Unlike Others (1)

Friday

"Your girlfriend around anywhere?" Ren walks up to Takeshi as he walks towards the school.
"I told her the same thing I'm going to tell you, buzz off." He grumbles and keeps walking.
"Excuse me Mr.?" She quickly slams him against a wall. "Ren, I'm not in the mood." He glares at her then pushes her away from him.
"You're going to lose a lot of close people like that Takeshi." She growls.
"Too late for that. I could care less." Takeshi growls back then walks off towards the forest.
"Ugh. Where are you going?!" Ren yells at him.
"Nowhere you should be concerned about." He yells back and keeps walking. She quickly walks after him quietly.
They walk for a while, Ren still quietly following him without his knowledge. He ducks through some bushes and Ren quietly follows, only to be stopped on the other side of the bushes by a sight that blew her mind.
"I thought you were following me... I guess my guesses were correct." Takeshi sighs and looks over at Ren as she stares at the small, kingdom-like town hidden beneath trees and different kinds of forage. Her eyes scan an area where big, dark magenta tents stood near an arena made of stone. She looks at all of the small but fancy houses on, in, and around the trees until her eyes stop on a fancy, castle-like mansion that sat across a medium sized river with a fancy bridge connecting the two lands.
"I guess it's too late for you to walk back. Come on. Follow me. Just stay close." He sighs and begins to continue the walk down the cliff towards the town. Before they reach the area, Takeshi stops and rolls his neck before slowly turning into a completely different person. A green mark slowly grows on his cheek as his eyes turn light golden and his clothes turn
from casual, to fancy, almost like a prince would wear. His ears slowly grow a point at the top as his hair shrank a little. "Let's go." He smiles lightly then walks into the town.
Creatures of all kinds run, and fly, around the town wildly in fun as humans and monsters walk and talk together.
"We're friends here. Everyone gets along except for some of those who live outside the area who want me dead along with everyone, and everything here. I try and protect them the best I can." Takeshi sighs, his golden eyes looking around the area then stopping once they reach Ren.
"I guess you could call this my peaceful happy place." He chuckles then looks back at the town. Ren carefully moves closer to him and lightly grabs his hand as they walk into the town. A little girl, about five years old, with light pink hair in pigtails comes running up to Takeshi.
"Dad!! You're home!!" She squeals as she jumps into his arms, her brown eyes sparkling at the sight of him.
"Hey there Kaiki." He laughs as he pulls her into a hug, making him lose hand contact with Ren completely.
"Well, look who's back." A girl with long, dark brown hair and light brown eyes wearing a crop top and medium short shorts and a necklace with a crescent moon walks over to Takeshi wearing a small smirk.
"Hey Alex." Takeshi smiles at her.
"Surprise surprise dad's back." Another girl the same age as the one named Alex walks over to them. Small brown cat ears
peek out of her head that was covered in long, dark brown, curly hair. Her dark brown eyes study Ren as she continues to walk towards Takeshi.
"Why didn't you put any clothes on Kit?" Takeshi nearly growls at the girl who just walked up.
"I have short spandex on under this big shirt dad." The girl grumbles as she fixes the sleeve on her overly large light blue shirt.
"Who's the girl, dad?" Kit eyes Ren again.
"A stalker who followed me." He laughs in response.
"Is she our new mom?" The little girl laughs happily.
"No silly." He laughs again.
"Let's go inside." Takeshi sighs and they all start walking towards the big mansion.
"So Kitesume let her visit." He motions at the sleeping Kaiki in his arms as he talks to Alex.
"Yeah. She missed me and Kit so we made an agreement. The others are still with him. Don't worry." She smiles at him as Kit walks off down a hallway inside the huge mansion. "Ok. Well. Do you mind taking her to bed? Whether it's yours or whatever." He smiles at her.
"Yeah. I'll see you at dinner." Alex carefully takes Kaiki out of Takeshi's arms then turns and walks off.
"Takeshi? Why did they call you dad?" Ren looks over at him as soon as the others left.
"It's a long story. None of them are biologically mine. Alex and
Kit are basically the same age as us but, again, it's complicated." He sighs.
"Have they ever seen my version of you?" She locks eyes with him.
"No. I want to keep it that way. The less they know the better." He gives her a small smile.
"Takeshi, why don't you show me around, as much as I know you don't want to." She smirks.
"Ok. Fine." He laughs.
After dinner, Takeshi and Ren sit outside in the grass. "Prince!! Prince my lord!! You're back!!" A fox runs up to them. "Only for a short while but I'm glad to be back." Takeshi smiles.
"Word from the messenger pigeon!! The princess Cyvanus is coming to talk to you. It's urgent." It squeaks.
"Why thank you I will go and investigate." Takeshi nods and the fox runs off.
