As Chochorina's hair danced in the wind, Patrasche was sprinting through the forest. Both of the girls loved the feeling of wind, especially Chochorina. Her father always told her to be careful when riding through the forest. He never stopped mentioning to run away from dogs and rabbits. She never asked but her mother always seemed to agree.
Chochorina sometimes felt like her parents worry for her too much. There were few times when her father ever lectured her but when it came to her mother of course; Emilia always told her to watch out for others and not to hide the fact she's a quarter-elf. She never knew why her mother warned her of people, yeah people are dangerous but she can handle herself so what's the issue. Besides Emilia's lectures she's always supportive of what she decides to do.
"Where do you feel like heading Patrasche?" The two would always travel to a nearby village or go see a friend of her dad's. There were days when Chochorina had no idea where to go so she sometimes asked Patrasche if she ever felt going anywhere specific. The ground dragon roared and nodded to a certain direction and Chochorina knew immediately where she wanted to go.
The silvered hair girl nodded and held on tighter as the ground dragon began to accelerate.
"Say Subaru, do you know when Chochorina might come back to eat?" Emilia asked as both Subaru and her were walking down the hall.
As Subaru turned around to answer he realized Emilia won't like his answer. "Well not really. She just asked if she could play with Patrasche but like I said, she ate already."
"Mayonnaise Isn't Food!" Emilia was reaching her limit.
"Look Emilia-tan, she'll come back to eat. Rina is just having fun and before she knows it, she'll be hungry and come back."
"I hope your right. I'm just worried someone might hurt her since she's, well you know..."
Even after all these years people still discriminated demi-humans, especially half and quarter-elves. "She'll be alright, you know everyone who lives around here supports you. This isn't like when you were just a royal candidate, you're the queen now."
14 years ago, the royal selection was held. There were only 4 out of the 5 candidates. Emilia, Felt, Crusch, and Anastasia. Priscilla dropped out since she was needed in Vollachia and became the Empress of the Vollachian Empire. This did help Emilia's odds but that didn't mean her biggest competition dropped out. Her biggest hurdle was undoubtedly Crusch.
Since she gained her memories back, she was able to quickly pick up the support she lost when her memories were taken away. It also didn't help that Anastasia was still gaining support over the years. While it was true Emilia's reputation was better than before it didn't mean her chances of winning increased. No one believed that she had what it took to be Queen.
During the events of Priestella and Pleiades tower Emilia gained attention. After those events Emilia had to prove herself in her leader ship since that was something, she lacked in. Around a year before the royal selection began, the Witch Cult attacked the royal capital. Subaru was needed since he had a history with defeating multiple Archbishops. Before arriving to help the capital, Subaru wanted Emilia to take the lead since, she needed to be in the role of leadership someday.
During that fight Emilia took charge proving herself to the people in the capital and putting herself in the frontlines. Capella was the center of the issues and was quickly captured by Reinhard after dealing with the massive army of Cultist. Many more events led Emilia to allow the people of Lugnica to accept her as a leader and ultimately led Emilia to be the ruler of the Kingdom. That didn't mean her discrimination disappeared.
This discrimination was the only thing Emilia feared that her children would have to come to face. All because they were the descendants of a half-devil. "I know but-"
"She'll be fine trust me; she is our child after all." Subaru smiled at her with no signs of doubt.
"Is it alright if I kiss you?" Emilia stopped and inched further to Subaru.
"Is that a rhetorical question." Subaru smiled and wrapped his arms around Emilia.
Subaru pulled her waist closer to his body and they embraced. Their lips made contact in an instant. As the two felt each other for the billionth time they both couldn't help but enjoy every moment they had together.
As their lips parted Subaru barely had a gasp of air as Emilia returned her lips where she felt at home. Even after all the years together, the two never were ashamed to hide their love for one and another. If anything, their love only made a certain half-elf more assertive when the two got heated. Like the time whe-
"Can the two of you not go a day without making out, I suppose."
The two couple turn around to see Beatrice holding Keid's hand while Keid's face was uncomfortable at the sight of his parents kissing.
