The cold, hard, and somewhat wet cement floor that Ness called his home was always annoying to him when it came to trying to catch some sleep. He was surprised he was even able to get sleep. Ness was trying to sleep now, as he rolled across on the floor. It didn't really help that all that he was given for clothing was underwear. He twisted and turned until he found an oddly comfortable position where he looked like he was jumping but still attached to the ground. Once he felt his eyelids get heavy, a loud, unbearable banging noise echoed through his cell. He shot up and looked at the door to his cell, and saw one of the guards who monitored him, and the other prisoners in that basement. This one, in particular, was named Little Mac. "The Prince wants ya."
"Nah, it's fine, I just got comfy," Ness said as he laid back down.
"Get up!" Little Mac sternly said. Ness groaned as he stood up and walked to the bars. He grabbed the bars and smirked.
"You know, for as much as you try to be intimidating, you're just a small little scrapper." Little Mac let out a powerful punch to Ness's gut, making him kick out his breath and curse. He hunched over his pained chest as Little Mac opened the cell. He grabbed Ness's neck.
"You forget who's in charge, kid." Ness shakily looked at Little Mac.
"This is coming…..from someone who takes orders from a 'kid'." Little Mac growled as he tightened his grip on Ness's neck, nearing the point of choking. Little Mac walked out of the cell.
"I hope the prince gives you the proper punishment."
Lucas was sitting at his throne, which he had a guard put a table in front of so he could lay his head down on it. While his head was lying on the table, he had an eraser in one hand and a pencil in the other. He was playing with them as if they were figurines. "I will destroy you, Senior Pencil!" He made the eraser say in a deep voice.
"No no, man, not if I destroy you first," he made the pencil say in a shitty Mexican accent. He collided the two of them into each other a few times before having the pencil's tip stab into the eraser.
"OH! The agony!"
"HAHA, I told you—" The door to the throne room slammed up, making Lucas react in a bad way….he swiped the two "figures" aside, which only ended up hitting one of his two guards', Joker, crotch. Joker fell from pain.
"Ahh, dammit!" he squealed. Lucas simply interlocked his fingers and smiled innocently. The smile disappeared when he saw Little Mac walking up to him with Ness, who he didn't even know, in his hands. Little Mac kneeled down after forcing Ness to do the same.
"My liege, the prisoner that tried to break in."
"Ahh, yes, I totally knew about this….." Lucas looked at his other guard, Ryu. "Someone tried to break in?"
"Yes sir, a long time ago," Ryu whispered.
"How was I not informed about this?"
"You were sir. You were just taking a bubble bath when you were told."
"Oh," Lucas chuckled lightheartedly, "Right, I loved that bath." He cleared his throat before looking at Little Mac and Ness. "May I see the boy?"
"The boy? I'm older than you!" Ness called up. Lucas crossed his arms and scoffed. Ryu walked up to Ness and forced him to stand back up. Ness walked, with Ryu intimidatingly behind him, toward Lucas. Even after Ness was in place, Ryu stood behind him. Lucas wasn't an intimidating prince whatsoever. Nothing about him would make someone think of strong or tough or anything along those lines. He would even be considered childish for his age, only being a year younger than Ness, who was arguably more mature. Lucas couldn't keep his eyes from darting to Ness's underwear.
"Alright….what's your name?"
"How can I be a prisoner of yours and you not know my name? Are you an idiot or something?"
"I have nothing to do with the prison system."
"Say your name," Ryu shoved Ness slightly.
"Name's Ness."
"Ness…..On your knees."
"You're not gonna make me suck your dick, are you?"
"What? Gross, no." Ness was forced down to his knees by Ryu. Lucas cleared his throat. "So, how long have you been down there?"
"Most my life." Lucas crossed his feet and tapped his chin.
"So would you like to leave? Live a normal life out in the kingdom?" Ness, not to Lucas's surprise, shook his head.
"I've been in that damn cell for god knows how long. I know nothing of the outside world….I wouldn't survive." Lucas looked out at the door to his throne room
"Ahh yes, you would be like a zoo-ed up animal being let out for the first time….I know!" Lucas stood up and motioned for Ness to do the same. Ness did with a confused face. "Before I tell you, though, what would you like to happen?"
"Die."
"Die?"
