Family are the people you love unconditionally but still have their crazy and frustrating moments in life.
The Slade Legacies
The Den had been on their toes at the news of the new arrivals that were coming that evening. Especially since they were apart of the eccentric yet allusive Fia Slade's family. The First Unit Leader had been diligent at keeping her past in the dark, now it all was coming into the open in one full course much to the disapproval of Fia herself.
She had expressed her feelings all ready in so many ways that the First Unit primary objective of the day had to be changed to keep her from running. A task in itself that was proving to be challenging, because Fia took the chance to run from them whenever it came up. They had to capture and drag her out of the kitchen area of the Mesh Hall, avoiding uncooked potatoes and frying pans through it all. Then the many rooms that she broke into and hidden in that were not part of their unit so they had to get the rooms' owners in order to open the doors.
One time she got so desperate that she ran into the females community showers, stripped down, and barricaded herself in one of the big tubs for a good two hours. It was a good move on her part, none of the boys would enter such forbidden grounds. But she didn't take into account the girls on her team. Sakuya and Alisa had practically dragged her out of the bathingroom starch naked from the tub. After some awkward moments having to hear struggles, squeals, and splashing sounds the girls had finally dragged Fia out- all of them soaked to the bone- kicking and screaming in nothing but a towel. The drag back to her room for some change of clothes was awkward at best for all of them, except for her apparently.
But then again, she got pass them. Finally finding her hiding under one of the sickbeds in the Sick Bay, Soma had vouched for tying her up. And so there she was, sitting on the floor, defeated. Her head hung low as her hands were tied behind her back by a rope wrapped around her with one end being held by Soma like a leash as they waited for the new arrivals in the Entrance lounge area.
"Stop pouting, it's not the end of the world." Soma grumbled to her, giving the rope a pull. "You wouldn't be like this if you didn't tantrum so much."
"Must be awesome living out one of your fantasy kinks, huh Soma." Fia mocked with a grin on her face, causing the others to blush. She did point out something questionable about this whole situation, it had been his idea to tie her up after all. And it didn't help his case that he was sitting on the couch while she sat on the floor.
"S-shut up!" Soma embarrassingly command, giving her rope an extra tug. "You're the one pouting on the floor out of your own choice!"
"Doesn't help your case that you're yanking my rope like some bondage fetish." Her smirk grew wider as she look up to him. "(Chuckle) Thank you, sir. Can I have another?"
"Knock it off!" Soma growled at her, his growing blush had her laughing louder.
"Don't let her get to you, Soma." Lindow said to him. "She's just trying to embarrass you enough that you release her so she can get away."
Her laughing came to a halt. "You already saw through my plan, Lindow?"
"I did now."
"Hmph, well played." Fia's teasing came to a stop at the noise of helicopters passing overhead, outside. "Soma, please untie me."
"No way. I'm not going to have you running away on me."
"Please... let me have my dignity when I face my family."
"..." Soma could see that she wasn't faking it. The defeat and acceptance of her fate could be heard in her voice. Knelling down, he untied her ropes. Once freed, she sat on the couch to lean over the railings, waiting for the front Entrance doors to open.
There was a pause of anticipation that passed through the whole Entrance as all went silent. That's when it happened... the first Slade came in. This young man was huge, bulky through years of the gym. He would have to be big in order to carry around that big God Arc cannon, F-BS Launcher, as if it was made of plastic. His tone muscles shown through his Petunia Jacket and Blue Sniper Pants. His wild brown mane remained wild with its short spikes (Style 13). The guy's brown eyes gave a gentle look to his rugged peach haired face. If one word would describe him it would be...
"Beast!" Fia waved at him.
"Squirt!" He happily called up to her, opening his arms. "Come here and give me a hug!"
"Nah-ahn, you've got to work for it! Come up here and get it!" She grinned, waving an arm for him to come up.
"Ha! You cheekie brat." The big Gods Eater chuckle. Rushing up the stairs to wrap her in a bear hug that lifted her off her feet as he swung her back and forth. "There's my little buddy, my good old pal. Hm, have you been eating? You're so skinny it feels like I could snap you like a twig."
