Ahem...I know it has been an eternity since I last updated and would like to say sorry for that!
it's just that in the past couple of month my life has gone very hectic and I'm sorry! please forgive me!
A loud scream could be heard echoing amongst the walls of the first floor of the elegant and grandiose mansion. The residents of the so-called mansion were all standing in the incredibly huge living room as they stared at their younger (older to some) sister running around-trying to escape from the clutches of the abominable monster that has been following her every step since she set foot on the first floor.
If we were honestly speaking, Natsu was glad that this ridiculous distraction has occurred since he was not ready to have-in any way-the discussion that was supposed to occur a few minutes ago.
When Laxus came back home and suggested they needed to discuss things further and explain themselves for his and Cobra's weird behavior earlier in the day, the pink headed boy thought his heart would stop beating from the amount of stress and anxiousness he felt. Having that conversation meant everyone had to reveal what they tried so hard to forget during these past few years and not to mention they had to relive every single action that took place back in the time. So, with the amount of effort and perseveration he has put to try and live on while ignoring his past, Natsu was not so keen and definitely not in a hurry to have his past life revealed so easily in a matter of seconds. Thus, he being overly grateful for the sudden appearance of what Wendy would call a hideously-abominable-disgusting-and-creepy-fiend-of-a-behemoth-monster (although he never understood her reasoning behind her words…were behemoth and monster not the same thing?).
On one side of the room the young sky dragon-slayer was running around while screaming and yelling at the top of her lungs for the evil tiny creature to leave her alone, whilst on the other side of the same room stood the male occupants and guests. Some were staring apathetically at their younger sister (Natsu and Rogue), some showed their amusement by laughing hysterically, holding back their laughter or smiling with a raised brow (Sting, Gray and Ultear), whereas others were just pinching the bridge of their nose, sighing and shaking their heads in exasperation from their younger sister's antics (Laxus, Cobra and Gajeel).
Despite their reactions, the thought alone of going to aid their only sister has never even crossed their minds.
Resigning to the fact that her heartless and cruel brothers were not going to come to her rescue, the blue headed teenager ran and ran and ran until she reached her target and clutched herself onto him as he let her without any complaints.
"Wendy you're strangling me," his hands enveloped her smaller body even after she tightened her hold with twice as much force, causing him to gasp for air.
"I don't care! And I'll let you know that I won't let go of your neck until you kill it Natsu-nii!"
"Huff! It's nothing worth killing, it could be considered a mere microbe or bacteria compared to enemies we've faced in the past Wendy…"
Said girl slightly loosened her hold on her brother, enough to look at him in the eyes but not enough to let go of her tight grip around his neck, "Surely you jest! You surely must have seen the atrocity of such creature with your overly enhanced sight! Are thou not capable of distinguishing the complete and utter difference between an exquisite monster that means us harm but does not turn us nauseous and a hideously-abominable-disgusting-and-creepy-fiend-of-a-behemoth-monster that cares not about our being?! It is an abomination! I demand it be burned and lit on fire under our splendid and magnificent eyes!"
"Uuuuh…Wend-"
"Burn it alive!"
"Wend-"
"Burn it at the stake!"
"Wen-"
"Hang it to the people to see!"
"W-"
"Kill iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
"WENDY!"
The young dragon-slayer gave back her attention to her pink headed brother to see that he was staring at her incredulously. If she were to turn her head at a different angle she would also see that Rogue was hiding behind Gajeel's legs scared out of his mind by his older sister's suddenly frightening demeanor. He was clutching on the leg so hard that the iron dragon-slayer would have yelled a startled noise but he was so shocked he did not even bat an eyelid. Next to him, Laxus stared wide-eyed with his arms crossed against his chest and his back leaning on the wall trying so hard to comprehend what just happened but to no avail.
