I'm finally back holy shit.
Enjoy~

Nino turned to enter the kitchen, but before he could even take a step he suddenly fell backwards with a loud thump. Alya poked her head around the opened drawer door to see what was going on but before he could even realize it himself he was looking up with his blurry vision to see two grinning faces.

"You-... You scared me you two!", he grinned at his girlfriend who snickered at him and gave his attention back to the twins again, "What's up? Is everything okay?"

He had come over to help watching the twins for the afternoon and they had done their best to power them out but even as Alya's parents had returned the sisters apparently didn't have enough yet.

Ella grinned at him brightly, Etta following her sister in a heartbeat.

"Hey, Nino!"

"Can we annoy you?"

Alya furrowed her eyebrows as she looked after them again, seeing the twins both sitting on her boyfriend's lap.

"Hey, wow, don't you think you've annoyed poor Nino enough?"

He merely laughed as he heard Alya, shrugging and sitting up again.

"You wanna annoy me, huh? Well then how about-... This!", he grabbed Ella and held her in his lap, enabling Etta to flee a few steps. But he held onto her flailing and laughing sister and pulled up his shirt, then breathed in deeply and bent down to create a fake farting sound on the girl's stomach. She laughed even louder and wanted to flee as well but Nino got up again and trapped her under his arms, then went after Etta. He quickly caught her as well and tucked her under his other arm.

"I got you both!", he cheered, obviously smug about his victory. Alya giggled as he stepped up behind her, presenting his catches to her, "What should I do with them?"

Alya turned around and feigned a mock thinking expression, then she shrugged.

"How about the dungeon?", she grinned, watching her sister's faces turn.

Nino merely smirked, winking at her.

"The dungeon it is, then!"

Etta worriedly looked at Alya, her eyebrows scrunching.

"Wh-What's the dungeon?"

Ella looked over to her, deadpanning.

"There is no dungeon, Etta."

Alya pulled her eyebrows up and grinned mischievously.

"Oh, there certainly is."

The small girl first looked at her twin, then then her gaze wandered to Alya again, chin quivering.

"I believe Alya."

The other girl crossed her arms, still hanging from Nino's firm grip.

"Eh, nah. There's no dungeon.", she nodded, "I'm sure of it. I never saw one here."

Nino merely chuckled and turned around, after smirking at Alya.

"I'll bring you to the dungeon now, then you won't be so sure anymore, Ella!"

"Noooo! Nnnooooo! Lemme go, lemme go! I don't wanna go to the dungeon!", Etta started flailing but Nino laughed, leaving the kitchen.

"Oh, but Etta, you both made me fall! You have to go to the dungeon for that.", he entered the living room and gently let them both down on the couch, "There you go. Here's the dungeon."

Ella turned to her again and grinned, shrugging.

"See? There's no dungeon!"

Her twin wasn't really convinced. She looked around, narrowing her eyes, then she eyed Nino.

"Is this really the dungeon?"

"Oh but it is!", he nodded furiously, "See the walls? And the bars there?"

Suddenly, he pretended to be thrown on the couch as well and fell between them, then he imitated a sound like a door is thrown closed.

"Oh no! We're trapped! I just wanted to show you the dungeon!", the boy smirked, "We gotta escape!"

In an instant, Ella was completely in the game and beamed at her sister's boyfriend, "How can we escape?"

Nino chuckled but kept a serious expression.

"We gotta dig an escape tunnel! See, the ground is very soft!", he pushed down the sheets, "So now we gotta stabilize our tunnel by using these!"

He grabbed one of the pillows on the backrest and smirked.

"Quickly! Or the guardian dragon is gonna get us!"

The twins gasped, quickly grabbing pillows as well.

"Oh no, we gotta hurry! The guardian dragon is coming!", they took a pillow from the armrest and started setting up a wall just before the couch, Nino setting up the other wall. Etta grabbed another pillow and placed it so that it formed a ceiling on the tunnel but just a big enough hole so they could slip from the couch and into the tunnel.

"We need more pillows!", she exclaimed while Nino sent Ella down through the tunnel to continue 'digging'.

Ella laughed as he sat in the tunnel and Nino handed her a pillow.

"Nino, you have to be careful! As soon as the tunnel falls I'll be trapped and you can't escape!"

