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marinerainbow · 3 months

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Do you have any more information on that when’s were peach fell in love with bowser eyes 👀 it interest me a lot

Powser is my favorite Mario ship... So yes, I do >:3

Let us renember; in my headcannon, Peach is SEVEN FOOT THREE! Imagine how huge Bowser is if he can grab her up like this!?!?

This post shall also be done in dot points for my sanity XD also, this will be referring to the Powser Timeline of my Mario's Galexy.

In this cycle, Mario and Luigi showed up much later, so they aren't around for a good while. So when it came to maintaining the peace of The Strangelands, it fell on our beloved princess' shoulders. In fact, in this timeline, Bowser doesn't get to kidnap her because she approached him first for peace between their nations.

Bowser had been planning to take over the Mushroom Kingdom for the same reasons I stated in my Mario AU post. So you can imagine how surprised he was when he received an invitation to the very palace he was planning on conquering in the first place. He took this as a chance for a surprise take-over, and told his men to prepare as such.

... The thing is, though, he expected to come face to face with a sentient mushroom ruler. Not the beautiful, kind-hearted, and collected Princess Peach we know and love to greet him at the edge of her city. He actually thought she was a passing human, but no. The toads flanking her sides introduced her as their princess. And when Peach approached Bowser with a sweet smile and took one of his clawed fingers in both of her hands, he fell in love instantly... Which was quite the show when his koopa troops surrounded the princess and her toad guards as was the original plan 😅 Bowser had to quickly call them off, and come up with an excuse on the spot as to why his koopas would point their spears at her.

Peach: Wh-What is this!?

Bowser: No! No! It, uh... Y-You see, my princess *totally not squealing on the inside for getting to say that* uh... My people, we uh...

The Koopas: 😶😶🤨🤨🤨🤨

Bowser: We aren't used to uh... Friendly people, such as you.

Peach: Really?

Bowser: Yeah, yeah! It uh... We were expecting an attack, actually-

Koopa: But my lord, you said-

Bowser: *gives him the 'shut the shell up!' Look*

Peach: Oh, you poor koopas! 🥺 don't worry. You will find nothing but acceptance and peace among the toads. And with our alliance, we'll be sure to offer your people the prosperity you deserve ^^

Bowser: *definitly not wondering what Peaches ring size is already* Right, that's why we're here! For peace! Haha...

(Eventually, after they get married, Bowser tells Peach the truth of what happened. To which she surprises him by confessing she already knew, but decided to give him a chance since he called off his troops, and she's glad she did. My Peach may be a pacifist, but she's not blind.)

Anyways, they went inside her kingdom, and Bowser not only got to see a side of The Strangelands he never did get to see in The Darklands, but was also shocked at how peacefully they were able to work together. Peach never spoke down to him or his people, and made sure neither side would be treated unfairly in their kingdoms union. He was honestly amazed, having never seen anything political being taken care of through non-violent means. It made him reflect on his own laws and Kingdom, too. But he wanted to leave a good impression on Peach, so he tried to paint his kingdom and ruling in a positive light... Which failed miserably 😅😅😅 but at least it encouraged Peach to renain in contact with him and help bring his people into a new, kinder era, so... He considers it a win.

There was a lot of work to be done. Imagine if all of the main Mario games focused on Peach and Bowser teaming up and fixing various issues between their kingdoms. That's how much time passed between them after that first meeting (I actually wanna see that 🤔 Bowser being able to use force and offense when Peach's negotiations and defense fail, and vice versa. Kinda like Bigby and Snow from The Wolf Among Us). But it only made Bowser fall for her harder, and eventually Peach started to fall in love with Bowser, too. And since their kingdoms were already united, it seemed like the most natural course of action ^^

Their love and marriage lasted for the rest of their lives. Raising the koopalings and Junior, and changing all of the Strangelands for the better. However, it all ended on the star festival, as it always does with each cycle; Bowser, Peach and their children were all enjoying a night of fun and collecting star bits, and forming the final grand star before their timeline ends with the galexy resetting itself... Unfortunately, Bowser and Peach don't fall in love in the next cycle, but they at least had their happy ending while they had it...

I hope this timeline makes sense 😅 but! Time for headcannons/tid-bits of the Powser Galexy Cycle!

As you can see, Bowser is still a bit of a goof in this timeline. In fact, he's able to show that side of himself more in this cycle than in previous cycles. That's because there's no need for him to be so tyrannical, and because his precious wife encourages him to let this side of him out ^^

Even so, he still knows how to lay down the law. Peach, she is a good and benevolent ruler. However, there were plenty of times when people tried to take advantage of that. Whether it be neighboring kingdoms during negotiations, enemies trying to take over her kingdom, or even their own people trying to get out of paying for a crime they committed. In that case, Bowser is always there to make sure nobody tries to pull the wool over Peach's eyes. He's kind of like her guard dog, standing behind her with his arms crossed and ready to roast somebody if they hurt or try to fool Peach... Needless to say, this does make people think twice about trying to harm the princess.

Though on the flip side, Peach is able to get Bowser to realize when aggression is unnecessary and whether or not a punishment for a criminal is just or too extreme. It's not uncommon in the kingdom to see Peach by Bowsers' side, holding his claw and keeping him calm enough to see reason and keep things smooth during meetings. If Bowser is her guard dog, then Peach would be his emotional support kitty.

Sometimes, just to tease Peach or because he needs he close in that moment, Bowser will pick up Peach just like in the gif above to give her a kiss, whisper something in her ear, or even during meetings and he and Peach need to talk without anyone else listening in. Sometimes, Peach will hop up onto his shoulder to peck his cheek and see him turn red ^^

In my previous post, I said that Ludwig was the first to be adopted, followed shortly by Iggy. They were actually brought in by Bowser before he and Peach were married. Even though they weren't a couple, however, Peach fell in love with them instantly and would constantly ask Bowser how he and his sons are doing. And he even trusted her enough to send them to her palace whenever necessary! 🥺🥺🥺 Peach treated them like her own, and when they came back, the first thing Iggy asked his dad was why aren't he and mama Peach married yet? This was actually what encouraged Bowser to finally confess his love to her ^^ (Ludwig was in his emo phase at this point, so he was just like "Yeah, she's alright." // "Shut up, Luddy, you still have the violin Peach got you." // "SHUT UP!-")

As such, Ludwig and Iggy are the only koopa kids who remember having only Bowser as a parent. The other koopa kids, even though lived under the rule of Peach and Bowser, were adopted after they got together.

After they were married, they built their own palace on the borders of both of their kingdoms. Peaches' original castle is the families' summer vacation home, and Bowsers Castle is their winter vacation home.

The Mario Bros come to The Strangelands during Bowser and Peach's wedding planning, actually XD when they were due to be married within a week, in fact. Larry found them first and showed them to his parents like they were cool bugs or stones he found XD "Mama, look! They look like you, but very small!" They were able to fix some plumbing issues in the castle that would have potentially interferred with the wedding, so Peach and Bowser promised to help them find their way back home for their help ^^ (I like to think Mario may have developed a mini crush on Peach, but since she was getting married, it obviously went nowhere.)

When it comes to parenting, Peach is the more firm parent. Bowser loves his kids, and he can discipline them. But... He's weak. He can't do it unless it's something serious. And we know he spoils his kids 😅😅😅 Peach loves them to peices as well! But she knows where to draw the line with them and makes sure Bowser doesn't go too far with spoiling them or letting their antics slide. As such, they actually grow up less bratty and not so "we just love being mean!" Then they do when it's just Bowser raising them. Imagine Peach being like Mary Poppins with them, making sure they behave without being aggressive about it. Except she's their mother, not their nanny. Daisy though, is their cool aunt.

When it comes to Junior, Bowser still made him on his own. Even though he and Peach wanted to try for kids, their drastic size and biology differences did make them hesitate. So, to stay on the safe side, Bowser incubated Juniors egg all on his own. Though this time, he had Peach tp take care of him through the draining process and take care of their kids ^^ (and that's how, in the current timeline, Bowser Jr. Still has buried memories of a past life with Peach as his mother. Just not by blood.)

A kinda funny thing though, is that when the palace is under attack, Bowser will go face the threat and the koopalings will surround Peach in their own version of a kill circle XD even though she's their mama, it's no secret that she's the most delicate family member (koopa babies, while still being fragile compared to adult koopas, are still pretty tough compared to humans. I mean, Lemmy and Junior, the youngest kids, already have sharp spikes on their shells 😬). So even though Peach will stand between her babies and any threat, her kids really are the next line of defense if, for whatever reason, Bowser fails.

Though, Peach is still a mama. And any mother worth their salt would break a man in two for touching her baby... That is actually what people find out in this timeline, after the one and only time Peach was actually kidnapped in this cycle. She had Junior with her, so he was taken too. Bowser pulled up with his battleships, ready to destroy the whole galexy to get his wife and son back... Only for him to find his darling, wouldn't-hurt-a-fly wife having tossed her vow of pacifism out the window and curb stomping her and her sons' kidnapper the second she broke out of the cage. That was just more proof to Bowser he found the perfect woman. (He still set fire to the guy when Peach was done with him. The koopa kids all think their mom is even cooler now.)

Oh yeah. Bowser still writes Peach love songs. And Peach writes him so many lovey dovey letters- yes, even after they're married- and bakes him many cakes. They love each other so much 💕

So yeah. They are a pretty dynamic duo with running kingdoms and raising families in this timeline ^^ Thank you for sending this in! I hope you enjoy reading this ^^

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dimepdf · 2 years

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★ 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐒. + 𝐓𝐎𝐉𝐈 𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐑𝐎

masterlist. / taglist. / any request? synopsis. to your surprise, Toji shows up at your family holiday get together looking nothing but charming, and making buddies with your aunties but he quickly makes it clear that he's only there for you and that he really misses you.

─── ☆ notes. i failed the: trying to post all the wips i have without getting distracted by another idea challenge .

─── ☆ length. 2.4k (19 min read) .

─── ☆ genre and warnings. +18 nsfw under the cut. minors dni, porn with barely any plot, collage au, teacher and student relationship, secret relationship, legal age gap, corruption kink(?), oral sex(f), quickies, unprotected sex, bathroom sex, annoying cousin core, nosy relatives, holiday break is brought up but not in detail, gotta be a few typos in there somewhere knowing me | — feedback is always welcomed & don't forget to reblog 🤍

Once you had a taste of the true freedom that came with adulthood, you never wanted to come back home to your strict parents. Growing up with strict parents who didn't do anything but breathe down your neck your entire life

Making you out to be nothing but the naive and sweet daughter that they could form from their generic cookie-cutter mold that came with being from your pristine and perfect family.

The only time you were truly yourself was when you were away from your parent's reach and guidance in another state, and you were allowed to spend the time wilding out at college.

While all you had to do was keep your grades straight, knowing your parents would pull you out of school the second they learned that you were even thinking about falling behind.

There were still times when all you could do was study because your social life hinged on whether or not you passed all of the courses that your parents had hand-picked for the degree that they had planned for you.

But, unbeknownst to your parents, you weren't the timid little homebody they imagined you to be during those breaks in between classes and studies.

It was easy to come out of your shell with the type of extroverted roommates and friends that you had.

Not to mention the glow up you had when finally learning how to dress in a style that wasn't handpicked by your overbearing mother.

It was only a matter of time before you would catch the eye of someone on campus, but none of those boys really mattered when it came to competing with a certain older man in your life.

You had met Toji when he was your university's fitness coach, spotting him while he was in the open gym.

you had thought he was just another fit hot college guy, given the swarm of other guys around him being friendly toward him.

Judging him to be just another conceded gym rat, it took your very unathletic behavior for him to notice you right away striking up a conversation with you on how you would end up straining your back and possibly snapping your spine holding a weight the way that you did.

The incident was enough to spark a small friendship, becoming your gym buddy.

It was around that time that you found out he was pushing forty the same age as your parents. but that didn't seem to bother you much given that a few weeks after that discovery you would make the first move and offer to have more than a friendship with Toji.

That was the same night you had found out how it felt to be overstimulated from having one too many orgasms.

you weren't bothered by Toji's age, the upkeep of his appearance being the main reason you hadn't bat an eye at your relationship only really keeping him on the down low just cause he was a high school friend with your father—and the entire reason you had even gotten accepted into the college by the sake of his reference—in which the bond that he had with your dad was something close to brotherly love, yet how you two had just met around the time you were 21 and thriving with beauty was just the messy work of god stirring the pot from above.

You would agree that your relationship with Toji was just a bit along the lines of being taboo, going behind closed doors to release some of that exam season tension if there's one thing Toji was skilled at it was how to make you relax.

Exams weren’t the only reason you were forced to settle down from your new free spirited weekend plans, but it was the holiday season once more where you bid your dorm room farewell traveling back to the house you grew up in.

it only took a step into your family home to have you reverting back to that docile child you once were a few years back when you were an undermotivated higher schooler being a walking minion to every command from your parents and elders.

Expecting the break to unroll the same as every other holiday break did while you were home, especially given that your parents were the ones hosting a dinner party, having everyone spread all along the place.

What you hadn't expected to see among the familiar faces of your relatives, was the man that you were hooking up with standing tall and lean in your living room chatting it up with your handsy aunties.

you had only been gone for three days, yet your eyes latched onto Toji as if it were the first time in years you had seen him again.

The older women flocked around him, snickering at his attractive face and clinging to any ounce of attention that he gave them.

You couldn't show that you were starting to become jealous and also a bit disgusted over some of the ways they would compliment him "grown people talk" they would call it before telling you to mind your business and bump you out of the conversation.

It wasn't Toji's fault that he was just drop-dead gorgeous, dressed in a plain button down and dark slacks, had you thought he managed to look so attractive.

With his collar unbuttoned and sleeves rolled up to the mid of his forearms daring to show off just how muscular he truly was as if the way his shirt hadn't hugged him at the waist wasn't enough.

You had to remember how to breathe again once you had caught sight of how well his pants were fitting him.

It was a frustrating game of cat and mouse throughout the afternoon, no matter how hard you had tried to break away from a conversation a new person would come around the corner calling out your name just to bombard you with the same boring questions on how your life was going.

It was the same boring questions that you were just starting to answer things on autopilot, one of your older cousins catching you off guard going off script, and striking you at just the right time for you to spill all the juicy details on your dating life.

Catching more attention even your aunts suddenly became interested in your conversation perching up to hear all about what you were off doing at college.

you weren't stupid, knowing that most of them were listening just to get dirt and gossip ready to flap their mouths to your parents about how much of an "adventure" you were on instead of focusing on your studies.

You decided to tease the idea a bit instead referring to Toji as “just a boy you were talking to” reassuring them that it was absolutely nothing that seriously held you back from your grades.

Toji had seemed to find your answer so hilarious, not even bothering to hide his chuckle or the way he bit his lip staring you down as if he were undressing you.

The eye contact hadn't gone on long enough for anyone else but you to notice, turning away from you as he continued with his conversation with one of your relatives.

Your cousin thought it was all bullshit, given your lack of track record in the dating department.

Toji being your first real “boyfriend” since one of the church boys your father was trying to set you up with or the one time you had gotten asked out as a prank you couldn't judge her much on the assumption.

You wondered how shocked everyone would be if they knew what type of relationship you had with Toji.

How crude they would find it that the minute you could slip away upstairs to your bathroom with Toji right on your tail just to have his head between your legs and his working all your tension away with his skilled mouth.

The moment that you had shut and locked the door Toji was all over you. His muscular arms reached to grab you by the back of your thigh, lifting you up to sit on top of the sink.

The clatter of the soap dispenser and toothbrushes falling to the floor was quickly disregarded by the both of you being wedged against the wall and Toji’s chest, just for him to drop to his knees on the floor and part your legs diving under your skirt.

Hurried rough kisses turning into you having to hold your skirt up to your stomach with the same arm that you used to muffle the sounds coming from your mouth.

The spread of Toji’s hands wrapped around your legs could almost fit the spread plush of your thick thighs, as they rested against the countertop.

His touch was warm against your skin, yet not comparable to how hot his mouth felt against his tongue worked against your clit.

He licked and sucked like he had craved the taste of you, not even a few days apart, and yet he would never admit how much he had missed you. “Relax honey I gotcha” Toji spoke with a rasp from between your thighs.

A whine parted from your lips as he made do with his fingers pressing into you with a shuddering sound of your arousal sucking the digits in deeper, distracting you with his thumb rubbing against your clit.

All you could do was melt against his touch alluring, holding yourself up against the counter with the bend of your other arm.

When you had repositioned yourself to knot your hand into a fistful of Toji’s hair, had you seen the small squares from the tiles being pressed into your skin like patterns indented into your flesh.

Toji hand trailed up your leg hooking at your knee and pushing it up to place one leg up against the counter for better access between your legs.

His fingers wandered high, up past your waist finding the hem of your shirt, and sneaking under to find your bra needing your breast under the cups enticing a small cute noise of encouragement from you.

The wet noises from his fingers pistoning in and out of you quickly filled the small room, with the feeling of his other circling against the bud of your nipple, and the sensitivity to his touch was promising your orgasm was quick to come.

And then the door handle rattled, and your body went rigid.

Your hands flew to the knob of the sink, turning the water on to drain out your own noise of wetness squelching against Toji's fingers.

His lips pulled away from yours down under, and you shuddered at the sight of him crouched down with his lips glossed and eyes glazed over, watching his dark eyes glance at the door before flickering to look at you with a smirk.

The interruption came in the form of your cousin behind the door making a fuss about you hiding away from everyone, their voice heard insulting you for being so antisocial.

“Okay, I’ll be out soon.” You had tried to shout but part of your words struggled as your hips jerked. Toji’s fingers are inside of you, finally understanding the mischievousness behind his smile still looking at you as if he were observing.

“Girl hurry up, don't make me tell your mom you’re out here locking doors!”

Your head fell back against the wall, cursing your family for being the world's biggest cockblocks.

Toji stood to his feet, pressing his face against your neck nuzzling his chin against your nape. You tilted your head to the side to make more of the kisses that he trailed to the expose of your collarbone.

“Let’s make this quick.” He whispered into your ear, sending a shiver up your spine that had you arching away from the wall pressing into his chest.

It took your brain a moment to process what he had meant behind the suggestion, startled at the sudden push of his tip being replaced by his fingers too far gone to even hear him undo his belts and unzip his pants.

The thrust of his hips made a punched noise come from your throat, a noise that your cousin would have definitely heard from behind the door if it weren't for Toji pressing his palm against your mouth.

His hand kept your chorus of whimpers to a minimum, trembling at how effective his pace was.

Your arms wrapped around the arm holding your mouth shut, “Come on princess, you gotta let it go.”

The tingles that followed after the nickname had your eyes rolling, pressing them closed tight to the point where you were seeing stars.

Too far gone to worry about the death grip you had against Toji’s forearm, your nails making crescent marks into his pale skin as your orgasm had finally been coaxed out of you.

Your body trembled as Toji held your hips in place to keep you from falling off the countertop.

He hummed as your thighs trapped him against you for a beat longer, planting him in place until you had come down from your high letting your legs part.

The first thing you processed was Toji caressing your face softly, waiting for your eyes to open before pulling you in for a quick kiss.

“You owe me.” He placed another kiss against your temple. “Big time.” and then you were once more empty.

Blinking you realized Toji was tucking himself back into his pants, making an effort to appear like he hadn't just done a quickie with his best friend's daughter in their family bathroom.

Watching as he shifted his hands through his pants, trying to reposition himself so it wasn't obvious that he had an erection.

Toji was a gentleman as he helped you slip your panties back on, having to hop from the counter to shimmy them back on over your thighs.

“I think I officially hate my family.” You exhale, reaching towards Toji for one final hug pressing against his very obvious dick print.

The spread of his palm meeting your entire face, the man swerving your embrace instead spinning to face the door.

“Yeah yeah,” he muttered, carrying no real threat in his tone instead teasing you by pulling you with your back against his chest and pressing himself against your leg.

“Just know I’m only being a gentleman because your family is here but next time I won't be as merciful.”

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biblicallyinaccuratespoons · 2 months

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Shattered Reflections (Four Swords AU) Lore Post #1

Relationships, how they know each other, Etc.

--- --- --- Vio and Shadow are 100% canon. They are boyfriends and would do anything for each other. The other canon relationship for my AU is and i hopefully will not get kicked for is Red and Blue. another two nerds who will go to the ends of the earth for each other. what can i say? sweet and salty, opposites attract, balance, whatever. all that cliché jazz.

