It's been far too long
"Well" You blinked blankly, "that didn't take long". You patted Escanor's arm as you looked at the stone statue of Galland, who'd tried to run away from him in their fight "nice work Escanor".

In a puff of smoke, the regular, rather wimpy Escanor returned, blushing bashfully. "Oh shucks Miss (Y/n), just doing what needed done". 

Melascula was long gone, choosing to leave amongst the action rather than facing the wrath of this strange sun-fueled man. Ban had gone straight into the cellar to check on Jericho and Elaine, but you had other things on your mind.

Clutching the torn fabric flush against your chest as your seeping central wound let out more and more precious red oxygen, you stuck your other fingers into your mouth and whistled blindly. In a piercing sound that broke several of Escanor's glasses, the tune almost reached a pitch unheard by the human ear, and it was a this point, that a green-spotted dog emerged.

"Oslo!" You grinned and ruffled the strange creatures algae-green mane, "if you're up for it, I'd like you to take me back to Arthur and Meliodas, think you can do that for me?"

The dog barked cheerfully and began to grow as it opened its large portal-ing jaws to your waiting body. Before you stepped in, you carefully tossed your gaze to Escanor.

"I have to go, but I'm sure we'll meet up again sometime in the near future" You smiled warmly, "think you can keep an eye on those rascals in there?"

"Send my love to Merlin, I'll ensure they're kept safe" The man said with a jolly look, scratching his cheek nosily, "don't you worry (Y/n)".

With that, you waved and Oslo jumped over your head, swallowing you whole so you fell straight through the fairy creature's portal and out onto a patch of soft green grass.

You hit the ground with a thud, landing straight on your tailbone with your legs drooped out straight, much like how a doll might sit. 

"(Y/)-(Y/n)?" You heard a welcome voice stutter and looked over your shoulder to see two sets of sparkling eyes, one a violent purple, the other an eradecent green. They both appeared to have been walking up a dirt path carved out along through the grass. There were large stone walls up on all sides, but all naturally formed, like some sort of jungle maze.

"Arthur!" You had to brace yourself as much as possible as the King of Camelot leapt onto you and rolled almost three times through the grass with you in his embrace. "Oh you have no idea how much I've missed you!!" He pressed his soft lips against your temple as it was the closet skin he could find, before snuggling you to his side once more.

"I missed you so much" You had to whisper, afraid if you used up any more energy you might just pass out right there, and Arthur was so warm... and soothing... Your arms were weak around his strong shoulders and your legs wrapped their way around his hips to pull him closer. All the while slipping further and further away as your combined angelic abilities were forcing 'Angel Sleep' upon yourselves.

"Sate sate sate" Meliodas rolled his eyes cheerfully as he strutted over to the two of you, "all love for kings and not dragons hm my loving maiden?" He reached for your hand as you clawed up to touch his fingers with your free arm.

In an effort that seemed needing of no strength at all, he pulled you right off the grass, out of Arthur's embrace and into his arms in one smooth motion. The second your arms were pinned between your bodies and your head once again could rest in the safe place that was his shoulder, you finally closed your eyes.

"Melio-" You hummed wistfully, your eyelashes dancing up and down like butterflies as he took your face in his hands so you had to tilt down to look at him.

He brushed the rough purse of his thumb against your bottom lip and smirked, "you were away too long, you should've come back sooner".

You kissed for little more than a few seconds, no movement between you, just love and adoration. When you broke apart, Arthur was facing away with ears as red as roses.

That's when he must've looked down and come across the pool of blood now present on his clothes from when he hugged you, and he spun around so quickly it nearly gave him whiplash.

"(Y/n) you're bleeding!"

"Oh yeah" you giggled as you fell unconscious, "that"

(11+ years ago)

"Arthur!" You laughed as you stood on the beach with a bright smile on your features, the sun on your back, and the wind in your (H/c) hair. "Don't go too far!"

You were calling to the boy lost swimming in the sea, having the time of his life. Riding a wooden board along the waves with little of a care in the world. As the board was brought almost up to the shore by the currents, the orange-haired lad grabbed his driftwood in his little arms and bolted towards you. He dropped it at your feet in his momentum and leapt into your arms.

"Did you see that mum! That one was huge! Absolutely huge!!" His face lit up like a thousand little stars bursting from every freckle, and his spiky hair dripped with the salt and water from the sea.

"You're amazing my baby boy" You grinned and poked him in one of his peachy cheeks, he grimaced in annoyance at the childish act and grabbed your finger. But he couldn't maintain his frown at you for long, especially when Meliodas came running from the top of the cliff where set your cliffside cottage at the top.

"Arthurrr!!!" Meliodas called as he jumped off the last 20 steps and landed on the sand, wearing nothing but his green pants, "bet I can make a bigger canon ball than you!"

You set down the squealing child as he almost exploded from excitement, wearing similar clothing to his blonde father's, only his shorts were cut a little further up the leg because they used to be Meliodas' boxers.

"Hello my love" Meliodas said to you as he met your side on the beach, Arthur standing on his toes as he grasped the child's tiny hands. He nipped the side of your shoulder with his teeth and you gasped. "Think you can fly up and drop me so I can beat Arthur in our game?"

There was another gasp, but this one was outrage, and it didn't come from you... it was Arthur. "Mummy that's no fair! If you're going to drop him you gotta drop me too! From higher up!"

