Me: This fanfic is a story that will star my OC, and a thought to be dead blader who used to be called The Dragon Emperor, so I hope you enjoy this tale you can say, and please leave a review if you have something you want to say about. Do whatever. OC, you can take it from here.
OC: So, welcome to my world, the world where I am not in control, but deviate from the world, the path of life I guess. I'm a troubled girl you can say. I'm not normal either, and my family isn't either and my home and etc. But I'm not here to give you a lecture on my life, I'm here to introduce you to this story, and I hope you will like it, so here we go. It starts in the snow.
Ryuga had been walking through a snowstorm for over an hour or two now. He felt the bitter cold of the wind, it made his blood run cold. He still trudged on, until he spotted a cave like structure. It was a cliff that had a ledge hanging over, it was the closest he could find for a camping spot to survive the storm. He gathered some dry branches and set them up, when he heard shouting from the distance. He walked back out into the storm, and looked around. Nothing by dead trees and snow for miles.
CRUNCH
Someone had been thrown through a tree's branches, and landed in front of Ryuga's feet, and laid there, passed out. The person was dressed in a cloak, for weather protection or for just hiding. Ryuga growled as the storm thickened. "Let me guess, I have to help you." Ryuga asked the unconscious person before his feet. "Fine." He went back to his camp, and lit the fire with a rock and a piece of flint, he didn't have a bey to make fires anymore. He then went back to the person, and dragged it close to the fire. "Why do I have to put up with this?" Ryuga sat down beside the feet of the person and poked at the fire. Ryuga looked over, to see a pale arm had been revealed from the cloak. Ryuga poked her arm, and a small groan came from underneath the hood of the cloak. Ryuga reached up, and pulled the hood off of the person. "What the?" When Ryuga pulled the hood off, a dark spiky ponytail sprang out from underneath. "Is this a girl?" Ryuga asked. He leaned over to peer at the face of the girl, she had pale skin, and bangs covering her right eye. "Is she emo?" Ryuga left the girl alone after that, still looking once in a while if she had woken up.
It soon became dark, and Ryuga had left to go gather even more dry branches that weren't touched by the snow. That's when, the girl woke up.
"Ugh . . . . my head . . . . . where am I?" I asked myself as my vision became clear. I sat up, and saw a fire burning before me. "I didn't make that. Ah! My head." A headache snuck up on me, it hurt as if I hit my head on something solid. "Okay . . . I have to go." I stood up, and got a headrush with it. I staggered to the entrance of the cave, too see nothing but snow. "Great, can't go anywhere in this snow." I walked back to the fire and laid back down. 'Why did this happen? I think I went through some branches, then all I remember was blackness.' I quietly turned to my side, and faced the fire. "Whoever got me out of the cold, they better leave me alone." I whispered as I saw my breath in the cold, the fire was growing weak. "Let's fix that." I raised my hand and spread out my fingers, the flames bursts upward, and it soon got warmer. I curled up and hugged my knees as I closed my eyes. "I can finally rest for a minute now. Thank god." Then, I head footsteps in the distance. 'My rescuer is back, time to act a bit dead now.' I let go of my knees and waited. After a while I heard the footsteps stop near me, then some branches fell behind me. "Looks like the fire is okay." 'Whoever this guy is, he sounds like he's tough.' He remained quiet for a while, and I decided to see who he was. I barely squinted my eyes at him, trying not to look like I was awake. 'Too blurry, great, now I have to open my eyes.' I opened my eyes wide, and what I saw was totally unexpected. He was staring dead at me, as if he knew I was awake. His hair didn't seem like a natural color at all, snow white, with a red streak, and his eyes didn't quite match with him. Golden eyes, amber a bit too. He was wearing a black shirt, with a white jacket, but he used it as a cape, it's fucking freezing outside. Never smiles, that's what he appears to be. "About time." His voice matched though, funny. "Get up." He told me as he looked to the fire again. 'I take orders from no man.' I remained still and silent. "Stubborn." He whispered. "I heard that!" I told him as I glared at him. "It speaks." He smirked as he saw the words struck my nerves. "Fuck you." I cussed at him. He shot back a death stare, guess he wanted to scare me. "I'm not scared of a stupid dirty look." I snapped at him as I sat up. "I'm not surprised to hear that from a gothic girl." I was confused, then, I checked my hood. It was off.