"Yes."
"Ahh, well, you're not gonna die."
"Dang it."
"Follow me." Ness, sort of surprised Lucas didn't want to just outright kill him, decided to just go along with it. Lucas led Ness out of the throne room and up to the second floor, where all of the bedrooms were. Ness was still obviously confused.
"What exactly are you going to do with me."
"You're going to stay here." Ness stopped.
"What?" Lucas turned his head and showed off a smile that was so positive, so sweet, that it felt like it was giving Ness cavities.
"I said you're going to stay here. You can't go out into the world, nor do I want to kill you, so you'll stay here….for now."
"You must be lonely." Lucas shot back around.
"Indeed." He continued walking. Ness actually somewhat felt bad. He turned his head back and saw that he was being followed by the two guards.
"You guys suck."
"Hey," Lucas whispered right next to Ness. This caused Ness to jump back.
"How the hell did you get there?"
"Don't mind that. Want to know a way to get away from them?" Ness couldn't lie. He was intrigued. He was wondering why he would know of a way to get rid of the two people hired to protect him. However, his intrigue outmatched his wonder. He grew a slick smirk.
"Of course." Lucas grabbed Ness's hand and ran off, with the guards following. Lucas and Ness continued running until they made it to a bathroom, which they entered. This wasn't the normal bathroom Lucas would use on his off time, this was a bathroom that guests would use. It had stalls, urinals, sinks, and dryers. Lucas locked the door behind them and grinned maniacally. "We're not really away from them." Lucas hushed him. He ran over to one of the urinals and grabbed the flusher. This opened up a trap door on the floor next to the urinal. Lucas motioned down there with a happy smile. "Woah….how have people not found this out before?"
"It only allows my handprint. Now come on, before they get in." Lucas jumped into the trapdoor. Ness was a little hesitant, but as he said before, there was really nothing for him, so it'd be no harm to follow this odd prince. He jumped down and slid down a slide. Ness was honestly having fun. He hasn't been on a slide since he was like five years old. The slide was over when he was caught by Lucas. He just gave him a confused look. "Since you've been stuck in the cell, the fall would've been dangerous." Ness looked up and saw that, after the slide, it was a drop straight down. It wasn't too big of a drop, but Lucas was right, since he didn't eat much nor work out much, his feet were pretty weak. He was surprised he was even able to walk as smoothly as he did. He looked back at Lucas and saw a blush trapped in his cheeks. He pushed away from him, landing on the ground.
"Better watch that blush of yours dude."
"Wah?" Lucas felt his cheeks before chuckling nervously. He cleared his throat. "Just, uh, follow me." Lucas quickly walked down the dark hall. Ness had gotten used to dark halls so his eyes were very much adapted to this type of darkness. Ness then saw that Lucas stopped, although it didn't seem like he stopped at anything. It was just more hallway, or at least it looked like that. Lucas looked back at Ness and showed off a very cocky smile. Ness raised an eyebrow.
"You're an odd prince." Lucas giggled as he stuck his tongue out. He looked out at the supposed hall. Lucas reached his hand up and it looked like he was touching a wall, despite the hall looking like it continued.
"Sunflower." Ness only grew more confused. That was when the place he was touching solidified into an actual wall. But it wasn't just a wall, it was also a door. Lucas opened it and motioned for Ness to enter. "Go on." Ness walked into the room, but not without giving Lucas an odd look. Once he was in, Lucas followed. He closed the door, causing the door and wall to disappear back into its hall appearance. Inside this strange room was what seemed to be a fully functioning club. Music was blaring, people were drinking and dancing, and ladies and men were bringing other ladies and men into private rooms.
"What the hell is this place?"
"It's a club. Duh," Lucas sarcastically said. He proudly looked at the club.
"Say….what are you exactly going to do with me?" Ness was honestly somewhat scared. Seeing all these people live normal lives frightened him. He has never interacted with people outside of the guards in over a decade, he had no clue what to do if they even so much as asked what he liked to do for fun.
"I'm going to get you settled into normal life so you can leave."
"Why do you want me to leave." Lucas looked down and sighed.
"Honestly, I don't….but keeping you locked up in a cell then in a castle is a prison." Ness looked at Lucas, who now looked extremely sad.
