Elion and Evander were busy browsing through the designs in the catalog.
Anteros, Evius, and Hadeon were glancing over shoes while Drystan's hawk eyes were on Evander.
After a while, trying out several clothes and accessories, Anteros decided on everything and placed his order.
He then sat on the couch waiting patiently for the others to complete their shopping while looking through his phone.
Whereas Elion was in the trial room trying out all the clothes Evander had given him, as he was a model, he had discerned eyes for fashion.
Evander was busy mixing n' matching the outfits to give a perfect look for his best friend when Drystan approached him from behind.
Which startled Evander, he looked back and saw Drystan's slyly upturned corners of his lips which made the other look like a devil in delight.
Evander's system showed errors in his brain circuit and even before he could recover Drystan extended his hand towards his face.
The innocent snow leopard closed his eyes tightly, his heart started beating too fast for his own good.
Lubdub...Lubdub...Lubdub...
"W-What are you... d-doing?"
Evander asked, gathering his broken-down senses, and gulping down his saliva.
"Oh, excuse me. This... I was looking for this."
"Eh?" Evander opened his eyes and saw Drystan taking the coat hanging behind him.
"Did I startle you? By the way, why did you close your eyes? Are you expecting me to do something to you?"
Drystan questioned leaning in closer. The impish look of self-satisfication was evident on his countenance.
Evander blinked continuously shrinking back under Drystan's amorous gaze. He immediately pushed the taller away, "Nothing," and ran away quickly towards Evius.
Still, his heart was pumping like it would jump out of his chest any second, his breath was unstable, and his face was a blushing mess.
"Hmm... such a scaredy snow cat."
Drystan triumphantly grinned as lhis plan of 'testing the waters to flirt further' was a success. He walked away from there not to give Evander any more heart attacks.
Evius frowned, "What the hell happened? Why are you running a marathon in the shop? Why are you like this all breathless with tomato face, huh?"
Those words were so loud that everyone heard him yelling at Evander who looked so embarrassed.
But when he accidentally glanced away to calm his heart his eyes met with Drystan's who winked at him coquettishly which failed his miserable effort to cool down rather his system was too heated up that it blasted as smoke through his ears.
In an instant, Evander's face turned crimson. He was at loss for where to hole up.
>>>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Evander screamed silently in his heart.
>>>Ugh, this brother Evius!!! Why did I run to him when there were so many places to hide myself?
>>>Where should I bury myself now? This is so fucking embarrassing...!
Evander was thinking about how to dig six feet under to bury himself when Elion came out after changing his clothes.
"Evanie, how is it?"
Elion Grimalkin, the little adorable Mainecoon looked so damn pretty in his white long-sleeved silk satin shirt, and slim indigo jeans, paired with wyatt harness boots.
"I fucking knew this combination will never go wrong and you are looking so ravishing my little kitten soulmate."
Evander voiced out looking amazed by his friend's otherworldly looks forgetting about his earlier embarrassment.
"Oh, shut up don't exaggerate, my snowy soulmate, tell me honestly, am I looking okay?"
Elion asked again feeling uncertain about his outfit.
"Okay...??? You are fucking looking like an angel, Elie. If you don't believe me then, Your Highness Anteros, what do you think? How does your soon-to-be husband look? Isn't he looking irresistible?"
Evander shouted calling Anteros who was busy playing on his phone.
"Evanie, what the fuck are you doing? Shut up!"
Elion tried to cover his friend's mouth.
Hearing his name, Anteros immediately looked up and saw his angel- ahem! I mean his fiance.
Anteros was caught off guard. His pupils enlarged, "So bewitching- ahem!" He coughed as soon as he realized what he worded out.
But everyone heard him so clearly. Hadeon and Drystan looked at each other, "Wooo~~"
Evius raised his left eyebrow with a proud face, "Of course, he is my little brother."
Evander chuckled, "See, I told ya."
