A/N: the lovely pleasures of raising a baby, though I doubt that this was something Shion had signed up when becoming a saint…
II. I will Stardust Revolution the Tooth Fairy!
It was now nearly a whole month since Shion had made that fateful visit to Jamir at the request of a dying comrade and returned with an infant in his arms. The Aries saint was still marvelling on the fact that he had not picked up on drinking, but this was probably due to the fact that Mu was a remarkably peaceful and quiet child as most of the staff remarked with a slight hint of envy in they voices. This was truly a good thing, but it all changed on a peaceful Sunday morning when Shion picked up his young charge from his crib. He immediately noted that Mu seemed somewhat distressed and there were little teardrops at the corner of his emerald eyes.
"A bad dream?" Shion wondered out loud as he made his way in the direction of the dining room to have breakfast, but halfway he noted two unpleasant things. 1. something wet was sliding down his hand and 2. Mu was chewing on the sleeve of his robe. "What in the… euww… is that droll?" and they were already on they way back to the bedroom.
After getting changed hoped Shion that everything would go fine now, but he was sadly mistaken, not only had Mu refused to eat his… whatever thing the cook was making him, he could for the life of him not tell if that mush was made out of vegetables, fruits or Athena knows what. The child even reduced himself to cover the pope with that mush which Shion decided that if they would have made him try to eat that thing he would have teleported it to Siberia or use it in the next Holly War as a secret weapon against the spectres. After that followed more drooling, making Shion think about how many lectures he would get if he lets Mu walk around only in his dippers and there was also the occasional nipping either at his fingers, hair or robes beside the usually calm child being fussy. Shion held up bravely for two more days till he had enough, there were only so many robes a single baby could make drip with droll. Also he found out a new fun fact, if Mu got really fussy then his telekinesis would activate and let either things or people float.
This was the ground why he was currently sitting cross legged on his bedroom floor, arms crossed in front of his chest, eyes fixated on the baby looking back at him. Shion was a proud man and liked to think that he knew many things or if not then he could find the answers or solutions for those he didn't know, this was why he tried to deal with the new problem alone. Though he would later need to ask Lydia if she had ever thought about becoming a female saint, she certainly had a hard slap for someone only sixteen. It was not that Shion tried to look, but when the young maid had passed them with the empty laundry basked had Mu one of his 'telekinetic-fuss' moments as Shion had dubbed them and made the girl's skirt float up Marilyn Monroe style and she lashed out at him… This will certainly not stand in his next letter to Dohko…
There was suddenly a knock on his bedroom door and Magda the maid who had dragged him to take a bath stepped inside, in one of her hands was a cloth with a clear sheen of ice on it. Shion only blinked when she looked at him shaking her head in disapointment before kneeling down in front of Mu and giving him the fabric which the baby immediately took into his mouth and started gnawing at it blissfully.
"His first teeth will soon start to appear, this is why he is gnawing on things or people and why he is fussy, he is trying to relieve the pain in his gums." she told the bewildered greenet without looking into his direction "Try giving him things on which he can chew preferably something cold and hard, it will ease the pain and he will be calmer, cold drinks and food are also good options. You can also try rubbing his gums with your clean finger and not one with which you have crawled around under the rug." she advised him at which Shion mumbled something regards that she was never going to let him live that one down. "If you try the later technique be prepared that he will not like it at first, but he will enjoy it when the throbbing pressure in his gums eases." with that Magda stood up and headed for the door, this was also the time Shion had snapped out of his reverie.
"…thank you Magda." he said honestly.
"Your welcome Pope Shion, but the next time put your male pride into a closet when it comes to that child." she said while shutting the door behind her, but before that she added. "Don't forget the Tooth Fairy will come exactly fifty two times, the baby teeth are twenty in number while after they are out come the thirty two permanent ones." and the door fell shut.
Shion stared blinking for a few second at the door then he turned back to Mu who looked up at him from his happy munching on the blissfully numbing fabric he was given.
"Mu, if you ever see this Tooth Fairy woman, please inform me immediately and then close your eyes, because I will Stardust Revolution her in both of our names." Shion replied in a determined tone to the now happily gurgling baby.
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