"Are you speaking from experience?" Lucas just breathed. He was silent for minutes, ignoring anything and everything that came from Ness's mouth. Ness started panicking. His panic grew when he saw someone walking up to them. This boy looked similar to him. Although, this one was clearly royalty….and well, actually had more than underwear on. He also had a cup of some type of alcohol in his hands. Ness sporadically looked around, trying to find some way to not stick out. He decided to just hide behind Lucas's frozen figure. The boy stopped a few feet from Lucas and took a sip of his drink.
"Didn't know our precious Lucas had himself a boyfriend and one not royalty too," the boy said with an obvious drunken voice.
"BOYFRIEND!" Ness yelled with an embarrassed blush. He stepped from behind Lucas and shook his head more sporadically. "W-we're not…..no way!" The boy crossed his arms and tilted his head.
"I don't know. Lucas was never seen with another person before….more or less a boy around his age. And a good looking one at that," he winked.
"G-good looking?" The boy giggled as Ness covered up his chest as if he had anything to look at there.
"No worries, I'm not flirting with you. I don't want Lucas being mad at me. He's scary when he's mad." Ness looked back at Lucas. He grew slightly concerned. Lucas still wasn't moving, and now, it didn't even look like he was breathing.
"What's wrong with him?"
"I dunno. He usually gets like that when someone brings up his parents." The boy drank some more.
"Well, how do I fix him?"
"I dunno, maybe true love's kiss?" the boy clearly joked. Lucas's body was changing color. Showing he was indeed not breathing. Ness was fully panicking right now. If he got life for just breaking into the castle, he was scared of what they would do if he killed the prince. He wasn't scared of death, he was more scared of what would cause said death. He ended up just doing what the boy clearly joked about. He brought the prince he had just re-met into a…..strange kiss. He had never seen a kiss before, obviously, so he had no clue how to do it or even what it looked like. He ended up just pitting his mouth over Lucas's mouth and nose. The boy just observed this with glee as he drank more of his seemingly bottomless drink. After Ness's "kiss" he stepped back from Lucas, anxious and nervous. He waited quietly until he heard Lucas's air escape his nose. He gave a breath of relief as the color in Lucas's pale skin returned to normal. Lucas shook his head before looking at the boy.
"Oh, Ninten, how's it hanging?"
"Oh, you know, the usual," Ninten said. He looked in his cup and pouted. "Dammit, outta booze."
"HOW'RE YOU SO NORMAL! AFTER WHAT I'VE DONE, NOT EVEN A THANKS!" Ness yelled in anger. Lucas turned toward him.
"What did you do? Why wouldn't I be normal?" Ness opened his mouth to say something, but Ninten, shaking off all drunkenness inside of him, stepped up and covered Ness's mouth.
"Don't worry about it, Lucas. He just wants to kiss you, is all."
"Uhh, I doubt that." Ninten leaned his head down to Ness's ear.
"Don't bring his parents up. Or what happens when said parents are brought up," he whispered.
"But I didn't bring them up…"
"I'm sure something you said triggered memories."
"What're you guys talking about?" Lucas asked, feeling a little left out. Ninten stood up straight and normally, smiling.
"Don't worry, bro." He walked up to him. "How 'bout we get you drunk."
"No thanks. I need to help him with publicity, or whatever."
"Oh, by the way, Ness thinks you're worthy of protecting him."
"How do you know my name?" Ninten looked at Ness and simply winked. He then ran off toward the bar. Lucas grabbed Ness's hand and ran off. Seeing Lucas's happy-go-lucky self for whatever reason made his heartbeat quickly. He couldn't explain it, but he was glad the boy was up and at-em. It honestly reminded him of back when he broke into the castle, to begin with.
11 years ago
Ness snuck past the tall and intimidating figures that stood in front of the closed door. He found it quite difficult to run up all those steps to even get to this point, the last thing he wanted was to get caught by those men with these very sharp spears. He was able to stay along the wall of the castle. He needed to find a window low enough for him to get in. After walking for what seemed to be a mile, he found a window low enough. He looked in and saw an empty room with four pretty big and fancy looking chairs. He grabbed a device from his pocket and placed it against the window. He clicked the button that was on the triangular device and it turned the window into a ball for him to grab and toss away. He jumped in and was finally inside the castle.