Green is single, and he's chill with that. Alright. so. Blue and Green are twins. Blue is older by 3 minutes. Red and Vio are cousins. Vio is older by 5 months. Shadow was just found one day/hj

THEY ARE NOT ALL RELATED, ABSOLUTELY NO SIBLINGS OR RELATIVES ARE ROMANTICALLY OR SEXUALLY INVOLVED WITH EACH OTHER.

Red and Vio knew each other from family gatherings and also went to the same elementary school. Vio helped Red deal with his parents and Red helps Vio with coming out of his shell.

Green met Red in high school through a cooking class, (Green is not really good at cooking btw), becoming friends and the group of the colours got formed. they are all now sharing a living space as they move through college and life.

Vio met Shadow as they were both kicked out of the public library at closing hours and bonded over the books they were rushing to check out, both having interests in Ancient Hylian Magic and the Legend of Vaati. It was over 6 months of hopeless pining over each other before either one made any moves. Red met Blue through the friend group, Red having dragged Vio to meet Green because Vio usually just hung out in the library during lunch breaks. Green brought Blue as the two twins were inseparable when they were younger. and that was how their main little group was formed. (Shadow came in a tad later)

Red and Blue's mutual affection blossomed over the time of the Colours living together. Blue originally didn't really understand Red's energy back in High School and sometimes got a tad annoyed with him. Though once he actually gave Red the time of day he quickly softened to Red and actually came to enjoy Red's spirit. Red won't admit it, but he didn't know how to interact with Blue and just tried by any means necessary. they have since learned how to interact with one another. As of the beginning of the AU they are not dating yet but are on the cusp of something coming to front and spilling over. (love, they're in love your honour, and just shy and gay)

Green doesn't really have a coherent romantic life planned out as of yet. or who knows it may just be a surprize 'cause I'm so smart like that.

Any questions are fully welcomed!!! just be respectful please!! drop it in the comments or in my ask box! i hope y'all can have as much fun with this AU as myself and Sleepy have been having.

(this is the space i will be linking the other lore bits)

#shattered reflections AU #next lore post is rants about Red.#be ready i love him so much #he has way too much character development.#four swords adventures #four swords #four sword #blue link #red link #vio link #green link #shadow link #zaiah writes #legend of zelda #tloz #zaiah rants

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herefortarlos · 4 months

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Hi Desi! 🤹‍♀️💭 for you please!

Hi dalawa!! Thank you for the asks and for making me think!!

💭Dream season 5 storyline?

My absolute season 5 storyline, if I could have anything, would have to do with Carlos and TK both working together to solve Gabriel's murder! I need to see that communication and no secret keeping this season, they worked all season 4 on that. And one of them needs to be put in danger because of it, so we can hear something along the lines of "take me instead" 🫠

🤹‍♀️ Give a hidden talent to all the main characters (or those of your choosing)!

Oh you are making me get creative!! Please forgive me for only doing a few, but these characters and their talents came more quickly to me than others!

TK - Ooo, a different one for TK, he actually has a green thumb!! I'm thinking about him living in NYC, the concrete jungle, and wanting to have some greenery in his apartment, so he does his research to figure out what first time plants would be good to start with, and he loves having something to take care, even when he might not be taking the best care of himself at that time 🥺. When he's forced to move to Austin and live with Owen and has that amazing backyard, he starts to really garden and flex his skills!! Maybe he's got a little vegetable patch and he definitely has a lot of flowers that the pollinators will love 🥰

Carlos - Not exactly a hidden talent, but he is a fantastic dancer 😍 I was thinking of ways a young Carlos could express himself while he was struggling with his queer identity and I think dance would be an excellent way for him to do that! He definitely started out quietly in his room with YouTube videos, just quietly trying to feel comfortable with himself and come out of his shell a little. I think the first time he went to a club was a revelation for him and he could finally let loose and feel a bit more comfortable in his skin.

Judd - We know he's a great cook but I also think he might be a good baker too!! We know he's the youngest in his family, so I am imagining him baking with his late mom to escape his rowdy brothers at times and to spend time with her!

#thank you so much dalawa!! 💖#I answered an ask within a day woooo 🥳#tarlos #desi answers #911 lone star art

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minaramen · 2 years

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Yamato Nikaido - Rabbitube Mini

[Disclaimer: I’m NOT a professional translator. I’m using my knowledge from 4 years of university. Please, feel free to let me know if you notice mistranslation/typo/error of any kind]

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Riku: Yamato san! Natsume san! It looks like the weather will be good on our fishing day!

Riku:

Minami: Hello. Have you already checked?

Yamato: It’s literally scheduled for next month lol

Riku: Yeah, but I’m really looking forward to it! I mean, the three of us are going fishing together! It’s no wonder I’ve already checked! 😆✨

Riku: Well, with it being a weather forecast for next month, there’s a possibility it’s not completely accurate…

Yamato: You’ve been saying how much you can’t wait to go since we filmed together…

Riku: I think that if I could catch you, Yamato san, I may be able to go fishing for real!

Yamato: … your motivation is pretty weird, you know that, right?

Minami: It was a big catch

Riku: It really was lol

Yamato: Okay, okay, got it 😌

Yamato: May I add Mitsu to this chat?

Riku: Eh? Why?!

Yamato: I just think I need a straight man in this conversation

Minami: Oh dear, so you’re not satisfied with us as your partners? What a shame…

Yamato: No, that’s not really what I meant…

Minami: Then, shall the three of us have fun together?

Yamato: Yeah…

Riku: So cool! I feel like I should call you “Natsume sama” !

Yamato: Riku, I know I could tell you this directly, but would you mind going back to your room?!

Riku: You send messages as if you’re not satisfied with us! That’s why I came!

Minami: Did you go to Nikaido san’s room?

Riku: Yeah! I’m messaging from his room right now!

Riku: Oh, Musashi just changed his route after hitting Yamato san’s knee! It’s so cute

Minami: Musashi?

Yamato: It’s the cleaning robot I keep in my room

Riku: Apparently we can catch marbled rockfish during this time of the year 🐟

Yamato: The main topic went back to your mind pretty quickly

Minami: Marbled rockfish? It’s delicious when fried

Yamato: Well said, Natsume chan! The simpler, the better

Riku: Oh, I’d like to eat it!

Minami:If we can catch it, then let's cook it like this. I could keep on eating it forever

Minami:

Yamato: You eat quite a lot, don’t you, Natsume chan? I wonder in what part of that thin body of yours you put all the food

Minami: My stomach

Yamato: Damn straight!

Riku:

Riku: Let’s do our best and catch many of them! 😃🎣

Minami: Are you good at fishing, Yamato san?

Riku: Will you be dragged into the water again, Yamato san!?

Yamato: Give me a break! Just having to do it for acting purposes was enough

Minami: It was a really nice performance. The part where you get fished out was awesome

Minami: It didn’t look like it was the first time you had to do something like that…

Riku: So you got fished out before, Yamato san?!

Yamato: What’s with that story?! Of course it was the first time I got fished out!

Riku: Well, when you were supposed to bite the hook it looked like you were clenching your teeth!

Riku: Just remembering it makes me laugh so bad lol

Yamato: Okay, but stop patting my knee while you’re laughing lol

Minami: Messaging each other sitting side by side is something new to me, it must be very fun. I’m trying to pat Inumaru san’s knee as well

Minami: He said “Are my trousers dirty”?

Yamato: lol

Riku:

Minami:

Yamato: You two were also really good at mimicking. I’m talking about the gesture game we did during the break

Riku: The sea creatures series!

Riku: Your sea otter was so cute, Natsume san!

Yamato: Yeah, and pretty easy to understand. You shook your hands just as if you were hitting a shell

Minami: I’m glad you could guess it right so easily. Your shark was also amazing, Nanase san

Minami: You were pretty cute while wandering around and rawring

Yamato: Does a shark rawr, by the way?

Riku: I just wanted to create a strong atmosphere 😉

Riku: And you need to show me the anemone again, Yamato san!

Minami: It didn’t require much movement, right? It was an energy saving choice. I couldn’t really understand what it was until you guessed the answer right, Nanase san

Riku: I thought it was an octopus! But since he was waving his hands over his head, I realized what it may be…!

Minami: From now on whenever I see an anemone, Yamato san will most likely come up to my mind

Riku: It’s settled, then! You’ll show us the anemone again next time we meet!

Yamato: Glad to see you made a deal despite me being the one who has to do that, Riku

Minami: Thank you, I look forward to it

Yamato:

Riku: I wonder if we can do a sea creatures quiz on chat

Yamato: What?

Riku: (:。)ミ

Riku: Okay, what is it?

Minami: Pinpon!

Riku: Ah, Natsume san was so fast!

Minami: It’s an octopus

Riku: Correct!

Yamato: Riku was doing the same face as the emoji he was writing on chat, so it was quite easy to guess lol

Minami: Oh, so you had a hint just next to you? You’re playing dirty

Yamato: Well, I was too busy holding back my laughter anyway lol

Riku: Hey! I want you to pat my knee as well when you laugh!

Yamato: Nah, that’s a young thing

Minami: It’s really fun. Do you always have these kinds of conversations?

Yamato: Yeah. And that’s nothing compared to the total mess our living room becomes when the seven of us are in there

Riku: Yeah, we catch each other up to three topics at the same time!

Yamato: And nobody understands anything, so none of them is actually successful

Minami: It sounds good. I can see how good friends you are

Riku: We’re friends as well, Natsume san!

Minami: Is it really okay with you?

Riku:

Riku: Of course!! I had so much fun during the recordings, and I can’t wait for the three of us to work together again!

Minami: Thank you so much. I also enjoyed the time I spent with you

Yamato: We ended up laughing a lot, didn’t we? lol

Riku: Let’s enjoy our fishing day together!

Yamato:

Minami:

The end

#yamato nikaido #rabbitube mini #Idolish7 #idolish7translation #riku nanase #minami natsume

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surprise visit

summary: blair stops by copia's office during the day, and he can't get enough of them.

word count: 666 (hell yeah)

warnings: none! just some silly fluff with early relationship copiablair ^^

Blair walked with much more pep in their step than they had before on their walk to the Cardinal’s office, the folder tucked under their arms practically forgotten. It was meant to be the main reason they were even going there in the first place, but there were much more pressing matters. They were practically skipping, and humming a lighthearted tune. Stopping at his door, they knocked, and cleared their throat before putting on a more professional tone.

“Cardinal?” They asked, and not but a few seconds later the door swung open, and a familiar leather-clad glove grabbed them and pulled them into the office, shutting the door quickly and making them squeak with surprise. They immediately found themself pressed up against the door, with their boyfriend Copia hungrily kissing them, first on their lips before trailing down what was exposed of their neck.

“H-hi, honey bun!” They let out a giggle at his eagerness, their hands instinctively draping over his shoulders and pulling him closer to them.

“Mm, I missed you,” He murmured in between kisses, as he left lipstick marks they were sure they'd have to fret over hiding before they left.

“Didn't you just see me this morning?”

“I know, I know, but I just can't get enough of you…Did you miss me?” His eyes sparkled as he looked up at them, almost pouting.

“Of course I did, my love,” They brushed their nose affectionately against his before returning his kisses with the same affection. “And I’ll see you again tonight, I assume?” Copia was backing Blair up against his desk now, and they hopped up without much effort, wrapping their legs around his to pull him close.

“If you'd like to,” He bobbed his eyebrows up and down suggestively, earning a giggle from his partner. As they went to stabilize themself by resting on their hands, they were reminded of what they came here for.

“Oh! Right! I have…this!” They awkwardly put the folder down on the desk behind them. “Expenses. For the tailor. Sorry, didn't mean to kill the mood,” They muttered sheepishly. “Where were we?”

“We were discussing whether or not you'd be joining me again tonight for a midnight snack, I believe.”

“Is that a euphemism?” Copia snickered at their response, now back to kissing them. Ever since they got together, he was insatiable, always needing his hands or his lips on them every moment they were alone. This…thing, whatever it may be, was still very new and so they had decided to not tell anyone for the moment, relishing the stolen moments like this they could have together. This hadn't stopped Blair from coming over almost every night lately though, staying up late enough that no one would be out to see them making their way to their Cardinal's quarters, and leaving in the early hours of the morning, before anyone was up and about to see them leaving with tousled hair and before they covered up the love bites with a high-collar blouse and some concealer. It was disastrous for their sleep schedule, but to say it was worth it is an understatement.

“Mayyyybe, but also I was hoping you could bring some of those cookies you said you were going to make, they sounded quite tasty,” Blair snorted out a laugh.

“You've really got quite the sweet tooth, hm?” Blair played with his hair absentmindedly before seeing the clock on the back wall. “Oh shit, I've got to get back!” as they tried to get up, Copia resumed his affections, this time his moustache ticking their neck making them giggle as they playfully pushed him away. “I have to go! My boss will wonder where I am,” They said with a snort of a laugh as he held tighter to them.

“Tell him your Cardinal needed your assistance with something, and stay just a little while longer,” His breath was soft against the shell of their ear.

Well, they weren't going to say no to that.

#just a silly little snippet i felt okay posting..okay to reblog but be niceys #writing your f/o being totally infatuated with you is something that can be so personal #self ship #self shipping #cardinal copia #my honey bun 🖤#can you feel me longing for you forever?#what do you have to say doll?

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godofcreatitivity · 1 year

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One Piece the Movie

(the following is a nonprofit fan based parody any characters from one piece is owned by Eiichiro Oda, Toei Animation Co., Ltd., any characters from super Mario are owned by Nintendo, any characters from troll hunters, are owned by DreamWorks and universal

Disclaimer

Some of the characters found in this story and / or universe do not belong to me, but are intellectual property of their respective owners. Any original characters in this story are my intellectual property.

Story nonprofit created fan and fan without compromising the original work.)

Chapter 15: The Mushroom Kingdom’s New Hero Rises! So Long Koopas

The fight is beginning where it ended, the two groups facing off against one another.

Pirate emperor Monkey D Luffy alongside Princess Peach were standing as the last line of defense against the threat of the Koopa soldiers that stood before them.

It was basically a temporary alliance between the pirate and the mushroom princess in order to beat them and protect the kingdom.

How long this alliance between the two would last was beyond either one of their knowledge, but to be honest, that wasn’t really something they had the time to worry about at that moment.

As of right now their main objective was to work together in order to get rid of the Koopas, whatever happened later was something they would deal with then.

The two were facing off against the last of the Koopas and got them out of the mushroom kingdom before they could cause any more harm to the residents.

The sledgehammer bro pointed his weapon at the princess and the pirate as he shouted,”GET THEM’!!!!, making all of the other Koopas charge at them.

Luffy and Peach stood their ground firmly as a few of the Koopa soldiers started to run up towards them, trying to make their assault, for a few moments until they themselves started to advance forward.

One of the hammer bros was beaming right towards Luffy, aiming one of his hammer at him before suddenly throwing it at him.

Luffy is able to see this happen and jumps up in the air, dodging it completely, but not before he suddenly stretches his right leg high into the air, almost barely missing one of the small floating islands above them. But not the last Paratroopa, because once he went towards him Luffy’s foot crashed and uppercutted him right in the bottom of his jaw, knocking him out instantly. Luffy then shat a furious glare at the hammer bro and shouted,”NOW GUM GUM…….”, before bringing it crashing down via a high-gravity stomp right on his head and slamming him to the ground,”:BATTLE AXE”!!!!!!, causing him to get sucked up into his shell and creating a giant creator with it.

Both shells fell to the ground and bounced around a few times like lifeless sports balls.

One of the green Koopa troopas (who was a couple of feet away from the right side of the hammer bro) was so busy looking over to see what happened to his friend that he didn’t notice the princess running up and jump kicked him right in the face.

The kick was so strong that it caused him to get sucked into his shell and it quickly went bouncing up and down like a ping pong ball for a few seconds.

And as soon as she was back on the ground, she looked over and saw that two of the other green Koopa troopas were running towards Luffy as he was landing back on the ground.

She would've left them to him if he wasn’t still pulling his leg back, and his back turned to them, so he was a little too distracted to be able to deal with them right at that moment.

Knowing that he may need help she reluctantly rolls her eyes, looks towards the newly made Koopa shell, runs up and kicks it right towards them

Before they could get to him, the green shell she kicked came up and crashed right into the other Koopa troopas, turning them all back into shells.

And luckily for Luffy, once his foot had retracted back to him, he heard the crashing sound and turned around and saw that three of the Koopa guys they were fighting had been turned into shells.

Then he saw the princess quickly running past him and giving him a,”Come on, we're not done”look as she continued her way towards the other Koopas that were ahead of them.

Luffy, though a tiny bit confused, decided to shrug it off before nodding to her and quickly follow after her, jumping over any debris or Koopa shells lying around.

The duo quickly continued their way towards the other Koopas, trying their best to beat them before it was too late.

But before they all collided, the princess quickly turned to Luffy,”We’ll take them out faster if we spread out. You take the big guy with that sledge hammer and I’ll take the other three, got it”!, she ordered.

Luffy looked back over at her and his usual determined grin grew across his face and nodded,”Yeah I gotcha”.

Peach nodded back at his and grew a grin of her own before they both turned their attention back to the Koopas

And while running, Peach quickly turned her head around and saw what he’d done to the two Koopa soldiers and what he was able to do to the ground as a result of his last attack.

She spotted the giant crater littered with the two newly shelled Green Koopa troopa and Red Paratroopa right in the center of it.

Yeah she definitely didn't expect any of this out of him, especially any of the stretching stuff he somehow seems to be able to do.

And to be honest, she wasn’t complaining about it either, cause it packed one helluva punch (and kick) against them.

…..Well……... .maybe not enough of a punch against Bular and his forces but it still did pack quite a punch against the Koopas, so that was at least something.

Almost made her wonder when this part about him was gonna turn up in their original conversation.

What else was he able to do that she didn’t know about.

Is there a limit to how far he could stretch his body……

Does he even feel how far his body stretches…..

Did it hurt him to stretch his body at all and could he hurt himself if he stretched too far……..

There were so many questions about his powers that she suddenly wanted to ask him about, but unfortunately, due to the current situation, now wasn’t exactly the time for that.

Maybe after they had dealt with the threat and they knew that all the Toads were safe, the Koopas were dealt with.

But she would definitely be asking him more questions about who he really is, where he's actually from, and who his friends actually are, because if he's able to do something like this, god only knows what those friends he was talking about were able to do.

Peach starts to pick up speed in order to prepare herself for another jump kick, while Luffy was holding his arm back to prepare another punch for the next few opponents.

And as they were all about to collide with one another, the attention suddenly goes back to a red Koopa suddenly popping out of his shell.

It was Trython!

He had suddenly regained consciousness after being knocked out by Luffy earlier, though he had a bandage on top of his nose and a trickle of blood coming out his nostrils.

Looks like the pirate captain didn’t just put him to sleep by knocking his ass out, but he also was able to leave a bit of a mark on him.

Because he had two (slightly bloody) bandages wrapped around on top of his nose, with a tiny bit of swollen redness underneath them.

He also had a black eye eye that was not only swollen, but closed shut and purple, though thankfully for him it was the eye that was underneath the eyepatch (and yes if you haven’t guessed it by now, he’s just wearing the eyepatch to look cool) that was covering it, so there was no need to worry about anyone else seeing it, unless he takes it off.

Trython groans and picks himself up off the ground before gently and carefully rubbing and caressing his injured bloody nose as he then quickly shakes his head to shake off the dizziness feeling he had that was giving him a massive headache.

Once his head was all good and he had gotten himself together, he then glanced around to check his surroundings before noticing a sudden horrifying sight.

He witnessed the sight of multiple of his Koopa brotherren’s shells scattered across the area, in food carts, in small little craters on the street, or even just lying out on the pavement.

This whole scene was a terrifying sight as it caused him to slowly take a step back and almost trip over one of the other shells lying around.

He couldn’t believe it, how this even happened, they had the advantage over the situation,,,,,

How the hell did all of this even happen?!

There's no way that scrawny little stretchy human was actually able to put up a fight against them, not with the numbers they had.

And all he could do was stretch, there's no way a power as weird as that could actually put up a fight in any useful way.

Sure he was able to attack him and Bryce but those were just basic sneak attacks that he pulled, there's now factual way that someone like him would possibly fight him off and all of his other Koopa comrades.

Trython just sat there, filling his head filling his head with whatever kind of excuse he could think of, not willing to even fathom the thought of accepting an almost curtain defeat like this from a lower life form like the stretchy human

“Yeah that's right, there's no possible way that any of this could happen, this all had to be some sort of joke”, he thought in his head before suddenly hearing a groaning sound coming from behind him.

