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silent-silver-slip · 3 years

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Hello I am being a self indulgent brat and making the whole server deal with it

May I request the band finding Aurora as a living breathing dragon and trying to deal with looking after her, featuring Julie being like WE DO NOT HAVE A MANUAL FOR THIS

thank you for your time I will go away now 😂

It might've taken me a few days Angie, but I did it! You now have two stories featuring JATP and Aurora. Only one of them contains Julie, but you get Carlos as a trade off.

For those of you curious, Aurora is this fantastic dragon that Angie made, and you can see her in the picture below.

And this is Firefly, who gets a mention in the second fic.

The two fics I wrote for this are below the line. The first one is set in a somewhat canon compliant verse and the other is set in my urban fantasy JATP verse (which you can find on ao3).

I have a friend in you

If there’s one thing that’s remained constant—other than music, of course—it’s the beach. They’re on the boardwalk rather than the sand, as otherwise they’d be walking on the sand. Except they can’t just walk on the sand because it’s soft and makes walking hard and Reggie will complain after ten minutes or so. So it’d make more sense to walk in the firm sand by the sea, except then Alex would start talking about all the potential dangers of walking in the ocean.

Which is why they’re on the boardwalk despite being ghosts. Though, to be honest, Luke doesn’t mind it. It’s nice to walk in the waves when the weather’s hot, but it’s not really warm enough to do that today. Walking along the boardwalk lets them be around people, both those casually walking around and those busking.

Luke’s so caught up in the atmosphere and grinning at the people around him, knocking shoulders and hands with his boys, that he doesn’t see it at first. Reggie does.

“Is that…?” Reggie trails off, freezing beside Luke. Luke turns to look at him, frowning in confusion. “I’m gonna call her Maddy the Magnificent.”

Turning, Luke looks towards where Reggie’s looking—it’s a little bit of distance away and-

“Why are we giving her a title?” The words fall Luke’s mouth without his input. It’s only after he’s said it does he manage to actually recognise what he’s staring at. Sitting by the shore is what could only be a dragon.

The dragon isn’t asleep. The first thing Luke notices is how her head’s up and alert, eyes focussed in their direction. From the distance he’s at, her eyes only look black—dark things like shadows at their darkest. The next thing he notices is her size—she’s maybe just smaller than a truck, but with how she’s lying down, it’s hard to tell. Her head’s a light blue with fins—ears?—spread out wide on either side of her head. The blue grows darker, though, as it moves further down her body, a navy colour at her paws and at the tip of her tail, which is curled gracefully around her body.

The dragon yawns, showing off very sharp teeth, and stretching her wings—which shift from a dark blue at the top of the wing, to going purple then grey then white at the ends of her wing membranes. Luke has the strangest feeling that the dragon is watching them. He’s not sure how to feel about that.

“Have you seen her?” Reggie says, breaking Luke from his thoughts. “She looks magnificent! She deserves a title!”

At last, it seems like Alex has clocked onto what Luke’s staring at and what Reggie’s grinning at. “Nope,” he announces, seemingly to the world in general. “There is not a dragon there. I do not see it. I am Sir Not Seeing Shit. There is NO DRAGON! I cannot deal with there being GHOSTS and DRAGONS.” When Luke chances a glance at Alex, it seems he has decided to close his eyes. Luke wishes it was that simple.

“There’s a dragon there,” Luke says, just as Reggie takes off in the direction of the dragon, “and I need you to deal with that because we’re about to lose Reggie to the dragon.”

That has Alex snapping his eyes open. By then, though, Luke’s already pulled away by a stride. Thanks to his long legs, he catches up to Luke quickly. Together, they manage to reach Reggie before he gets within range of the dragon who has very sharp teeth and eyes that are staring at them.

“This is for your own good,” Luke tells Reggie from where he’s sitting on his bandmates back. Reggie makes a sound of muffled complaint.

Alex pets Luke’s back from where he sitting on Reggie’s legs to keep him from running.

“Let me pet the dragon,” Reggie whines. “You wouldn’t let me get a puppy! Surely, surely, a dragon is easier?”

