dancing with our demons; rogue cheney

III. - The Cave Part I.

*Reader's P.O.V*

You yerked away from Rogue. His face a bright red. Yukino had just interrupted something, that might've made up your mind about Rogue.

"We do!" you shout.

Rogue's eyes widened in shock.

"...I do."

'SHIT.'

You jumped up, covering your boobs and turned to the open window, jumping out of it.

It surely was the easiest way out of this misery, but also the most painful one.

Running through the streets you turned into various streets, getting closer and closer to your home.

As you arrived at the back door of your  apartment you calmed down.

Entering, you grabbed a fresh pair of clothes from your closet and let yourself fall on your bed.

All this was way too crazy to believe.

~Time Skip~

You were in front of the request board, searching for an easy job you could do on your own.

You had been dodging Rogue and Yukino for a few days now and you thought a job would be good for you.

The only person, that was impossible to hide from, was Sting. He always managed to find you and annoy you.

"(Y/N)!! I have the perfect job for you!"

'Speaking of the devil...'

"Not interested." you sighed.

"But it's really perfect for you!"

"I said I'm not interested!"

"So you're not interested in easy money?"

That made you flinch. You actually were interested in that. But knowing Sting, there would be something you were totally against doing involved in this.

"What is it...?"

"Searching for jade stones in a cave."

That really was the perfect job for you. Beeing the Jade Dragon Slayer, that was actually your speciality. One of the first things Zirconis teached you when you were little.

"...but..."

"What 'but'??"

'He's doing it again!'

"The job is requested to be done by two dragon slayers. And since I have to attend a meeting of the Guild Masters this week, I won't be there to do it."

No. No, you were not falling for such an uncreative trick.

"Did Rogue ask you to do this?" you asked him in a pissed tone.

"He did not. I decided to tell you myself."

Oh great. Now Sting was trying to get the two of you together.

"Tell him I'm not gonna do this with him. I'd rather take Yukino with me, but since she's not a dragon slayer I won't."

~Time Skip~

Motion sickness, ugh.

Rogue was hanging his head out of the train window and you were holding yours over a bucket.

You couldn't believe you gave in to Sting, but he annoyed you with the job until you agreed to do it.

"So...when do you think we'll be there?" Rogue said sickly.

"I have no fucking idea..."

You seriously didn't. Riding trains and the likes didn't just give you Motion Sickness, but it also took away a big amout of your time feeling, making a minute seem like at least three hours.

Eventually the train stopped a good day later (remember: mixed up time feeling :D). You stumbled out of the train, Rogue right behind you.

The requester said he'd pick you up at the train station, but, well...he didn't.

You had to find the way to those caves by yourself, without anyone around knowing there actually were caves around here.

Finally you saw a man with a rather big hat and he greeted you.

"You must be the dragon slayers!"

'Great. I took a job from an unidentified creature...'

You chuckled at your thoughts, earning an angry glare from the man.

"Legends tell, that there is a very big jade stone in that cave, but it's guarded by a dragon. That's what I need you two for. Get the stone and kill the dragon. You get your reward afterwards."

~Time Skip~

*Rogue's P.O.V.*

After some time we reached the spot where the stone was 'sposed to be.

I had a strange feeling in my gut, but we searched for it anyway.

"Rogue I don't freaggin' feel any jewels or minerals or anything in here."

"Neither do I."

"But I do." a deep voice sais from behind us.

"Z-Zirkonis...?" (Y/N)'s eyes filled with tears.

"No need to cry, (Y/N). I don't have much time. Ana told me to tell you to sniff out your mate already, or she'll haunt your house 'till you start to hate her."

'Wait. Isn't Ana like... dead?'

"Tell her I already have. And I don't like him. There's no way he'd be my ideal mate."

Her gaze wandered over to me and then she looked quickly away.

"No way!" I exclaimed, shouting my thoughts out loud.

Her face went to a crimson red colour.

In the dark it looked like a bloody kind of red.

"So he figured it out." Zirkonis laughed at me. "You better start making her like you or you'll regret it."

(A/N)

So I finally got to involve Zirkonis.
If you don't get, why Zirkonis is able to talk to them, despite beeing dead and how he knows what Ana wants from ya, it'll all be explained in the next chapter.
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