On a promising sociable day in Megapolis, Y/n scrolling with his companion (Emergency Food), Paimon doing regular things like looking around, buying things etc. Additionally, they notice that Mk and Mei are playing on an arcade machine called 'Monkey Mech' plus Sandy is with them too, watching both of them game.

"Seem Mei and Mk playing the arcade again," Paimon replied, putting her hands on her hips before changing her pose into thinking body language, "Hm, If Paimon recalls that Mei introduced us to this...what was it? Oh right! An arcade game before."

"You mean Monkey Mech arcade game, right?"

"Uh...of course! Paimon already said the name."

'You called it an arcade game, not the actual name...' Y/n thought.
"Sure. Whatever you say, Emergency food."

Paimon gasped.
"Hey! For the last time, Paimon is not an emergency food!" She shouted, getting frustrated. Y/n just giggled, while she pouted.

"Hehe, That game was pretty fun; Her secret technique is quite useful." He whispered those last sentences under his breath, but Paimon somehow caught it.

"Huh? Really? Oh, oh! Tell Paimon! Tell Paimon!" Paimon's eyes sparkled, waiting for (her older brother figure) Y/n to respond to her question.

"Paimon wants to know the secret too!"

"Haha, If I did tell, you probably won't be able to win with your small hands." Y/n teased.

"Hey! My hands aren't that small!" Paimon huffed, making Y/n chuckled  due to Paimon's annoyed expression.

"Alright, alright. I'm only teasing you. Let's just go and check it out." He immediately dropped the topic —Paimon dropped her annoyed face, and quickly mumbled,
"Paimon wants to know Mei's secret technique..."

She looked up at Y/n (who was already walking towards the group) and followed Y/n as they approached the hyper battle between Mk and Mei (which both of them including Sandy were unaware of them approaching). Honestly, it's very entertaining.

"Muhahaha! Button mash all you wang, Mk. You'll never beat my Aniceng Galloping Fury Power." Mei chortled while Mk frustrated, tried to attack back.

"Mk losing yet again." Paimon sighed

"Well, it's obvious on screen." Y/n replied, while smirking a bit.

"Up smash, Up smash!" Sandy replied.

"I'm trying, Sandy, Okay? I'm trying! I'm trying!" Mk yelled in irritation while spamming as Mei laughed dramatically.

"No one cannot defeat me!" The sound of a phone ring from Mei's pocket made Sandy and Mk (including Y/n and Paimon who were in the background) peeked over, looking confused as Mei pulled out her phone, and immediately dropped her mighty excitement feeling.

"Oh, boy..." Mei sighed, then answered her phone, moving away from the arcade machine.
"Uh, Hi Mom."

Mk gave a smug face and continued, finishing Mei's fighter while giggling.

"Trying to take advantage, no? Seen quite unfair, don't you think?"

Mk flinched and quickly turned around to Y/n approach beside him and took control of Mei's fighter, looking surprised.

'When did he get here?!' He thought.

"Me? I'm totally not taking advantage, Y/n. I-I don't even know what y-you talking about, haha..." Mk faltered lightly as well as a fake laugh, Y/n rolled his eyes and smirked.

"Yeah, yeah. 'Totally'" Making Mk blush embarrassed, plus his heart beating fast too.

"Yes...O-of course. No, I—" Mei sighed as she didn't finish her sentence.

"Yes, mother." Sandy approached, looking at Mei with a sad expression, followed by Paimon who looked over his shoulder.

"Hey, you okay there, Mei?"
Mei paused then instantly turned around to Sandy, giving an uneasy face.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heh!" But she turns away, not wanting to expose her apprehensive expression.

"Was that your mother?" Paimon appeared between them as she asked, with her arms crossed. Sandy and Mei blinked at Paimon.

"Uh...how long have been standing there, little fairy?" Sandy asked kindly.

"I'm not—never mind that. Just a few minutes ago." Paimon spun to Mei. "Paimon wants to know what's wrong with you, Mei. You seem...uneasy after that."

"It's just..." Mei was cut off by the audio of the arcade as she, Paimon and Sandy turned around.

'Low-Quality finishing move!' Y/n destroyed Mk with the finishing move and won the whole game while Mk was on the corner in despair, losing (yet secretly happy to play with his crush) against Y/n who smiled, innocently and chuckled. Paimon fist pumped in the air, cheering for Y/n's victory.

