Word Count : 1564

Warning : Bulliessss

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"So, is that a real mustache?" Tyler questioned.

Grian shot the guy a look. "Bro you don't just ask that to people."

"Uh... yes, it is real. I have weird genetics." Mumbo replied meekly, looking down at the table.

Taurtis, wanting to make the conversation less uncomfortable, asked the next question. "I've-I've never seen anyone with red eyes. Were you born with them like that?"

"Yes. I was born with a natural red eye color."

Thomas chuckled. "Dude, you know how many edgy emo kids would be so jealous of you?"

Mumbo gave a light laugh, smiling slightly as Peter asked another question. "So MJ, can I call you MJ? What had you and your family move here for?"

The mustached student paused before replying. "My family and I moved here because we originally got kicked out of our old place. So we scraped up what we had and moved. I'm glad we did though, the place we were in wasn't the best."

Grian watched Mumbo's facial expressions carefully. The guy made a lot of easy to read expressions which was nice in an observers perspective. "Where are you living now? Just in town or..?"

MJ chuckled, looking at Grian. "Oh boy, it'd be way louder if my family lived in town. No, we live 10 miles out, just between the county borders."

Grian blinked. "Really? Huh... you get to school fast then."

Mumbo gave an innocent looking smile. "Its a talent I guess."

Tyler shook his head. "Speaking about school. Why are you in school? People say your a genius."

Mumbo looked at Tyler. He chuckled nervously. "What? Pe-people are saying that? Really?"

Taurtis gave Tyler a look before looking back at the other black haired student. "Yeah, is it true that you've graduated several times?"

The red eyed student stuttered for a response, looking back down at the table. "Well... I-I..."

Grian cleared his throat abruptly. "Ok moving on." Grian gave sharp looks at the others before continuing. "Mumbo, how are you enjoying our school so far?"

MJ looked back up slightly. "Your school is very nice. The students are fairly nice for the most part and the teachers are pretty friendly. The school itself holds up to what it promises, which is nice..."

Grian watched Taurtis' face light up at the praise of their school. "So when are we going to tell Mumbo about the bully in the school?" Grian questioned mentally to himself as the conversation with the new kid continued and as the challenge strided forward.

Time Skip
Now back in school, Grian was heading to his class, trying to mind his own business. Taurtis was following swiftly beside him.

"Hey! Short stuff!" A voice called out.

Grian internally screamed, just wanting to get to his damn class. He also knew the voice from anywhere. "Nelson." He angrily addressed, stopping. He could practically feel Taurtis' dread.

Nelson, the toughest and meanest kid in school was coming up. "What's with the tone, short stuff?" He asked, his buddies laughing and chuckling behind him.

Grian turned towards him, putting on his blank and dead inside facial expression. He didn't reply.

Suddenly someone else had come up and stood on the other side of Grian. "Sorry, who are you?"

Grian flinched, the extremely British and naive sounding tone he knew all too well. "Mumbo?!" The blond glanced to his left.

Sure enough, standing on the other side of Grian was the ever tall and ever so slim and muscle lacking new student, Mumbo Jumbo.

Nelson obviously was shocked to hear that someone didn't know him. He looked up at the mustached student. "Well, if it ain't red eyes the newbie."

Mumbo's face crumpled up in confusion. "That's not my name, and you haven't answered my question."

Grian winced at the nativity and genuine confusion laced in the much taller students voice. He could also feel Taurtis cringe.

Nelson's face obviously showed his fury. "Oh I'll make sure you get my name beat into your skull, red eyes! You won't ever forget me!" The bully cracked his fingers as his buddies started to laugh and snicker.

Mumbo had his head cocked to the side. "Still haven't answered my question."

Nelson growled, then went up and took a swing at MJ.

Grian jolted, his eyes widened as Mumbo fell down to the floor. He snapped towards him and was immediately down by him in seconds. "Mumbo!"

Mumbo yelped, his hand was now over his eye.

Nelson merely laughed, sounding cruel. "Names Nelson. Now don't you ever forget it bitch, or next time it'll be worse."

