【 Welcome 】

The pilot couldn’t keep his gaze on the hallway in front of them, but instead kept on glancing around at all of the people they passed. “I can’t believe I worked with all of these people just three years ago” The Greek murmured quietly, though his gaze soon met Celeste’s, and he gave her a tender smile. Though he met all of these people during battle, he would never forget how terrifying it was being in the war, or being surrounded by otherworldly beings that did mean to cause harm. Celeste was different from those beings, however. She had a comforting gaze and a kind smile, which never failed to make Matteo smile back at her. He gave her hand a light squeeze as they continued walking.

She liked how he squeezed her hand. She didn’t look around that much and instead focused on getting through the hallway. Celeste was proud that she had been given a nick name by this man. Man. She would no longer call him a boy or anything like that. He may be a pilot but he’s got balls.

“This place is way larger than I expected it to be,” The Greek pilot spoke to the alien with a soft smile, giving her a small, cheeky grin. His olive-colored skin seemed to glow within the soft, dim light above them. “Celeste, have you ever been here before?” Matteo questioned curiously.

Matteo was quite surprised at how quickly the alien woman had responded. He gave her a fond smile, though, and calmly responded, “You should come to Earth more often. When the war stopped, it became so much more beautiful and peaceful than it had ever been. And I think peace is all this planet needs, to be honest,” He gave her another smile, chuckling before shaking his head, “We have to forget about what happened in the past at some point. Hey, now that the war is over, you can visit this planet more often, right?”

She looked at him with boundless eyes and said “Peaceful, huh? I just hope that it lasts as long as it could.” She sighed and approached him and touched his face with the back of her right hand “My love, you are innocent. And for you, yes, I can visit this planet more. And I will. For you.” 

“Hopefully it can. If not, let’s hope that another war isn’t going to happen, either,” Matteo replied with a small sigh, but his eyes widened with surprise as the alien’s multicolored hand was pressed to his face, making his cheeks redden a bit. He smiled though, resting his own hand atop of hers. “And I would love that,” He murmured kindly.

“You’re right, Arlert,” Reiner responded to his roommate, looking over at him as he spoke. He gave him a slight smile though, and nodded eagerly to his suggestion. He’d been dying to get out of their home, and being cooped up in their apartment sheltering from the storm and watching cheesy TV-original movies for the past six hours made him feel like he was slowly losing his sanity. “That sounds pretty good. Hopefully stores are gonna be open at this time,” He sighed, “If not, we’re gonna to have to survive on frozen dinners and crappy canned beans.”

“It’s quite a large room. Larger than where I used to sleep in my previous life,” Icarius responded with a small sigh, though bowed his head with gratitude at his goddess. He practically leapt into bed, sighing with relief as he buried his head into the pillow.

Icarius nodded his head, and almost immediately fell asleep as he shut his eyes closed, clutching on to the pillow as he began to snore.

“You.. You really like being in my arms, huh, Shouyou?” Kageyama spoke quietly as he nestled his head against Hinata’s, grazing his fingertips against his boyfriend’s cheek. He smiled fondly at him, feeling his cheeks redden as he was kissed.

“Yeah! They are like big warm blankets.” Shouyou said happily. Kageyama was basically a big space blanket. “I have a perfect idea for our fist date to.” He hmmmed.

Kageyama chuckled lowly at his partner’s words, wrapping his fairly muscular arms around Hinata’s slender waist. “Really? Tell me about it,” He spoke, actually quite excited to hear his boyfriend’s ideas for their date.

Poppy gave his taller boyfriend a reassuring smile and gently squeezed his hand as they continued their walk to the nearby theater. Soon they arrived at the cinema, and Poppy couldn’t help but gaze at the large building. “I haven’t been to the movies since I was a child. I live so far from the city that I never usually get the chance to. It brings back so many memories,” He murmured softly, moving a strand of his black hair away from his pale skin before giving Artemis a loving smile.

Artemis smiled back at him as he relaxed a bit. They got away from the crowd of people so he pulled down his hood, and looked down at Poppy. “Well take to make some new memories at the movies,” he said getting out his wallet. “So what are we seeing?” He asked as he looked around nervously still not liking the amount of people there were.

Poppy smiled softly at his boyfriend’s comment, giving him a reassuring nuzzle and gentle peck on the cheek. “We can see anything you’d like. I was thinking of a psychological thriller or animated movie, but whatever you’d like I’m up for,” He replied softly, then shook his head as his lover took his wallet out, “Please, I’ll pay,” He chuckled.

Artemis looked at him “I like animated movies, let’s go see one,” he said looking down at the other. “Are you sure? I’m more than happy to pay,” he said a bit skeptical about it. He didn’t want him wasting his money.

