A couple of weeks went by after Thorax and Pharynx reconnected with eachother and it seemed like things were going great for them.

As days went by, based on what i heard and saw when I hung out with them in private, they seemed to be enjoying this new enjoyable albeit sometimes tense bond between them now. They talk with eachother now to get to connect with eachother and get to know eachother, they also talk about what they don't and will mind from the other.

For example Pharynx said he doesn't mind hugs from Thorax as long as their not all the time and if he's not in a bad mood and Thorax said that he's ok with that since he doesn't want to push him to do things that might make him uncomfortable and that he'll understand if its not the time for a hug.

Though, immediately after they discussed that Thorax asked if he could get a hug which Pharnyx gave and I swear I heard the sound Pinkie makes come from Thorax during that hug, it was very adorable.

They also talked to eachother about the importance of their roles to eachother so the other could understand why they chose that role and why it was important for them.

Now, Thorax sometimes has private lessons with Pharnyx in order to know how to defend himself in a fight if needed, meanwhile Thorax is also teaching Pharynx how to read a bit from the documents and scrolls he was assigned to study from because of his Learner role.

I was a little bit worried about that since they weren't exactly everyday information you could access so I asked him if it was ok if Pharynx was allowed to read those and he assured me that as since he was family it was ok to share it with him as long as he did nothing with the information.

They also agreed with my idea of keeping up appearances out in public so that way the otherlings wouldn't think Pharynx changed. So when Thorax was confronted from time to time by the other changeling there'd be times where Pharnyx acted like he hated him but he always made sure to ask him in private if he was doing ok and made sure to always ask him if he was going too far. Based on the fact that they seemed to still to be enjoying their time around eachother I'd say that their doing fine.

Wanting to give them more time to bond with eachother I started to do stuff on my own and thankfully Buffy said that I was to use my magic as long as i didnt try infusing love into it and that if I was caught doing it again he would have one of his buddy's to constantly monitor me and I certainly didn't want that to happen.

Starting with inspecting the weapon I barely managed to summon in . Specifically the Stealth revolver from AC Syndicate, 'With no ammo either.' I kinda thought it would've disappeared by now by surprisingly it was still here which confirmed on thing so far. A: Whatever i summon seems to be permanent and B: i can summon stuff using my magic.

A bit excited at the possibilities I immediately tried summoning the Elder Wand, yeah I'm Harry Potter fan, shoot me. Anyways, I couldn't exactly remember what it looked like but that wasn't important right?

Wrong, it seems like if i didn't have a clear enough picture in my head on what its supposed to be like, or what it looks like then all that would come out of my horn is tiny sparks making me waste my magic, 'Damn, I knew i should've watched the movies more than once, Oh well one step at a time.'

After that failed experiment I looked back at the revolver 'hmmm..' wanting to try something I started to use my magic again to try and summon ammo for the gun 'what was the ammo for it called again?442? 322? 422? 422, thats right.'

Thankfully as I was able to successfully remember what the bullet looked like I then tried to imagine forming the bullet making sure it was bigger and more wider than a regular revolver bullet but one that still kept a somewhat piercing look at the end of it. Immediately after making it I dropped to the floor breathing heavily and extremely tired.

Looking up I saw that I successfully made the bullet, but still "Thats it? All i can make is one bullet before I get exausted!?"

Slowly making my way over to the bullet I picked it to look it over. 'Well, it certainly seems like a 422 round but still has that piercing form at the end of it.'

Satisfied I grabbed my revolver and loaded it into the gun. 'Unfortunately with only one bullet i can't really see If this works or not, oh well i don't care right now, me need bed.' Satisfied enough with the bullet I put the gun under my bed and went to sleep.

After I woke up I immediately tried summoning another bullet and this time I felt less tired, make no mistake it still felt like I was back at my old job with how tired I felt after but it wasn't sleep inducing exhaustion. 'Still going back to bed though.' As I fall asleep.

For the next few days I tried summoning random stuff that wouldn't seem weird and suspicious if for some reason someling decided to come In my hole, stuff like sticks,rocks and what not and after a few days I came to a few conclusions.

'So it seems like depending on how much magic I use and how big the thing I'm trying to summon is I can only summon one thing before I get completely exuasted, two if both things are small enough.'

