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The Moons that Protect Their Little Star:

Chapter 1: Welcome Home

Title: The Moons that Protect Their Little Star: Ch1: Welcome Home.

Synopsis: This is not a romance fanfic. AU. You live with your 5 older brothers: Sylus, Zayne, Xavier, Rafayel, and Caleb. Their world revolves around taking care of you. Just a day in the life of a little sister being spoiled, being protected, and being dotted on by her big brothers.

Chapter 2 >> (coming soon)

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“I’m home!”

You return home after a 3-day mission to the no-hunt zone. Recently, multiple anomalies have been detected, and the Unicorn Team has been tasked to find the source of these anomalies and eliminate them. You're glad that the mission ended successfully, you want nothing more than to go home instead of camping out in the forest every night. 

At the doorstep, you enter your passcode. 3-2-6-4-5-9, which spells out ‘family’ on the number pad, and hear a familiar click. You step inside, slipping your backpack off your shoulder and dropping it on the floor with a tired thud. It’s so nice to be home. 

You live in a beautiful quiet neighborhood. The house is large, but it feels cozy. It's beautifully furnished and it feels warm and comfortable. Scattered around your home are several miss matched decorations from the trinkets each of your brothers brings home from time to time. 

Candy jars filled with sweets, antique guns, model planes, paintings of the ocean, and the softest throw blankets present themselves in different parts of the house.. But you wouldn't have it any other way. Each item has their own stories to tell, and each one reminds you of the people that love you unconditionally.

Xavier follows behind you shortly after as he steps into the house. You sometimes find it annoying that you work with him everyday and in the same division, since you’re both top performing hunters on the Unicorn team under Captain Jenna. But you were thankful for him on this mission. Without him, you probably wouldn’t have been able to defeat the wanderers without getting injured. On missions like these, you feel fortunate to have Xavier there to protect you from harm. He was your star, and you were his galaxy.

“Take your shoes off and go take a shower first before coming down for dinner. I’ll take your stuff out of your backpack and put it away. I’ll also hang your jacket up for you.” 

“Thanks Xay Xay”

You shortly crawl up the stairs on all fours and make your way to the top step, when you see Rafayel stepping out of the bathroom. 

He gives you the biggest smile. “Welcome home cutie. I just drew a bath for you. The water is extra hot, just how you like it. I don’t know how you do it, I’d be a cooked fishy if I went in there.”

“Rafy!” In an instant, your exhaustion dissipates as you run to hug Rafayel. You missed him, as well as the others. Your family has always been the most important people in your life. “I missed you fishy”

“Haha, I missed you too” Rafayel lifts you up in his embrace and twirls you around ever so slowly. He doesn’t want to make you dizzy. “Xav  messaged us an hour ago and said you two were on your way home. You were passed out in the car apparently, you must be a tuckered little bodyguard”. He lets you down gently and tucks a strand of your hair behind your ears.

“Mhmm, but our Lumiere did most of the heavy lifting. Our intel suggests that there were only supposed to be a few low tier wanderers so we brought a junior to the mission for training. However, things got a bit complicated when S-tier wanderers appeared  and he had to ensure the junior’s safety. Luckily no one got seriously injured”. 

You start rubbing your eyes now as you feel yourself getting tired again after Rafayel lets you go.

“Alright little Angel fish, I’m glad you are both home safe and sound. Go enjoy your bath while it’s still piping hot. Sylus is cooking your favorite dishes, so don’t be too long” 

“Thanks Rafy, I love you!”. As Rafayel walks down the stairs, he doesn’t turn around but makes a little heart symbol with his thumb and index finger.

When you walked into the bathroom, the mirror was already slightly fogged and the air was thick with steam. 

The bath is the perfect temperature as soon as you climb in. You can smell the gentle scent of lavender and eucalyptus, your favorite. Rafayel must’ve added a few drops of essential oil in the bath. You smiled, the kind of small, worn smile that only appears when someone understood you before you said anything. 

As you climb into the bath, the soreness in your body slowly fades away. Muscles you didn’t even know were tight slowly melted. The quiet splash of water echoed softly, and your body finally allowed itself to rest after a strenuous three days.

You slowly sink lower into the bathtub when you feel a little sting on your ankle. You lift your foot up and notice a cut. You don’t think much of it as you close your eyes to let yourself decompress.

You almost fell asleep in the bathtub, until your tummy reminded you that it’s empty and it would like some sustenance. You slowly step out of the bathtub and notice one of your favorite sets of PJs are neatly folded on the counter. They’re light purple with red and pink seashells on them. You roll your eyes gently. Of course Rafayel would choose these for you.

After drying off and getting changed, you place your dirty laundry in the hamper and step out of the bathroom. You see Caleb’s study room door slightly ajar and a faint light radiating inside. You peek inside and notice he’s reading some documents on his computer. He must still be busy with work even late into the evening. 

Caleb doesn’t come home very often. He works in the Farspace Fleet and is in Skyhaven most of the time, but he had a week off and decided to come to Linkon for a visit, specifically to visit his little apple. A soft sigh escapes you. Why must there be a mission while Caleb is here. You wished you could’ve spent more time with him.

Caleb heard your little sigh and looked up. His furrowed brow instantly relaxes and his face lights up as he notices you peeking in.

“I see you standing there, are you just going to pretend you were passing by?”

He turns off his computer and starts walking towards you and you find yourself tearing up a little bit. You really missed him. You see Rafayel, Xavier and Zayne almost every day, but Caleb and Sylus don’t always come home. Everyone’s so busy after all. You know Caleb’s missions can be dangerous. From time to time, he’ll send you little letters and notes telling you to eat well, to take care of yourself and to tell you how precious you are to him. But you don’t particularly like these notes, because you know he writes them for you before every dangerous mission in the deepspace tunnel. 