He turned and saw that one of the green shelled Koopas, who had also popped back out of his shell and was slowly trying to crawl away from the scene.

Once he saw him, Trython quickly dashed his way over to him, he then grabbed his fallen comrade up by the arm and hung it over his shoulder before pulling him over behind some of the fruit wagons to the side where they would temporarily out of sight.

Once they were hidden, Trython carefully sat him down and stared right at him with a stern look on his face,”Hey you, cadet wake up”!He ordered as he started repeatedly smacking him in the face, trying to wake him up, which sort of worked.

And though he was out if it at first, he had mostly gotten himself back together and stared right back at his commanding officer confused,”Huh, what- , commander, you're back up again, ‘ he asked curiously as his Trython continued to shake him.

He wasn’t really in the mood for any useless off topic questions that he may have had, so he started rushing to the important part,”Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i’m up. you're doing a great job and all that! Now that that's all out of the way……….,” Trython then roughly grabbed the bottom strap of the Koopa troopas helmet,”WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?! HOW DID EVERYONE GET BEATON LIKE THIS!? DIDN’T WE HAVE AN ADVANTAGE OVER THEM!? AND….WHO….THE….HELL….DID…THIS“?!

After being hit with an absolut storm of questions (that due to his current injuries that he had, the Koopa troopa wasn’t really able to answer the questions as quickly as he was being asked them) the injured comrade slowly turned and weakly pointed to the direction behind Trython before shakingly stuttering,”H-H-Him”!

(CRASH)

Suddenly a loud crashing sound could be heard coming from where the Koopa troop was pointing.

Trython quickly spun around to see who and what caused that noise, only to see none other than the straw hatted boy causing them all this trouble.

He was jumping up mid-air and staring down at what Trython could assume was his other Koopa brethren right before yelling out ,“NOW GUM GUM”......., he stretches his leg out for a second or two until the bottom of his foot crashes to the ground,”STAMP”!!!, creating a giant cloud of smoke that engulfs the straw hatted boy as he slowly descends and disappears. into it.

After seeing what had just occurred in front of them, both Trython and the Koopa troop’s jaws were practically dropped to the ground in shock

After seeing what had just occurred in front of them, both Trython and the Koopa troop’s jaws were practically dropped to the ground in shock (and maybe a tiny bit of fear).

“Oh yeah that’s-uh-that’s not good for us”,Trython obviously stated.

The troopa slowly turned to his superior with a look of desperation and a sort of “No shit sherlock” look,”Oh no, ya think?! We only just got our asses beat by a kid you said that we supposedly would be able to handle”!

Trython turned to him with a blank and annoyed expression on his face,”Ok before you go doing that, to be fair I only said any of that because I mainly thought he had gotten a lucky shot of bryce. Though I may have misinterpreted that”.

“A lucky shot?! He literally head butted him through a Fuckin wall after he shook off a sledge hammer to the skull! How the hell could you possibly misinterpret that ''?!, the angrily scared koopa asked.

Trything shrugged his shoulders,“I don’t know, part of one thought that bryce was maybe going easy on him or something”.

“Yeah no if that was the case then I wouldn’t be in as much pain as I’m in right now and half of our team wouldn’t be in their shells right now”!, the koopa troopa then pointed his finger towards the shells of his fallen friends.

“Well excuse me if I'm trying to keep the group's morale up! You all seemed to love it a few minutes ago!Oh but now that everything's taking a turn suddenly everything's all my fault”. Trython pointed out angrily.

“Well you were the same one that said this would be an easy mission! Capture the princess you said, it'll be easy you said we'll just go on in and beat up a couple of mushroom midgets”!The Koopa troopa then motioned his hand around all of the debris and Koopa shells surrounding them before turning back to look at Trython,”Oh but yeah things are totally going perfect I'm sure your moral speeches will help us kidnap this pain in the ass you call a princess” !

TrythonWas about to shoot back with something else to say when he suddenly stopped and heard what his subordinate had just said, and his eyes suddenly went wide,” wait help you ki- wait hold on, YOU MORONS DIDN’T KIDNAP THE PRINCESS?! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU ALL DOING THIS WHOLE?! TWIDDLING YOUR THUMBS LIKE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS”, he shouted, thankfully not being heard by either one of their human enemies.

“Oh what no we weren't doing that, we were all just simply oh well I don't know, FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES AGAINST THAT STRETCHY PSYCHOPATH”!, the Koopa Troopa shouted while pointing in the last direction where they last saw Luffy,”Oh yeah and when we weren't busy being beaten into a bloody Bane by that lunatic, we were also getting our faces kicked in by that MUSHROOM LOVING BITCH”!

Trython raised a brow and slightly tilted his head to the side in confusion, since when was the prince able to do something other than to look pretty and empty headed, that didn’t make much sense,” Wait the Angel in distress looking princess did this to you guys too? What the hell? When she learned how to fight, I thought she just sat around and looked pretty all day! There's no way she would be able to do this much damage to us!

The Koopa troop shrugged his shoulders in response,”Well sitting around and looking pretty all day made her into a Kung Fu Fighting Champion. We definitely weren't paying as much attention to this Kingdom as we were! Well, that or that probably isn’t the same princess, but someone else in person in the princess”.

“ No, that last one is not right, this is definitely the princess that never leaves the kingdom and there’s no reason to go up to her castle and check”, Trython corrected.

“Da fu- it doesn’t matter whether it was or it wasn’t her, we’re not gonna be able to kidnap her either way with monsters over there beating us up every time we get near here”, the troopa pointed out.

“Ah Damnit your right”, Trython admitted, before frustratedly placing a hand on his head,”This doesn’t make any sense, the changeling trolls have been watching this Kingdom for months! Why the hell didn’t they notify us about him sooner we could’ve brought more forces with us.

The Koopa troopa shrugged,” I don”t know, maybe they overlooked him by mistake or something”.

Suddenly after he said that, they heard a sudden crashing sound coming from where they last saw the straw hatted person. Right after that they suddenly saw a cloud of smoke coming from that same area too.

Trython slowly turned back to his subordinate and pointed in that direction where the smoke was and shouted,”YOU DON'T OVERLOOK SOMEONE WHO CAN CAUSE SHIT LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN! WHAT DID THEY THINK HE WAS SOME SORT OF TOURISTS OR JUST A REALLY LARGE MUSHROOM PERSON”!

“I don’t know, maybe? I wasn’t with them when they gave us the report”, the scared Koopa said.

“WELL SOMEBODY DID AND ENDED UP SCREWING US RIGHT UP IN OUR ASSES”,Trython shouted angrily before storming off a few feet away (not far enough where to leave their hiding spot, where he would be spotted by four enough, where he would be close to that outside).

The Koopa troopa had quickly but painfully gotten up on his feet and tried his best to limp over to his commander desperately,“Well what the hell are we gonna do now? We weren’t told anything about this guy and there’s now way we’re gonna be able to take him down, at least not without a lot of reinforcements with us”!

So he heard what his comrades said Trython was still trying his best to think of a plan, and was under a little bit more pressure than he wanted to be. So without trying to face his subordinate, Trython spoke up and said,“ yeah yeah I know what just give me a moment to think of a plan unless you got any suggestions”.

“Actually I do, why don’t we grab our shit and the others and G.T.F.O before that maniac has a chance to come after us”!, the Koopa troopa suggested, not wanting to go back out there and go up against Luffy again.

Trython quickly turned to him before closing his eyes and shaking his head,” What the- NO! That’s the last thing we should be thinking about doing! Do you have any idea what the king is gonna do to us all if we come back beaten up and without the princess”!

The Koopa troopa once again quickly shrugged his shoulders in response,” I don’t know, but it’s gonna be a lot more bearable than dealing with HIM”, he said before he also pointed in Luffy’s direction.

“No absolutely not, there is no way I’m gonna let us leave empty-handed without the princess! We need to think of another plan and quick- wait a minute”,Trython stopped talking before looking over and noticing that the giant box crate that had their secret weapon inside remained unopened.

He pointed at it and slightly turned to his subordinate,”You guys didn’t use the weapon on him”.

The Koopa Troopa quickly shook his head,”No after you were knocked unconscious by that straw hatted kid, the princess came in and crushed the remote with her foot, so we just decided to come in with plan B and handle everything else ourselves”, he quickly glances over the littered Koopa shells,” And you pretty much see how well that's turning out”.

After he said that, Trythin almost instantly pumped his fist in excitement as he also grinned widely,”Yes”!

The Troopa rows a brow in confusion at this,”I’m sorry, how is that something to be happy about”?.

“Because now we could still use our ace up our sleeve against stretchy over there and still be able to kidnap the princess in one fell swoop! It's like killing two birds with one stone, IT'S PERFECT”!Trython loudly suggested.

Though he did think it was a good Idea The Koopa Troopa also knew they had one tiny slight problem, nothing too bad to worry about.

He then places his hand on before saying,”Hmmmm yeah sounds great, amazing, couldn’t be more full proof. Though there's just one tiny teenie weenie little problem”.

Trython turned back to him curiously…….

“WE DON’T HAVE THE REMOTE ANYMORE! YOU KNOW THE THING THAT WE NEEDED TO OPEN THAT DAMN THING IN THE FIRST PLACE! THAT WEAPONS PRETTY MUCH USELESS IF WE CAN’T EVEN GET IT OUT OF THAT BOX”!The Troopa frighteningly shouted.

And though he was just given the worst bit of news he could receive at that moment by his subordinate, Trython simply stared at him with a blank expression on his face before suddenly asking him,”You idiots really weren’t listening at the strategy meeting were you”?

The Koopa Troopa responded to the question by tilting his head to the side in confusion,”Huh”?, he asked, unable to answer the question”.

That told Trython everything he needed to know, which caused him to slap his hand on his face before turning and pointing towards the box,” If you all had actually been listening to the plan you’d know that the remote was decoy. The real way to open the box is with the passcode keypad on the side of it. The original plan was for one of you to be over there in case they tried anything funny”.

The Troopa raised a brow as he turned to where Trython was pointing and squinted his eyes tight in order to see what he was talking about.

And after a few moments of searching there it was, a slightly small but shiny gray keypad hidden on the left side of the box.

He was right, there was a keypad on the box…..

“You see it”?Trython asked curiously, but mostly trying to get on with the plan quickly.

The Koopa Troopa nodded his head,”Yeah I d- wait if the keypad was there the whole time then why the hell did we even need the remote we could have just gone over and opened it that way”.

“ Well obviously if they had figured out that the remote was a fake they would have just gone straight for the keypad so giving them the wrong idea would have given us the advantage and made them think that they were safe until we actually opened the box giving us an element of surprise’, Trython explained.

The Koopa Troopa Quickly dipped his head to the side accepting the answer that he was given.

now that he knew that his subordinate had known the actual plan, Trython mysteriously grinned as he slowly rubbed his Palms together,” and now that it's there and there's no one in our way we're going to open up our secret weapon that's inside that box and sick it on that stupid kid! And while everyone else is in parallel and panicking we're going to take this time to sneak up and kidnap this princess, it's foolproof!

The Koopa thought for a second before suddenly smiling maliciously as well“Okay yeah that sounds great! What do you need from me”?

Trython Place the hand on his shoulder,” Don't worry nothing much, the only thing I need you to do is keep watch and make sure that no one else especially the princess or the straw hat or any of the mushroom freaks come anywhere near us while I'm entering the passcode, so it shouldn’t take us long at all really. You got that”?

The Koopa nodded his head in conformation,”But wait what about the others, shouldn't we help them out”

Trython quickly shook his head and looked,’No they’re already playing their role as the diversions so that those two don't’ notice us. We’ll just be putting ourselves in danger for no reason”.

“But how the hell do we know that this doesn’t have a super vision power or something and he spots us?”The Troopa asked.

Trython, about to shoot that idea down, quickly stopped and thought about that for a second. It actually doesn’t sound too crazy now that he actually thought about it, considering the fact that they had just found out that not only could this guy physically (and quite literally) stretch his limbs and have some sort of super strength. If he’s able to do things as crazy as that by himself imagen what else he's able to do.

He looks at the Koopa Troopa and says,”Well if that's the case then we'll make sure that this is quick and that we're not talking too long”, before turning and looking over at the direction that the princess and straw hat were and lowering his voice,”Before any of them spot us and get the chance to stop us”.

He turned back to his subordinate and said,”Alright let's go”, before suddenly running off towards the direction of the box, the /koopa Troopa getting up and following after him.

Toad who was just sitting back and watching the battle go on between them and the Koopas in utter amazement in the fact that they were actually fighting off the koopas so easily.

He never would’ve thought that Luffy would be this capable in a fight like this, and he had only heard rumors about the princesses fighting skills from other toads throughout the kingdom, but to see in person up close was blowing his mind.

He was basically cheering them on at this point, which consisted of him saying things like,”Yeah kick his yellow scally ass Luffy”, or,”Yeah you go princess”, as if he was watching a fight on tv or something.

He was about to go and shout something else out to them, when suddenly, he noticed that two of the Koopa soldiers (mostly trython he noticed because he was the one who held him hostage earlier) were running away from the scene and making their way towards that weird moving box that they brought in earlier.

Wait why were they doing that, wasn’t that remote that they were going on and on about earlier already destroyed by the princess before they started fighting.

Why the hell were they just now going out of their way to go over there when it was already too late for them to open it?

Toad just couldn’t wrap his giant head around why they would be trying to do this now when there was no point.

Were they trying to run away?

No, there's now way that they would dare try something like that….

At least not without their king giving them the green light to do so otherwise they’d risk facing his merciless wrath.

Soon the toad noticed that they had arrived at the box (so that answered that question) and looked as if they were looking for something on it.

Were they trying to find a weak spot inside it so they could try and pry it open sense they didn’t have the remote any more..

Now that was desperation at its highest if he had ever seen it.,,,

There's no way in hell that those tiny ass turtles are gonna be able

And even if they did it's not like it would matter at this point, don’t know if they’ve actually bothered to notice yet or not.

But as of right now the mushroom kingdom had two absolute beasts out there on the battle basically with these Koopa clown’s shells without anything more than sheer strength alone.

And they really think that (though surrounded by a giant box) whatever the hell was in that box was gonna be strong enough…..or…..big…….enough ... ..to…..

Uh oh…..

There was only one thing that was actually dangerous enough to actually do a lot of damage to the kingdom and……..

Oh no…………..

A chill went down Toad’s spine as he finally realized just what it was that was inside that box and what it could do to the kingdom if those two let it out.

Oh god….

He needed to do something to stop them and he needed to do it quickly before they had a chance to open it up.

But he knew better than to go and do that alone, he wasn't strong enough to go in and stop them all by himself.

They would basically Pummel him if he tried that, especially if there were two of them there.

He turned over to see the Princess and Luffy still currently fighting off the other Koopa soldiers.

Toad knew that if he wasn’t able to stop them then maybe those two just might be able to

He quickly hops up from where he's sitting and dashes over to them in hopes of getting them to stop what's about to happen.

( BOOM)

Luffy’s fist crashed into the pavement as Bryce the sledgehammer bro was successfully able to dodge his attack.

Bryce looked over at Luffy and grinned wildly,”Hah, that all you got scrawny”, taunting him.

Luffy, gritting his teeth, quickly retracted to his arm and winds it up before throwing it right back at him, but this time Bryce uses his sledge hammer and bats it away from him.

Luffy winces slightly as he starts to retract his arm back to throw another punch, but then the sledgehammer bro suddenly starts charging, winding his hammer back and preparing.

Luffy sees this and panics and quickly tries to hasten his retracting process in order to defend himself, but it wasn’t fast enough to catch up to him in time because the sledge bro is already in front of him.

Luffys face turns pale blue as he sees him get closer towards him.

He winds his hammer back, preparing to strike him before swinging it right at his head, but before he could make any contact with it, Luffy acts quickly and ducks right as the hammer is about to touch his head, grabbing and pulling his straw hat with him.

And thankfully for him, a second or two later his arm finally retracted to him.

And as soon as that happened, Luffy acted quickly and went to aim his fist right at the center of sledge bros chest before eight his arm back and going……

( BAM)

Luffy swings his arm forward and lands a solid blow that hits the bro right in his chest, sending him tumbling back a few feet away and creating a huge creator crack on his plastron, which causes a little bit of blood to leak out.

But before he lost his balance and fell to the ground, Bryce quickly caught himself by using his sledgehammer as some sort of supportering cane.

He then looked over at Luffy and smiled smugly and mockingly at him……..

Luffy groaned and gritted his teeth after seeing that his opponent was still standing even after all those (almost) consecutive hits he dealt to him.

Ok yeah sure he was holding back a shit ton of his own strength so he wouldn’t accidentally kill them but he wasn’t exactly giving these guys love tap’s either.

And the punches he gave them were far from ineffective, considering that he was able to put the smaller ones to sleep, but this big guy here just wouldn't go down And was looking like he could take a punch.

At least that was how he was looking like to Luffy, but how he really felt was almost entirely different.

Bryce was almost in complete agony at least his chest anyway, for a scrawny kid like him he could pack quite a punch and cause this much damage.

He was trying to put on a tough face for his troops (the ones that were still conscious anyway) so that they would still be motivated to continue the fight on.

But unfortunately for him that was becoming a lot harder than he could possibly think and definitely more easier said than done.

This kid was tough, like really tough. Not only was one of his Sledgehammer attacks working against him (or really hitting him that much if you really want to go into detail), but he was a lot slower than him as well, meaning a lot more open for a lot of attacks, and he was taking a lot of attacks.

He Was only just managing to dodge a few of them as best he could.

But that last hit was a lot more than he could handle, and it hurt a lot more too.It had even cracked his plastron enough to make it bleed a tiny bit, which hurt like hell by the way,And now he was stuck nursing and caressing it trying to ease the pain down as best he could.

And this fight really wasn't getting him anywhere but more bruises and bumps. So he really needed to start thinking outside the box before he ended up like his other friends.

He grown slightly as he started to use the hammer to help lift himself up a tiny bit before forcing a grin on his face and saying,” got to say for a kid you pack a cute little punch was going to take a lot more than that to beat me”, then lifts himself up and puts the hammer over his shoulder,” and believe me I could do this all day”, he briefly Bluffs trying to steal put on the ppl strong face.

Though that might actually be the death of him in the next few minutes if he kept this charade going.

If it wasn’t obvious enough, Luffy was definitely much stronger than the sledge bro Bryce, and though he has a tough exterior, Luffy has broken things, a hundred no a thousand times harder than that, and was mostly just pulling his punches. If he wanted to he could crush him like a fly in a matter of moments no seconds. And even though he was a pretty strong Koopa for his size he didn't really know how much more of this he could take from him.

Luffy angrily gritted his teeth and shouts,”Oh yeah, well lets see how ya like this”!, right before he suddenly starts charging right for him.

Bryce is shocked at first but then quickly snaps himself out of it and starts groaning in pain as he lifts himself up from leaning on his hammer and gets into a hammer swinging ready stance in preparation for his next attack.

As Luffy is running towards Bryce, he starts stretching both his arms far back behind himself while shouting,”NOW GUM GUM……..”, as he is only a few feet away from him.

Bryce in response started winding his hammer back in preparation to swing but unfortunately due to the injuries that he had, he wasn’t able to move as fast as he usually does, which ended up slowing down his swinging motion.

Which was basically a blessing in disguise for fully energized and speedy Luffy, because he was just about right in front of him getting ready to launch.

Bryce tried his best to swing and attack in time to catch him before he could use his attack but again due to his injuries he wasn’t able Luffy in time.

And before the hammer makes any contact with him, Luffy runs up and then hurls his arms forward, ( BOOM) striking the sledge hammer bro with both instantaneously with a double open palm strike with both hands,”BAZOOKA”!!!!

The blow landed right on Bryce’s chest, hitting him right in the cracked wound, causing him to cough up a bunch of blood and gasp loudly in pain.

The attack was so powerful that it sent the sledge bro straight up flying off in the other direction and crashing into one of the nearby mushroom buildings.

Well that was that, Luffy had successfully beaten the biggest Koopa guy there.

And though he would’ve liked to have celebrated this win, even he knew that there were still a few more of them that he needed to deal with.

He looked over and saw the princess ducking and dodging the hammers being thrown by the hammer bro as she was trying to get to him and his two other green Koopa buddies.

Luffy was about to run over and help her get to them (or at least to help keep the hammers away from hitting her) when he suddenly stopped himself once he noticed that she was holding something in her hand.

