"Food," Colonnello says happily as he kicks open the bedroom door carrying a multilayered box. "The sushi from my country is great, try some."
Reborn, now stretched out in a hammock in the corner of Colonnello's bedroom, just rolls over and continues sleeping. He's tired after using so much power these days.
Colonnello drops onto his ice bed and starts unpacking the food. "Aw, cute, he made little sushi characters. Reborn, here, I want to see you eat the lizard."
"Go away," Reborn grumbles. "Get me espresso."
"Rain country doesn't import espresso," Colonnello says around a mouthful of food.
Reborn looks over his shoulder at the Rain with a sneer. "Filthy backwater country. Should have let you all drown."
Colonnello blows a kiss at Reborn but he's still chewing so it looks particularly disgusting.
"Gross," Reborn sighs, rolling onto his stomach.
Colonnello proceeds to chew as loudly as physically possible, mouth open with a lot of lip-smacking. He accidentally spits out some food onto himself though so he looks around for a napkin. There's one inside the lunch box labelled 'For the Sun'.
Colonnello pulls it out and shakes it around so it unfolds but then stops at words scrawled over it.
Please, Sun God, my son and one of your worshippers have been imprisoned. I don't know why but I know they are innocent.
Colonnello swallows thickly. Lal is a 'take no shit, give no fuck' kind of woman so this might be her fault. It most likely is considering he heard Lal muttering about guarding against people attempting to coax the Sun away before the job is done.
He looks at Reborn's back, down to the note, and then slowly starts to stuff it into his pocket.
"Why are you so quiet?" Reborn demands, sitting up. His eyes land on the scrunched napkin, his title visible.
"Listen," Colonnello tries. "I think it's a joke."
Reborn slips into the prison under the lowest light he can produce while still awake. It's a soft dusk that makes shadows lengthen, easily allowing Reborn to blur past the guards after they turn their back for a moment.
The prison cells are mostly underwater, even at this level, because they are deliberately built to be. Reborn pauses at the staircase down, the stone corridor covered in coral and muscles from being underwater for so long before Reborn came.
He slowly takes the stairs down into the hallway with the cells, staying alert in case the guards catch on. Or Colonnello recovers, which would be worse. The blond always seems strangely friendly but Reborn is still wary of him.
It's too dark to see into the cells. Reborn wades through the water and cautiously starts to shine. Just his body, the golden glow bursting from his skin simmering under his clothes.
"Sun!"
Reborn looks back to a cell he just passed. There's a brunet standing at the door, clutching the metal bars with wide eyes. He looks vaguely familiar. Someone who works at the temple.
"Move back," Reborn warns.
He grabs the bars and heats up his hands, melting through even as he shoves them outwards until the metal snaps off completely. The red hot bars sizzle when they hit the cold water.
"I'm sorry," the little human blubbers, throwing himself forward and clinging to the God. "I'm so sorry we let you get stolen from us. You-you were bleeding. I was so scared!"
Reborn pats the human a bit but then gives in and hugs back. Reborn really misses his humans and his lizards and this place is too wet and Colonnello is always too loud. Reborn wants to go home.
"Let's go back," Reborn murmurs into his little worshipper's fluffy hair. The water is low enough, these people can rebuild now without Reborn.
"Um," another human says from further down. "Could I…come out too?"
"Takeshi!" the fluffy human cries. "Yes, o-of course. God, I'm sorry, he tried to help me escape."
Reborn rips the bars off the other human's cell and they slip out through a 'back entrance' Reborn makes by kicking out part of the wall. They creep away and then climb up onto the wooden platforms and bridges to get out of the water and not make so much noise splashing along. Takeshi leads the way but the other human stays close, not letting go of Reborn's hand.
"You work at the temple," Reborn says at a whisper.
The human nods. "A-as a janitor. I'm Tsuna."
"Oh," Reborn realises. "Dame-Tsuna."
"N-no. No exactly. I mean I wouldn't say-"
"Dame-Tsuna, how did you get all the way over here?"
Tsuna opens his mouth to protest again but just shrugs it off. "I was sent. As a scout. To…rescue you?"
Reborn raises an eyebrow. "You could have tried a little harder-"
A blinding flash of lightning and boom of thunder strikes the boardwalk in front of them but behind Takeshi, throwing the three away from each other. Tsuna's hand slips out of Reborn's and they all splash into the water.
Tsuna breaks the surface and splutters, recovering in time to see a tall green haired man in a white coat land on the boardwalk, just behind the exploded wood, the edges still bright red with heat.
The man -a God- grabs Reborn from the water. Reborn struggles, the sky flaring up above them to a blinding intensity, far stronger than the lightning just before. The other God scowls. Lightning crackles along Reborn's body and the Sun slumps into the other's arms.
Darkness descends.
"Reborn!" Tsuna screams in fear.
Tsuna scrambles forward, splashing through the water and hauling himself up onto the platform, but gets cut off by a teen with multiple braids through his wavy black hair. The two bull horns on the teen's head crackle with green energy. A Blessed, someone given the power of a God.
Takeshi rushes forward to try and help, snatching up a long piece of broken off wood and holding it like a sword as he slashes at the newcomer. The other leaps back to avoid it, opening up a path for Tsuna.
"Go!" Takeshi calls out.
Colonnello bursts through the water underfoot and slams into the Lightning God, tackling him away. Reborn drops but another Lightning Blessed with blond hair slicked back snatches him up before he sinks too far.
"Gamma!" the Blessed teenager warns, dodging another swing from Takeshi.
Gamma turns and dodges back in time to avoid Tsuna's reaching hands. Tsuna brushes against Reborn's suit before the Sun is stolen away, Gamma blurring past and quickly becoming nothing more than a streak of light.
Tsuna shudders for a moment, something unfurling inside him as a burning hot streak rushes up his spine. He quickly shakes it off, grits his teeth and gives chase but a sudden cry from Takeshi makes him skid to a halt and turn back.
A normal human with a half-rotten stick fighting against a Blessed? Ridiculous.
Takeshi hits the wooden planks hard, his makeshift sword shattered easily with the strength of Godly lightning. Takeshi raises his arms defensively, but the blow never comes.
Tsuna kicks away the teenager and stands in front of Takeshi protectively, skin glowing gold. Blessed by the Sun.