Big Book of Xephna One Shots

Sparks and Silver (S)

TW: Make outs

Lalna was bored. He had completed his castle and everything was in order. He had also had his revenge on Sjin and everything was back in order, after he had completed his punishment. Because of this, he divided to visit Honeydew and Xephos at Honeydew Inc.

"Hey, Lalna," Honeydew said as Lalna walked in.

"Hey Honeydew," Lalna replied, nodding in greeting. "Is there anything I can do?"

"Erm, yes? I think so. I am actually going for some rubber in the forest over there. I am pretty sure Xephos needs some help down in the quarry. He has found a cavern and just wants a quick look."

Lalna smiled. "Sure, I will go find him. Over here... Right?"

"Yup! Cya!"

As Lalna walked down the the quarry, he thought about the spaceman. He tried to think about what he was going to do next in his Castle, but his thoughts were completely and utterly filled with Xephos. His smile, his laugh, his quirky ways and the way he really cared about Lalna. The scientist smiled again before emerging out of the building by the quarry. He adjusted his flying ring, making sure it was definitely there before jumping down and flying over to the cavern, were Xephos was sitting with his legs over the edge and clutching his arm. As Lalna approached he realised why.

"Oh gosh, Xephos! Are you okay!"

Xephos bit his lip before shaking his head no. "It really hurts. My armour... it's charging... Just as I was approaching the ground... My ring fell off..." he mumbled meaning that the Scientist was only hearing some of the words. "Then there was also this Skeleton... Shot me..."

"Xeph, come on. Lets get you cleared up. What do you say?" Xephos nodded and let Lalna pull him up. "Come on, lets go."

Lalna half carried, half pulled Xephos along to the medical room where he ordered the Villager to clean up the wound. When the Spaceman was feeling a bit better and his arm was healed, the two men walked back out to the cavern and began to explore.

"Hey, Xephos, where is your armour? Still not clean?"

"No, it's not..."

"Hey, I have a spare set of Irons... You can borrow my Diamond ones if you want." Lalna started to remove his diamond armour and replace the pieces with Iron instead.

"No, no! Stop! I can have the Iron, you keep the Diamond..."

"Oh come on! At least take the chestplate!"

"No! Keep it!"

"Yes, you have it!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

This carried on for a while until Xephos finally gave in and accepted the piece of Diamond armour, as well as the other pieces of Iron. "You keep the rest of the Diamond armour though!"

"I am, I am!" Lalna cried, laughing loudly.

"Good!" Xephos grinned.

After that, they got to work, collecting minerals, killing mobs and creating loads of torches, because Xephos is Xephos and that man loves torches.

Lalna seemed ocupied, Xephos thought. And that was true. Lalna was pretty occupied. His thoughts were completely filled with Xephos. He kept finding his eyes following every move of the spaceman and, well, that ass... If you know what I mean!

Xephos looked down over the side of the platform they were standing on and shot an arrow at a Creeper who was staring up at him. As he did so, another Creeper approached the man. By the time Lalna noticed, it was too late. He shouted to warn the other guy, but the noise of the explosion blocked it from reaching Xephos' ears. He stumbled before crying out and falling into the abyss below. Lalna saw this and wasted no time in jumping off the face himself and caught up with Xephos, wrapping his arms around the others' waist. He then slowed them down and safely brought them down to land. Xephos was still clinging desperately into Lalna and had his eyes screwed shut as if he were expecting impact onto the ground.