"Hush-a-bye, Sweet angel of the night

Sleep tight and don't forget about me,

Never forget, but always move on,

Don't cry, Dear angel

Here's a lullaby to ease your pain,

To wake you from nightmares and

Coo you back to sleep,

Oh angel, why do you cry?

Up top the heavenly clouds, you sing your song

Hush-a-bye, Sweet angel of the night

Wherever you are..." A girl sang with her knees up to her chest. The girl's name was Aglaia Mercy and as she watched the storm clouds come closer, Aglaia moved a little away from the window. Aglaia was wearing a dark red thick button up shirt that covered her arms and most of her hands, too. She also wore a dark blue dress bottom with thick gray pants under it and puffy dark green shoes.

"Meow..." A cat said while it was trying to drag a dark purple wool blanket to Aglaia. The cat was pure white with a pale blue cross-like marking on her forehead and had sapphire blue eyes. With a small giggle, Aglaia took the blanket from her life-long friend and wrapped it around herself.

"You always know what to do even before I know, Crescent." Aglaia said then looked back at the storm that was coming. Aglaia was 13 years old and yet she lived with no one, but the townspeople would feel sorry for Aglaia time to time and when she would come into town for food, clothes or farming seeds, she would be given what she had come for with no price at all. Some of the men in the nearly fields would also try to help like when they got done with their work early, they would offer to help in Aglaia's really big garden and Aglaia always let them help, she even stopped questioning why she would get stuff for free. The women with children of their own would always look sadly at Aglaia and the elder women and men would stop by once a month to check on her. Crescent was Aglaia's only family left and since because of a tsunami that destroyed her old home and family, never did she smile nor speak to anyone but Crescent anymore. After so many years, the townspeople gave up on trying to hear Aglaia speak and when a elderly couple took her to their best doctor, he said that nothing was wrong with her voice and that the town will have to realize that Aglaia might of been in a traumatizing situation and won't speak because of it. When Aglaia steps into a shop, the owner would get some paper and a pen for Aglaia to use and she would write down what she needed and would not come to town for a while, but she made trips to library to read the books there. As Aglaia looked through the window, seeing the now storming picture of the outside world, she thought that she saw smoke and fire in the distance, but didn't think much of it. Aglaia got up and walked to her kitchen, where she half way through with making beef stew and chicken soup on the side when a hurried knocking came from her door. Aglaia putted everything down and walked calmly towards the door, Crescent who had been watching Aglaia work from a opened cupboard, was now on her shoulder looking wearily at the door. When Aglaia opened the door, after placing her cloak on, and two bodies fell down to her floor. Aglaia couldn't suppress the shocked yelp as another one came through(Not falling on her floor like it's friends did, which is a lovely way to greet someone if you want to frighten them to death) and it grabbed her forearm to not end up like the others.

"Thank you for opening the door. Now can you please help the others first then me after your done?" A polite male voice asked and Aglaia nodded her head. Aglaia then went to drop the boy in the spare room that was closest to her and return with the other passed out 'guests' since the room held three beds.(Almost every room had three beds because when the elders came to check up on her, they sometimes brought kids with them for Aglaia to play and cook with)Aglaia patched the boys up with the first Aid as good as she could without any help and when her guests(well, one of them) went to sleep, Aglaia went to the kitchen to continue cooking but this time making it bigger for her guests when they awakened.

*Three days later*

Aglaia was getting worried over the young boy she treated last, because he has yet to wake up and one of his friends woke up yesterday, but wouldn't say anything beyond that 'thanks' and stayed as quiet as Aglaia would normally would be if she was in the town. Aglaia was making white cake and chicken soup for the guests while she ate beef stew with some pieces of the cake that the elders gave her when they were last here and heard a pained yelp from the room where she held the boys at. Crescent had been staying on Aglaia's shoulder since the guests had 'arrived' per say and if she wasn't on her shoulder then she was close by Aglaia's feet, looking around like something behind her. Aglaia wiped her hands on her black apron and pulled her hood up, then went quickly to the boys' room to see what was wrong. Aglaia opened the door quietly and looked around the room, only stopping when she saw the red haired boy who had gotten the least injures.

"Oh, Hello. I'm Lavi and you are?" The boy called Lavi asked and Aglaia just stared at him.

"Are you going to say anything?"

"..."

"I guess not." Lavi had a thoughtful look on his face and the other awake person was looking Aglaia silently.

"Mreow!" Aglaia looked down and saw the paper and pen carefully in Crescent's mouth. When Crescent left her side, Aglaia will never know and wrote her name and Crescent's on it, then handed it to lavi.

"Your name is Aglaia and that's your cat, huh? Well it looks like to me that we have a mute hostest, huh Yuu?"

"Che. Don't call me that, baka and Aglaia, call me Kanda." The other boy had finally spoke. Aglaia made a 'come hitler' moment with her hand and left the room with Lavi and Kanda to the kitchen where Aglaia served them lunch.

Me:I have got to go sleep, so I'll check everyone's reviews later.

Mar:Mimi doesn't own the DGM characters, but she does own Aglaia, Crescent, the town and it's people, and nothing else. Reviews of all kinds are welcome!