Hello again guys! I'm afraid to say we have come to the last chapter of this fic. I've enjoyed writing it and I hope you have enjoyed reading it. This chapter will probably be longer then the others but that's just so I can wrap things up. Anyways please enjoy and I hope it is satisfactory to you all.
Having listened to what the others had had to say on Vanessa's disappearance, Finral had left them saying he would also search for her. In a slight panic he rushed off to the forest to see if Zora was around. As soon as he exited his portal, he was relieved to see Zora was in fact stood in wait.
"Please tell me you followed them?" Finral asked anxious.
"Of course I did" Zora smirked, "Though I've been stood here for awhile waiting for you. I was going to come and find you soon. What took you so long?"
"I was checking on that Grace girl and making sure she had got home ok. What happened?"
Zora explained how Rachel had come to the hideout earlier and invited Vanessa into town.
"From there, Vanessa left and of course I followed her like you requested. As Rachel had said, they met up in town and went into a tavern. 'Vanessa' had one drink that Rachel had bought her and almost immediately began to sway on the spot. Rachel being the ever so caring friend, escorted the struggling 'Vanessa' out and went all the way to an abandoned house at the other side of town"
"Please tell me Luck was there?" Finral asked with alarm.
"Well yeah"
"And the potion?"
"A success"
"Thank goodness!" Finral heaved a huge sigh of relief.
"Hey we're not out of the woods yet. We need to get there as soon as possible to prevent anything going wrong" Zora reminded him.
"Right yeah, of course" Finral agreed, "Show me where they are!"
Exiting a portal in the middle of town, Zora immediately set of walking with Finral in tow. They went through brightly lit streets with people busily rushing around, to a much quieter part with darker streets. It was set further back from the hustle and bustle of the town centre and had an eerie feeling to it. Neither man spoke to each other as they were more concerned with getting to their destination. Eventually a dimly lit house came into view and Finral knew that this was the place where Vanessa was.
"So this is the place?" he asked to make sure.
"Unless they've moved since I came to meet you, yeah" Zora confirmed.
"Right I better go in. Can you go and find the others and bring them here? We might need them in case Rachel tries to make a run for it"
"And miss the action in there?" Zora exclaimed, "That's not fair!"
"Just do it" Finral sighed, "And can you please set up some traps around the perimeter, just in case you don't make it back on time? Or you guys miss her"
"Ah I can really feel the faith. I guess I could do that. Your lucky I'm such a nice guy" Zora chuckled, "Just make sure to be careful And make sure the others in there are ok, at least until I get back. Your not much of a fighter"
"I can really feel the faith" Finral joked with a raised eyebrow. He bid Zora a goodbye with a reassuring smile as he quietly began to approach the building.
Zora set up a few traps to cover most of the area around the building. He then left back in the direction of the town to find as many of the Black Bull members that he could. He doubted he would have time to go back to the hideout, at least if it could be helped.
Inside the building, completely unaware of what was happening outside, Rachel stood smugly in front of a bound Vanessa. Vanessa was forced to kneel on the floor with her hands bound around a pipe. She was coming out of her dazed state slowly. Luck stood nearby quietly watching the two women in front of him.
"Bet you didn't expect this, did you?" Rachel asked with a smirk as Vanessa stared up at her, "And the best part is no one will find you here because your friend Luck, will throw them off the scent"
Vanessa looked over to where Luck was standing, who for a change wasn't smiling.
"Why are you grinning?" Rachel suddenly asked Vanessa with anguish, "Your supposed to be scared, upset, completely at my mercy!"
After whatever Rachel had given her had warn off, a grin had appeared on Vanessa's face and no matter what would happen to her, it would not be removed. It infuriated Rachel to see someone at her complete mercy smiling.
"Urgh what ever! Try to stay brave as much as you want, your not getting out of here any time soon. I've only brought you here until that baby your carrying is born, then it will be mine and your as good as dead. Once Finral finds out that I have his baby, he'll soon be begging at my feet to be with me!" Rachel laughed menacingly.
"She's gone mad!" Vanessa thought to herself with alarm.
