Sitting on the ground with my knees up, I rubbed my temples in hopes of avoiding from getting a headache. Not like it would help with the continuous amount of twinkling bell sounds being rung in my left ear without any sign of stopping. I exhaled a sign of frustration, dragging my face down with my hand.

I sidelong over to Homura. His little body sat up straight, relaxed and unbothered while his right paw had trapped a little blond fairy. She wriggled and struggled under the black paw, banging her tiny little fist at it in hopes of hurting the nasty orange fox who just glanced at her lazily. Clearly watching her as if she was stupid to even try to defeat his mighty paw on top of her.

"What a dumb fairy. Your even dumber than this dead human cub" Homura commented bluntly, blinking away his grumbling annoyance. "What shall I do with you?"

"Let the fairy go."

Homura snapped his head to me and his predatorial eyes glanced at me baffled. "What?!"

"She's no threat. So let her go" I repeated again but this time my voice was cold and demanding, clearly not in the mood to argue.

His lower jaw dropped, and he was speechless. "But she is with enemy?" he tried to argue, getting annoyed his effort of capturing the fairy has gone to waste.

"Enemy? There is no enemy Homura. So let her go. Stop making me repeat myself. It's getting really annoying."

Homura wasn't happy with my decision and glared at me. Those sharp amber eyes glimmering with displeasure. When he saw that I wasn't budging and that I was fixed with my decision, his expression lightened, and he looked at me boredly. He didn't seem to want to argue with me like before and he let it go.

"Fine but don't come at me if she attacks you. She seems to be feisty little one" Homura said with a flat tone, his told you so voice.

When Homura had lifted up his paw, the fairy immediately zipped away, taking her chance to escape. Sparkling glitter of gold particles trailed behind her as her wings twinkled like small jingle bells when it flapped. Like a charging rhino she flew towards me with full speed, aiming to throw an attack punch at me.

The little blond fairy didn't get a chance to even lay a little finger on me when I caught her with my hand, blind sighted. A deafening screech of a jingle burst my left ear drum when I had caught her. It may have been a shout of surprise.

Her whole body fit perfectly in my palm and her head stuck out from the enclosed index finger and thumb. Her head would sway left and right as she tried to free herself out from my tight grasp around her body.

I brought my hand to my eye level and gazed coldly at the glaring fairy. Her thin brows scowled down into one tight knot, lips pursed shut and frowning, her whole face was a shade of red. She was fuming with anger.

I rose a questionable brow when I looked at her. "Odd to see a fairy with a human guy." I questioned curiously. I already know that fairies have always distant themselves from humans. They were terrified of them and would hide away when there was any sighting of them neabry. It was no wonder fairies were never close to human civilisations nor linger around those sorts of areas where humans resided.

I found out this from the old hag, Elisaria.

Not to mention that fairies would never aid a human unless a human proves to them that they are trustworthy by showing it, either from saving them or whatever. I never got to hear the rest because Homura started screaming like a dying pig because Alaric ate his meat.

Fisting my free hand, I laid my cheek against my knuckles. "Did he save your little ass, or did you just fall for his pretty face?" I asked the little fairy, a hint of sarcasm added to my tone just to see her pissed off even more.

She didn't say anything, and her nose scrunched up even more. She seems to hate me.

"Please let Sereia go. She just a harmless fairy whose got nothing to do with this."

I side glanced at Ciel. It seemed like he finished agonising in pain on all fours and stood up to face me. He was able to stand strongly in his place without staggering from the aching pain of his male genital. His pretty blue eyes gazed at me intently and his expression stern and stoic. His thin brows was a perfect symmetric line as it furrowed down, slightly enough to show his determined expression. It just added to his handsome carved face.

He seemed like he would risk his life for this mythical creature grasped in my hand.

I suddenly felt a little weirded out. Please don't be what I think it is.

'This ain't the seven deadly sins, Ciel. Please no, I beg of you.' I quivered in disgust at thought of it and just stared at Ciel in repulsion. He looked at me a little confused not understanding what I was thinking.

This guy is not so bright. It just suddenly made him look fugly.

I averted my eyes from him before I was drained into his stupidity. My blue eyes looked back at the little fairy in my hand. Long waving blond hair danced slowly with the rhythm of the gentle breeze, her gem blue eyes were like little sapphires on a ring. Little button nose and light shaded pink cheeks that pouted that was about to burst.

My eyes widened in realisation, and I nearly released her.

This little fairy was one the girls who played with my hair while I was taking a bath in that beautiful enchanting spring back in the forest.

'No way! why the hell is she against me now? She seemed to be having so much fun playing with my hair last time.'

"Please let her go now." Ciel demanded politely. He looked vulnerable with that pleading look in his ocean blue eyes. It was like eye opening scene for me.

My eye twitched and I smiled with irritation at the little fairy. 'You tiny little shit. You fuckin' traitor.' My hand pumped with blood, tempted to tighten my grip on this little traitor. 'You're lucky I'm a nice person or I would have squeezed you tight that your head would have popped.'

