A/N: So I wanted to update this in Friday but the internet wanted to be difficulty with me. This didn't came out as I wanted but I also didn't want to throw a lot without a plan. Thanks for reading and in the end there's a link for the discord where we can discuss random topics, including the mess this chapter is. :)

-BlueCapricorn

Edna Mode, my Greatest Sis

Chapter 4

FILE-SF03 – Tears and Hugs

Being a Top Fashion Designer's little brother has its perks. Especially when that Fashion Designer has the ability to make people to accept the reality she represents as fact and not question her. In other words, they forgo the security measures and identifications to be directly in their flight seats. It is after takeoff that both siblings can rest in the seating area of the private plane.

Skull sighs in relief as he sags on the cushioned seat –now big to him due to his current toddler size- in the private jet belonging to his sister. The octopus he has yet to be name is swimming in a glass pitcher while playing with Octi, how else you can distract an octopus from flailing? Edna is drinking her preferable brand of earl gray as the flight attendant leaves the seating area (after leaving a blueberry juice in the table next to him).

A silence reins the area before his sister flickers her hand in the air without looking up from drinking her tea. For a brief moment there's an indigo fog surrounding them before shimmering into nothing. Visually nothing change but it's the sounds that change…or rather the lack of sounds coming from the plane engines or captain's cabinet. Leave it to his sister to make an invisible sound-proof barrier.

Sitting up straight with his cross-legged as he took off his shrunken piercings off, the weight off his skin is a reminder that he's not his character. He wished he did have makeup on to wipe that off as he stalled for the serious talk but as soon as his sister called him by his real name he knew he's edging on her patience.

"Edgar," Edna slowly stirred her tea with a flat stare that had him squirming.

Skull quickly placed his piercings next to him as he pushed his lips together as he frowns a bit as his eyes roam a bit before he nodded his head, quickly deciding with the reason on why he was in Italy in the first place. His eyes focused again on his sister.

"S-so, you know I was in Italy before you came for your attendance in the fashion show. –Sorry for not coming and not helping you!- The originally the plan was to lay low for a while after the stunt I pulled in three years ago after I help Bob and his family relocate-"

"Your student is still once again listening on police scanners. They haven't caught him yet." Edna sipped her tea as Skull flinches at that information but continues with his version of events.

"I've attended random competitions and no surprised that I have a small fanbase. " Edna snorted as she rolled her eyes but didn't interrupt. "It was only after a fire accident and me coming out from the flames holding a piece of the broken stage that look like the scythe to then throw it back to the flames is what gave me the title added to my name. 'Skull, the Immortal Stuntmen hated by the Grim Reaper'."

Edna click hard on her tea saucer that Skull couldn't help flinched at that. Skull didn't need to know that his sister is angry with him with the glow of her eyes. "I-I know I should've told you! Even with your ears around the world but…" Skull bit his lip and looked down to his lap.

"I-I panicked because I've accidently used my flames in the accident, within the flames around the accident. He-he came…" He looks with uneasiness in his eyes. "The man with the iron hat, he was waiting for me in my other apartment. I don't know how he entered, he greeted me by my hero name. Of course I laughed it off while saying that he confuses me with another person but he mentions me using Violet Spirit Fire, or the Cloud Flames as he likes to call it. That shocked me cold enough to threaten to expose my crime of using my powers. Before I could grab him, he left within the shadows leaving the "Invite of the Strongest Seven" on where he was sitting."

Skull leaves out shaken breath. "For now I'll skip the details of the first meeting. All I can say for now is that I'm dealing with people mother warned us about…the Underworld." Tears started to gather in Skull's eyes as his breathing continues to shake as his eyes averted from his sister. "I've done…things I'm not-I'm not proud of...mom was right. There are people far scarier than the villains in stories. People who will tangle you to try to use you against your will…I've tried to escape once… but like the monsters in the stories they are caught me before I could even leave the country…"

Purple eyes moved to stare at his sister, not noticing on how the tea cup has shattered or how deep color indigo his sisters eyes are. Skull continued his story. "If they easily found me even with a disguise and different name just imagine them finding about my family, my friends, my history, the people who are dependent on me. I-I don't know want-!" Skull buried his head in his hands as the air around them started to heat up as breaks down crying, ignoring the glass breaking with water flowing to the ground. He stopped as felt being lifted by a slimy but thick muscle. Edna moved away from the tentacles and the water, her eyes still glowing indigo.

Looking up, Skull it sees the octopus grew large enough to fit in the chair. Surprised but horror replaced the previous emotion as he slapped the creature's tentacle with his hands. "Put me down! Put me down! Or you'll get burned!" As he predicted, his body burst into flames and Skull couldn't help cry louder. "Let go! Let go! Don't you understand! You'll burn!"

Edna watched with wide eyes as the creature still had a hold on her flame-covered brother as he pleaded to be let go. She didn't have a word on what she's seeing as the creature didn't burned into a crisp as it moved to give her brother a hug. The action caused her brother sharply still as the flames are put off as tears run down his eyes before he crumpled as he wailed as he hugged the creature.

Many thoughts ran through Edna but the one that stood out the most right now. Moving to be close the chair and being mindful of the tentacles spilling out from the chair, Edna ran her hand through her crying brother's violet hair –noticing he kept this color instead of his natural color- and utter the words she knew her brother needed to hear. Firm voice but determined to have her words be heard.

"Brother, you are Rexignis. King you may be but even a leader can't hold all the burdens alone. And alone you are Not."

Skull looked up tears still running down his tears as his lips wobbled trying to say something but the words won't come out. Edna noticed this is the most vulnerable she ever seen in recent years. Eyes stopped glowing as she have her brother a soft smile.

"We'll get through this. Together."

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