to them. Tiara on her head was shining before the large tree grew near them. Spriggan told them that this tree was Lily's Sacred Treasure. Lily picked a fruit of the tree and when the crystal fruit broke, it revealed the golden bracelet.
Lily wrapped the golden bracelet on Elias' wrist, asking him to take care of it "this is the Sacred Treasure 'Gate Of Babylon'. It can create the gate to other dimension and keep as much as weapons you want. I have filled it with so many weapons so you only need to use it. Be safe on your journey. It is my only hope of you that I have thought as my own son".
Elias kissed Lily's forehead and hugged her tightly "I love you, Lily. Thank you so much, for being my mother's figure. I'm going, mother".
"take care", Lily waved her hands with smile on her face. Once Elias had gone with Guinevere's group, Lily sighed heavily "ah... maybe he's just like my own son".
"don't worry too much, mother. I believe he's doing great outside", Oberon sat on the rock near the tree "he's my step-brother, after all".
"you're right", Lily smiled and put her hands on her hips "now, how about we continue our activity?".
Meanwhile on the outside world, as they arrived on the outskirt from the Capital of Liones Kingdom, Elias asked Guinevere about what should he do. Guinevere gave him a job to be her spy with Gelda as his partner and they would infiltrate to the Castle of Liones Kingdom.
A/N :
Before you ask me, yes, Spriggan and Silky here I referred from Mahou Tsukai No Yome. Lily was the daughter of Meliodas with Elizabeth Titania (Elizabeth no. 69, Bethany) who created Fay Clan (a.k.a Dark Fairy).
Lily is a flower that represents Death and the soul returning to innocence, usually associated with the Greek goddess, Hera, the Goddess of Childbirth and motherhood. The reason of why she was named Lily because of her mother died on the childbirth.
Spriggan (sort-of Advisor and 'right hand' of her mother, Fay Queen Bethany) and Silky (handy baby-sitter and housekeeper) are the one who helped Meliodas to raise her until she's ready to be the next Fay Queen. After Lily was mature enough to be crowned as the Fay Queen, Meliodas left her to find another Elizabeth's reincarnation and Lily was having a son due to her relationship with the previous Fairy King Dahlia, the Fairy King before Fairy King Harlequin.
To believergirl62 : aw, thank you~ *hug. Needn't to feel bad, as long as you still read and feel free to leave the review whenever you want it. It means I did it to make Lilith as our other villain here heh-heh. Nel Hativa is the type of character that I like too~ her past will still be a secret for a while, maybe on Ten Commandments Arc you will find out about it (which we need a long way to go). This is only the beginning because Gwen needs to clear it up by herself. Yeah, it's sad but since she can't know until the curse is broken and obviously their kids also tried to figure out to find the way to break the curses.
To Ansy : Isolde is Meliodas and Elizabeth's daughter-in-law already which means Merlin and Neiva also their family so let's just call them as 'family', one big family, yeah. Although they are kids on their outer appearance, in fact their soul are ancient but since they met with their father and grandpa, of course they act like ordinary kids (with wings). Neiva is part of crazy family, no wonder she's hilarious sometimes but her past will be revealed later, probably on Ten Commandments Arc (which we still have a long way to go~) and Elias will join them later, perhaps. I just started to get busier after the exam because I'm the one who give the test and correct it, so yeah, still can't update so often like usual
To Clarent excalibur : you are right, congratulation *clapped_hands. Don't worry, Elias surely would join them later~ I also planned to make him like drinking, not addicted but only prefer it (like you asked) due to Ban's story about Ale but could you please tell me about what do you mean with regular at Escanor's bar? Do you mean his tolerance of alcohol?
To Goddamn batman : hm... I must say I'm a bit troubled because at first I planned to make 'Gate Of Babylon' as Lily's Sacred Treasure while 'Yggdrasil' (as Spirit Spear) is Elias' Sacred Treasure but at the second thought, I think I will just exchange it which like you requested, Elias is having 'Gate Of Babylon' as his Sacred Treasure and Lily has 'Yggdrasil' in different form as her Sacred Treasure.