"Don't worry that little drug I gave you to get you here isn't toxic to you or your baby. I need you healthy as well after all. It was just a little daze potion for you" Rachel finished with a chuckle.
"Your crazy if you think that your plan is going to work!" Vanessa laughed, "Your one deluded lady!"
"Your optimism is starting to grind on me" Rachel growled before quickly regaining her composure and smirking again, "I bet your surprised to see that your so called team mate Luck is here as well?"
"Not really" Vanessa smiled.
Rachel stared back at her with surprise.
"What do you mean not really?"
"Well it was kind of obvious now that I think about it"
"In what way?" Rachel asked again losing patience but also curious.
"Well the simple fact he chose a boring, ugly lady like you over his friends seemed odd" Vanessa shot back with a smile.
Rachel was furious at this remark and slapped Vanessa across the face as hard as she could. Luck visibly flinched from where he was stood but the hit was met by a loud gleeful laugh from Vanessa.
"What is wrong with you?" Rachel asked with distaste, her own hand was stinging from the slap she had just given, "You should be cowering before me! Why aren't you cowering before me?!"
"Because you don't scare me" Vanessa answered matter of factly.
Rachel grabbed hold of the still smiling Vanessa's chin and brought her face closer to hers.
"By the end of your pregnancy, you will be. Then you'll be begging me for death!" she threatened, "Speaking of which, do you mind if I check how far a long you are? Oh silly me. Of course you don't"
Rachel smiled triumphantly as she knew the bound Vanessa couldn't stop her. She brought her glowing green hand closer to the pregnant woman's stomach.
"There's no need to waste your mana!" Luck interrupted her quickly, "She's nearly two month gone"
"How do you know?" Rachel asked curiously.
"I over heard her talking to Finral about it" Luck laughed slightly.
"I see..." Rachel thought for a moment, "I better still check any ways. I can see if the baby is healthy or not"
"Erm... I've just heard a noise from outside!" Luck added loudly just before Rachel's hand touched a squirming Vanessa's stomach causing her to move it away quickly from the scare.
"So go and check it out!" Rachel huffed as she stood up, "That's what your here for!"
Vanessa sighed with relief. That was a close call.
"In fact you go check out front and I'll go check round the back. It may be abandoned, but we are still near the town. There will still be people about at some points" Rachel sighed as she gave Luck his orders, "I doubt those damn Black Bulls would have found us yet"
"Well that's where your wrong!"
Rachel turned around at this new voice in the room to see a furious Finral staring straight back at her.
"F...f...Finral?" she stuttered with surprise, then plastering on a fake smile asked, "W...what are you doing here?"
"What do you think I'm doing here?" He shot back angrily, "I've come to get my girlfriend back!"
Rachel stared at him wide eyed as she tried to come up with some kind of excuse as to what she was doing. Coming up with nothing she sighed and decided she might as well just be honest. She'd been caught red handed after all, nothing she could say would be able to change that. Deliberately and slowly she walked over to where Vanessa was still tied up and stood close behind her.
"She's not your girlfriend remember? You both broke up. Your a cheat, or have you forgotten that?" she asked slyly.
"Oh please! We both know it was all a set up from the start so stop pretending! And none of this gives you the right to kidnap and tie up a pregnant woman, does it?" Finral shot at her.
"You misunderstand" Rachel smiled sweetly, "I did all of this for us. So we can finally be together. You don't have to worry about the baby. As soon as it's born, we can both raise it together. This woman will be irrelevant after that"
"You've lost your mind" Finral stated loudly, "Do you honestly think I would be with you after everything you've done? After...after this?"
"Well why not? I'll have your baby and you'll be with a someone that believes you would never cheat on her" Rachel laughed, "Which is more than could be said about this woman!"
"What is it with you and me? How many times do I have to tell you that we're never going happen? And especially not like this! Your going on as if I'm the only man you've ever laid eyes on!"
"Your the only one I know I could have a future with! Your kind, caring, funny and a gentleman. Your everything I've ever wanted in a man, all the others don't match up to you. And you will be mine no matter what!" Rachel added loudly.