Poppy nodded, giving his lover’s hand a gentle squeeze. He shook his head, trying to quiet him with a quick and slightly surprising kiss to his lips. “It’s our first date, and I want to make today one of the best days of your life,” He spoke quietly to Artemis, giving him a loving smile.

“Alright. Follow me,” Richmond said quickly, taking the elf’s hand as he led her to his closet. After a moment of shuffling through folded clothes and shoes, the prince soon found a rather large blanket, which he placed in a bundle around Scarlet’s head and shoulders. “See? Nobody can see your ears now. You’ll be safe,” The Scottish male reassured, giving her a small mirror.

“I promise to keep you safe, okay? Just make sure that headpiece is tightly wrapped around you at all times,” Richmond replied with a reassuring smile, sighing as he opened the door, gesturing for the elf to follow hm.

Scarlet was very hesitant to follow him, still completely consumed by fear even though her ears were hidden. Though for now she had no other choice but to follow him.

It seemed as if the castle was much more crowded than expected, duchesses, princes and princesses from different lands, servants, nannies, and all sorts of members from different royal families walked past them, chatting amongst each other. There had to be at least a dozen of them in that mere hallway alone, making Richmond gulp nervously as he suddenly held on to Scarlet’s hand.

“He’ll probably become even more embarrassed. He rarely gets like that,” The blind serpentine let out a small chuckle, brushing a strand of her stringy, black hair away from her pale face, waiting to clean the other’s glass.

Ninaka finished her glass and placed it on the counter That’ll be a sight to see At least for her” She giggled before getting up from her seating “How much do I owe for that Adelaide?” She asked kindly, wanting leave some sort of payment for her drink

“Oh, definitely,” She chuckled. The kind woman turned to Ninaka at the sound of her voice, now tying her pin-straight hair into a tight bun on top of her head. Adelaide shook her head for a moment, giving her a kind smile, “Ah, it’s on the house. No need to pay. You’ve been so kind to both Auguste and I, so I decided to return the favor.”

“Oh Um.. thank you Adelaide I honestly didn’t expect this I really am glad that I took you upon that offer It’s kinda like my way of repaying you for your kindness” She said with a smile on her face but felt kinda sad that the serpent was blind Unable to see the world around her “Um.. of you don’t mind me asking, how you feel if you were able to given the gift of the sight?” She asked kindly

Adelaide nodded her head at her words, chuckling lowly at it. Her bland, white eyes seemed to widen with surprise, turning her head to Ninaka almost immediately as she mentioned “the gift of sight.” “I would absolutely love that,” She replied almost immediately.

The shorter male felt his coffee-colored eyes suddenly widen with surprise as a soft kiss was pressed against his lips. He then shut his eyes close, quickly returning it as he cupped a hand to Irin’s cheek, pulling back after a moment. “Warn me next time before you do something sudden like that,” Levi responded in a somewhat teasing tone, hugging the woman close to his chest. “Hm,” He murmured, feeling his cheeks redden a bit at her compliments, “Tch, you sure about that?”

“The real question is why you even had so many books with you in the first place,” Levi lifted a thin brow as he stayed within the woman’s arms, sighing as he rested his head against her shoulder lightly. He grumbled softly at her compliments, though his lips twitched into a soft smile with contentment.

“Okay, now I definitely know you aren’t from around here. Which means there’s life outside of the walls..” Levi became oddly quiet as his sentence trailed off, trying to think about what he had just said. His slanted, usually angry eyes now became widened with surprise, but he slowly turned his head to the other. She did have a point, though, and he sighed, wrapping his arms around the angel’s waist, holding her close without saying a word.

“Perhaps we could come with your brother, Mister Balthazar? We could try to find more beings to help us,” Amelia responded softly as she finished scanning her data, facing the two men.

“I can try my best to scan the area, but I will try to do a global scan. I must notify you that a global scan will take me a few minutes to process,” The android responded with a nod of her head before speaking once more, “It may be difficult finding people like that, Mister Balthazar. Ever since The Fall happened, our population has decreased at an alarming rate. We may confuse one of these beings with abnormal abilities to one of the alien lifeforms that attacked our planet.”

“Do what you can”, Balthazar told her, “But narrow it down to more human options if you can. From there we can investigate them one by one….”

After a moment of scanning, Amelia slowly nodded to his words, and the android suddenly spoke once more, “An abnormal being nearby is located on an abandoned and rural island thirty miles away from our current location.”

“What abnormalities are you picking up”, Balthazar asked, “Something mystical or more scientific?”

“My scanners can hardly even tell. Whatever it is, it’s massive, and it’s taking up quite a lot of energy. It’s as if energy is constantly emitting from it,” Amelia spoke, turning to Balthazar.