"That's my big brother—I-I mean that's the Traveler for you!" Paimon quickly corrected her speech, embarrassed by what she almost said out loud. Y/n looked at her, having a hand on his chest feeling a warm feeling in his heart — a hint of tear from the corner of his eye.

"You thought of me as...your big brother, Paimon." Y/n hiccuped a bit, while trying to wiped the happy tears that rolling down his face.

"W-wait! T-that slip from my mind! Y/n, please don't start crying now!" Paimon trying to calm down sobbing and overreacted Y/n.

Mei smiled widely, that Y/n won by playing her character in the game but quickly dropped it as she turned around while sheepishly rubbing the back of her hair.

"My parents, they want me to housesit..." Making Mk look shocked, Y/n and Paimon blinked and Sandy looked confused.
"And...that's a bad thing? He asked, looking nervous, however, Mei immediately turned around.

"No!" Mei disputed, nervously chuckling, while Y/n and Paimon glanced at each other, "Uh...Me and Parents. We're—"

"Uh, did Mei say...Sleepover at her house?" Mei blinked then shook her head.

"What—No! My parents wouldn't want—"

"Sleepover!" Mk yelled, high-pitch happy sound before mumbling to himself darkly,
"I've always wanted to see inside Mei's secret Dragon House full of secret dragon stuff..."

"Wha—" Y/n was cut off by Mk who immediately begged Mei to have a Sleepover at her place, giving puppy eyes.

"Come on, please! Please, please, please, please?" Mk leaned against Mei, still giving those puppy eyes making Mei just pout as she couldn't resist those puppy eyes.

"Sleepover, it is." Mk cheered and blurted out everything to Mei.

"What about you, guys? Are you also joining us for this amazing sleepover?" Mk paused his blurt speech, and turned around to Y/n and Paimon, with sparkling eyes, Mei looked uneasily but gave a sheepish smile at them, and Sandy gave them kind eyes yet curious for their answers.

"Actually, Paimon and the Traveler were just about to—" Paimon was cut off by Mk.

"But there will be tasty food at Mei's place," Mk replied, looking determined as he knew Paimon's weakness. Y/n sharply glared at Paimon who was sweating badly, trying to resist the temptation.

"Ehe...thanks f-for the offer but P-Paimon refused..." Paimon turned away. Mk huffed before leaning against Mei and whispering to her ear making Mei sigh, switching to a determined look.

"Oh sweet dear Paimon, You can eat all the luxurious and scrumptious foods if you join us. Just image how much fancy food you can have." Mei dramatically proposed to Paimon who mumbled under her breath.

"Paimon, don't you fu—"

"Okay, Okay! Me and Y/n accept!"
Y/n shot up at her.

"I didn't even—" Paimon immediately gave Y/n, her own adorable puppy eyes which Y/n twitched his eye.

"Ugh, fine. Quite giving that puppy eyes." Y/n rolled his eyes and sough. Mk (who's enthusiastic) and Mei (who still looks troubled but delighted) high-five each other and successfully convince them to join the sleepover. Sandy just smiled softly, thumbs at them even Mo. However, they were unaware of someone who's been listening to their conversation from a distance, while checking hologram screens with info and images until one image showed a vulnerable item, the Dragon Blade.

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"The legendary Dragon Blade.." Princess Iron Fan smirked, as she gazed down on the hologram that the General Ironclad's transmission.

"That blade is amongst the most powerful artifacts in history." Princess Iron Fan continued smugly, expanding the hologram, revealing more legendary relics.

"I do love powerful things." Princess Iron Fan dropped her smug expression and harsh yet firm command to General Ironclad. "Go! Bring it to me." General Ironclad nodded and was about to end the communication.

"Oh, One more thing that I almost forgot." General Ironclad paused, looking confused. Princess Iron Fan pulled another screen of a hologram recording of a familiar H/c boy (who huffed).

'So, Redson reported that this same mortal had somehow unleashed a powerful thunder during the weather station. Interesting...a mortal controlling lightning now?' she thought, glancing at the Traveler and noticing a key detail of his earring glowing soft pink-purple which she zoomed in to further, pulling another hologram for the earring with some analysing on the item. However, the results are unknown.

'That earring he's wearing wasn't glowing purple before too. How peculiar.' She looked back at her pawn.

"Bring me the boy with the earring too without any scratches — He's our honour guest to the family — If I see a single scratch on him, then there will be serious consequences. Do you understand?" General Ironclad nodded once more and the last before ending as the hologram switched off.

