Dine & Dash Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong [Callum]

How long had it been since Callum left his home, Ilyanor, for the even greater beyond beyond the mainland? Two months? Three? It felt like ages, which was saying a lot for a fairy 60 years young. His trip hadn't gone as planned though, and all the stress had made it seem more like an unending nightmare than an epic quest for the heroic strength required by a hero to do hero things against the dastardly devils of this world! If people like the parts his sister played in those movies really existed, then someone needed to stand tall in the way and say "No way, bro! Go home and rethink your life!"

And if that didn't work, people were much easier to either send home or put in jail when they were unconscious.

But also none of that had happened and all he'd really done is see a bunch of really scary stuff and gained some extra baggage that he still had no clue how to deal with, so he wasn't dealing with it. Well, that wasn't fair to his quite brave self, he actually had made a step into the shoes of his illustrious hero shoes by saving that one virgin girl! Yeah! The guy next to her had died, but he was bad, so it was alright, right?

"Hey! Hey, hey! Seaman-- hah-- Do you see the land yet? Do you? Is that a tree?" Callum asked, voice urgent.

"Well, I do believe--"

"IT'S CLIFFS!" Callum roared, tragically close to the sailor's ear as he hung on the man's shoulders as if every ounce of energy had left him. Well, he had looked that way, but now his blue eyes were brimming with energy and his revived muscles vigorously shook the poor man just trying to do his job. "CLIFFS! PORT! Nnngh it's over finally I can't wait to step foot on Mirinah!"

In his glee, beautiful blue and black fairy wings glitterbombed into place, flapping and zooming him into the air over the deck. This ship was bigger than the other ones due to all the metal armor and weaponry, which turned out, was completely necessary at sea to get anywhere new! Who knew? If he heard the cannon fire one more time, it'd be too soon! Flittering around the deck to shake the shoulders of other passengers with excited chattering and complaints about the remaining time aboard, it never occurred to him that he could just fly the rest of the way to shore.

Instead, Callum landed and leaned far over the railing, squinting for a long moment of precious quiet before he spotted it. Hair a bit like his, but lighter, waving right on the edge of the pier. Robin! "It's my brother! Guys, my brother? Look! Aw, yeah, get excited," he said to no one and everyone, then turned back toward the ocean. Inhaling until his lungs might burst, he heaved out his loudest sound yet, much to everyone's chagrin on the ship.

"HEEEYOOOOO!"

The warcry raced across the waves toward the one person who would know what to do with it, and this noise would continue until the ship docked and Cal was racing off onto the port with his suitcase in hand.

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The sibling ritual was completed on the other end as the newly returned half of this Idiot Sandwich also set into a dead run at Robby, ominously chanting on the beat. He tossed his suitcase thoughtlessly to the side and collided with his brother, the chanting raising in temp and pitch until it was fully hyped and fenzied.

"Silverpine! Silverpine! Silverpine!"

And just like that, Callum's wings were also back and the two spun into the air like some literal fairytale, the blue and green glitter billowing down from them like a blizzard, spreading obnoxiously in an aqua mess everywhere. The many around them dumb enough to remain close had no choice but to inhale the dust, resulting in various side effects ranging from harmless sneezing, to temporary blindness (lol glitter sucks), to indiscriminate rage (glitter really sucks), to randomly running off the dock and into the sea. Nekos were tucking their ears and running while a random Draconyte saint flapped his wings to try and clear it out. Cal didn't notice or care, though. No, all he did was squeeze his brother as hard as he could, eyes shut with glee as he broke the chanting and laughed.

"Aaah, bro I MISSED YOU!" he grinned, spinning his little brother around. "How have you been?? Did you stay out of trouble? Did you get that weird fruit I sent you???"

[wc: 230 || total: 1667]