Elion, the little Maincoon's fluffy ears twitched and his velvety tail wagged as a cherry red shade engulfed his cheeks hearing the praise.
"Woah, Eros, your mouth actually knows how to compliment others, huh? I thought you only opened your mouth to curse at others," Hadeon, the black jaguar teased further.
Anteros rolled his eyes and kept quiet.
"Of course, he knows, brother Hadeon. Now that he has a Fiance, he will use that mouth of his to do so many things to please his little kitten, isn't that right, Eros?"
Elion's eyes widened when he heard that. Evius immediately frowned, glaring at Anteros.
"Brother Drystan..." Antero's voice was calm but chills started spreading through the air, making the metals and walls freeze.
"Alright, stop making a refrigerator out of this place, Eros," Drystan voiced out.
The ice-cold chills stopped spreading and everyone was relaxed.
"I am going out for a smoke. Finish soon," Anteros announced particularly to no one. Before leaving he stole a glance at his soon-to-be husband.
The fluffy ears and the wagging velvety golden-silver tail made Antero's big round eyes constrict as a slight light flashed through his raven pupils, his long thick eyelashes covered the dark thoughts that passed through his mind momentarily as he turned away and walked out.
"Evanie..." Elion called looking at the distant disappearing figure of the Ice dragon.
"Hm?" Evander responded.
"Did... d-did he really say I was bewitching?" Elion was still in a daze he couldn't process what he just heard.
"Yes, that's what he said... Elie I think your Fiance is typical tsundere, sooo cute, he was embarrassed that he actually said that and left like that," Evander giggled.
A blush crept through Elion's already cherry-red cheeks making them shade further dark, "I am not dreaming, am I?"
"Nope, you aren't. But if you think you are, then wait," Evander pinched his friend's hand, hard.
"Ow, ow, owww!!!" Elion screamed hitting his best friend's palm, "Stop it, what the hell are you doing?"
"Are you in pain?" Evander asked with a nonchalant expression.
"Are you serious now, Evanie? It hurts like bitch, let me make you feel it too," Elion was about to pinch him when Evander backed off chuckling.
"Congratulations, you have realized that you aren't dreaming."
Elion scrunched his nose, took a bunch of clothes hanging beside and threw him on Evander's face, "You!"
Evander didn't stop chuckling and ran away and Elion chased after best friend to beat the shit out of him.
Drystan had his eyes only on Evander and the giggles from the other made his heart flutter that he got lost watching him standing like a frozen statue.
"Oy, you both stop playing around or they'll chase us out and finish the goddamn shopping soon, I am so tired."
Evius, the whale shark's patience ran out and his head started hurting seeing his little brothers' commotion.
Right at that moment, a Mavto on the couch where Anteros sat previously started ringing.
"Ay, isn't that Eros's Mavto? I think he forgot to take it with him," Hadeon commented.
Drystan saw the chance to make the new couple who were still awkward with each other have some private time together.
"Right, Elion..." Drystan called.
"Hm?"
"How about you go give it to him?"
Drystan signed at the Mavto on the couch with his eyes that was still ringing.
"Eh? Me?" Elion was perplexed by the sudden suggestion from the sea dragon.
Hadeon understood the assignment, "Of course you. Who else, Elion? It's your fiance's and you must take it to him. What if it is from someone important, will you let Anteros suffer a huge loss just because you are too shy to confront him?"
Evius was about to refute in place of his younger brother when Hadeon gave him a meaningful look, sighing, "Elie... go."
Evander didn't say anything cause he too wanted his friend to spend some quality time with his fiance so that they could understand each other better before their marriage.
Elion heavily stomped towards the couch like a child who was punished and took the Mavto, with a pout he walked out of the store to find his fiance.
He started looking for Anteros in the smoking areas but couldn't find him, the ringing of the Mavto went quiet long ago.
>>>He should have taken his Mavto with him for me to call- wait if he did take his Mavto with then why I will be searching for him like this in the first place?
>>>Ayaaa! I am going nuts!