“You’re.. going to want to stay indoors then. Makarios will lead you inside to the room you will be staying in,” Bendis sighed, shaking his head for a moment, “I don’t have time to answer a lot of questions, but this harm that you’re aware of is my father. I’ve been battling him for years now. We disagree on many things, and he is constantly trying to defeat me in order to steal my power and energy. He’s a cruel man,” Bendis quickly explained, and his piercing, cold eyes suddenly became less more aggressive and looked more upsetting. His eyes got teared up for a moment, and he sighed before quickly walking in the opposite direction to patrol the area. “Bendis often becomes emotional at times like this. His father is a pretty scary man. He truly is evil. I’ve fought face-to-face with him many times, and before he arrives, he brings a large storm with him to show how ‘fearless’ and ‘strong’ he is,” The son of the Minotaur responded, sighing quietly, “Bendis’ father is the Hydra. That’s where he gets most of his powers from. But his father wants to become even more powerful. He wants to rule all of Greece.”

The Minotaur sighed softly and shook his head, moving a strand of his dreadlocks behind his pierced ear before leading the other inside the mansion. “We can cover up the windows within your room with blankets. That way, you won’t be able to see the storm. And when he arrives, he won’t be able to find you. You’ll be safe,” Makarios reassured softly. The mansion was oddly quiet as they walked in, but it soon began noticeable that they were indeed not alone. A figure sat on the spiraling stairway in front of them. At first, this figure seemed to look like a slender, tall young woman with shaggy black hair, wearing a flowing grey robe with small tattoo-like markings covering her upper arms. That is until this figure moved its bangs aside, revealing its single, large eye. “This is the new guy, eh?” The cyclops responded with a small grunt, leaning against the edge of the stairwell. “Welcome to the family, kid. I’m assuming you haven’t met the others, yeah?” She spoke once more, before shaking her head and standing up, sticking her hand out to Marcos, “For a proper introduction - I’m Chloris, daughter of the Cyclops and head chef in the cult.”

Chloris tilted her head out of confusion, as it seemed like the new member of the cult didn’t understand the word. She lifted her eyebrow over her single eyeball, and nodded her head, sticking out a pale hand to him. “Yeah. I’d introduce you to everyone, but I’m on a tight schedule right now. Makarios is probably going to show you around instead of sitting around and sleeping, right?” She casted a slight glare to the Minotaur, whom gulped nervously and nodded, often becoming scared around Chloris. She was quite, well, fierce, and sometimes unpredictable. “Alright, I’ll show you the others,” He replied quickly, leading Markos down the hall and towards a large room. A gold plate above the doorframe read “THE LOUNGE,” and inside this rather fancy lounge sat two quite large beings, both of them hardly looking human at all. A creature, having the lower body neck-down resembling a broad and fairly muscular male laid on one of the couches. However, from neck-up was three black dog-like heads, which all slept peacefully, their eyes shut and breathing softly while the main head in the middle snored. “That’s Nero. He’s the son of the Cerberus. And it’s best not to wake him up. Last time I did, he nearly ripped off my right arm,” The Minotaur whispered softly to Markos. And on the other side of the room sat a rather frightingly beast. From the head-up this time, it appeared to resemble another broad and slender male, having a few tattoos and mysterious markings on his chest and arms, along with fiery red hair. He seemed to be intently reading some sort of scroll, but from the body down, he resembled some sort of massive spider, his eight legs curled beneath him as he sat.

Adrian smiled widely. “R-really? You think I look good?” He asked. He was always so insecure because of his past, but hearing his roommate say that he looked attractive in something made his heart flutter. It helped that Otabek was hotter than him by a bazillion times.

“Yeah. I’m pretty positive, Aidan,” Otabek gave him a soft smile in return, his cheeks heating up once more at how happy the other sounded within the tone of his voice. He did find the other male quite cute, and enjoyed complimenting him quite a bit. “I probably have some more jackets and stuff from my old performances. They have to be in a box in the closet somewhere. I’ll try to find them for you, yeah?” The European male responded in his heavy accent, walking out of the room and into their walk-in closet in the hallway.

Adrian followed excitedly like a little lovesick puppy. He couldn’t help but admit he liked the other male a lot, but he also couldn’t tell him, afraid it would ruin their friendship.

After finding a medium sized box within the closet and opening it. “Would you like any of these?” Otabek questioned his roommate softly as he took a few multicolored sweaters out of the box with multiple designs on them, one of them being one of his old and favorite sweaters. It was a black fleece turtleneck with the words “SWEATER WEATHER” nearly printed on the front with a small, red heart embroidered on the collar.

“Can I try it on, Otabek?” He asked softly, hopping a little with excitement. He wanted to try them all on, especially the sweater weather one. It was so cute, he just had to try it.