'At first glance, he appeared to be a normal mortal, having that strong aura flowing through his body which I sensed before. But now, what my useless son reports me making things a whole lot more interesting...He's more vulnerable than we think.' She wickedly smirks.

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Once arriving to Mei's place, they looked in awe when their eyes lay on the luxurious jade house with beautiful autumn-like trees contrasting with soft green trees.

"Whoa! It's even better than I thought. Growing up here must have been great!" Mk complimented, full of excitement as he looked around, Mei prudently laughed a bit; not showing hyper body language.

"Yeah, I guess..." Mei turned to the golden and black wall, "Uh, I don't know." Y/n gently placed his hand on Mei's shoulder, giving a soft tense expression, Mei blushed a little and sighed.

"When I was growing up, I just wanted to be rough and tumble, break stuff, look at bugs. You know have fun like normal girl stuff; but when your house is pretty much a museum and you come from a long line of ancient Nobu dragons. That's kind of frowned on." Mei looked up at them, before giving an uneasy smile, trying to lift the atmosphere and she continued speaking with a hint of awkward tone. "Anyway, onwards to the definitely not going to be terrible sleepover."

Sandy and Mk already dashed off, leaving Mei(who blinked a few times before sighing), Y/n and Paimon.
"Hey! Hey!" Paimon yelled, stomping her foot in the air (because she was floating).

"Paimon, would you mind and go with Mk and Sandy." Paimon looked at Y/n with a surprised expression but Y/n smiled softly at her.

"Don't worry, I'll catch up with you. Just need to talk to Mei, that's all."

"If you say so..."
Paimon nodded slowly, before catching up with Sandy and Mk. Now, it's just Mei and Y/n.

"Mei? Did something happen between your parents after that call?"

"Huh? No, no, no. Nothing like that! Really!" She replied.

Y/n sighed, still holding her shoulder gently (as for Mei who's just blushing madly yet feeling comfortable with Y/n hands on her shoulder).

"Mei, It's quite obvious due to your expression showing since you're not in your hyper-energetic mood like you always were." Mei blinked a few times and sheepishly smiled while trying to hide her mad blush.

"I-I mean, Yes—no...maybe. Ugh! I don't know anymore."

"Hey now. You can tell me, alright? We're friends, aren't we?" Y/n smiled gently at her, as Mei blinked (with dotted eyes) and smiled back at him but deep down feeling of stab in her chest of the word 'friends'.

"Y-yeah..."

Y/n nodded (letting go of her shoulder) and turned around to catch up with the others, but felt a tight grip on his working clothes, causing Y/n to stop, turning around to Mei.

"C-can I hold y-your hand? It just...I feel comfortable around...y-you." Mei stuttered as she looked away, looking embarrassed. "O-of course, You don't have to, haha!"

Y/n just blinked with dotted eyes.

'Well, that was a bold move of you, Mei. Way to go, Mei! You just made your crush think you're a creep or something—' Mei's thought was cut off as Y/n chuckled, lightly at her which she immediately blushed.

"If that helps you feel comfortable then alright," Y/n responded, as he raised his hand at her.

Mei's eyes go soft, looking at the view of you smiling at her. That angelic smile of yours just always hit her heart almost like Cupid summoned more love arrows to her high bumping heart. But the baby blue sky adds a more angelic yet, magical atmosphere on you making you like an angel who just came from the celestial realm. Mei smiled (but inside of her, she was very desperate to tell you how she felt about you but held it, knowing that this wasn't the perfect time to do it) and she was about to take your hand but paused when she heard of security activating same with Y/n who also heard it and blinked.

'Just have to ruin the moment!' Mei thought frustrated that her moment with you was interrupted.

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"Whoa!" Mk marvelled as he, Paimon and Sandy looked up at the dragon head displayed on top of the entrance it scanned both of them and immediately switched into defensive mode, bringing out a bunch of gun weapons at Mk, Sandy (who both of them gasped) and Paimon immediately goes behind Mk. Quickly, Mei hauled into the scene (as well as Y/n) who instantly typed the password, turning off the security defence system of the weapons away.

"Ha! Yeah. My parents are big serious about the old security thing." Mei replied, pulling a sheepish smile at everyone. Paimon rushed, changing her position from Mk to Y/n, landing on his chest; hugging him for dear life.