After I was satisfied enough with figuring out my summon magic a bit I then went over what I knew about my revolver. 'It
still seemed to be able to fire using my
magic for one powerful shot, but it always drains all of my magic causing me to pass out, good for emergencies but not exactly combat useful and I don't exactly have the resources to make any ammo for it.'

Shaking my head I decided to leave the 'experiments' for another day and decided to meet up with Pharnyx. Now.you maybe asking specifically Pharnyx? well apparently Buffy started training us to fight together a bit after Thorax and Pharnyx made up with eachother.

"Ok, since these past few weeks I've saw how both of you have improved how you fight and how you think when you fight and I am proud of the progress you've made separately, so now you two will be working, and, learning on how to fight together and make progress together.

That is what you two will be working on until I deem you capable of exactly that, how fight together doesn't matter to me all that matters is you find a way that works for you two. Now, show me what you got!"

Just to make sure there are no misunderstandings, we had are asses handed to us. I foolishly thought 'Oh surely well be able to stand more of a chance together against Buffy.

Nope.

Not only was Buffy still somehow kicking our asses but Pharnyx and I kept tripping over eachother giving Buffy a free hit against us 'not like he needs it.' After that Buffy told us to talk with eachother In order to figure out where we can improve, so somedays when Pharnyx and Thorax weren't trying to sibling, me and Pharnyx discussed ways how not to screw eachother up.

Sometimes we were able to land one or two hits on him other times we would be on the floor with brusies covering us from our faces to our chest. Anyways, back to what I was saying I was meeting with Pharnyx in order to discuss another way to try and fight Buffy and all I could hope was that maybe we'll actually do something to him today.

As I reached the guys hole I banged on it a bit until Thorax answered "Oh! hi Joseph, its good to see you." I chuckled "Thorax its only been like two days."

He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly "oh right, sorry." I went up to him and hugged him "There's nothing to apologize for don't worry, I was just teasing you."

Thorax leaned into the hug "Sorry, its just you are my first and only friend and I really want it to stay that way." I was about to say something but Thorax kept going "And yeah I know you've been my friend for a good while now but I'm still a bit worried you know, that one day you might think I'm not interesting enough to hang out with anymore or that you might prefer to hang out with Pharnyx more instead of me because he's much cooler than I am."

I put my hands on Thorax's shoulders pulling him away from the hug in order to look him in the eyes "Thorax listen close and carefully I will never abandon you and I certainly will not ditch you for anyling else, don't get me wrong Pharnyx has been a pretty cool ling recently but that doesn't me I'll hang out with him only, I'd chose you over him anytime."

"B-But he knows how to fight a-and he's strong."

"And you aren't?" You don't have to be strong to not be weak and besides you think I care if your weak or strong. To me, your one of the best lings I've met and you wanna know why?"

"Why?"

"Because You're You, and thats good enough for me." I say trying to reassure him

"Besides, unless you forgot, you were my first friend too so it'd be pretty stupid of me to abandon you for someone else." I say reminding him

Thorax started to chuckle while wiping tears that were starting to form in his eyes
"I guess thats true, thanks Joseph, I guess that was silly of me to think like that."

I smiled "No problem Thorax."

"I-I also wanted to say thank you for helping me and Pharnyx."

Confused I asked "With what?"

Thorax smiled "with helping us reconnect with eachother. "

"Oh right, you don't have to thank me I didn't rea-"

Thorax scoffed and rolled his eyes "Please, I love my brother but even i know he would've never tried something like that on his own in a million moons. So like I said thank You."

'Wow, sassy Thorax, didn't think I'd see that anytime soon kinda weird but not bad, just a bit weirdly appealing.'

I shook my head erasing the questionable thoughts I came up with. "Well, i guess you aren't entirely wrong so no problem, I guess? Anyways is Pharynx here? We need to start discussing our training plans."

"Oh he's inside, he's trying to learn how to read on his own so I left him alone to answer your knock. Do you want me to call him?"

"That would be nice, thank you."

"No problem."

Thorax went back into the hole and a couple of seconds of later he returned with Pharnyx.

"Ready to go?"

"Yeah, let's go get our asses handed to us again, see ya later Thorax."

"Bye guys!"

As we started walking away Pharynx asked me a question" So whats this plan of yours called again?"

Puffing my chest out a bit I tell him "its called D-B and Y-0"

Pharnyx rolled his eyes "Wow, how creative."