He took a closer look and saw that she had what looked to be one other green Koopa shell in her hand and was holding it like a football, kind of.

He somewhat understood what you were trying to do at that moment and decided not to help her.

She was charging at them with full speed and tightly holding the shell in her left hand all while trying not to get hit by the oncoming spears and hammers that were coming right at her.

She and when she couldn’t dodge one of the hammers in time she used the shell in her hand as like a shield to protect herself.

What she was trying to do was take them all out using the Koopa shell in her hand.

And thankfully for her She would soon be able to do just that, because once she had gotten close enough to them she quickly aimed and made sure that she was on target before she purposely dropped the shell out of her hand and kicked it with as much force as she possibly could muster in her right leg.

The shell went directly for the Koopa troopa to the right of the hammer bro and it hit him right on his nostrils, instantly knocking him out. After the shell had hit him in the face, it had bounced off that koopa troopa’s face and went straight for the Koopa on the left, this time hitting him in the chest, causing him to groan and cough up blood. Both Koopa Troopas were sucked back into their shells once they were hit with the attack. And thanks to that the hits only made the last attack go even faster as it went for the hammer bro. He picked up one of his hammers and try to use it to knock the shell away from them, but before he even had the chance to make contact with it it already flew past his hammer and hit him right in his mouth, knocking him out instantly and getting sucked back into his shell and drop to the ground.

Once Peach had taken care of them successfully, she took a breath and quickly started to dust herself off of any dust or filth that may have gotten on her while she was fighting.

She does that often when she knows that she’s done a lot of moving around. You know mainly just to help also maintain her royal and elegance she was taught as a kid.

While she was doing this a sudden voice called out to her.“Hey looks like we got 'em all”!

Peched turned to see that it was the stretchy human she’d been fighting alongside who was coming right in her direction.

She then takes a closer look behind him and sees no sign of sledge hammer bro from earlier or any of the other Koopa troopa.

She nodded and placed both her hands on her hips”, Yeah, and it looks like you had an easy time disposing of the others”, she shot back as he had gotten closer to her.

(Giggles)”Yup, these guys ain’t nothing to me prince, I’m too strong for em”, Luffy responded reassuringly as he stopped a couple of feet away from her.

“Yeah about that, not that I know everything or anything really about most humans, considering I’d only ever heard of them in books or little fairytale stories around the kingdom. But I've never heard of any human doing what you're capable of doing, you are sure that you're a human, right”?, she asked curiously.

Luffy slightly tilted his head and placed his fingers on his chin as if to think about something before saying,”I don’t know, let….me.…see”, he suddenly starts briefly feeling up his face and his body,”I feel pretty human“, before shrugging his shoulders and dropping his hands.

Peach, after seeing and hearing that, had to physically try her very hardest not to burst out laughing after seeing that by balling , not wanting to let her emotions get out of control, that wouldn't be very princess-like for her.

But instead she took a step closer to him, reached out, and grabbed hold of his cheek and pulled it out towards her, stretching it in the process.

“Whoa”, she said in amazement as she felt his stretchy skin on her gloved hand, to be honest it felt as if she was actually touching a piece of rubber instead of skin.

She was almost mesmerized being the look and feeling of it, however a little too mesmerized by it, because quite a few seconds had gone by of her just staring at Luffy’s skin and it was starting to weird him out a tiny bit, especially with the strong grip that she had too.

But unfortunately for him it was about to get a lot worse for him.

Peach’s face suddenly lit up with excitement (not bothering to turn and look at him but still looking at the stretched cheek) as she started hitting him with a boatload of questions like,“Do you not feel any of this?! I mean I know you probably do because of your ,hopefully, flesh and blood and nerves. But I mean doesn’t it ever hurt you when you stretch yourself?! Wait, is there a limit to how far you can stretch yourself?! Have you ever tried to test it out yourself?! Oh shit wait what am I talking about of course you have! Wait, can you tell me?! You have to tell me! You have t-”, Peach stopped talking once she actually started looking at Luffy, she saw how uncomfortable and wide-eyed he looked with all the questions she was asking him.

Luffy rose a brow in confusion,”Um, hey whya grabbin my face, it feels weird”.

Her face went red as she realized that she once again let her curious side get the best of her and caused her to go on another rant like earlier when they had first met.

And this time Toadsworth wasn’t there to let her know to keep that under control in time for it not to become too much either.

Red with embarrassment, she quickly cleared her throat and let go of his cheek as she then took a step back from him.

She then quickly but awkwardly fixed herself and her demeanor up before turning back to face him, still red with embarrassment,”Uh I mean (Ahem), its\ looks like a useful skill to have, straw-hat”.

Luffy smiled at he,”yeah you're pretty good at fightin too, aintcha”, he asked in response to the comment she just gave him

Peach (trying her best not to indulge in conversation with him or really ty to get too friendly with him) turned away from him, still trying her best to hide her also still blushing red cheeks,”Well um before we conversate further, I’m going to go check and see if there are anymore of them in the are still in the area. Just in case if they are still here, they can’t get to my-”.

“Oh, hey Toad”, Luffy called out, interrupting her.

Peach turned back around after he said that and saw that one of her red toads (who was weirdly wearing mix matched clothes) was running right towards them, frantically waving his hands.

“LUFFY!!!! PRINCESS!!!!!”, she loudly shouted as he was running,”YOU GUYS GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE RIGHT NOW! IT'S COMING!!!!!

The princess and the pirate both shot him a look of confusion after he said that,

“What is he talking about”?, Peach asked aloud to herself as she took a few steps forward towards him.

Luffy shrugs in response to her question,”I don’t know, lemme ask em”, before he then raises his hands up to his mouth and yells out,”TOAD WHATCHA TALKIN ABOUT-”!!!!

Suddenly a loud crashing sound could be heard from the distance that was so loud that it caused everything around them to shake violently.

Liffy stopped talking as soon as he had heard the sound and felt the earth quaking like it was shaking.

It was so bad that he also had to quickly catch the princess before she lost her balance and fell.

Though she wasn’t very appreciative about it, because once he caught her, she turned red and quickly pushed him away.

Toad (who though knew exactly what that sound had to mean) continued running towards them with even so much as taking a quick peek at what the noise was.

Though it was a little rude, Luffy didn’t think much of it and turned to see where all that noise had just come from.

But once he did his head immediately tilted in confusion as he pointed out to it and asked,”Uh hey Princess, what’s that giant ball thing down there”?

Peach rows a brow after hearing the question (In her head),”Giant Ball? What the hell is he-“, when suddenly, a wave of realization to what he was referring to hit her.

She quickly spun around only to see the terrifying sight of the creature he was referring to.

And her eyes went wide at The terrifying sight of The Giant Chain Chomp!

The Giant Chain Chomp resembled a ball that had big circular eyes, large gaping mouths, and razor-sharp teeth.it had a restraining tail-like chain coming from its behind.

(THUMP)

The chain chomp slowly followed trython out of the box and into toad town while the Koopa Troopa stayed behind it to make sure that the chain was disconnected and away from the box.

And after making sure that it was completely out of the box (Ha!) the two Koopas ordered it to stop moving.

“Alright chomps listen up and listen good! You see that castle over there”?Trython points towards Peach’s castle.

The chain chomps eyes follow where he’s pointing before giving a loud (BARK) in response.

“Good, cause now that you see it I want you to go and tear it to pieces, along with everything else in this disgusting kingdom! And don’t worry you can go ahead and eat the little Mushroom tots with it, but not the princess, we need her alive”!, he then starts motioning the chain chomp towards the town,”Now go on and have fun- oh and if you see someone with a straw hat around while you doing your job, be sure to kill him quickly and make sure he’s dead”!

And with that, the ginormous chain chomps sets its eyes towards peach's castle and growls as it starts to make its way towards Peach”s castle while barking excitedly.

Any buildings, carts, or different structures that were in its way were chomped on or crushed by its humongous jaws.

Luffy and Peach stood there in place staring wide eyed down at the chain chomp coming right towards them (and you know just pretend that it's going around chomping things up in the Kingdom dramatically).

“Oh no”, Peach said in her head as she watched all the destruction that chain chomp was causing.

“That’s a chain chomp! They’re deadly creatures that cause massive amounts of destruction if they're let off their chains”!, Peach explained to Luffy as they both continued to stare at it.

Luffy then tilted his head and raised a brow as he noticed it was sort of acting like a wild dog,”Hey why is it acting like a giant puppy”?

Peach sighed with a tiny bit of annoyance, wondering why that was what he was worrying about at this moment before answering,”They are dogs, we’ll sort of. They’re used as guard dogs in the koopa kings army and used as weapons too”!

Luffy was about to ask another question when they both suddenly heard all the sounds of destruction that the chain chomp was causing and jumped at it.

Peach with an almost frightened look in her eyes glanced at Luffy before looking back at the chain chomp,”If this thing keeps this up, it’ll reduce my entire kingdom to nothing but rubble and debris”!

They had to do something in order to prevent that from happening.

Well at least one of them needed to anyway, because Luffy had already put on his determined grin and punched his fist into his hand as he started walking toward it,”Well then don’t worry princess, I’ll handle this”!

Ok……

Now the princess was a lot of things at this exact time.

But stupid and hopelessly hopeful wasn’t anywhere near one of them.

Sure he may have been strong enough to take down even the one of the strongest and elite Koopa in their kingdom, but a koopa and a giant (keyword: Giant) Chain Chomp were two very different things.

Strong or not there's no way that he’s gonna be able to take that thing on and I didn’t know how many sledgehammer Brose he was going to beat down. Therefore there was no way he could convince her that he could do that.

She quickly ran after him in protest ,” whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, what do you think you’re doing?! Do not tell me that you're thinking of going over there to fight that thing all by yourself are you”?

Luffy turned to her and nodded his head,” Hell yeah, he ain’t nothin to me! I don’t need any help, I can handle it, no problem”!

Peach wasn’t really having it and she definitely wasn’t in the mood to argue.

So she stopped in front of him in order to stop him,”Yeah, OK no, what we actually need to do is think of a careful plan on how to stop that thing without causing too much destruction,, or worse getting ourselves killed! You may be a strong human, but you’re a human nonetheless, and we’re gonna need more than stretchy punches if we want to handle that thing”.

Luffy, while continuing to walk toward it, simply gave the princess a reassuring look,” Don’t worry princess I’ve handled big things like that before plenty of times so I should be able to take it on, no problem“!

Pete slapped her hand on her head and continued trying to reason with him,” no, you’re not listening to me all right you have to-“, when suddenly she felt something grab her by the hand and yank her in the opposite direction of the blocks and to her castle.

She turned to look down and saw that the culprit was the same Toad that she saw running towards her.

She looked down at him,”What are you doing?! Let go of me, we have to stop that thing before it destroys the entire kingdom”!

Turned turned around to face her while running in response and said,”Apologies princess but trying to take on a giant chain chomp would be suicidal! We need to make sure you’re safe and out of harm's way, if that thing”.

The princess wasn’t really trying to listen to that. She was too busy looking down at the straw hatted human. I’m still walking towards the change up (which at this point was still a little busy chewing up the town and didn't really notice him),” what not let go of me we have to make sure that humans don't get killed by that thing”!She said, protesting.

Despite her protest however, Toad continued pulling her away from the scene and back to her castle to safety, but as he was doing this he turned to her with a more serious look on his face,”Sorry princess but that's a chain Chomp,they're usually bad news to be around! And the last thing we need or want is for you to get hurt at a time like this”!, before his expression changes into a cheerful smile,”Besides I'm sure if Luffy can take down a bunch of stinking Koopas then a chain chomp shouldn't be anything for him, right”?!

The princess was about to continue protesting when she suddenly stopped to consider what the toad had just said.

Could he really take that thing on?

She saw that he had some strength with him sure but could it be enough to hand something as big as that thing.

She would have to see for herself.

She turned her head around (Toad secretly doing the same) to the sight of Luffy walking up behind the chain chomp, who was currently chewing up one of the crazy cap shops.

“HEY YOU TEETHY”!Luffy loudly called out to the chewing chain chomp.

The chain chomp stops chewing the building pieces apart and turns to look down to see the sight of a straw hatted boy that was staring him down with anger and fury.

Remembering what its superior told him about what to do if it sees someone with a straw hat, the chain chomp quickly spun around to face him right as he made a stop at its chin and a loud growling sound came from it.

Luffy in response gritted his teeth and cracked his neck before he then started to shout out,”STOP CHEWIN UP THOSE BUILDINGS OR I’M GONNA KICK YOUR A-”!!!

(BOOM)

Unfortunately for him the chain chomp wasn't really one for listening to reason, especially not from those who were to be considered to be his enemies. because the next thing Luffy knew the chain chopped at hopped up in the air and then got right on him almost as if to crush him.

It happened so fast that there wasn’t any real time to process what had happened right in there in front of everyone.

Peach and Toad’s eyes slowly went wide as both shocked and horrified expressions grew on both their faces.

Luffy-Luffy just got killed

(End of Chapter )

Hey everyone, hi no I know you don’t have to say it. I was like this chapter but I have a lot going on in my life and I’m still trying to process the death of my family.

But thankfully I was able to get this done and now we can still continue the series and yes the series is still going to continue. It’ll just take some time between chapters. Hopefully the next one will be a lot sooner than later.

And obviously this little cliffhanger isn’t something a lot of you will need to worry about in the next chapter.

Hope y’all like the new poster I made for the book too so now it’s easier for you all to know what the story’s about.

Next chapter will be the last Luffy point of view story.

Till next time.

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"I'll kill them for doing this to you."

That cursed group- the gang who had been Vega's swore enemy since the streets...-Clashing over and over again as if they were destined to be, for some time, Vega had peace in her community, found time to grow and build something instead of living out of plundering and scavenging alone. She had tried to focus on the good things, building instead of destroying, saving instead of killing- what allowed Rick and Carl to survive and be part of her community. The bonds between them had grown stronger. Their hearts...they knew what they felt, but they were to coward to confess to each other- two introverts, broken by the past mistakes, so hurt by the world, who tried to show only a hard shell, hide their weaknesses while seeking for the things that made them happy. Shiro, Fox, Vega, Carl, Rick. The had become a family. As the community begun to prosper and they finally had more time for themselves, things just felt different. Even though Vega and Rick wouldn't say a thing, them both knew, everyone knew that at some point, they would end up together. The way they cared for each other, they way they understood each other- it was just a matter of who would awaken bravery first so they actually became a thing. The glances, the gifts they would bring each other, it was so obvious. Obvious also for the enemy.

After massacring many smaller communities, there would be a day when Vega and her nemesis would meet again She knew, but would always be quiet about it, hoping the day would never arrive. But it did. One of her group had betrayed and sold info to that bloodthirsty gang in exchange of a position of power. It all happened when Vega and her main formation had left to clear the area that would be their first outpost. They broke into her community, but they didn't want to kill and abuse the survivors, no, not just that at least- they wanted full submission. Vega had Rick be one of her lieutenants, and once she had left with Shiro and her most trusted war partners, he was left in charge- just what the enemy was waiting for.

They attacked with grenades, they were heavily armed- Rick quickly organized a quick defense and managed to take out many of the barbarians, however, their surprise and superior fire power won, and the community decided to surrender to avoid extermination. 'That emo bitch, I will make sure she reads my letter, and I am sure she WILL agree to lower her head and work for me- she will have all of you work for me.' The gang leader had a devious smirk on his face as he made his speech, the survivors frozen, surrendered, still under the aim of enemy guns. 'Rick....right? I heard a lot about you. How you became so special to her. Some say she was even smiling, can you believe that? I never saw Vega smile, you my man, must be someone SPECIAL. You really helped this place grow once you showed up, didn't you? The community you came from sure must have been ahead- I wish it was still standing so we could also have them work for us. Too bad though, we can't have everything, can we?' The enemy leader kept a smirk, despite his eyes being full of anger and blood thirst. 'You will be the example, Rick. I know you're precious to her and most people here admire you lots. He chuckled, then had his men put Rick on his knees.

'Everyone who is here, ready to watch our little show, you better record this deep down in your minds, so you will know what will happen to any asshole who tried to rebel against us. If you have bad memory then use some camera, cause whoever forgets the lesson...will get what our cowboy here will get, for resisting against my humble visit. You all should thank us, because this time, and if you behave, we won't kill or rape or torture you- see how I'm generous? We just want you to work for us. Just that. Well, except for you Rick. I will wrap you for present and I don't want anyone else taking him from the spot I will leave him for beloved emo punk rock Vega to see.'

When Vega arrived, the enemy had already left for quite some time. There were clear signs of attack on the walls of the place she called home. Only some fighters who had resisted had been shot, but none had died. The people were crying, most frozen in place in shock, others shaking in anger, but everyone was right there, where they were forced to stand. Even though the enemy had already left. Rick was on the floor, stripped, bleeding, full of marks of abuse- his back, whipped by some leather belt, his lips busted, dirty with the remains of what the boss had forced him to swallow and choke on, his pale skin bruised for being rolled over many times, blood between his legs, some of the nails of his left hand had been stabbed underneath, bleeding, one of his nipples too had been pressed until it bled, and the most horrendous- his right arm- it was on the floor, a few meters away from him- a belt was tight around what remained on his arm, some centimeters ahead of his elbow, containing most of the bleeding so he didn't die. The sheriff was pale, shaking in pain, due to so many kicks and punches and all the rest at least three men had done to him. He was broken. He had been through all that with only anger and a fierce spirit in his eyes, but having his arm being chopped off so brutally, the pain was too intense for him to keep showing strength, and the abuses he suffered after that in front of all the survivors, in front of his son, the shame, the humiliation, that finished breaking him. He just wanted to die. But his heart was still beating.

When he saw Vega, his eyes filled with tears for the first time that day. He was relieved yet...feeling so much shame. "I couldn't....couldn't....I couldn't stop them.' His voice held so much suffering. He couldn't even look at her in the face. Slowly his consciousness was fading away, the pain...the cold he was feeling...and he also felt so dirty. He pressed his forehead against the floor, crying. The last thing he heard was her voice, swearing for revenge. He hoped so. He really hoped she did it, and not just for his sake. The fact she showed anger for what they had done to him, that comforted Rick a bit, even thought with an arm chopped off he imagined he would just be a burden for her.

@sxbaist

#trigger warning for everything basically #sxbaist #tw violence #tw abuse #rick grimes #the walking dead #rick grimes rp #REVENGE

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nacrella · 1 year

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Rewatching 24x19 where Velasco and Churlish take a road trip and how Velasco wanted to take Muncy cause he's more comfortable with her.

Makes me wonder, if Muncy had gone, what would of happened in Maine?

Rollisi's relationship took a big step backwards after their road trip to WV. Resulting in them to wait like 3 years to finally get together.

Still, you can't help but wonder what would of happened if Velasco and Muncy were alone together in Maine? And what would of happened once they returned to the city?

You make an important point!! I really wanted Muncy to go with him in that episode. If we can't have that, I wish there was at least a scene where they talk after Velasco returned. Unfortunately, when it comes to the side characters we can never get what we need…

In my opinion, their bond developed very quickly and if they had gone there together, their relationship would have leveled up. Velasco is not someone who opens up easily about his past. Whenever he has talked about himself, it has always been because he had to. Even if it's Muncy, he's not someone who likes to talk about it. But if they had gone there together, Muncy could have helped him break out of his shell and undoubtedly things would have been easier for Velasco. After all, mistakes are inevitable when you have a radar near you waiting for you to make them (you know who I mean).

Muncy, on the other hand, is not someone who talks much about himself. This trip could have brought them much closer together. If even Velasco and Churlish were better when they came back, I can't imagine him and Muncy.

On the other hand, Muncy’s not someone who talks much about herself either. This trip could have brought them much closer together. If even Velasco and Churlish were better when they came back, I can't imagine him and Muncy.

I'm still very angry that they wrote them that way. For me, they were the only couple and the only characters with a promising future, since Rollins also left. I always had big dreams about Rollisi and Veluncy. There is still nothing definite (or at least I hope so) but it seems they chose to waste them both.

(PS: I really love talking about Veluncy and being asked questions about them so thank you 🤍)

#joe velasco #grace muncy #veluncy #velascy #joe velasco x grace muncy #law and order svu #svu24 #svu #special victims unit #l&o svu #svu 24x19 #l&o: special victims unit #law and order special victims unit #octavio pisano #molly burnett #veluncy marathon #rollisi #tonie churlish #jasmine batchelor

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acacia-may · 2 years

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A Family Where There Once Was None

Description: In the future, the Black Bulls gather together at the beach with their families causing Asta to reflect on his life’s journey and the family he found along the way.