"Where the hell is he..." Elion was mumbling to himself searching through his eyes then he suddenly remembered that people smoke at stairways too so he hurried there.
But there was no luck he couldn't find him.
Disappointed he thought to return to the store and wait for him when some men surrounded him.
Elion furrowed his eyebrows and tried to walk away from them but they didn't let him do so.
"What are you doing, move out of the way."
"Such a beautiful kitten, are you lost, baby? We can help you," a person who looked like he was from the bear clan spoke scanning him creepily.
"I don't need any help, get the hell out of my way," Elion hissed feeling threatened by the men surrounding him.
"Aw, such an unruly kitten. We are just trying to help you out why are you hissing at us? He needs to be taught a good lesson, don't you think you all?"
The other men agreed trying to move forward when Elion hissed again, bearing his teeth and claws, the fur on his tail stood up, his fluffy golden-silver ears flattened in fear.
"Such a naughty kitten," another man who was from the snake clan commented, "What are you guys doing? Grab him. We will have lots of fun with him tonight," He ordered.
"Stop, don't come near me," Elion swung his claws in the air but his hands were caught and bound by the men.
Elion was scared. He couldn't do anything against the primary predators.
"Please, let go of me... help! Somebody help!!"
He screamed his lungs out while being dragged out by those men to the parking lot of magicarriage where there was no one at that time.
Elion was even more frightened cause if they pushed him inside a magicarriage and took him away no one could save him anymore.
Anteros who came to the parking lot way before to get his lighter from his magicarriage was smoking there peacefully trying not to think of certain someone who lit a small fire in his frozen heart.
Just when he finished smoking and was stomping it out under his feet he heard a familiar voice screaming for help.
He hurried in the direction of the voice and saw Elion being dragged by some unknown men.
Darkness engulfed his eyes. Deadly chills spread throughout the air. Before the men could register what was happening around them they were on the ground holding their necks feeling suffocated.
Only the two from the bear and snake clan were standing that too with so much effort.
In a blink of an eye, Anteros was gripping the wrist of the bear clan's man who was holding Elion's hand.
"You dare..." his voice was lower and chillier than his aura which was suffocating them.
The wrist was bent down back which looked gruesomely unnatural as the cracking of the bones was heard along with the ear-deafening scream of the bear man.
Elion wasn't affected by Antero's dragon aura cause the elder knew how to control it precisely still he was a little worried that it would cause him some harm.
So, he pulled Elion towards him by his waist with one hand and then kicked the bear man in his abdomen who flew away meters far.
"Are you... alright?" Anteros asked, softly looking down.
Elion clutched onto Anteros's shirt with his tiny paws tightly and nodded a little.
The red tear-stained eyes of the little Mainecoon made his frozen heart to ache. Grinding his back molars he looked dangerously at the men in front of him.
"You! Who are you? Why are you trying to get in our way? He is not of any concern to you. Leave now or else when our boss knows of what you did to us now, you will die even if you are from the mighty Dragon clan."
The snake man who was barely trying to stand before Anteros's aura shouted in vexation.
Anteros lifted his left eyebrow and when he opened his mouth, his voice was chillier than the weather in the northern hemisphere, "He is... mine."
Hearing that Elion's slender fingers clutching onto Anteros's shirt wrinkled more as his grip tightened.
Elion didn't know that Anteros noticed his reddened ears and the delicate nape which made him roll his Adam's apple at the sight.
"Ack!!!" The snake man fell to his knees feeling the immense pressure of the apex predator.
The surroundings started covering in frost with every second passing by.
Realizing that they couldn't take away the little Mainecoon in the presence of the Ice dragon anymore, the snake man through telepathic communication told his men to retract quickly taking the bear man while he distracted the dragon.
Seeing that the Ice dragon's attention was on the little Mainecoon, the snake clan's man opened his mouth to throw poison.
Anteros sensed something coming his way through the corner of his eye and to dodge the poison ball coming his way he tried to move sideward along with Elion in his arms but due to the ice on the floor his feet skid.