"Prince? My lord?" Ren looks at Takeshi confused.
"I'm the prince of this town, in a way. I would be a king but I don't like the label. They forced me to choose which one I wanted to be called cause they didn't want to call me by my real name, they found it disrespectful to me, so I chose prince instead of king." Takeshi sighs as he stands up.
"Why, in general, are you their prince?" She stands up as well.
"Well, basically I'm the one who helped this town become a
town. An actual town not just a place claiming to be a town. Plus, I help keep the town safe from everything that I can keep them safe from." He laughs.
"We have to, I have to go... Go ahead and feel free to stick with me or run around." Takeshi sighs then begins to walk off. "I think I'll come with you considering...." She gets quiet then jogs up to him.
"Totally fine with me." He laughs as they cross the bridge.
They walk up to a few knights on large horses surrounding something.
"They pleasure is always there." Takeshi kneels on one knee as he lowers his head. Ren quickly follows.
"Oh, the pleasure is always mine, Takeshi." A voice comes from the center of the circle of guards. As they part, a girl Ren and Takeshi's age riding a large, jet black horse, walks up to them. She sat tall as her medium long reddish brown hair sways in the ponytail it was in. Her light brown eyes study Takeshi as approaches. As soon as she gets off of the horse, she fixes her Victorian era dress before doing a small curtsy, signaling for Takeshi and Ren to stand.
"It's ok little one, he is here to protect you." She looks to her side and a little tan pegasus foal carefully walks over to her.
"Hi there." Takeshi crouches down with a smile as his eyes study the little foal. It snorts before slowly walking up to his open, outstretched hand.
"I'm going to keep you safe." He smiles.
"You understand there's only one way I can care for him, right?" Takeshi picks up the little foal in his arms then stands up and looks at the girl.
"Turn him human, then teach him, like you did, with the others." She nods.
"Well, go ahead and go inside. I'll do all the hard work." He laughs then as soon as the guards and the girl were gone, he walks off towards the forest with Ren following. He carefully sets down the foal in a small grassy opening.
"Ren, don't flip. I need you right now. I need you to stay behind me incase anything happens." He sighs as he gets on his knees.
"Ok. Yeah. Will do." Ren nods slightly nervously.
"Good." Takeshi takes in a long breath before tilting his head back and letting out a small gasp. Before he can close his eyes to hide them from Ren, she notices them turn hundreds of different colors. A light blue misty fog flows from his nostrils before flowing into the foal's nostrils. A few seconds pass and the blue fog disappears and Takeshi falls backwards, lucky that Ren caught him.
"Open your eyes little one. Welcome to the new world." He heavily breathes, making Ren look up at where the foal had been. A little boy with brown hair and brown eyes sat where the foal had been.
"Welcome Darvin." Takeshi sits up with a small smile. The little 7 year old quickly stands up and runs over to Takeshi and into his arms. A large black Rottweiler walks over to
Takeshi.
"Follow her back to the castle and the people there will get you your own room." He smiles at the boy who nods. The dog and the boy walk off as Takeshi stands up.
"Takeshi...." Ren looks at Takeshi's slightly pale face.
"You need a lift back, Takeshi?" A voice comes from behind Ren, making her quickly turn to face it. A boy their age with messy, medium long blonde hair and light green eyes wearing old, red, Victorian age prince clothing riding a large buck deer stood behind them.
"No Alex. I think I can make it." Takeshi grumbles and barely looks at him.
"Vanos, Alexander. Would you like a ride back to the mansion madam?" The boy looks at Ren.
"No. I think I'm ok. I can walk." She gives him a small smile. "You have a loyal one for once Takeshi, don't screw her over, or modify her, like you did the others." The boy smirks then rides off.
"Meet you back at the mansion." He calls before disappearing into the woods.
"What did he mean by that?" Ren looks over at Takeshi. "C'mon. We have to get back, to the town, I mean." He sighs and begins to walk back to the town that calls him prince.
"Takeshi, these people look up to you, why can't we talk to the
queen and get her to help protect these other places?" Ren asks as she follows him back.
"No." Takeshi growls, his mood suddenly changing.
"Why not?" Ren glares at him.
"Because her and I are not on the best of terms." He sighs, anger still hiding in his voice.
"Then I'll talk to her." Ren stops walking.
"No. You will go nowhere near that female daughter of a..." He stops walking then shuts up talking.
"What were you going to say about our queen?" She growls at him.
"Nothing, let's go." He begins to walk.
"No. What were you going to say?!" She grabs his arm and yanks him back.
"Just leave it, ok?" Takeshi growls as he yanks his arm back then continues walking.
"Takeshi." Ren growls.
"Just leave it!!" He yells at her.
They walk into the town and towards the mansion where Ryland stood with a smirk on his face.
"Hey brother."