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"Okay... Mordred.. so what you're saying is that mom is going to arrange a suprise beach trip?" I asked Mordred.
She nodded at me. "Yeah! Mom asked me shit about you! Like what's your favorite food! Your favorite places! Hell she even asked me about what you love doing for fun!"
Mom asked her that? That is... suprising to say the least... but.. a good suprise I would say... a good suprise indeed.
"So... why didn't mom asked me this?" I asked Mordred cause I am frankly curious about why didn't mom just ask me those question? Why Mordred?
Mordred look at me as if I'm stupid. "... are you dumb? Of course mom is going to ask me, and not your stupid ass."
... and how does that explain why she asked her?
I then let out a sigh. "...but why tho?"
"Because you're obviously not going to he honest about it and say something like helping around the house and go to the town or some shit cause you don't want her to create a trip just for you... don't know why you prioritize the others." Mordred the roll her eyes at me and let out a sigh.
Well... she isn't wrong to say that.. now that I think about it, if mom were to ask me those type of questions, I would indeed say something simple like that...
She then sit next to me on my bed and poke my chest. "Everything is okay in there? Or it's still painful?"
...well I even forgot that my heart was really painful yesterday because i woke up fine today.. "No... its not painful anymore.."
"...is it Jaune's not painful or normal people's not painful.. cause those two shit are two different things.. you would even call having a broken arm not painful because you don't want to worry other people." She let out a sigh. "Just be straight with me... is it painful Or not .."
I shake my head at her. "Its normal now, Mordred. Just like usual." And I am saying the truth because my heart is completely fine now..
"That's good then, cause if it's still painful then I am going to drag you to bed and force you to sleep."
Mordred sound serious and I know that she would do that in a heartbeat... she could drag me to Mom and make her try to heal me, but she knows me better than that.
If my Aura can't heal whatever that happened to my heart then mom's Semblance won't work either considering that it is basically Aura healing...
Talking about my Heart.. I still don't know what cause my heart attack... I have a hunch that it have something to do with that dream.
Who was that girl... I thought dreams is made up by somebody's imagination and the people in the dreams are made out of their memories of the people they met in their day to day life...
But I never seen that girl before.. and the dream felt so real... not only the girl, I never even met that man.. I forgot what was his name but I remember his purple hair. I never met someone with purple hair before so it can't be from my imagination.
I don't even know people with purple hair exist, and his hair looked natural and not dyed.
And I don't know how or why, but I know for sure that somebody died.. somebody close to me.. but who? If it was Artoria then Mom and Dad would be informed by now so I can scratch Artoria's name off the list..
But who? Who died? And how am I close with that person?
"Jaune..."
I really need to think more about this more because what If this kind of things happened again but rather then when I was sleeping, it happen when I am outside?
"Jaune.."
I would be really vulnerable to anything... and I don't want to make the others panic...
"Jaune."
Can I stop it if it happened again to me? How would I even train for this kind of scenario anyway? Maybe if i- "Jaune!"
I got snapped out of my thoughts and looks straight at Mordred. "...yeah?"
"Finally... I've been calling out to you for ages now.. you're stuck on your fucking head Jaune." She let out a sigh. "You're lucky I didn't throw a pillow at your stupid face.."
I let out a chuckle. "Well I guess I am lucky then.. so... why did you call out to me anyway?"
And once again she looked at me as if I'm a dumbass. "... you're impossible you know that? I told you that I suspect mom is going to throw a suprise beach trip for us and it never crossed your mind to pack up your stuff so we can relax while the other rush to get their beach shits into their bag?"
Oh... yeah... it didn't crossed my mind to pack my swimming trunks and the other essential...
"Sorry... I don't know what I would do without you, Mordred."
"Probably keel over and die because of how much an idiot you are." She then stand up and open my closet and search through for my stuff.
Her words may be harsh.. but she is loving in her own ways.. I wouldn't want her to ever change...
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"Miles, I just asked Mordred about Jaune's favorite."
I told Miles I get inside the bedroom.
He perked up. "Well that's great.. so what did she say?"
"Well she told me that Jaune enjoy going to the beach so there.. I'll arrange a beach trip for the entire family and I'll handle the girls while you go have some father son bonding time with him."
I explain to him and frankly.. distracting the girls would be the easiest and hardest thing for me to do...
How is it both easy and hard you would say? Well I know that my girls would be smart enough to understand what I'm trying to do which is giving their father the space to have some time with their brother...
And you would think that because they understand it then it would be easy.. well it is easy.. now let's go to the hard part... with my girls being smart enough to understand it... that meant that Mordred would understand it either...
I wouldn't be suprised if Mordred stubbornly decided to stick close to Jaune.. neither I and especially Miles can do anything about it.. no one can.
No one.. except for... Jaune that is.
I would bet my kidney that if Jaune say the word, Mordred would give him some space... but i also wouldn't be suprised if Mordred stalked the two of them.