Alex makes a horrified sound. “What if it’s a ghost dragon? Oh God, what if it’s angry? Searching for revenge?!”

“Hey, do you reckon Julie knows about the dragon?” Reggie asks, completely ignoring Alex’s questions.

However, Luke has a terrific realisation. “Let’s go home and ask,” he says, glancing at Alex and winking subtly.

“If she doesn’t know, I’m sure she’d love to learn about this dragon!” Alex adds, quickly catching on.

Reggie hums, slightly doubtful. But then he’s nodding into the sand. “Let’s go tell her,” he agrees.

One POOF later, they’re back in the studio.

And so, Luke is finds, is the dragon. Except, this time the dragon’s more the size of a large cat and is curled up on Julie’s piano in the sun, looking very content with life.

Luke looks away from the dragon breaking the rules—Julie’s told them no one’s allowed to stand on the piano unless she gives the go-ahead—to his bandmates. Alex looks like he’s going to cry and Reggie seems overjoyed. Neither of them seem to resemble the well of confusion that Luke’s got going on in his own mind.

“She’s a stray,” Reggie says, thankfully not taking towards the dragon—is it the same dragon? Can dragons shape-shift? Should Luke be worrying about the structural integrity of the piano and whether it can stand up to a dragon? Oh God, he’s beginning to take over Alex’s job of overthinking everything.

“She needs a home guys,” Reggie continues. “We have to look after her.”

“We don’t know how to look after a dragon,” Luke points out, reasonably, even if his tone is more hysterical than he’d like.

However, when he looks at Alex for back up, he’s met with the sight of Alex slowly but surely melting, and giving in. He can watch as the thoughts play across Alex’s mind. He fiddles with the hem of his sweatshirt, the zips on his fanny pack, which means he’s thinking at how stressful this is going to be and overthinking everything. Except then he glances at Reggie, at the dragon, and takes to tapping a beat against the fanny pack instead. Just like that, Luke knows he’s lost. Alex turns to him, and says, “What if she doesn’t have a home, Luke?”

And, well, Luke knows a thing or two about being homeless—leaving home, finding another one, and he just gives up, gives in, and throws himself in with his boys. “We don’t know how to look after a dragon!” He protests, but it’s weak, and he’s just watching the dragon. It’s official, the dragon is theirs. Or, well, as theirs as a dragon can be.

This is, of course, the moment Julie decides to enter. She crosses over to them, then pauses, realising what they’re staring at. “Is that a dragon on the piano?” Then, with a shake of her head, she adds, “And do we have a manual for this one?”

As one, the boys turn to her. “Please?” They whine, all puppy-dog eyes and pleading expressions. Beneath the weight of it all, any willpower Julie has crumbles.

Hands on hips, she turns to the dragon. “Well,” she says, ignoring how the boys grin beside her, clearly picking up on her decision, “I wonder how we’re going to look after you.”

That seems to wake the dragon up, she lifts her head, uncurling from where she’d been lying down. She stands, back arching like a cat, wings stretching upwards. “I can look after myself okay,” she says. “I’m Aurora.”

Julie screams. The boys scream. They all scream, clinging to each other.

Aurora preens at their praise. She’s very pleased to see how excited they are at getting to know her. She has clearly decided to find some great friends for herself.

Let our wings carry us

There are many things that the boys are equipped to deal with, and many things they are not equipped to deal with. As it turns out, dragons are not one of their talents.

“Luke, do something!” Alex says, from where he’s standing behind Bobby. Reggie stands behind him, so they’re in single file behind Bobby—except for Luke.

Which is, of course, because Luke’s a little bit stuck at the moment. “Help!” Luke yelps.

Alex glances around Bobby’s shoulder and, despite his fear of the dragon in front of them, he can’t help but laugh a little bit. Even Bobby is grinning, and when Reggie looks, he outright cackles.

“Stop staring and help me!” Luke complains, shoving ineffectively at the horse-sized dragon surrounds him, rubbing against him like a massive cat, purring. It would be cute, if she wasn’t as massive as she was. As a result, Luke’s kind of just drowning beneath her love as his traitorous bandmates gather around and laugh at him.

