Happy new years my darlings !

~*~*~*~ The Magic In The Word 'Fate' ~*~*~*~

The next few days were passed in a weird fashion. The first few days, Francis would visit for an hour or less. Then with time, his visit became longer and more frequent. After a while, as Arthur discover anything he want, he found out that Francis had difficulties to pay the rent of his flat and his scholarship at the same time, so he eventually asked him to stay with them for good.

After all, weren't they a family ? Arthur shivered, no, not at all. He still haven't forgotten the other's yet. It wasn't his type to hold a grudge for a long time, but now that he knew what happened to Francis' family, he also knew that he would always have some fear concerning the young sorcerer.

Injuries may heal, but scars stay forever.

Arthur almost regretted not having read him completely the first day he saw him. He would have maybe know where it was all going to end up... He sighed, it wasn't the moment for that anymore.

Today he was passing his whole time studying a way to get Matthew and Alfred's powers under control so that he and the twins could attend college. With a bit of luck, he would be able to be at the same college as Francis'. The Frenchman was supposed to go to an university but he had to remake a whole year.

Like what, it's not a good idea to avoid doing homework by going to parties.

For now, the human was in the backyard with Alfred and Matthew. Arthur gave him a sorcerer vision for the day so that Francis wouldn't worry if Matthew or Alfred were strangely floating in the air.

Everything was going fine until red eyed shadow formed bear made their appearance in the small clearing, growling dangerously. Francis caught the two kids and pulled them back, slowly making his way backward to the house.

"Fwancis ! Let me go !" Matthew squealing, trying to get out of the protective embrace.

"Matthew, keep quiet, they don't seem friendly at all !.. J-Just follow me..."

"No !" The violet eyed boy disappeared, leaving Alfred and Francis behind. He appeared again in front of the beasts and hugged each one of them, giggling. Then, in the middle of the group, a smaller bear, completely white but with the same red eyes made it"/ way of to Matthew. It jumped on and started to lick him happily.

"Kumachiki ! S-Stop !" The kid laughed.

Francis let Alfred joined his brother. He was quite surprised that the boy wasn't dead. The scene was... Strangely heart warming. Sure, both looked like monster, but even monsters can look cute.

When Matthew was finally able to get back on his feet, he walked up to Francis and with a big smile, he took his hand to drag him to the bears. Saying that the young adult wasn't scared would be a lie, but he wasn't going to show such emotion in front of the kids.

The sorcerer moved Francis' hand on the top of the bear's head. The wild animal stared right into Francis' eyes, looking like it was going to eat his soul. Then as to prove this appearance wrong, the bear shifted closer to the human, snuggling it's head on his laps.

"See ? Even with animals, appearance can't always be right."

"You're right." Francis softly smiled.

The demons after a while left the places, disappearing in the shadow of the forest. The three boys walked back into the house, sitting in the kitchen. Meanwhile Francis was making pancakes (God knows the boys loved his cooking, it was even better than Arthur's !) the twins was watching, sitting close by.

"Francis do you love Awthur ?" Alfred blurted out, making the other blush a little.

"Love ?.." He mumbled, then smiled. "Yes, he's a really good friend." He perfectly knew what the child meant, but he wasn't going to talk about such a subject with them.

"I've seen you you know ? You were with Awthur. You were happy together... But not like just friend, like daddy and mommy were." Alfred mumbled, his eyes totally blank. "I would say you were like that with him... Since four months... Then something terrible happened... But I can't see what..." He sighed, then smiled up. "At least big brother won't be lonely anymore~" The twins said happily.

"Hush and eat." Francis closed the subject, giving them the 'snack'. Yet, Alfred's vision was slightly scaring him. What was going to happen ?.. He shook away the thought.

"Hey Fwancis ! Wanna prank Awthur with us ?" Alfred asked mischievously.

"Mh why not ?" He smirked. "What do you want to do ?"

"Wait us here !" The twins giggled and ran off to their room. They come back with a book so large that they had to move it together. They put it on the ground and opened it up, going to special page.

"Raise up and go in the middle of the living room." Matthew whispered, his gaze stuck on the weird writing.

Francis did as he was told, it's only when the twins started to read out loud what was written that he knew it was going to be a bad idea. In a flash of black smoke, he was morphed into one of the creature he met earlier with the twins. He slowly started to freak out, until Matthew and Alfred come close to him.

"It's okay ! We didn't tell you because we were scared you wouldn't agree to help us..." Matthew whispered, hugging the bear's leg.

"Listen up ! After the prank is done, we'll turn you back into a hooman. You'll have to chase us like you were going to eat us and we'll scream loud enough so that Arthur get scared ! Understood ?"

Francis nodded. So started the prank, with the Fran-bear running around and the twins squealing in fear, calling for Arthur. The now creature Frenchman was suddenly flung into the air. He looked back at the twins to find out an extremely protective Arthur was there.

"Where's Francis ?!"

"H-He's dead !" Alfred faked a sob before starting to laugh like crazy.

"Why are you even laughing !? That's not even funny !"

"Your face is priceless Awthur !" He continued to laugh, soon copied by Matthew.

Francis slowly made his way up to them and happily like Arthur's face.

"Francis ?! Bloody wanker why did you have to scare me like that ?! You two, turn back Francis how he was like before." Arthur mumbled angrily, pushing away the bear's big head.

The twins looked worriedly at each other...

They didn't remember how to turn him back...