Sometimes Mordred is a little overprotective of Jaune... which is good, I would rather her being overprotective rather than she not caring about Jaune's safety at all.
Oh yeah, I forgot to bring up the fact that Mordred brought Jaune to the forest, I should scold her for it... but I'll decide to let this one go for now...
"So... how do you asked her for that information?" Miles asked me curiously which I can't blame him.. he didn't even got the chance to Ask Mordred that question before Mordred exploded in anger..
"Well I just asked her about what is Jaune's Favorite things..."
The wide eyed expression on his face is a little bit funny... oh poor Miles.. her husband really never had a chance at doing this...
"That's it?" He asked me in suprise.
"Yes.. that's it.." His face is telling me that he didn't believe it.
"...no bribes?" The word came out of his mouth but even I know that he didn't believe his own words either, he is just grasping at straws by this point.
"Nope, no bribes."
"For real?"
"For real, real."
Miles then let out a sigh and sit on the edge of the bed. "What did I do wrong..."
I cannot help but think of how cute he is right now... is that bad? Well I don't care anyway. "A lot of things.. but you are trying to make things right too, so that gotta count to something." I then pat his head.
"...do you.. do you ever think that Mordred would... would stop being so... so harsh on me?" He asked me and I can't help but stop to think on it.
Would Mordred give him a break from her hostile behavior? Maybe... but it is a possibility if Miles made up for his mistakes with Jaune... Mordred would at least learn to tolerate Miles at the very least.
"Well I can't promise you that... but there's a chance that it could happen if you made up with Jaune.. you know how Mordred is.. if you and Jaune become buddy buddy, Mordred would stop being so harsh with you.." My words make him let out a sigh of Relief...
"But..." Okay, now he look tense again. "But you would be on thin ice with her.. that I can count on.. the moment you treat Jaune like you usually do in the past? Or even like last night.. well you would destroy what little trust she has in you completely."
"Thanks for the words of confidence, Luna."
I let out a chuckle and lightly pinch his cheek. "Hey, cheer up, as long as you don't screw things over then everything will turn out well."
"Yeah... yeah I guess so..."
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As expected from my genius mind, the other are rushing around the house grabbing their essentials and their stuff whole Jaune and I relax on the couch.
Why would Jaune relax with me rather then help his sisters you may ask? Well the answer to that is simple...
I am forbidding him to do so by resting my legs on his thighs as I lay on the couch, basically pinning him down and I guess me glaring at him whenever he tried to get up also helped a little with making him sit down on his ass for once and let the other do their own shit without his help.
Cause God damn, she knows that Jaune wanted to help just for the date of helping but fuck me... its exhausting to watch him doing that..
And ain't no way in hell imma let him do all of this kind of shit after what happened yesterday! What if his heart starts to act stupid again because he used to much energy helping these stupid lazy fuckers!?
"Mordred... please..." he looked at me with his puppy eyes.. which would work if I didn't steel myself and push him down with my leg again.
"No..."
"Please?"
Do I really need to say the magic words so he sit the fuck down? Shit.. okay...
"Jaune... if you don't sit down and relax... I'll cry... I don't want you to have another heart attack, Jaune."
He instantly look away from me and nodded.
Thank God that works.. cause I think I would have to tie him down to stop him... but i won't lying when I said that I'll cry.. because as much as it'll hurt my pride, I will cry again if I see him in the state that he was yesterday...
Fuck me... hopefully the other is finish packing up their stuff fast, because fuck me.. I'm fucking bored.
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Thank God Jaune convinced me to drink the motion sickness pill or some shit...
Cause I am right know laying down on the back seat with my head on Jaune's lap and my leg on Jeanne's lap.
How am I in this position you may ask? Well all I had to do was just lay my head down on Jaune's lap and he start to massage my forehead without missing a beat and how did I convince Jeanne? Well I offer her that I'll have a spar with her tomorrow...
This is why Jaune is my favorite and not that bitch Jeanne.. because I don't need to offer Jaune anything and he'll do everything for me... which also goes the same for me, he doesn't even have to ask me shit and I'll kill anyone he want to... not that I expect him to ask me to kill anyone, he's too kind for that.. and who would even anger Jaune that much anyway? Everyone in town loves him..
To be honest I prefer to seat at the front passenger seat next to the driver for my health reason not because I am more comfortable there (I'm more comfortable being by Jaune's side.) But fucking unfortunately... Miles is driving the car and mom is sitting on the passenger seat... even if mom offered to trade place with me, ain't no way in hell I'm going to sit through 2 hours of a car trip with Miles by my side...
Would rather have Noir screaming down my ears rather than that shit... and I consider Noir screaming as a certified military torture method...
Shit... 2 hours... hopefully the fucking pills lasted that long cause if not, I'm going to jump over the seat and vomit on Miles's face.. and that's an Arc fucking promise.
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"Kids, make sure to not leave anything in the car! Make sure to bring your bags with you!" I hear Luna talks to the kids as I open the minivan's trunk and the kids one by one.
