Reed the Street-girl

Joker in Red

The prophecy wanted a joker. Not necessarily a funny guy but a joker. Reed the Joker. Reed the Red Joker.

Joker in Red. And I've found my queen.

"I am Queen Ceila of Malco City, and you are Joker, I presume?"

The cards are slowly coming back together.

Steam from the bath filled my clothes, enveloping me in warmth. The long, pale blonde haired queen stood in my vision. And only her.

A weird feeling introduces itself to me and I don't know what it is really. Nothing I've felt before, that's for sure. I hear the prophecy repeat in my head and I knew.

I don't know what it is but I knew. I saw them in Ceila's eyes to. My queen's eyes.

Quickly changing my position; I knelt, head low, and my fist to the ground. "My Queen Ceila, I must apologize for the lengthiness of my absents when I should have been by your side instead. I understand if you do not accept my apology for I do not forgive myself."

My queen's eyes flickered gold.

"My joker, please do not put pity upon yourself. It is I who wasn't where I was deemed to be. Besides..." She knelt down beside me and put on a soothing mood. "It's not your fault."

Oh, but it was.

Tears rolled down and fell. I realized this and looked up, surprised. My queen's tears. Yet she's trying to reassure me.

"Ceila, please don't cry. I-I...." My own tears fell. "I hate it when you cry."

I pulled her into a hug and we both let it out. Sobbing, we held onto each other. Scared.

"P-Please don't c-c-ry, Ceila."

"I'm s-sorry. I-I was s-sooo scared, Reed."

"N-n-n-no, no, no. Don't be sorry. I'm the one who didn't make it in time. A-And because of t-that..." I'm too scared to say it. To accept it.

"Reed..."

"And because of that.....YOU DIED! YOUR PRACTICALLY MY FUCKING BEST FRIEND, MY SISTER, CEILA! QUEEN OR NOT, YOU WERE ALWAYS THERE!!!"

"You were there for me too, Reed." Her voice shy and small.

"NOT FUCKING LAST TIME!" I held her tighter, afraid of letting go and seeing her dead in my arms, and me screaming at the sky.

She claimed down a bit but tightened her grip, also afraid. But I could tell that she had tensed up from my actions. My words too. She let me sob and sob on her shoulders like all the other times I did.

After a bit, I calmed down and she loosened her grip. Rubbing my eyes, all puffy and red, " Heh, I get so ugly when I cry."

"Ha, yea no kidding." Ceila agreed with an innocent smile.

"It's been awhile since I've heard you curse in your homeland's language. You've really adapted here."

I nodded. She was right. It has been awhile since I've actually spoken like I did when I first meet her. Speaking of which, we're in that same room from 11 years ago.

Magic is truly weird. Even now, aged and learned.

"We should get going. Any longer and it's not healthy."

"Yea." We hugged once more and broke apart, smiling. And crying yet again on the bathroom floor.

"Ready?" Ceila holds out her hand and I gladly take it in mine. We look up at the ceiling only that we weren't looking at the ceiling. And we were there.

In the sky as stars. I've heard stories in the magical world that when people move on, they get reincarnated as stars. Watching over the living; protecting.

The sun, big and orange in the sky, just waiting for it's time to wake the world. And off on the other side of the world, I saw two moons. One big and the other small, farther away. Always reminding me of my own world.

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"Ugh." My head was pounding. Me and the queen were on the bathroom's floor.

"What the fuck?" Then I remembered.

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!"

"What's the matter, Joker?" The queen stirred and sat up, still wrapped in the bath towel, rubbing her head.

"Do you remember what just happened, Queen Ceila?" Emphasizing on the 'just'.

She blinked a couple times as if it was helping her memory and then it hit her. her hands shot up to cover her mouth and her eyes threaten to water. I was too afraid to speak.

"Your Reed the Red Joker of Hearts, right?" Still shocked, I answered.

"I believe so."

"I'm Queen Ceila of Black Clovers."

She took a moment and a deep breath allowing herself to breathe.

"When two important cards are chosen by prophecy meet, a magical occurrence happens. That was our occurrence, Reed."

A moment of shocked silence overwhelms us and swallows us whole.

"So when two prophecy powerful people meet, our future selves spend a moment here? In our bodies? Of themselves? Us?"

She didn't answer vocally but it's her eyes that gave it away. Then again, the future me said it was always her eyes.

Ceila didn't seem to be taking this well based on her eyes.

"Well, it's like I always say," I stood up.

She questions me, again with those gold eyes.

"Well what I always say starting from now on, apparently." I take her hand and help her to her feet. She probably knows what I mean by that; "apparently". I balled my hand into a fist and pushed it against my chest. My heart. Bowed my head and said:

"My Queen Ceila, I, Red Joker will promote myself to you and I will devote my life to you."

Shocked expression takes over her.

"So your saying that you want to become my bodyguard?"

"Yes, My queen. I am."

She pretended to think about this, then making up her mind, her hands travel to her hips. Boosting her ego. She's in a better mood, I could tell.

"Alright, I accept your loyalty to I, Queen Ceila of Malco City."

"That makes my happy." Giving her a toothy grin of mind and she returns it and it's adorable as fuck. ((XD)) I don't know what happened last time but this time, I will protect Ceila.

A window on the other side of the now cold bathroom had opened revealing a familiar figure.

"So? I see you two have met one another." The figure was leaning against the wall with his shoulder and his arms crossed.

"Yes, I believe we have." Ceila answers the cat-man like she knows him---

"Wait. Hold up. You two know each other?! Negra, did you mean for us to meet up? Why am I always too late figuring out that I've been played?"

"Yes, nut not this early. I intended you too to meet after Ceila's bath." Grinning nervously.

"Ah, don't worry about that. And yes, we do know one another. In fact, he's my bodyguard. In other words, your partner." She adds with a smile.

The promise is set and things are gonna get heated.

((A/N: i nearly cried writing this chapter, partly because i already know whats gonna happen. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! dont worry, no spoiler alerts. cya later, btw, luv ya peeps!!! XD))