"Your deluded, there is no way you can make that happen!"
"Your just saying that because your still in shock about all this. Don't worry you'll soon come around to my way of thinking" Rachel sounded confident, "I know you've got feelings for me, other wise you wouldn't have went to kiss me that night we got threw out of the tavern"
"Ok, I'm going to tell you something now so we don't have to drag this out any further" Finral sighed as he folded his arms, "Me and Vanessa got back together just before I left the hideout. We talked it out and after quite a bit of explaining, she gave me the benefit of the doubt. That was on the basis we could prove that your sudden appearance was to blame. And I'm sorry, I felt really bad doing it, but that whole drunken almost kiss was just a charade to get you on side"
"That's a lie!" Rachel almost screamed at him, "There's no way it was fake!"
"Think about" Finral added, "If I really wanted to kiss you, why would I keep denying your advances?"
"It's all a lie!" Rachel began to become hysterical, "There is no way you could have known I was behind any of it!"
"But you were behind it" Finral added with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes well, I bet you didn't know Luck was working for me?!" She shouted, "Luck go on grab him! Make sure he can't escape out of here! He is mine now and that's final!"
Seeing that Luck refused to move, she screamed her orders at him again. Once again he didn't move but a small smile appeared on his lips. Finral was stood beside him completely unthreatened by his presence there with no hint of fear or surprise at this supposedly new information.
"What is the matter with you? Get him!" Rachel ordered once more.
"No" was all Luck said.
Rachel stared at him confused and filled with anger. She jumped slightly when Finral cleared his throat to speak again.
"You see we did know Luck was working for you. Well to be honest Vanessa picked up on it first once Magna had explained something about a coffee you gave them when they saw you that first time on your 'travels' and she put two and two together. Given that Luck drank it and began to act strangely after, and Magna having not drank it was completely the same, there must have been something in that coffee"
Realisation began to appear on Rachel's face as Finral continued speaking.
"It was tricky trying to figure out exactly what you gave him but Vanessa figured it out in the end. If it was a love potion he would have been completely infatuated with you and would always want to be with you and definitely wouldn't help you try and get another man. Given what we knew about the way he was acting she figured out that what you had actually given him was..."
"An obedience potion" Rachel answered for him completely surprised they had figured it out.
"Exactly. So we brought our friend Zora on board. We needed money for an antidote and asked him to do a few bounties for us to raise the money needed and I travelled back to the black market in the Clover Kingdom to buy it. Let's just say I was completely exhausted after that journey but I still went to the lake with you" Finral laughed slightly.
"But he worked for me after that..." Rachel trailed.
"We told him to. One thing confused me though. Why would Luck suddenly attack his own friends? What did you tell him to do?" Finral asked.
"I told him to remain loyal to me and only me. And to protect me with his life. That his so called 'team mates' were the enemy" Rachel answered harshly, "He was doing a good job and you came and ruined it!"
"He nearly killed one of our friends!"
"How is that my fault?" Rachel screamed.
"How is it not?!"
Rachel grabbed a handful of Vanessa's hair in frustration and yanked her head back. She brought a knife she had been keeping nearby, to Vanessa's neck.
"Just tell me you'll be with me Finral or lose this bitch and your child!" Rachel screamed with anguish.
"I'm not going to tell you that just because your threatening me" Finral began to smile, "For the last time, we will never be together"
"Are you completely heartless?" Rachel asked, taken aback by his lack of interest in the situation, "Do you not care about this bimbo? Do you want to see them both die before your eyes?"
"No" Finral shrugged, "But let me ask you one thing. When have you ever known Vanessa to smile like she is now? Especially that much?"
"What?" Rachel asked with slight confusion.
"Think about it. Vanessa has been smiling and laughing this whole time. If she thought her life and our babies were in danger, do you think she would do that?"
Rachel thought for a moment. She pulled Vanessa's head further back so she could see the woman's face. It was true, she had been wearing an uncharacteristic smile all night. Though unusual , Rachel had thought that she was probably just trying to remain brave in front of her.
"What is your point?!" Rachel asked beginning to lose patience.
