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adriberry · 23 hours ago

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A Rude Awakening

Leona Kingscholar x OC (Yumeship)

Summary: Lucy Ortiz, prefect of Ramshackle House and self proclaimed unluckiest student at NRC, quite literally falls for Leona Kingscholar. And Leona falls for her in return (in the metaphorical sense, though he firmly denies it).

a/n: So this is the very first piece of fanfiction I ever wrote for Twisted Wonderland back when I first got into the game after the EN release. It’s been tweaked a bit since then (there were some bits written that preceded this and I took then out for the sake of flow to post here), but it’s one of my favorite things I’ve written with these two. It sets the mood for their relationship well, in my opinion. I’ll post something where we get to learn more about Lucy later, but for now, enjoy Leona playing mental chess with himself to avoid his feelings.

Leona would never say it out loud, but he considered himself a generally unlucky person. He was born royalty but was the second son, so he would never have any real political power as long as his brother was around and sowing seeds left and right. He was gifted an incredibly powerful unique magic, but it was so destructive it rivaled that of the King of Beast’s which only made those in the palace who knew of the Kingscholars’ family history even more cautious around him. Not to mention that he was stuck at this school, a place that he didn’t want to go in the first place but his hand was forced by his family.

Leona had a lot of time on his hands as a cub and was given the highest level of education the royal family could afford anyway, so he knew most of the stuff in the books before he even set foot at Night Raven. If he was the straight-A type, he probably could have graduated early despite showing up a semester late. But spending time away from home and that annoying runt of a nephew of his was pretty nice, so even though he had to sit through tedious lessons he’s essentially known since he was in the single digits, Leona couldn’t complain too much. There were plenty of places to hide out and nap during the day on campus anyway.

He liked the botanical garden the most because it was so warm there. Yeah, he could have held up in his dorm, but the muscle headed idiots that were his housemates were always making a racket either fighting each other or working out or both. When there wasn’t the occasional alchemy or culinary class in the garden, the peace reminded him of home but without the tyke running around.

“Grim, wait-!”

Said peace was interrupted by a squeaky yell and the sudden thump of someone tripping and practically falling on top of him.

“Hey, watch…it…” Leona was about to kick the ass of whoever woke him up but trailed off when he opened his eyes and was met with two big, brown ones staring back at him. It took a few seconds for him to register that their owner’s face was only a few inches away from his and that her hands were on his chest.

Apparently, it also took her a few to realize what was happening before her face went bright red and she scrambled to sit up, sputtering out a jumbled apology, “Oh my god! I’m so sorry! I-I didn’t see you- or like I did- and then I was going to- or I tried to…”

Leona slowly sat up and stretched before casually looking the girl over. He recognized her immediately as the only girl at the school- a non-magical one, too. She was an anomaly here and, since the school was filled with hormonal, gossiping students, and word got around about her. And they were right. She was cute. She talked a lot though.

“...and, in my defense, this isn’t the best spot to be sleeping in since people walk through here. B-but I should have been watching where I was going!” The girl was sitting on her knees now, holding the hem of her skirt in her hands. The position of her arms brought attention to…

Leona cleared his throat and glanced away, motioning to his shirt before saying, “You..have a…”

The girl gave him a confused look before looking down at her very open button-down shirt and blushing again.

“Shit!” she cursed and closed her shirt in a panic, “These stupid buttons have been coming undone all day!”

She was loud, but it didn’t take much away from the fact that she was very nice to look at. Leona wondered for a moment if her company would be all that annoying. Based on how flustered she was, he could probably get her to go away if he really needed her to.

“Ugh, a button popped off,” she sighed in defeat and covered the spot that couldn’t close properly with her hand.

“Happens to me all the time,” Leona leaned back on the tree he was sitting under and crossed his arms, “For a ritzy school like this one, they cheap out on their uniforms.”

“Maybe they blow their budget on the ceremony robes,” she smirked, looking a bit calmer now that she wasn’t nearly topless.

“Hey groundskeeper!” a grating, nasally voice shouted from behind the girl and that annoying little monster that tried to barbecue Al-Asim at the Welcome Ceremony came around the corner with his arms full of fruit, “Can I take some of these? I promise I found all of them on the ground and did not climb up the trees to get them at all-”

“You!” the girl snatched the monster up by the scruff, making him drop his score, “One, I told you to not pick anything from here when you’re about to go eat Heartslabuyl out of house and home anyway! Two, this isn’t the groundskeeper. He’s Housewarden Savanaclaw.”

She knew who he was. Interesting.

The monster gave Leona a skeptical look before turning back to the girl and doing something that looked like jabbing a thumb towards him, “...What, this 30-year-old man???”

Okay, he decided that thing had to go.

“Grim!” she scolded him before Leona could say anything then sighed in defeat, “Look, there aren’t any garden tools here and no one here is gonna rat on you if you take any food so please just grab some of the fruits and get out of here. Alright?”

The monster pouted and rolled its eyes, “Fine, but you’re being really mean right now, so I’m not sharing any with you.”

The girl smirked, letting it go, “What? You thought you could trip me and get away emotionally unscathed?”

The monster stuck its tongue out in return and waddled away.

“I’ll meet you outside in a minute!” she called after him. She laughed softly to herself as she watched the creature leave, looking like she was making sure he was going where she told him to.

Leona watched her for a moment, his head tilted in curiosity.

“What a handful,” Leona said, his eyes lingering on the girl’s profile.

“He’s not that bad, honestly,” she turned to Leona with a smile, “I mean he doesn’t really listen to me right now, but I think with a bit more time together-”

“I wasn’t talking about the giant rat.”