"Blaise, I can't breath." Fia barely wheezed out, causing the young man to immediately let go.
"What? Oh! Sorry, sis."
"(Cough) You bloody bear. Where's Rangi and the twins?"
"They're on their way in, you know how Nina and Lynn get around Rangi, the poor bastard."
Like speaking of of the devil, Rangi appeared. His slim figure gave him two and a half inches height over Fia. He had his sister's raven hair, but he kept it short and sprayed about (Style 11). His Phantom Blade and Trismegistos + God Arc was strapped to his back as he walked in. He wore a Cobalt Coat with the under shirt actually zipped up as he kept his hands stuck in his Black Formal Bottom pockets. His brown eyes looked to the floor, expressing a tiredness of the world in his dark and mysterious nature.
"Hey, Rangi. Get away from the twins?" Fia said with a gentle wave, which Rangi responded with a grunt.
"Hmph," Rangi huffed. "The clingy little brats, how I despise them."
Much to Rangi's displeasure, they appeared like kittens from hell. Two young girls about the age of 14 each attached themselves to one of his arms. On his left arm was the young girl with wild black hair under a hat (Style 4). Her F-type Pistol BlzSpk God Arc was strapped to her Red Formal Top's belt as she sported Dunk Star Pants. While the other kept her raven hair in cute pigtails and a hat (Style 17). Her Freezing Knife EX and Seraphim E God Arc was attached to her Welkin Tights' belt while her top sported a Cobalt Goth Top. Other than style they looked exactly the same down to the faces. However they had a rare eye mutation that made one of their eyes brown and the other crimson red. The one in blue had a brown right eye and a left red one, and the other one in red had a brown left eye and a red right one.
"Nii-san!" They both chimed in a sing tone voice.
"Why'd you run off?" The blue one cutely asked.
"We missed you, nii-san. We don't get to see you as much anymore." The red one added in before they spoke at the same time.
"So we have to spend as much time with each other as we possibly can."
"Oh my God, Lynn." Rangi said with a sigh to the blue one then turned to the red one. "Nina, you guys are like the needious kids."
"Rangi be nice, they haven't seen you in a while." Fia lectured. "So suck it up, last thing we'd want is for them to throw a tantrum. Lord knows that the two of them together make up a whole New-Type Gods Eater on PCP."
"Ugh, there's no need to remind me twice."
"Sisy!" The twins cheered as they ran up the stairs to their older siblings, dragging Rangi along with them. Forcing him into a family hug once they made it to Blaise and Fia. "Blaise!"
"Hi, girls. Have you guys been causing trouble in the California Branch?" Blaise tease.
"Only a little," Lynn answered with a wavy hand.
"We only destroyed one building." Nina put into more detail.
"That's my girls." Fia smirked.
"Are you kidding me? They just admitted to taking down a building!" Kota exclaimed.
"I know." Fia grinned. "They've done what we've all wanted to do."
"I swear there's something wrong with you, Fia."
"Well that may be true, but look me in the eye and try to tell me you haven't wished to do something like that once in your life." Fia said, pointing with an accussing finger. Kota was flabbergasted, he could not deny that he hadn't thought about it when he was a kid.
"Hey, whose your friend, Fia?" Lynn questioned as her and her twin circled around Kota like hawks.
"He's got a good fashion sense, for a boy." Nina commented.
"I guess an introduction is due. Damn there's so many of you..." Fia sighed into her hand before pointing to each respective person as she said their name. "Okay... This is my big brother by two years, Blaiser; my little brother by one, Rangi; and 14 year old sisters, Nina and Lynn. My fellow misfits, this is my unit: Sakuya, Lindow, Alisa, Kota, and Soma."
"!" Soma got nervous when his name caught the attention of the twins. He didn't like the look in their eyes when they started to circle around him... they had the same look their sister would get. "Is there a problem, Squirts?"
"Your style is just bleh." Nina said sticking a tongue out for a second to express her disapproval.
"?!"
"Your clothes screams loner and moody. And that hood takes away the features of your face." Lynna explained with more detail.
"Those clothes have got to go." Nina insisted as her and Lynn started to try taking Soma's hood off, much to his resistance. "We've got to give you a more hip look. You need some more color in your style."