Mordred pushed me slightly to the side and grab two bags which I could use an educated guess to be hers and Jaune's bags.
I saw Jaune tried to take his bag off from Mordred's hands but she shakes her head and walk to the beach which also meant that it also made Jaune followed her..
I let out a sigh as Luna approach me. "How am I going to do this, Luna... it won't work..."
She put a hand on my shoulder. "Miles... you had fought much more fearsome creature... creature that would put Mordred's anger to shame... you can do this.."
She have a point.. but... "but Mordred is different, Luna.. She's my daughter... what if I made her angry again and ruined Jaune's day? This could only end in disaster.."
"Miles... listen to me..." she then grab my chin and turn it to face her. "This could very well be the greatest chance you have to fix everything... don't you miss Mordred calling you papa? Don't you want to make Jaune actually love you again? Come on.. this is it.." she then pat my cheek. "Please? Do it for me..."
I... I can't disappoint her now... can I?...
"Okay... I will... but... please be there for me..." I really need her to be there for me.. because I don't think if I can do this without her.
She nodded at me. "I will, I promise Miles."
Okay... that's good... I can do this...
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Fuck.. I can't do this...
Look at Mordred... She's playing with Jaune at the shore but.. maybe cause of her big sister's instinct, she is shielding Jaune from my view with her body and glaring at me occasionally...
Shit...
"Miles..." Luna called out to Me... and shit.. even if I don't have any confidence to not fuck this up.. I need to do this...
I nodded at her. "Girls! Come here for a second! I want to talk to you about somethings!"
Wait! Why is she calling the girls here!? Is this the distraction she talked about!? She didn't tell me this! Shit! Mordred is walking here with a confused Jaune being dragged by her... she probably dragged Jaune along because she doesn't want to leave Jaune alone even though Luna only called out to the girls...
After a few second all of my children had arrive... and that also include the annoyed Mordred and the confused Jaune..
"What is it, mom?" Saphron asked Luna and I can see Jeanne and the twins nodding to Luna in curiosity too...
"Well I would tell you about it, Saphron... but I only asked for the girls to come.. not the boys.." Luna motioned to me and Jaune with her hand.
As expected, this doesn't goes well with Mordred who glared at Luna. "Whatever you want to say to me, then you can say it to Jaune too!"
Hopefully this is not going to be a repeat of last night...
"Mordred.. calm down.. I am planning to talk about.. girl's things... things that only a girl should hear." Luna tried to explain to Mordred but it only made Mordred become more angry but before she can open her mouth, Jaune put a hand on her shoulder and shake his head.
"Mordred.. please... its okay, and I don't exactly want to hear about... you know... girl's thing..." he have an awkward expression on his face which I can't blame him for.
Because if I were to be in his shoes, I would also feel awkward because who doesn't?
Mordred stayed silent as she have Jaune look at each others eyes and have a silent conversation with it for a while before Mordred sighs and looms away from Jaune.
"Go on then... promise to me that you won't keel over and die..." shit... did she really think that I would let Jaune be in danger if it's the only the two of us? She really doesn't trust me huh...
"Is the Great Mordred Arc worry about little old me?" Jaune teased Mordred... Jaune... teased... Mordred... oh this is not going to end well.
"Me worried? Nah, I just don't want to lose my personal masseur." She scoffed and walk to Luna and sit down next to her on the beach towel.
"Don't worry, Mordred, I'll be fine.." Jaune reassured Mordred and it looks like it manage to calm her down a little.
How? How did Jaune not make Mordred exploded? This isn't the first time I seen Mordred got teased by her siblings... it never ended well... but this is the first time I sees Jaune teased Mordred.. and she didn't explode... holy shit... how?
I could imagine if it was me that teased Mordred, she would probably try to kill me... Jaune really is Mordred's Favorite.. noted.
As Jaune starts to walk back to the shore, I catch up to him calmly... thankfully because of my height, I don't need to Jog or rush over to Jaune... my long legs is good enough to make me faster than Jaune's walking speed.
As we are far enough from the others, I call out to Jaune.
"Jaune..."
"Yes, dad?" Shit... he is talking formally now.. if it were Jeanne or Saphron that I called out they would be more relaxed... shit.. I really messed a lot of shit up.
"Do... do you want to have a walk with me?" His eyes widen on suprised which I can't blame him, this would be the first time he and I have a walk in years... the last time was... I.. I don't even remember it... but I'm sure that it was before the... that day...
He nodded at me and give me a smile I felt absolutely unworthy of. "Okay, dad, I would love to."
As we walk alongside the shoreline, I try to start a conversation with Jaune.
"So... its been a while..." shit.. is that the best you can do Miles?
"Yeah... its been a while..."
"Do...do... do you want to get some ice cream?" Wait, do Jaune even like ice cream? I forgot to ask Luna!
Jaune thankfully only let out a chuckle and nodded. "Yeah.. that would be great, dad."