He shoves at the dragon, being careful to not catch on her wings or anything. As close as he is, it’s hard to really tell what colour she is, but her wings start purple then shift to grey and then to white. Her scales, on the other hand, are blue—moving from a light sky blue at her snout to a dark blue at her tail and paws. He’d probably think her beautiful, if not for the fact she’s trying to stop him from breathing!

“Get off,” he says, shoving at her neck again. Her scales are smooth but solid beneath his fingers.

The dragon pauses when his fingers catch beneath her ear fins, then decides to lean heavily into the movement. Caught unaware, Luke almost falls beneath her weight, then realises what she wants, and finds herself scratching at the scales. He’s not entirely sure she can feel it, but she presses into the feeling, tilting her head.

The sound of a shutter overhead has him frowning and looking up. That’s when he realises that his bandmates have been suspiciously quiet the last few minutes.

It turns out that’d been for a reason. “Hey Luke, keep smiling and scratching the dragon! It’s important.”

“Yeah,” Luke says, gazing up at Reggie who’s precariously leaning over, sitting on Alex’s shoulders, holding Bobby’s expensive camera. The only funny thing about this is that Reggie’s tongue is sticking out. “I’m sure it is.”

The shutter goes off again and Luke sighs. Beneath his hands, the dragon’s body begins to vibrate like she’s purring. “At least you love me,” Luke tells the dragon. She purrs louder, body rumbling with the sound. It’s almost like being in one of those messaging chairs—except there’s no chair and it’s not really comfortable and Luke doesn’t actually know how he’s going to escape the dragon’s hold. She might be perfectly happy about it, but Luke’s starting to get hungry.

“Do you guys have any idea how to get me out of here?” He calls up to Reggie.

“Julie’s on her way!” Bobby reports, and the boys cheer. This results in Reggie almost dropping the camera, over-balancing to get it, Alex almost tripping, and Bobby launches forward and manages to catch Reggie just before he hits the ground.

From where he can see the chaos between the gap between the dragon’s head and her backend, Luke sighs. Honestly, it’s mildly impressive none of them have gotten seriously injured considered the things they do.

Somewhere nearby, there’s the click of a car parking. “Ray’s home!” Reggie reports, gleeful and sounding completely recovered from his near-death from falling off Alex’s shoulders.

Luke is so, so hopeful that Ray can fix this problem for him. Ray might not be Julie, might not have her powers, but Ray seems to be capable in the face of anything that comes his way.

The dragon suddenly freezes, lifting her head and Luke thinks that maybe she’s going to finally move and he can escape! Except, the dragon sniffs the air, sticks out her tongue, chirps, and then vanishes in a burst of light.

“No,” Reggie breathes out. “That’s-”

“Not our problem anymore,” Bobby decides, marching over to Luke who is now free! He checks Luke over, before frowning, fierce in the way he gets only about his friends and music. “Come on, let’s get out of here.”

“Okay, but what if someone steps on her?” Luke says, and he doesn’t really want to deal with this. But she’d kind of been cute. In a massive, dragon way. Bobby sighs, loud, but doesn’t stop Luke as he bends down, encouraging the little lizard—that had been a dragon only seconds ago—onto his finger.

The dragon—lizard?—chirps and climbs onto his hand. She’s not overly small, rests comfortably on his hand, and her eyes are dark. She’s got the same pattern as her dragon counterpart had—just without the wings. She seems to smile up at her.

“I don’t want to tell you how to live your life,” Alex says as the boys crowd around the dragon-lizard-thing in Luke’s hands. “But also, what the fuck are you doing?”

“She’s so small,” Luke says, cooing, and Reggie runs a gentle finger down the maybe-dragon-lizard’s back. “Look how cute she is!”

“She will ruin our floors,” Alex counters.

Reggie hums. “But look how cute she is, Allie!”

Groaning, Alex responds. “We can’t have a lizard, we have Pan! And two kind of cats! They might be skeletons, but I feel like we should not test whether or not they’d eat the…” He trails off, frowning down at the creature in Luke’s hand.

“The dragon,” Reggie says helpfully.