"Do you honestly think I would risk putting my pregnant girlfriend in such danger?" Finral asked.
"If you think this is buying time your wrong!" Rachel began to shout again. Suddenly she saw the appearance of Rouge on Luck's shoulder, confused she asked, "What have you done?"
Vanessa began to laugh menacingly in her clutches. Rachel had no time to react before bolts of electricity began to shoot through her entire body. Withering in agony, she let go of the pink witch's hair only to witness it beginning to turn blonde. She watched in horror as the tied up Vanessa changed into a tied up, laughing Luck. Shooting her gaze over to where Luck should have been standing, she saw Vanessa instead.
"What the hell is this?" she spat furious.
"You like to play around with potions right? Well we thought we would give it a go" Vanessa answered with a smirk.
"When we went and got the antidote for Luck, we picked up a body swapping potion. We thought it would come in handy if anything bad happened. To be honest I didn't think you'd go this far, but it's definitely a good job we had it" Finral explained, "All you have to do is add a piece of that persons hair or something that has there DNA into it and you become that person once drunk. The only downside to it is that you can't use your magic once activated. The minute you do, you turn straight back into yourself. If you had thought about it, tying Vanessa's wrists up like that wouldn't have stopped her from using her thread magic would it?"
"I...I...I guess not" Rachel stammered, she would have been able to activate her threads from just her finger tips.
"Plus only Luck had to drink it as the person you want to turn into, turns into you. So the baby wasn't affected at all"
"So that's why you distracted me from touching your stomach. It's because I would have figured it out!" Rachel realised.
"Yep. Though I had no idea Finral was actually outside" Vanessa laughed, "I almost blew his cover"
"And if anything did in fact go wrong, we had Rouge here on side to twist fate for us. So Luck was in no danger either" Finral smirked again as he and Vanessa fussed over Rouge, "Luck drank the potion just before you were supposed to meet Vanessa. You probably shouldn't have told him what you had planned, double agent and all that"
"But why? Why wouldn't you call me out sooner and prevent all this?" Rachel asked in dismay.
"We needed to be sure. And we needed to make sure it would be the last time you ever messed with us" Vanessa answered, "I knew Finral was innocent from the moment me and you first spoke at the hideout"
"How?"
"Because you told me you had seen him with some blonde woman the night before" Vanessa sighed, "I knew that wasn't possible, because he was with me"
"By the way. That Grace girl is going to be ok thanks to the money you gave her. It's going to help her out a lot whilst she searches for a job" Finral added, "I Promised her you'll never bother her again"
"You knew about her to?" Rachel asked with shock.
"Only recently" Finral admitted, "Just another victim of your sick plans really. We cleared things up and thankfully she admitted what you had done to her"
"What else did you find out?"
"Pretty much everything" Vanessa answered this time, "How you used Luck and an invisibility potion to sneak into the hide out whilst we were asleep and put lipstick on Finral's cloak. That was a smart move I must admit. Getting Luck to lure Finral out of the room like that so I would notice his absence as well, pretty genius. Also, you pretending to be Luck's girlfriend so you could get into the hideout and plant false information into our heads. I guess you were also making sure Finral was definitely out of the picture"
Rachel sat in stunned silence for a moment or two before sighing in defeat.
"I can't help how I feel. I love you Finral, please just be with me? I'll treat you better then Vanessa ever could" she looked at him pleadingly.
"Honestly at first I was flattered that you liked me. I blame myself that any of this has happened because I feel that if we had never agreed to go on a date all that time ago, none of this would have happened. I'm with Vanessa now though. I liked her back then and I love her now. Nothing is going to change that. Sorry" Finral answered as gently as he could.
"I see" Rachel sniffed and wiped her tears, "I was planning on getting you to love me naturally but maybe I do need a love potion after all" she spoke half to herself and half to the others.
"You don't know when to give up do you?" Vanessa asked exasperated, "How do you think your going to manage to get him to take it?"
"Once I get out of here, I'll find away!" Rachel loudly exclaimed.