Why the fuck is my son is more relaxed than me!? I am the adult for fuck sake! Get your shit together Miles!
"Well... follow me then.."
I then start to walk ahead of Jaune to the stalls where there are hot dogs, snacks, a few souvenirs but most importantly for this situation, the ice cream place.
Thankfully there are no line right now so both Jaune and I go straight to the counter. "Can I have a large chocolate mint please and one large..." ...what ice cream would Jaune even like? I never seen him it ice cream before...
"Neopolitan please?" Jaune asked the cashier and the cashier start to scoop the ice cream, and in no time at all Jaune and I start to walk again but with our ice cream.
"So... I never knew that you like neopolitan, Jaune."
I asked him genuinely curious because I would never guess that Jaune would like neopolitan..
"Well... neopolitan isn't my favorite, my favorite is matcha.. i don't like neopolitan..." Jaune told me which only make my heart beat in panic.
Shit... matcha.. I think I saw matcha in the ice cream place! It's the green stuff right? Or is that mint!? Shit!?
Okay, Miles! Calm yourself down! Panicking won't help you at shit!
"Do... do you want to go back to the ice cream shop and get you a new ice cream?" Cause if that Jaune want then I will do it in a heartbeat!
But Jaune replied to me by laughing softly and shakes his head. "No, it's okay dad..."
"Okay... but.. why did you buy the neopolitan if you don't like it?" Why did Jaune choose the neopolitan? This is making me crazy... what do I do, what do I do?
"Oh... well.. its because it's Mordred's Favorite.. " Jaune explained to me which doesn't exactly make sense.. its Mordred's Favorite and he doesn't like neopolitan... he do know that I will buy ice cream for the others when we get back right?
As if he know that I still doesn't understand his reasoning which is true, I don't understand it, Jaune then explain it more.
"Whenever Mordred and I go out to buy ice creams.. Mordred always buy the Large neopolitan while I buy the matcha ice cream... but she always finish it first and want more Ice cream and sadly, her pocket money isn't enough because we also buy a few snacks before buying the ice cream always..." he then let out a hummed and take a spoon full of the neopolitan. "I would always offer her my ice cream but she doesn't like the taste of it... so after that, whenever we buy ice cream, I would also pick the neopolitan so when her ice cream is finished, I would offer her mine... could I buy her another ice cream? Yes.. but she would get angry at me and talking about how it's my money and I doesn't need to spend it on her... so I had to order neopolitan ice cream so she can be full.."
That... that is really sweet... Jaune and Mordred really do have a special bond don't they...
"How about this, Jaune? When we later get back to them, I'll buy Mordred 2 portion of large neopolitan? And buy you the matcha ice cream."
His eyes widen and he smiled at me again. "That.. that would be great, dad."
I let out a sigh. 'Okay... here goes nothing..' "Jaune... I... I want to say sorry for.. for being the worst father to you.. and Mordred..."
"Wait dad.. no... no you're not the worst father to us.." His eyes widen in shock and he hurriedly shakes his head as if it could erased about how badly I treated him.
"I am Jaune.. I had been a bad Father to you, since that day... and Mordred always hated me for it.."
And I deserve her hatred... I deserve all of it..
"Dad..." Jaune call out to me but I can't bare to look at him in the eyes, I don't want to see what his eyes would look like.. would he look at me with anger? Hatred? Disgust?
"I wished that you would hate me too, Jaune... I deserve that..." oh how much I wish it were to be true.. because if Jaune hated me as much as Mordred does... it would make it easier for me to accept it.. I don't feel worthy of how good Jaune treated me even after all of the mistreatment I had did to him...
"Dad!" Jaune snap at me. "I would never hate you."
His words made me stopped dead in my track... because how?! Why!? Why would he never do that!?
"...why? I stopped you from achieving your dreams... I had done so many wrongs to you, Jaune..." to many wrongs than any good father would do to his own son.
"But dad... I would never hate you for it.. am i sad that you do it? Yes.. angry? Yes... but hate you? Never... you're my father.. I could never hate you, dad..." I finally look at Jaune's eyes and see the tears welling up on it.
I can helped buy reach out and wrapped my arms around him, I expect him to push me away... but... all he did was hugged me back and it made me let out a choked sob.
"I... Jaune... I'm sorry..." I... I don't know what else to say.. I don't deserve Jaune... a better father Deserve Jaune, not me..
After a few moments of silence from Jaune, he finally speaks to me again.
"... dad.. I always wonder.. but why?.. why did you do it... is it because I'm talentless? A lost cause?"
I... is that what he thinks? Should.. should I tell him the real reason? Would he understand? God i hope he would because he deserve to hear the real reason...
"No... its not because of that Jaune.. its because... you look so much of my own father... I don't want to lose you too Jaune..."
"Oh..."
I hugged him tighter hoping that it would conver just how much I want to be a better Father to him.
"Jaune... please... please help me be a better Father to you, Jaune... please.. I beg you..."
