Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Water and Earth. Enjoy the 900-word chapter. I don't own DM, Coolkyoushinja and a few others do.
(Arthur's home, Monday 9:30AM.)
When Elma woke up, Arthur was gone and she sighed. She sniffed the air and smelt pancakes, a few bagels and eggs.
"Hmm?" Elma asked as she felt the floor creek under her bare feet. She walked to the buffet and picked up a card which had her name on it.
"Em, I knew you'd be hungry when you woke up, I wanted to head to work a bit early… Or was it late? I need to check my schedule. I made you all this so you wouldn't be hungry. We're get ice cream or something when I get back. I left instructions if you want to do something like watch tv or get food brought to the house." Elma read before she read the last few lines.
"Have fun at home, Arthur." She read and was once again flabbergasted at the fact that a human could be so generous. He had to be tired.
"Tohru, you were so wrong about the humans…" Elma whispered. She started to eat and wonder how she could repay Arthur for going out of his way to make a buffet for her at the cost of his sleep.
Something a dragon didn't really need to deal with.
(With Arthur)
Arthur stepped out of his car and rubbed his eyes while he walked towards the office, he yawned and slowly opened the door.
There was no one to greet him, sometimes his boss would meet him right out of the gate. He walked towards the back room, clad in a grey jacket and black jeans.
"God, I am so tired, I feel like I'm going to pass out… But at the same time, I don't feel as tired as I should." Arthur muttered before he sat on a box of computer parts and waited to be needed at something technical.
(With Elma)
it took Elma 10 minutes to eat through the entire buffet before she started to sit on the couch and watch tv. She yawned while she looked at the clock.
She heard that Arthur would be back for 8:00 AM or something. She wondered what would happen between then. She also remembered that Arthur was off on the weekend.
She wondered what to do next, she looked at her phone and grabbed it. She slowly traced her fingers over the phone.
"So, this is what humans use to talk to each other over long distances… It's like their form of magic." She whispered before she realized something.
She realized that Arthur was strong enough to have moved her, even when she put her strength into it. She also realized that Arthur was skilled with money. He also liked to be detailed.
"Wait… Arthur might be human… But those traits are common with… Earth Dragons?" Elma said before her eyes widened at the thought.
Was Arthur a Dragon and hiding it? It would partly explain why he wasn't concerned with angering Tohru. She had never told him that the dragons couldn't hurt humans. She didn't believe she did, at least.
"Did he lose his memory? Or did he track me and he's been hiding his magic? Earth Dragons have been very protective of Earth and its people. They were very caring and kind dragons… But if Arthur was an Earth Dragon?" Elma muttered.
She really wanted to know if her half baked idea was worth anything. She would ask Arthur when he got home.
(With Arthur)
Arthur walked over to the fuse box and then slowly opened it.
"Did you really blow a fuse after 20 minutes?" Arthur asked while he twirled the new one and inserted it into the fuse box while taking the other one out and looking at it.
"The fuse barely looks burned out…" Arthur muttered before he stuffed it into a box to check it to make sure it wasn't broken or just burned out.
There was no sense in wasting a bulb that could be reused in the future, it would be a waste of money. He walked through the room and out towards the room again.
He noticed that Kobayashi was busy working at a computer, he turned back just as she turned to him.
"Kobayashi." He said and nodded and then he walked away, carrying the fuse back under his arm back towards the technician section of the building.
"That was awkward." She said and then turned back to her computer and continued to work.
Arthur felt his phone buzz and then fished it out of his pocket. He sighed as he could guess who it was.
"Hello?" He asked while he sat down in a chair while he started to check on the fuses.
"So this is how the phone works?" Elma asked while Arthur chuckled.
"Yes, Elma. This is how a phone works… I have to go, I'm at work, I'll talk when I get back." Arthur said and put his phone back.
He smiled.
Author Note
Phew, another chapter done! I'm sorry this chapter is short, I'll make next chapter longer. I do want to point out if Arthur is a dragon… And he probably will be, he isn't going to be overpowered. Next chapter will be Thursday or so and will show Arthur coming home and Elma confronting him. until then, Lighting Wolf out!