“Yeah,” Alex agrees, “that.”

Before they can continue discussing what to do with the maybe-a-dragon-maybe-a-lizard, Carlos appears. “Oh, a lizard, neat!” He squeezes his way into the group, holding out his hand to the shape-shifting dragon.

The creature-that-is-probably-a-dragon immediately scrambles onto Carlos’ hand, where she stands proudly. She lets out a hiccup of fire before chirping. Luke exchanges a frantic look with the others. “Neat!” Carlos says again, grinning down at the fire-breathing animal he’s holding in his hand. “I’ll let her join Firefly!” And just like that, he’s off heads towards the house and to where the open enclosure that Firefly lives in in Carlos’ bedroom.

“Should- Should we tell him?” Bobby says, as they all watch, not moving, as Carlos enters the house. “That she’s a dragon?”

Frowning, Luke considers that hiccup of fire he’d just seen. He feels like he’s seen that before… “Aha!” He remembers. Turning to the others, he points at them, “I told you I saw Firefly breathe fire that one time! I wasn’t lying!”

Reggie hums. “That seems pretty weird,” he says. “Lizards don’t breathe fire.”

“Are you sure you didn’t just have some bad hotdogs?” Bobby asks, all pitying. For that, he gets an elbow from both Reggie and Alex, since he’s trapped between them.

Luke turns his gaze to Alex, his last hope. Surely one of the others will believe him! Alex, however, just shrugs. “You must’ve been imagining things,” he says, like they didn’t all just see a dragon shape-shift into a lizard and breathe fire.

Luke doesn’t quite scream, but it’s close. “Julie’s my favourite,” he announces, turning on his heel and definitely-not-stomping towards the studio.

“We know!” Bobby shouts. Luke ignores the snickering coming from behind him, but he can’t stop the smile curling onto his face. That’s okay though, no one’s paying any attention.

#wip #julie and the phantoms #jatp aurora #the adventures of aurora the dragon #ask #prompt response #urban fantasy JATP verse

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suckerforpsychos · 3 years

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Hello I had one idea and am making it a server wide problem

May I request the boys finding Aurora as a real living dragon and taking her home (without Julie's permission) and trying to take care of her? And the shenanigans that follow

Hey, Angie, thank you for the wonderul request! This was getting hella long therefore I decided to cut it at the place where the boys decide to take Aurora home. If you like my take on it, I could maaaybe add a few more chapters about her new life in the studio (and her guest appearances at the Molina house), Carlos investigating the case and Julie eventually finding out. So yeah here we go and sorry in advance if there's any mistakes.

***

This was supposed to be a simple day of fun at the beach. Just three three bros bonding. It was Reggie's idea. He loved his bandmates so much after all they were his family. They hadn't done anything like this in ages. And although Luke and Alex were hesitant at the beginning, it turned out to be a pretty fun day. They had some ice cream, discussed their ideas for the upcoming Julie's birthday surprise, then Luke's adventurous spirit came alive and he suggested exploring the nearby beach caves.

“Yes! Let’s do it!” Reggie jumped to his feet like a happy puppy, “Alex, why the long face?”

“I'm thinking about all the accidents that can possibly happen,” the drummer was in full mom mode as always.

“C'mon Lex, it's gonna be fun,” Luke encouraged him.

“Ahhh alright, just don't kill yourselves. Again…”

Wandering through the caves was pretty fun. In some places they were connected together in a way that you could move from one to another without coming back out. Alex was examining the dumb writings local teenagers had scrribbled on the cave walls when he heard a high pitched scream. Worried about Reggie and Luke getting themselves hurt, he rushed to the next cave that was also the farthest one in this whole cave system, leading deep into the cliff. When he reached his friends they both looked just fine, but for some reason, they were standing really close to the cave wall, hugging each other tightly, clearly frightened. Alex looked deeper into the cave and he couldn't believe what he was seeing. It was a…. Dragon!!?? Or at least it certainly looked like it. About the size of a pony, it was laying on the ground, wings folded, it seemed like it had been sleeping, but now thanks to Luke and Reggie it was wide awake blinking its big, surprised eyes at all three of the boys. Reggie moved first. He took a few steps in the direction of the dragon and tried to greet it. Startled by the sudden move, the creature raised its head menacingly and breathed out a small plume of fire illuminating Reggie's face. “Reg!” Luke shouted as he ran forward and dragged Reggie back towards the entrance of the cave.