As the commotion got louder, Alya finally decided to take a look and snuck into the room, hoping not to be noticed and maybe stop their game. As she realized what they were doing and that they talked about a dragon she started making growling noises that got louder and louder.

Nino laughed, still oblivious.

"I am careful! You have to be careful! Oh, and there's a hindrance!", he pointed to the coffee table, "You gotta build around that!"

He listened up, grinning when he heard Alya growling behind them, shortly after Etta screeched.

She hopped up and down on the couch, laughing and propping herself up on the backrest as she watched Alya coming closer.

"Oh no, oh no! The dragon is here! Ella, quickly!"

Her sister took another two pillows from Nino and built the tunnel to be longer, then gestured them to follow her.

"When the dragon comes and looks in our cell she won't find us in the tunnel!"

Nino let Etta go first, then smirked at Alya while slipping into the tunnel as well. When she was sure the twins weren't looking she sent him an air kiss as a reward.

"Good idea Ella, but now we gotta be quiet! Or the dragon will hear us!"

Alya growled in the deep voice she could muster.

"… What? Do my eyes deceive me? This is outrageous! My precious prisoners, gone from the dungeon! Who dared to take them?! Or did they-… Did they manage to flee?!"

He laughed quietly as he lightly pushed the twins forward, whispering urgently.

"Go! Go! There's an escape! At the end of the tunnel! Hide there! I'm gonna close the tunnel behind us.", he pointed to the table in the dining area and watched the twins scrambling off to the table, then he turned to Alya and winked before pulling the pillow so it closed up to the couch. Finally, he followed the girls. As he was hidden under the table with them he gasped loudly and spoke comically and dramatically loud so that Alya could hear him as well but knows they were still 'hiding'.

"Girls! Girls! I've see the dragon! She's mighty and-... And-...", he sighed dreamily, "… I think I've fallen in love with the dragon!"

Ella shook her head, obviously shocked since she was way into the game.

"No! No, Nino, you can't fall under her spell!"

In contrast to her sister, Ella hopped around excitedly even though she was kneeling under the table. But she was small enough to not hit her head.

"Is the dragon beautiful?", she asked, her voice high pitched of excitement.

Nino grinned at that, ruffling her hair.

"The dragon is incredibly beautiful! She's a diamond under the rocks!"

Ella grabbed Nino's cheeks and forced him down to her to look him in the eyes.

"Nino! She's our enemy!"

The boy shrugged, seriously fighting down his laughter.

"But what if I didn't fall under her spell? What if there is no spell on me but on her? What if-...", he exaggeratedly gasped, "What if she's just as much a prisoner as we are?!"

Alya got the cue as the three looked at her from under the table and immediately jumped back into her role, sniffing around.

"This smell… I smell-… Three prisoners outside their cell. But one of them-… Is different. He's unlike the others. What is this uneased burden my dragon soul has to carry? Wherefore-… Does it desire that human so much? Yet-… He's a prisoner… But I find myself not caring… What could it be? Human! Show yourself and my raging flame shall spare you and your company!", Alya took a step over the tunnel and still sniffed around but Nino could see the grin playing in the corners of her mouth.

Etta got even more excited and finally hit her head on the table above her but didn't care.

"Go Nino, go! You gotta show yourself! The dragon said so!"

Ella rapidly shook her head, her eyes blown wide.

"No! No, Nino, don't do it! We need you to escape! You know the way out!"

Nino pretended considering it for a moment, then he spoke up again, slowly and carefully.

"Hm… We do need to get you out of here-… But she said she wouldn't toast us…", he shrugged, much to Ella's horror, "I'll reveal myself but only as soon as you two are in safety! Now go, the dragon is following us!"

He pointed to the hallway that led down to the bedrooms, "There is a way!"

Alya giggled quietly but then decided to speak up again, her voice getting softer.

"… By my honor, my scorching breath shall spare your lives! Just show yourselves, I want to see the human who is different!"

Ella was already by the kitchen, crawling cautiously as she looked back to Alya.

"Come on! We gotta get out of here!", she urgently waved the two to follow her but her sister grinned and stayed with Nino.

"But I wanna see!"

Nino smirked, then her turned to Ella and whisper yelled after her.

"Follow the path, Ella! You'll find a door at the end and a ship! You take your sister and go! I'll face the dragon because I love her!", he took Etta's hands and gently squeezed them, "Go with your sister! I will stay here and enable you to flee!"

