2- The Rabbit

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-Story Start-

It was finally time for Aragon's thirty minute brake. While he leaned against the alley way walls, Mama Mia had took his position.

Taking a deep breath in through his mouth, he blowed out smoke. Bringing the round paper stick down he sighed. "Why do I feel like this day is about to get one hundred times worse."

The backdoor of the Hostess Of Fertility was slammed open, Aragon looked to see familiar green hair.

"Shit." Aragon sighed at Ryuu.

"Aragon, I've already told you this before, those things aren't good for you." She gestured to the lit cigarette between Aragon's fingers, yanking it by the base and stomping it out. "Hand it over." Ryuus hand shot out, open.

Aragon mumbled and cursed but eventually, the pack of cigarettes was in her hand. "Last night you didn't want me to smoke cause you had your window open, and today it's because they're bad for me, which is it." Aragon slid himself down to where he was sitting on the ground like a homeless man.

Ryuu sighed as she destroyed the pack, "Do you really think I'd keep my window open after last nights events."

"...Fuuuucccckkk." Aragon felt like slapping himself. How could he be so foolish?

Ryuu sat down next to him, making sure her skirt was properly situated before she began speaking, "Aragon, belive it or not but I do care for you. And it's already proven what these things do to you... I'm just worried, your destroying yourself, and to be honest, I want to know why."

Aragon sighed, "There's nothing special about me Ryuu. I'm just an ex-adventure who couldn't deal with fighting monsters anymore."

Ryuu scowled, "That's a lie. Everytime someone has a monster problem you help them. You've wiped out swarms of monsters on your own before." Ryuu raised her hand and placed it on Aragons shoulder. "If you need anything..."

Aragon shot up, spooking the elf. "My break is over, I'll see you later."

Aragon stormed into the Hostess, a look of slight anger on his face.

Ryuu sighed before standing up again. "A bit closer this time."

In the hostess, Aragons was fuming. 'Damn gods got to start doing more research before they try to recruit me.'

Aragon looked at the real Ryuu. In her hands was a bunch of dirty dishes. "Here, I'll get that for you."

Aragon grabbed the dishes and brought them to May.

'After all... Ryuu is the only one who knows why I'm no longer an adventurer.'

____A_Few_Hours_Later____

Mama Mia placed the big plate of spaghetti in front of Bell, the white haired boy Syr was talking to in the morning.

"What you want to drink kid." Aragon said, glaring at the boy.

"Um- Uh-" Bell was shaking a bit.

Ryuu threw a fork at Aragon from the other side of the restaurant. "Don't scare him Aragon."

Aragon sighed before looking at bell with a strained smile, ignoring the fork that had crumpled on from hitting his head. "What would you like to drink, dear customer."

Bell was still scared, after all, Aragon was a 6'3" absolute HUNK of a man. "Um... whatever is available for minors?"

Aragon froze for a moment before looking at Syr, 'Is she seriously trying to catch a case right now?!'

Aragon sighed before pouring Bell a glass of fruit juice. "It's on the house, for your troubles."

At the thought of money, Bell started to try and calculate the amount of Valis he'd need to pay for all of this.

Mama Mia walked up to Bell and Aragon. "So your one of Syr's little friends huh? Didn't think they made adventures as cute as you, and I've seen this one in his young ages." Mama Mia ruffled Aragon's hair.

"Please don't pick on me..." Bell sighed.

"Ah, sensitive too, I remember when you were like that Aragon!" Mama Mia smirked at Aragon only for him to scoff and move to another part of the bar to serve someone else.

Suddenly, Mama Mia placed a large plate of Catfish in front of him causing Bell's jaw to drop. "Here ya go kid." Mama Mia smiled down at the poor boy. "You're so skinny, you need to put some meat on them bones."

"Wait- I didn't order this-!"

"Your gonna have to eat something if you wanna get big and strong, Ya know."

"What's the special..." Bell looked at the menu, "EIGHT HUNDRED VALIS?! THATS CRAZY!"

Aragon looked at the poor boy, refilling his drink, "I'll pay for whatever you didn't order."

Syr walked up to the white haired boy, "So, You like it?"

"Huh?"

"Are you having a good time?" Syr leaned in.

"I think I'm losing my mind..." Bell whined.

Syr stifled a laugh, "Sorry to hear that. But it looks like I'll be making some pretty good money tonight though."

Bell stabbed his wooden fork into the catfish, taking a bite out of it. "Hm. Good for you."

"This is a really great place to find all sorts of different people," Syr looked into the crowd, watching as Aragon threw a drunk troublemaker out before quickly making it back to his place at the bar, "The more people there are, the more amazing stuff there is to hear about, that's why I'm always excited to come to work. Collecting relationships is my favorite thing to do, it just gets my heart pounding, you know?"

"Oh yeah that's a beautiful thing." Bell said with a mouth full of spaghetti.

At the door, Anya began to shout to all the employees, "Nya! The big party with the reservation has arrived. Nya!"

The Loki famila began walking through the doors, seemingly basked in holy light. Loki leading the pack as always.

Aragon sighed, 'Looks like it's gonna be a long night again.'

That's when it happens, Ais walked in and Bell almost had a heart attack. His face red.

'...oh so he's trying to make other people catch a case I see.' Aragon thought to himself.