"Paimon thought she was going to die..." Paimon mumbled as if her soul left her small body. Y/n snickered before ruffling her pure snow hair.

The entrance opened, as well playing a robotic audio. 'Welcome home, Mei' making her deadpan with her hands in her pockets. "Yeah."

Once they stepped inside the house, they were awed even more seeing the astonishing hallway with ancient items displayed on each side in rows well presented.

"This is amazing!"

"Great quantity of old items..." Y/n admired. Paimon leans to Y/n and whispers so that others don't hear her what she's saying, "Definitely reminds us of Liyue."

Y/n breathed out one word quietly, "Yeah."

"Whoa! What is all this stuff?"

"You know, gifts, artifacts, offerings." Mei rubbed the back of her.

"You must have got a lot of these items from members, right?" Y/n surveyed.

"Yeah, it's just stuff that's been in my family for—"

"What're you two doing?!" Paimon yelled making Mei and Y/n turn around in shock as they saw Mk and Sandy start touching different types of items, some almost fell but were caught by either Mei, Y/n or Paimon (she can only hold small objects compared to Mei and Y/n).

"If I had all this stuff, I don't even know what I would do." Mk moved away from the stand full of armour, causing it to wobble; luckily it was caught by Mei who sighed in relief. Mk grabbed the rusty golden axe and then winged it, the axe part fell off once swinging to the back unnoticed (except Mei notices) in the process. "Sell it, probably."

"Yeah, this stuff looks really good." Sandy immediately picked up a circular pillar with a jade lime-green dragon statue. "Looks like a few good years, maybe centuries."

"Guys..." Mei tried to calm herself down, as more items were being touched or thrown (getting caught by Y/n and Paimon).
"STOP!" She shouted, followed by the echo of the hallway making everyone stop what they were doing, standing like statues.

"Hands in pocket. Now."

"Note; never make Mei angry..." Paimon muttered under her breath. "That's already on the list." Y/n spoke, calmly.

"Follow me. You guys are such menaces, you know that?" Mei angrily, walking pass them. "Expect for Marshmallow..." She mumbled, referring to Y/n.

As they're away from the entrance door and hallway, an unexpected visitor, Ironclad already stand there unnoticed by the group as they slowly raise their head with narrowed eyes.

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Continue touring around the household, they arrived at a large empty room with scrolls displayed on the wall, each scroll had its dragon drawn on each wall. The centre of all is a pearl white contrasting gold dragon statue, holding a jade blade in the middle.

"And this is the dragon claw chamber," Mei responded, casually while walking the chamber with Mk, Sandy (with Mo on his shoulder), Paimon and Y/n.

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa—hold up." Mk paused in his tracks as he looked back at the chamber, staring at the dragon statue before his eyes lay on the dragon blade and immediately gasped with sparkles around him.

"Now, this thing is cool!" Mk bubbled.

"Beautiful emerald green.." Paimon marvelled, giving the same expression as Mk.

You stared at the weapon, and somewhere felt an uneasy presence within the sword — you ignored the unnerving feeling — you continued staring at the object. You couldn't hear what's happening around you, nor you can't hear who's calling. Just You and the sword. Something with this weapon's aura...is oddly familiar, then something occurred in your mind — An image? Or vision? Of...you, your sister and someone hugging you (that you don't recognise at all).

'What is this?' You thought and more questions started to crowd your empty mind, wondering why this vision or image showed this to you. Is this kinda joke? You and your sister never came to this world once and never in million of years that you never met this person. So why?

"Y/N!"

You immediately snapped from your thoughts as someone shouted your name and now, you were getting shaken rapidly by Mk who panicked, Sandy trying to calm down Paimon in his arms as she protested desperately. You blinked as you suddenly felt several salty tears rolling down your cheek making you perplexed.

'Am I crying?' You thought as you touched your cheek, feeling the tears soaking your S/c skin before being splashed by waterI the face and turned around to the culprit which was Mei holding an empty bucket, dripping little drops on the metal edge.

"Really?" You simply replied, tight. Everyone breathed in relief even Paimon as she was released by Sandy. Mei (somewhere) hands over a towel to you, which you appreciate and dry yourself.

"Y/n, how many fingers I'm holding up?!" Mk worried as he raised his hand at your face. You blinked again, glowering.

"How would I—" You were impeded by Paimon who hugged tightly around the neck like a frightened young sibling being held by their older sibling.

