Star-Crossed Snipers (An Elsword FanFic)

4 - Ciel

"So everyone understands the plan, right?" I asked.

"Sure do!" Elsword said with a grin. We were all sitting around the coffee table in our room. It was super early in the morning, but everyone was excited and ready to go. "It's so simple! You guys'll fight off Wally's minions, while I go in there and lava smash his face! Easy!"

"That's not what we're doing and you know it!" Aisha said glaring at him from across the table. "You, Lu and I are going in as a distraction, then, while Wally tries to escape, Rena and Ciel will sneak through the castles sewers and infiltrate the castle. Once they find him, it's game over!"

"Well.....MY plans better!" Elsword retorted.

"Idiotic minds come with idiotic things." Aisha said, sticking her tongue out.

"Oh yeah? Well bratty mind is housed in a bratty body!" Elsword stuck his own tongue out this time.

"May I remind you I'm older than you?" Aisha said, ignoring the dumbstruck look on his face.

"N-not mentally, how could you be so immature?"

"Immature??? You're one to-"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!!!"

Everyone jumped in surprise at the sound of Rena breaking up what seemed to be Elsword and Aisha's millionth argument. Once she had everyone's attention, she shifted to her usual charming, pleasant self.

"I'm sorry Elsword, but Aisha is right. Maybe some other time we'll follow your plan." She smiled sweetly and patted his head as he slouched over in disappointment. Aisha took her point finger and used it to pull down her bottom eyelid in a 'hah-mom-took-my-side-of-the-argument' way, but not before Rena noticed. "As for YOU, Elsword is right, as his elder, you should try and act more mature. Please." Elsword looked almost as shocked as Aisha as Rena left the room. 

"Lu, help Elsword and Aisha get ready, I'm off to see if Rena needs any help." I heard Lu try to protest and demand I help HER instead, but I was already out of the room by the time my brain processed what she had said. I found Rena leaning on a balcony watching the sunrise. I tapped the door frame so I wouldn't startle her, though it didn't seem to work. She spun around with a gasp and put and hand on her chest. After she saw it was me she sighed in relief.

"Oh thank goodness, I thought those two were having another fight." She turned back to the sun, the pink, orange, and purple rays becoming more vivid by the second. "I don't know what to do with them....we all need each other but keeping us from killing each other is super hard sometimes." I leaned on the balcony next to her as she put her face in hr hands.

"Well....I know we just met, but I'll help in any way that I can." I shrugged and smiled a bit. She looked at me a little surprised before she chuckled a little.

"Oh don't be silly, you don't have to do that." She smiled with her usual sweetness. "Even if you owed me, I wouldn't force you to help me like that. Don't worry, I'm fine, really."

"That's what tells me you obviously AREN'T." I said firmly. "Come on, friends help each other out. I'm offering, so you're not forcing me, ok?"

"But......but-" I put a finger on her lips to shut her up, but her face got super red when I did so.

"You're welcome." I said smiling.

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This was a lot easier than we had thought.

Rena and I were carefully tromping through the icky, smelly water of the sewers beneath Wally's castle. Hagus had warned us that Wally might anticipate this and send Banthus down to stop us, but that wasn't a big deal, Rena and I could take him.