“Are you crazy? Dude, it's gonna kill you!” he almost cried, enclosing Reggie firmly in his arms.

“Chill man, I’ve got everything under control. She’s not angry, she's just scared. Now let me go,” Reggie tried to get out of Luke's firm grip. Reluctant and suspicious he still loosened his hold around Reggies waist and let him make another try.

“Hey girl! Don't be afraid! It's just me.. Reggie,” he approached the dragon holding open hands where they could be seen, “See? I don't have anything here. I just wanna be friends…”

The dragon outstretched its head towards Reggie letting him gently scratch behind its ear. It looked like it was enjoying the scratches. Luke and Alex let out a relieved sigh.

“How do you know it's a she?” Alex asked.

“I don't know, I just feel it. She is a friend, she's just lonely,” Reggie petted dragon’s head and it let out a high pitched sound, “Come on, girl, let's go to the beach. You're gonna like it there. It's warm and sunny.”

As if understanding every word, the dragon got up slowly and let Reggie lead itself out of the cave. The boys followed.

It was a surreal sight. Reggie was playing with the dragon in the beach sand as if it was a puppy. It spread its large wings and made happy little sounds from time to time looking like it hadn't had so much fun in a long time.

The boys knew that the beach goers couldn't see them. Was the dragon invisible too? Probably, because no one ran away screaming or called the police. After a while Reggie sat in the sand, tired but happy and his new friend laid right next to him happily accepting pets from Luke and Alex.

“Hey, we should give her a name,” Reggie exclaimed in a sudden realization, “How about Aurora? We found her asleep in a cave like an enchanted princess. Do you like it, girl? You're our friend now. You're coming with us.”

“She's doing what?” Alex's eyes widened, “I mean I know we wanted to surprise Julie, but this seems a bit too much.”

“He’s right,” Luke chimed in, “Julie would kill us.”

“Julie doesn't have to know about it… We can hide Aurora in the studio until we figure something out. We cannot leave her! Please, guys, I will make sure nothing goes wrong. Luke, please!”

Reggie knew Luke had the ultimate soft spot for him therefore he looked up at him making the biggest and cutest puppy eyes ever.

“Okay, but you're gonna deal with Julie if she finds out.”

“Not if, but when,” Alex rolled his eyes in disbelief.

“Thank you guys, you're the best!” Reggie jumped up and hugged Luke, then Alex, then wrapped his arms around Aurora’s neck.

“Did you hear that girl? You’re with us now. We’re going home.”

#of course I had to pepper some ruke undertones in there #I have very limited writing experience so don't be too harsh #reggie peters #alex mercer #luke patterson #julie and the phantoms #fanfic #sort of #the adventures of aurora the dragon #jatp aurora #ask #mutuals

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michelangelinden · 3 years

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Hello I am being a brat and making the whole server deal with one idea I had so:

The band find Aurora as a living (fire) breathing dragon and have to figure out how to take care of her because IT'S A DRAGON HOW DO WE DO THIS THERE IS NO GUIDE

thank you for letting me be a brat 😊

50k 'how to train your dragon' 'jatp' cross over

#you can always come and ramble about Aurora ideas!#i love her!#jatp aurora #i hope this is gonna be a tag #julie and the phantoms

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chickwiththepurpleguitar · 3 years

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Hello Lilly my beloved!/p

I had one cute idea so I present my bratty and completely self indulgent request:

The band finds Aurora as a real living (fire) breathing dragon and somehow have to figure out how to look after her. Ft. Alex freaking out because FIRE and there is NO INSTRUCTION MANUAL

ty for indulging me 💜/p

I hope you enjoy, Angie, my love! I had fun playing around with your girl :)

read on ao3 here!

“Okay, before you get mad—” Luke begins, and Alex doesn’t let him finish his sentence before he’s jumping up from behind his drum kit with a strangled yelp.