Cobra chose to sit on one of the available sofas in the room as he muttered something about being on an overdose of coffee, hallucinations and banning himself from dinking poisons he never heard of before ever again. Ultear mimicked his action by sitting next to him but instead of muttering gibberish to herself she was sending the video she just filmed with her lacrima induced phone to her mother.
In front of Natsu who was still holding Wendy and staring at her wide-eyed with his mouth agape, Gray was clutching his stomach so hard and clasped the other hand on his mouth to hold back his laughter (his extremely shaking form a proof of it…) whilst Sting had his eyebrows furrowed and confusion etched his features. To him, it seemed like Wendy was speaking in an alien language…
Being the first to regain his composure, Natsu forced a smile (that was too sweet) on his lips. It was so sweet that it sent a shiver down even Laxus's spine.
"We~ ~"
The oblivious girl stared in confusion at him as she replied, "Yes?"
"Pray you tell me who the fucking hell on earth introduced you to medieval dramas that incidentally include witches and burning and witchcraft and sorcerers and fucking witches?"
A gasp could be heard out of her mouth before she said, "Wow! How did you know I'm watching such a drama Natsu-nii?"
Her question was followed by multiple sweat-drops from those standing in the room, "'Cause I'm awesome like that now tell me, who was it?"
The glare and murderous aura that accompanied his words gave no choice to Wendy so she reluctantly started replying but when her eyes fell on something everyone seemed to have forgotten, her posture stiffened, her eyes widened and her mouth opened to let out a very loud scream-making Natsu let go of her to muffle his ears with them as Wendy climbed on him like a monkey, thus obstructing his vision in the process.
"Wendy what the hell?!"
"It's back! The motherfucking shit is baaaaaack!"
"Excuse me?!" The fire dragon-slayer took hold of his younger sister and tried as hard as he can to let her go of him and when he succeeded, he deliberately threw her at Gajeel who caught her in surprise and making him the next victim of her shenanigans.
"Clearly whoever you're hanging out with to watch movies and dramas will have to be buried six feet underground!"
This time Laxus interjected and added, "Not to mention that you're grounded Wendy for using such foul language."
"What? Why? That's not fair you guys always use it!"
"Gihi! Don't worry, we had our share of beating at your age whenever we used to say them," Gajeel was still trying to pry his sister of his back so that he can hand her to another looser of a victim.
"Oh…Ok then…More importantly, I don't care about that right now. Our main priority is that grotesque little thing!" She pointed at the tiny little creature that was watching them but not moving at all as she yelled for it to be killed and that they accomplish the task before it attacks them since it was plotting their death right about now.
Gajeel who was unnerved and pissed to no end about this (having Rogue and Wendy clutching at him like some baby koalas did not help sooth his temper) announced that he will crush it to smithereens to which Wendy reacted badly…
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You can't! Don't crush it! Kill it but don't crush it!"
Gajeel had a tick mark forming on his temple and was about to throw her off out of the window but he calmed down and tried to take a deep breath since he knew that if he did so he'd have three overly protective dragon-slayers on his back…
"Wendy you're being unreasonable, how would we kill it if we can't crush it?" said the pink headed boy.
"You're a fire mage are you not? Then just burn it!"
"No, cause with how frustrated I'm feeling right now with you and Cobra I think my magic would go out of control."
With that comment, the poison dragon-slayer raised his head from his cloud of depression and disbelief, "WHAT?! I thought we forgot about that!"
"Ah…No…I still want to know why Ultear is aware of us."
Natsu's present interlocutor huffed and pinched the bridge of his nose before replying, "Fine! I'll tell you!"
"About time you do…"
"Shut the fuck up Gajeel," he sent the raven head a glare and redirected his gaze to Natsu and Gray who pulled the fire mage to his side after controlling his outburst of laughter, "but before that…," he nudged the person sitting next to him with his elbow, "Ultear close the recording of the video…"
Taken by surprise, said girl coughed to suppress her blush and did as she was told.
