Dance of Night, Death of Day; Chapter 1: The Town in the Mountains
It was late, dark in the village. A small child happily skips down the road, a smile about their face as they hum a happy tune under the moon. His long black hair moved with his steps, as his bright crimson red eyes looked around and around. He had only moved to the village recently and he wanted to the see the houses and to meet the people. Though the move had taken a lot longer than he had thought and it was dark when they had finished. But that didn't stop him from exploring,
He had been given the house by his older sister and he was so happy. He loved he got presents especially from his sister. It was a nice little place in the forest, it was quite and the house itself was normal enough surrounded by nature.
He had arrived in the middle of the summer, though he had to admit there seemed to be a gloom around the village and he didn't know why. He pushed it to the side and continued his walk and jumped up onto the metal rails and began balancing on the metal; suddenly he felt a grumbling in his stomach making him fall on his butt.
"Awe!" he cried rubbing his backside, "Again! Tummy I feed you not even half an hour ago and you still want more" he scowled his stomach which just gave another rumble, 'I guess it has been a long time' he puffed out his cheeks before standing up with a huff.
"Alright you get one more meal then I don't want to hear from you until tomorrow night!" he told his stomach and the growling stopped. Suddenly he stopped talking to his stomach and turned with curiosity as a noise caught his attention.
Looking back he was meet with the sight of a figure stepped out of the forest, dressed in a long white robe, he looked to be an older male cocking his head.
"Hello there little boy are you lost?" he asked smiling at the boy who continued to balance himself on the metal rail, "No I'm not lost!" he proclaimed as the man just smiled at him, though he had to admit the smile was creepy.
"Why don't you come with me" he suggested motioning for the other to come towards him. The boy just stood there, switching between his footings back and forth before replaying by shaking his head.
"Why not?" he cocked his head, "I don't want to, I maybe small but I'm not naïve" he said before leaning over and doing a cart wheel off the railing, turning his back to face the man, "Are perhaps new to the village?" he said as Alex now turned to him a smile on his face,
"Maybe" he giggled doing another cartwheel, "I just moved here, wanna play a game mister?"
The man was taken aback by the boy's enthusiastic personality, "Let's play catch! If you catch me I'll go with you!" he bounced up and down before turning and running away, "Come on you have to catch me!" he repeated as he raced down the road.
"My names Alexander by the way!" he called back, "But people call me Alex!"
The man gave a cocky smirk before going after the boy and disappearing into the darkness.
The small boy tapped on the dirt patting down on the large mound. Wiping his brow he happily smiled dusting the dirt from his red jacket.
"I'm dusty now!" he giggled before turning around and walking into the forest.
"He wasn't that good, too bad" wiping his mouth on the side of his mouth licking the red the side of his hand, but as he ventured deeper into the forest and while walking somehow ended up in another place. Looking around he spotted mounds of dirt with poles sticking out them. Looking at the poles he noticed each of them had names written on them.
He stopped at one reading the name, "Hiromi Murasako" he read noting the age and description written on the white pool. "Only 9 huh?" he frowned at this cocking his head to the side, placing his hand on the pole, "Such a short life cut short" he said as he continued to read over the pole graves.
Looking over he spotted another pole reading, "Susumu Yasumori, 6" he sighed at yet another tragic end to a young life. It was then a thought crossed his mind, it was possibly wrong or maybe it was just right.
He stood there, 'I wish I had someone to play with' he thought, he didn't know if there were other kids in the village, though he probably couldn't play with them anyway. Looking up at the moon a thought crossed his mind as he made his way out of the graveyard and back into the forest.
"I'm going to have new friends' he smiled to himself before turning on his hills before finding his way back to the main road.
"It's so deserted out here at night" he spun around once before doing a small cart wheel down the road, "All this farmland, but no animals" he giggled doing another cart wheel down the road.
"But now the question remains where to eat" he thought, he didn't know the village at all and because of the time the shops would be closed. His stomach gave another growl apparently not too happy with the thought of no food,
"Stop that" he scowled his stomach, "Guess I'll have to go dig into my secret stash" he sighed as he dug into his jacket and pulled out a small sack. Rambling through the small satin bag he pulled out a circular object from the bag before popping it into his mouth and savoring the taste. With a gushing smile he giggles as he ate the candy.
"Yummy~" he smiled happily, reaching into the bag he pulled out another small candy, this time a sucker, and as he began licking and sucking on the candy he began walking back down the road.
As the small boy hopped from root to root of the tree's that lined the forest floor, Alex was headed home, and he would visit the village tomorrow. He wasn't hungry anymore, thanks to his candy, and now was happily walking through the forest back to his house. Suddenly a sound caught his attention. He stopped on a cliff that looked over a small clearing and his crimson eyes fell on a group on figures standing below.
"Alright everyone listen up!" a commanding voice called as the group quitted down and turned their attention to the other side of the clearing. Out of the forest walked a tall, muscular male, he had blue haired that stood out to look like dog ears. His golden eyes shined in the night as he looked out at the group.
The group was relatively big and had no specific age demography. From what he could see, he spotted a girl dressed why to flashy, she had long pink hair kept in two pig tails and her face held a bored expression as she played with one the ends. Next to her was a scrawny looking boy with longish black hair, he seemed to be talking to the pink haired girl, though she didn't seem to be interested and had an annoyed look on her face. The next one to stick out was a young looking male, possibly in his late teens, with short-ish brown hair. He looked down and had a sour looked on his face and his eyes were downcast. The group was continuing to chatter amongst themselves, as the boy watched him from his spot.
As he looked down at the group he had a feeling that something wasn't right. He couldn't place it put the people below gave him an off feeling…
"Alright everyone it's time for another hunt, go out into a village, either pick a target and feed and becareful not to get caught!" he said as the group seem to nod at this.
"Also has anyone seen Yuzuki?" he asked out as the others looked each other, chattering and shaking their heads.
Alexandru remained wordless as he stood on his spot on the small cliff unnoticed by the group below. Though it would appear the group was heading to the villages and apparently they were going hunting, he played with the sucker in his mouth; leaving the cliff he quickly made his way through the forest before disappearing.
To Be Continued…