Thank you all for all the reviews! I know I don't say it as often as I'd like to, I get so excited to hear what you guys think that I forget to write the thank you at the beginning before I post the chapter 😅
Also! For those who don't know! I'm writing side stories for this, you can find them in "An Elf Called Fatry Side Stories". I've got two so far. I hope you enjoy them as much as you do the main story.
Almost Caught?!
Finral spent the next few weeks taking food, drinks and anything else Henry might need to him on top of his other work around the hideout. Once a week, in the morning, before going down to breakfast, he would clean the dust in Henry's room. He decided in the morning before he used any of his mana would be the best time so he didn't feel so dead after words.
It took him a few days to figure out just how close he could open a portal without Henry completely erasing the spell from existence.
At the end of the third week Finral finally decided it was time to tell Henry about Fatry, after a long stressful day at House Vaude when Lady Finesse wasn't there to ease the pain his parent caused. He hoped that letting Fatry officially meet Henry would calm him down after being around Ledior, Liliane and Langris the whole day.
"You awake Henry?" Finral asked peaking his head through the door.
"Yeeeeeesssssss. Heeeellloooooo Fiiiiiinnnnnrrraaall."
"Hi... I... I think I'm ready to answer your question from when we met... There's someone I want you to meet."
Henry pushed himself up so he was sitting in bed, having Finral coming to his room daily for three weeks had aloud him to absorb enough mana to move around a little, though he still didn't have the strength to get out of bed.
"Oooookaaaaaayyyyy."
I'm really not in the mood to officially 'meet' any more humans right now. Fatry said.
"To bad. You're only in a bad mood because you don't like my parents and brother," Finral replied aloud as he walked into the room and closed the door behind him. "And Vanessa is out shopping so you can't talk to her right now."
'Don't like' is an understatement... And I don't feel like talking to Vanessa right now anyway... don't really feel like talking to anyone other than you right now.
Finral sighed as Henry watched Finral, partly confused as to why Finral was talking to himself but at the same time thinking he's figured it out.
"Please?" Finral begged. "You'll feel better."
No.
"I'll stop flirting for a week... end..."
Change it back to a week and you'll have yourself a deal.
"Do I have to?"
Yes.
"Fine," Finral whined.
Good. I'll hold you to that.
Henry watched as Finral's presents slowly vanished and another appeared in its place though Finral's body was still there.
"Thhhhheeeerrrrreeeee'sss aaaaannnnnoooottthhhheeerrrr Ssssoooouuuuull iiiiinnnn yooooouuuur booooodyyyy," Henry said, it wasn't a question.
"Mhmmm," Fatry nodded. "I'm Fatry." Before Fatry knew what he was doing he found himself telling everything, that he and Finral hadn't shared with Vanessa, to Henry. When he realized it, he couldn't bring himself to stop, he thought maybe it was because he was still furious and just didn't care about much anything right now.
Henry didn't try to say a word or interrupt. He couldn't help but notice the difference in Fatry's mana and Finral's mana as his body absorbed it.
"Yoooooouuuuuu poooooooooooorrrrrrr thhhhhhiiiiiiinnnnnnnng," Henry said when the elf finished his story.
The malice he had felt began to diminish having heard the sincerity in Henry's slow, calm voice.
"Vvaaaaaannnnnneeeeeessssssaaaaaaa iiiiiiisssss loooooookiiiiiinnnnng foooooor yoooooooouuuuu" Henry said after a moment of silence.
"She's back already?"
"Shhhheeeeee juuuuuusssssst goooooooot baaaaaaack."
"Alright. Guess we should go find her. You know... Finral told his parents that he got two stars for his first mission... one was for completing the mission and the other was for getting the magic item he had to deliver far away from enemy hands rather then worrying about saving himself... Those bastards didn't even congratulate him. They just sat at the table scolding him for having a delivery as his first mission... They didn't care that that one mission could have meant trouble for the Clover Kingdom if the Diamond Kingdom had gotten their hands on the item... Finral probably saved the entire kingdom just by completing that one mission. But they still called him a useless pack mule."
You're over exaggerating, Fatry. It wasn't that big of a deal.
"It was to a big deal, Finral.
"Gooooood joooooooob, Fffiiiiiinnnnnnrrraaaaal. Iiiiii'mmmmmm soooooooo prrrroooooouuuuud oooooof yooooooouuuuuu." Henry said, having figured out that Finral could still hear him despite not being the one controlling his body at the moment.
Don't know why... I didn't do much...
"You did more then I did." Fatry said opening the door. "We should go see what Vanessa wants. Thanks, Henry. Finral needs to hear people say that," he smiled and left the room.
He walked down the hall to the point he knew he could use magic with out Henry absorbing all of the mana from it and opened a portal to the living room.
"Fatry! There you two are!" Vanessa said walking into the living room. "What are you doing switched in the living room. What if Yami or Gordon see you?"
"Yami's on a mission and Gordon is... I don't know where... but he doesn't seem to be here."
Shit! Yami's back! Finral thought recognizing the mana that approached the front door and slammed it open.
Fatry and Vanessa both jumped. Vanessa quickly wrapped her arms around Fatry in a successful attempt to hide his face and ears.
"Oh good you're both back," Yami said walking up behind Vanessa. "What's wrong with him this time?"
"Today was his regularly scheduled visit home," Vanessa said. "I just got back a few minutes ago."
She wasn't lying.
"Finral?" Vanessa whispered quiet enough that only the two spacial mages could hear.
Finral nodded. "I-I'm okay. Thanks Vanessa," he said just barely loud enough for everyone to hear as he lifted his head and gave her a half-hearted smile. "Who's the weird big guy?" He asked seeing the large man that had followed Yami into the building.
"Grey. Picked him up today. You two show him around later. Finral help him find a room."
Okay! Let's start counting the number of times I forget to refer to Grey as He/him/his instead of She/Her/Hers until the underwater temple arc... So far Zero!