"Do you really think we're letting you go?" Finral asked with a raised eyebrow, "We're delivering you back to the Clover Kingdom to Owen. He can decide what happens to you from there"
"You can't do that!" Rachel was alarmed as she got to her feet, "I won't let you!"
"You don't have a choice" Vanessa added.
"The hell I don't!" Rachel threatened as she made for the closest door to the outside, "You just wait! Next time Finral will be mine with a love potion I will make! You'll have no idea when it's going to happen. Then your baby will be mine to!"
With those last words Rachel opened the door and ran through it. She may have been defeated this time but the thought of her success for next time made her smile from ear to ear as she left. Vanessa made to go after her but Finral stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.
"What are you doing? We can't let her get away now!" Vanessa panicked.
Just as she finished her sentence, a small explosion and a surprised scream sounded from outside.
"Thank goodness for Zora" Finral sighed with a smile.
"Can someone untie me now please?" Luck asked with a grin from where he was still tied to a pipe. He had been quietly watching everything that had happened and was now getting fed up.
"Oh of course!" Vanessa agreed before rushing over to him. She untied his wrists before pulling the surprised blonde into a tight hug with tears in her eyes. She cupped his red cheek with her hand as she inspected it, "Thank you for taking my place. That slap and hair pulling looked like it really hurt!" she kissed him on the forehead before hugging him again.
"I think your hormones are beginning to play up" Finral laughed, "But seriously Luck, thank you for stepping into her place"
"Don't mention it. You can just fight me later to make up for it" Luck laughed mischievously.
"I'll just, get someone else to stand in for me..." Finral panicked, then continued, "Come on, let's go see what's happening outside"
Leaving the building they were met by Zora, Noelle, Asta and Charmy. They were stood over a hole looking down it, Zora looked quite pleased with himself. As Finral, Vanessa and Luck approached them, Noelle turned around.
"Vanessa! Thank goodness you're ok!" she welcomed with relief.
"Of course I am" Vanessa giggled, "Sorry for making you worry"
"So does someone mind telling us what the hell is going on here?" Asta asked loudly. He was completely confused as to why Rachel was suddenly in a hole and Finral, Vanessa and Luck would suddenly appear together.
"All in good time" Vanessa smiled at him.
"For now we need to take care of this one" Finral continued as he walked to the edge of the hole and peered down it, "Did you hurt anything?"
Rachel didn't answer, instead she refused to even look up. She knew she couldn't get out of this and was not happy about it.
"What are you going to do with me now?" she asked instead.
Owen opened the door to his office after hearing a slight knock. What awaited him was a rather angry if somewhat disgruntled Rachel. She was tied up in red thread unable to move, her mouth was covered to prevent her screaming or arguing back. Seeing a note attached to her, Owen took it and began to read it.
"I see you've been causing some trouble for our friends" Owen concluded as he finished reading it, "As a professional you should have known better. Your going to be under observation for quite some time. There will be no chance of you leaving the clover kingdom again, especially if the courts find you to be a traitor for leaving in the first place. As for the way you vanished from this job with out an explanation, well you can very well believe you don't have one anymore"
Rachel huffed as she sat through a long lecture from the furious doctor. She would have rather just went straight to the courts. If anything, this was a much worse punishment.
Finral, Vanessa and Luck followed Zora, Noelle, Asta and Charmy through the hideouts door. Gordon and Grey had returned earlier having had no luck in finding the missing members in the forest. The other's, especially Yami, were all still sat up. Considering they would usually be in bed by now, they were saying they weren't tired as an excuse for them actually being worried. As soon as the door opened they were on alert and staring at it waiting to see who would enter.
"About time you bunch of ingrates!" Yami scolded loudly hiding his relief, "Where the hell do you think you've all been?"
"It's a long story" Finral sighed in answer.
The ones who had been waiting for the others return had not expected to see Finral with the arriving group. They stared in surprise at him when he had answered. Seeing this, Finral began to scratch at his cheek nervously.
"Erm...I also have a good explanation as to where I've been as well" he added.
It took awhile to catch all the Black Bull members up with what had happened. They all listened intently without interruption until the story was over.