"Sorry that you had to see that Keid. I know how weird it feels to see your parents kissing." Subaru kneeled and pet Keid's head. Honestly a 9-year-old would feel pretty disturbed if you saw your parents kiss with someone else watching.
"It's ok but can you not do that again please."
"I promise." That was a lie. Everyone knew Subaru was terrible at keeping his promises. Besides if he let Emilia promise Keid he knew she wouldn't let him kiss her again for the rest of her life.
"So, what are we eating today I'm starving?" As Keid said that he started to walk in between his parents holding their hands.
"Well, we don't know yet since Frederica and Petra haven't come back and I'm not going to have Ram make food."
"What if I make it?" Emilia did get better at making food over the years. If Subaru was being honest with himself it was above average since cooking wasn't something Emilia dedicated her life too.
"Well, that would be better but we still don't have food remember."
As Subaru pointed out Emilia pouted at him. Knowing what she wanted to hear didn't come out.
"But yes, it would be amazing if you made it instead of Ram."
With those words Emilia's face brightened up and started humming and Keid joined her. If one thing hasn't improved of the last 17 years, Emilia was still pretty bad at singing. It also didn't help that Keid was also tone deaf. While Emilia's humming was terrible, Subaru couldn't comprehend what he heard coming from Keid.
"Dad why are you making that weird face?" There wasn't a chance in hell Subaru would be able to endure the noises of death that were transpiring currently. If anything, he'd rather see Liliana's stupid face then hearing whatever this was.
"I think we might need to get bucket-chan again..."
"Where are you going, I suppose?" Beatrice couldn't help but ask her Contractor why he was heading off in the opposite direction.
But Subaru didn't respond back as he walked off to go look for something, I suppose. Beatrice urged Emilia and Keid to head towards the main lobby but Beatrice decided to head towards Subaru.
"Nope not there. Where the hell is it, did they move them somewhere else. I swore that I saw Ram leave one in here before." As Beatrice entered the room, she couldn't help but notice how the entire room was a mess while Subaru was looking for something.
"What are you doing, in fact." Subaru turned around to see the drill loli her arms folded as she stared him down.
"Looking for buckets, didn't you hear how bad Emilia-tan and Keid were humming? It was awful." Subaru couldn't help but try to fix the situation. If he didn't, he knew he was going to die by his wife and kid one day.
"Subaru is useless, I suppose. The buckets are held on the other side of the mansion, in fact." As Subaru heard that he knew where he had to go.
Subaru picked up Beatrice and he decided to venture off to the other side of the mansion. He let Beatrice walk instead of being carried but he knew she missed being held by her Contractor. It's been a while since they've been like this since she was always busy taking care of the kids while Subaru and Emilia were busy dealing with the kingdom.
As the two walked off their minds were set on one thing, to find and ask for bucket-chans guidance once more.
The wind and breeze of the speed that Patrasche was running felt amazing. Chochorina always felt at ease when feeling the air slice through her hair. Patrasche was starting to slow down as soon as their location was in sight, an obstacle course. There were pillars lined up varying in distance and size. Chochorina jumped off the ground dragon to see if she could see him training.
"Not today missy." As Chochorina tried to scout out the blonde-haired tiger she only found herself caught. The quarter-elf turned around nervously to see Garfiel looking down on her.
"I swear I wasn't going to do anything uncle Gar. I just reaaaaally like seeing you train that's all." She wasn't lying about watching him train, she was always excited to see Garfiel run through the obstacle course but she always had a habit of adding something new to the course every time she visited.
"Fine but stay right 'ere. I don't want ya to ruin this for me princess." Garfiel warned the girl as he walked off ready to give another run, but Chochorina was ready to test the golden tiger.
As Garfiel started to run through the course jumping from one pillar to another, he found shards of ice fly past him. He quickly saw that a giggling Chochorina was shooting ice crystals at him and could only bring a smile on his face.
Chochorina got her next pair of crystals ready as soon as Garfiel starts to make his way towards her. She shoots the pair at the tiger but misses due to not predicting where Garfiel will be. As Garfiel closes the distance between them, Chochorina builds up plenty of mana and greats a giant like drill aimed directly at Garfiel.
"My drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!" As the elf announced her final words for her Giga drill break. Garfiel prepared by partially transforming his right arm into his tiger form in order to smash right through Chochorina's drill.