The throne room was empty. It was late at night, so he expected the royal family to be asleep in their beds. He crouch ran to the door to exit the throne room. He struggled to open the door, but when he did, he heard more guards patrolling the halls. Their chatter was nothing important to him. All he cared about was the sound and how close they sounded. This time, in particular, they were close but not close enough that he'd need to fear getting caught. Their voices were getting further and further. Ness brought out his trusty dagger.
He was young, yes, but he was trained. This wasn't his first break-in. This just happened to be the more secured place he broke into. He knew how to handle a dagger. He knew the best place to use the dagger on a human body.
He ran out of the throne room and saw that there were three different places to go. He took the left route. It was a hall that wrapped around onto the side of the throne room. He saw a guard with a walkie-talkie. It was perfect, the armor they wore wasn't protecting the place. He snuck to one of the couches that lined the walls of this hall as the guard started patrolling back the way he came, to the entrance of the throne room. Ness, being a small-statured boy wearing dark clothing, was able to blend into the dark shadow of the couch, so when the guard got to where he was, he couldn't see him. When the guard walked far enough ahead, Ness jumped from the shadow and onto the guard's back. He covered the guard's mouth and stabbed the dagger at the back of his neck right under his skull. His single strike paralyzed the guard. He fell forward, incapable of speech but still clinging to life. Ness didn't want to kill, he never did, unless he needed to. And in this case, he needed to. He twisted the knife that was still inside him and ripped it out, splattering blood on his face and killing the guard.
He didn't waste time after that. He ran down the hall quietly and found a staircase. He walked up the staircase. He saw another long hall. This time around, it was accompanied by many rooms. One room, in particular, had light coming from the bottom, top, and sides of the door. Someone was in there. He needed to be careful. He doubted that whoever was in that room was a guard.
He quietly ran down the hall, intending to just bypass the door entirely. He stopped when he heard a young giggle coming from the room. His mind told him not to check, and to just move on….but by the time his mind told his body that, he was already at the door, peering through the keyhole. He saw a family. It wasn't any ordinary family, though, it was the royal family. The queen, the king, the two princes, and the royal pup. The orange-haired prince was already asleep, but the blonde wasn't. In fact, the blonde looked like he had been crying. His eyes were stained red. But now, he was happily giggling. Why? Because the king and the queen were reading him a happy story about a red overall-ed plumber saving a pink-dressed princess from an evil mutant turtle that actually wasn't named after some renaissance artist. Seeing this sight, the happy blonde, made Ness smile. It was an honest smile. He hadn't smiled of true honesty in too long. He looked down at his hands and saw them stained with blood. He peered back into the keyhole and saw the royal pup jump onto the bed and lick the blonde prince, making him giggle some more. Ness, the pathetic little thief, and murderer, blushed. He enjoyed the innocence in the giggle. Almost as if nothing could tear him down.
Sadly, he couldn't enjoy the sights and sounds from the room for much longer, since the other guard came up the stairs to alert the royal family of the break-in. He saw Ness. Ness knew he had been spotted, but he didn't care. He wanted to spend his last moments of freedom, reveling in the happiness being emitted from the room. As he knew karma was catching up to him, a single tear ran down his blushed and smiling face. He was caught.
Present
Lucas had taken Ness around to nearly every person in the club. All of which were princes, princesses, royal guards, or any other royal servants. Ness didn't find interacting with people as hard as he thought, he actually sort of enjoyed it. After thinking they talked to everyone, Lucas took Ness to a couch in the corner of the club. Lucas sat back on it with a relieved sigh. "Man, how's all that walking doing for ya? I'm pooped, I'll tell ya."
"My feet are definitely worn," Ness said, rubbing and massaging his feet. Lucas rested his head back against the couch. Ness saw him and heard that innocent giggle from when they were kids. He wanted to hear him giggle again. He was able to sneakily and quietly slide to Lucas's side.
Heh, I've still got it
Ness cleared his throat, making Lucas jump. "Jeez, you're sneaky. No wonder you're a thief."
"Heh, you were quite sneaky too. We could be thief partners," Ness chuckled as he playfully nudged Lucas's side. Lucas simply smiled, which wasn't what Ness wanted. He wanted to hear Lucas giggle. He needed to do something more drastic. He didn't even know if this would work, but he needed to try. He started trying to tickle Lucas's stomach, only making Lucas temporarily confused.
