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Chapter one

Ten-year-old Ansfrida yawned as she began to walk the streets of Oslo, looking for the correct building. She had been up since early to catch the correct bus, and had not slept well in a very long time. She hated the man who took her in after her mother passed, her mother's cruel boss, and his cruelty had only gotten worse towards her as strange things continued to happen to her. At first it was simply seeing creatures which the others could not, the usual one being a little blue arctic fox with rabbit ears, but then weather and such began to change with her mood; which was when her guardian began to act weird towards her.

After some time to think about a way to escape, she remembered a story her mother used to tell her about her father. It was more of a direction then a story, but before they broke up her father had given her mother a cross hairpin and told her that if she ever was in trouble to take it to the government building in Oslo in charge of diplomatic affairs and show the pin. Then she would be helped. Despite never really talking about her father, she had kept the hairpin and after passing Ansfrida took it. With the pin and the directions, Ansfrida sneaked out of her guardian's house and left for the capital.

She had failed, however, to think of how she was to tell which building was which or even what kind of help she would receive. She already knew that the man had called her in as missing and groups had begun looking for her, but would they recognize her so far from home and send her back? Ansfrida shook her head and stared at the crowd passing her by, feeling rather small.

"Someone must know which building I should go to," Ansfrida said to herself before spotting a person which interested her. The man, she was assuming that the stranger was a boy, was dressed in a dark and light blue suit with blond hair; a cross hairpin keeping his bangs out of his face. He had the air of someone accustomed to the flow of the city, causing Ansfrida to feel that he might be able to help her.

Deciding to go with her feeling, she rushed up to the man. Upon closing in on him she called out for him to stop, causing him to stop and turn around to face her with his deep blue eyes; the same color as hers. She swallowed as she walked up next to him and said, "Could you give me directions?"

"I could, but shouldn't you be in school right now?" the man said in a monotone voice.

"No? Um, look. Can you please tell me how to reach the building in charge of diplomatic affairs?" Ansfrida said, trying to stay on track.

"And why do you need to go there so badly?" the man asked, squatting so that he was eye-level with her.

Cautiously, she pulled out the old hairpin and showed it to the man while saying, "Well, my mom told me that if I was ever in trouble I should take this to that building and I would get help."

The man stared at the hairpin in silence, causing Ansfrida to look up and notice that her pin looked just like the cross in the man's hair. At last the man asked, "Does your mother know where you are?"

Ansfrida glumly shook her head and said, "She died recently."

The man nodded again in thought before asking, "You can call me Lukas. And what is your name exactly?"

"Ansfrida…Ansfrida Haugen. Can you help me or not?" She answered crossly.

"You're the little girl who is missing," Lukas said bluntly while standing back up. Ansfrida then looked down and mumbled, "I don't like my new house. My guardian is mean and doesn't believe me about my friends."

Lukas seemed to be in thought for another moment before taking her hand and replying, "Alright, I understand. Come, the building you wanted is this way."

She was surprised at first by the man's willingness to help, but stayed quiet and tried to loosen her hand. The last thing she needed was for him to decide to take her to a police station instead. The two of them walked in silence for several minutes only to be broken when a car pulled up in front of them; cutting them off while passing by an alley.

Lukas looked at the car unamused for a moment while Ansfrida looked at it shocked; knowing who the car belonged to. From the car appeared a tall man who looked at them as if they were insects. He smirked at the girl who hid slightly behind Lukas, only to then turn his attention to the man in front of her.

"Can I help you?" Lukas asked while glaring at the man. He could tell by how Ansfrida flinched from him that the man was no good.

"Yes, you see that little girl with you is my boss' goddaughter. He's been looking everywhere for her so we would like for you to just hand her over," the man said.

"If that is so then tell him that she is safe and sound in the country's hands," Lukas stated bluntly. The other man gave him a grimace before taking a step closer and saying that that was not good enough.

Before either Ansfrida or Lukas could respond the man let out a pained shriek as a bite mark appeared on his leg, causing him to fall to his knees. Taking the opportunity, Lukas picked up Ansfrida and rushed past the injured man; jumping over the car and running away. As he ran he asked, "That fox thing. Is that a friend of yours?"

"You actually saw her?" Ansfrida asked now shocked that someone else saw the fox. The man nodded his head, only to then duck into another alley and kneel down behind a dumpster. From the main street they could hear a commotion of people gasping at the man and more of his friends which appeared from the car and alley. Obviously if their boss told them to bring the girl back, the orders where to bring her back either in good or bad health.

"This is bad…why are they so determined to have you?" Lukas asked.

"It's because strange things happen around me. My guardian's a powerful man in the region I'm from and he thinks if he keeps me around I can help him get more powerful," Ansfrida explained. Lukas than rolled his eyes but nodded that he understood. He knew about power-struggles enough to know that this one was stupidly getting in his way.

He looked over at the street again to see a car he recognized pass by, Denmark's usual rental, reminding him that he was supposed to be at a meeting in only a couple minutes. The car was stopped at a light and the shouting had died down, causing Lukas to think that it was safe for him to get to the car with the girl. With this decision, he picked the girl up again and rushed for his friend's car; reaching it as the light turned green.

Denmark turned his head when he heard someone on the outside bang at the backseat door, only to see his brother. Curious as to what the other was doing, he ignored the blaring horns of people behind him and unlocked the doors, only to then watch as Lukas aka Norway push a little girl inside the relative safety of the car.

"Nor what's going on? Who's you're-," Denmark began only to stop when a car, the same car that stopped Norway and the girl before, rushed closely past and clipped Norway; sending him and the door ahead of Denmark's car.

Upon seeing Norway get hit, Denmark rushed out of his car and shouted several swears at the other. He then quickly knelt down by Norway to see that his friend was still conscious but with several bad looking injuries. Carefully, he picked Norway up and sat him inside the car's passenger seat while mumbling, "So much for the meeting."

He then looked at the girl in the rearview mirror and told her, "Buckle up, I don't need you falling out and I'm going to be going pretty fast."

So who exactly is this girl and how are things going to go from here?

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