I sighed, letting my temper slip away. I released my hold on the fairy and she quickly flew off towards her prince in shining armour.

The carrot head.

The pretty boy.

The dick head.

As much as I felt betrayed by this fairy, I didn't let it get to me. Although it still hurt, her choosing this guy over someone like me. I mean what's wrong with me?

I heard her twinkling bells; it was bright and cheerful not like before when she was whacking Homura's paw with her fist and her startled cry when I had grabbed her in mid-air before she slammed the side of my head with her tiny body.

Ciel light huff of chuckle made me look at him in a little baffled. It was like listening to a calming sound of a flute being played in an enchanted forest. Who knew this guy had a nice laugh?

I suddenly sneered in disgust and turned away from the orange dragon dude.

I like Itami's laugh bett-

I immediately halted my thoughts and frowned annoyingly. Why do I keep comparing that traitor to any handsome guy I see? It pissed me off so much that I wanted to punch Ciel's face into nothing but mush.

"Thank you" Ciel said gratefully. "Even if your brutal and ruthless, I guess you can be a little merciful with creatures" he added with a slight warm smile as if he could something pure inside of me.

My nose scrunched up in annoyance and I felt very insulted by his comment.

'A little merciful? I'm always merciful, you dumb bastard!'

His gaze at me made me want to throw a rock at the flying fairy beside him who was hovering by the side of his head like a little lovesick puppy dog and then watch those pretty eyes cry instead.

But I didn't because I'm a nice person....

In some areas of aspects of my life though.

"Whatever..." I huffed in displeasure, slamming my chin on my palm and rolled my eyes at him. I wasn't in the mood to talk anymore and just wanted to get out this man's sight. I wished he would disappear already.

I looked over to Jackal.

That little brat was sprawled on the floor with his cloak as a blanket, unconsciousness and not looking like he would wake up in a while. I don't know why and how he fainted out of nowhere but I when he wakes up, I will smack him until he tells me why he is so useless.

This kid will be death of me one day.

When I averted my eyes away I met with Homura who was just staring at me blanky. His amber eyes were glazing like sweet honey under the rays of the sun. Although by the revealing of his eyes he seemed to be waiting for something to happen again, like a punch on or a death to death battle to entertain his narcissist personality.

While I continued to analyse him, this fox cocked his head to the side, questionably. "What?" he remarked sharply. His orange fur was bright orange like blazing fire in the night and looked so soft to touch. He had just taken a bath in the stream yesterday, and it smelled like soft rain with a scent of fresh grass.

I could sense my arm move on its own and soon I found myself rubbing the side of his neck just above his white floof. It was so fluffy and soft. It was like being under a warm blanket in the middle of the winter, with the heater on and a cup of warm hot chocolate clutched in my hands.

I felt bad for yelling at him earlier. I didn't like how I reacted towards Homura because of some lame vision that flashed in my head. Homura was being Homura and I never had taken it out on him for things he always said but this time was different.

I blame myself and the universe for putting those images in my mind and making me lash out on this fox. He didn't deserve any of it.

'Your future cubs aren't going to be ugly. They are actually going to be cute.'

Homura's reaction to my sudden caressing of his coat made him frozen stiff as if death was beside him. He narrowed his ambers eyes at me and stared at me curiously. "What are you doing?" he questioned. "Stop. I said stop. St-"

Instead, he stopped midway and his eyes fluttered to a shut. He was enjoying the little rubs I was giving him, making him purr under his breath.

I felt a little warmth in my heart that beat like it was alive again. "You dumb fox" I mumbled softly, smiling just a little bit as I watched Homura enjoy the rubs that he won't receive for a while.

It all ended quickly when he snapped out of it and smacked my hand with his paw. "Stop this atrocious behaviour. I refuse to ever like your warm, soft..." he paused for moment as if he was trying to process his thoughts on what he just said. "Your filthy stick paws on my beautiful and delicate fur" he corrected himself quickly.

'I take back what I said about you. You little shit of a furball'

My moment was interrupted by Ciel's soft patter of footsteps against the lushes grass of the forest floor. I didn't need to look but I felt his presence as he crouched down beside me. Legs spread apart and squatted. Hands resting upon his thighs as he looked at Homura warmly.

For a moment everything was silent and the only thing I could hear was the gentle melody of the wind. The same wind that had glided his scent towards me. I held my breath for a moment not realising what was going through my mind, when I smelt his loving scent.

It was like the smell of the forest when autumn has begun. The warm coloured leaves that would fall gracefully down to the floor of the forest and make a bundle of orange leaves that a child would jump into.

Like the fresh scent of pine trees in the middle of Autumn.

I stole a glimpse of the man. Perfectly built figure under those clothes when he squatted down, his messy orange hair on top of his head shone under the rays of the sun but what struck me the most was his enchanting blue eyes that gazed at Homura with such tenderness.

With a soothing and gentle tone of his, Ciel spoke.

"You really are merciful with creatures, aren't you Artemis Ray."