white and shadow

A/N: Takes place in the BoZ universe but can be read on its own. The beginning is a bit Rogue-centered but don’t worry, there is enough Sting/Rogue. Takes place when they are in their Mid-Twenties.

Warnings: None!

Rogue feels betrayed. To think that Sting would just leave him like this. Alone. To fend for himself.

“Don’t make such a face, it’s going to be fine. Relax. This isn’t your first photo shooting, is it?”

Well, not completely alone. Hibiki, a Blue Pegasus mage, is with him in the dressing room. While Rogue tries to collect himself, putting on the suit required for the advertisement, the older one attempts to calm his nerves. However, it only irritates him further.

“Ah, but it’s your first without Sting, sorry”, he realises before Rogue can reply to that

No story, but I had a bit of time during a train ride so due to Sword&Shield have some Pokémon AU headcanons

(warning: some implied spoilers for sword&shield so beware)

Sting and Rogue are a leader duo in the dragon type gym; their signature Pokémon are Flygon and Noivern

Sting wanted to be a champ but while he managed to beat the gym leaders he never won in the finale

The same goes for Rogue who was actually just fine being Sting’s rival until he felt challenged due to his loss in the quarter finale

The former gym leader thought it would be funny to let them fight against each other and determine his successor this way (both are worthy)

jokes on him since he match ended in a tie (Sting’s Espeon dies due to poison after defeating Rogue’s Umbreon)

He planned a rematch but Rogue was just like “I'l never get rid of him so we can just lead it together” which was meant half-jokingly and half-seriously

They weren’t a couple then but Sting was so happy that his rival/friend wanted to do this and agreed right away

cue them both lying in their own bed afterwards and going ‘oh shit I like him’ in the middle of the night

(they are professional though and won’t let their 'silly crush’ get in the way, so there are a lot of longing gazes when the other one isn’t looking)

They move in together eventually since it’s easier

Their Pokémon try their best to convince them it’s mutual but unfortunately they don’t speak human and have to watch how they awkwardly dance around each other.

Stingue Week 2019 Prompts: Heroic, Betrayal, Reminisce, Guilt, Union, Gratitude, AU AO3 | Full Story |  Excerpt | Chapter 21

For @oryu404​

Honesty (Excerpt from Chapter 21 of The Red Dragon)

Rogue lay on a blanket on the floor of the cave that had been their home for the last month or so, eyes wide open in the dark. This was but the latest in a series of caves they’d inhabited as they slowly made their way towards the island Natsu and Belserion had discovered.

Weisslogia couldn’t fly for very long periods, and whenever they moved from one place to another, he had to push himself so hard it took him months to recover and build up enough stamina to attempt the next move.

Rogue’s breathing came in ragged pants as he tried to distance himself from the vivid dream he’d just woken up from. It didn’t help that both his legs had begun to throb in agony. A flashback to the acid that had burned through parts of his body during his last battle. The phantom pain to his legs pulsated stronger than it had in several months.

Written for @stingueweek​ 2019; prompt: AU

Chapters (1/?): 1 Rating: Mature Relationships: Natsu Dragneel/Gray Fullbuster, Rogue Cheney/Sting Eucliffe Characters: Natsu Dragneel, Gray Fullbuster, Sting Eucliffe, Rogue Cheney, Erza Scarlet, Wendy Marvell, Bora (Fairy Tail), Kagura Mikazuchi, Gajeel Redfox, Tempester (Fairy Tail), Jackal (Fairy Tail) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Thieves, Thieves Guild, Heist, Costume Parties & Masquerades, Sneaking Around, Swordfighting, Magic, Magical Artifacts, Team as Family, Con Artists, Blood and Injury, Alchemy, plans that go terribly wrong, as usual, lots of swearing, Natsu’s plans are always convoluted, Gray’s not sure about them, Sting and Rogue are just along for the ride, Erza’s pretty sure it’s gonna blow up but wants to be there for it, it’s another heist, but there aren’t any bees this time, Stingue Week, Tumblr: FTLGBTales Series: Part 1 of richer and cleverer than everyone else, Part 1 of Stingue Week 2019

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“If we manage to get out of this alive, I’m going to cut off Natsu’s balls and feed them to the sharks.”