Rating: G

Warnings: Mentions Pregnancy, A character accidentally gets hit in the head

Fandom: Black Clover

Genre: Black Bulls Squad as Family; Domestic Fluff

Relationships: The Black Bulls Squad as Family is main focus. There is some Asta/Noelle, and Asta, Noelle & Their Children. There are a few hints at Grey/Gauche and Rill/Charmy. (Henry/My OC is also briefly mentioned). The rest is left intentionally ambiguous so choose your own adventure.

Characters: Asta (POV Character), Noelle Silva, Liebe, Charmy Pappitson, Vanessa Enoteca, Finral Roulacase, Finesse Calmreich, Yami Sukehiro, Zora Ideale, Nacht Faust, Gauche Adlai, Grey, The Black Bulls Family, Lorelei (Swallow) Legolant (OC), and the Children: (Katsu, Marceline, Tirion, Lia, Kalon, Narah, Asa, Toshi, Mira, Summer, Daphne, Rye, Anni, Altan, Licita, and Kai).

Word Count: 4905

Link to original post on AO3. Please do not repost to another site.

This story was written for Black Bulls Month Day 3: Found Family. I checked with the organiser and got the greenlight for this idea so hopefully what I've written still fits the prompt. I honestly can't believe I actually got this finished in time! 😅

Story Below the Cut! Thank you for reading!

“Dad! Dad! Come see my sandcastle!” Licita’s bare feet made a trail of excited footprints as she ran straight for Asta. Beaming, he scooped his daughter up in his arms causing her to giggle before she grabbed his hand and dragged him off towards the town of sandcastles she and several of her Black Bulls cousins had been building with their Uncle Rill. Judging by the ice cream smeared all over her face, Rill’s daughter Anni had seemingly been distracted from her own sandcastle by snacks leaving her dad to finish it on his own—not that he seemed to mind much since he didn’t even notice Asta wave at him as he walked by. Captain Yami’s son, Katsu, and Lia Roulacase seemed to be equally caught up in their work and, if Asta had to guess, some sort of competition to see whose sandcastle would be the biggest—though they did both find the time to quickly wave back at him. On the other side of their sandcastles, Liebe, in what Noelle affectionately referred to as his “cutesy form,” was smoothing the wall of a much smaller and less elaborate structure.

“This one is mine,” said Licita excitedly—her little blonde pigtails bobbing as she talked.

Asta beamed at her. “It’s beautiful!”

“I’ll show you around, Dad!” Licita’s eyes sparkled with pride as she dragged Asta around the sand structure. She pointed to a cluster of shells stuck into one of the mounds of sand. “That’s the door. Narah helped me find seashells to make it. Narah didn’t make a sandcastle, but she was helping build mine before she went to get more seashells.”

Asta’s smile widened. Narah Roulacase had inherited her father’s kind heart and had always been particularly attached to Licita seeing her more as a little sister than just a little cousin. “That’s really nice of her.”

“Narah is really nice. I like her a lot. I like all my cousins!” Licita prattled excitedly with a smile that seemed to fill her tiny face. “Did you see Lia and Katsu’s sandcastles? They’re really big!”

“Yes, I saw them when we came over,” chuckled Asta. “But your sandcastle is really big too, Licita, and I love all the windows!”

“Uncle Liebe made those. I’m making this sandcastle for him to stay in, and I want to be big enough. Can you help us, Dad?”

“Sure,” said Asta as he reached for a nearby shovel. He couldn’t help but chuckle a little as he glanced over at Liebe who had returned to work—carving another window in the sand. Asta knew that if he had even jokingly suggested making a sandcastle for Liebe, Liebe probably would’ve crossed his arms and scowled at him, but he had such a soft spot for his niece that these days he could be caught building sandcastles, having tea parties, playing dress up, and doing a wide variety of other things, Asta could have never imagined Liebe doing before Licita was born. Asta wondered if it was perhaps how much his daughter took after him and her namesake that caused Liebe to be so attached to her or perhaps it was all the ways she was like Noelle—her smile, the way her nose wrinkled when she laughed, how her shoulders stiffened and she fidgeted when she was nervous. Liebe and Noelle had bonded so much over the years, and she had once confided in him that Liebe, despite only being her brother-in-law, felt as much like her brother as Nozel, possibly even more so.

At the thought of his brother-in-law, Asta glanced towards the ocean where Nozel was standing at the water’s edge holding onto the hands of his young daughter, Acier, who giggled as the water crashed against her feet in tiny little waves. It had been Asta’s idea to invite him and his family along with them to Racque—after talking it over with Noelle, of course—and he liked to think Nozel was grateful to be there, even if he did look a bit exhausted, probably from chasing his twin boys up and down the beach earlier.

Asta was at least pleased to see that he looked happier to be there than Langris, who Finral had invited along for, Asta presumed, much the same reason that he and Noelle had invited Nozel and who had unfortunately, despite ample amounts of sunscreen, gotten horribly burned on their first day. Asta chuckled a bit to himself remembering how Vanessa had teased him for looking like a beached lobster at dinner the previous evening, but immediately felt sorry for it. Despite still being a bit red, Langris seemed to be doing alright now—collecting seashells with his son and his niece not a few yards away from the sandcastle village. Asta wondered if Narah was collecting seashells for her older sister’s sandcastle too or just Licita’s.

It warmed Asta’s heart to see everyone together again. He was sure that most of his former squad mates must have felt the same way since they had all jumped at Vanessa’s idea for everyone to meet at the beach in Racque that summer. Asta and Noelle had been some of the first to commit to the idea and had been planning the trip for months. Of course, that had been before Noelle had found out she was expecting their third child—or the ’tie breaker’ as Luck liked to refer to the baby—and despite Asta’s reassurances that they wouldn’t have to go if it was going to be too much for her, his wife, in that strong, determined way of hers, had insisted that they keep their vacation plans. She had already had two children, she had reasoned, so she knew what she was dealing with, and Asta trusted her judgment. Still, that didn’t change the fact that he was a bit worried about her being in the heat and bright sun for so long when she was so heavily pregnant. He was sure he wasn’t alone in this type of concern seeing as he and Noelle weren’t the only ones expecting—even if their baby was due the soonest.

Asta glanced over at the cabana Henry had set up which Zora had nicknamed “the nest” with a sort of affection on account of all the new or expectant mothers congregating there. Noelle was lounging there now, positively in stitches over Henry’s wife, Lorelei, balancing a tower of seashells on the wide curve of her abdomen. She was due a month after Noelle and had recently knitted a set of matching booties for her baby and theirs since she was determined that they should grow up to be friends. Finesse, who was giggling behind her hand, had also been given a set of booties as she was due nearly two months later and was sporting quite the bump of her own which was a source of much stress, worry, and fussing for everyone, her husband and brother-in-law especially, given her often delicate health. Not an hour ago, Vanessa had told them all to calm down and stop worrying for what had to be the fifteenth time that day, but she too had been keeping a watchful eye on her. She had been looking out for Lorelei and Noelle too, which Asta appreciated. He was sure that Henry did as well especially while his attention was focused on watching his boys splashing around in the shallow water.

It seemed that Vanessa’s strong maternal streak, which Asta had always admired, had only intensified when she had children. Even now, she was helping Charmy pass out water and snacks to the other ladies despite the fact that she could probably benefit from some rest and relaxation of her own considering the fact that she too was, as she called it, “unexpectedly expecting” and seemed to be at that uncomfortably round stage of pregnancy, though she swore she wasn’t nearly as far along as she looked. Still her little one would be also arriving this year along with the rest of the new Black Bulls cousins, and her baby’s matching set of Lorelei’s booties appeared to still be a work in progress—attached to some temporarily forgotten knitting needles. It brought the brightest smile to Asta’s face. He couldn’t wait for all the children to get to grow up together.

He was also glad to see Noelle in such bright spirits, despite being a little bit squished given the wide curve in her belly and the two little boys who were currently leaning on her like a pillow that is. Almos Silva, the elder of Nozel’s twins whom Asta had affectionately nicknamed ‘Al’ much to his father’s chagrin when the nickname had stuck, was particularly fond of his Aunt Noelle and had fallen asleep leaning against her side at nearly every family gathering Asta could think of. This time, however, he had company, as Kai, Asta and Noelle’s two-year-old son, had curled up next to his mother and fallen asleep on her other side with a half-eaten and now melting popsicle in his hand. Asta couldn’t help but laugh a bit as he watched Noelle chuckle at her attempts to fan herself without upsetting her sleeping son and nephew.

His laughter must’ve startled her as she turned towards him with a slight shrug and playful roll of her eyes. Asta beamed at her before turning back to his daughter.

“I’m going to check on your mom real quick. I’ll be right back.”

Licita smiled and nodded. “Tell her about my sandcastle, okay?”

Asta beamed and nodded at her before making his way towards Noelle. Even by the time, he had walked over to the umbrella, Charmy and Vanessa were still busy handing out large glasses of water with festive umbrella straws to the group.

“Here,” Charmy said handing him one. “Drink up. We don’t want anybody getting dehydrated. Take Noelle’s too.”

“Thanks, Charmy!” said Asta as she handed him another cup with a different coloured straw, before she turned to Grey whose hands were currently full, rocking her daughter, Mira, to sleep. Amira Adlai was the first girl in a long line of boys and a generally fussy baby, but she looked so peaceful now as she slept. Charmy gave Grey an understanding nod and thoughtfully placed her cup next to her on a small folding table as Asta took a seat next to his wife and sleeping son and nephew.

He rubbed her back gently with his free hand. “You doing okay, Noelle? Do you want to go back to the hotel and rest?”

“I’m fine,” she assured him with a slight smile.

“At least let me take, Kai,” he said reaching out to scoop up his son. Kai stirred but quickly nestled into Asta’s shoulder and drifted back off to sleep. “Well, someone needs a nap,” Asta chuckled affectionately ruffling his fingers gently through his son’s silvery hair.

Asta thought Kai must be exhausted from playing around in the water with him and his uncles. Though Asta had ducked out about an hour ago, from what he could tell, Magna and Luck were still engaged in an intense splash fight with several nieces and nephews, and every few minutes or so, “Asa, stop turning into me!” or “Kalon, get down from there!” would echo across the beach followed by Asa Adlai, transformed into one of the Silvas, giggling at having drenched Uncle Magna again with borrowed water magic, Rye Boismortier complaining that he was starving before painting up a popsicle or an ice cream cone for himself, or little Summer Legolant running up the beach hand and hand with Daphne Agrippa excitedly exclaiming that she had found yet another hermit crab for the growing collection of “friends” that Gordon was keeping a watchful eye on in a nearby tide pool. In other words, the same kind of fun chaos the Black Bulls had enjoyed back in the day—just with a few more, younger members. That reminded him…

“Oh, Licita wanted me to tell you that she’s building a sandcastle for Liebe. I think she wants you to come see it when she’s done. As long as you’re up for it.”

Noelle tilted her head at him with an almost bantering exasperation. “Bakasta…”

Asta’s mouth twitched into a smile at the nickname which his wife only used in an affectionate and, generally, playfully annoyed way these days. “Sorry. I know. I just want to make sure you and the baby are okay,” he said as he pressed his hand to her stomach.

“Don’t worry. We’re taking good care of her,” reassured Vanessa with a kind smile. “And I swear Nozel has been over here every five minutes to make sure she’s drinking enough water.”

Noelle rolled her eyes and sighed. Asta knew that her only reservation about inviting Nozel along was that he would probably be fussing over her constantly, and, naturally, being Nozel, he was. “I told him I’m fine,” she huffed. “He’s such a worrier.”

“I think that it’s sweet that he cares about you so much,” said Finesse in her soft and gentle way.

Vanessa laughed. “Of course, you would say that,” she teased, and a pale rose filled Finesse’s cheeks.

“I like when he brings his daughter over. She’s so cute,” gushed Charmy. “All those Silva babies with their big, pretty eyes!” She turned to Noelle and Asta with a bright smile. “Who do you think this one will take after?”

Asta and Noelle looked at each other thoughtfully. Their third little one was a tie breaker in this way as well since Licita looked more like Asta and Kai looked more like Noelle. He shrugged. “Dunno. What do you think, Noelle?”

Noelle’s brow furrowed. “Guess we’ll just have to wait and see…” she conceded with a sigh.

“Just don’t mention it around Zora or Magna or they’ll start a betting pool again,” joked Vanessa with a wink.

“Where is Zora anyway?” asked Charmy.

“He said something about going with Finral to go pick up some watermelon,” replied Vanessa with a shrug.

Charmy frowned. “We have enough food already.”

“I think it’s for a game,” chimed Grey quietly enough that she wouldn’t wake the sleeping baby.

As if on cue, Finral and Zora suddenly appeared through a shimmery portal.

“Hey, we got watermelon!” Zora yelled at the chaotic group of kids still playing in the water with Luck and Magna. Finral, however, turned to the cabana with a weary sigh.

“Sorry about that. Did we miss anything?” Everyone seated under the cabana shook their heads. “Good. Zora was very insistent about getting everyone together for some watermelon splitting but couldn’t find any watermelon so I told him I’d portal him to the market to pick some up. He’s a very slow shopper though…”

“He was probably just stalling so he could get a break from all the chaos around here,” laughed Vanessa.

Finral shrugged but chuckled, “Yeah probably. I think he picked up every single watermelon they had, and—” He paused holding up a hand to the group. “Hold on just a second…”

In an instant, he had pulled his son, Kalon, gently through a portal. Kalon’s brow furrowed confusedly, but he beamed at him. “Thanks, Dad!”

“Please be careful, Kalon. How did you even get up there?”

Kalon, however, didn’t seem to hear him as his attention had turned to Asta and Noelle. “Oh hi, Uncle Asta. You and Aunt Noelle are still married right?”

“What?” Noelle’s confused exclamation caused her sleeping son and nephew to stir, but they swiftly drifted back off again as Asta double-checked that ring on his left hand, just to be sure.

“Yeah, we’re still married and very happy.”

“Oh good! I’m glad!” Kalon’s smile widened, and he turned to glance over his shoulder exclaiming, “Tirion, don’t worry! Uncle Asta and Aunt Noelle are still married so it’s okay!”

Reaching the edge of the cabana after, Asta presumed, running after Kalon, a particularly flushed Tirion ran a hand through his already messy pink hair before rubbing his hand across the back of his neck. “Thank goodness. I was really worried for a minute,” he sighed in relief before being pulled into a hug by his mother, Vanessa. It seemed to visibly calm him, and his face softened to a gentle smile.

“Kalon, what did you do?” asked Noelle with a stern but affectionate sigh.

“Nothing,” he insisted before he noticed his father’s pointed tilt of his head at him and fidgeted a little. “Well not nothing, but nothing bad…”

“Kalon, we talked about this, remember?” Finral said—his voice kind but a bit weary. “No time traveling when we’re on vacation.”

“Sorry, Dad. It was an accident. But don’t worry, I didn’t break any of the rules on the list—I don’t think but I don’t know because I didn’t have it with me because I didn’t want it to get wet and I’m not supposed to time travel on vacation.” Kalon nodded empathically with a bright, cheerful smile. “I was just checking with Uncle Asta to be sure, and everything is okay. I don’t think anything could break up Uncle Asta and Aunt Noelle. Young Aunt Noelle really, really likes him. I can tell.”

Asta stifled a bit of chuckle at the faint blush of pink that filled Noelle’s cheeks even after all these years.

“I’m sure, your Uncle Asta really liked her too,” suggested Finral, and Kalon nodded.

“He’s just more sneaky about it.”

Vanessa and Charmy could scarcely contain their laughter, and even Grey chuckled quietly to herself, always careful of the sleeping baby in her arms. Noelle glared at them with an almost playful roll-of-her eyes, though she did give a genuinely grateful nod to Finesse who was kind enough not to have laughed though she gave Kalon a gentle smile and pat on the head.

“Please be careful, Kalon,” she said, and Kalon nodded.

“I will—Ooh popsicles! Can I have one Aunt Charmy?”

Charmy shrugged but motioned to one of her sheep to bring Kalon a popsicle. “Do you want one tool, Tirion?” she asked. He smiled and nodded.

“Yes, please.”

When Kalon and Tirion had both run off with their popsicles, Finral wearily took a seat in an empty chair next to Grey and turned apologetically to Asta and Noelle. “Sorry about that. He’s still learning how to use his magic. I don’t think he has messed anything up too badly yet…” His voice trailed as his brow furrowed. “But I guess we wouldn’t really know if he had, right? Since the future would be different…?” He rubbed his temples. “I don’t know…”

Asta shrugged. He didn’t know either and thinking about it too much made his head hurt, but he smiled and reassured Finral, “Don’t worry. I’m sure it’s fine. Besides Noelle and I are pretty solid”—he smiled brightly at his wife—“I don’t think he could break us up.”

“You should worry more about your own relationship” said Noelle with a frown. “If he messes that up, he'll make himself not exist.”

Finral sighed. “That’s what keeps me up at night…”

“I wouldn’t worry about that,” chimed Charmy with a shake of her head. “If she was going to settle for you once, she’d definitely do it again.”

Noelle snorted a laugh, and Finesse gasped, covering her mouth with her hand while Vanessa scolded, “Charmy!” She huffed but rolled her eyes with an almost playful affection before turning to Finral, “Don’t listen to her. You’ve got nothing to worry about.”

“And you should take advantage of the time you have to catch up on some sleep,” teased Lorelei Legolant. “You’ll have a baby keeping you up all night pretty soon.”

“The baby’s keeping me up now,” sighed Finral wearily, running his hand through his hair. “Not to mention all the nieces and nephews…”

“I wish you wouldn’t worry so much, especially about us,” Finesse said.

Vanessa comfortingly patted his arm. “You worry too much. It’s not going to help and will only end up hurting you, you know? You’re going to make yourself sick.”

“I know. But really—how are all of you? Can I get anyone anything? Noelle is there—?”

“Asta is taking very good care of Noelle and he and Nozel have cornered the market on worrying about her,” interrupted Vanessa. “Honestly, they’re about as fussy over her as you and Langris are over Finesse.”

Finral sighed. “I really am sorry about that…”

“Here, sit down and drink this,” said Charmy, handing him some water with a colorful straw. “You look awful.”

“Thanks Charmy,” he muttered sarcastically before running his hand through his hair.

“You look tired,” Vanessa corrected. “Did you sleep at all last night?”

Finral sighed and rubbed the back of his neck with a yawn. “Around 2:30, Kalon completely kicked me out of bed—literally. I couldn’t get back to sleep after that.”

“It’s probably karma,” quipped Charmy.

Vanessa rolled her eyes before she patted Finral’s back. “Maybe you should go take a nap. There’s plenty of adults around to keep an eye on the kids.”

“I don’t need—” His protest was cut off by a yawn, and Vanessa blinked at him.

“Please, Finral,” sighed Finesse, and he shrugged his shoulders and conceded.

“Alright, but only if you’re sure it’s not too much trouble.”

With a smile, Vanessa waved her hand at him. “We’ve got this. I mean, we’ve been here all day without any emergencies or injuries.”

“You jinxed it, Vanessa!” huffed Noelle as their long-retired captain made his way up the beach holding his crying daughter, Marceline.

“Charmy, you got any ice back there?” he called as he neared the cabana.

“What happened to her?” asked Noelle in concern, gasping, Asta could only presume at the big, purple bump on her forehead.

“Toshi accidentally hit her in the head when he was trying to split the watermelon.”

Sure enough, there was Gauche running up to the cabana holding a shaking, rattling teacup and saucer which Asta supposed would probably seem very odd to anyone who didn’t know that Toshi Adlai had a bad habit of turning into inanimate objects whenever he got stressed or upset. “Is Marceline okay?” asked Gauche, handing Grey the tea cup as she handed him baby Mira in exchange.

“She’ll be fine,” grunted Yami, taking a towel and a block of ice from Charmy and pressing it to his daughter’s forehead. He turned to Marceline who stared at him with teary blue eyes. “You’re okay,” he reassured her. Marceline sniffled but nodded.

“Is Toshi okay?” asked Asta turning to Grey who shrugged her shoulders as the teacup rattled in her hands.

“Everyone knows it was an accident,” said Gauche shaking his head as he rocked the baby. “You don’t have to get all upset about it.”

“I didn’t…mean to…Dad…” cried a particularly weepy Toshi Adlai as he transformed back into a little boy caught in a hug by his mother. “Marceline, I’m so sorry!”

Crossing her tiny arms, Marceline wrinkled her nose and frowned at him. “You’re a moron.”

