Dragons and Slayers (Sting x Reader)

Chapter 8: Zero and Yukino ;-;

*~Your Pov~*

I quickly put on my clothes and walked out of the bathroom. Sting was sitting on the couch waiting for me. He turned his attention to me, "Don't you have any other clothes?"

I scratched the back of my neck sheepishly, "No... Not really."

"We're going shopping later," He said standing up, "You can leave the sword here. We won't go into combat."

"O-okay," I unbuckled the band holding my sword. I placed the sword leaning against the wall next to me.

"Well then," Sting held out his hand, "Shall we go?"

I giggled, "We shall." I took his hand gladly. He led me out of the dorm and down to the front doors of the hall. Lector was walking in front of us, "Man, I'm starving."

"You're always hungry," Sting said seriously.

"And? I like food," Lector snapped, "Got a problem with it?"

"No. Not at all... Until I have to pay the bill," Sting sighed.

We walked out of the guild hall to the street. We were talking small talk, telling jokes and stories as we walked down to the corner. A cute restaurant sat there. It had a theme of a cozy, comfortable country house. It had a southern feel to it. The patio was perimeter with a small wooden fence and had pretty picnic like furniture. We were greeted with a pretty girl with bright lime green eyes and long light blonde hair, "Hi, Sting~. How many today?"

"Three," He said with a smirk.

"Finally got a girl?" The waitress counted the menus, "Follow me."

Sting didn't say anything back. He just sat there with a cocky smirk on his face. My face began to burn up, what...? The already fluttering butterflies in my stomach began to kick and jerk with excitement. My heart rate- which finally went back to normal from earlier- went erratic. What is this? I have never felt like this before!

The waitress brought us to a corner booth that wrapped around with the wall smoothly. The table was unique. It was a slice of a large tree. The rings were so beautiful and glistened from a protective coat of some sort. "Well, I'm Zero, and welcome to the Red House Restaurant," She placed the menus on the table, "I'll be serving you today."

Sting picked up a menu, "I'll have the usual."

Zero giggled, "It's always the same with you. Why not change it up every now and then?"

He shrugged, "Everything else changes, why should my diet?"

"Touché," Zero smiled writing in a little book, "And I'll give you time to look through the menu, hun."

"Thank you," I smiled politely. Zero smiled back then dismissed away helping the other customers.

"How do you like the guild so far?" Sting asked resting his chin on his hand.

"I like it a lot! Everyone is so nice and... quite powerful. And it seems like everyone is close," I looked up from the menu for a moment when I finished. Sting still had that damn smirk. Does he not know what he is doing to me? My mind cried out.

I looked back to the menu trying to get my head straight. O... This sounds good.

"I'm glad you like the guild," Sting spoke up, "They really like you."

I was taken back, they like me? I smiled to myself, putting the menu down, "I'm glad they like me."

Sting chuckled, "Yeah. We still need to go on a mission together."

I nodded, "Sounds like fun."

Zero came back, "Do you still need time or are you ready to order?"

"Yeah, I'm ready to order now. I'd like the (Whatever the hell you want with a side of the shit you like)," I smiled and gathered the menus. I handed them to Zero.

"That'll be right up," Zero retreated away. I turned my gaze back to Sting. My hand rested on my lap and I sat like a lady. "I still don't know all that much about you," I realized.

"Well. I'm the master of Sabortooth guild. I'm the White Dragon Slayer and was raised by Weisslogia, the white dragon obviously. He took me in as his own and taught me the ways of magic, and culture," Sting said taking his head out of his hand and placing his hands on the table.

"Oh, that's really cool," I said.

"Yeah. It was until I killed him," Sting looked away.

"W-what?" I asked sadly.

"One day he told me to kill him," Sting looked down, "It'll make you stronger he said. Do it. It'll make you a real Dragon Slayer."

"I'm so sorry to hear that," I placed my hand on his on the table.

He looked up into my eyes. At first he seemed startled then he relaxed and chuckled.

"Still ship it!" Lector pouted in the corner.

Good way to kill the mood cat...

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We just returned from the restaurant. We waltzed into the doors laughing and having a good time. But Sting went back to the serious self, "Go to the board and figure out what mission you want to take on."

"Yes, sir," I saluted. He chuckled a bit and ruffled my hair, "You don't have to be so formal."

"O-Okay, Sting," I blushed. He walked away to his throne at the far end of the guild hall. I sighed, Okay (Y/N). Time to pick a mission. I made my way to the mission wall and read through them. Too easy. Low pay. What the hell does that mean? No. NOPE! Hah... Looks like fun. But this one... Perfect.

I plucked the paper off the wall. The name was 'Monster Town!'. The description said that a peaceful village was over ran by monsters pushing the villagers out into the world out of their homes. The monsters kept the young children however. Parents are still trying to get their children back. Please help.

I thought about it. Pros- I get to help families reunite and a village to become a home again. Cons- I could get hurt or hurt someone else. I shrug it off, it's for the children. I smiled and turned towards where Sting was. I was about to walk over there but I stopped when I noticed he was talking to another member of the guild. To be more specific, a girl one. A pretty girl. My stomach turned, what's happening? Why is my heart aching!

I smiled anyway and proceeded over to Sting, "I found the perfect one~!"

He smiled, "That's good. What is it?"

"A monster town filled with helpless children that need to be saved," I smiled handing him the paper.

"Are you sure? I mean it could be dangerous," He said reading through it.

I gave one solid nod, "You said you wanted to see what I could do."

The girl sat back on the arm of the chair getting closer to Sting leaning on him. My eyes started to hurt. Sting looked up, "(Y/N)? Fix your eyes. Keep them like that you'll go blind?"

"What?" I asked confused.

"They're in slits right now. But it's well lit up in here. Keep your eyes like that, they'll get ruined." He pointed out. "Okay, I'll try," I said quickly shaking my head.

"That was pretty cool though," The girl giggled. I giggled with her, "Thank you. You're Yuuki? Right?"

"Yukino. Close enough," She laughed, "I guess we really didn't talk all that much yesterday did we."

"Nope," I said popping the 'p'. Sting started to nod his head, "Okay. We'll go on this mission tomorrow, okay? We still need to go shopping for you. And pick up a swim suit." He handed the paper to Yukino. She walked away taking the paper with her, "Bye, (Y/N)." I waved to her.

"Why do I need a swim suit?" I asked confused.

"We have a new swimming pool in the back. Don't you want to go swimming later?" He chuckled.

I shrugged, "I guess that would be nice."

___Chapter End