Sting rubbed a hand over his face and sighed noisily, then looked down at the little girl standing in front of him. She didn’t say anything, just stared up at him with wide, blue eyes and bunched the skirt of her frilled dress in her hands.

“I’m not going to hurt you, darling,” Sting reassured her, crouching down to her level and giving her what he had been told was his most charming, innocent smile. He held out his hand and she studied it for a second before reaching out and taking it. “There you go, love. You want to get out of here?”

She looked around the room, eyes landing on a small toy that was tucked onto the bed. Sting reached over and grabbed it – a small, plush cat – and handed it to her. “Better?”

She nodded and Sting squeezed her hand, then stood up and peeked out the door.

“All right,” he sighed, glad to see that the guards were still unconscious. “Since this whole thing was Natsu’s cockup, we’re going with his sure card.” He looked down at the little girl and grinned. “Let’s go burn something down.”

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Haku and Kuro Eucliffe Fanart by @oryu404

Stingue Week 2019 Prompt: AU Home for the Holidays 2019 Prompt: Family A collaboration by @mdelpin and @oryu404  AO3

Chance Encounter 

Chapter 1

Rogue closed his eyes for what felt like only a moment, only to be pulled out of sleep by the soft whining noises of an infant. A short silence fell, and he almost got his hopes up that it was simply sleep talk, but of course, luck wasn’t on his side. 

The whining repeated louder and more desperate to be heard. When no response was given, it quickly turned into a piercing wail. The staticky video monitor that sat on his nightstand called for his attention, but he stubbornly refused to reach for it yet. Holding his breath, he willed his son to go back to sleep on his own, but instead, the cry was quickly joined by a second one, and Rogue could only groan in frustration. Both twins were up now, and he was still so tired.

This is kinda of a third part of previous drabbles I wrote, being here and here. I think it works as an stand alone thing anyway, but a bit more context can be found there.

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Rogue sighed while he rubbed his left eye, looking at the screen. It was one am. He should have been sleeping two hours ago. He had to get up at seven. He sighed again, unable to type the goodbye words that would let him go to sleep. The party had disbanded almost one hour ago, most people going to sleep but he had been busy bantering with ShinyArmor and time had slipped away before he noticed.

He didn’t want to leave anyway.

He should.

Rogue was stupid.

Stupid because he was sacrificing a restful night just to interact with some pixels. Okay, no. That wasn’t fair. There was a person behind those pixels. A person he didn’t know, someone he had never seen nor talked to, but a person he considered his friend anyway. And he thought the other one did too. He had said so many times, at least.

And Rogue believed him, because he felt the same. He didn’t know anyone he had met in the game in person, but he considered everyone on his guild a friend. And, well, maybe more than a friend. He sighed again, knocking his head on the table and accidentally sending a ‘vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv’ string by public chat.

“U ok there?” sent ShinyArmor by personal messages.

Perfect. Just perfect.

“Yeah. Sorry.” Was his answer, and just a moment later. “I really need to leave now.”

Minutes passed without an answer, and Rogue was considering if he should feel hurt or just left for bed already. He was about to log off when he got another message.

“Ah.” Only that and Rogue wanted to break the screen. Seriously?

“it’s late.” Came another ping. “i didn’t notice. Got distracted by talking to you I guess.”

Rogue blinked. Wasn’t that what he had just thought?

“I’m going off too. Are u playing tomorrow? There’s a new dungeon we could try alone.”

Stupid, stupid Rogue couldn’t stop the smile from reaching his face. Stupid. 

“Sure. see you.”

“Sleep well.”