Most of Asta’s companions began to stifle laughs, and even the former Captain Yami struggled to hold back a grin as he grunted, “That wasn’t nice.”

“But you say it all the time, Dad…” Marceline argued causing most of her aunts and uncles to burst out laughing. Before Yami could scramble to salvage the situation, Toshi started to cry harder.

“No. No, Toshi, it’s okay,” soothed Grey patting his head comfortingly, before he turned into a butter dish. “Gauche!” she called turning to her husband in concern.

Gauche, however, just let out a long weary sigh. “Just leave him. He’ll be fine.”

“Is Marceline, okay?” interjected Nacht as he appeared in the doorway to the cabana with Zora who practically beamed as he turned to Gauche.

“Your son’s got one hell of an arm.”

“Swear jar.” Nacht frowned, holding up the colorfully decorated swear jar Gordon had made. Huffing, Zora dug through his pocket for some spare Yul and dropped two coins into the jar. Despite this only being the second day of their trip, it sounded pretty full to Asta.

“What are we going to do with the swear jar money when it’s full?” asked Zora with a bitter shake of his head.

“We could buy a cake,” Charmy suggested.

Noelle’s eyes narrowed. “It’s supposed to be a punishment.”

“Okay well, you can buy me a cake and watch me eat it.” Charmy hummed thoughtfully, and Noelle huffed.

“What if we gave it to charity?” asked Asta. “To an orphanage maybe?”

“Good idea, Asta.” Finral smiled at him but yawned and tiredly rubbed his eyes. “Sorry…”

“You still need that nap,” said Vanessa with a light, good-natured chuckle.

Finral sighed. “Eh, I’ll sleep when the kids are grown up and out of the house.”

“That’s gonna be awhile,” said Yami dryly as Charmy and Zora didn’t even try to hide her snickering. Before anyone could protest, however, Licita came running up the beach with a somewhat panicked Liebe in tow, now at his full height trying to catch up with her

“Mama! Mama! Mama!” she yelled, excitedly grabbing Noelle’s hand and pulling her towards the door. “My sandcastle is done! Come see! Come see!”

“Okay. Okay. Just a second,” said Noelle with a smile. Asta knew that Noelle would have probably been the first to admit it was getting harder and harder for her to get around quickly now that she was nearing the end of her pregnancy so he offered her his arm. “Thanks,” she mumbled as she stood up from her seat with a glance towards Al to see if she had accidentally woken him. Asta stifled a chuckle. His nephew really could sleep through anything and had barely stirred despite all the commotion. Kai, however, was beginning to fidget and yawned before Asta laid him down on the chair and Noelle tucked him in gently with a nearby beach towel asking if their friends wouldn’t mind keeping an eye on him for a minute.

With Asta’s hand in one hand and Noelle’s in the other, Licita led her mother and father towards the sandcastle village. Katsu and Lia were still hard at work on theirs, and Anni and Rill appeared to be making a moat or trench of some kind.

“This is mine, Mama!” said Licita triumphantly as she began pointing out her sandcastle. “It’s really for Uncle Liebe, but it has rooms for everybody! You and Dad and me and Kai, but all the aunts and uncles too and the cousins can all play together right here.” She pointed to one of the mounds of sand. “And there’s a big kitchen for Aunt Charmy and Anni and Rye, and this is where Uncle Gordon and Uncle Gauche and Aunt Nene can show me and Narah and Genevieve how to do crafts. And over here we can play hide and seek with Toshi and Kalon and Summer and Uncle Finral and Aunt Grey. And there’s lots of shelves with books for Uncle Nozel to read to me and Al and Adler and Acier. And there’s a really big yard where Uncle Magna and Uncle Luck and Uncle Zora can show us how to play really fun games. And here’s a fireplace where Uncle Yami can tell us all stories if Katsu and Hana and Marceline ask him to. It’s big enough for the whole family! Do you like it?” Licita turned back towards them with the brightest, beaming smile, but her little brow furrowed as she tilted her head in concern. “What’s the matter, Mama?”

Asta turned to Noelle to find her wiping glistening tears from the corners of her eyes. She sniffled but reassured Licita, “Nothing. It’s okay. I’m just”—her face softened into a gentle smile—“really happy.” Asta took her hand and gave it an affectionate squeeze. He knew without the look she gave him that the tears were mainly a result of the pregnancy wreaking havoc on her mood, but he also knew what it meant to her to see their daughter’s sandcastle, thoughtfully made big enough for her whole family, a family that, at Licita’s age, Noelle could have only dreamed of. How much it meant to her to know that Licita would get to grow up surrounded by a whole group of people who loved her and would have everything that Noelle never got to have before joining up with the Black Bulls.

“I love it!” said Noelle as she scooped up a giggling Licita in her arms.

“Do you want to help me build more of it, Mama?”

Noelle beamed at her. “Of course. Maybe a nice nest for your Aunt Secre, hm?”

As Licita cheerfully prattled about Aunt Secre’s nest, Asta watched as Noelle glanced from the sandcastle, to the cabana filled with cheerful chattering and laughter of their former squad mates, to all of the happy children, their beloved nieces and nephews, running up the beach or splashing around in the water. She smiled, and as she turned to look at him now, no words were needed. He understood—knew Noelle must feel it too, that warm, safe feeling as if everything that had come before, all the sadness, loneliness and pain of the past was just a distant memory now. They were finally home.

#blackbullsmonth2023 #the black bulls as family #black clover fanfiction #just happy to have actually managed to finish this on time #astelle #greyche #rillmy

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I Don’t Know About You - Grace & Max (Part 1)

Who: Max and Grace ( @gracevandixn )

When: September 28th - September 30th

Where: Los Angeles, CA and surrounding areas

Description: After growing closer via text, Max shows up in LA to see Grace unannounced. The two come to realize that feelings were present on both sides after spending time together and growing even closer.

Triggers: Mentions of type 1 diabetes, celiac disease

Disclaimer: I did my best to be accurate based on what i was able to find through google (i know it’s not always correct) and what Max himself has spoken about in interviews and in his book! He’s very open about his health in real life and it felt wrong to not acknowledge it here. Title based on the song “I Don’t Know About You” by Chris Lane