Bell had begun to malfunction. So Syr waved her hand in front of him. "Hello~? Hello~? Anyone home?"

Aragon sighed as he began to fill up glasses and mugs for the Loki familia, he didn't need to ask what they were going to order. He already knew.

Aragon placed the platter filled with the Loki familias drinks in front of Riveria. "Here's your order."

"Thanks Aragon, and I shall preemptively apologize for what my familia will do." Riveria sighed.

Loki grabbed a beer mug and threw her arm around Aragons shoulder, "Oh enough of that! Let's celebrate! You guys really beat that dungeon's ass! So tonight we feast!" Loki's face shifted into a mischievous smirk, "AND DRINK AND GET DRUNKED!!!"

"...Fuck my life." Aragon sighed as the Loki familia each said a version of 'yeah.'

Loki smirked, "Don't be like that~ you know you love us~" Loki's face shifted again as she reached for something below Araons waist, and like she expected she was pushed away and into Riveria.

___A_Couple_Hours_Later___

Aragon was glad he was serving Bell fruit juice, because if he wasn't Bell would be drunker than Loki was.

Speaking of drunk and Loki.

Aragon was currently dealing with a drunk Loki as her Familia began talking about something. Very. Loudly.

So while Aragon was using a frying pan to block Loki's grabby hands he listened in.

"Hey Ais!" A loud wolf eared man that was obviously drunk began to yell, "It's about time you tell everybody about what happened the other day! It's freaking hilarious."

"And what story is that?" Ais said in a normal tone. Like a normal person. Cough. Cough. Unlike Bete. Cough. Cough.

"Come on! You know what I'm talkin' about! All those damn minotaurs got loose, and you told me you went down and finished off the last of them on the fifth floor right?" Bete smirked, "And you had to save that tomato dumbass. Anyways, so there's some little pansy running around down there, and this big ugly sucker starts chasing him right, so Ais jumps in and cuts the thing to pieces! And little wuss gets absolutely covered in blood, dude looks like a big ol' stupid tomato!"

Many of the Loki familia began to laugh.

"And then, check this out, and then tomato guy goes out screaming and freaking out on her! The dumbass just got up and ran away from the one that saved him!" Bete laughed to himself, slapping his knee. "What a pathetic jackass!"

"I'm not so sure he can be blamed for any of that." Ais spoke calmly.

"That will be quite enough out of you, Bete." Riveria began, "The monsters only escaped the seventh floor because of our mistake. It wasn't the kids fault, don't even try-"

"What?! The idiot bit off more than he could chew tryna be a hero! You can ask Ais! She knows what I'm talking about! Tell her the truth! Who's the more big, strong, and handsome hero, me or that Tomato Guy?"

"Umm- Bete, I think you may be drunk..." the smallest, almost child looking of the famila said.

"I asked you a question, Ais!!!"

"Yep... drunk..." Finn sighed, looking at Aragon and pointing at the drunk Bete.

"What would you do if that kid walked up to ya and said he had the hots for you! I'm sure you'd tell him to get lost right! I mean you wouldn't waste your time with some lame ass nobody who's weaker than you!" Bete, at this point, was disturbing all the customers. "He has no right to even stand near you! Your way too good for a loser like him! Can you imagine a crotch sniffer like him as your partner?! No, no. Not the Ais Wallenstein!"

Suddenly, Bell shot up from his seat and ran off, followed by Syr.

"Uh oh, we've got a dine and dash~" an Amazonian said.

Ais shot up as well and ran after Bell.

"There's always something scandalous going down at Mama Mia's place!" Loki, who was currently preoccupied with beer slurred.

Aragon sighed before grabbing Bete by the collar of his shirt. "If he was such a nobody, why do you have a problem with him?" Aragon glared at the wolf eared boy.

"Huh? Who are you punk?" Bete tried to stand up straight to face the 'punk' that had grabbed him.

"Oh me? I'm no one really, just the bartender." Aragons glare still held up against Bete.

"Well let go of me!" Bete tried to shrug off Aragons grip once again.

"No." Aragon began to smile, a cruel smile, but a smile nonetheless. "Because I'm also in charge of getting rid of annoying flies."

Bete suddenly began to sweat for some reason. 'Why am I scared of this punk?!'

"Your familia is still here, and they are still customers so..." Aragon brought out a rope before looking at Bete "Riveria, Gareth, would you mind helping your old friend do a good old 'Hogging.'"

Riveria and Gareth looked at Aragon with wide eyes before nodding.

"Wait, what's a hogging?" Bete looked at the three that had surrounded him, getting more and more scared by the minute.

All three apparent old friends jumped Bete and kicked up a bunch of smoke and dust, a couple minutes later and Bete was hanging from the ceiling like a piñata.

"All in a days work." Aragon sighed as he blocked another grabby hand of a certain goddess. 'Why do I feel like I'm gonna see that boy a lot more...'

Chapter End Brought To You By: Aragon kicking people out of the Hostess for getting to gropy with the waitresses.

Character Bio:

Name: Aragon Estell

Alias: Cerberus

Age: 28

Race: [Unknown]

Occupation: Ex-Adventure, Bartender and Body Guard for the Hostess Of Fertility. (Even though the girls definitely don't need protection.)

Familia: [Unknown]

Lvl: [Unknown]

Magic: [Unknown]

Skills: [Unknown]

Love Interest: [Unknown]

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