Just A Zodiac Story

a demonoid has a nightmare?!

Autumn was starting, luanesha was having fun learning magic and mishura even joined them occasionally, Julian however couldn't shake off an odd feeling he got whenever he watched luanesha use combat magic, occasionally dielli and ai-jun would join them and Luanesha would fight with them using only the magic Julian taught her, and now was a day in which everyone had a day off and so, Amara decided that they would spend the day together, however as Julian watched the zodiacs talk or argue while they all sat in the garden playing some games together, memories flashed through his head, mishura however quickly took noticed and put a hand over his while Julian took a bite of a piece of cake Lumi had made earlier that day as it was now the afternoon, "has something happened Julian? You look a little paler then usual..." Mishura said as he looked at Julian his voice calm but his eyes held a hint of worry, the other zodiacs however were too busy forcing Emiliano to swallow one of mishura's most bitter medicines as punishment for failing the challenge in the game they were playing, Julian smiled and put the fork in his mouth eating the cake and smiling as his tail wrapped around mishura's wrist carefully, mishura looked at the tail and frowned knowing it was something Julian only did in certain occasions, "I'm fine~ just remembering something..." Julian said with a smile and held a piece of cake to mishura's mouth, mishura sighed and shook his head after accepting the piece of cake, "we will talk more about this later then..." Mishura said as he glared slightly at Julian, Julian smiled but his gaze held no emotion as he just continued eating while he watched the zodiacs play, "OH COM'N! YA CAN'T BE SERIOUS RIGH'NOW CAN YA!? YE CAN'T JUST TAKE MY CARDS LIKE THAT!" Jacob yelled as Lumi gracefully stole his cards, "well, I already have...so I must say my dear little brother~ you are a bit useless in this game~" Lumi said with a smile, lielly just ate a lollipop as she threw down her cards, "I give up, I don't think I can beat Lumi or Amara at this shit" lielly said and just leaned back where she sat, Ashton chuckled, "lielly, you didn't have to give up like that" Ashton smiled, Julian smiled as he watched them play, "well that bitch of a witch already beat us didn't she? And boss is still wiping the floor with the damn snake!" Dielli said as she was still recovering from the taste of the bitter medicine she had to drink from failing the challenge you had to do when you lost in the game, meanwhile lielly was just getting her challenge from some papers in a box that ai-jun was holding, "alright~ what did I ge-" lielly was about to say but froze when she read it, "alright mishu bring me the fucking bottle" lielly said with no hesitation as she smiled annoyed and turned her hand into scissors and cut up the paper, "UN PINCHE MINUTO! THE HELL DID THAT SAY!?" Emiliano yelled, lielly smiled depressively, "it said to survive drinking ai-jun's poison while dressing in my most embarrassing outfit and to Livestream it..." Lielly said as she snatched the bottle of medicine from mishura and drank it all in one go as if her life depended on it, Emiliano looked at her in shock as Julian chuckled, Ruben sighed, "I'm glad I didn't get such a thing, but I feel being forced to wear a dress for the rest of our day off is equally as bad since it is embarrassing for us" Ruben said with a smile as he was forced to wear a dress chosen by Lumi, and kazuki had just not said anything about his challenge and drank the medicine, since the medicine was something for snake poison that was extremely bitter to the point the zodiacs would prefer getting slapped then drinking it, it was perfect for a punishment for not doing the challenges, and as the game progressed, Jacob finally lost, leaving Amara and Lumi who were the last two who still hadn't lost alive in the game, Jacob just laid on the grass sulking as ai-jun patted his head, "there there...it no longer matters as the pictures were taken, the blackmail has been acquired" ai-jun said to Jacob, Jacobs challenge was letting lielly put makeup on him and letting the other zodiacs take pictures of him, however ai-jun took full advantage and now had blackmail material as she called it, "shut up...damn scorpion..yer the fuckin worse..." Jacob said as he laid on his side, Emiliano and dielli laughed as kazuki and Ruben just sighed, Ashton and luanesha shook their heads in disapproval,Aveline just sighed as he ate some cookies as mishura just watched them before glancing back at Julian who was just quietly watching, his gaze empty and emotionless which was odd for him who was usually cheerful and trying to play around with everyone, as the game continued in the end Lumi ended up losing and was forced to down a bottle of mishura's favourite vodka, however in the end she got lucky and they turned it to whiskey because mishura backed down and refused to give up his precious alcohol he reserved for long meetings, Julian ended up finally laughing when mishura said: "actually- forget it", mishura had said before teleporting a bottle of whisky, "you idiots aren't touching my liquor" mishura said with an annoyed expression, Lumi sighed in relief as she was weak to alcohol and drinking a powerful alcohol like vodka would surely end up bad, however whiskey was just as bad for her which she had forgotten because of the relief she felt, and so she just grabbed the bottle, opened it, and drank the contents catching mishura off guard, Lumi after drinking it all at first seemed fine as Emiliano and Ruben both laughed, "nice one! Your better then I thought!" Emiliano said laughing, "your quite good I guess, usually downing a bottle of whiskey knocks out my friends" Ruben said with a smile, meanwhile kazuki seemed to be more conscious of what was about to happen because he quickly began walking towards Lumi, Lumi was already smiling like a fool which kazuki had quickly noticed thanks to all the drinking parties he had attended in the past, and now he was used to always having his guard up whenever alcohol was around, "HeEeY?! WhEre the HeLl aRe we? Hey mishura...what's was that stuff? It tasted..weIrD! ThAt ShwiT WaSn'T gRapE jUiCe riiight?" Lumi began speaking as kazuki quickly grabbed her by the shoulders, "weak to alcohol...like always" kazuki sighed remembering how in the past Lumi had it forbidden drinking any alcohol because if she did she would get drunk with just a cup, everyone looked surprised as kazuki just picked up Lumi, Julian sighed and smiled bitterly a memory flashing through his head, "you should get her to her room, be sure to get some medicine and get something warm for to drink, it's...what I used to do for my comrades when they got drunk" Julian said with a smile even if he was forcing it, Aveline quickly noticed and sighed, "we'll take care of it Julian...but how about, you also get some rest? Something seems to be weighing on your mind these past couple of days" Aveline said to Julian, "and I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed" Aveline said glancing at mishura, Julian looked at mishura and nodded knowing what Aveline meant, "yes..alright...I will be going to take a little nap then.." Julian said, he gently touched mishura's hand before going inside with kazuki and Lumi, who was still speaking about being given grape juice, as she called it.