Crystals were sent flying everywhere and a piece even knocked down a pillar. As both Chochorina and Garfiel watch as the pillar falls in its destruction, both of them couldn't help but laugh off the situation.
"Ya almost got me that time. Train a bit more and next time you'll get a hit in."
"No fair you used your tiger form I have no chance on hitting you if you cheat," expressed Chochorina.
"Excuses won't getcha anywhere like that, just ask the cap'n, he may be weak but he's fucking badass." Chochorina couldn't help but doubt that statement. She heard how much her father saved the kingdom of Lugnica with her mother. She knew how strong her mother was as she apparently holds the most amount of mana in the entire world and it wasn't even a competition. Her father on the other hand was apparently the weakest knight in the entire kingdom. To her it didn't make sense how he was so weak but he was so amazing and labeled a hero.
"Fine I'll ask him but he would just tell me to never give up." The princess couldn't help but remember the same advice Subaru always told her. "But if I ask him how he would do it he'll just say he can't tell me how."
"The cap'n just has his own way with dealing with things. Just ask him how he beat my amazin' self. That should give ya an idea." While true she has heard her father beat Garfiel and she never did ask.
"O K! Let's go and ask dad right now, come on Patrasche let's go home really quick so we can kick uncle Gar's butt. As the elven princess ran towards the ground dragon, she jumped right on to the saddle and let out a cry to head out.
Chochorina looked back at Garfiel and waved her hands as she disappeared back into the forest. While on her way back home she couldn't help but think why her dad was called weak. To her, Subaru was a hero because he was strong not because he was weak. Someone who is weak wouldn't work so hard to protect people and almost die but because they do so they're strong. To Chochorina that's what it takes to become strong, to never give up. So why did many people call her dad the weakest knight?
According to stories Chochorina heard about her dad, Subaru was the one who knew the most about defeating the Witch Cult that was active a couple of years back. Subaru also was the one who killed sloth, the white whale, and the great rabbit. He also formed the pairs of teams that would head out and kill the Archbishops in Priestella and allowed the group of people in Pleiades tower to survive. Eventually a couple of years ago it was found out that he was also a Sage Canidate.
The Sage was one of the three hero's that stopped The Witch of Envy from destroying the world. He was the next sage similar to Reinhard to how he was the current Sword Saint. In this case it was much more of a surprise since no one expected a sage candidate to be a thing, especially it being Subaru.
There was many thing Subaru did afterwards as the sage such as helping in the battle in the royal capital and allowing Reinhard to capture Capella. It was also found out that Subaru was able to absorb all the Witch Factors and with the death of Capella Subaru was able to revert everyone back to normal that was affected by the authority of Lust. Chochorina also heard he held every Witch Factor but he doesn't use most of them for some reason.
As Chochorina was trying to sort out all the stories she's heard about her dad she found herself seeing the Mansion up ahead. One thing was for certain. She wasn't ready for what was transpiring inside the mansion.
"Louder Keid-sama. You won't be able to improve if you stay quiet or do you want to be as useless as your waste of life 'father'." Out of all things that she was expecting to happen today, this was not it.
"Keid you have to be like me if you want to be good," said Emilia with a bucket on her head. "Emilia-sama if anything you don't have a say in this at all."
"Huuuuh you sure? I'm pretty sure I'm good at this now." While both Emilia and Ram were discussing the topic of Emilia's terrible singing, Keid was making little to no noises with bucket-chan.
"Keid if you don't want to do this anymore then you could just take the bucket off you know." Subaru was watching over the two's performances and while Emilia was 'trying', Keid hasn't been exactly the most excited for this activity. "I want to practice but I don't want to practice here..."
"Then come with me, I suppose. If you don't want to practice with others around you than Betty will watch over your progress." Beatrice walked over to the young boy and offered her hand.
"I-I'm good, I just don't want to practice right now is all." It was obvious to everyone in the room the Keid wasn't the most confident when it came to his appearance and talents. Subaru sometimes wondered if his confidence was something that was passed down from him when he wasn't confident in his ability to save others. "Keid..."