You give him the most gentle hug, snuggle your face into his shirt. Your voice muffled as you tell him how much you missed him.

“I missed you too Pipsqueak, a little more than you realize” He gently pats the back of your head and notices it’s still dripping wet. “I see that you didn’t dry your hair properly again, I’ll go grab your towel, go downstairs and relax on the couch, I’ll come down to dry your hair for you”

You love it when Caleb dries your hair. He’s patient, gentle and it feels so nice. Even though you know he must be tired from working, you decide to be a little selfish and accept his offer.

Walking down the stairs you can smell the delicious food being prepared in the kitchen. As you make your way to the living room, you hear Sylus humming a little tune in his deep baritone voice. It’s… a little offkey, but you like it nonetheless. You hum along as you walk through the kitchen. 

Sylus sees you approaching and a little smirk appears on his face. “There you are lil’ miss”

You can’t help but blink at the spread along the counter - all your favorite dishes. It smells so good that your mouth starts salivating. 

“Lil S, you cooked all this? You’ve really outdone yourself” you lift yourself up on your tippy toes and headbutts his shoulder. You don’t know why you did it, but you just did. Sylus doesn’t object. Call it cuteness aggression if you will.

“Zayne wouldn’t leave me alone about making sure you eat today. He was worried that you would be too tired to eat, so I had to pull out all the stops” Sylus replied, plating everything neatly. “Here, drink this first”

Sylus hands you a warm bowl of soup. You take a sip and your eyes instantly narrow, you have the biggest grin on your face. It’s delicious and the nausea from hunger dissipates instantly.

You slowly make your way to the living room, careful to not spill the soup. Caleb’s already there with a towel, hair brush and hair dryer in hand. “Come sit, you can have your soup while I dry your hair Pips”

When your hair is dry and dinner is ready, the five of you start to have dinner in the living room while watching a new movie about a zombie Korean boy band. Zayne was just wrapping up an emergency cardiopulmonary bypass for one of his patients. You wonder if he’ll be home soon, the food will get cold. You can't help but feel a little sad that he isn't home yet. You missed him.

But as soon as the thought crosses your mind, you hear the click of the front door and Zayne steps in. You dart up immediately but by doing so, hit your knee on the table. “Ouch! Stupid table.” You slowly limp your way over to Zayne and give him a big hug.

“How dare you hurt her, you dumb table” Caleb suddenly says.

“Are you really going to make an enemy with Onichynus’s leader?” Sylus says, as he aggressively pokes the table.

“The ocean holds grudges and my sharks are hungry” Rafayel retorts.

“No matter how comfortable you are to nap on, I won’t forgive you for hurting her” Xavier says.

Zayne pinches the bridge of his nose. His brothers are all so stupid, he thinks to himself. But his thought quickly goes away when you tug on his arm and pull him into the living room where the others are. “Come on! Dinner’s getting cold, it’s time to eat. I missed you Zayney” A warm smile appears on Zayne’s face. He missed not seeing you at home for the past several days. Your smile always brightens them all up. No matter how annoying his brothers can be, Zayne is grateful that his family was all together. This home is complete.

As you two make your way to the living room, Zayne notices that you’re favoring one of your legs. “Did you injure your foot?”

The other 4 immediately look at you with serious faces. Uh oh.

“I think it’s just a little cut, have dinner first, and then you can check it out”

You should’ve known and hid it better. Zayne and the other four immediately got to work. They sat you down on the couch, Rafayel went to get the first aid kit, Sylus places a cushion behind your back, Caleb and Xavier’s eyes darkened and they secretly plot revenge on all the wanderers. How dare they hurt their little sister! 

Zayne calmly and gently lifts your foot and examines the cut. It really isn’t that serious, but to prevent infection, Zayne carefully disinfects the wound and wraps it with a bandage with little snowmen on it. Good as new.

“Alright. Alright. I’m really okay! Let’s all have dinner together now. The food is getting cold.” You smiled and said. 

Your five brothers relax and ease up a bit, but eventually you all return to your dinner. The food is delicious. They each take turns putting food on your plate. But you’re not complaining. You were so hungry that you could devour all the food on the table. In silence, you all watch what would become one of your favorite movies. 

After dinner, Zayne stepped out for a few minutes and returned with a bag. “Here, ice cream mochi. Green tea and mango, your favorites”. Zayne is the best, you think to yourself.

You and everyone else claimed spots across the couch and floor, throwing pillows everywhere and pulling out blankets like it was a sleepover. You’re nestled between Caleb and Sylus, your feet tucked under Zayne’s blanket. Sylus sits on the armchair, the one no one dares to sit on when he’s home. That’s his chair, he’s very particular about it. Xavier is passed out on the carpet. He’ll be asleep for a few days, maybe more. You giggle to yourself. You all quietly enjoy each other’s company as you watch TV..

“Okay” Rafayel says, grabbing the remote. “First one to complain about the show gets banned from dessert”

“I’m the one who bought dessert” Zayne says, raising his eyebrow

“Puh-lease, I’m the one holding the remote” Rafayel counters smugly.

You laughed. You missed these silly banters. You closed your eyes for a moment, letting the sounds of the show, the warmth of your brothers and the hum of comfort settle deep into your chest. You’re fully relaxed and safe at home. 

In your home, with five big brothers who spoil you in their own quiet, careful ways, you let the drowsiness consume you, realizing you didn’t have to be strong and brave in the house. You didn’t have to smile when you didn’t want to. You didn’t have to ask to feel protected and loved.

They just knew.

And tonight, they reminded you in all their own ways, just how important you are to them.

As you drift off to sleep, and as the others join along, you know that you and your big brothers will all have the sweetest dreams.