More than life- machine gun Kelly
Hunters pov:
I ran from the tent and grabbed y/ns hand taking her a safe distance away as the shop went up in flames.
"Titian Hunter what did you do?!" She yelled but she looked up at me not like she's was annoyed or upset she looked... astonished? Proud? I wasn't sure, though I knew her well enough to know she lived for chaos so that had to be it.
Right?
I smirked as she stared at the shop set up in flames, "while you were socializing with the wild witches," I added with a tang of playfulness, "I noticed snake oil, and lots of it. Snake oil is supper flammable so all I had to do was douce the tent in it, and set it aflame. I gave you a thumbs up but you didn't get the memo so I had to use rope from around the shop to create like a time bomb, and we'll, you know the rest," I said almost proudly.
She just laughed excited and held out her hand to high-five me and I accepted it, "whoa! Look at you Goldie!"
My eyebrows furrowed, "don't call me-"
Then my attention turned away from the fun conversation when I noticed the owl lady trying to fly away and the thought of Belos rang through my ears.
This could be it! If I captured the Owl Lady then Belos would finally see me as worthy enough and then I won't be stuck with her. I could get my worth and my missions back. This had to work.
"The Owl Lady!" I yelled pointing to her, the Amethyst Guard seemed to get the memo and nodded quickly, she ran after her with me. Eda began to get on her staff but Iris used an abomination spike with the ring of her finger causing them both to fall off.
Me and her chased after the Owl Lady but a blast of flames hit y/n as she cried out in pain. There stood the human with her glyph magic ready to throw us off their tail as she ran with the owl lady.
"You get Eda! I've got the human!" She yelled to me. I nodded and ran off the side of a building, and jumping off of the top of a crate to doge the human and catch up with the Owl Lady.
I landed a few feet in front of her and she stoped quickly, she readied her staff and smirked at me, her gold took shining.
"Ah so you're the beat up blond Luz was talking abt. Do you know what she said about you?" She asked, a shit eating grin never leaving her face.
Worthless,
Unwanted,
Useless.
I let out a groan in anger as I charged at her, swiping behind her and just barley missing her as she jumped out of the way.
"She said she met a bad but sad boy, with no magical powers." She smiled, "so we really aren't that different are we kid?"
I gritted my teeth in anger, "I'm nothing like you!" I yelled as I teleported behind her, tripping her and causing her to stumble back. "You're a wild witch with no regard for the rules and witches around you!" I stormed as I sent a blast her way, hitting her arm, "you're rude and destructive, you're selfish, over confident, cantankerous, and arrogant." I roared as I sent another blast towards her staff causing it to fly back, then another red blast to her cheek, mocking her down with the end of my staff as I stood over her, "but most of all, you're pathetic." I spat out as my staff glowed red to her throat.
She just smirked at me, that witch smirked at me. "I may be all of those things but at least I'm free and can decide my future for myself," she said quickly, the pain hit me hard knowing I had mentioned that to the human.
Last time I will ever be vulnerable with someone like that, titian what was I thinking?
Not enough as the owl lady kicked me back, grabbed her staff and then began to fly, racing towards the Amethyst guard.
"Y/n look out!!" I yelled, she looked and jumped out of the way just in time as the owl lady grabbed the human and sped off before the human blew a raspberry at us.
I punched the ground hard, hard enough I thought my knuckles were bleeding.
Damn it.
Damn it damn it damn it.
The Amethyst Guard ran up to me, "hey are you ok-" she asked and began to touch my shoulder but I flinched and she refrained from it.
Why don't you just go to Belos and tell him how much of a fuck up I am?! He already likes you better than his own nephew so what's the point?? I might as well just let him replace me with you because I can't get anything right. I can't even prove that I'm useful to him.-
I wanted to tell that as anger rose inside me, but I saw her face. The way her eyebrows creased and her eyes were... kind. She was genuinely concerned about me and for the love of Titian I couldn't understand why.
I sighed hard, "yea, I'm okay.." I noticed the burn on her forehead, "oh crap- are you??"
I didn't have the energy to hide that I actually was a little concerned.
She felt the top of her head and sighed, "yea, it's just a burn but you're bleeding.." she pointed to my cheek that had old blood on it and down my cheek. I touched it and realized what she was talking about. I quickly used my sleeve to wipe it away, a stinging reminder of how much of a failure I was to Belos from the talk earlier this morning.
"Yea, it must've been from the fight..." I shook my head and ran my gloves fingers through my hands, "we should head back, our main mission is completed." I said quickly. She nodded.
I let her ride with me on my staff to the place we put her armor as she changed back into it. Some weird part of me missing seeing her without it. Weird.
She the paused and turned to me.
"Oh yea, when I was "socializing and definitely not distracting Eda and the Human" I snagged this.
She handed me a weird ring. "What is it?" I asked as I held it in my hand, she shrugged.
"The human said it's a moody ring that reads your moods off of your body heat. I thought if we won't be taking the owl lady back, one of us might as well go back with something. Here, this is the chart for what the colors mean." She instructed and handed me a piece of paper. I stared at the weird gift and softly smiled.