Dammit, nothing?
Lucas firmly grabbed Ness's hands and lowered his head down to Ness's. "Trying to tickle me?"
"N-no."
"Uh-huh." This was what Ninten was talking about. Lucas's eyes were deep and scary. He was emitting an aura that was making Ness very nervous. He would even say he was scared, which, being scared of a person was a new feeling for him. Lucas pushed Ness to lay down on the couch as he stayed above him the entire time. He looked down at Ness and grinned devilishly. He started tickling Ness, surprisingly, making him all-out laugh. The laugh, unlike his voice, was so full of emotion, joy, and was actually pretty high-pitched. Ness was laughing so hard tears started streaming from his face. Lucas abruptly stopped, straightening his back to get a good view of Ness. Ness wiped the tears of laughter from his eyes.
"Man, don't do that." This actually caused Lucas to giggle.
Mission successful.
Lucas started blushing as he saw that Ness was smiling, he was enjoying his time. Lucas lowered, only having his head separated from Ness's by a few inches, enhancing both of their blushes. "So….I heard you wanted to kiss me?" Ness's original answer was no….but for whatever reason, he didn't want to say no. Could he possibly want the kiss?
"I….." Ness compared Lucas's more mature giggle to the one from back when they were kids. He knew which one he preferred...the mature one. The giggle complemented so much of Lucas. He'd go as far as to say, with his giggle alone…..he fell for the blonde prince. He determined he may have even fallen for the prince all the way back from when they were kids and only now when they're both older, did he realize that. "Perhaps." Lucas rubbed Ness's cheek.
"Good, that's enough for me." Lucas lowered his face and softly collided his lips into Ness's. The sensation of Lucas's soft lips against his made Ness's heart instantly flutter. He swore he lost control of his body as he wrapped his arm around Lucas and copied his lip movements. Lucas moved his lips away and saw that Ness still had his in place for a bit before returning to normal. "Heh, who would've thought the bad boy thief would be such a bottom." Ness huffed before looking away.
"Wh-whatever." Lucas sat up and slid off of Ness.
"Fine then, if that's the case, I'll just return to the castle and leave you here." He got off the couch and started walking away from Ness. As much as he hated himself for what he thought of the blonde prince, he hated seeing him walk away more. He needed the prince. The prince did something to him that no one was capable of doing. The blond prince, the boy who ruled a whole kingdom of nobles and warriors, stole something quite valuable of Ness's. Ness shot up and ran after Lucas. He collided into Lucas with a hug.
"Please...don't leave me." Lucas looked back and smirked.
"Awe, look at you. Being a cute little…..what was that?" Ness's eyes lowered.
"A…..a cute little bottom." Lucas smirked, knowing he perfectly got his way. He turned around and grabbed Ness's chin.
"Good." Lucas kissed Ness once more. "Now then, I have a proposal."
"What is it?"
"I want to try that thieving business." Ness grew surprised.
"Really?" Lucas nodded. "Are you sure you want to talk like that here?"
"Don't worry, Ness, we here are a tight group. They'd help me get away with murder if I needed it." Hearing that Lucas, the blonde prince, the boy he had fallen for from so little interaction, wanted to do the same thing that he thrived in his life to be an expert at made him so happy and only made him fall for the prince more.
"I….I'd love to teach you what I hopefully remember."
"I'm glad."
"But….."
"But?"
"But…..you're already pretty skilled." Lucas tilted his head, confused. "You've stolen this thief's heart…..and I'm not mad about that." Ness interlocked his fingers with Lucas's as Lucas smiled at what he said.
"Look at you, growing into your status quite well." Lucas giggled. "Now then, shall we get to training?" Ness happily nodded. "Love you, my little thief."
"Love you too, my prince."
YO YO. Ok, so, if you didn't see, I was taking questions to turn into stories. I decided to change them up and just have the questions be very mini stories at the end of the chapter I'm doing that week. You can still ask any questions you want anywhere and anytime, but hey, the fact I have four is already pretty amazing in my book. Anywhosy, this is a look of what I'm doing with 'em.
#1) From Sky/Shinobu (Smash Fandom on Amino)
"I would ask Cloud what he thinks of Sephiroth Being introduced to Smash."