"You make Paimon worried again! Don't do that ever, Y/n! Ever again! Got it!?"

"Got it..?" You were concerned and then pulled Paimon closer, as she buried her head on your chest for comfort.

"Y/n, you were staring at a weapon for approximately 10 minutes, I think. We tried calling your name several times and you wouldn't respond even our shouts." Sandy explained and Mo meowed softly as he agreed with him.
"Even using loud instruments too!" Mk added.

"Wait, where you even get a—you know what, I'm not going say about that." Y/n shook his head.

Sandy continued with his explanation of what happened,
"Plus you started crying while gazing at the object. Y/n, are you okay?"

He turned to Sandy, "Oh yeah, I'm fine now." as he rubbed his cheek with the towel to remove the water off (including the wet tear marks).

"Hm, I think I'll tell Pigsy what happened—" Y/n immediately cut him off and laughed nervously.

"Haha, no no no. I'm completely fine, Sandy. See?" He replied quickly, showing him that he was okay. Sandy thought about it and nodded however he was still concerned about why you began crying while glancing at the dragon blade.

"A-anyway...um what we're doing again?" Y/n questioned sheepishly.

"Mei said, The game room is our next stop!" Mk exclaimed, happily which Y/n was about to say something before he was been dragged gently by Mk (looking embarrassed of himself for being bold to hold your hand), Sandy (who smiled, knowing that Mk was a lovesick puppy but rather stayed silent — didn't want to disturb between you and Mk) followed behind them and Paimon who's still hugging him around the neck, never want to let go of you (yet death-glaring at Mk for any suspicious which Mk felt a heavy presence coming from her, making him flinched).

Mei didn't follow them yet before glancing at one of the scrolls as her eyes moved on skimming more showcasing of her past ancestors, giving a weighty expression as if it was judging her. She looked down then to the others, heeded behind them. General Ironclad slowly appeared on screen, being above the chamber ceiling — watching the group take their leave mainly focusing on Y/n, with his narrower, prey eyes.

Before arriving at a Game Room, Mei lends you some clothes due to his clothes that he wore are wet (including his worker clothes under your overlayer) which Mei apologised — the only clothes that can fit you were the traditional clothes.

Mei and Mk's eyes sparkled and blushed, didn't bother to hide this time. The jade-green clothes with some scales design were perfectly contrasted with your (H/c) hair and (S/c) skin that gently hugged your figure — by the heavens, simple pulchritudinous of yours is just extraordinary (without an makeup or accessories) that can't be ignored — instead of fully braided, Your hair is beautifully wavy a bit with some braids on your back and the left side.

Sandy gave you a thumbs up as well as an approved look, same with Mo. "Gorgeous as always, Y/n."

You sheepishly smiled, feeling embarrassed.
"Thanks, Sandy. I don't often wear these type of the clothes...I tend to only wear my armour-clothes than other clothes that I brought."

Mei and Mk's head pinged by your words before blurting words at you.
"You should wear more fashionable clothes, Marshmallow! I'll bet that you will look awesome in every clothes!"

"I agree with Mei! You will be like a top prominent model in the whole city!" Mk agreed. All though, they both know that you absolutely will look exquisite even kill in any type of clothes you wear.

"Paimon wonders what you look like if you did wore the traditional clothes from the each region..." Paimon whispered quietly to you as you chuckled.

"I'll probably look fabulous in them." You replied back, quietly.

"You have always been ravishing,Y/n. Most people here are staring at you with such...love gazes or something too numerous times, Paimon doesn't like it one bit." Paimon conversed with a whiff of annoyed or vicious tone under her breath when she said the last sentence.

"Wait, what?" You looked at her, who avoided your eyes not wanting to eye-contract.

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Once arriving to the Game Room, Mk loudly gasped looking at a fancy gold pinball machine and leaning against it with his sparkling eyes, the same implies to Sandy's and Paimon's expressions.
"A pinball machine?! I've always wanted to try one of these."

Mei sheepishly smiled, putting her arms behind her head.
"Yeah, now this place is home."

'Home...' Y/n thought, looking away from others. That word 'Home' is always the big trigger. He still remembers the sentences that his twin said. The exact words from his dear sister.

"Home is wherever we are together."