"You okay Keid? Subaru caught Keid in silence and its worried Subaru. He had to be honest with him. If anyone would be able to tell what was wrong with Keid, it would be him. "I don't know if you would understand." Keid couldn't lie to him when he asks something like that up front. His mother always told him that it wasn't good to lie and he took it to heart. "There's a good chance that I would be able to understand, you just have to let others know that you need something."
"Can I tell you later, right now I'm hungry." Subaru just chucked it up as he found out his son's priorities. "Yeah, we'll go get something to eat. Go and tell Rem to get the food ready while I get your mother and sister really quick. Oh, also take Beako with you." With that Keid and Beatrice ran off to the kitchen leaving Subaru to deal with Emilia and Ram.
"Compared to 17 years ago I'm really good now I'll let you know."
"True, back then I still held respect for you until you decided to marry an ugly man with no worth."
"You reaaally can't be honest with your feelings Ram. I remember you shedding a tear at our wedding, it was reaaaaally nice of you." Ram couldn't help but be offended by that statement.
"Emilia-sama you should watch you speak of because I remember no such thing ever happening. To even think I helped you raise these poor infants that have the same blood as Barusu."
"Hey! I'm right here you know!" Subaru couldn't help but jump in the conversation since his name was being bashed. "Barusu if you think you have something worth saying say it then." Ram folded her arms as she waited for an answer to come out.
"Well, uuuuhhhh...shit." He didn't exactly have a proper response since anything he say would sound stupid. "Thought so."
"If dad is reaaaaaaally so bad then how come he's a hero?" Chochorina couldn't help but also join in on the conversation.
"That's because you father is a useless man that only has one good thing about him and that's his stupid timing. Where ever he goes he manages to fix the situation without issues." That would be the closest thing to a complement that Ram will ever say about Subaru. "Well doesn't that make him useful then? I think you can't be honest and just tell us that you reaaaally care about dad. If you reaaaaally didn't care then why did you help me make his birthday present that one time?"
"Awww why you look at that. I knew you loved me." Subaru came close to Ram with open arms before she shut him down. "Touch me and I'll make sure that you'll never be able to create another child ever again." Ram glared back daggers as Subaru backed off as he liked where his dick was as it is.
"Maybe we should go eat and show all our love to the food instead." Emilia clapped her hands as she announced what they should all do. "Emilia-tan has the right idea. Let's Go!"
After a well-cooked meal from Rem, Chochorina and Keid ran outside and decided to play with couple of the spirits Emilia calls. Both Subaru and Emilia were sitting down while watching from the side as they saw their children play with each other.
"I'm glad Rina and Keid get along perfectly fine with each other." Subaru couldn't help but be grateful that his kids didn't fight each other. "They're siblings, of course they would get along."
"Emilia-tan not all siblings get along, there is some that just don't like each other for no reason." Both Emilia and Subaru didn't have much experiences with siblings. Emilia never had much time we her family before she got frozen for 100 years and the only thing close to a family was Puck and that was it. Subaru got along with his parents but his admiration for his father held him back. So, when the day came that the two wanted to build a family, both were nothing more than happy that they could even have something like this. "I know it's just that, I'm glad that we're allowed to be this happy," Emilia said this as she rested her head on Subaru's shoulders. "Yeah, me too."
Emilia wanted to do her best for her children and make sure they experience nothing but happiness so they don't have to go through what she did. Subaru wanted nothing more than for his family to get along with each other like with his parents. One thing that always worried him was either of his kids developing similar issues that he went through with his own parents. In a way it is happening with Keid.
Thankfully Subaru was able to pick up on this early on. He wants to make sure, step by step, that Keid is confident in his own strengths and doesn't compare himself to his parents. Emilia herself knows that Keid has these issues but she has this feeling that she shouldn't exactly interfere just yet. She always seen how much time and care Subaru puts into helping out Keid whenever and however he can.
As the two watched the kids play, a certain drill loli decided to appear. "You two seem to be enjoying yourselves, in fact."
"We sure are Beako. Wanna join us?" Subaru pat his thighs inviting the Great Spirit.