"I will dad... I will... and I love you dad.."
"I love you too Jaune..."
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'Miles.'
'Miles.'
I hear a voice calling out my name and yet no matter how much i tried to look for it, i cannot find it.
'Miles.'
"Who is there! Is somebody here!" I call out to the voice and yet i hear not a single reply from it.
I sigh and look at my surrounding trying just to see and found out where in the broken moon am i...
I am in a forest.. with white trees as tall as i can see and leaves... black leaves to be more accurate falling all around me.. its.. strangely beautiful and haunting at the same time..
And if that is not weird enough, the ground made much less sense... rather than dirt.. its sand as dark as ink..
I tested it myself and yes.. its sand.. as for how i tested it? Well i gotta be thorough so i... uhmm... i taste it..
Trust me, i tasted so many dirt in my days that i would know how dirt would actuslly taste like and this doesn't taste anywhere closr to dirt.
And it have the same texture as sand too i guess, should had known it was sand in the first place but who could blame me, the sand here is as dark as ink.. like i have an ink well? Or what was it name again.. ink.. something... well it was a fancy gift i got a couple years ago but whatever its name is, its a glass container that stores ink, well my ink is not even as dark as this sand.. and that is saying something..
And yet.. even the sand couldn't top off the weirdest thing i am seeing right now... the sky is red.. yes red.. blood red... but that is not important.. the wierdest thing is the whole moon i am seeing right now from what i could see through the gaps of the trees..
And yes i am not kidding, the moon is whole.. as in not shattered.. not a remnant what it was once..
Maybe its the reason i am here... well either that or this is the weirdest dream i had ever experience.
A fever dream maybe... i honestly don't know why i am dreaming this kind of places..
I don't think i am sick, or this is a drunk induced sleep... i have been sober for years now.. so this can't be a drunken dream...
So what the hell is this..
"Fuck it.. what does kids these days say again?" I hummed as i start to walk on a random direction. "Oh yeah.. fuck it, we ball." God, Mordred would strangle me in the name of Justice if she ever hear me say that world.
I start to whistle as i walk calmly, my instinct isn't telling me shit so i don't need to put my guard up.. well put my guard up too tightly, cause as much as i trust my instinct.. it will be stupid of me if i completely let my guard down.. god knows whatever is in this weird dream and me not having any of my weapons also made it hard for me to let my guard completely down.. i'm still in my pajama for oum's sake.
There could be a grimm land shark for all i know.
I let out a chuckle and hummed as i continue to walk.
These past couple of months.. had been great, i guess... Jaune and i.. finally have what could be considered as a good father and son relationship.
We talked... we watch tv together, hell, we even played catch a week ago... that would be.. the first time we did that in years.. the last time we had played catch was.. before my.. decisions...
I let out a sigh, well... i fucked up on that one.. but i will stand by my decision.. Jaune and Mordred could hate me for it, i won't blame them, but i am doing this for Jaune's own good.
I am trying to save him, i would never let him die like my father.. no... i will not... he... fuck me...
... i hate it that this always happened.. whenever i think about Jaune, My mind will always come back to the thought of My father.
I know that i had done something really wrong, but i am trying to make amend for it, and yet my mind had given me no reprieve!
Speaking of Mordred and Jaune... those two had been much closer than usual.
Well.. maybe there are always this close, but not this close in front of the whole family, but hey.. like i said, maybe there are always close to each other and had become comfortable with showing the family of it.
For example, a week ago Mordred had hold Jaune's hand for almost the entire day and never leave his side and yet they didn't utter a single word to one another.. but they still work like a well oiled machine...
Even Luna and i would be hard pressed to be continously in sync with each other for the entire day without any words coming out of our lips to each others.
Those two connection are much too close.. Blancheur and Noir couldn't even do that and they are twins! If the old myths are true, twins have like.. telepathy with each other right?
Maybe its true or maybe its not true, at the end of the day Mordred and Jaune are much closer to each other than an actual twin.
They... how could i say it.. but those two children of mine.. they complete each other.. Mordred filling gaps in Jaune and Jaune filling the gaps in her too.
Its like.. they're soul twins or something?
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That sounds stupid.. but my point is that they are two side of the same coin! I'm really don't know ehy i am thinking this shit anyway...
Oh yeah.. i am bored walking through this.. weird black sand forest or some shit... the bone forest? Nah that sounded weird... wouldn't be suprised if i hear somebody talk about how he is the bone of his wood or some shit.
But yeah.. what should i call this place... come on Miles, you're the father of 8 children! You gotta be able to name a single forest! Well.. to be fair.. Luna was the one who named the children.. i was never good with names..
Hmm... grimm.. this forest reminded me of the grimms.. from the bone white trees to the sands as dark as an ink.. grimmy forest.. i will now name you grimmy forest.. no.. grimmy forezt.. yeah.. much more.. exotic..
I had been walking through this weird ass dreamlike forest for god know how long before i hear a
Something.
Something.. metallic... like steel clashing against each other..