“Luke!” He stares, frozen and wide-eyed, at the bundle of blue scales and claws clutched in Luke’s arms like a baby doll. Luke’s grinning sheepishly, and behind him, Reggie hovers in the studio doorway, practically vibrating with excitement. But Alex barely notices their expressions, too distracted by the claw marks on Luke’s bare arms, the singed and smoking cuffs of Reggie’s flannel sleeves, and the thing they’ve just brought into Sunset Curve’s sacred space. “What in the name of God, John Bonham, and sanity is that thing?”

“Her name’s Aurora!” Reggie pipes up from across the studio. “Cause she eats bad dreams, like Sleeping Beauty!”

“In my defense, Reg thought she was a puppy.” Luke frowns over his shoulder at Reggie. “And apparently is vastly mistaken about the plot of Sleeping Beauty.”

Reggie shrugs, unconcerned. Alex shakes with poorly restrained panic.

“That is not a puppy, ” he sputters, waving a hand at the creature, and then pulls it back with a shout as the thing raises its head and blinks at him with intelligent black eyes. “It’s a… it’s a lizard or something.”

“She’s a dragon,” Reggie corrects, coming forward now that his sleeves have stopped smoking. He reaches around Luke to scratch the underside of the creature’s chin, and his voice adopts a baby-talk tone. “Aren’t you, Aurora? Aren’t you just the cutest wittle dragon in the world?”

“Dragons… uh, dragons aren’t real, Reg,” Alex manages weakly.

As if just to prove him wrong, Aurora coughs up a ball of orange sparks and promptly sets Reggie’s jacket back on fire.

Alex’s eyes roll into the back of his head, and his knees buckle. He’s unconscious before he hits the floor.

***

When Alex comes to, he sees he’s been moved to the couch, a blanket tucked kindly around his shoulders and a pillow placed beneath his head. And then he sees Luke and Reggie have turned his bass drum into an impromptu dragon bed, and he almost faints again.

He does the most sensible thing he can think of. He calls Bobby.

“It’s his studio!” he insists when Luke and Reggie protest, both of them jumping in circles around him to try—unsuccessfully, he might add—to grab the cordless phone out of Alex’s hand. “He at least deserves to know you’ve turned it over to a monster!”

“She’s not a monster!” Reggie squawks. “She’s a baby!”

“A fire-breathing baby monster! ”

“Come on, man, don’t call Bobby,” Luke whines, stretching up on his tiptoes for the phone. “He’s at work, he’s gonna be mad!”

Alex scoffs. “You think he’ll be any less mad if he comes home to half his stuff on fire?”

“Okay, so the house training is a work in progress,” Luke admits, slumping onto flat feet again. “But so far, she’s only burned Reggie!”

“And I see that as an act of love,” Reggie promises.

The dragon pads off of Alex’s drum and onto the studio floor, like she can tell she’s being talked about and would like to be included in the conversation. Alex’s eyes go wider the closer she comes, and he hastily punches Bobby’s work number into the phone. Aurora finally comes to a stop at Alex’s feet and peers up at him, her mouth open in something that would probably be a pretty cute smile if he weren’t terrified of her teeth.

Alex makes a noise of strangled discomfort. Aurora flaps her bony wings and lifts off the ground, landing to nestle in Alex’s hair.

His scream echoes halfway down the block.

***

“Someone left a message for you,” Bobby’s boss tells him when he comes into the back office for his break.

“Oh?” Bobby frowns and wipes his greasy hands on a rag before hitting play on the clunky answering machine.

He flinches back as chaos explodes, centered around Alex shouting, “BOBBY YOU GOTTA COME HOME! DRAGON! FIRE! NO INSTRUCTION MANUAL!” followed by a guttural scream.

“Friend of yours?” his boss says.

“Nah,” Bobby decides. “Wrong number.”

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thegirlfulloffandoms · 3 years

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Another Aurora request (please tell me when you need me to stop) - maybe some sibling bonding with Reggie, Carlos and their fire breathing pet?

i am so sorry this took so long! but it was such a joy to write (as Aurora always is)

may i present: Carlos and Reggie vibing with Aurora! hope you love this lil drabble!

