His Puppet (Scaramouche x Reader)

Chapter Sixteen

We walked through the hallways with an occasional conversation, but both of us were mainly just enjoying each other's company. We had barely made it to his office when suddenly a loud panicked voice accompanied by footsteps shouted from behind "Sir! Sir we have a problem!" Our attention was immediately grabbed, and we both turned to find a very frazzled guard running towards us.

"What could possibly be wrong?" Scaramouches commanding voice brought the guard back a bit from his panicked state and he nodded anxiously as he calmed down. "It's the eleventh sir. He supposedly ran into an unknown blonde person just outside the castle and after a slight altercation their having a huge fight. We all believe she's trying to get in to the castle."

My head tilted in confusion, I thought he was talking about Aether at first but Aether is a guy so what was going on? Maybe it was Aether and the guard just saw wrong... But if it is him then what the hell are those idiots doing, I thought they were friends? Plus isn't Aether in Sumeru? "What?! You better be serious because if this is a joke you will regret ever even looking at a Fatui badge." I had known Scara long enough to know he was worried with that tone of his voice. "Sir this is no joke I saw it with my own eyes before I ran to get a harbinger."

For once in the entire two or three months that I had known Scaramouche, he was dead silent. "Get all of the other Soldiers or Harbingers you can find to meet up in the grand hall please, come on Y/N we have to go." He spoke gently and calmly so the soldier immediately knew this was serious and saluted before sprinting off.

Scara grabbed my hand and we both began sprinting down the hall. "Where are we going?" This had all happened so fast and I was still confused as this didn't seem like as big a threat as Scara was treating it. "We need to find the Tsaritsa because to be honest... I don't know what to do in this situation." I had never seen him so worried, and it scared me. This must be bad if even he was unnerved.

"Wait, do you know what blonde girl he's talking about? Are we in danger." Scaramouche stopped briefly and looked at me. "I'm going to tell you this only because technically you are a Harbinger. That girl is Lumine... Aethers sister." My eyes widened and my excitement took over. "Oh my god this is great we can tell Aether we found his sister now!"

He smiled sadly "I wish that this was a happy moment, but you don't understand. Lumine is the leader of the Abyss Y/N." My entire brain short circuited at this revelation."T-That's not possible, the Abyss has been around for hundreds of years and she's only been here for two or three??" He rolled his eyes at this. "Alright can we talk while we run this is very serious?!"

I flinched at his aggression but chose to listen to him and glare for now. "So I've never told you this but I used to be sent down into the Abyss for missions. Sometimes I would go alone and sometimes with Pierro. Around 40 years ago I ran into the leader of the Abyss. She called herself Lumine, but all of her mindless followers referred to her as the Princess." There was so much discomfort on his face as he talked about this, and I felt bad for not believing him at first.

"When she found out I worked for the Tsaritsa she flew into a rage and tried to kill me. Of course, it didn't work but she did badly damage my body to the point that it took Dottore 7 hours to repair all the delicate intricate parts she had damaged."

"Tell me now how fucked we are." I tried to offer a smile as he laughed at my statement. "It's fine, we'll get through all of this and then I'll finally be able to hear some more of your poetry." I smiled softly at him remembering what seemed like such a small moment to him but was obviously as prominent as it was to me.

"Yeah, and you'll be able to give me those combat lessons I was promised forever ago." We had finally stopped running as we reached the Tsaritsas door and he laughed as we both stood there not wanting to continue with whatever mess we were gonna get into by entering that door.