Secrets

14

Everyone stood speechless at the sight.

"What?" He questioned.

"You have wings."

"Yes, and?"

"Why now?" Toni asked.

"Because I want to be useful goddamnit."

"Oh..."

"Nice going dude!" America spoke up.

"Wait, what?"

"I gave him the idea!"

"The bastard was right. There was really no reason for me not to have wings."

"But-"

"It's fine, Toni." Lovino sighed. "It's not like history will repeat itself. We know more now. We're prepared."

"That's what we thought then but look at what happened."

"And I thought I was the pessimistic one. I thought you would be happy that I have my wings back." He crossed his arms. "Having my wings back means that I've gotten over that day and you should too. We all should. I've learned that the only thing holding us back is that damn memory. We're not using it to our advantage." He pointed to Arthur. "And you are a prominent example of that."

"Me?" Arthur questioned. "How am I an example of that?"

"There's a reason that you lost your memory. And hell, I would love to just slap it out of you but I can't. Though, I did figure out how to get them out of you."

"How?"

"Come with me, I need to show you something." He turned his attention to everyone else. "And the rest of you should stick to training! We have a big fight soon. It's best we're more than prepared for it."

~

"Yao!" Gil called out. Yao, simply standing there watching everyone else, immediately turned.

"What?"

"I need to show you something."

"Oh, okay?" He walked over to Gil, confused but intrigued. Gil grabbed his arm and rushed him through the forest. "Wait, where exactly are we going?"

"Here." Gil stopped in his tracks as they can upon a waterfall. Yao was amazed at the sight of the water cascading down. It was a so small yet so mesmerizing.

"How did we not notice this yet?"

"I don't know but it's amazing, right?"

"Yes!"

"I say, we celebrate here."

"Celebrate?"

"We should throw a big party before we go to fight and I say, we do it here." Normally, Yao would call that stupid but now, in a sense, unsure of what might happen he accepted it.

"That's a good idea."

"Why thank you! The awesome me will be here all day everyday ready to give many more great ideas." Gil posed, hands on hips and a smug smile slapped onto his face.

"Shutup."