ON HIATUS Love When You Hate Me - Scarian Hero/Villain AU

Chapter 3 - Looking to the future

Mumbo took Grians hand in his own and dragged the avian to a group of three or four people.

Grian almost immediately spotted Martyn amongst the group and some kind of relief waved over him.

-"Mumbo!" Martyn hit the ravenette with his fist on the shoulder as a greeting when the two were close enough.

-"Hey, Martyn." He laughed before turning to Grian ever so slightly. "Look who I have with me."

-"Hi." Grian greeted his friend trying not to look at the other people.

-"Are you Grian?" A sweet voice asked on the right of Martyn.

The avian looked at the speaker. It was a girl looking a bit older than Grian and barely taller than him. Her eyes shone blue as the ocean with a few freckles lighter than her skin dusting the cheeks.

Her straight soft pink hair was put into a low ponytail that had two or three tiny braids mixed in. She had bangs cut into a straight line a bit over her eyebrows and two strands to her chin framing her face perfectly.

She wasn't wearing anything that would immediately stand out to the eye, just a white slightly oversized T-shirt and light blue jean shorts. She was also wearing pastel pink boots with a small heel.

-"Heh, yeah." Grian answered and moved up his hand to rub the back of his neck awkwardly.

-"Well, I'm Lizzie! It's nice to meet another of Mumbos friends." She introduced herself.

-"I'm guessing, I'm supposed to introduce you to the other two, right?" Martyn looked at Grian then at Mumbo who just shrugged with a smug 'you know it!' smirk.

-"That won't be necessary as I can introduce myself." A guy stepped more infront of Grian and spoke a bit over confidently. "I'm the one an' only Joel! The smartest, tallest, handsomest and greatest person here!"

The guy, Joel, was, in fact, not the tallest as he was shorter than Martyn and taller than Lizzie with Mumbo being the tallest, Grian the shortest and the other person, that was still unintruduced to Grian, between Mumbo and Martyn in height.

He had darker brown hair with a streak of green in the front. His eyes were about the same shade of brown as Grians.

He was also not wearing anything mesmerizing with a dark green hoodie that had the word 'tall' written on it with lighter letters. Dark jeans and black sneakers. If Grian had to say, somehow Martyn dressed better than this guy.

-"Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's Scott." Martyn rolled his eyes at Joel before gesturing to the last person.

Scott had fluffy teal-but-more-blue hair that was just barely shorter than Grians.

His eyes were more sky blue rather than Lizzies ocean blue. He also had blue circle-shaped sunglasses with a thin, barely noticeable, frame.

He was wearing a white, a bit tattered at the bottom, T-shirt with a light blue heart on it. Over the shirt was a see-through, even lighter blue, jacket that was dropped to his elbows. Scott was also wearing black jean shorts with white sneakers.

Just looking at him, Grian already could tell he liked the colour blue. It was mostly seen in the other two too, Lizzie and pink, Joel and green. It was also probably noticeable that he himself really liked red.

-"Well, Grian. We should probably go and get the other very important villain stuff ready before you can actually go out and beat up heros." Mumbo suggested.

Grian waved to the newly met people as the ravenette dragged Grian away by the hand they hadn't stopped holding. "It was nice meeting you!"

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Grian entered his apartment closing and locking the door after.

He took off his shoes leaving them on a small black rug next to a pair of shoes that didn't belong to him.

Walking in the kitchen he saw two plates of food on the dining table. It was a smaller table, but enough to fit four people around so Grian just called it a dining table.

-"Look who finally decided to show up!" A slightly annoyed voice came from somewhere infront of Grian.

He, without hesitation, looked at the speaker before sighing in relief.

-"Pearl! You can't do that to a man!" Grian half-scolded, Pearl, his older sister.

-"Oh yes, I can! It's 10pm, Grian!" She spoke with a more serious tone. "You said you'll be home by eight and don't even tell me I'm stressing too much, because you know very well what could happen to both of us if we're not being careful!"

-"Yes, I know and I'm sorry. I get that I should have texted you or something, but hey! I got a new job!" He tried to cheer up the moment.

-"Yeah. I heard." Pearl spat and walked to the dining table.

Grian washed his hands in the kitchen sink and went to join Pearl at the table.

-"So, tell me. What will I be calling you politically?" The seriousness was exchanged with a proud smirk on Pearls face.

Grian couldn't deny that he was some what exited about becoming a villain, "Seraphim."

-"Wow, now that's fancy." She complimented.

Of course he was gonna tell Pearl. She was his sister and a villain herself, so she would have figured that out at some point.

Pearl glanced up at Grian with an evil shine in her eyes.

"Imagine how hilarious it would be if an actual angel come out of nowhere and absolutely destroyed the 'Angel of light'." She spoke putting air quotes when referring to Chrysos.

Grian chuckled. It would be really funny, plus Grian was maybe a bit too sure that he could win a fight against Chrysos.

Maybe other people didn't see it, but Chrysos was, in fact, not an actual avian. He was a shape-shifter for gods sake! It was the most obvious things looking at how the idiot flew and how little he used his wings beside the flying.

Grian and Pearl, on the other hand, were pure avians. Wings large and strong. Their sight and hearing sharper than a diamond dagger.

-"Could you maybe swing by the bakery, I want some tasty treats before helping you not die tomorrow." Pearl asked after both of them were done eating.

Grian sighed, but accepted his sisters request,"Yeah, fine, I'll go. You want the usual or something new this time?"

Pearl unfolded her white wings a bit, spun in a circle then bowed down infront of Grian.

-"The usual." She smirked flirtatiously.

-"You're disgusting." The younger of the two spat with disgust and headed for his room.

As he entered his room Grian heard Pearl giggling to herself and couldn't help but let out a chuckle himself.

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Hi.
1st of all, Mumbo and Grian have a fully platonic relationship, but they're both very clingy so they act kinda like a couple while having zero romantic interest to one another.

2nd of all, Joels hoodie was inspired by Legendary Mango on YouTube.