'Fuck, I'm supposed to hide my face!' I thought as I put my hood back on. "How dare you take my hood off. Do you not know the privacy of others?" I tossed a rock his direction in anger after I had finished adjusting my hood. "Get lost!" He looked angry, mission accomplished! 'As soon as the snow stops I'm heading to the cliffs. Wait, I don't have the map of the way.' I sighed as I mentally face palmed myself for losing a precious map I had gained to a village I wanted to see. "Um . . . . did you happen to find a map when I fell?" I asked him. "No." He said sharply. "Great, now I have to find my own way!" I talked to myself as I hid my hand inside my cloak once again. "You can't do that, you'll get lost in this place." "Well if you know the way to Koma Village then I won't be fucking lost in this stupid snow!" I was irritated at the most because of whoever this guy was. "Koma Village? What do you want with that place?" He asked me. "None of your business. Let's just say I need a place far from cities, and Koma is all I can think of." "The only way you're getting there is with a guide, this side of the region has two ways of traveling, lost and by help." 'I need a freaking guide to get there! It's more than a week's journey!' "If I were to need a guide, where can I get-" "People rarely go there, just a few travelers once a year." 'Ugh! He's no help at all!' I kicked some dirt onto the fire, causing it to go out a bit. "Hey!" Ryuga tossed in a handful of the branches and tossed them to the hungry fire. "I need help, so . . . . if you know the way, I'll do you a favor in pay for it." I told him as I felt the shame poke at my heart. "A favor? I can't work with that." He said to me as I calmed down a bit. "You do know the way, thanks, but I don't have anything to pay you with." I'm broke, I don't even have a coin to spare. "Who said I was taking you to the village! I'm heading to the city closest to it." He told me as I felt exhausted. 'I give up, it's no use.' I curled up into a ball and laid on the ground, and sighed. "Well at least thank you for getting me out of the snow . . . . mister." I told him as I closed my eyes. "Ryuga." I opened my eyes and stared at him. "Ryuga is my name you know." He told me. 'I honestly don't care, he's not going to remember me, just as an annoying lost girl, why should I remember him.' "What's your name?" He asked me. "No, if you won't help me out, I won't tell you my name. You don't deserve to know it for the way you treated me." I told him as I grew more tired. "Sorry then, I've been through hell and back, and for a while it's sticking with me." I didn't like the way he was talking to me. "Not enough, talking ill to a girl isn't really good, especially this freak right here." I grumply said to Ryuga. "Fine, I'll think about taking you to Koma." He told me. "Thanks for at least thinking it over, leave me alone." I told him. "Never got your name." He said to me as I was drifting to sleep. "Forget it, I might tell you in the morning." I told him as I finally fell asleep.
Ryuga leaned against the rock wall and watched the fire crackle. "Why should I take a girl to Koma Village, should've found Gingka first and ask him. But, is something nice I can do, I was really mean to her." Ryuga was thinking out loud as he realized he actually had sympathy for the girl. "She was mean to you, why should you help?" He asked himself when the girl tossed and turned in her sleep. "I'll lead her to the cliffs, and she can go the rest of the way. There, now I don't have to take her the whole way." Ryuga smiled at his own resolution for helping out the girl. 'Can't believe it's been five months since I woke up, time to turn a new leaf since El Drago is gone.' Ryuga reached for what was left of his headpiece of a dragon's head, it was in pieces. "I lost everything from that day, now I'm acting like a guide for this girl. Who is she anyway?" Ryuga looked over to see the girl still curled up into a ball. 'Wonder why she didn't want to tell me her name, it can't be that bad, can it?' Ryuga thought before falling asleep.
