Chapter 5 : Sanctuary X { Flashback }

As Sirius waited for what seemed like hours with his body curled up like a caterpillar, waiting to get hurt by Eliza but instead what he got was a deafening silence with no movement at all followed by a loud laughter which broke the sudden silence.

Sirius puts his head out to see Eliza sitting right next to him laughing without a care in the world.

He is utterly confused by the sudden change in mood again of Eliza as it baffled him even more as to how someone who was snarling at him just a minute ago is basically laughing her guts out now or maybe she was only playing games with him to see how he would react.

Sirius thought as he sat up to face Eliza with his confused face slowly turning into one of anger as he came to a realization of what had just happened.

He stared at Eliza so intensely that it caused the latter to stifle her laugh as she noticed that the young boy was not taking any of what had just happened to be funny even in the slightest.

"What the hell!!!... Were you just trying to make me wet my pants because you were genuinely angry or it was just for laughs."

Sirius asks, yelling at the top of his voice.

"Well truthfully it was a bit of both, come on don't b so upset loosen up a little bit."

Eliza says amidst chuckling as she attempts to tap Sirius on the shoulder with the latter pulling back.

Sirius glares at Eliza with such an unsettling gaze to put off Eliza. After what felt like an eternity he turns from Eliza and stands up from the ground with Eliza just watching to see what he would do.

Sirius walks a few meters from where Eliza stood before turning to face her

"Fight me."

Sirius remarks.

"Wait what??"

Eliza asks with a raised brow.

"Fight me."

Sirius reiterates.

"And why would I do that??"

Eliza asks.

"Because you can get what you want; we can be friends… but then if I win I don't want to ever see your face anywhere close to me ever again."

Sirius replies.

"Are you sure about that??"

Eliza asks.

"Why??... Are you scared I'm going to win??"

Sirius says with a devilish smirk.

"Oh my… well in actual fact I'm worried that you won't keep to your side of the deal if I win."

Eliza returns Sirius smirk with a smile of her own.

Sirius readies himself as he puts up his tiny fists, serious in his intent to fight the much older female in front of him.

Eliza is about to say something when Sirius leaps towards her with surprisingly quick agility and lands a punch on Eliza's arm as she is able to block the surprise attack with relative ease.

Sirius steps back and immediately launches another assault as fast as his tiny body could carry him with Eliza not so surprised as it was known that those who carry holy scriptures within them are blessed with the natural ability to fight and Eliza surmised that Sirius scripture had something to do with speed though she wasn't sure of herself.

Sirius tries a kick to Eliza's face but the latter grabs his leg and throws him back with Sirius doing a flip and laying on the ground as he began to breath heavily due to the physical exertion he was experiencing.

"Oh my, Tired so soon??"

Eliza says in a mocking tone.

"I don't care if you are a girl anymore, I'm so gonna make you pay for scaring me like that."

Sirius remarks in annoyance.

Sirius yells and rushes towards Eliza, repeating his assault once again putting Eliza on the defensive as she actually had no intentions of fighting back and was content on allowing Sirius get tired and run out of breath though she was not sure if Sirius would give up so easily.

Sirius drops down and tries to swipe Eliza's legs but she jumps up just in time to realize that Sirius meant to actually make her jump as the young boy used his quick agility to jump after Eliza, grabbing the latter and bringing her crashing down with him on top with a childish grin on his face as he pinned her successfully to the ground.

He was about to start celebrating when Eliza feigned tears and was about to cry causing him to let his guard down which Eliza then used to tumble Sirius and straddle the young boy causing Sirius to protest that she had cheated.

"You cheated."

Sirius remarks with a pout.

"No I didn't."

Eliza retorts.

"Yes you did, you acted like you were crying so that I'd feel bad and let my guard down."

Sirius remarks.

"I didn't do that at all, you are falsely accusing me."

Eliza replies as she feigns ignorance with a smile.

Eliza begins to chuckle in amusement with Sirius soon joining in soon after.

Five minutes later, Eliza and Sirius are sitting side by side resting their backs on a tree, Sirius seems to be genuinely enjoying himself for the first time in a while as he had a smile on his face with Eliza feeling good about herself.

"Why did you bring me here?... Did you already know that I would try to fight you off my case."

Sirius asks.

"Well I didn't know exactly how exactly I'd be able to reach out to you but I knew that to do so I needed to get you out of that toxic environment and bring you to place where you would be free to express yourself."

Eliza replies with a shrug.

Sirius stares at Eliza for a little while not sure what to say before he decides to ask another question.

"Where are we currently??"

Sirius asks as he took in the scenery laid out before him.

"A pocket dimension that I was able to create, it's really small as its my first one but it's good enough for the reason to which I had created it for."

Eliza remarks casually.