26 Eternal Leader?

"How old is he then?" Asrael didn't seem impressed.

"More than 2000!" Zuna crossed her arms over her chest.

"Well I'm still older than you." Asrael refuted.

"Even Dante is older than me, so that's not very impressive." Zuna shook her head, feigning disappointment.

"Asrael, how old are you exactly?" Arius asked.

"I don't know, 800 maybe." Asrael leaned back in his seat.

"Why don't you look closer to Dante's age then?" Arius inquired.

"I once held one of the Phyrraium crystals in my possession for seven years, so I aged like a mortal during those seven years." Asrael shrugged.

"One of them?" Arius asked thoughtfully.

"You didn't think there was only one Phyrraium crystal in existence, did you?" Asrael smiled mockingly.

"Then how many are there?" Eirik joined the conversation.

"Who knows?" Asrael smirked.

"Do you know, or not?" Zuna said with an attitude.

"Nope." Asrael chuckled.

Arius sighed loudly, "We're there, so let's just eat our icecream. We can finish talking when we get home."

Arius parked the car, then without missing a beat, the group in the back shuffled out. Eirik wasn't in a hurry, and neither was Arius.

Zuna and Dante were much faster as they ran, while Eirik and Arius were side by side. "You're the immortal that got shot in the head and stood back up again, right?" Arius asked him.

"No." Eirik denied.

"Asrael?" Arius turned around to look at the teenager.

"Maybe, I get shot a lot." Asrael shrugged with arrogance. His demeanor changed as he thought of something though. "But wasn't it the eternal leader that got shot?"

"The enternal leader is me. It's why I got suspicious when I was rumored to have been shot when I wasn't." Arius opened the door to the icecream shop.

"You're the eternal leader?" Eirik stopped walking. "Shouldn't you try not to create a reputation for yourself?"

"I was going through a rough patch in my life when I got the nickname, okay?" Arius defended himself.

Arius didn't really feel the need to question how everything simply fell into place. Although it was sudden to finally find a bunch of people like himself, he decided to simply call it fate. After all, it felt like fate.

"I'm paying for all of you, by the way." Arius mentioned.

Arius went to the counter. This time, Bethany was the one taking the order.

"They have watermelon!" Zuna gasped.

"They have all kinds of flavors." Arius told her.

"I just want chocolate." Eirik said.

"Get me lemon, or something close to it." Asrael had his hands in his pockets.

"Blue Raspberry." Dante tugged at Arius's bunny sleeve.

Arius nodded.

"What can I get for you today?" The girl with short brown hair and 'Beth' written on her name tag asked. She had a smile on as she forced herself not to laugh at the people in bunny onesies.

"Two blue rasberries, chocolate, watermelon, and lemon." Arius told her. "All waffle cone."

"One moment then." The girl walked away from the counter. "Chrysathemum! There are people wearing bunny onesies!"

Dante and Asrael turned their heads in unison. What did she say? Arius also realized something, Chrysanthemum was the name of Asrael's gang.

"Excuse me. I think your bunny onesies are awesome!" The girl with blonde hair stepped up to the counter. Her name tag read 'Chrysa', but who would've know her name was actually Chrysanthemum?

"Thanks, I like your name." The only one not wearing a bunny onesie stepped towards her. He went up to her with interest, like he had found something he had lost.

"Oh... thank you?" She must have been confused since she wasn't talking to him. Plus, the bluntness and randomness of the compliment took her by surprise.

"I'll get you your own bunny onesie." Arius nudged Asrael with an elbow.