Otabek nodded his head, and instead of his usual monotone expression being plastered upon his face, his soft lips actually twitched into a soft smile, his piercing eyes now looking at Adrian fondly. “You can keep it, actually. If you want to, you know,” The Kazakhistani male added.

Juvia scowls as she smacks his hand away, narrowing her eyes as she now crosses her arms over her chest angrily, facing in the other direction. “Juvia didn’t give you permission to do anything. Juvia and Dio are still on their first date. Nothing else,” The blue haired woman huffed.

“What.. W-What the hell?” Yuri stammered, quickly taking a step back, his mouth staying wide open with pure shock and terror. He then rubbed his eyes suddenly, thinking he was seeing things, but it turned out that he was not, as the centaur-like creature was still standing right in front of him. “What are you? Where did you even come from?” The Russian male questioned in a rather demanding tone, his accent thick as his hands turned into fists, not sure whether this being was there to harm him or not.

The male looked at the Russian for a moment before backing away slightly. “I didn’t mean to cross anyone I’m just curious…..I’ve never been around many humans before….except for the people who took me away from my home and brought me here….I’m a centaur, and I was really hoping no one would be here….” He admitted softly, looking at Yuri and lying down so that he was exactly the blonde’s height. “I’m just trying to figure out how to get back to my family…I’m sorry if I caused any trouble…”

“I-It’s..” The Russian male stuttered, not sure if “It’s fine” would even be a suitable reply at a strange time like this, but he sighed and shook his head. “Look, it’s okay, or whatever. I don’t even know what the hell is going on right now. Hasetsu is such a weird place. First I half to witness the drunk, dancing pig and his husband at karaoke night and now this,” He rambled, growling for a moment. Yuri sighed, running a hand through his blonde hair for a moment, “I’ll help you. I have nothing else to do, anyway. Where do you live, uh.. horse person?”

“Well, I live a very long way from this city, up in the mountains on the other side of the range that borders Hasetsu. I don’t want to trouble you at all, you don’t need to help me, really…” The male shook his head slightly, not wanting to put the other through any trouble. “You can just call me Jenga….But if you want to come with me to see my home, then you can come with me. I’m going t warn you, it would take us at least a week to get there if we walked, around three days at full run, at least for me…”

“Huh.. I guess I could come with you,” The blonde Russian male then murmured, furrowing his brows lightly before sighing dramatically, getting his phone out of his pocket. “What on Earth am I supposed to tell Viktor and Yuuri? Those two idiots are basically my parents at this point. But if I tell them that I’m going to hang out with a person who’s half horse for a week, they’re going to think I’m crazy!” Yuri groaned with frustration, face-planing himself.

“That would be a problem. Well, you could say that a friend invited you up to stay in the mountains or something. If you have friends that life in the mountains or visit there regularly that is…” The young centaur said, tilting his head a little and twitching an ear. “I mean, you would probably sound crazy otherwise…”

“Apparently you don’t understand how busy I am half the time. I’m a figure skater,” The Russian scoffed, rolling his eyes for a moment. Here and then though he would have time to relax, such as when he was with Otabek, or when he was in Hasetsu with Yuuri and his fiancé, Viktor, whom he often despised but enjoyed hanging out with him and Yuuri nonetheless. “I’m going to sound damn crazy as it is. I can’t even believe this is happening to me right now. And I still don’t even know who you are, or why you’re here!” Yuri raised his voice a bit out of panic, but forced himself to “man up” and not show it, crossing his arms over his chest as he looked away, his long, blonde strands of hair covering his ice-colored eyes.

“What..?” Viktor’s voice trailed off for a moment as the horse was now in full view, standing right there in front of his apartment. He dropped his bags to his side, slowly taking a step forward, and reached a hand out. “Maybe it’s friendly?” He murmured to himself, lightly touching the mare’s muzzle. But why was it there? Was this some kind of prank? And how did nobody notice it? A million thoughts seemed to race through the ice skaters head at that very moment.

“Alright. It may take a few minutes, however. I haven’t teleported anyone in quite some time now,” The God of Luck responded with a soft smile, suddenly pushing his palms together in a praying position, shutting his crimson-colored eyes closed. The tips of Geming’s fingers pressed against his forehead, and suddenly a small, red ball of light appeared in the space between them. The light became brighter by the second, and with a sudden flash or white light, the three were then transported to the river beside the village.

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“Hm. That’s good. Did you take out the trash, too?” Levi questioned as he lifted a thin brow, walking into the kitchen and over to the refrigerator, opening it before sighing angrily. He gritted his teeth in annoyance before speaking, “Shit, I forgot to pick up the desserts at the grocery store. We have everything except the cake and pie. I must’ve been so caught up with my damn job that I completely forgot about it,” He growled, quickly walking across the room to grab his coat, “Jean, I’ll be back in fifteen minutes.”

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