Y/n clenched his fists together, turning his knuckles white before fading away as another hand was gently placed — he turned around to see Mei who was giving a worried look which Y/n brushed his pessimistic sentiment to the side of his brain and smiled, saying that he's fine. Mei of course wasn't convinced as she knows something wrong but didn't want to push a further, keeping her hand on his hand.

"All right! You three boot up the old TV!" Mei spoke, pointed herself and Y/n, "We will go get some s-na-na-nacks."

Mk and Sandy goofy smiled (well Mk couldn't help but feel jealousy in the inside, seeing Mei, his best friend holding your hand, even he did hold your hand like a few minute but this one is longer — even both of them agree to sharing you but its most likely to fight attention and affection from you).

"I want to help with the snacks—" Paimon paused, turned at Y/n who quiver his head, making her pouted, knowing she will accidentally eat it (like she did before when delivering noodles).

"Okay, don't break anything while we are gone!" Mei yelled happily and waves rapidly while holding Y/n's hand and they leave the game room.

"Don't break anything while I'm gone!" Mk mocked and breathed laugh, "Hah! Yeah, right."
He looks back at the pinball, getting ready to start playing and he pulls the lever backwards, it instantly comes off from Mk who drops his smug expression, twisted to horrify face. Paimon and Sandy stared, blankly.
"No..." Mk faintly breathes out.

"You spoke too soon, Mk." Paimon muttered with an annoys tone.

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"Party! Bored games! Snacks!" Mei spoked, full of energy while carrying several something that she listed; for the sleepover, Y/n sighed as he also carrying some stuff but he's happy that Mei's in better mood. As they walked past the Dragon Claw Chamber, not noticing the General Ironclad (who's trying pull the dragon blade). "Bull Clone!"

With widened eyes, Y/n paused his step as he in front of the entrance of the chamber and fluttered before turning his head around. As for, Mei thought twice about what she lastly said then went beside Y/n and looked in the same direction as he was looking. General Ironclad froze on the spot and gazed at them.

"Wait a minute." Mei immediately pointed at the Bull Clone (while dropping the stuff in the process, the same goes with Y/n), then exclaimed, "You're a Bull Clone!"

Y/n quickly acts and summoned his dull sword, gripping tightly. General Ironclad shrugs, and instantly throws two solid objects at them with influential force — Y/n blocks (with his weapon) then moves forward to shred the Bull Clone, followed by electro symbols thrown straight but they evades effortlessly (yet did catch a few spark of electro) and swiftly grabs the blade from the statue's palm. Unfortunately, Mei gets hit (by the solid object) on her forehead causing her to go backwards.

Y/n looked back at Mei.
"Mei, you alright?"

"Ugh, I'm good—Y/N LOOK OUT!" Mei shouted. Y/n widened his eyes, as he sided-eye to catch a glimpse of the General Ironclad was already beside him with menacing eyes.

'Fuck! Fuck! I let my guard down too soon—' Y/n thought and cursed himself, as he tried to onslaught, only to be snatched (dropping his sword in the process, slowly fading away into yellow glow particles) and promptly placed over their shoulder. The Bull Clone hastily off with the dragon on its right hand and on its left shoulder, Y/n pushing to the limit to get out.

'This one's strong than other Bull Clones — Damnnit, I can't fucking get out from its grip!' Y/n thought, getting intensely pissed-off.

"Hey! Get back here! GIVE Y/N BACK, YOU—!" Mei yelled, angrily (more like infuriated seeing you get captured and placed like that like a sag — this isn't how you treat a goddess like you).

The chase starts intensely, General Ironclad enters the hallway, full of pieces artifacts in the centre — the Bull Clone didn't care what's in front of him and immediately destroying every single artifact even chucking some in the air, stopping Mei from catching up. You grit his teeth together trying your best to get out, summoning your sword yet again to strike an attack, only stopped by the dragon blade which General Ironclad used — the same aura reappeared again, you gazed at the blade blankly like before.

General Ironclad bursted out from the hallway wall to the garage room, causing a bit of chaos before taking one of the vehicles, a motorcycle then drove off. Mei dumbfounded before glaring through the cup-out of the Bull Clone while griting her teeth then whistled for her White Horse Dragon Bike, which it convened and she jumped in her vehicle while the hologram pixelated her casual outfit to rider clothes and immediately continued the pursuit.

As the chase further proceeded, General Ironclad used the blade once more,and aggressively ploughed into the pillar even more artifacts before putting the blade on his back again. Y/n shook his head, and blinked a few times looking confused before looking over his shoulder; Mei was shocked by the Bull Clone's action and briefly dodged some, but her vehicle strumbled over a stone brick making her and the vehicle fly up.