The Bully's buddies laughed as they walked away with their leader.

Grian glared at the group before looking at Mumbo and putting his hands on the other's shoulders. "Mumbo, you alright?"

Mumbo had wide looking eyes, panic was obviously visible. "O-Ow! Wha-Why why did he- Ow!"

Grian winced slightly as he started to pull the much taller student up. "Come on, lets just get you to the nurse."

Taurtis, who was making sure the group was gone, then turned back to Grian and Mumbo, looking extremely apologetic. "Oh my lord, you alright dude?"

Mumbo stood up with Grian's help. He still had his hand over his eye and it honestly looked like he was going to cry. His free hand at his side was shaking ever so slightly. "I-Im not sure! I-I have a headache now- I-I I don't- why did he punch me?!"

Grian wouldn't blame the guy for being scared. His nativity had obviously put him in a bad position and that had gotten him pretty much assaulted. "Come on, we'll take you to the nurse, you'll be safe there Dude."

MJ groaned slightly; though it sounded more like a whine. "No! I'm not worried about my safety, I'm worried about their's now!"

Taurtis paused, processing what the mustached student just said. "Wait, you get punched, look like your having a panic attack and all you can only think about is the safety of your assaulter?"

Mumbo went and moved his hand that was covering his eye to his head, also putting his free hand up to his head. "My sister is a bounty hunter, my brother is an ex-assassin, I think another one of my brothers is still a hit man. And my family owns a lot of different guns a-and-and-"

"-Whoa whoa whoa, back it up, did you say hitman?!" Grian exclaimed, taking notice of the bruise starting to color around Mumbo's eye.

Taurtis spoke up next, looking mildly frightened. "Did you say guns?"

Person Switch
Mumbo had followed Grian anxiously towards the office. Grian had told Taurtis to head to class and that they would be there soon. His head still hurt from the strike and he had told himself to not get back up again, otherwise there was a risk of him attacking back at the bully.

Grian had hold of his wrist as he tugged him along to the inside of the office. "May we get him some ice for his eye please?" He asked.

Mumbo couldn't help but to tremble. He hated it. He hated how he already could feel tears in his eyes when he had hit the floor and he hated how the bully of all people managed to scare him that badly.

Grian had then turned to him, handing him an ice pack. "Here. Take this and hold it over your eye. That should keep swelling down."

Mumbo managed a weak smile as he did as instructed. "Th-Thanks."

Grian returned the smile. "No problem, let's just get back to class."

The two headed out of the office and back down the hall, walking in silence for awhile.

The much shorter man, Grian spoke up after awhile. "Ya know, I've never seen someone piss Nelson off that easily just because some new kid didn't know him."

Mumbo thought for a moment before replying with two words. "Who's that?" He asked; holding the ice pack on his eye.

The blond male looked at him with confusion written on his face. "Are you for real? Nelson, the guy who-" Grian stopped when it visibly clicked. "Oh!" A grin formed on his lips as he just laughed mischievously.

Mumbo couldn't prevent his own smile from going across his lips.

Time Skip
"Ok, the bruise doesn't look that bad." MJ thought in desperation to try to convince himself that. The swelling on his eye wasn't bad anymore, but there was still an obvious bruise. The skin around his eye had gone darker, sort of like to a dark purple color.

"Hey MJ, whatcha doing?"

Mumbo paused, recognizing the familiar voice. He turned to see Grian coming up. "Hey Grian, I'm just... dreading over what's gonna come next..."

The much shorter blond male looked at Mumbo. "Oof, right... you've gotta try to explain why you've got a black eye..."

"Mhm... its... gonna be bad." Mumbo replied.

Grian went and sat down by the black haired student. "It can't be that bad can it?"

Mumbo wished that were the truth. "Ghh... well..." he trailed off, looking down. "Let's hope for that."

A familiar person came walking up. "Hey MJ, you ready to- oh my lord what happened?!"

Mumbo winced, looking up to see Xisuma. "Here goes nothing."

Fin