It's Beginning

It was just another day in the life of Arcadia, and her sister whom was one year older than her, Eclipse, or so they thought it was when they awoke. Eclipse got up to make breakfast for them and their parents like she usually does as Arcadia made their beds and cleaned up their messy room.

"Hey Arc?" Eclipse called from the kitchen. When she didn't respond to her call, she made her way back to their room. "Arc, did our parents say anything about leaving our house or anything?"

"Huh? Oh, no, actually just the opposite. They said that none of us should leave our treehouse for any reason for the next few days. There's a storm coming and it'll get worse before it gets better." Arcadia explained to her older sister. She finished with what she was doing and looked at Eclipse. Worry and uneasiness was very clear to see on her face. "E, why, what's going on?"

"Mom and dad weren't in the kitchen talking like usual. So I checked their room and they weren't there either. They aren't anywhere in here, but all the doors and windows, even the escape route are locked from the inside." At Eclipse's words, Arcadia was overcome with dread. Somehow, both their parents left but still locked the door or window they went through, from the inside.

"Did they leave a note or anything?" Eclipse just shook her head at her younger sister's question.

The two girls began to look out all of the windows to see if there was any trace of their parents. All they could see was the lightning and the rain that was beginning to fall. Both girls were now feeling the overwhelming fear. Neither had any clue to where their parents went, or why they left. It was the first time it had ever happened so neither really knew what to do. Their parents always left a note if they were going somewhere.

"So what should we do now?" Arcadia asked Eclipse as they stood in their kitchen.

"We do what we always do. I'll make breakfast and you finish with the cleaning of our room. The storm will get worse soon. We should probably head to our storm shelter before that happens." Eclipse responded as she moved to the stove to start their food.

"Alright." Arcadia mumbled, wishing she could have gotten out of cleaning. Once the girls were done with their chores and eating, they started going to the storm shelter. Since they live in a treehouse about 40 meters above the ground, their storm shelter needed to be up in the trees too. Or to be exact, be a tree. Their storm shelter is a hollowed out part of a large tree with thick bark near the set of trees supporting their house. The thing that connects the shelter with their home, were ropes they needed to walk or crawl over. The path was still unfinished; it was something their father planned to finish that day.

While the girls were making their way across the ropes to the shelter, over the heavily pouring rain, they began to hear the trotting of horses approaching.

"Sis do you hear that?" Arcadia questioned, as she almost slipped off of the ropes.

"Yeah, I heard that. It sounds like three horses. They are going pretty slow, so it should be safe. Let's check it out." Eclipse began to climb down the tree, with Arcadia trailing behind her. Once they reached the ground, they could see the three horses slowing making their way towards them. It looked like their riders were unconscious and on one of the horses there were two people. One of them looked like he was in bad condition.

"We should help them, right?" Arcadia asked, already knowing the answer.

It took both the girls to get all four people into their house, once they tied up the horses to one of the trees. They laid the unconscious and wet people in their living room. They couldn't help but just stare at them for a bit. They had never seen anyone else other than their parents before. The first man was tall with blond hair, the second one was shorter with blond hair and the third was short with black hair. The one possible female had dark brown hair and glasses.

"Help me move this one to our medical room. He's badly wounded and bleeding all over out floor." Eclipse told her sister as she made her way to the hurt black haired man. Arcadia and Eclipse took him to the medical room and set him down on the table. Eclipse removed his shirt to deal with the gash on his abdomen. Once that was cleaned and bandaged, she dealt with the cut on his head. She then realized that his right arm was broken and his left leg was also broken. She only had to wrap his arm since the bone already had gone back into place; however that was not the case with the leg. She had to cut his pants enough to get to the injury then began to deal with that and his arm.

Meanwhile, Arcadia was in the living room. She had cleaned up the blood left behind from the hurt man. She then was dragging the remaining two men and one possible female over to their fireplace. She wasn't about to get a bunch of strangers naked, so she just left them near the warm fire. She then checked them over to see if they had any major injuries. There were a few cuts and bruises; some were a bit serious, but nothing that required medical attention. Their only issue was that they were wet, so Arcadia went to get them some towels and warm blankets to wrap them in. she was done fairly quickly, so she just sat and kept a quiet watch over the sleeping people.

Eclipse however was not done. She was having trouble with the man's broken leg. It wouldn't straighten out so she could put a splint on it. It was like the man was beginning to wake up and didn't want to follow or go with what Eclipse needed him to do.

"Come on guy, you gotta let me do this or else it'll heal wrong." Eclipse grumbled to the awakening man. She was too caught up in his leg to see his eyes opened up. She had her hands on his leg, to get it back in place when he spoke up.

"W-Who are you?" The man groggily asked, fairly incoherently.

"Huh?" The shock of the man speaking up caused Eclipse to jolt. This in turn, snapped the broken leg back into place. The now fully awake man tried to hold back his yell, but failed. The pain was too strong. It overwhelmed him and prevented from being able to contain his pained loud yell. This awoke the other three people in the living room.