Claimer: Steal my story and I will hunt you down and sic Anaya on you. --- On second thought, she wouldn't do that, only cuz I asked, so I would tear you limb from limb myself (evil grin) you've been warned…

A/N: You've seen my typical morning, now prepare for my typical breakfast…duh duh duuuuuuuuuun!

Anaya and Laveda entered the dining room quietly, only the sounds in the room being the padding of their feet across the tatami mats covering the floor.

Their mother didn't look up from the head of the table as they sat down in their places on her right, and none of them spoke as they waited for the males of the family.

The sisters both sat with their heads down and their hands folded neatly in their laps as their brother walked in, and despite their attempts, neither of them could help but smirk at the scent of smoke that covered him.

Jayden glared at his sisters momentarily before taking his seat across from Laveda, a low growl rumbling from his chest.

His mother's head snapped up suddenly and she looked back and forth between the three siblings. The lingering scent of smoke wafted from her son and she sighed as she realized what must have happened.

"Stop that girls, there's no need to be cruel to your brother. Jayden, no growling at the table." She said, forcing her hands still. She had the sudden desperate urge to rub her temples.

The sun was hardly in the sky and yet her son had already had to force her daughters apart from each other to prevent bloodshed. The scorch marks on hispants proved it.

The girls sneered discreetly at their mother when she wasn't looking, and Jayden huffed at her call-out, crossing his arms in frustration. Turning back to look at his sisters, he stuck his tongue out at the twins. They returned it double, and Laveda giggled at her brother's miffed expression, Anaya merely rolled her eyes.

The door to the dining room swung open again and a lean man strode through, the tiny clawed hand of his youngest son held gently in his own. The man smiled at his family as he sat the little one in his seat on his his right, next to Jayden and across from Anaya before sitting down himself.

"Morning family." He chorused.

"Morning." They all returned. Laveda touched her father's hand gently to get his attention and smiled when he turned to look at her.

"Are we training today dad? I heard you in the dojo when I was coming down for breakfast."

"It's Anaya's day to train today sweetheart, you have your own lessons to attend to."

"Ok." Laveda answered, not at all happy about having to give up training with her father to go to dance.

Her parents – wisely – never let Laveda and Anaya train together, for fear they might actually kill each other when exposed to deadly swords and other various weapons. Jayden didn't train with his sisters, he was a close range killer, using his bare hands to get the job done, whereas his sisters used swords, daggers, whips, sickles, chains, and any other weapons they could get their hands on. Training with them would be useless, not to mention bloody, as both the sisters were extremely skilled in their work.

He trained with his father, both were similar in build and their skill levels were about even so they trained very well together.

Her father had refused to teach his daughters close combat, insisting that they would better be able to protect themselves if they were armed.

Laveda didn't think so, but her father insisted she had a dagger hidden in her sleeve at all times should the time arise that she would need it. Along with their daggers, father had put a spell on their weapons that would turn their blades to wood should they use them against each other.

Two servants entered the room, each carrying six plates in their numerous arms. Laveda thanked the insect demons as they set the food before the family, and as soon as they left, Anaya and Laveda dove into the many succulent servings, loading their plates with their favorite foods.

Jayden did the same as his parents calmly took decent sized servings of each food for themselves.

"Jayden?" his mother called, "would you please set Myles' plate for him?"

"Sure mom." Jayden answered, piling a huge spoonful of eggs onto his little brother's plate. Myles giggled childishly and clapped his hands as Jayden loaded stewed vegetables onto the eggs, and poured nearly half the gravy boat onto the whole thing. Laveda made a face, while Anaya pointedly ignored them all.

"Is that even edible?" Laveda asked, her nose scrunched in disgust.

Jayden shrugged and finished heaping food on his own plate. "Myles seems to like it."

And indeed he did, the little golden haired wolf-dragon was busily filling his face with the strange concoction, a happy smile plastered on his face.

"Ug."

Laveda couldn't watch the little one eat, and focused on eating her toast, listening intently to the conversation around her but keeping her eyes on her plate.

Only her parents were talking, as their kids were too busy filling their faces to add into the conversation.

"…what about their homework, you know how their teachers love to pile it up over the weekend."

"Don't worry about it koi, they'll have plenty of time to finish it tomorrow, after all, it's only Saturday." Father defended, taking a large bite of a roll.

"You say that every week, yet somehow Anaya still manages to fail biology, and Laveda's on the brink of failing history." She chorused, barely avoiding Anaya's head with a fork as she gestured wildly.

"I'm not failing anythin' mum." Gloated Jayden through a mouthful of eggs.

"Don't even me started on you mister." She growled. Jayden swallowed his food painfully and kept his eyes glued to his plate after that.

"I can't believe you!" She burst out, though no one knew who she was talking to.