Sephiroth slid to Cloud's side and raised his eyebrows up and down as if flirting. Cloud was just blank-faced as always. "Do I really need to answer that?" Cloud asked.
"Come on, Twink, it's not that hard of a question to answer," Sephiroth taunted.
"For one, don't call me that, and two...I enjoy you being in Smash." Sephiroth took a very surprising step back as he looked down at the still blank-faced man. Cloud had an intimidating pride in him.
"How come?"
"It just means I get to beat you over...and over...and over...and over again."
"Yeah. I get to do the same to you." Cloud growled before bringing out his sword and holding it toward Sephiroth, wanting to make due on a promise he had made to himself. Sephiroth soon brought out his own sword. "Let's do this, Wonderboy."
#2) From ~Lord Hyness~ (Smash Fandom on Amino)
"I would like to ask Kirby a question (May have to get Dedede or Meta Knight to translate). Kirby, when do you think your good pal Bandana Dee will get sent his invitation? I mean doesn't it get boring with just you, Dedede, and Meta Knight?"
"Ok Kirby, which one do you want to answer first?" Meta Knight asked.
"POY!"
"Ok, the second one."
"Poyo!"
"He says, 'yes'...good thing Dedede ain't here, he would not have liked that answer." Kirby crossed his arms in a very sassy way. "Ok, now the main one."
"Poy, poyoyo. Poy poy, poyoyoyo. Poyo. Poyoyo..." Kirby trailed on, and on, and on for what seemed to be hours. After he was done, he huffed. Meta Knight cleared his throat.
"All in all, he says 'soon'." Meta Knight then pulled Kirby aside. "You can't say that stuff, this place is for good boys and girls, no death threats," he whispered.
"Poyoyo," Kirby says in an extremely sassy tone. There was then a loud stomp.
"WHAAAAAAAT!" King Dedede's voice shook Kirby and Meta Knight.
"Crap, let's fly."
"I am not a fat cheesecake you stupid little..." King Dedede's voice trialed off as he ran after the other two.
#3) From PikaShmikaPaprika (Smash Fandom on Amino)
"I would like to ask DK about the perfect banana curvature"
Donkey Kong grinned as he ran off. He came back with a pair of glasses on and a banana in his hands. "You see, this is perfect yellow banana," he said with a deep and oddly caveman-esk voice he only holds when talking about banana curvature...apparently, it's not the first time. "This is no brown, me likey. Me also like rubbing me face against it, like this." Donkey Kong proceeded to rub his face against the banana. "Allows me to see smooth it is, this one is perfectly smooth. No bumpy banana for me. Now watch." Donkey Kong slowly and methodically pinched the tip of the banana and unpeeled part of the banana, it looked like it was going to come down in three parts. He then showed off the perfectly white texture of the banana. "See, nothing but banana perfection. Me also like doing Popeye move, like this." He then squeezes the bottom of the banana and it springs up and falls right into Donkey Kong's mouth. After eating the banana in one gulp he smiled. "Me also not like eating single banana. Me must eat many." He runs off and brings back a large pile of bananas that he was somehow able to carry in one trip. And in a few minutes...nothing but banana peels were gone. Donkey Kong slide back, fully stuffed and satisfied. "Me love banana."
That was when Mario stepped into the house and saw the mess. "Aw mama mia..."
"OOO OOO!" Donkey Kong jumps out the window.
"Not-a again."
#4) From Claus (Smash Fandom on Amino)
"For Lucas: Beating people up won't bring Mom back."
"CLAUS!" Lucas whined loudly. Ness stood next to him and just tilted his head.
"That's not really a—"
"Shut up Ness."
"Oh?" Ness crossed his arms. Lucas sighed.
"Sorry, I just wanna respond to by dick of a brother." He cleared his throat. His eyes were clearly on the verge of tears. "I know beating people won't bring Mom back...but does being a dick bring you back..." Lucas then ran off in a tearful mess. Ness sighed. He started slowly following Lucas and watched as, in his teary mess, he ran into the wrong locker room.
"Crap. LUCAS! WRONG ONE!" After a loud screech, Lucas walked out with a blank face and a very defined red mark on his cheek. "Man, you are not having the best day."
"...yeah..."
