Welcome to the greatest floating island you have known!!

by StarryMochaxx

Summary:

Alex and Nabla have a play date!!

Notes:

I'm better at writing angst but I wanted more of the cousins qwq

Edit: I just found out that Alef is canonically older than Nabla... I need to bury myself QwQ

Nabla was not a kid with an active imagination, being 9 years old, you would think she would be horsing around in a playground, thinking about wonderland, or chitter chattering around with the cool kids, quite the opposite actually. Unlike most kids her age, she enjoys doing homework, she liked going to school, she loved calculating for stuff that didn't really need math for. The only thing that made her stand out from the crowd.

So when her younger, immature cousin, Alef, kicked her door open asking to play a short, little game, she initially rejected the offer, only accepting it when her cousin started throwing a tantrum by her bed, thus, recking the order that it once had.

She took her crutches from the side of her table and walked towards her smaller cousin. Alef jumped in joy when he saw his cousin stand up and wasted no time in guiding her somewhere around the house.

Alef took Nabla to the basement where pillows where pillows were laid out on the floor in a way the made it look like a cloud. The younger took a blanket from the closet in the corner and tied it to his neck, and then asked Nabla to sit down on the pile of pillows — which she did, putting her hands in between her spread out legs.

'What could this clod be doing? ' The red-hair girl thought to herself, shifting one of her hands to her chin in a way that resembled the thinker.

Alef left the basement for a while before returning with a bunch of stuff on hand, Nabla took her time in examining each item in her cousins hold. A red sword, a helmet with armor to match it, and, a toy dog? Nabla stared at her cousin, confusion evident in her eyes.

She was trying to think of what her cousin was going to do when she heard him clear his throat and say, " Stand down! Oh, great villain, Dogstook!" She immediately figured out where this play that Alef made is gonna go.

" For I, the great warrior, Alef the mighty, will conquer you as well as your men!" Nabla chuckled at her cousins brave speech.

"I will save the princess, Nabla, from your filthy hands, and vanquish you to the underworld! " The child roared, raising his toy sword and pointing it at the dog plush.

"I have travelled far and wide to find your island in the sky, your so called paradise. Just to find my cousin! And for the worries you have put into many of our country's people, you will atone for your sins. " The boy narrowed his eyes at the plush. "I have decided! By tonight, your head will be put on a stick in my halls, and your body will be served as meat to feed our country. "

Nabla imagined Alef was thinking of a reply Dogstook would make to the brave declaration of a fight from the knight. Her cousin looked her way and stared at her dead in the eyes, Alef's face lit up with joy and Nabla couldn't understand the reason to the foolish fools foolishly foolish actions.

Nabla smiled at this display and decided to extend the act by responding to Alef's speech about saving her. "Oh no! Save me, cousin, prince! " After saying those simple words, it seemed as if Alef found more courage to defeat Dogstook.

He charged at the puppy plush and raised his sword into the air, his cape waving in the basement wind. And in one mighty strike, took the down the great Dogstook. He looked at Nabla with a wide grin plastered on his face. He ran towards the girl and embraced her so tight she thought she would run out of breath and pass out.

Alef extended his hand, helping Nabla stand up from the "cloud" he had made. He grabbed Nabla's crutches and decided, "Okay, we're done. You can go back to doing your homework now. " The tiny boy said. Nabla frowned at the comment, they just got done playing the most epic game she had experienced in her life and he expected her to just go back to her room, doing the homework like she always does, while her cousin gets to have fun without her? She won't be going back to her homework anytime soon.

Nabla turned back to ber cousin and asked him a simple question, "Do you wanna play another game? " And that was all she had to say before her cousin's face lit up with glee, rushing to get more items for another scenario he made in his head.

It's clear how Nabla's afternoon is going to be spent today, with her little cousin, playing out scenarios that they made in their tiny little heads. Hours passed bt like seconds but then, they were called to eat dinner, forcing them to stop their theatrical displays. Alef pouted when he had heard they had to stop but Nabla reassured him that they could always play another time. Until then, they could keep making up stories, and when the time comes, act it out in the basement. Where they would be the stars, and the people would be cheering for them. But only the basement and they would know about it.

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"Hey! Nabla! Earth to Nabla! Hello? " Boomed (Well not really boom, it was more of a quiet shout) a well-familiar voice

"Nabla, the challenge is being announced! "

this voice added

Nabla is snapped out of her daydreams when one of her close friends, Glue, told her that Oodle had announced the latest challenge for their little object show.

'Right, no time for reminiscing about the past right now.. ' The red haired girl said internally.

Glue helped her up and get to the location of the challenge where she spotted Alef and his group of.. Something, she guesses. Alef looks at her direction for less than a second before rolling his eyes and turning back around.

And at that moment, Nabla figured out what she would wish for if she won, she doesn't want anything more than for her and Alef to be on good terms again. But for now, that dream is as distant as an island in the sky.