Laveda snickered as Anaya had to dodge another flying arm of her mother's and didn't notice her brothers on the other side of the table watching, amused as Anaya's eyes flashed angrily. The black hybrid growled lightly and pinched her sister under the table, just hard enough to draw blood. Laveda gasped silently in surprise but the feeling didn't last long as a dark glow began forming around her hands and her eyes narrowed furiously.

Little Myles stuck a raw carrot in his mouth, sucking on it hungrily and wide eyed as he watched his sisters glare at each other, the entire scenario going unnoticed by his parents, who were still bickering quietly. Jayden just smirked wickedly and kicked both girls in the shins, effectively breaking up the growing fight but regretfully turning the angry glares the sisters had before been aiming at each other to himself.

Myles giggled happily as his older brother paled, and the sound pulled his parents attention to them all.

"Can't you all ever stop fighting? Just for one day?" Their mother snapped, her back rigid as she stood to confront her children.

"Come now Adrianna, there's no need to yell at them." Said their father as he too stood up, but to confront his wife, not his children.

They once again began bickering, and as Anaya's rage settled down, Laveda's only served to boil further and Jayden could've sworn smoke was curling from her nostrils, though she couldn't breathe fire in her humanoid form.

Laveda jumped from her seat, dangerously close to transformation.

"Will you both just SHUT UP!"

Her sudden outburst quieted the quarrel and she seethed as everyone at the table stared at her in surprise, mouths gaping and everything (though Anaya kept her jaw firmly shut). She glared a bit more at her parents for good measure before starting, her voice icy and calm.

"Maybe we would stop fighting if you did? How does that sound hmm? You two are always at each other's throats, thinking you both know what's best for us, but you're blind to what's really going on in our lives."

She was scolding both of her parents, but she stood firmly facing her mother, fists clenched and eyes burning dangerously.

Jayden sighed silently when he noticed her tone and Laveda heard it, but ignored it angrily, her stony gaze fixed on her mother's face.

Her voice was tense and strained, he could tell she was putting all of her effort into sounding calm and collected instead of following her instincts and torching the room with angry black fireballs.

Her mother lowered her eyes at the truth in her daughter's words, and behind her, her father was speechless.

He knew both his girls had tempers, but it was the first time Laveda had turned her fury on them, her own parents, and he too lowered his gaze, regretting the fact that his fighting with her mother had brought it.

Laveda had no more to say and shoved her chair away from her roughly, sending it toppling over in her fury. Her mother flinched at the crash as it fell, but Laveda didn't care, she hurled open the dining room door and stalked off down the hall to her room, her back straight and her fists still glowing black.

Myles whimpered, his carrot falling with a dull clatter onto the table. Jayden quietly lifted the toddler from his seat and left the room behind his sister, heading to follow her to her room.

Anaya shrugged, unfazed by the argument. Grabbing a stack of toast from the table, she too left, using the door on the opposite side of the room from the one her siblings had disappeared through to head outside.

The two adults looked at each other sadly and sighed simultaneously, they had really done it now.

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Laveda transformed into her larger form as soon as her door slammed shut behind her, and leapt into her giant beanbag bed, snuggling into it's depths for comfort. As soon as she had closed her eyes, she heard the telltale click of her bedroom door opening. She didn't bother looking up to greet the intruders, she already knew who it was, and quite frankly, she wasn't in the mood for a chat.

Jayden, still carrying the timid Myles in his arms entered the room and looked up at his sister sadly. Then, with a small smile to himself, he put his mouth close to his little brother's ear and whispered to the little one. Myles watched his sister cautiously and stuck a thumb in his mouth at what Jayden had told him to do. When he glanced at his older brother, Jayden just smiled and nodded.

Setting him lightly on the ground, Jayden took a step back as his youngest sibling transformed and padded up to Laveda, who was busy trying to look asleep.

Her resolve to ignore her brothers quickly disappeared as she heard her little brother whimper in distress, and she looked down from her position on her bed to see the little one pawing unhappily at her tail.

Laveda sent Jayden a look that said quite clearly 'no fair' as she picked her little brother up by the scruff and set him in her bed beside her. Jayden just smiled and shrugged it off looking quite pleased with himself.

Myles was roughly the size of Laveda's head in her transformed state when he was in demon form and she laughed quietly as the little one struggled to get comfortable next to his sister. Finally settling down, Myles had curled himself up against her side, one of his amateur golden wings stretched over her back while the other lay tucked against his back.

Jayden just continued to smile, and as his little brother's breathing began to slow he quietly left the room with a last reassuring smile to his sister before shutting it silently behind him, leaving the two alone.

Laveda sighed unhappily, jostling Myles slightly so he whimpered in protest and lay her head down, falling asleep for a midmorning nap as soon as her eyes slid shut.

There ya have it…what breakfast usually consists of everyday (though I've never yelled AT my parents until then. I've argued with them quite a bit, but never directly scolded them. (Sigh) I wonder if I'm going to get grounded for this…) Review!

-Lots a love-

Laveda