Special Episode 4: Alistair's Not-Birthday
Alistair stares at the group in front of him like they just slapped him across the face.
"...Why?"
Nelio, Genesis, Danate, and Akito exchange a confused look.
Alistair pinches the bridge of his nose, "Why are you on my bed?" he asks. "Actually, why are you in my room? Get the hell out - you don't even go here!" Alistair snaps, gesturing wildly at Akito.
Akito shrugs. "My father doesn't have a son that goes here, only a daughter, Akane. I'm the next best thing."
Alistair resists the urge to wash all of the men out of his room with a scalding wave of water. "What? What does that mean? Since when were you and Akane related? You look nothing like her-"
"That's irrelevant." Nelio says and pulls Alistair's blankets off of him. "Rise and shine, birthday boy, we're going to spend the day together."
Genesis and Danate jump to either side of Alistair and link their arms with his, pulling him out of bed and onto his feet.
"Strip him and get him into the bath, boys." Nelio orders.
"EXCUSE ME!?"
Alistair sits in the bubble bath the others drew up for him with all the enthusiasm of a kid in detention. All of the boys are in the bathroom with him but fortunately for Alistair's sanity, the bubbles are protecting his decency.
"Did I mention that it's not actually my birthday today?"
"Shh." Genesis says, sitting on the edge of the tub and using his telekinesis to shampoo Alistair's hair.
Nelio crosses his arms and leans against the sink. "Start washing your body too or Genesis will." he says.
Alistair goes rigid and immediately reaches for the body wash.
Danate laughs under his breath and Akito mumbles something about not being paid enough for this, whatever 'this' is.
"So!" Danate beams. "What d'you want to do for your birthday?"
"It's not my birthday…"
After forcefully bathing him, they herd Alistair towards the beach neighboring Phoenix Fire's building and sit him down on the sand.
"We'll go in alphabetical order and show you what we've brought as gifts!" Nelio says. "Akito, you're up." he says and the rest of the boys move off to the side so the Silver Sabelum Mage is front and center.
Wordlessly, Alistair watches as Akito pulls out a book with a galaxy themed binding. He vaguely makes out the word 'Pilot' and the name 'Seizo' on the front cover.
Akito clears his throat and presents the book to Alistair. "'The Ultimate Fucking Pilot and his D-Lister Twink of a Boyfriend-'"
Alistair stops him right there, "First of all, no. Second of all, no. Third of all, who the hell-"
Danate beams, practically bouncing in place as Akito goes back to stand in line. "It's my turn now, right?" he asks. "Right? Good," Danate continues without waiting for an answer. "Look! Here, I hope you like it." he says, pulling out a thin rectangular gift wrapped box. "Well, I'm hoping you will since you've been asking for it," Danate says with a small laugh.
Alistair raises an eyebrow and wordlessly takes the offered box, carefully unwrapping it.
What? You never know, especially with Danate. The man seems to have a few screws loose sometimes.
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"What the hell is 'The Jims 4: City Living'?"
Genesis steps up to take Danate's place.
"Please be quick so we can get this over with…" Alistair mumbles under his breath.
Genesis spreads his arms out, a proud look on his face. "I give you this!"
"...What?"
"You see," Genesis sticks up a finger like he's about to start lecturing Alistair like a child. "My mother is the almighty creator of this world-"
"I've heard enough."
Nelio takes Genesis' place, an indifferent look on his face.
Then, he snaps his fingers.
There's some sort of metallic creaking sound and a vaguely humanoid shaped entity clad in yellow armor starts walking out from behind one of the palm trees along the beach. There's various black stripes along its armor and a red scarf and it has a red visor that seems to serve as its eyes. It also seems to be dragging something behind it…
"Stinger and I brought you Revenant Beasts Mages." Nelio says. "They were the ones who kidnapped your brothers, right?"
Alistair stares at the gagged and tied up pair behind 'Stinger' in awe. "Yes, they were…but…but…uh…" he struggles to find the right words.
And why wouldn't he? They may be Dark Mages but Nelio kidnapped two people for his not-birthday. Does that still count as a crime?
Well, Alistair supposes it depends on what they do with their kidnapped victims. If they turn them in, that's most likely a pretty large sum of not-birthday money. If they just keep them…
Stinger finally reaches the group of men and heaves the two Dark Mages into the middle of the group. It makes what sounds like a happy, pleased noise, "Happy Birthday, dude!" Stinger says to Alistair. "Reo and I worked super hard to get these two guys, I hope you enjoy torturing them!"
Alistair looks down at the two frightened faces staring at him for help.
Immediately, the female Dark Mage on the ground pales when she sees Alistair and Alistair sneers when he sees her. "Well, well, well." Alistair says. "Rosalia Moore, it's a pleasure to see you again." he says sarcastically.
Rosalia tries to wiggle away but of course she doesn't get anywhere. Stinger places a foot on her back, keeping her in place.
Alistair stands up, dusting the sand off his pants. "Oh I'm going to have fun with this." he says and cracks his knuckles. "Untie her, I want her to think she has a chance before I beat her ass."
Nelio finishes tying up an unconscious and beaten Rosalia and her companion to a nearby palm tree and sends Stinger away.
He walks over to Alistair, sitting down on the sand again as he watches Akito bury Genesis and Danate in sand.
"Having fun?" Nelio asks as he sits down next to Alistair.
Alistair shrugs. "I still don't understand what all of you are on about - it's not my birthday. But…yes, I did have fun." he admits, flexing his fingers. "It was especially fun beating that woman again."
Nelio hums, pleased, and pulls out a deck of cards. "Go Fish?" he proposes.
"I guess." Alistair nods, shifting to face Nelio.
"Happy Birthday, Alistair."
"...Sure."
PF x SS x AH
A/N yes
everyone say happy birthday to ahn jihlo
xx
love u grandpa