"No way. Get off me, you brats!" Soma growled at them as they continued to pull on his coat.
"It's bad enough we have to deal with a dark and pessimistic style Rangi keeps changing back to, there's no way we're letting things slip down that road for you as well." Lynn insisted.
"What I wear is of my own choice. I'll be damn if I let some kids who barely grew out of their baby teeth play dress up with me." Soma growled at them.
"We will not watch this fashion stupor happen!" Both twins said with determination.
"Ugh, damn brats."
"It'll be over quicker if you just give in." Rangi suggested to Soma through experience. "You can just change back later."
"What?! I'm not encouraging this!" Soma barked in response, using his height over them as an advantage he held their heads back to keep them away from his clothes. But they were strong little girls and they were pushing their way back to him. Soma worried he wouldn't be able to hold them back much longer without hurting them when Fia came to the rescue. She had grabbed her sister by the back collar of their shirts and yank them back to her, lifting them a good two inches off the floor.
"What do you two think you're doing?!" Fia chewed at them.
"(Sigh) Thanks, Fi-"
"You don't just attack a person's clothes, that's un-sportmen!" Fia lectured over Soma's thanks, much to his disbelief. But then he got nervous when an excited grin came over her face. "You gotta give a good 30 seconds start before you go after the prize. That's the thrill of the hunt."
"Ohhh..." "Got it, sis." Lynn and Nina replied at the same time.
"Hn, good." Fia nodded in approval to her sisters, before turning back to Soma with an evil grin. "You better start running, Soma. Because I'm in the mood for tea."
"This is insane, I'm not running because you and your sisters are clothes fanatics!" Soma shot back to them with a gruff. Anger coated his voice, but a nervousness was slowly coming over him. His instincts were telling him to run, run fast and run far.
"I've always silently gave you all the fair 30 seconds start. You just never chose to take it. Which by the way you got ten seconds, Soma." Fia informed, lowering her sisters' feet back to the ground but not letting go.
"!" Soma nervously took a step back. It was bad enough Fia would occasionally stripped him down to play dress up, it would probably be worse with three of them.
"Grace periods over, Soma. Time to play- !" Fia gasped out of nowhere, freezing in place with fear.
"!" The horror in her eyes caught Soma off guard as she fell to her knees and started to breath unevenly.
"God, it's him! Like Dr. Sakaki said!" Her heart began to beat faster. "I didn't think they were crazy enough to actually send HIM!"
"Fia, what's-"
"Prepare for hell, it's Azar!" Fia cried out in terror. Her sisters let out a scream too, whimpering as the slowly cowered to hide behind Lindow. Much to Lindow's confusion and worry. Here he thought he was going to get a good laugh at a show when the girls were suddenly struck with fear. Their brothers had a hint of fear too, as Soma noticed the increase in their heartbeats as their eyes widen for a moment and they began to sweat. Whoever was coming must have been something if they had all the Slade's afraid.
Then the front doors burst open, a chill entering the Entrance with it... that wasn't coming from outside. There at the door was a man with long wild raven hair. He had an aura about him that made his Sweeper Rouge Top coat seem like it wasn't originally red. Black gloves cover his hands, matching his Sweeper Noir Bottom. Strapped to his left thigh was a Pistol-shape God Arc, something that was a spectacle in itself. Finally his head looked up from his hair cover. His pale skin contrasted with Fia's and the others'- except Rangi- peach tone skin. His eyes were a crimson red like Fia's, and his face was well shaven to give him that late 20's appearance. But that grin... O that grin he was wearing made him look like a demon straight out of hell. It didn't help his case much when he began to chuckle with shaking shoulders which soon turned to a full blown ominous laugh.
"Heh hahahaha! Ha hahahaha! HA HAHAHA! HA HAHA HA!" He hisses as he relished in his burning sides caused by his burst. Then his eyes caught sight of the kids up the stairs at the lounge. His eyes and grin grew wider at the subtle flinch they made as their eyes met. "Daddy's here."
*** Author's Notes ***
Each of my created characters were named after an element in different languages or cultures:
Nina- fire; Lynn- water; Blaise- fire; Rangi- sky in Maori; Azar- fire