Prideful

1.8

Word count: 1203
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Patton's eyes fluttered open as he woke up. He was immediately disoriented when the usual feeling his room gave off wasn't there. Then he remembered what had happened the other day.

Patton sat up on the blow-up mattress he'd slept on. He immediately felt how cold it was in the room. Patton hugged himself and shivered. He stood up and looked around the room.

He looked and saw Janus was covered in several blankets. Patton moved the blankets from Janus' face and saw the side was shivering with his eyes closed. Patton frowned and pulled the blankets back over Janus' face.

He moved and grabbed his cat hoodie, pulling it over his pajamas. He opened the door and walked down the hallway before heading down the stairs. The first thing Patton noticed was DW also cuddled into a mound of blankets.

Logan soon came down the stairs behind Patton wearing an oversized green hoodie. Remus walked out from the kitchen holding a bowl of soup, he turned to the two sides standing at the bottom of the stairs, "Good morning you two!"

"Remus, may I ask why it's so cold considering its summer?" Logan asked.

"Seasons and weather don't work the same here, they change with Roman's mood," Remus said handing the soup to DW.

"Why Roman's emotions?"

"He's the more powerful creativity, plus whenever I'm in control it does something like rain blood," Remus said sitting on the couch.

"That sounds an awful lot like self-hate, kiddo," Patton said, "am I going to have to physically fight you!" Patton pointed getting slightly aggressive.

Logan looked surprised, but he probably shouldn't have been. He just didn't expect Patton to accept Remus as one of his 'kiddos' so fast. Though he didn't have much of a choice.

"Wow I didn't expect you to have an aggressive side padre," Remus said holding up his hands as if to surrender.

"Oh, by the way, Janus seems really cold in his room could I bring him some of that soup?" Patton asked.

"Sure go grab some from the kitchen," Remus said. Patton nodded and smiled walking to the kitchen.
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Virgil woke up and stretched while yawning. Roman was still asleep and looked so peaceful, but a look around reminded Virgil of the extremely dangerous situation he was in.

Tim had explained who Damion was and everything he's done. He hadn't revealed any of his past, but Virgil could understand wanting privacy. Virgil stood up and walked over to the dresser.

He took out another purple dress, but couldn't find his jacket. During his search for his jacket, he looked out one of the windows. It was snowing, in July.

"Um Roman, wake up!" Virgil walked over and shook Roman awake. The prince woke up and yawned.

"Good morning Vee, is something wrong?"

"It's snowing."

"Really?" Roman turned and looked out the window, and it was indeed snowing, "I can fix that just give me a minute." Roman stood up and walked out of the room. Virgil was left alone again. Virgil moved and sat back on the bed reclining back on the pillows preparing to stare off into the distance.

He wasn't alone for long as he felt a shiver run down his spine along with a familiar gust of wind. "Hey, Virgil I have some questions."

Virgil closed his eyes and sighed, "Shoot."

"You made a deal with Damion right?"

"Yeah, not my proudest moment."

"Were there any conditions?"

"Not really."

"Well, that makes this a hell of a lot harder."

"Makes what harder?"

"I'm trying to figure out a way to undo your deal, so I can help you without worry that Damion is controlling you."

"Well good luck," Virgil continued relaxing as he felt Tim leave.
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The group walked out into the backyard observing the sky. It had randomly gone back to warm and everyone was trying to figure out why. "Your weather makes absolutely no logical sense," Logan said looking into the sky.

"Well just wait till you hear about the daylight cycle!" Remus said sitting cross-legged on the porch.

"I'm just glad I don't have to worry about shutting down," Janus said shuffling outside. His hat had been removed and he wasn't wearing any gloves or shirt. Most of his scales were on display as he flopped onto the grass in the sun. Patton walked out and sat next to Janus in the grass.

Andy had already left for his job, but DW was still here. She ran out of the house and easily jumped the backyard fence. Then in a brilliant flash of light, a white dragon was in her place. The dragon took off into the sky, and Logan and Patton looked in awe.

"That was so cool!" Patton said.

"Indeed," Logan said.

"Eh, it's cool the first time but after seeing it over and over it gets old," Remus said laying back on the deck.

They all stayed quiet for a while before Logan spoke up, "We should begin formulating a plan to rescue Virgil, and I assume that will fall to me. I'm aware of my abilities, but if you would all explain to yours that would be satisfactory." Logan summoned a small pad and pencil.

"You've already seen my tentacles and there isn't much else," Remus said, a long tentacle rose up as an example. Logan wrote something on his pad.

Remus jumped up and ran over to Logan, "and I can also do this!" He scrunched his face and opened his mouth slightly. A black stream of ink came out and shit the grass in front of Patton who jumped back slightly. Logan nodded and wrote that down.

"The only thing I can really do is turn into a frog, and I don't have much control over it," Patton said getting comfortable in the grass again.

"We could work on your control over that," Logan said writing more things down. He looked at Janus expecting something.

Janus sighed before sitting up, "Your gonna need a new page." Logan looked confused but flipped the page.

Janus cleared his throat, "first off, I'd consider myself very agile, and I'm very good at using a staff. When I focus I can tell when your lying, even if you haven't said anything, I can also force the truth out of you, but I don't do that anymore for personal reasons. I can unhinge my jaw, but I'm not venomous. I have partial control over a two head snake named Crimson. Oh, and these," several extra sets of arms rose from Janus' back.

Everyone looked surprised. Logan snapped out of it pretty soon as he continued writing. After he was done he said his conclusion, "Janus seems like the strongest person on our team, although Remus would be most deadly. Both of them definitely have more control over their magic than Patton. Would one of you train him?"

"I'll do it," Janus said.

"Alright then, I'd advise you to begin while I try and formulate a plan."

"What can I do?" Remus asked hugging Logan from behind.

"You can help me with the plan," Logan said. Remus leaned in and kissed Logan on the cheek.
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