CLANK*
SLING*
CLUNK* (idk how to describe the sound of steel clashing.. like is it more like clank? Sling? Clunk? Clink? I don't fucking know.. just bare with me okay? Please.. i beg.)
I decided to follow the sound of steel because frankly, i have nothing else to do and maybe it will explain this weird ass dream.
The closer i am to the sound the harder it is for me to walk.. like the sheer shockwave that reverberate through the forest is making me physically flinch and sometimes take a few step back to not fall on my ass.
It take me no less than 8 minutes before i finally managed to get out from in between the trees and into the clearing.
The sight that greets me is... beautiful...
It is two man.. no.. Knights... two Knights.. two knights fighting with each other..
One of the knight wore a cloudy white armor with green accent on the armor's edge alongside donning an emerald green cloak with gold accent making most of the symbols on the cloak.. the Knight is covered fully from head to toe with the armor's plating and is completely covered by it.. the green, knight's helmet is.. is sleek.. a simple and practical.
And his sword is what i could only describe as a wide longsword with emeralds running down its groove, the hilts is predominantly silver alongside emerald green running down the hilt like a line.
The other knight.. was less protected by his armor.. the colour of his plating was silver.. silver to point that its almost white, he wore a breastplate that connect to a skirtlike plating that protected his thighs and lower body, he also have.. a.. gauntlet.. yes.. one gauntlet on his left arm.. while his arm was completely free of any armor with only a flowing sleeves protecting it...
And just like the green.. no.. emerald knight, this knight also have his own colour which is predominantly a blue fabric like material that covered the gaps inin his armor with gold accents on it, his sleeves is also blue with gold accent on the edge of it but right where the sleeves meet his wrist, it ended with some white furlike material..
And rather than wearing a knight's helmet, this blue knight covered his head with a detachable dark blue detachable hood that looks like it connect to his shoulder's cauldrons.
I had thought that his right hand is completely unprotected but i caught a glimpse of steel on it.. it looks like that he wore a steel plated gloves to protect it.
All in all, the blue knight wore something much less protected than the emerald knight... but as i continue to watch the... fight..
The blue knight doesn't need much protection in the first place compared to the emerald knight.
In term of skills, the blue knight completely dwarved the emerald knight with his footworks, let alone his riposte and parrying skills.
Watching the blue knight moves is akin to seeing a master dancing to the tune of his own music, for how the emerald knight raised his sword and swing it to the blue knight with a such power that i had to take a stepback, and yet.. all the blue knight had done is tap the emerald knight's sword on the side as it come down onto him and effectively redirect it to the ground.
And the blue knight sword is.. unimpressive compared to the emerald knight's.. it looks just like any other sword, without any adornments on it.. no motive.. no uniqueness.. just a plain steel sword.
With the emerald knight's sword now syuck on the ground, he used it as a leverage point and swing his entire body to kick the blue knight's away and yet Once again in a show of superior skills, all the blue knight had done is step his foot on the hilt of the emerald's knight sword to stick it deeper on the ground and that simple action made the emerald knight's loses his balance because both of his feed wasn't touching the ground and the only thing that connect him to the ground was his hand that was gripping the stucked sword.
The kick went over the head of the blue knight's head by a few inches and the momentum made the emerald knight spin in place before he fell on the ground.
It was... magnificent.. that is the only way i could describe the short bout of this two knight..
From the quick thinking on the emerald knight psrt when his sword was stuck on the ground.. and the frankly terrifying calmness and skill of the blue knight with how he disrupt the emerald knight's attsck just by calmly stepping on the hilt of his opponent sword and make it dig deeper on the ground.
The emerald knight stay sprawled on the ground and i can hear him panting before he sit up and rest a knee up against his chest and an arm draped over it.
"My king." The emerald call out to the blue knight. "I'm sorry for... bring shame to you with my lack of skills against."
'...the blue knight is his king...' i thought to myself but something also managed to get my attention. 'And that voice... it sounds familiar.. as if i had heard it before.. but where?'
I the hear The knight king let our a soft chuckled and shake his head. "You did well, my knight. Your lack of skills isn't something to be ashamed of. for you must take your lack of skill as something to be improved upon day after day.. you could only go up, my knight."
The emerald knight hang his head and shake it. "But i am shameful, my king. For what if my lack of skill bring harm to you or the royal family... it would be my greatest regret if i ever do that, my king."
The knight king hummed and shake his head. "Never think of what if, my knight. It would only bring you sleepless night... you must think of what is happening now rather than what ifs.. you could had been too stuck inside your mind to the point that you had missed something and hurt yourself, my knight."
The emerald knight let out a chuckled. "You are always right, my king. Sometimes i wonder how someone could be as perfect as you... the perfect knight.. the perfect swordsman.. the perfect king.. the perfect man."
"The perfect man? I'm perfect?" The knight king let out a laugh before he offer a hand to the downed knight. "Do you want me to tell you a secret, my knight?"