Etta finally gave up and crawled into the kitchen where she and her twin peaked around the kitchen isle to see Nino crawling out from under the table and straightening up, Alya immediately looking to him. He stood up, brushed the dust off his knees and turned to Alya, then bowed.

"Oh almighty dragon, I stand before you, humble and small. I beg of you, do not judge me for wanting to escape at first but as soon as I saw you I knew I had to stay!"

Alya blushed a little as she heard him saying that but concentrated on staying in her role even though she couldn't stop grinning like crazy.

"… I want you to step closer."

Nino stepped closer, still two steps away but straightening up from his bow to look at her again, a smile stretching over his face.

"Your wish is my command, almighty dragon.", he heard Ella and Etta snickering behind him and grinned before facing the floor again, inconspicuously waving them behind his back with his free hand to go away but he knew they'd stay to watch anyway, "What do you wish from me?"

Alya giggled before shaking her head again, doing her best to stay in the role.

"Mortal, tell me what this desire is that I feel. My soul that existed for many Millenia now carries an unknown burden."

Nino bowed deeper but then glanced up to his girlfriend again.

"I fear I do not understand what you are talking about, oh almighty dragon."

Alya lifted her eyebrows as she saw him smirking to himself because the twins giggled again.

"… Say, human. Did you ever look at another living form and had this beat in your chest, directed towards them?"

Nino pretended to think about it, then he grinned.

"The heart beats faster, the stomach flutters, the knees get weak and-… The head gets fluffy?", he sighed as he had done before, under the table, "This is called love, oh almighty dragon."

Alya hummed and nodded, then spoke up again.

"… Love… Tell me, mortal. What does one do with love?"

Nino straightened up again, already smiling with a soft expression in his eyes. Alya gulped, lowering her hands.

"Love is powerful, oh almighty dragon. It can soothe the most furious men and it can lead humans in war with each other. But mostly it is for two living forms to find each other and complete each other. Love is unexplainable. It is rash and careless but thoughtful and calm at the same time. It can be loud and it can be silent, it can be sudden and slow. Love is the strongest emotion there is and it exists in so many levels and a variety of forms. The love you are talking about is the emotion 'being in love'.", his gaze got dreamy as he looked into her eyes and she knew he wasn't interested in playing the role for the twins anymore, "It means you love this person regardless of their flaws and you-… You want to be with them for all your life. And you want to stay with them and-… Do silly things together but also have some serious times. You want to love this person as strongly as you can and you want to kiss this person. To be close. To-… To hold everything off that might be hurting them…"

A few moments of silence seemed to make the time stop in the room and only when he heard Ella and Etta making gagging sounds and vanishing in their room again, their door clicking close, he remembered his role and bowed again. Completely unnecessarily, he found back to his role, probably to lighten the mood again after such a confession.

"Oh almighty dragon.", he mumbled.

But Alya had already stopped caring about the game. She hurriedly closed the distance between them, pulled him close and thanked everything that the twins had already vanished as she pressed her lips on his.

"… I have to break character, I love you so much, Nino…", she mumbled, her eyes firmly shut as she weaved her fingers through his hair, feeling his breath on her lips.

Nino chuckled, burying one of his hands in her hair and pulling her even closer. He laughed against her lips until he slowly parted them. She wanted to keep kissing him but he smirked widely, his eyes laughing as he whispered.

"Oh almighty dragon, what is this? Have you fallen in love with a mere human?"

Alya huffed and pulled him down so she could whisper in his ear.

"Nino, I swear to god, if you continue teasing me like this our evening alone today will be very, very sad."

Nino merely laughed, kissing from the corner of her mouth over her cheek to linger on her earlobe. She tried following his lips but he chuckled and nudged her back while softly brushing over her back.

"Aw, but babe, you know you love it."

She gave a small whimpering sound and felt her knees giving way so she held herself up on his neck until he suddenly stopped and leant back, already smirking again.

"Yep, we stop here.", with shaky knees she looked up to him, unbelieving and indignant, but he chuckled.

"Really, Alya, not with your siblings around. We still gotta wait until your parents will pick them up again."

She grumbled and steadied herself before lightly pushing his chest, already hating the smirk he still wore.

"You're a tease…"