"Uh-huh, well I've to see you come up with something better mister 'Punch and Kick until he gets tired'."

Pharynx playfully glared at me "And it would've worked if you didn't trip me."

"Yeah, uh-huh, sure, yeah, ok, whatever."

"I hope he knocks you out again."

"Shut it."
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After we entered the training room Buffy was there waiting for us "Alright lings let's not waste anytime and get straight to it."

"Yes sir"
"Yes sir"

After we got to the center Buffy followed by Pharynx and I immediately got into fighting positions.

Buffy had a grin on his face while me and Pharnyx schooled our faces into looking as serious as we could.

"Ready and...GO!"
As soon as he finished me and Pharnyx rushed in to attack him and It wasn't going well since every punch and hit was either deflected or dodged and we were starting to get exausted meanwhile Buffy as always looked like he was enjoying the fight itself.

He then tried sweeping both us but only managed to get Pharynx while I hopped over his leg only to get gut punched by him. Now I don't know why but Buffy always gut punched us if anytime he decided we made a big enough of a mistake, but what he didn't know is that this time the mistake was on purpose this time.

When me and Pharnyx realized this we decided to take advantage of it, so when Buffy gut punched me I grabbed his arm and held him as hard as I could.

Confused on why I was holding him he tried to pull his arm out as quick as possible but thankfully I was still able to hold him in place, he then tried pulling with all his might slightly running out of patience but with his mind occupied on trying to free himself from me ended up momentarily forgetting about Pharnyx as he was able to run up and elbow him in his face as hard as he could.

Caught off guard at the surprise attack Buffy started stumbling backwards which me and Pharynx took advantage of as we rushed him and punched him in the face again as hard as we could together causing Buffy to sway a bit and when me and Pharynx noticed we looked at eachother and started to smile until we heard him beginning to chuckle as he righted himself, snapping his nose back in place as he proceeded to snort out some green blood and look back at us.

When he did he was grinning, flashing his fangs at us as green blood proceeded to drip down his face. 'Haha, were in danger.' I thought to myself

Buffy whistled impressed. "I'm not gonna lie younglings that was an impressive move you two pulled off and you actually hurt me, now question is, can you do it again?" He says as he gets back into position

Me and Pharynx looked at eachother and nodded as we prepared ourselves standing a bit away from eachother."Now get ready cause I'm not defending this time." Buffy said

As soon as he said that he rushed at us but me and Pharnyx was prepared as we let him get as close as possible until I turned around and bent over as Pharnyx proceeded to run over to me, rolling over my back as he hit Buffy as hard as he could with the tip of his hoof while I kicked him as hard as I could in the stomach, but when I went to pull my foot out I couldn't as I realized I was stuck. 'What!? Why I am stu-"

My face then drained as I noticed Buffy had grabbed my leg with both of his hands and next thing I know I'm flying in the air as the last thing I see is the floor approaching my face as everything goes black.

(Pharynx POV)

As I saw Joseph's face hit the hard rock floor I was too shocked to move. When Joseph told me his plan I thought we would get our ass handed to us like always but we actually managed to make him bleed.

Though, even after all of that he started chuckling like it was just a joke to him but were still had another move we could've done and we did but thats when I saw Joseph's body go flying face first into the floor making me realize that we still had a far way to go.

'But I won't go down easily.' I thought to myself determined to make some sort of difference

In the early days when I was training with Joseph he used a move on me that I thought was completely idiotic but now I thought to myself that 'it might hopefully just be enough.'

Running over as fast as I could I punched Sir as hard as I could. Since I was able to catch him by surprise he turned just in time for my fist sending him to the floor on his side and as he tried to get up I jumped at him cocking my arm back as I aimed for his face and punched as hard as I could sending me flying over him on my back as all the air left my lungs.

'Please let that be enough.' As I spent a minute trying to catch my breath I looked over at sir only to see him already on his feet looking down at me.
"shit"

Resigned to my fate i just let my head fall back down as Sir walked and stood over me "I have to say youngling you and Joseph might be my most impressive apprentices yet."

"Thank you *gasp* Sir."

He nodded and the last thing I saw was his fist flying at me at me before everything went dark.

Author's Note

I tried to write Pharynx a bit and I don't think I did a good job so yeah like usual bash and enjoy thanks again for reading!