"Now tell me again why you couldn't tell any of us what was going on?" Magna demanded.
"Because we didn't know if Rachel had gotten to any of you like she had with Luck. The last thing we needed was for her to find out our whole plan before we could finish it" Vanessa answered.
"So why did Zora find out?"
"He found out on his own by setting detection traps along with his regular traps" Finral answered with a laugh, "After I left the hideout, I didn't know where he had set them. When I went to meet Vanessa in the forest after she had found out about the potion in Luck's coffee, I stepped in one and set it off"
"I found them and they had no choice but to admit to me what was really going on. It was lucky really because they wouldn't have been able to do the bounties to raise the money for the potions without me" Zora added smugly, "I agreed to keep there little plan secret. Then Finral asked me to follow Vanessa if she ever left the hideout on her own"
"Did you?" Vanessa asked Finral surprised.
"How else do you think I found you so fast?" Finral chuckled. Vanessa squeezed his arm gratefully.
"Once Luck was free of that potion Rachel had given him, he had no idea I knew. When he saw me after he dropped all that money Rachel had given him to bribe people, he came up with an excuse really quickly. I was a little impressed" Zora continued.
"He didn't admit he knew till we had already finished what Yami had requested" Luck laughed, "It was hard keeping up the charade though. I really wanted to fight everyone!"
"I'm surprised you managed to do that" Yami commented impressed, "You come across as to hyper to hold it in" This earned another laugh from Luck.
"How did you get Luck to take the antidote?" Noelle asked.
"It's Luck. Did you see how easy it was for Rachel to get him to take the first one?" Vanessa answered, "It's a real flaw of his"
"My bad!" Luck laughed again, "Oh I should also tell you that it was Rachel that hired the bandits to keep attacking I us!"
"What?" Yami asked angry.
"She thought it would be entertaining if they kept harassing us. She's also the one behind the false Demon reports"
"How dare she!" Yami shouted, "I was looking forward to a good old beat down! What a waste of time!"
"So what about the bandits? Will they still attack us?" Asta asked.
"Ner, next time I'm going to put them in their place!" Yami stated slightly fuming.
"So does that mean it's all over now?" Grey asked through her fingers, "No more Rachel?"
"We sure hope so" Finral smiled, "We sent her packing back to the Clover Kingdom with a little note for Owen"
"Crazy what some people will do for love. In a way I kind of feel sorry for her" Vanessa admitted, "She may have been completely crazy, but hopefully now she can get over it"
"I feel bad now" Noelle spoke looking down, "I'm so sorry for the way I treated you Finral!"
"Hey don't wor..." Finral was cut off as more people began to apologise as well.
"Please forgive me to!" Magna added.
"It's fine honestly..."
"You can hit me with my own sword if that would make you forgive me!" Asta cut in loudly.
"I doubt I'll be able to lift if I'm being hon..."
"Will you forgive us to?" Charmy and the others, minus Zora and Yami, began to chime in.
Finral began to become overwhelmed before Vanessa came to his rescue.
"Guys give him chance to speak" she laughed as she attached herself to his arm, "Besides, if he forgave me. I'm sure you guys are good"
"Thank you" he smiled gratefully at her, "And thank you all for the apologies, but there really is no need. I can't blame any of you for what happened"
Everyone smiled with relief.
"I still can't believe she'd kidnap you. If she wanted you gone, why didn't she just kill you as soon as she had the chance?" Yami asked curiously suddenly breaking the silence from where he sat.
"Well...erm...it's a little more complicated then that" Vanessa answered nervously.
"What do you mean?" Yami asked more intrigued.
Vanessa looked over at Finral who in turn looked back with a smile and nodded.
"Well you see... I'm pregnant" Vanessa answered.
Yami fell silent, as did everyone else in the room. The ones who knew waited with bated breath to see how the ones who didn't know would react.
Yami stood up and silently headed towards Finral and Vanessa. Everyone, including them, waited nervously to see what he was going to do.
"Congratulations you two! I can't wait to see a little black bull running around this place!" Yami exclaimed loudly as he pulled them both into a hug, "If it's a boy you have to name it Yami!"