"Mei!" Y/n cried out, as her figure moved distant away. Y/n grit his teeth furthermore, turned his head forward then punched let-guard-down General Ironclad in the face, causing him to lose a bit of control of the vehicle, going sideways. He tried to punch once more but interrupted by the another vehicle approaching rapidly making both of you paused then looked behind you. Furious Mei finally reached them, death-glaring the Bull Clone before they collided both vehicles, making an explosive then smoked rosed, sputtered out all three of them screaming.

The General Ironclad hit the ground hard, face first. Y/n was about to hit the pearl ground before he twisted his body, having his straight up — summoned his sword then pierced down on the ground, sliding across the floor and stopped. He breathed in and out in relief.

Mei was slammed into the wall, followed by the dragon blade that almost impaled her, but she ducked her head down. She reached above her head then takes it out.
"The Dragon Blade?"

She immediately felt something above her, she looked up to see her ancestors appeared above her, surrounding her as if trial was set up, ready to judge. Their voices were unintelligible, but their tone was almost like criticising her.

"You know what?" Mei slowly, yet so sudden stood up,
"I am part of this family. I am Mei. Descendant of the great dragon of west sea." Mei glared, "This is mine, and this is my house!" She unleashed a substantial green vitality around her, harnessing the power of the dragon blade. General Ironclad was startled by Mei's fury as she hovers in midair with a silhouette of a dragon behind her and lime-green sky.

"Get. Out. Of. My. House!" She roared, pointing with the dragon blade at the General Ironclad (who attempted to fight back), blasting with decisive energy from the silhouette of the dragon, sending the Bull Clone out of the house.

Meanwhile, with others in the game room, the pinball machine looks busted, yet being maintained desperately together by a bunch of duct tape — it broke down once more.

"Uh...Maybe a little more tape?" Sandy desperately asked, while holding the roll of duct tape.

"Don't think that more tape will magically fixed it, Sandy." Paimon answered, sarcastically yet also scared what Mei think if she see them that they actually broke it even Y/n — he'll probably scowled Paimon.

"No, no. I broke it." Mk declined then sadly sighs before pulling his confidence up,
"Part of being a hero is owning up to your mistakes." Mk turned around to exit being dramatic with fake tears.

"Wish me luck..."

When Mk enters the hallway, not noticing the destruction state of it.
"So, uh...Mei, you know that really cool— Mei?" Mk gasped, as he saw the state of hallway then Mei who descend from the sky, landing on her feet. She turned to Mk who slides into the scene.

"Mei, what happened?"

"Mk!" Mei happily answered, switching her expression to a serious look, "Someone tried to steal the dragon sword. I stopped them with this! The Dragon Sword!" she dramatically shows him the dragon blade in her hands.

"Whoa! The dragon sword! That's—" Mk paused, then sided-eye of Paimon (who folded her arms), Sandy and Mo who's giving a look, making Mk remember what he needs to do.

"Mei...I'm really glad you stopped them, but I have a confession to make. I accidentally..." Mei giving an happy confused face.

"Accidentally what?"

"Accidentally...didn't know what was going on!" Mk nervously chortled, Paimon twitched her eyes annoyed.

"You said that—?!" Mk immediately covered Paimon's mouth, not wanting her to say the truth, which Paimon slap his hand away then huffed.

"Wow! That thing's amazing!"

"Ahem." A male voice cleared his throat, making everyone stopped then turned around — Mei gasped in surprise seeing her parents standing there, giving a mature look on the group.

"Mom! Dad! You're back!" Mei hid the dragon blade behind her back, nervously grinned at them.

"We were on our way when we realised somebody forgot our luggage." Mrs. Dragon stated, having her hands on her hips.

"Uh, Sandy? Were you king of expecting Mei'd parents to be literally two big, scary dragons?" Mk muttered to Sandy who sweat-drops, looking away from Mk's side eye. "Um...no."

Paimon looked around, looking Y/n (who's missing) before moving away from the group to look for him. Soon, she found him, further away from others which Y/n pushed away some crumble piece of the building away from him. He noticed her then smiled, as if he's telekinesis saying to her that he's okay making her sighed in relief. They both starts walking, leaving behind some broken structures from the ceiling and shattered items on the ground.