I feel bad for joining on the very last day of Stingue week

Day 7 - AU

This is the Edolas!AU

Edolas Sting = Sting Cliffe

Edolas Rogue = Ryos Scar

Day 7: AU

~Sting has come to realize who he really is and his destiny, the Nephilim, Sainamu- Advent Demon King Sting

You cannot hide your true self forever...

~ This is based off of one of my three verses for my blog.

True name: Sainamu (to torture/torment) given by his mother and father to scare his enemies so they wouldn't hunt him down by both sides for being born a nephilim.

Advent Demon King Sting~ how he is known by demons to strike fear and overpower them. He has gained the command of thousands of minions that one time underestimated him.

Species: Hybrid of Arch Angel,Human, (Nephilim) Demon and Dragon

*Part demon from while his human mother was pregnant with him became a demon herself then gave birth and dragon from his adopted father, the white dragon Weisslogia's antibodies no longer present in his body, over time with the use of his magic achieved dragonfication.

Human Name: Sting Eucliffe to blend in with humanity and embrace his human side more. He remains in his human form most of the time and only those he trusts that mostly being his twin dragon Rogue can see his true form of being a nephilim/demon king rather then glimpses to mess with the mind. He can show his true form to others though to prove a point or if he feels he has to battle.

Alias: White Dragon Sting name he gets from his notorious reputation of being the white dragon slayer.

Written for @stingueweek​ 2019; prompt: gratitude, and for @ftmlmages​ Home for the Holidays; prompt: family

Chapters (1/?): 1 Rating: General Audiences Relationships: Rogue Cheney/Sting Eucliffe, Natsu Dragneel/Gray Fullbuster, Levy McGarden/Gajeel Redfox Characters: Sting Eucliffe, Rogue Cheney, Original Child Character(s), Gray Fullbuster, Natsu Dragneel, Weisslogia (Fairy Tail), Gajeel Redfox, Levy McGarden Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Family Fluff, Family Feels, foster parenting, Adoption, Parent-Child Relationship, Adopted Children, Childhood Trauma, Language Delays, parenting, Fluff, Sting’s so excited to be a dad, him and Ryos are just super cute, Rogue is called Ryos as usual in this series don’t ask me why, Tumblr: FTLGBTales, Stingue Week, Christmas Series: Part 14 of the only hope for me is you, Part 1 of Home for the Holidays 2019

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“Okay, little man, I know you can do it.”  

Sting crouched down on the floor, hands out in front of him, wide smile directed at the little blond boy who stared at him seriously from a foot or so away. The boy’s chubby fingers were curled tightly around Ryos’, and he wobbled unsteadily on the carpet.  

“C’mon, Noah,” Sting said softly, beckoning with both hands. “C’mere.”  

Noah frowned, and for a second Sting thought he might start crying, but then he looked up at Ryos and took an uncertain step forward.  

“There you go!” Sting grinned as Ryos wriggled one finger out of Noah’s grasp, encouraging him to move forward on his own.  

Noah took a small step, then another, and when Ryos finally pried his other finger from Noah’s grasp, Noah stumbled forward for a second on his own before tumbling into Sting’s arms.  

“Good job, buddy!” Sting said, pecking Noah on the cheek and brushing the blond curls out of his face. “Pretty soon you’re gonna be tearing around here like a little tornado, making messes everywhere, huh?”  

“Mess,” Noah agreed, pressing his sticky hands against Sting’s cheeks. He reached for Sting’s earring, but Sting moved his fingers away gently, then stood up and shifted Noah to his hip.  

“Mess, indeed,” he said as Ryos moved over and wrapped an arm around Sting’s waist. “Isn’t that right, Ryos?”  

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Rogue x Sting + Gratitude

You’ve known for a long, long time that he’s a dork, with the way that he stops and has to pet every stray animal you come across, or how he’ll drop anything just to bring you flowers when he feels low and wants to see you smile. All the little pieces of him melt your heart over and over again, and the sensation of flying never really goes away. You love him with all your heart, and the little ways that his sunshine breaks through the clouds in his mind just make you fall deeper.