"If Subaru wish's for Betty to comfort him clearly his wife isn't taking much care of her Contractor, I suppose." Beatrice declared as she made her way right into Subaru's laps. "Huuuuh? I'm positive that I'm taking care of Subaru just fine. I hug him every day and tell him I love him." Emilia was sure that Subaru was perfectly fine with her. Every moment they get with each other, Emilia makes sure that any stress Subaru has she plans on taking it away, whatever method it takes.
"An airhead like you couldn't understand Subaru's needs. Maybe if you were as cute as Betty than maybe this wouldn't be an issue, in fact." As the two girls argued Subaru just smiled as nothing could be better than this.
"INCOMING!"
As Subaru was watching the two girls fight, he didn't notice that a certain silvered hair princess was falling from the sky right towards them.
As Chochorina dropped right into Subaru and Beatrice, Emilia managed to avoid getting tackled along. Chochorina couldn't help but laugh it off while Subaru was on the verge of dying and Beatrice getting sandwiched.
"Ummmm Chochorina mind telling us what just happened?" Emilia tilted her head as she asked the question on everyone's mind. "Well, you see Keid and I were playing and I made a reaaaaally big drill but instead of pushing it I got pushed back."
"But that doesn't explain how you got into the air, in fact!"
"That was my fault Beako." Keid came run towards the crash landed Chochorina to explain what happened. "I was helping Chocho make the drill spin really fast but it sent her flying into the air when we tried releasing the it..." Keid seemed really disappointed that their plan didn't work out instead of being sorry that his dad got crushed.
"Now we know not to make big drills and spin it really fast since people get hurt." While Emilia was lecturing the kids for their stunt, no one was paying attention to the buried Natsuki Subaru. After a while Emilia noticed that Subaru seemed to be out cold since he hadn't moved a muscle. Heck, even his breathing wasn't proper. Emilia didn't seem to be worried as she went over and picked up her dying husband.
"Will Dad be ok?"
"We're reaaaaaally sorry."
The two children walked along with their mother as she took Subaru to bed. "He'll be perfectly fine. He's had worse, but since he's an old man now we have to go a little easier on him." Emilia giggled at the fact that Subaru was getting old, but she was getting older.
As Emilia walked over to their room and placed the knocked-out Subaru to bed, Chochorina couldn't help but be disappointed. "Dad was supposed to continue the story he was telling us today," grumbled Chochorina. "That's right! He was busy telling us the story about how Jotaro beat Dio!" Keid also remembered that his dad stopped right as their fight was about to begin.
"It's ok, you guys can hear it some other-"
"NO!" Emilia was caught off as the two couldn't agree with Emilia.
"The story took too long to get here. We're at the end and some parts of the story wasn't even necessary. There was a giant boat they had to fight for no reason!" Keid was busy complaining that Subaru dragged the story in some parts. Emilia couldn't really defend Subaru as she was never told this story before.
"I'm sorry Keid but you have to wait. I want to make sure your dad gets lots of sleep since he's always busy helping others." As Emilia tried her best to persuade the kids nothing was working, they were going to listen to how the story ends one way or another.
"Betty will tell you how the story ends, I suppose."
"Wait you know how it ends?" Chochorina was surprised to hear the Beatrice knew about the story in the first place. "Of course Betty knew of it. Who do you think Subaru told all these stories to in the first place?"
As Beatrice told the kids that she would finish the story Keid and Chochorina couldn't wait any longer and dragged Beatrice out of the room. Emilia sat on the bed watching as her fingers played with Subaru's hair.
"We have such a loving family, don't we Subaru."
So originally I had a good chunk of text about Keid's inner thoughts about his issues, but I decide to take it away since this story is all fluff. Maybe. But I reduced the amount of time on it since I felt like this should more of a fun read instead of something getting invested into.
But I'm glad most of you enjoyed the last one and since some of you thought this was a one shot fanfic, guess what? You were wrong.
I have planned around 5-7 chapters depending on what I feel like keeping in the story.
Also I first wrote this like at 3 in the morning so I found myself going back and fixing the grammar but I did this at like 10 in the afternoon so I'm also tired currently. So expect some mistakes to make it though since I'm blind as all fuck.
I hope you enjoy this chapter since this is still me going into Keid and Chochorina personalities.