"I can explain! Someone tried to steal the sword, I didn't let them. And-and-and...I used this." Mei confessed and showed her parents the dragon blade in front of them.

"I'm sorry..." Mei apologised quietly.

"We saw the whole thing." Mr. Dragon spoked firmly.

"But I couldn't just—"

"And we're so proud of you!" Mr. Dragon smiled softly even Mrs. Dragon too to their daughter.

"What?" Mei confused — why's her parent proud of her? Aren't they supposed to mad of her that she touched the most prize possession, Dragon Blade?

Mr. Dragon gently laugh by his daughter's reaction.
"The dragon blade is the pride of our family heritage. Its power only shows itself to those that embrace their history. Their family."

Mrs. Dragon crouched down to Mei.
"We may not always see eye to eye. And...um your friends are more unique than we expected."

Paimon and Y/n (who brushed dust away) made it to scene, seeing Mo jumps on to Mk's face as Sandy blinks while Y/n and Paimon giggle before Y/n gently picked up Mo who immediately snuggled on his chest, then he lends a hand to Mk, which him being love dock, hesitantly takes his hand then looked up at Y/n and goofy smiled.

Mrs. Dragon gently glimpses at Y/n (who's wearing their traditional outfit) then smiles.

'So this is a person that Mei has yapping about. He's quite a stunning man in person' She thought, (as she remembered that once she overheard Mei yapping a lot about this person in her bedroom) looking back at Mei.

"But you are a part of this family, and it is part of you. We love you." Mrs. Dragon gave a motherly smile and Mei turned around slowly, smiling.

"I love you too, mom, dad." As they embraced their daughter and hugged, so Mk joins in their family hug moment.

"I am sorry about the house, though."

"What's important is you are okay. Objects can be replaced." Mr. Dragon nods with his wife's answer.

"Everything expect my prized pinball machine. That is irreplaceable." Mk felt that he was stuck by lightning in the head then wince nervously.

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Gloomy yet beautiful twinkling star in the dark, navy blue night descended over the city and sleepover happen between you, Mk, Mei and Paimon as it was hosted in your apartment — The others had fallen asleep expect for you.

You stared at the window where the sky glittered with stars, then starts to imagine of you and your sister flying in that type of sky as shooting stars, smiling. Being free to fly anywhere between you two. You couldn't sleep properly because that unknown image continuously arose from your head when you were staring at Dragon Blade back there.

Why did that image show?

What does it mean?

What's it telling you?

You shook your head, not want to think too much of that now. You felt a gentle yet small on your palm which you turned to your side to see your companion, Paimon who had her small hand on your hand like youngest wants comfort from their parents or older siblings as you smiled at her.

'Probably dreaming about food or something.' You thought and sighs.

It's best you get some sleep now, before the upcoming morning or Pigsy or either Tang going to bring that topic about your sleep problems and others relating to your mental health even dragging to Sandy's boat area to have therapy session. You swear that Pigsy and Tang are almost like they actually acting as father figures to you, helping with mental state — you admitted it's comforting to have them to check on you time by time even works too.

Regardless, you don't want that to conversation happening again because it can be a bit annoying — at least, you have lesser bags under your eyes by taking some advice from them.

Maybe, you can tell them first the truth instead of using false excuse.
Hopefully soon, right?

You staring at the window one last time, before shifting to the side away from starling sky as your eyes slowly lowered, lay on Paimon who shifted her position closer to you, then your view became blurry as you become more sleepy and blinked once, having an blurred image of your sister, who turned her head around towards you and smiled.

Your sister's precious smile.
Oh dear heavens, you wish you can see her one more time just to see that pure smile displayed on her sunny face.

You soon fell into the deep slumber, as if you being dragged down into final peace.

「✏️｣ I feel like this chapter is messy with no sense of sentences I'd put here.  (˚˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥) ‧º

Not easy to keep the characters canon as well but ANYWAY — I posted the chapter after 4 months (well almost end of this month) and I deeply apologise plus don't have any excuses either during the last couple of months other than Holiday this month.

OH SHIT, 50k?! Damn, Just how many time you guys repeat read this??? Like it hasn't been updated for months. Dont you get bored of it?? Nevermind that now.

You may notice some changes here too which I did mention on my conversation post — and yes, just twitching some things and updating some of drawing from each chapter.

Hope enjoy this chapter plus Thank you for your lovely and some funny comments and support once again.

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