"That's no fair either!!"

You almost couldn't contain your laughter as you released your long, elegant angel wings from the net of your back and stretched them out. Feeling every feather in the wind, the salt on long, impatient flying muscles.

"That's it!" You grabbed one of their hands each and took off like a missile off the beach, "I'll just throw both of you! You can swim back to shore!!"

You woke up to an awful smell, like someone was burning a rotting corpse or something?! When you opened your eyes, you found the source of the foul odour, Meliodas was cooking something on a fire he'd made. Sitting up in the make shift tent that had been erected out of the grass in this monstrous maze, you rubbed your sore (E/c) eyes.

Checking yourself, you realized you were wearing one of Meliodas' white shirts, which went down to just below your nickers. As you examined closer, you discerned that the cut in your chest was gone. 

"H-how? It healed?" You questioned, drumming your fingers against your sternum questioningly, just to make sure you weren't dreaming.

"Oh yeah, Arthur's gotten quite good at that" Meliodas smiled cheekily, pointing with his cooking stick at the lump of blankets in the little floor-bed next to you, "turns out he's got more angel abilities than I'd guessed".

So that's why my lower waist feels so heavy you had to hold in your outburst of amusement as you lifted the tattered quilt to reveal the messy rusted hair of the young king curled up with his chin on your thigh. His arms wrapped protectively around your lower waist as he snored lightly.

"Do you want breakfast?" The sin of wrath tossed up three beautiful pieces of bacon up from the frying pan before the metal caught it again, they looked so delicious!! But the smell! GROSS!

"Not if you're the one who cooked it Melio, sorry but you're food's looks are always deceiving".

The dragon sin chuckled as he slumped down on his little boulder beside the fire. You grinned and managed to peal Arthur off of you so you could get up and walk over to Meliodas. You turned the pan over so the "bacon" fell out onto the fire and burned, then you ruffled his hair and flung your huge white wings from your back.

"Do you know where I can find a wild sheep or pig or something?" You rose off the ground a little, your aching bare feet finally leaving the coarse earth.

Meliodas crossed his arms in thought and tucked his fingers under his chin, "Hmm, I might've seen a wild goat somewhere... but where was it?"

You rolled your eyes, "Fine, you can help me look". You took his hand and he grabbed his sword off from its post leaning on the rock just before you took off high above the maze.

"Ta'da!!" You poured a perfect goat curry into three wooden bowls as the hungry eyes of two ravenous boy's eyed the meat greedily, saliva practically dripping out of their mouths.

The smell was the ideal blend of spices and stocks which you'd managed to swipe out of one of Ban's bags Meliodas had still been carrying, and the goat was of perfect age.

Together the three of you sat down together next to the fire, side by side sharing a single log like three bubbling idiots as you caught up on what odd wonders you'd encountered while you were apart.

"Escanor ay?" Meliodas asked as he tipped the rest of his bowl straight into his mouth, slurping up the think mix of herbs and curry.

"M-hmph" You nodded vigorously, you're mouth equally filled with food.

Arthur, being the mostly-palace-raised gentleman he was, had wide eyes at the primitive behavior he was having to witness from the two most important people in his life. "Um.. mum... I mean.. (Y/n), is Escanor the Lion Sin of Pride".

You snatched a handkerchief from Meliodas' breast pocket and wiped your face before you answered, suddenly feeling very embarrassed at the strange worried tone in Arthur's voice.

"Yeah.. Escanor's the lion of pride".

"He's also a fellow bar owner like me, bastard has almost twice as much Vanya ale as me cause he's got this friend in Vanya" 

It didn't take you that long to notice that Meliodas was droning on, probably because he hadn't slept in a while as he seemed a little drowsy. He had dark circles under his eyes and a twitch when he sat still too long. 

You decided not to say anything, in case he'd close up about it and just mask it with his cheery smile like he did with all of his pain and anger.

"I've had Vanya ale before, I dont really care for it" Arthur said frankly, his eyes blinking with innocence. He squealed suddenly as you started whacking him in the head with your empty wooden bowl.

"You! Are! Too! Young! What do you mean you've been drinking! Vanya! Ale!" You fussed loudly as you thumped the thin wood against his braced arm as he struggled to protect his head from your fury.

Suddenly Meliodas hand flew out on reflex and caught the bottle of alcohol that had been thrown from behind the three of you and almost went into the fire. You stopped abruptly to look at the bottle curiously; as did the Captain and the King.

"Thats a Vanya label" Meliodas peeled back the image on the green bottle, at the same time you heard a groan and a trudging of footsteps.

"Good thing you've got a quick arm Captain, for some' reason my aim ain't too good today" Your head whipped round as you spotted the tall, blue-haired man walking towards you.

"Ban!!"

TO BE CONTINUED!!!
I KNOW ITS BEEN SO LONG SORRY! I'M IN THE LAST TERM OF YEAR 12 AND ALL MY EXAMS HAVE BEEN PUSHED UP SO I'M KIND OF STRESSED. ANYWAY THANKYOU FOR ALL THE COMMENTS I'VE BEEN GETTING! YOU GUYS ARE THE LOVELIEST PEOPLE, I LOVE WRITING THESE STORIES FOR YA'LL! :DDD