MAX: If Max was being perfectly honest, this might have been his worst idea to date. Half of his teammates had travelled to Detroit, but he wasn't on the roster for the game tonight - so instead of holing up at his apartment in downtown Chicago, he'd packed up a bag and opted for Los Angeles instead. Best case scenario, he'd be able to actually meet Grace, the two seeming to have really hit it off over text the past few days. If she was entirely weirded out by his sudden appearance, he could always just go home again, or meet up with a friend or two in the area. It was risky, and maybe a bit creepy if he was honest, but something in him couldn't let go of the idea that he just had to meet her. He was nervous, and his palms were sweaty as he walked out of the airport with Orion in tow; unsure if that was just nerves or a lingering side effect from the low he'd encountered on his flight. It didn't much matter, he supposed, he felt fine now and made it through the airport without incident. Now came the hard part, telling her he was there instead of Detroit like he'd said he'd be. GRACE: Learning that Max hadn't gone to Detroit, but to her own back garden, had made Grace feel very... Confused. A happy kind of confused, because that had been the main emotion when the hockey player was concerned, some kind of happiness and butterflies in her stomach, but why had he not gone to Detroit? Was he really not going to the game? It filled Grace with curiosity, but all of a sudden, she realized she would be able to curb that curiosity, and every other curious thought she had about him, face to face. For once, she wouldn't have to awkwardly ask via text what his favorite color was and other banal and silly things Grace wanted to know about him. So, after letting him know he could stop over in her house and she could drive them around with the dogs to a nice spot for a walk, she made her way to the shower very quickly and readied herself for when the hockey player arrived, knocking at her door and she opened it with a shy smile "Hey!" MAX: He'd caught an Uber from the airport to the address Grace had texted him, and after what felt like forever, they'd finally made it. He gathered his bag and his backpack before heading up to the door with Orion; feeling even more nervous now than he had before. He was hoping they'd ended up at the right address, or it was sure to be awkward....though, if he was honest it would probably be awkward anyway. He couldn't help the sigh of relief when the door opened and she was actually behind it. "Hi." He said softly, rubbing the back of his neck - Orion sitting right next to him. GRACE: They were both apparently just naturally awkward people. For some reason, the nice and outgoing Grace that came out while meeting new people had hulled back into her shell and she felt like a child in the first day at school, shy about making friends and talking to people. As soon as his face came into frame, all she could think of was that the light blue in his eyes looked a lot brighter than it did in pictures. "Hey..." She repeated herself, stepping aside and letting him into the house "Come in" She said, waiting until they were inside to close the door and bend down to give the dog a pat on the head "Hey buddy... I've heard a lot about you, wonderdog" She said with a little laugh, looking up at Max through the corner of her eye "Baby's in his crate in the living room, I figured it could be a lot for him if he just got attacked with all the puppy energy" MAX: He had never been one to be shy, that just wasn't his personality, but something about Grace had him feeling that way. He offered her a little smile, stepping inside and setting his bag down; backpack still across his shoulders as he unhooked Orion's leash. "thanks..." he said softly, before nodding when she said her dog was in his crate. "I don't think he'd mind, honestly. but this will give them a chance to sniff each other out for a second before we bring your pup out of his crate" he added, watching as she gave Orion some love. GRACE: Standing back up, Grace started second guessing herself for a second. Had she put too much thought into this? Was this too much? She could be a bit much at times, but she didn't wanna seem overbearing or like she.... For some reason expected more than anything out of this. Because she didn't... She'd convinced herself she did't. "Sure... Do you wanna like, rest? Or are you ready to go?" The mention of rest brought his health into her mind "Oh do you... Like... Need anything? Like... Medi-That's not, I don't have any medicine, but like, do you, like, need to eat anything?" She was pacing on herself, her mind heading to the kitchen but her body just unable to move, until she realized how silly she probably looked, her cheeks flushing a light pink "I'm sorry, you probably know yourself and like, you, better than anyone..." MAX: He couldn't help but laugh at her rambling, before stopping himself "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to laugh..." he said softly "you're totally fine, I think i'm okay for now though. I went a little low on the flight but i took care of that already" he explained, unable to notice the light pink of her cheeks. In all honesty, it felt kind of....nice, that she was so concerned. "and i always keep snacks on me anyway, that's what the backpack is for" he added after a moment, giving her another smile. "but we can definitely go whenever you're ready" GRACE: He laughed and she didn't necessarily feel bad, she just laughed along with him. She knew how stupid she'd looked, how silly, but it was just how she was. Unbearably caring and worrying about the ones she cared for. Nodding her head at the explanation, she took in a deep breath "Alright, good. Let's go then, let me go... Get the chaos" she said with a little laugh. Making her way to the living room, she let the tiny dog out of the cage, harness and leash in hand, and took him on her arms to meet Max and Orion. "Everyone, this is Baby... For now" She said slowly kneeling down in front of the retriever to let him sniff the puppy out "I apologize beforehand for all the annoying puppyness, Orion" she said with a laugh. MAX: "That's what you should name him, Chaos" he teased, bending down to reattach Orion's leash. He watched as the older dog sniffed at the puppy, before sitting once again and staring up at him "he's like 'okay dad, I like the little one we can go now'" he teased, pulling open the door for her once she'd gotten the dog ready to go out. "You just got him, yeah?" GRACE: Grace laughed, nodding her head as she held the dog "Yeah! Would you like that?! Agent of Chaos, little one" She said, kissing the dog on the head before putting it down next to Orion. Once Max had translated for him, which made Grace laugh, she slipped the harness and leash on her dog and stood up "Yeah, just when I got back from Toronto. My dad has a dog, but I never had one just myself" She said, grabbing her little bag and car keys "Mhm... Where do you wanna go? You kinda have to drive if you wanna go for a nice walk... But we could walk to the Observatory, we may get there for sunset, it's a really nice view of LA" MAX: "Does he get in a lot of trouble? I can understand that though, thats kinda why Carlin got Dilly - dad had Phoebe and i had Orion." He said with a laugh, following her to the car. He shrugged, getting Orion in the backseat "honestly, you know the area way better than I do, wherever you think is best is perfectly fine with me" he said softly "the observatory sounds perfect" GRACE: Grace looked sideways and down at the little dog prancing around and chewing on the leash, rolling her eyes at his question "Well, he hasn't been home with me for a very long time, but I've been informed he's chewed on a lot of chair legs and peed on several carpets, so..." Her voice rung with laughter as they got into the car. Bringing the dog up with her in her arm, she then stared backwards at Orion laying down calmly "Do you... Should I?" She asked, once again stepping on her words and laughing "Do you mind carrying him? I don't want him to exhaust Orion before he's even started the walk" She said as she deposited the dog on Max's lap and started the drive towards Santa Monica. MAX: He shook his head at that with a laugh, "I bet you're a little scamp, aren't you buddy?" He teased, nodding slightly when she put the puppy in his lap. The little guy was full of energy, that was for sure, but he was a sweet little thing too; eventually curling up on his lap, after attacking his face with several licks. "I don't think he'd exhaust Orion, but I don't mind holding him" he said softly, gently scratching between the puppy's ears as they drove along. There were long periods of silence as they drove but it felt, comfortable. GRACE: Grace smiled graciously as he took the dog and she started to drive. She caught herself trying to take a look at him, and the turns and twists her heart did every time she caught him looking back, you wouldn't believe it. The LA traffic was always reliable to make any journey longer, but between a few comments at the music and the amount of cars on the road, they made it. It seemed to be kinda empty, and she enjoyed the privacy as she got out of the car, crossing her bum bag over her chest and accepting the dog from Max once he was out "Alright Baby, go wild" she unlocked the long leash and let the puppy run wild through the trail, trusting the lock on the leash would make him stop eventually, as the pair started walking "So, how come you ended up in LA instead of Detroit?" MAX: The drive had taken a while, but he didn't really mind it - catching her looking at him every so often on their journey. Once he got out of the car, he handed the puppy back to her; laughing softly when the little guy took off to down the trail, Orion jumping out of the back seat and walking at a much more leisurely pace next to him. He shrugged when she asked how come he was in LA instead of Detroit "I dunno, I just. . ." He started, feeling his face get hot "I've really liked talking to you. . .and I kinda wanted to properly meet you. So I figured. Maybe I'd just come here for a couple days." He said softly, feeling incredibly awkward now "I have friends out here too, so I was planning to see them if you were too weirded out by me just showing up" GRACE: Grace looked at the pup go wild on the trail, sniffing around like it was his job, and Orion trailing on Max's left and paying good attention at his dad. It was kind of endearing, really. She listened to him answer her question, and even if it was the answer she kinda knew was coming, it still made her feel warm and fuzzy inside. Trying to think about how to answer without sounding too weird, she smiled "I'm glad you came... Even if it's just for this walk" She said with a little smile and a shrug "I really liked talking to you too, so yeah... Glad you came" She said with a chuckle "Friends? Like hockey people?" MAX: "I'm probably gonna hang around until Friday afternoon" he said with a shrug, smiling a little when she said she liked talking to him too. "No, not hockey people. I don't know too many people out here" he said softly "did you have a good morning?" He asked after a moment, laughing when he noticed the puppy still snooping around like crazy. GRACE: Friday. Okay, that was a lot longer than she was expecting him to. She thought it was a one day kind of thing... Should she tell him to stay over in her guest room? Or like, ask him where he was gonna stay? Future Grace issue, she'd figure that out later, for now she was just enjoying the view and listening to him talk about his friends "Oh really? I guess.. You'd have friends like, life friends" She said with a laugh and a shrug. Nodding at his question, Baby tugged on her lead and she laughed, feeling the pull on her shoulder "It was really good. My agent came home for breakfast to go over all the things we'd spoken about in our meeting, make sure all the dates are squared off and whatnot, then I had dinner, I was gonna work out but... Then... Well, I guess this counts as a workout" She said with a little laugh "How about yours?" MAX: "Sounds like you were really productive today eh?" He asked, laughing softly "this definitely counts as a workout, 100%" he added before shrugging "pretty good, I had practice this morning and then I kinda just hung around my apartment until we came out here" being around her was....easy, it felt entirely normal in a way it probably shouldn't have GRACE: Grace smiled and shrugged a little at his mention of productivity "I'm usually up kinda early and I start doing things right away because if I don't, I feel like I've lost the whole day, I'm definitely a morning person" She reasoned while keeping an eye on the dog and hearing about his day. "You had practice and still didn't go to play the game?" She asked. There was so much about the daily parts of his life that felt completely foreign. She'd dealt with movie stars and singers, but athletes were something completely new to her "Did you know beforehand you weren't gonna play? Or did you find out yesterday after the game? Which by the way... It was really cool, but it went straight over my head" She passed her hand over her blonde hair, making a whooshing sound as she laughed. MAX: "I'm definitely not a morning person" he shot back with a laugh before nodding "yeah, we knew last night that they were going to send the other half of the squad for tonight. We'll have just one team when the regular season rolls around but camp and preseason is meant to help the coaching staff and management settle on the roster." He said with a shrug, smiling a little as she ran her hand over her head "yeah? I think you'll start to understand more if you keep watching" he said softly, running his fingers through his hair GRACE: Grace looked at him and smiled "I mean, if my mornings started with training six million hours a day, I wouldn't be a morning person either, kid" The nickname just... Fell through. She thought it'd be harder in person, but for some reason, it's like she'd gotten used to it. Nodding her head when she understood how the team dynamic was, she hummed along "Well at least you had a little bit of time to plan the trip and not even let me know" She narrowed her eyes at him playfully and bumped her side onto his gently. He didn't move a bit. Not even an inch. "Yeah, you think so?" She said, looking up at him a little "There were so many words that I couldn't even begin to understand, but I guess it's just... Getting familiar with the terms, right?" MAX: "Well, yeah. I didn't want you to be disappointed if I said I was coming and then didn't show up or something." He started, mentally face palming at that "not that I thought you'd be disappointed. I don't know why I said that just ignore me" he added before laughing softly when she tried to bump him before shrugging "yeah, it's basically just the terms and stuff. It can take time but it's not that hard once you get into it" GRACE: Aha! He also said stupid things, good one Gracie, it wasn't you this time. She laughed along lightly "I mean, I would've been disappointed, sure, but like, you got stuff to do and people to see, so I would've understood" She'd never thought she'd be meeting Max and seeing him face to face for at least a month or so. She was busy with work and streams, and he was busy with being an athlete in general, so it could've very well happened. And she liked him, he was fun to talk to, but she would've never suggested him to come, his days probably were scheduled to the minutes for a pee break. "But I'm glad you're here" She finished off with a little nod and another smile towards him. "Not that hard, says the guy who's been living and breathing it since he was born" She joked "Was it everything you wanted it to be? Playing hockey for a living, making an impact with your health to like, inspire other people?" She asked curiously out of nowhere. MAX: "Alright alright, I guess you have a point" he said with a laugh when she mentioned living and breathing it since the day he was born "it is though, yeah. This was all I ever wanted to do, for as long as I could remember. I started skating when I was 2 and a half, and my mom actually technically lied about how old I was. My older sister was taking lessons and the instructor saw how excited I was and said they had room in the class if she wanted to enroll me too. My mom told them I was only 2 and half, and she thought kids had to be 3. She said the instructor looked at her and asked her again and she got the hint and said "3. Max is 3." So I started the lessons the next week. It was my favorite thing in the world. . .still is. But when I was diagnosed, the first thing I asked and the only thing I cared about was if I could still play hockey. Doctor told me I could and that was enough for me. I'm really fortunate to have the opportunity now to be someone kids can look up to, in the same way I looked up to Bobby Clarke. I remember getting to meet him years and years ago, it was literally all of two minutes and he probably didn't think anything of it but it meant the world to me, so i try to do that for kids now." He rambled before shrugging a bit "i just figure, it's not something thats ever gonna go away and sitting around feeling sorry for myself won't help so I may as well use it for good." GRACE: Grace looked up and listened to him while he spoke, taking little breaks to see where the dog was on in the path. They were maybe halfway up the hill, and the more they went up, the more tired he was getting, but he was still a few feet ahead of them, sniffing around and marking everywhere. Whenever she looked at Max, however, she felt a little bit mesmerized by how she could hear the passion and the love for what he did, the struggles he went through and how he not only overcame it but turned it into a learning experience and a positive outcome for him and others like him "That's... really inspiring" She said with a nod, looking ahead for a moment to collect her thoughts and taking a breath "It's really amazing, like, you turned all of that into something that made you stronger and like, made you more aware of yourself and your limitations, but you used it to make yourself better while still being healthy, I think it's kind of amazing" She needed to stop complimenting him or else it'd turn weird, so she just clammed up. MAX: "It's hard hearing you're 'sick' and never going to 'get better'" he said softly before shrugging again "but luckily it's something that can be manageable, as long as you stay on top of it. I'm pretty good about listening to my body and knowing my limits now, but I definitely pushed it way too far on more than a few occasions when I was younger. It's not fun, i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy but in some ways its been a blessing in disguise because I was forced to really learn my body and recovery and how to take care of myself early on and be disciplined." He ran his fingers through his hair GRACE: She felt far away from any kind of that reality, but she enjoyed listening to him speak about his health and how much he'd learned from his own path, his own mistakes, and now knew how to be better "Yeah, I mean, to a much lesser extent, but it's like with other things in life when you're a teenager, you try and push it as far as you can until one day you're like 'well, that was lucky, better not do that again or I could not be as lucky' and you find a limit" She remembered stupid anecdotes from when she was a teen with a smile these days "Plus, you got that guy on your side, what could go wrong, right, bud?" Her eyes fell onto Orion with a big smile. MAX: "I used to lie about where I was at, blood sugar wise and we had way too many close calls where I was low after games so my parents were like "don't just ask where he's at, look at the monitor" but I'd put hard candies in my mouth against my cheek to try and cheat the tests" he shook his head "and then there was the one game in juniors where I had to sit it out. It was February and freezing cold, I got on the bus and put a show on the iPad, curled up and fell asleep, without eating the meal our trainer had given me. By the time we got to the arena, the boys knew something was wrong because I still hadn't gotten off the bus. I had gone low in my sleep. Our trainer came back on and gave me a shot of glucagon and that wasn't enough. Luckily that league, every arena they'd have an ambulance on hand for games, and it was right next to our bus, paramedics had to come and get me into the ambulance and give me another round of glucagon. I was really out of it, but I'd mostly recovered by the time we got to the hospital." He rambled on, before laughing softly when she mentioned Orion "yeah, if only I had him back then." GRACE: Grace flinched at every part of the story and sighed. It was definitely something that she understood, lying to not get told off or not having to take whatever medication you had to, and when you're a kid, you don't really see the finality in it, so why bother? "Oh God, you... Must've been a real nightmare" She said with a shake of her head and laughed "But good thing everyone knew better than to think you'd overslept in there" She said "And had you had that one, you wouldn't have been able to lie and cheat your way through tests" Her finger pointed at the dog. After a few more turns, the pair made it up to the top, the park with the observatory building behind them and the landscape in front. She reeled her dog closer and clipped the leash, making sure he stayed close and didn't annoy other dogs or people, and walked over to the viewing points "It's kind of a lot to walk, but it's gorgeous, isn't it?" MAX: "I scared the absolute hell out of my teammates, thats for sure. And the trainers and doctors wouldn't let me play that night, which sucked. But yeah, the boys kinda knew something was wrong when I was drenched in sweat, just staring straight ahead and not acknowledging they were talking." He said with a shrug, smiling a little when she brought the puppy in closer "definitely a long walk" he agreed, "but it's beautiful up here" he added after a moment, staying close to her as Orion opted to lay at his feet GRACE: Grace's big eyes grew wider when he brought up the team not letting him play "Well, considering you had to get rushed to the paramedics, I think it would've been a great idea to not let you play... Which sucked" She quoted him with a laugh, rolling her eyes and shaking her head. Boys and their sports. Looking at the bigger dog, Baby mimicked Orion and sat down by him, and Grace felt an overwhelming amount of happiness to be there, especially with Max. The sun had already started to set, and she watched it keep sinking as some sort of magnetic pull made her bare arm brush against his a few times, straightening up after every one and blushing a little bit. "What are... Did you have any plans? For later?" She asked without turning to him. MAX: "I mean, yeah I guess being so low I was almost unconscious is probably a good reason to hold me out of a game" he joked, looking down at both of the dogs for a moment before turning his attention to the sunset. He shrugged slightly, humming softly when she asked what his plans were "haven't really thought about it, honestly" he said softly "I kinda just made the trip on a whim, really" he added with an awkward laugh. GRACE: "As good a reason as any, I guess" She joked along with him and rolled her eyes. Nodding when he mentioned he hadn't thought about it, Grace swallowed a little, trying to take a deep breath and find some courage. This was just friends. They were friends, getting to know each other, and just hanging out "Do you wanna stay for dinner?" The Mulan scene came fresh into her mind and she swore to herself she wouldn't quote it. Instead, she turned to him and gave him a little shy smile. MAX: He was almost a little shocked when she asked if he wanted to stay for dinner, laughing softly "would you like to stay forever?" He joked, before shaking his head "yeah, dinner sounds great babe." He answered seriously, giving her a little smile in return. The 'babe' had slipped out, almost effortlessly. GRACE: He did it! Grace gasped and looked at him with surprised eyes, laughing and smiling like a child "No joke, that's like, one of my favorite movies!" She said with a laugh. Hearing him call her babe felt ten times better than over text, and her stomach was just full of butterflies at this point, it was gonna make her sick. "Alright, dinner and I'll let you go afterwards, so you can see other friends, I won't keep you hostage" She said with a little smile. The sun slowly begun to hide on the horizon, and the actress took a deep breath "I love this" MAX: "I can't say I'd mind if you kept me hostage" he replied without a thought, mentally facepalming when he realized what he'd said; immediately changing the subject back to the sunset "its really nice, isn't it? Definitely worth the thousand miles you made me walk" he teased GRACE: Grace nodded her head with an interesting look on her face "Mhm, noted.. Noted" She looked pensive "I've been needing someone to do some heavy lifting and moving furniture around" She laughed a little. She had no intention of moving, but if it'd keep max around, she'd box and unbox things all day long. "Thousand miles?!" She said with a fake offended gasp "I'm offended, I bring you to the quintessential LA point in the heart of Santa Monica, Hollywood sign right there" She said, pointing at it "And you just say really nice that you made me walk all this?!" She poked his arm "I'm taking Orion in for dinner, I don't know what you're doing, uninvited" MAX: "Hey wait a minute, i didn't say anything about heavy lifting and moving furniture, I did enough of that myself" he joked, before shrugging "Alright, leave me outside to starve then, that's fine. I'll survive....maybe" he teased, Orion sitting up then. "But for the record, it's gorgeous up here and I'm glad you brought me." GRACE: Laughing, Grace shrugged and looked away "Hey, you're my hostage, you do what I say" She said with a laugh, playing along. Hearing him mention staying out made her pout, and she rolled her eyes in defeat "Mhm, only because you like, have to eat because if not you crash and burn and it's not fun, I'll allow it... And because you said that" She grinned when he mentioned how nice the place was "You're forgiven, your dad gets to come in for dinner tonight" She leaned down to pat the labrador's head with a smile, Baby instantly getting jealous and turning around, jumping up into two paws "Yes, yes, you too, little one" MAX: "Maybe I should have chosen my words more carefully" he joked, laughing when she rolled her eyes at him "ah ha, I know how to win with you now" he teased, laughing when the puppy jumped up after Orion was getting her attention. "I think he got a little jealous there eh?" He asked, stretching his arms out over his head "what are you thinking for dinner?" GRACE: "With someone who works with words and line delivery? Always" She said with a little laugh and a shrug "I'm just being considered because you're my guest" Her attention got drawn to the dog and she rolled her eyes a little bit "You're just used to getting all the love from your mommy, don't you?" She ruffled the dog's head with a grin and blowing kisses at him "Dinner... I don't know, I mean, I don't really cook much... But there's a really nice italian restaurant close by we can order from once we get home?" MAX: "I probably won't actually think my words through anyway" he acknowledged before laughing softly at the way she interacted with her puppy. He nodded when she suggested the Italian restaurant "do you know the name? Just so I can like, look at the menu and not take an hour to decide when we get home" he asked, rubbing the back of his neck a bit awkwardly GRACE: "Very well, I'll take note of that" She said with a laugh. His question made her brows furrow "Mhm... I don't remember, I know I have the menu at home, but maybe we'll pass it on our way back home and you can google it?" She asked curiously, looking back out at the scenery. The sun was gone, and the purple hue was starting to leave as well, all the lights coming up on the trail "Come on, let's go back home and get you fed, kid" She spoke while tugging her dog's leash and bringing Baby's attention back to the trail with everyone else who'd stayed for the sunset. MAX: He nodded at that, gently signaling to Orion that it was time to go before he followed her back down the trail the way they'd come up. It was different, hearing her call him kid instead of just seeing it in text, but if he was honest with himself, he kind of liked it. It didn't take too long for them to get back down the trail and loaded into the car, the puppy curled up on his lap once again with Orion sprawled in the backseat. GRACE: The drive home was fast. Traffic was much lighter at this time of day, and with two now very tired dogs and frankly, Grace was pretty tired as well, it didn't take long for them to be back home. They'd passed the restaurant, and she pointed it out for Max to google and get the menu, mentioning she also had it at home, so if he wanted to read it there, he'd be fine with that too. Parking the car outside the house, the actress got out of the car and opened the front door, closing it when all three members of the hike were inside "Have you decided what you're gonna have?" She asked, throwing everything on her table and heading to the kitchen with a deep breath, pulling the menu out of a drawer before snapping out of it for an instant and becoming a good host "I... How rude of me, I- There's- Guest bedroom" She pointed towards a corridor "There's towels and everything if you wanna like, take a shower and freshen up after the flight and the million mile hike I made you do" Grace teased him with a smile. MAX: He'd ended up taking the menu from her when they got home, shrugging a bit "not yet, still looking it over and leaning on the counter. He couldn't help but laugh "babe, you're not being rude" he said simply, nodding when she pointed toward the guest room "i might shower after we order, yeah" he acknowledged, looking over the menu again. there wasn't really a ton on there that he could have...or be comfortable chancing since this was a new restaurant for him, but eventually he was able to actually make a decision. GRACE: They leaned over the same menu when they got there, and there was a proximity that Grace wasn't necessarily aware that they were gonna have when he showed up, but she welcomed it. As friends. He called her babe and dismissed her worries, and she melted on the spot. Once she'd decided what she wanted to eat and he did too, she picked up the phone and placed the order. With all the food sorted and delivered in thirty to fourty minutes, she went over to turn her little bluetooth speaker on "Do you... Music?" She offered the phone, easier to give that idea than to ask the real question and imply that she was offering him to pick what they were gonna listen to for the evening. MAX: "honestly, you can put on whatever. I very sincerely doubt you want to listen to hip hop and rap. and i'll listen to just about anything at this point." he said with a laugh, stretching out "i think i'm gonna take that shower now, honestly. if you don't mind" he added on after a moment, Orion still right at his feet. GRACE: She laughed when he mentioned hip hop and rap. It wasn't really her favorite, not by a long shot, so instead she took his permission and put on some old 80's rock. INXS, Duran Duran and Genesis played lightly through the house. Nodding when he mentioned the shower, she showed him with her hand the small corridor that ended in a bedroom and ensuite bathroom "Make yourself at home and like, if you need anything, I'll be around" She said with a smile, finding a spot in the couch, Baby instantly flying onto her chest with a big leap "Alright, alright, you big baby" She said with a chuckle, cuddling him gently. MAX: he nodded at that, stepping away to grab his bag from the hall where he'd left it; heading down the corridor to the guest room. He dropped his bag on the bed, along with his backpack, grabbing a tshirt and a pair of loose shorts before heading into the ensuite to shower; Orion following behind and laying on the floor right next to the shower. He re-emerged a short while later, running his fingers through his wet hair as he walked out into the living room; offering her a smile. "looks like you got comfy eh?" he teased, taking a seat on the couch himself, Orion laying at his feet again. GRACE: Watching him walk away and get into the guest ensuite, Grace took in a deep breath and allowed herself the first full 'what the actual fuck' smile she'd had probably ever since Max told her she was coming. She needed to tell Sadie, or Joe, or any of her friends at this point, but all she could thing of was their conversations on the trail, the way her arm brushed against his when they stood at the top, and again, how much brighter his eyes were in person. She heard the water shutting off and she focused again, wiping the grin off her face and getting back to playing with the dog, grabbing one of the stuffed animals he'd brought her and playing with it. Once the door swung open, she had a sight of him and bit on her lip very under the radar to keep a smile from shining again "Yeah, someone had a little energy leftover from walking" She kissed the dog's head, watching him sit next to her and Orion went by Max "He can get on the couch if you want to" MAX: "I wish i had half the energy of a puppy" he said with a laugh, before nodding slightly and patting the couch "c'mere bud" he said softly, Orion jumping up on the couch and laying his head on his lap. He hadn't expected things to feel this, normal - he'd essentially just shown up at her door without much warning and now here they were in her living room, cuddling their dogs and waiting for their dinner to arrive. Absolutely none of it made any sense but he wasn't about to dwell on that for too long. "I feel like we did a lot of talking about me" he said after a moment, looking over at her "talked your ear off didn't i?" he added on with a laugh "think maybe it's your turn now" GRACE: "He's very full of energy, aren't you?" She kissed Baby's head and slowly got him to rest up on her lap as Orion got on the couch and got comfortable next to Max. This was... Definitely a sight to see, she wished she could be a fly on the wall at this moment, because she couldn't remember the last time she'd felt so comfortable with someone she'd just met that wasn't on a filming scene. Turning her head when he spoke, Grace chuckled nervously as the spotlight was placed on her "Oh I don't mind at all, I like listening, I'm... A really good listener, if I can like, blow my own horn, but I like listening to people and their stories... Plus, I've always been kinda shy, so anything that gets the light off me" She said with a laugh "Which is ironic because I'm an actress, but whenever I'm acting it's like, I'm not Grace, I'm Chrissy or Princess Dawn or Anna, you know? I'm not... Me, there's nothing of me out there" The blonde rambled on, using her hands to talk and explain herself, until she realized she probably made no sense "But me for me? I'm... Actually kinda shy. I like to read, write, play video games and watch movies. I'm not a big sports person, like I watch it but I don't really obsess over it. I have one brother and two half sisters" She recounted the basics "Like... I don't know, what do you wanna know?" She shrugged curiously. MAX: "I mean, all of that was a good start" he said softly "are you close with your siblings?" He asked, gently rubbing Orion's head as the dog fell asleep "reading is cool though, and writing. I like my video games too honestly and there's a ton of movies I love watching. What are some of your favorite books and games and stuff?" GRACE: Grace laughed, running a hand through her hair and smiling nervously. She'd never opened up so easily like that "I'm... Close-ish. We're in the same business with my brother so we kinda like, catch up and stuff. And with my step sisters too, I'm closest with India, my step-sister, out of all, she's like a really good friend and I tell her almost everything" She thought fondly of the memories with India "And my favorites... I mean, I'm an October baby so I like Halloween movies, scary movies are great. For reading, I'm always all over the place, but I've just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice and it was such a good time. I like science fiction too, like crazy world building stuff kinda frazzles me but I enjoy it. Games... I like Valorant a lot, I stream it at least once a week with a couple of my Twitch buddies... Aside from that, Animal Crossing and like, all the Mario Nintendo games" She thought and chewed on the corners of her lips "And I guess I like ice hockey now too" MAX: "Are they older, or younger?" He asked, leaning back against the couch and just enjoying listening to her. "October? It's coming up then eh? What day is it?" He asked curiously, looking over at her for a moment. "That one is such a classic oh my god. Sci-fi is fun too though for sure. I don't know anything about Valorant and I've never actually played Animal Crossing but my little sister loves the new one and showed me the like, island thing they did with insulet and JDRF, so that was pretty cool" he explained, smiling a little when she said she liked ice hockey now too, not really saying anything as he heard the knock on the door "sounds like dinner" he said softly, trying to figure out how to get up without disturbing Orion GRACE: "Casper, who is my only full brother, is older than me. India is my step-mom's daughter from another marriage before she met my mom, is also older, and Maya and Celeste are my step-mom and dad's kids, so my step-sisters, are both younger" She had a bit of a jumble of a family, but she liked it that way. It was diverse, it kept her grounded and most importantly, it had her dad in it. She loved her mom, but she'd always been a big daddy's girl. When asked about her birthday, she got excited all over again "The 15th, so like, in a few weeks, I'm excited" She spoke eagerly. Nodding at when he said he didn't know anything about Valorant, she clasped her hands "Well, if you're around here and don't feel like seeing anyone else, I can teach you how to play! It's really fun" She could've kept going about Valorant for hours, but the doorbell rang and Baby jumped up from her lap and ran towards the door in a barking fit "Stay, I'll get it" She said with a big smile, standing up and walking towards the door. She paid for their meal and brought it over to the big kitchen counter island, beginning to set the table for them "What do you wanna drink? There's... Just about anything, really" She brought out a diet coke for her and continued until they were ready to eat. MAX: "Lots of family eh?" He asked, "I have two sisters, Carlin is older and Avery is younger, they're basically my best friends" he said softly, nodding when she said her birthday was the 15th, making a mental note of that "mines in March, March 2nd" he said with a laugh before nodding again at her excitement, "yeah, okay you can totally show me. Who knows? Maybe I'll really like it too" he said, carefully slipping out from under Orion, letting the dog continue to sleep on the couch. He stretched as he stood up, running his fingers through his hair and meeting her in the kitchen "diet coke is fine" he said after a moment, "do you need any help?" He asked a moment after, feeling very guilty she had not only had to pay but also set the table and everything else. GRACE: "Yeah" Her words came mixed with a chuckle "When your parents divorce young... You kinda get all the bonus families that come with next marriages" She'd never resented her parents for getting divorced, and even though she loved her mom and dad and her life while they were together, that divorce brought her India as a sister, and Maya and Celeste, so she was more than happy. "Totally, yeah, we can go and do some Valorant, you can choose your character and you'll love it" Watching him move, she placed the food from the trays on plates and finished setting up, getting a diet coke for him as well "Nope, you're good, thank you" Once everything was done, she sat down next to him and begun eating "What do you usually eat? I bet like, not only because of the diabetes, but the sports thing, you must be on a really strict diet" MAX: "That makes sense," he said with a laugh "I was 11 when my parents were going through their divorce, and they both happened to move onto people who didn't have kids. So it's still just my sisters and I" he said with a shrug, taking a seat after she'd said she didn't need help. He shrugged at her question, taking a sip of his drink "honestly, there's a bunch of stuff. But I usually hire a personal chef in whatever city I'm living in at the time to handle most of my meals for me so I can take that stressor out. There's a lot of stuff I can't eat, not because I'm diabetic but because I'm celiac too." He said, shrugging again and starting on his dinner "slow releasing carbs and good fats though, and some type of red meat or chicken. That's my usual formula for meals." GRACE: They were talking about things that she'd not talked about in a very long time, with someone she'd only met a few days ago and was seeing for the first time today, and it felt.. So natural, and so easy. He listened, and she spoke, and he spoke and she listened. It was very calming to be around him, at least for now "Mhm, personal chef, that's cool" She mumbled as she ate, shrugging her shoulders. Her eyes went wide when he mentioned being celiac too "Wait... Does-" She racked her mind, she had celiac friends, but ironically, she got it confused with diabetes a lot. Sugar? Gluten? Wheat flour? It really just jumbled her mind up "Doesn't that mean you can't really eat- Max, that's pasta!" She said with a laugh, pointing at his plate. She couldn't remember if he'd mentioned some kind of gluten-free thing, and he'd already taken a few bites. MAX: "Babe, I know it's pasta" he said with a laugh "I did order gluten-free though, so it'll probably be fine." He said, shrugging non-chalantly; nodding at the foil wrapped bread that had come with it "you can have that though" he added on, taking another sip of his drink "but yeah. Wheat, rye and barley; anything made with those I can't have because they've got gluten and it can make me really sick. There's a lot of replacement options out there nowadays though that don't have gluten, so it's really not that bad." GRACE: Grace's eyes were still wide. Not only could she not imagine herself not eating pasta, but it was moments like these where she was very thankful for her health, being able to eat just about everything and anything without blinking an eye "That probably doesn't fill me with confidence, but alright" She said with a laugh, shaking her head and sighing. She listened to all his restrictions as she ate, nodding her head and committing them all to memory to try and be as mindful as she could the following days... If he even chose to stick around her and share more of his time "So that's basically why you have a chef" She teased. MAX: "I say probably because cross-contamination can be a thing, so I guess we play Russian roulette to see if they take offering gluten-free options seriously" he said with a laugh, nodding slightly "exactly why I have a chef, I still need to find one in Chicago but it just makes my life a lot easier if I have someone in my corner taking care of all of that stuff for me. And I usually can find some really good options for eating out in whatever city, which helps too. GRACE: She winced and sighed, hoping and praying that he wouldn't spend the night feeling sick to his stomach, but at this point, he knew his health better so she just went along with it. "It makes sense though, like, when I get busy with projects and works, I usually have both of my meals on set or come back and go straight to bed" She said with a shrug as she pushed through her meal "Mhm, I don't... Know-" Come on Grace, don't make it weird "If you booked a hotel or like, I can totally drive you there, but if you wanted to stay, there's the guest room for you to stay in for as long as you want" MAX: "My routine is pretty structured, so it's nice knowing that i can have meals ready for me when I need them you know?" He said with a shrug, continuing on his dinner; though he paused to look at her for a moment. "I wouldn't mind staying.." he said softly, "as long as it's not going to bug you, having me in your space. I can totally stay in the hotel instead of that's easier for you." GRACE: "Yeah, and stuff to take with you if you're going places and stuff, things you know you like and won't make you feel super crappy" She said with a shrug, placing her fork down on her plate when she felt like she couldn't eat one more bite. Shaking her head as she wiped her mouth with her napkin, Grace mumbled "Oh no, I... I really wouldn't have offered it if I did, but I also like, don't wanna make you feel that you have to stay here" She said with a shrug "You're more than welcome to stay here, and like... Move like you live here, if you need a car-" She pointed outside with her thumb "Yeah, so... Stay" MAX: "That's exactly why that night I almost lost consciousness on the bus in Juniors, we had stopped at Tim Hortons and I was sleeping; everyone else got off the bus to get snacks and left me because they knew I couldn't eat anything there anyway. Otherwise they probably would have caught the low before it got as dangerous as it did" he said with a laugh before nodding slowly "Alright, then I'll stay. But you can absolutely kick me out whenever if you find I'm too much of a pain in the ass to deal with" he said softly with a laugh, finishing his drink and reaching a hand down when the puppy ran over; petting him. GRACE: Grace looked at him with pity in her eyes, but also a smile "Aww.... Nothing at all? Like, you're not lactose intolerant too, right? Like milk and cream? Iced coffee?" She asked curiously, feeling like she was learning so much about him in such a small amount of time. The smile only grew bigger when he agreed to stay "Good... And don't worry, if anything, you'll be running out the door when you realize how annoying I can be and wanna dash to a hotel for a moment of peace" She said with a laugh, looking down at the small dog being pet, and Orion still sprawled out on the couch "All the flying really tired him out, huh?" She looked at the retriever with caring eyes before looking down at her tiny dog "And you're still full of beans after all that walking" She chuckled "Do you... Wanna watch a movie?" She asked a little awkwardly "Or you can just... Call it a night, you're probably really tired from the flying" MAX: "Honestly I could have drinks and stuff but that wasn't worth waking me up for, and I don't really drink milk; I opt for the milk alternatives usually" he explained, laughing softly at Orion sprawled out on the couch "I guess it did, yeah. Its okay though, i need some good sleep after work too" he teased, before nodding slightly "yeah, we can totally watch a movie if you want, I'm not that tired yet honestly" GRACE: Nodding her head, she grinned "I'm an almond and oat milk girl too, so you'll be happy with the fridge tomorrow, but I guess that's valid..." She said with a shrug. Grace laughed when he called it Orion's job, making her pout at the puppy "Hard day's work... I'm sure you've brought his food and stuff, you can set the bowls anywhere, he knows he eats in the kitchen so I doubt he'll eat it" She tried to make sure he had everything he needed to be comfortable. "Alright, cool... I'll get this in the dishwasher, TV's over there, controllers on the table, so make yourself at home, kid" She picked the plates and cups up, humming as she did her dishwasher routine. MAX: "If he does, it's not a big deal" he said with a shrug "just a baby after all, right? He's still learning." He added on, standing up to try and help her "why don't I do the dishes? You had to pay and set the table and you're letting me stay here. It's the least I can do" he offered, looking at her for a moment GRACE: Watching him stand up, she bit on the inside of her cheek. Her mom had taught her to be a gracious host and never let guests do anything, but he had a point, and most of all, she wanted him to feel at home "Alright, sure" She set everything down and opened the dishwasher for him, smiling a little as she saw him move around the kitchen, biting on her lower lip to crush the bigger smile threatening to grow when he had her back to her. Twirling around and stepping out of the kitchen, she walked towards the couch and sat down on it, taking the moment when Max wasn't there to pet Orion's sleepy head, since he always seemed to be next to him "Hi bubby, hi" She scratched behind his ears for a moment before grabbing the controller and flicking the TV on. For some reason, her mind went straight to Nightmare before Christmas, her favorite Halloween movie. MAX: He joined her on the couch just a little later, after starting the dishwasher, and getting comfortable on the couch again. "What did you settle on?" He asked, before looking at the screen "ohhh a classic" he said with a laugh, resting his hand on Orion's head and the other arm on the arm of the couch. GRACE: She stole glances of him in the kitchen before focusing on the film, which had just started when Max sat down next to his dog "Yeah, I figured we'd get Halloween started a bit early... Though arguably this is more of a November movie, but it's one of my favorites, so I will watch it any time I can" She said with a shrug and a little laugh, settling into the couch, Baby walking over and jumping on her lap to curl up. MAX: "Honestly, the idea that any movie is only acceptable for certain parts of the year is stupid. If it's one you enjoy, watch it whenever you want" he said with a shrug,smiling a little when the puppy joined them on the couch,curling up on her lap. He settled back against the couch, focused on the movie....though sneaking just a few glances in her direction. GRACE: "I know, but I like the seasonality of them... Like of course, I'd watch it mid June if I want to, but there's something about watching a Christmas movie during Christmas, or a scary movie during October, it's just warming to me" She said with a little shrug. Her eyes were trained on the screen, feeling like a little kid every time she saw this one, mouthing along with the songs and most of the words of every character. MAX: "That's fair," he acknowledged, running a hand over his face a while later; yawning softly about halfway through the movie. Maybe he was a bit more tired than he'd let on, but that wasn't going to stop him from sitting here with her and their dogs to watch the rest of the movie. GRACE: She started blinking her eyes more often than not, mostly to try and keep her eyes open. Waking up very early today, plus the long hike, had really tired her out. But this was one of her favorite movies, and she wanted to watch it to the end... But her eyelids started getting heavier as the scenes passed, and before she noticed, she'd shrunk down into the couch, her eyes slowly closing and her head falling on Max's shoulder as she fell soundly asleep.