Losing balance they were about to fall on the ground. Anteros immediately grabbed Elion's neck and turned him swiftly in the air cushioning the younger by taking the fall on himself which made him hit his back hard on the ground.
Taking that as a chance the men fled away in an instant to save their lives.
Before Anteros could feel the pain on his back he was stunned by the soft pair of lips touching his.
The light hazel eyes were enlarged in shock. Both of them seized breathing staring into each other's eyes.
Anteros was still holding Elion's thin waist in his arms, their lips connected, their eyes locked, their breaths forgotten, their loud heartbeats mingled.
The frost around them started vaporizing slowly. At that moment, the whole world was on pause for them.
No one moved an inch... until they heard the sound of galloping horses of a magicarrige that passed by.
Elion came to his senses and tried to get up placing his paws on Anteros's chest but he stumbled and yet again their lips which were disconnected for a second united making them flabbergasted.
The little Mainecoon's face was painted scarlett by the blunder he made.
Before the both of them could separate-
"Oh my, holy shit!!!"
Evander exclaimed loud and the others who came behind him were equally taken back by the scene in front of them.
Anteros cursed inwardly and gently helped Elion to move up his face and sat up on the ground with the younger in his arms.
"Elie! What the hell are you doing?" Evius's voice was stern, he immediately walked towards the pair and pulled up his younger brother to his side.
Drystan and Hadeon gave each other a glance with a knowing smirk on their faces.
"Brother Evius... this is not what you think it is. It was-"
Elion was cut off when Anteros, "...an accident."
"Accident??" Hadeon and Drystan voiced out at the same time with a raillery look on their faces.
Anteros lifted his left eyebrow signing to his brothers to shut their mouths and looked at his little Mainecoon.
"Are you hurt anywhere?"
Hearing the sudden question Elion was a little startled but still replied, "Uh, n-no..."
But Anteros's gaze fell on the reddened handprints that were turning purplish gradually on the wrists of Elion. A hint of anger glimmered in his eyes darkly.
He took the Younger's hands into his and sighed, "Why the hell did you come out alone in the first place? Why didn't you stay inside the botique?"
Listening to Anteros's reprimanding voice Evander furrowed his brows, "He came to give your Mavto. Your friends were the ones to suggest Elie to find you as you got a call."
"Right, why are you scolding him anyway?" Evius was about to pull his younger brother back when Anteros reacted first.
Elion was in Anteros's arms again, "Then why didn't any of you accompany him?"
Anteros questioned but didn't wait for their explanations and held Elion's shoulders, "Do you know who were they?"
Elion shook his head feeling intimidated by the serious look on the Ice dragon's face.
The four of them were puzzled by Anteros's question.
"What do you mean by that?" Evius inquired.
"Some bear and snake clan people tried to abduct him. If I wasn't here I don't want to presume what would have happened," Anteros dropped the bomb.
"WHAT?" The four of them exclaimed at the same time.
That was when Elion who was scared all this time but was just putting up a facade in fear lost his composure and started tearing up.
Anteros was about to speak but hearing the indistinct whimpers of the little Mainecoon in his arms he stopped and looked down when he was met with the light hazel eyes brimming with tears.
At that moment, Anteros felt what 'helplessness' was for the very first time. Elion didn't know what came over him he didn't care what was going on anymore.
He hugged the Ice dragon tightly and started crying loudly expressing how frightened he was before.
Cause last time that nasty lion tried to molest him and now these people of unknown origins tried to kidnap him to do god knew what.
Going through such incidents twice Elion felt trepidation and was terrified.
Evius and Evander became worried seeing Elion cry like that.
Anteros didn't know what to do. He awkwardly patted the Younger's back lightly with his one hand and caressed the head with his other.
"Hush, everything is over. I'm here."
Drystan and Hadeon were astonished to hear Anteros speaking comforting words.
>>>Is this the end of the world?
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