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Hey! This is a one shot, or maybe two... Or three... But no more than three, about Nora and Ren. Why, because I listened to the song 'Boop' and it inspired me to write it. It will be told from a first person perspective of Nora. Anyways, on with it!
I trudged slowly down the village road, the rain soaking through my orange hair and my thin cotton clothing. My name's Nora Valkyrie, and I'm now an orphan. Why? Because a small group of Grimm attacked my old village, destroying it completely. I'm seven years old, a few months away from eight, but if you saw me, you'd think I were ten, maybe eleven from the way I acted, but from the way I look, you'd probably say six. There were few houses here, most made of stone, apart from the few that were concrete.
"Hey! Hey, you! You OK?" I heard someone shout from across the street, and I turned my head to see a boy of similar age to me, with black hair and... Magenta eyes? Wow, that's new, even to me. I mean, my turquoise eyes are a sight to behold, but his... Wow, just wow. I looked at him, and saw behind him was a small, tarpaulin covered allyway, that was completely dry and lead to somewhere I couldn't see.
"Uh... No... Can I, uh... Can I come in?" I called out to him, and he looked back at the alley.
"Uh... Yeah, sure..." He replied, waving me over. This went against everything my father had ever told me. One, never talk to strangers. Two, never follow strangers. And three, don't go into an alleyway or a van with a stranger. But he looked pretty weak, I could handle him... Probably... "Hey! You coming?" He shouted to me, and I nodded before running over to him. I walked under, and I saw the boy turn into a door, and carefully pull out a key. He walked in, and I followed him, yet again breaking Rule Two. "You're new around here, aren't you?" He asked me, and I nodded slowly.
"Y-Y-Yeah." I stuttered, shivering from the rain. He must have noticed this, as he grabbed a small blanket, and handed it to me.
"My name is Lie Ren, what's yours." He told me, and I looked down nervously.
"Uh... I'm Nora Valkyrie, it's nice to meet you, Lie." I replied, and he shook his head
"No no, call me Ren, please." He said, standing up and walking through another door.
"Um... OK Ren." I reply, and he smiles as he flicks on the lights. "Do you... Do you live with your parents?" I asked him, but I only see his shoulders sag.
"No... My parents die a few years back, and I've lived alone ever since. The houses here are free, and food is delivered to the door every day. I can handle myself." He tells me, and I nod.
"So... You have a bed?" I question, and he nods.
"Yeah, follow me." He says, pushing open another door.
It's been a few months now. Ren and I have got to know each other better. He rarely leaves the houses, and we eat off of paper plates. It's not like how I used to live. But it sure is better than a life on the streets.
"Are gonna eat, or are you just gonna stand there like a dead fish?" He asks me jokingly, sitting down at the table with two plates of salad.
"Oh right!" I say, dashing to the table. I have noticed that, I've got happier since the day it happened. I'm still nowhere near how I used to be, social, forever merry and joyful. But I can't forget what happened that night. I can't forget my parents, my friends and family. I take my seat at the table, picking up the plastic knife and fork set out for me. I take a clump of lettuce, and stick in my mouth. I never used to like it, but when your easily meals consist of lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes and carrots, you learn to cope. We sometimes have apples for breakfast, they're really sweet. We didn't have them back at my old home, we had pears back there.
"How have you been recently, Nora." I hear Ren asked, which sends me back to reality. I blink a couple of times, before swallowing the lettuce.
"Oh, I've been fine. Why'd you ask?" I lie innocently, sticking my fork through a piece of cucumber.
"Because you don't seem fine to me." He replies, instantly seeing through the lie. "You don't have to lie to me you know." He says, not scolding me. No, more like, just telling me, I guess.
"OK. I guess I've just been remembering what happened again..." I say dejectedly, and he places his left hand on my shoulder comfortingly.
"You haven't had more nightmares, have you?" He asked worridly, and I shake my head. "Good, we don't want a repeat of the first night." He tells me, and I nod with agreement. On the first night, I had gone to sleep, but I had instantly been shoved into a nightmare, a horrible nightmare which showed me the deaths of everyone I knew, in order from the ones I least liked, to the ones I loved the most. We finish with our salads before getting ready for bed. I sleep in the clothes I came here with... Well, they were pajamas in the first place. We bid each other goodnight, before I throw myself onto my bed. My ginger orange hair flopped around my, and I realised that it had now grown down to my shoulders. I take a strand in my hand, and I examine it, the length still surprising me.
"I thought you'd need something to tie that back." Ren says from the doorway, which startles me, and I almost slip off of the bed.
"What're you doing?" I question, but he says nothing as he sits next to me.
"Turn your head away from me please." He says kindly, and I comply to the order, and I feel my hair being moved up and down.
"What're you doing?" I asked him again, and he pushes my hair over my shoulder.
"That." He says, and points at my hair, now tied in a neat pony tail.
"Uh... Why?" I say, and I hear him sigh.
"It needed it. Don't ask anymore questions." He tells me as he stands up. "Goodnight Nora." He says as he closes the door.
"Night Ren..." I mutter, as I fall into a deep sleep.
Ren and I are ten years old now. When it reached Ren'd birthday, we did what we did for every one of our birthdays. Either, for Ren's birthdays, I got him a present, or he got me one if it was my birthday. This year however, I've decided to get him two. And they're amazing. I call them StormFlower, and they are automatic pistols with blades attached to the barrels. They are painted green, as it's his favourite colour, and they fire any type of 9mm dust rounds. I made them myself, which, I hope, makes them that much better. I had already forges my own weapon, which is called Magnhild. I mean, it's a battle hammer crossed with a grenade launcher, which uses a Burn Dust powder and Momentum Dust powder cross in it's grenades. I walked to familiar tarpaulin covered alleyway, and turn to the door. With the two weapons in a wooden box in my right hand, I knock on the door with my left, and see it open up, revealing my magenta eyed friend.
"Happy birthday Ren!" I exclaimed when I get inside, and he grins as I walk over to the table.
"OK Nora" He says, rubbing his hands together. "What have you got me this time?" He asked, and now it's my turn to grin as I put the box on the table.
"Open this, and find out." I reply mysteriously, standing next to him with my right hand on his left shoulder. Ren pulls a tab on the box, and the wooden door falls open, revealing the two weapons, and his jaw drops at the sight.
"Nora... Are they..." He tries to speak, but cannot find the words to finish a sentence, so I finish it for him.
"Custom made automatic pistols, capable of firing any dust round of 9mm thickness? Yeah, they are." I answered cockily, and I grab the weapons, and push them over to him.
"Nora... I... I don't have any words to explain how grateful I am." He says, giving me a large hug. "So thank you. Thank you Nora Valkyrie." He thanks me as he lets go, and give him a kind smile in return.
"No problem. It's what family are for." I tell him as I put my arm over his shoulder. I see him smile, and I smile back. That, is when the world stops spinning, and I realise. I realise that I have family again.
And scene. Yeah, this can't end here. The show must go on. Buuut not right now, I'm kinda done for tonight. I need my rest. But, I hope you liked this chapter of, The Stories of Boop!
Stinger out!