Introductions and Stories

"I am not staying up here." Levina said as she crossed her arms, staring defiantly at her brothers. Silently cursing that she was now shorter than them.

"Yes, you are." Ace said. "Sabo can go get you something to eat."

"No, I stay here with her while you get some food." Sabo said.

Levina sighed as the two quickly got into a fight about who was going to stay with her and who was going to get the food. They were acting very much like Teddy and James when they argued who got to spend more time with her or got into a fight over who got to ride the toy broom first.

So, she did what she usually did when her boys got into a fight.

Ace and Sabo yelped in pain as their sister suddenly gripped their ears.

"That is enough." She said calmly. "Now, I'm hungry and would like to go downstairs to see my kids, little sister, Neville, my cousin, Dadan and the others. I do not want to see you two fighting while we are eating. Do I make myself clear?"

Ace and Sabo quickly agreed, suddenly cowed by the reprimanding look she gave them.

She released them.

"Ow!" Ace complained as they rubbed their ears. "That hurt, Lev."

"It's supposed to." She said. "You two were behaving like children and so I did what I usually do to stop my two eldest from fighting."

The two grumbled and followed their sister out of the room.

"Since when have you been so mature?" Sabo asked.

Levina stopped at the foot of the stairs and turned towards her brother.

"Since I got married, took in my godson and gave birth to my three other boys. That is also including the one I'm currently carrying." She said.

"But you're 14!" Ace said. "You're too young to be married and have kids."

Levina's eye twitched. Why do I get the feeling I'm gonna be hearing that a lot…

"For your information Ace," She said. "Despite my appearance, I'm actually 20-years-old."

Sabo and Ace just stared at her.

"I think you need you need to go lay back down," Sabo said in a placating voice. "And rest some more."

Her eye twitched again.

"No."

"You're fourteen, Lev, not 20." Ace said before looking at Sabo. "Sabo help me get her back in bed."

Another twitch.

"Ace, Sabo." Levina said as she tried to keep herself from hexing them. "I am not delusional. I am 20-years-old. I haven't looked like this in 6 years."

"You're crazy, Lev." Ace said. "You've been missing for 5 years."

Five years? Levina thought in confusion. I've been gone for 11 years, not 5. Unless… time goes by faster on Earth.

"Look, I'll try to explain as best I can later." She said.

Sabo looked at her a moment before nodding.

"I still think you're delusional." Ace said.

Levina snapped.

Line Break

Luna, Dudley, Neville and the kids were sitting downstairs waiting for Levina to come down with the two teens who had claimed to be her brothers. Sitting around them were the bandits led by the large orange-haired woman, who had introduced herself as Dadan. Dudley and Neville were sitting in front of the kids and Luna, both were ready to defend them if the bandits did anything. Despite Luna, who was holding the twins, saying that it was okay and everything would be fine, the two were still wary.

They had gone from being attacked and arrested by people who had been considered traitors, to being 6 years younger than they were and surrounded by a group of bandits and two teenage boys who seemed to know Levina.

"So, how do you guys know Levina?" Neville asked the bandits.

"The brat's grandpa dropped her off here when the brat was 7." Dadan huffed.

"What was Momma like?" James asked from his place next to Teddy.

Dadan looked down at the five-year-old. He looked so much like Levina, he had her black-hair and green eyes, though his eyes were a few shades duller that Levina's emerald green.

"Your Momma was a little troublemaker." She said. "She spent most of her time either hunting for either game, treasure or pranking the Nobles."

Dadan then began to tell the two boys and Levina's friends about Levina and what she and her brothers did while they lived either or in the tree house. The two boys listened in awe as Dadan told them about their Mama and uncles fighting the Tiger Lord.

"Aw, Dadan." Said a teasing voice said from the doorway. "I didn't realize you cared so much."

Everyone looked to see Levina standing in the doorway with a large smile on her face, behind her stood the blond-haired boy, Sabo, who looked like he was trying not to laugh at something.