"Erm... has Yami always been this soft?" Asta asked Noelle.
"What did you say pip squeak?!" Yami growled at him as he let a bemused Finral and Vanessa go.
"Nothing! Nothing! I didn't mean it! I'm sorry!" Asta begged for his life.
"Your lucky I'm in a good mood!" Yami threatened.
Everyone else ignored Yami and Asta as they offered their congratulations to the spatial mage and witch.
"We must take the baby to see Marie when it is born" Gauche suggested, "She love's babies. I can't wait to see her smile"
"Mumble mumble mumble" Gordon offered.
"I'll... get...to... work... on... a... nursery... right... away!" Henry offered with glee.
Meanwhile, Magna approached Luck cautiously.
"You are definitely back to normal, right?" he asked nervously.
"As normal as I'll ever be!" Luck laughed.
Magna pulled him into hug relieved.
"Welcome back buddy!" he cried happily.
He almost instantly pulled away in pain as bolts of electricity travelled through him. Luck laughed loudly as Magna shouted at him.
"Why the hell did you do that?!"
"Aww sorry Magna. Want to try again? I won't shock you this time" Luck asked as he held out his arms.
Magna gave him the benefit of the doubt and hugged him again. He regretted it instantly as Luck once again shocked him.
"Why?" Magna wailed.
"One more time?" Luck asked with a grin.
"Forget it! Moments gone!"
"We'll have to have a feast!" Yami proclaimed loudly.
"I completely agree!" Charmy added with a watering mouth, "I'll get right to it!"
"It's a bit late..." Finral argued.
"None sense!" Yami cut him off, "Now make me a portal. I need a dump"
"Seriously?" Finral sighed, "I barely have any mana left. I've just been to the Clover Kingdom and back and then here!"
"Useless" Yami stated.
"Hey what happened to a hero's welcome" Finral sighed, "Fine..."
"Dump comes first" Yami added before heading into the portal that Finral had just opened, "How I've missed you magic toilet portal" Yami spoke quietly to himself with a sniff before it closed behind him.
"Already back to a toilet door" Finral laughed slightly.
"Take it why you can" Vanessa joked, " Soon you'll be changing nappies"
"Your right. Now I don't know what to prefer" Finral joked back just as Vanessa kissed him.
Sat quietly watching them, Noelle sighed. Looking over to her side she saw Asta who was talking to Zora. Building up some slight courage, she called to him.
"Hey Asta!" she grabbed his attention.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"Do you erm... maybe want to go out some time?" she asked hopefully through her nerves.
"Sure, where do you want to go?"
"Wait seriously?" Noelle was filled with happiness.
"Yeah. Are the others coming to? A group outing will be fun!"
Noelle threw the closet thing she had to hand, which happened to be a cup, straight into Asta's face. He fell back and landed hard onto the floor.
"Stupid Asta!"
"What did I do?" Asta demanded loudly as he struggled back up.
"Idiot" Zora smirked with an exasperated sigh.
"Alright let's get them drinks flowing!" Yami shouted loudly as he re-entered the room.
"But I can't drink" Vanessa began to sob.
"Aww baby hormones kicking in?" Charmy asked sympathetically.
"No she just generally misses the booze" Finral answered with a raised eyebrow.
"Here have some orange juice" Gordon mumbled as he handed her a glass. She accepted it gratefully as she dabbled at her eyes.
"To our future!" Yami toasted before swigging his drink, "And next time something bad happens, maybe let the rest of us in on it!"
Everyone laughed and it wasn't long before the whole night was lost in laughter and noise. It would be a night they wouldn't forget for a long time. That being because of what had happened but mainly because of the good old fashioned Black bull fun they had and the sore heads they woke up to in the morning.
So sorry for the delay of the chapter. I've not been well so not had chance to work on it as much as I wanted to. I would like to say thank you to you all for reading and supporting me through out the fic and hope you all enjoyed it immensely. That being said, please keep an eye out for any future Fan fics I may work on. Please feel free to review. And again, thank you all and goodbye for now!