Thunk...Thunk.....Thunk

'Reggie? you in here?' Carlos calls out as he wanders into the garage, spotting the bouncing tennis ball and a sleeping dragon but not the puppy-obsessed bassist.

'Reggie? Damn it, did you cross over and not tell me?' Carlos stands in the doorway, hands on his hips, searching around the quiet space.

There's a thud, followed by a pained mutter, "Carlos hey dude!" Reggie smiles, rubbing his forehead where the tennis ball just fell on him,” sorry I was in the zone” he does a weird arm wave that would likely have Alex denying his existence due to the awful execution of the move.

“Ohhhh you were invisible. Like a real ghost!’ Carlos grins wandering over and sitting down on the sofa beside Aurora, who lifts her head blinking tiredly, giving out a soft yawn accompanied by some harmless flickers of fire.

Reggie looks at him with a pout, a hand against his chest in mock offence,’ i am a real ghost Carlos, I float, I can move things, I almost had my soul burnt out by a very eccentric magician!’

‘Silly ghosts don’t go to suspicious places, it’s horror film logic!’ Carlos shrugs, patting Aurora’s head gently as she lays it on his leg, a soft, mostly inaudible purr of satisfaction echoing from her chest. “He was very convincing, okay!’ Reggie points still pouting like a toddler having a tantrum because he was told Santa isn’t real.

‘What can I say? I know my stuff” Carlos smiles proudly, crossing his arms and sitting back on the sofa, much to Aurora’s annoyance, a shrill chirp ringing through the air as she reaches up tugging at his sleeve, fire in her eyes, causing Reggie to laugh,"not dragons though.”

“I know dragons!” Carlos protests, holding his hand out to Aurora latches on, dragging it back to where she was sitting and nudging it with her head once she’s sat down,” see? Told you I know dragons’ he sticks his tongue out at Reggie beginning to pet Aurora again.

Reggie chuckles softly, shaking his head, "Julie wouldn’t let us get a puppy but keeping a dragon was allowed?”

“She kept you and your friends so I guess it's the same kind of deal” Carlos shrugs, sitting cross-legged looking over at him,” taking that as a compliment” Reggie grins crossing his arms, sitting back against the sofa’s faded colour back cushion going slightly transparent as he relaxes against it.

Julie had no clue Carlos could see Reggie, which made no sense to him when Reggie was by far the most harmless of the trio and the most relatable for Carlos, it wasn’t out of malice that she didn’t want her brother to be able to interact with her brother, more the visions of chaos that could occur if they did interact that made her keep them apart.

“How are you doing that?” Carlos leans over, his eyes wide with wonder, Aurora giving out a little huff of smoke as her comfort is interrupted by the new positioning,’ huh?’ Reggie asks, raising an eyebrow,’ Veggie you’re half invisible’ Carlos waves his arms about quickly replacing them on Aurora’s head after she singes him with a lick of fire.

‘AM I?’ he shouts with panic, jumping up, now fully opaque again,” wait….” he says, laughing as he remembers how he discovered that weeks ago and somehow forgot about it,” I can! I only found out the other day, pretty rad right?’

‘What does rad mean?’ Carlos looks at him with confusion, Reggie had come to terms with being eternally 17 but suddenly he felt as if he had been buried in the ground for the last 25 years and was now disintegrating in the sunlight, kind of old hearing such a question. ‘It was a 90s word for cool? You didn’t know that?’

‘25 years was ages ago'

‘I’m stopping you right there’ Reggie shakes his head, looking towards Aurora for a moment before widening his eyes.

“what?” Carlos looks at him confused, assuming he’s said something wrong.

"Your shirt is on fire” Reggie points with panic, Aurora grins up at the boy with mischief in her eyes,’ oh come on! It was a joke!’

“That's what you get for being rude’ Reggie crosses his arms with pride,” good job” he nods to the aurora.

It's never a dull day with the chaos trio.

#Aurora the dragon #Angelofarts #jatp #jatpfs #drabble

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