Author's Notes: I dish this out with apologies. It's short but it's a major game changer. I'm pleased to see this has more readers than I would have thought, considering the odd cross-over choice I made. Once I'm done, don't expect these two to disappear. I'll start writing one-shots. Summer is here so there should be more regular updating.

Zelos scowled to himself. Who did that kid think he was? 'Not like you have anything better to do.'

"Yeah, I have a lot of better things to do. I could be keeping my ass safe while you get gutted by King Fuckface," the red-head spat as he began to scope out the area for some food.

"Where does that twerp get off?" he hissed under his breath and then he spotted a rabbit. At least something was surviving out here.

He knelt slightly to get ready to pounce. His hand reached down and he was pulling at the hilt of his sword slowly. Zelos then jumped and beheaded the rabbit. Normally, he wasn't so brash with his movements but he didn't care right now. Fang was grating on his nerves.

"Stupid teenager," he stood up completely before striding over to the rabbit's corpse and he picked up his future-dinner by it's hind-legs, making sure he didn't get any blood on his already-rough-enough looking outfit.

Last thing he needed was more blood on his hands, after all.

The awakening from his zoned out train of thought was not exactly pleasant; the salty stank of blood wasn't what he wanted to wake up to. He looked up from his shoes a few inches in front of him at the headless rabbit on the ground.

Headless rabbit.

Zelos did wear an unusual amount of pink. Pink like a heart.

"Why'd you cut off the head?" Fang inquired.

"To kill it. You can't very well eat something that's alive, kid," Zelos scoffed as he grabbed a stick and began to scrape off the bark so it would have a sharpened point. Then he stabbed the rabbit all the way through with the stick before putting it over the fire.

Fang's stomach loudly roared.

"You don't seem to be complaining, anyway," Zelos smiled at him cockily.

"You're an asshole."

"Say it again and I'll plaster that saying on a mug and make you drink everything out of it because it's starting to become your catch-phrase, kid."

"Maybe you should be nicer."

"I think I'm a perfectly pleasant person, seeing as how I'm helping you out and I'm in no way obligated to you."

The words were cold and off-putting. Fang glared at him but looked back at the fire now.

"You're not going to skin it first?" he asked Zelos as he looked at fire.

"No, I'm too hungry and I don't give a shit anymore, Fang."

"Did I do something wrong earlier?" the teenager demanded.

"No," Zelos simply replied, not adding more to the sentence.

"Cause you're acting like I did something wrong, and if I didn't I don't know why you're acting like that."

"You talk a lot."

"Not normally but I don't fucking understand you."

"Hrm. That sucks."

"Zelos, did I do something wrong?"

"Do you understand how much I'm risking by being your stupid chaperone, kid?" Zelos's words were tight and curt.

Fang looked at him dumbly. It seemed like he didn't understand.

"My life. That's what I'm risking. Do you care?"

Silence.

"I didn't think so," Zelos scoffed, shaking his head at Fang's selfish youthful train of thought.

"I… I just want to get home, Zelos," Fang said gently, his eyebrows pulled together softly as he looked at the redhead who was holding the rabbit corpse over the fire.

"I do too, but I don't have the convenience of doing that anymore."

Fang looked at his shoes like they were the most interesting thing in the small campsite while he thought to himself. The words that came out of his mouth next surprised even himself.

"I'll help you defeat King Dickhead."

Zelos's head whipped up so he could stare at Fang incredulously. "I beg your pardon?"

"I'm going to help you defeat that King guy," Fang repeated with more confidence.

"Uhuh. How do you s'pose you're gonna do that, kid?" Zelos reared his head slightly and stared down his nose at Fang.

The teenager stared at the corpse of the rabbit for a moment before looking across the fire at Zelos.

"We'll behead him."

Zelos laughed and clapped his hands together, "Now you're talking, kid!"

Fang smiled awkwardly, wondering inwardly what he had just volunteered himself for. Hopefully there was no Jabberwocky in this world.

"So, the first thing we've got to do is kill his pet dragon," Zelos informed Fang as he baked the rabbit.

To which the avian-hybrid groaned and lowered his head into his hands before saying, "Oh, that's fucking fantastic."

Zelos just laughed at his misfortune.