"Little Lady" || Laurance Zvhal x Fem!Reader - MCD

Chapter Twenty-Three : The First Trial

Y/N, Amber, and a few other people stood outside of Nahakra Village in the forest.

The boss loomed over them, being stood on a small hill so that they could all see her.

"Each of you wants to join the Guild of Thieves! However, you cannot become one of us if you do not steal value like us!"

"Diamonds themselves do not count, however you choose to acquire these items is up to you. Anything goes!"

Y/N fixed her gloves as she was talking. She was ready for this and wasn't going to let anyone steal an item from her.

"You are forbidden from helping each other, though, you may steal from each other!"

Y/N looks over at the town that can be seen over the trees, "You have until sundown, then we'll regroup at the base, if you don't get caught that is.." Boss cackles before shouting at them to go.

Immediately Y/N runs into town, stopping so that she doesn took suspicious. Even though she had a task to do, she first needed to make sure that everyone was safe.

Since they weren't allowed back on the ship Y/N could only assume they were in some sort of tavern or inn. Rather than asking around, she just went around looking by herself.

It didn't take her that long to find a tavern that was sure to have some rooms since it was sort of big.

She walks in and sits down at the only stool left. "Excuse me ma'am?"

The barkeep looks up and nods at her, "Aye?"

"I was wondering if a group of 5 people came into town looking for a room?"

"Depends, are ye going to buy somthin'?"

She nods and give her a couple of coins, "Can I get some orange juice?"

The lady gets it and gives it to her, "If I describe them to you, would that help?"

She picked up a glass and started drying it with a towel, "Of course, go on,"

"There are 3 guys and 2 girls. One of the guys has snow white hair and green eyes, one of the other ones has brown hair, blue eyes, and orange cat features." Obviously referring to Laurance's lack of human ears and him having a tail and all.

The girl was about to continue but she was interrupted by the barkeep who described Katelyn, Aphmau, and Aaron perfectly, "Aye, they rented a room, must be pretty rich since those rooms are 5 diamonds a night.."

"Do you mind if I go and talk to them?" She was excited to see them since it's been at least a day.

"Sure lass, I give you permission to go up there if you be a promisin' not to cause any fights or problems." Y/N was slightly offended that she had to clarify that she wanted no problems, until she remembered what she was wearing.

She probably looked suspicious to the barkeep.

"I had no intentions of doing anything like that ma'am," Grabbing her drink, Y/N hops off the stool, opening the door. She goes up the stairs, only to be stopped by Laurance, who had her up against the wall with his sword to her throat.

"Who are you?" Y/N was surprised to say the least, so surprised she dropped her orange juice.

"Laurance! It's me!" Laurance reaches over to pull off her mask, relaxing once his eyes glazed over her familiar features.

He drops his sword and pulls her into a tight hug, "You had no idea how worried I- we were.."

Once he pulls away, Y/N's bombarded with questions, "Where have you been? Everyone's out looking for you!"

She gives him a quick recap of what had happened.

"So I have to join the Guild in order to get more information." Laurance nods, understanding why she had done what she had done.

"But you're not a thief Ophelia.." She looked away awkwardly, technically she was one, he just didn't know.

"I'm just playing the part Laurance.. My first task is to get something that's worth a diamond.

Laurance opened his mouth to object but Y/N silenced him with a 'just listen' look.

"You guys need to stay in the village to see if you can find another way to find out what happened to them."

"Please promise me you'll be safe.."

"Of course I will Laurance, I'm stronger than I look." She looks up at him softly, "Be sure to let the others know I'm safe all right?"

"Alright.. but I want you to check in with us in two days. If you don't come, I'm going to look for you."

"Okay.." she moves to leave but he stops her, "And you said you needed something of equal value to a diamond?"

"Yep," she'd have no problem getting that on her own. She was putting her mask and hood back on when Laurance draped a very expensive looking coat over her arm.

"Would you look at that, wow. I can't believe a Little Lady like yourself stole that from me," he feigns shock as he walks backwards.

This made her heart flutter, she could've easily done this task by herself but Laurance was giving her this coat so she didn't have to.

"Laurance.. thank you..”

He gives her a small smile and nods, "Good luck Little Lady.. Now go.."

Y/N quickly leaves, walking out of the tavern with a newfound determination because of Laurance.

When she out to the side, she sees Travis confronting Amber. She must've tried stealing from him since he had her against the wall with his sword up against her throat.

They didn't seem to notice her so she sighed, walking up to Travis, hitting him upside the head with the hilt of her dagger.

She pushes him down and grabs Amber, running up the stairs.

Sorry Travis..

Brilliant, I had no idea you could do something like that to someone you know..

Y/N groans and runs faster, Amber struggling to keep up, she only stops when they get into the forest. They were out of sight, Y/N was only slightly out of breath, Maver was struggling a bit but she would be fine after some rest.

"You weren't supposed to help me..!" She sort of whisper shouted, her words said Y/N shouldn't have done that, but her expression was one of gratitude.

"Did you get your item?"

"Yeah.."

"Good, then you're welcome.. consider it motivation to get the music box back."

She nods, moving to pull something out of her pockets. "Look! I was able to snag this crystal eye. It was being sold but I stole it right from the salesperson's nose!"

"I snagged this really expensive coat from some random guy who dropped his stuff." A lie but a believable one because Y/N doesn't have obvious tells.

"Woah.. that's probably worth more than 1 diamond! But I also got some information on an ancient treasure under Falconclaw!"

Information is always very valuable, that kind especially works for the Thieves Guild.

"Well, that is some very valuable information Amber.."

Y/N turns around to see the boss, "However, that village is cursed. Long ago, the Lord went mad and slaughtered every single one of his villagers."

Y/N tilted her head, she didn't even know where Falconclaw is. Or was.

"Sounds terrible.."

"It happened long ago, but we don't mess with the otherworldly. Now that you two have finished your tasks, despite the intervention with Amber.." she looks right at Y/N who only shrugged.

"You two will move on to the next trial."

"Are you going to tell us what that trial is?" Y/N figured she would but she had already turned around to leave.

While she walked away, Y/N could hear her say in a clear voice,

"Stealing from the City of O'kasis."