"Wake up." The snow outside was melting, the sun was out, and Ryuga was up. "Hey, girl wake up." Ryuga quietly shouted to the girl. "I'm up!" The girl sat up and rubbed her eyes that were hidden behind the hood. "So are you taking me to Koma village?" She asked Ryuga. "Just until the cliffs, that's it." Ryuga told her. "Okay, I think I can find my own way after that. Thanks." The girl didn't sound all that glad to hear what Ryuga had told her. "Let's get going before everything starts to get muddy." The girl stood up and walked outside. "Hurry up, before a predator finds me." "What?" Ryuga asked. "Nothing." The girl told Ryuga as she started walking into the snow. Ryuga followed behind her and started leading the way.
The snow had already melted and made the ground mushy as the two of them walked through the dead trees. "Hey, if you stop stomping on the ground, less mud goes everywhere you know." Ryuga said to Julie as she walked beside him. "I can't help! The mud is so mushy, I have to do that so I won't slip." The girl told Ryuga as she kicked at the mud. "Good thing it isn't all mud." The girl said under her breath as Ryuga trudged through a patch of snow on the ground. "Why do you want to go to Koma Village?" Ryuga asked the girl again. "I need a place to settle down, a nice place, so Koma Village came up and it's perfect. Don't ask again please." The path they were talking got mudder and was filled with a puddles. "Do you know where we can stop for some food or at least for a bit of hunting?" The girl asked Ryuga. "Right now most of the trees here have lost their leaves, so no fruit, and there's nothing here to eat from, barely any grass, so no animals, there might be fish in a river that goes through here. But you can go do that after I take you to the cliffs." THe girl's stomach growled quietly as they trudged onward. "Aren't you hungry?" The girl asked Ryuga. "No. I can live with eating that much-" Ryuga's stomach growled at the wrong time. He stopped and turned to the cloak wrapped girl. "You wanna eat something, you get your own food, I'll get my own food." The girl just nodded her head. "I can probably find something decent in this place, I don't know for you on the other hand." The girl smirked as she intentionally meant to say it like he wouldn't get food. 'She might be right, I usually got fish with teh help of El Drago, scared the fish to the shallows, before they knew it, struck down with one hit.' Ryuga stayed too quiet, and so the girl had taken the lead. "How long do we have until the path changes?" The girl asked. "When we reach the end of this, we follow the river for a while, than the cliffs come in, the river is about three miles long straight until then." Ryuga explained to her. "Okay, let's go!" The girl started running down the path. "Watch, she's gonna slip." Ryuga chuckled as he waited. But no, she just kept running down the path. "If you don't hurry up, the longer it will take to get to the cliffs!" She shouted back to him as she gained more and more distance from him. Ryuga just glared and started to walk down the path again.
Ten Minutes Later . . . .
I had left Ryuga behind in the muddy path, and I was was still running full speed. The river was just up ahead, but the area around it was soggy, it didn't even look like there was mud, it was just puddles. I had stopped before one of the first puddles. "The ground here is poor, it can barely even hold any water." I stepped in the puddle in curiosity, and then, I slipped.
"Ow!" I had landed in the muddy puddle, my elbow soaked in water, mud all over my cloak. The cloak prevented water and mud getting onto my clothes, but that didn't help with the struggle to get out of the mud. "Okay, how can I get out of this without-" I placed my hand on what I thought was to be actual dry dirt, when it was just a small layer above a patch of moist, clumpy mud. "This must be karma." I admitted as I sat up right. Then I heard the humiliating laughter. "That's what you get! Ahahaha!" I turned to the path and saw Ryuga laughing to death as I glared at him. "I'll show you." I grabbed a handful of mud with dirty water dripping from it, and threw it at Ryuga. I heard a big SPLAT! as Ryuga's laughter deceased. I looked again at him, the ball of mud had hit his face. His face was expressionless, and his eyes were closed. "Let me guess, you're pissed because I did that. Serves you right." I chuckled a bit as I finally got out of the mud, and stood by the river. "You think you're so clever." Ryuga had wiped off of most of the mud from his facial area, eyes still closed. "Well I know I'm no Einstein, but I'm smarter than you." I remarked as Ryuga's eyes opened. "Karma is a bitch." Ryuga walked over to me, and gave me a hard shoved. Sending me to the water. "I agree!" I grabbed Ryuga's wrist as I felt the water hit my back.