The knight take the knight king's offer hand and the knight king pull him up on his feet. "It would be an honour, my king. I will bring your secret to my grave and no one would know about it from my lips." The emerald knight put a hand on his chest and vowed to the king that he had offered his loyalty too.
"... you shouldn't go that far.. its nothing serious." I can hear the knight king let out a sigh and shake his head. "My secret is that.. i hate being called perfect..because i'm not perfect."
"What?" The emerald knight is so in shock at his king's words to the point that he took off his helmet and revealed his face.. his skin is slightly tanned with brown eyes and Hair. "You surely don't mean that my king! If you are not perfect then what could you possibly be!? If i asked anyone from our kingdom and beyond, they would agree with me at the fact that you are perfect!"
"I meant that wholeheartedly." The king then let out another sigh. "... being perfect.. meant passing the finish line.. there's no more goal.. no more room for improvement.."
The king the grab the emerald knight's sword and pull it out of the ground before he used it to swing it around in a flourish that looks so beautiful that it could only be called perfect.
"I.. i hate the word perfect... perfection is what i would consider stagnation.. if i become perfect then i can't become better.." He the casually flip the sword on the air and catch it by the blade. "I always strive to be a better version of myself, my knight... for i am not perfect... i am just.. better than i was yesterday.."
The knight king then offer the sword back to its rightful owner. "Would you want me to stop being better, my knight?"
The emerald knight shakes his head in refusal and take the offered sword. "No my king! It is my fault for thinking that perfect is the word best suited to describe you! You are.. beyond perfect my king!"
The knight king stay silent before he starts to talk again. "That is not what i..."
But the emerald knight in his devotion had talked over him. "I will start to train twice- no! 5 times as hard as i used too! So i will never bring shame to you again my king! I will follow your footstepst and strive to always be a better version of i was the day before!" He then stand up and starts to jog into the forest in excitement at the prospect of following his king's footsteps.
'Miles.'
The knight king reach out his hand to the emerald knight before he stopped it mid motion and shake his head. "... that.. nevermind.. at least he got something out of this conversation.."
'Miles.'
The knight king the grab the the back of his hood and pull it off his head before he turn around to my direction.
'That face.. that golden hair... that eyes... that turquoise eyes.. that.. why...no.. it can't be.. why does he looks like...'
'Miles'
The knight king that wore my father's face look at me straight in the eyes and let out a small smile. "Ah.. i see you."
"Dad." That was the only word i managed to say before a bright light washed over my view.
"MILES!!"
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"MILES! wake up!" Luna slapped the face of her husband and the pain finally managed to wake him up after what feels like hours upon hours trying to wake him up for breakfast.
Miles sit up straight and Luna had to back off or her face would meet Miles's forehead because of how fast he was sitting up.
"Dad!" Miles let out a shout and start to pant as if he had run a marathon with a grimm on his ass.
"Why are you calling your fa-" Luna cut herself off and give Miles a sad look. "Oh..."
'He.. he must be dreaming about John again.. its been years since the last time he woke up on cold sweat because of that dream.' Luna thinks to herself before she raised her arms and wrapped it around her husband's body.
"Come on.. its okay..." she pat her husband's back trying to comfort him and stop him from having another panic attack. "Breath, my love... breath in..."
Miles take a deep breath and Luna smiled at that. "Yes, good.. now follow me.. breath out.." Miles let out a deep breath out. "Yes good.. now do that again for me again please?"
Miles starts to taking a deep deep breath in and out while Luna continue to give him comfort.
After a few minutes of that, Miles finally calm down enough for Luna to pull away.
"You're okay now, Miles?" Luna asked her husband because if he is still not okay.. well she can hold hik for how long he need it... just like the last time this happened.. it was one of the few times where she and Miles didn't attend breakfast at all and Luna had to leave it to Jaune to take over the kitchen and prepare food for his siblings.
The other times it happened.. well lets just say that its because she and Miles had done some strenuous activity that end only after midnight...
"Yeah... i think i'm fine... its just that..." Miles wanted to tell his wife but he doesn't know if he should tell her about the weird dream that he had or not.
"Miles.." Luna put a hand over her husband hand and squeeze it. "You know you can tell me anything right? I'm your wife, Miles.. i had seen you at your worst... whatever it is won't faze me anymore.."
Miles think about it and nodded because she isn't wrong.. she had been with him from his teenage days.. to the early days of his father death... to the past few years when one of his children hates his guts with the blame rightfully belongs to him..
"Yeah.. its just that.. i had this weird dream.." Miles squeezed his wife's hand. "I first woke up inside of a... weird forest... i called it the grimm forezts."
"And then.. i started to walk in a random direction hoping i would find a way out and i did.. i found a way out when i follow the sound of swords clashing." Miles explained to her and Luna nodded to signal him to continue telling her the story about what had happened in his dreams.