You’ll never be able to show the true extent of your gratitude for his dorkiness, though. Because thinking back to how he worked up the courage to ask you out, with a song by his favourite YouTuber… It was as if he wasn’t aware that you had been in love with him for years.

But when people ask ‘how did you two hook up?’, all you can do is smile, because the memory belongs to you and him, and no one else. So, all you can do to brush everyone off is,

“I liked him and he was kind enough to fall in love with me.” And the world continues, a little brighter and a little warmer, all thanks to your dork of a lover.

One of the bad things about Sting being the new guild master was that he didn’t have that much free time anymore. Not that he didn’t try to make time for Rogue, both to hang out and to take missions together, but he just couldn’t do it as often as he did before, when he wasn’t in charge the whole guild. So, when he was able to get up and find something to do with Rogue, they usually chose a moderately easy mission that would leave them enough free time to spend later.

This one wasn’t an exception, since Sting had a long week at the guild, a lot of paperwork to do and was almost climbing the walls with pent up energy but couldn’t take a trip longer than two days since there was a meeting coming soon.

Therefore, they took a missing in a neighboring town that had been raided by thieves more than once. And what a good time for them to drop, since this time they had raised the bets and actually kidnapped people inside the city hall and asked for a ransom. 

The thieves were weak, of course, it was obvious once they saw him, so Rogue took over the hostages, leading them to safety while Sting punched people around the building. As normal as any mission could go with them.

When it was done, the thieves were tied and unconscious, families were reunited and everyone in the town was outside the city hall waiting to see and talk to the city heroes. That’s when things got weird, as soon as the mayor started a speech.

“You have our Gratitude, young men-”

“Great, no need to thank us, we are just leaving now.”

Rogue was confused, since Sting liked to be praised by the people they helped, and absorbed the words like a sponge.

“Wait, we would like you to stay and-” The mayor tried again, but Sting was faster, already dragging Rogue towards the path leading to the town.

“No worries, that’s what we do, good day to you, you’re welcome!”

The Shadow Slayer waved his hand towards the multitude before getting free from Sting grasp to face him.

“What was all of that?” “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You didn’t let them talk.”

“I wanted to spend more time with you!” At that, Rogue stopped right on his tracks and looked back to the town that was barely visible with his dragon senses.

“Okay, what did you do?”

“I did nothing! Don’t you trust me!?”

Just as Sting said that, a loud crack was heard followed by the low boom of something big and heavy falling to the ground. Dust raised from the distant city and Sting flinched when Rogue looked at him.

“What did you do?” He asked again, deadly serious.

“Uhm. I may have gotten a little too excited.” “What?!” “It was a rough week Rogue! Leave me alone!”

“Sting!” “I will pay them back! It was just a town hall!”

Rogue sighed and rubbed his face. The things he did for love.

Day 6: Gratitude

Today’s entry for @stingueweek​ 2019; prompt: reminisce

we were just kids when we fell in love not knowing what it was  i will not give you up this time - ‘perfect,’ ed sheeran

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The treehouse is still up in Rogue’s parent’s backyard, and they sneak up into it together, shuffling awkwardly until they’re lying in the same place they did when they were little. Rogue’s legs are a little too long, but he doesn’t complain, just pulls Sting close and kisses the top of his head.

It’s like Sting never left.

“Sting.” Rogue says his name curiously, testing out the sound. “I knew, y’know. I mean, I didn’t know what to call it—that it was thing, that you could be a boy, but I knew.”

“I know,” Sting says, resting his head against Rogue’s shoulder. He feels so surreal, like he’s existing simultaneously as a ten-year-old and his adult self, and both of them are safe and warm and loved. “I didn’t know how to tell you.”