She stopped talking, her eyes going wide again. Her blush came back and her lips moved like she was going to say something, but she couldn’t get the words out.

“You’re that herbivore from orientation that couldn’t use magic, right?” Leona asked, but he knew the answer already. Even without every other student at school talking about her, he could tell from the way she smelled. He leaned forward a bit to sniff her again. No magic, but she did have the faintest smell of something sweet on her. Leona liked it.

“Yeah, I guess-” she answered his question and moved back quickly when he leaned in, “Woah, ask before invading the personal space!” She didn’t sound angry at all, just surprised. Leona backed off but caught her eyes quickly trailing down his torso as he sat up back before they darted away.

Now that was even more interesting. Leona had been bored and in an awful mood and the year had only just started, but this girl seemed intriguing. Well, if he was going to keep messing with her to see what would come of it, he might as well have introduced himself.

“Leona Kingscholar,” he offered his hand, deciding to be cordial to not scare this girl away just yet.

Though it was almost as if he could see the gears turning in her mind as she glanced down at his tail, looked back up to him slowly, and cautiously took his hand and replying, “Lucy Ortiz.”

“So Lucy,” Leona leaned back on the tree again, resting his arms behind his head, “how’d a non-magical girl end up crashing the welcome ceremony of an all-boy’s magic school?”

Lucy winced and smoothed out her skirt, “It’s a long story.” She looked like she was about to get up to leave.

“You should tell it to me some time,” Leona’s glance at the undone button on her shirt lingered a touch too long and he only realized after he caught a glint in Lucy’s eye. He looked away before his face could betray what that annoying feeling in his chest was signaling.

“Leona! I know you’re in here!”

All these bloody interruptions when he was trying to talk up this girl.

“Fuck me…” Leona groaned.

Lucy stood with a laugh, “I’ll take you up on that offer sometime. For now, I think that’s my cue to leave though.”

Leona’s ear twitched in interest at her response and briefly thought about volleying a flirtatious comment back, but the thought slipped his mind as he got a new view of Lucy’s legs from the ground. But he wouldn’t have had time for banter anyway since Ruggie finally found where he was hiding out.

“Geez, Leona did you forget we have after school…” Ruggie paused when he saw Lucy and let out a low whistle, “Hey, you’re that girl.”

Lucy grimaced, “I love that this is what I’m known as at this school.”

“Ah, man sorry,” Ruggie scratched the back of his head, looking irritatingly bashful, “I’m Ruggie.” He gave Lucy a wide smile.

“Lucy,” she smiled back then her eyes met Leona’s again, “I’ve got to get going. Sorry again for the rude awakening. I promise to try not to trip over you while you’re napping in a walkway next time.”

Leona raised an eyebrow and fought like hell to keep the stupid smirk he could feel coming on off his face. Because in the last minute or so Lucy saw something in Leona that made her go from overly chatty and nervous to calm and flirtatious. Leona didn’t particularly like the feeling not knowing what Lucy was thinking gave him, but then again... Between that look in her eyes and the sarcastic comment, it almost felt like Lucy was offering him a challenge.

“There are worse ways to be woken up,” Leona stood up and brushed himself off, enjoying the way Lucy needed to crane her neck to look up at him when he stepped closer, “You can cross my territory anytime. Leave the giant rat at home next time, though.”

Lucy bit her lip, failing to hide that smile of hers before turning, waving goodbye behind her, and walking towards the garden exit. Leona couldn’t take her eyes off her. Ruggie couldn't either apparently.

“Did I interrupt?” he said, and Leona could see him staring too out of the corner of his eye.

He grumbled back, “You have impeccable timing…”

Ruggie snickered in return, “I don’t blame you for being pissy, I mean she’s…” He trailed off as they both watched her disappear into the greenery, “something.”

Leona didn’t like that, but he wasn’t going to make a big fuss out of it, so instead he just hummed and gave Ruggie a smug smirk, “Don’t bother, Bucchi.”

“Why?”

“You know why,” Leona crossed his arms in front of him, “She literally fell for me.”

Ruggie looked at him incredulously, “Dude, you can’t call dibs on a girl.”

Leona frowned. That’s not what he was doing.

“I’m not calling dibs; what kind of animal do you think I am?”

Leona was just taking mental notes of how Lucy only gave Ruggie friendly smiles with nothing else to read behind them as opposed to whatever that look she gave him was. More of that might be fun.

Ruggie looked unconvinced which made Leona shrug, “There’s just no competing with me, is all.”

So maybe calling dibs was exactly what he was doing, but who could blame him? He knew no man ever really stood a chance at bossing a woman around, so he couldn’t even bother trying to actually stake a claim on one. But, Old Kings, was Lucy cute. Ruggie knew him well enough at this point, so he had to have known what was on Leona's mind.

“Oh, thank you, kind leader, for not crushing my hopes before they’ve fully blossomed,” Ruggie rolled his eyes and rested his hands on the back of his head, “We don’t have time for girls anyway. We’ve got after school classes that if you keep skipping out on will make us be in the same year!”

“Ugh, whatever…” Leona’s ears twitched as he followed him out of the garden. He wished he followed Lucy out instead.

#this is it im posting the fic that's been rotting away on my google drive #gonna drop all my headcanons that keep the wheels spinning on this thing soon #also im posting things out of order because that's also how I write them #if I post enough i'll make a master list with the posts in chronological order #twisted wonderland #twst #twst x oc #leona x oc #twst yumeship #twst fanfic #Lucy #Unlucky Lucy

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