#p: grace van dien #i don't know about you - max & grace #tw: long post

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thecondemer · 1 year

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𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧.

Location: Chesapeake, Virginia.

Time: 2:30 in the morning..

Kill number: 60,001.

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His focus was on the house, it was a quiet neighborhood. Something Frank expected, the guy was a part of a crime ring that exploited women and young kids. The latter is what set Frank off, looking down at the papers in his lap.

He was taking a new approach to this to cover his tracks, having been doing this for a long time now. It came as a second nature to him, like riding a bicycle.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧.

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬: unlawful acts against a number of women and children, racketeering, felony murder, felony assault.

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐍𝐄𝐃.

As he tossed the file into the passenger seat, he exited the beat up car. This neighborhood was known for gang violence, tonight would just be another territorial dispute between rival gangs.

He grimaced at the discomfort the vest was causing, remembering the words from the street doctor that stitched him up. ‘Take it easy, Frank. You were stabbed, you should at least be resting.’ He wasn’t going to listen to that.

With the shotgun on his back, the silencer being screwed onto the assault rifle. Closing the trunk, he jogged across the dimly lit street; making his way into the backyard of the home. He had done a little recon on the house, no dogs in the backyard.

Hearing the back sliding door unlock, Frank moved to the side where he was encased in the darkness. A man half his height stepped out, the male rubbed his hands together to warm himself up. Frank reached out, a gloved hand covering his mouth. The knife went from underneath his chin, into his pallet, all the way up.

Blood poured from the wound when he yanked the blade free, body dropping to the floor. Frank stepped over the body, heading inside. It was dark in the kitchen outside of the numbers on the microwave. The television shined from the living room, his eyes glanced skyward, hearing footsteps, the first stop was the living room. An older man with a potbelly watched a video, standing behind him.

His pistol pointed at the back of his head, squeezing the trigger lightly. The bullet went through his skull, brain matter went everywhere. Two down. One more to go. Moving through the living room, heading up the stairs to the second floor. He checked all the rooms, finding them empty. The main bedroom had its door ajar, there was some movement behind the door.

‘I don’t care, get me out of this fucking city. I did what you asked, now do what I ask!’ Ansel’s voice cracked, a little shaky from the fear of being killed behind his actions. ‘Twenty-four hours!’ He said, hanging up the phone, Frank pushed into the bedroom, causing Ansel to quickly stand up. Fear etched onto his face.

“You should really stop.” Frank said, the shotgun rested on his shoulder. Ansel reached for his gun [𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐌] Frank shot him in the leg, breaking skin and bone. [𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐌] Frank shot him in the other leg, walking over to him, squatting next to the guy. His fingers gripped Ansel’s hair, yanking his head back. A sigh of frustration. “It’s sick fucks like you that always seem to get a second chance, I wonder why that is.”

It was a rhetorical question, though Ansel screamed in pain when Frank yanked his head back again. “Either way, you can tell your father hello.” Letting him go, he stood up, aimed the barrel of the shotgun at his face and pulled the trigger. His face exploding upon impact with the shell, Ansel’s body jerked back to the ground.

His focus stayed on the body for a few moments before leaving the bedroom, another scumbag of a human being now gone. There was plenty more of his kind left in this world, he thought to himself as he descended the stairs. Exiting out the same way he came inside, disappearing into the night.

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diinferi · 1 year

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LOCATION

[PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA] The location of Stanford University, where Sam Winchester and Jessica Moore attended college. Since you're here, you may as well look for the smoke and follow it straight to Sam and Dean. Who knows, you might even be able to save those cookies Jessica prepared before a demon came and ended her life.

ORIGIN

[HUNTER] For you demons and monsters aren’t just a bad memory, but something encountered in everyday life. Where some have a cushy life of modern luxuries you have plenty of real world experience with violence and the things regular folk scoff at as superstition. Thanks to over a decade of not only fighting but surviving you’ve become excellent at keeping yourself and others safe from monsters. This wasn’t always the case, and your first encounter with a monster might have ended very differently if not for another hunter having saved you and shown you the ropes. Perhaps this desire to save people was brought on by losing someone before you knew what was out there, or maybe you’re just they type who can’t sit by when you know you could be helping others. Since the day you learned what was really out there you’ve done your utmost to hunt and protect the world.

PERKS

[HUNTING THINGS] Stalking and killing monsters is second-nature to you along with identifying news that sounds like monster activity. You’re reasonably familiar with all the habits of monsters indigenous to the United States of America and know quick methods to narrow down what sort of creature you’re dealing with based on the information as well as what’s needed to kill them. This comes with a great understanding of simple hunter tricks like using devil’s traps and salt lines in order to identify who in a given group might be only pretending to be a human

[CLAP YOUR HANDS IF YOU BELIEVE] It’s not an easy thing to accept that monsters are real, or that the people you love could have been replaced by one. The simple matter is people may refuse to believe the truth if living a lie isn’t as scary. However, they still definitely want to live. You have remarkable ease at getting people to accept the existence of the supernatural quickly when they’re in danger. Instead of being confused or frozen in fear when an unnatural threat shows itself, those you’ve warned will remember your words and run, following your instructions until the threat has passed. Afterwards they’ll want a more complete explanation and be more than willing to take your advice to heart.

[HUNTER X HUSTLER] Seeking out monsters and regularly impersonating officials, hunters can’t exactly hold down a normal job and set down roots. Most have to live on the road and make use of... less legitimate skills to get by. Like these hunters you have street smarts to get by on illegal channels being able to pick locks, hotwire cars, and (perhaps obviously) impersonate others to commit credit card fraud. Your main talent is in gambling. You may not be much better at the games but you're definitely able to cheat better and undersell your abilities to appear like a novice while playing billiards, poker, dice, or other common pub games. It’s easy for you to act inexperienced in this regard and lure others to play with you to make a quick buck.

[BULLSHIT BALLISTICS] While all hunters seem to be competent with guns, you can put their skill to shame with your own ability to hit a target. While a deft marksman you’re supernaturally skilled in the creation of specialized ammunition for your firearms. With what you might run into in this world having the right weapon for the job is essential. Putting together rock salt shells for a shotgun or melting down silver to use in your bullets is the simplest use of this ability. There are far greater applications for your personal rounds, like melting down an angel blade into angel-slaying bullets, or putting potions into hollow point rounds to make the contained magic trigger against a target. Most curiously you can inscribe sigils or seals you know onto bullets, and they will not be deformed on impact keeping their properties.

[REMARKABLY UNREMARKABLE] In spite of all the reasons why someone should be able to immediately recognize you based on your (in)famous reputation, they will consistently fail to associate you with that identity unless you’ve personally revealed it to them or they have the connection explained by someone who does know. You can be on the Most Wanted List for the last decade, personally attempt the assassination of a president, and be well-known for impersonating FBI and other government officials yet still able to calmly walk into a police department and flash a fake badge knowing that not a single person will notice your resemblance to a known criminal unless they’ve encountered that side of you first-hand. Not even powerful beings are exempt from this, having to have either personally watched or been shown your deeds by another before being able to acknowledge just who you are.

EQUIPMENT

[HUNTER EQUIPMENT]

[EMF METER] This handheld gadget will reads electromagnetic fields, helping you to determine the location of spirits and the objects or remains tethering them to the mortal plane. While the equipment of some hunters can be thrown off by other strong sources of electricity like power lines, your device is refined to be able to filter out such man-made interference and only reacts to spiritual energy fields due to differences in the way they change electromagnetic fields. If you have another portable electronic device, this feature can be installed as an app to help save space.

[HANDGUN] As unusual as some of the creatures are in this world, most are still vulnerable to good old fashion human firearms. This easily concealed semi-automatic isn’t magical or anything, but it’ll still stun most monsters effectively enough to move in close for the killing blow - as long as you have something more inclined for monster decapitating on hand. As getting ammunition can be a bit of a chore when you’re in the business of constantly jumping state lines, hunting human-like things, and using fake IDs, this will just comes with two magazines that refill themselves between fights.

[HUNTER’S JOURNAL] The single most valuable possession for most hunters, books like these are passed down through families and hold extensive records on the demons and monsters encountered over generations. A constant companion for any hunter this notebook is used to keep track of where they’ve gone, what they’ve hunted, and who they’ve helped along the way. It includes many hand-drawn illustrations, newspaper clippers, and the occasional photograph to help identify creatures as well as keep track of rumours and lore about creature sightings. If well maintained, it allows other hunters to avenge their family or at least tie-up loose ends and give some closure.

[SALT] An invaluable tool for hunters, this common condiment is a symbol of purity that can force spirits to disappear for a short time. When made into a line, it prevents both demons and spirits from crossing. When force-fed to a person controlled by a poltergeist it can release them from that possession. Salt lines can only be broken by creatures it does not affect. For actually defeating such vengeful spirits in a permanent way this is basically a requirement, as ghosts will not pass on until their tethers to the world have been salted and burned. This particular container never seems to run out.

[HOLY BEADS] Most hunters carry a bit of holy water for emergencies, but not all can create their own when the situation needs it. With just an incantation, any standing water in contact with this rosary will be converted into holy water. While the water’s main use is a deterrent against demons, it is a particularly effective one. Creative hunters have been able to use this process to create particular effective traps, such as by blessing sprinkler systems or water tanks before using them to soak buildings.

[LAPTOP] “We should call the internet and find out as much as we can about these people. Did I say that right?” Not exceptional as far as computers go, even for 2005, but this can fulfill your research needs as well as any other machine of the era will. If destroyed or shut down unexpectedly it retains all data. No matter how many explicit websites you may use for “research”, you’ll find the device is unable to be permanently damaged by viruses or malware – though there is a high chance the screen could freeze at inopportune times to embarrass you.

[SILVER LINING] You gain a simple but wickedly sharp silver machete that can be easily concealed beneath heavy clothing. The foil to any shapeshifting monster, it can leave them with burns on simple contact and inflict much worse pain when actually used properly. You may instead upgrade an existing item you own to grant it the same properties as silver. It’s recommended you choose something with a blade long enough to properly decapitate a target in one swing.

[FAMILY BUSINESS] Badges and various business cards that will assist you in infiltrating multiple levels of society for information under a number of fake identities. Anyone suspicious of your involvement in a case will initially call the superior listed on your business card rather than verifying your identity in another manner - so it’ll be good to have someone manning a phone somewhere to backup your story. This includes F.B.I, C.D.C., Federal Marshal, and material identifying you as various local police and health department roles.

[MATCHING TATTOOS] A relatively simple method that is guaranteed to ward off any and all forms of demonic possession. Where normally an anti-demon tattoo could be burned off or otherwise removed this one will remain effective just as long as your body does unless you choose to remove it of your own free will. Since the tattoo is relatively simple despite it’s essential role in hunting demons, you can copy the design to grant this protection to any of your allies as well – though anyone else who gains the tattoo will only see it effective so long as it remains on their body.

[DEMON-KILLING KNIFE] This serrated-edged blade seems much like a common hunting knife, with a antler for a handle and engravings along the blade. It is especially deadly to almost any denizens of hell, causing both hellhounds and demons agony at superficial cuts. Actually stabbing them is invariably fatal, with only the first demons, and those high in hell’s hierarchy like the knights and princes resisting the effect. Upon stabbing a demonic being the wound glows with orange light and causes the same light to flicker within them until their spirit is destroyed. An excellent close-combat weapon for fighting off groups of demons, some might find it lacking compared to traditional exorcisms in that you have to inflict fatal stab wounds.

[ANGEL-PROOFING] An intricate series of ancient runes has been carved into your ribcage, making it impossible for angels of any rank or power to sense your presence using their divine powers. Even archangels like Lucifer himself would have to hunt you down the old-fashioned way. You have an ancient tablet with instructions for placing these same protective runes on others to hide them from angels. If you copy them onto another person or persons they too will receive this safety from detection, though any copies can be removed from a person as per normal for whatever means you use to inscribe them.

DRAWBACKS

[RENEWED BY POPULAR DEMAND] Is 10 years not enough? Does your heart go aflutter at middle-aged men overwhelmed by continuous teenage angst? Do you want to see even greater threats overcome, despite all plots having been neatly tied up with no sensible reason for a new threat to emerge and force action from the heroes? For ever more loose ends and forgotten plot points as the God writing the story literally leaves the building? By taking this drawback you can stick from anywhere from an extra decade to a full century! Just be warned that when disaster strikes and damages the timeline of God’s Plan, agents of Heaven tend to send the Winchesters into the future to show them how they messed up – and you may find that much of the time spend on your stay is the same period of time playing out in alternate ways.

[ROOM FOR TWO?] People will constantly mistake you and one of your platonic travelling companions as lovers, completely oblivious to that companion being someone you would never consider sleeping with until you react to the suggestion. This will happen with alarming frequently, basically every time you visit a hotel or introduce yourselves and accidentally leave the relationship vague. Of course, noticing the pattern you may try to overcompensate by stressing just how platonic a relationship the two of you share – which is guaranteed to convince no one. During downtime you will often find yourself wondering why everyone else assumes you’re together and thinking about the unsettling logistics of the pairing.

[INCONCEIVABLE ELDRITCH HORROR] You are the Jumper! A form from beyond the very universe and possibly even above human understanding. What does such a monster look like? Why, just like a normal human of course! For the duration of this jump you will appear for all purposes like any other human losing access to an alternative forms, shapeshifting, or inhuman powers based on an unusual biology. Demons and angels will be trapped in their vessels, and other than their new dietary desires monsters and deities will appear entirely human too.

[FAMILY DRAMA] You’re going to make big mistakes, and each one will take people years before they can forgive you for it. You’re not the only one either. The family you surround yourself with will be just as likely to take foolish risks that endanger themselves and others. Both sides will argue with each other near constantly over these mistakes each time likely blaming the other party for forcing their hand with something they did. Even if you’re just putting yourself in a bad situation to help bail out your loved ones and it all turned out for the best, you’ll never hear the end of it. When you they do the same to help save you all you fixate on is how stupid they were to put themselves at risk. Never expect anyone to be on your side in an argument unless you are undeniably correct, and even then expect to be resented for trying to distract from your faults.

FUTURE

[MOVE ON]

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