"When i got out of the forest, i walked into a clearing where 2 knights is sparring... the emerald knight and the knight king." Miles then let out a sigh. "I could considered the emerald knight to be one of the most skilled person i had ever saw but the knight king... he made fighting the emerald knight looks like childs play.."
"After the fighting end, they both have a conversation about perfection.. the emerald knight called the knight king as perfect and the knight king told him that he is not perfect because being perfect meant stagnation to him.." he then let out a sigh. "The emerald knight feels familiar to me.. but the knight king."
"What about the knight king, my love?" Luna aksed her husband gently because this could very well be the reason for his distress now.
"He... he looks exactly like dad when he was young..." Miles revealed to his wife and All Luna could do is blinked and covered her mouth.
"Oh.. that would be... jarring..."
"Jarring... yeah... after that, i woke up to you slapping my face i guess." Miles rub his cheek. "If i didn't have my Aura, i could have a handprint of my face now."
Luna laugh softly and slap his shoulder. "Oh hush now, i didn't slap you that hard."
Miles then chuckled. "Well.. you did..."
"Lets agree to disagree now... we don't want to be late for breakfast.. well we already are." Luna revealed to her husband.
"Damn... what time is it now?"
Luna pick up her scroll and look at the time. "Its already 8:30 in the morning, Jaune would probably finished cooking right now and the rest of the children are waiting for us."
Miles nodded before both him and his wife get off the bed and walk out of their room and headed straight downstairs to the kitchen.
'Weird.. i'm not smelling any of Jaune's cooking.. maybe he open the windows or something.' Miles thought to himself and when they both enter the dining room/kitchen they found all of their children sitting on their chair except for Jaune.
Saphron is trying to calm down Olivia.
Mordred look like she is not feeling good.. maybe she is sick or something because she looks a little pale and her eyes are red.
Jeanne is sitting there calmly.
And Noir is predictably bugging Blancheur about the lack of food on the table.
"Girls... where's Jaune?" Luna asked her children but her eyes is locked onto Mordred's pale face.
Saphron was the one who answered her rather than Mordred. "I don't know mom.. maybe he is still sleeping?" Her eyes look at Mordred.
It took a few seconds before Mordred blinked and realized that they are waiting for her to answer.
"Oh... i... i don't know..." she then rest her head on the table weakly as if she had lost all of her strength. "I'm not feeling well... i think i got sick..." she replied weakly and it managed to make the other's heart hurts at seeing Mordred this vulnerable.. this could be the very first time any of them had seen Mordred being vulnerable.. most of her siblings never thought the word vulnerable could be associated with Mordred.
Luna quickly go to Mordred and use her semblance on her. "Its okay.. its been a while since the last time you've been sick Mordred.. its expected that the next time you would get sick, it would be pretty bad." She continue to use her semblance on her daughter while slowly rubbing her back.
"I... i'll go check up on Jaune and wake him up." Miles made an excuse for him to get out of the dining room because he doesn't to make worsen Mordred's current condition without Jaune being there acting as a buffer between the two of them.
It doesn't take Miles long for him to reach Jaune's bedroom door. "Jaune... are you awake?" He knock on his son's door and waited for a few moment. Before he knock again after recieving no answer.
"Jaune... wake up..." he knock on the door again but this time, his instinct is saying that something is bad had happened.
Mile trusted his instinct but he doesn't want to risk Jaune being angry at him for breaking down his door. "Jaune, wake up! Its time for breakfast!"
Miles waited a few more second before he put his ears on the door and listen in into the room.
His heart feels like its crawling up his throat because all he can hear is... the sound of draft coming through the window.
His heart is beating against his chest but he force to calm himself down to not make a scene. "Jaune... i'll open your door okay?"
Miles twist the door knob but he can't open it because it looks like Jaune had lock it.
"Jaune! Open the door now!" He shouted into the door before he shakes his head and back away from the door.
He'll ask forgiveness from Jaune later for what he is about to do.
With a huff, Miles kick the door open and storm inside.
His worst fear had come true.. the room is completely clean as if somebody had make sure to leave it tidy, and yet the window is open... meanwhile, Miles couldn't see any sign from Jaune anywhere.
He can hear footsteps rushing up the stairs.
"Jaune!" Miles shouted in the hope that maybe his son is playing hide and seek as stupid as he sounded like.
Jeanne and Saphron burst into the room together and look at him.
"Dad! What happened! Why did you kick down the door!" Saphron shouted at him in panicked while Jeanne look around the room.
"Dad... where's Jaune?"
All Miles could do was stand still and try not to faint because he is having a panic attack, what if Jaune got kidnapped? Why did Jaune is not here? Did one of his enemy decided to take Jaune hostage?
A thousand thought ran through his kind but the most important thing is that he need to find Jaune.
"Saphron! Tell your mother to take care of the house! I'll go and look for Jaune!" Miles ordered his eldest daughter before he jumped out of the window and start to run to the town as fast as he can so he can start an emergency search party for Jaune.
'Hang in there Jaune! Dad is going to save you!'