"Ok, so I'll start now…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
A tick mark and a flash of lightning directed towards Cobra were enough to hint towards what the eldest of the gang was trying to send as a message, "Quit stalling or I'll make sure your funeral will occur in the seconds to come!"
Clearing his throat, Cobra went on, "So…When I went away for a few years, I kinda got caught by the council for I don't know what. They thought I was part of a group that caused a war somewhere on earth-I have noooo idea where- and so they took me in and accused me of murder. In there, I was imprisoned with a couple of other people who were under the same accusations and well…Ultear-this idiot-was one of them. Another person would be Jellal, I'm sure you've heard of him Natsu, as he's one of your friends'-her name was Erza I think-friend." Both Gray and Natsu nodded their head in affirmation at that. "Midnight, Racer, Angel, Hoteye, Meredy and Brain were all people that were there under false accusations-well, except for Brain…He was a real psycho-anyways, we got to know each other better and were mistreated by the council for who knows what. They're a bunch of fuckers that's for sure. One day, Brain went all coucou on us and so we had to defeat him and end his life-thank god for that-since if we didn't then we'd be the ones dead."
He and Ultear stared at each other before the latter took it upon her to continue, "After the fight, we tried to justify our actions with the council but with how hardheaded they were they refused to believe a single word we said. So Jellal, our self-appointed leader, did what he did best and plotted a plan to make us run away from there. Which we did successfully and in such a cool way too! You guys should've seen how cool he tried to act when we were appointed as fugitives! Aaaanyways, while we were on the run we met another group of fuckers and got into trouble with them as we tried to defeat them. Although, for some reason Cobra and Jellal both told us to run away before it was too late instead of fighting. And so we did." She leaned back on the sofa and stared at the ceiling as she went on with the story, "The thing here is that because we were marked as dangerous criminals by the council we had to be very careful with every step we took, leading us to not come back to town for a few years. Well…for me and Cobra that is, the others weren't living in this town before. This kinda explains why we went missing or more like absent for a few years…," she gave a guilty look to her raven headed brother but smiled when he shook his head as if to say it was okay and that he understood her reasons behind her actions.
"If we came back, back then, we would have put our families and friends in danger since it was still fresh news that we were fugitives…The thing here is that during our absence, we had Hoteye and Midnight hack the council's systems and erase any detail and trace of us from there. So that made us safe from them but the problem was not them to start with…The group of fuckers we encountered, they weren't any group of fuckers. They were part of a huge and very dangerous underground organization."
She sighed softly before continuing, "Before running away from them, we actually managed to wreck one of their many bases and thus making us part of their black list of people they want their heads alive or dead. This piece of information would explain why we always leave and come back without any explanation…I'm sorry about that guys…I-I…"
Ultear felt a hand touch her shoulder warmly as tears started to form at the rims of her eyes. When she turned her head, she saw the hand's owner give her a tiny smile and took her place in finishing the story.
"So now to answer your question Natsu, at some point in our travels, Jellal had this stupidly bright idea to ask us questions that would reveal something about ourselves. He said it was something to make us know each other better and that it would help us feel closer to each other or whatever," he dismissed the thought with a wave of his hand, "And so we did as he told us. Somewhere along the way, Meredy asked us what type of magic we were using and everyone answered except for me. I refused to do so and give away this piece of information so easily so I kept my mouth shut. Well…until they all ganged up against me and forced me to get it out. They were all shocked-should've taken a picture, it was so hilarious-but got excited in a matter of seconds. With that I end this extremely boring chapter of my life and would like to ask a question of mine."
His hands were spread on top of the couch he was sitting on by this point and he turned his head towards Natsu first but when he saw him avoid his stare he decided to let him go for now and looked at Gajeel instead.
"Who's Levy?"
The iron dragon-slayer cheeks were tainted with a dust of pink but simply answered with a "She's just a friend."