"Oh, uh, thanks." I said quieter then I wanted, "did you snag something for yourself?" I asked, feeling almost bad if she didn't.
She nodded and pulled out a circle thing. "It's supposed to play music when you feed it the CD thing she called it. I just have to remember how it works." She explained and I nodded again, hopping into my staff and putting the ring into a side satchel.
We headed back to the castle and Belos congratulated us on the successful mission, thankfully he didn't ask me to stay behind and asked us to do small individual strands around the castle.
Like most nights when my shift ended I found myself in the dim lighting of the library, I knew Belos said not look for it but if I could just find a cure... I could fix this mess, and prove myself, finally.
I was caught on a block in the reading, it felt like I couldn't understand the passage no matter how many times I re-read it. I was frustrated and began to fidget with my belt and then remebered the satchel and what was inside it. I decided I needed a break as I took the ring out.
It needs my body heat? Weird...
I took out the paper Y/n gave me and looked through what the colors meant.
Grey was its Neutral, the wearer is content and not feeling anything,
Dark blue was signs of love and romantic interest,
Yellow was happiness,
Black was stress and overworked,
Red meant anger or excitement,
Amber was mixed emotions and nervousness,
Green meant calmness and a sense of comfort and joy,
And purple was fear.
I reluctantly took the glove off, showing my calluses and rough hands, a few scars on them. The ring was a grey color but once I put it on my ring finger it turned black, surprise surprise. I sighed and fidgeted with the ring, making it go in circles and then reread the passage and I actually understood it.
I smiled softly and sighed of relief.
So I'm not loosing it, good to know.
I then looked back at the song and felt myself softly smile, maybe... y/n wasn't as bad as I made her out to be, or at least as bad as she acted. It wasn't her fault I was incompetent, it was mine. Even so... it felt... nice, to get a gift from someone, even if it was by mere convince me and she likely didn't have anything else to do with it. It was still nice, and evidently it was helpful, and for that I was at least grateful.
I turned my attention to the page I was reading and unknowingly to me, the ring changed to a mixture of dark blue and green.
Your pov
I laid awake that night rethinking of my interaction with the human...
I had told Hunter to leave her to me and after some witty back and forth banter we began to try to hit each other with our spells, then she stopped and turned to me quickly, "Belos is Evil! How do you not see that! He imprisons and kills wild witches and I know from talking with Hunter that he treats you both like shit!" She yelled, I was taken aback. She knew Hunter?
"You don't know what you're talking about! Belos took me in after my mom died because she was indulging in wild magic! Him imprisoning wild witches is just him beating the inevitable! And if he was so bad why would he take me in like that??" I asked as I sent another blast of ice her way to witch she blocked with a big fire spell.
"Oh I dunno, maybe because you were little and would then owe him your life and make it easier to manipulate you?!?" She yelled, jumping off of a crate to get behind me.
I scoffed, using plant magic I grasped her ankle causing her to trip and fall face first.
"You don't know anything, about me or Belos." I snapped.
She rolled her eyes again, "I hyper fixated on phycology in the 6th grade I wouldn't test that!"
I rolled my eyes to match hers, "how do you know how Belos supposedly treats us? And how do you know Hunter??" I asked, using the rest of my vines to keep her stuck in place.
"I met him when he was trying to steal Palismen, he opened up about Belos taking him in when he was young, he had this whole thing about how hard it was to be a powerless witch and that he always had work twice as hard as everyone else because something about being useless, you know the whole stick." She noticed the look on my face.
Powerless???
She paused and I noticed the "oh shit" look on her face, "I- oh crap I thought you knew- I mean I honestly thought you two were dating-"
My heart caught in my throat, "what-?!"
"Y/n LOOK OUT!" I heard his voice yell as I noticed the owl lady and jumped out the way.
As Hunter then helped me get my armor I couldn't help but keep looking at him, was he really powerless?
Now that I think of it I've never seen him use spells, but a powerless witch? That's unheard of..?
I felt... bad, especially with how he flinched after the defeat of catching the owl lady. So I gave him what I felt like would help, mabye? I honestly wasn't sure what I was doing.
I sighed and sat on my bed, pulling the CD thing out, I messed with the buttons and tried to follow what the human instructed.
He was taken in too?
Easy to manipulate,
Powerless,
Dating???
Then the sound of a tune interrupted my thoughts and began to play in the headphones,
~ I walked across an empty land~
Titian what am I doing?
~ I knew the pathway like the back of my hand~
I put my hands up to my face as the music played, was hunter really powerless??
I kept thinking and thinking, what the hell was she talking about, why was I letting that human in my head, useless? Was he okay? Why do I care, he's snarky, and rude and overconfident and... and
I thought about when I saw him the first mission, the sun that illuminated his features and he looked so... not the Golden Guard, I think that was the first times I ever saw Hunter not the Golden Guard.
And he was my age, and had lost people due to wild magic too...
~I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin, and if you have a minute why don't we go, talk about it somewhere inly we know, this could be the end of everything so why don't we go, somewhere only we know~
Titian he's making it so hard to hate him.