His blush did not go unnoticed by the others but they still accepted his answer for now. On the other hand, Laxus moved from his spot and headed towards the only occupied couch. When he reached it he chopped his hand over the purple headed teenager and left the room but not without ruffling the purple strands of hair to indicate that he was forgiven.
Sting and Rogue contented themselves by hugging their older brother and-in Sting's case- grinning foolishly at him before running after the lightning dragon-slayer. Gajeel simply nodded in his direction and followed after the youngsters.
This left Cobra looking at the pink headed boy. The fire mage had his head lowered in a way where his eyes were hidden under his bangs. He had it angled to the side and his lips were quivering. He tried to say something but his voice wouldn't come out.
Wendy who was still there hugged him around the waist in encouragement as Gray gave him a light peck on his temple. He used their actions as a motivational source and muttered under his breath loud enough for his brother's draconic hearing to catch onto his words.
"I-I'm sorry for lashing out on you…"
A tiny smile etched itself on the poison mage's feature as he stood up from his place to walk towards his frustrating yet adorable brother. He wrapped his arms around him and his lips bended upwards even more when he felt a pair of arms embrace him tightly as well.
"It's alright; I was an ass as well."
Natsu did not trust his voice at that moment so he nodded in response. He then let go of the person in front of him as he felt his hair being ruffled.
"Come on let's go have supper or something I'm famished," Natsu nodded again and took hold of his lover's hand to drag him with them as Ultear stood to follow with Wendy.
The moment Cobra turned around towards the exit his and his siblings inhumanly enhanced hearing caught the sound of a disgusting scrunch. The purple headed man froze in place and dared not to move or contract a single muscle.
As soon as he found the courage to move he took a step back and gazed at the floor below him, at the exact spot where he heard the disgustingly frightening sound. On his side, the pink headed dragon-slayer's features turned apathetic all over again whilst his boyfriend only raised an eyebrow at the sight in front of him on the ceramic floor.
Ultear hurriedly reactivated her recording video on her phone so she can show her mother and Jellal how her life-their life if we include Ur-has gone from plain boring to amusing thanks to her brother falling for a clown (a cute clown to be more accurate).
In the meantime, Wendy stood there with her eyes shadowed and her form shaking excessively as she stared with really wide eyes (they all thought they would come out of their sockets any second now) and mouth wide open. Her hands were shaking really badly when she lifted them up to cover her mouth in fright as she took a step back.
"O-Oh god…," It came out as a whisper from her mouth but they were still able to make out her words.
"Oh lord no…," She took another step back.
"Nononononononono…," She was shaking her head with every word she pronounced.
"Nooooo…," A whimper and another step back.
She suddenly wretched in her hands before she bolted out of the room as they heard her say, "I'm feeling nauseous."
The elder of the ice mages then stopped the recording and skipped all the way towards the exit while humming contently about the videos she took today.
The poison mage glared in horror and disgust at the creature he just crushed under his foot and tried to avoid the spot it was staining as he made his way out of the room, leaving the couple of ice and fire alone.
"Today was really fun! It might have had a bit of an emotional breakdown somewhere in it but it was still fun and amusing," said the ice mage.
"Ahun…," replied the fire mage while looking at the crushed to death creature.
"Haha! Come on, let's go Natsu," Gray tugged at the others hand before dragging him outside of the living room area.
They walked with their hands intertwined when Natsu asked Gray, "Hey Gray?"
"Hmm?"
"Are cockroaches that scary?"
A loud burst of laughter could be heard as they made their way towards the kitchen, making the pink head sigh in exasperation as he started preparing supper for those who were famished (although he had a feeling Wendy will not be eating anything for a while…).
I hope you guys enjoyed!
I based the cockroach thing on a friend of mine who's scared shitless whenever she sees one...specially if it's crushed! she says it disgusts her :p
ps: if you have any ideas you'd like to see in this story please do suggest them ;) it would be my pleasure to try and include them in it ^^