SPLASH!
'Shit! This water's deeper than I thought! I can even feel the huge current of the river!' I thought as I held my breath. I didn't expect the river to be deep, just wide enough for fish to swim through it. I had my eyes open, and I could see that the current was pushing me along, and Ryuga as well. 'Well I hope I drown first than get yelled at by this guy.' I thought as I slowly floated to the surface. "*cough* *gasp* Okay, no drowning today." The surface was more violent. The current had the water crash against the rock of the banks, causing waves to ripple out throughout the river, splashing and going over my head. I watched as I saw Ryuga's head pop up through the water next to me. "You little b-" Water splashed over him to stop his sentence, if he would've finished it, I would have to drag him back to shore unconscious. "Look Ryuga, if you don't wanna drown, talk less, hold your breath more!" I shouted to him as the current grew faster to the point I could only keep my head in control while my limbs were flowing with the current. I stayed silent as I watched Ryuga struggling to keep his head up and trying not to be dragged under. "We have to get out of the river!" He shouted over to me. "Why?" I asked him. "This river flows to a waterfall! after that it keeps going!" 'A waterfall? If I do fall with it, I might hurt myself greatly beyond regeneration. Uh oh.' "Head to the shore!" I shouted to him as I struggled to move toward the banks of the river. I only swam about five feet, when I heard the roar of the waterfall ahead. "Too late!" I grasped for a stable solid rock, when I first saw Ryuga go over, then I did so as well. Everything went dark.
Ryuga was still conscious, he had dodged the rocks near the waterfall's runoff, but not the girl. Her head had hit the side of one causing her to black out, Ryuga saw her floating upward to the surface, head under water still. Ryuga swam up to the surface and saw that the river was calmer after the waterfall. Ryuga swam towards the girl, and dragged her to the riverbank. "Shit. Is she still breathing?" Ryuga checked her pulse from her neck. Still alive. "Hey. Wake up." He told the girl as he shook her. She just remained silent. "Wake up!" He shouted at her. Still silent. "Great, she can't wake up. What do I do now?" Ryuga got up and searched for a cave opening to set up a small camp, just until the girl woke up.
"Here, this should do." Ryuga found a big enough cave entrance. He ran back to the girl, and picked her up bridal style, and laid her on the cold cave floor. Ryuga went outside again, feeling drops of rain starting to fall. "It's gonna get cold, I have to hurry." Ryuga searched around the area. Ryuga found a fallen tree, and gathered up armfuls of branches to carry back.
He got back to the cave and the girl was still not awake. Ryuga set aside some sticks and gathered them up. He took out a piece of flint and picked up a rock. He struck the flint, and sparks flew off of it to the branches, and caught fire. He blew onto the fire for it to grow, in no time it was a good enough fire. "*sigh* That should help." Ryuga could hear the drops of rain turn to a down pour, all of it running off into the river. Ryuga checked up on the girl, still not awake. "How hard did she hit her head?" He asked himself as he walked over to her. "Is she still alive?" Ryuga kneeled before her, and pressed his ear to her chest to hear a heartbeat. Silence. Ryuga bolted up, and tried to think. 'What do I do?!' Ryuga's mind raced as he thought he had a dead person on his hands. "Do I bury her? What if she had family? Dammit!" Ryuga kneeled beside the girl again, still freaking out.
"BOO!" The girl sat straight up, shoved Ryuga backwards. "What the hell! You scared me have to death!" Ryuga hissed at her as she stood up. "Well you have reason to though, I woke up when you went outside the cave. I decided that since you shoved me into the river and caused me to hit my head against a rock! I'm surprised you freaked out when I stopped my heart from beating." The girl smirked as Ryuga's face blushed with embarrassment. "I thought you were dead! If you were dead I had to bury you, then you have family maybe that might search for you and me, and I'll get thrown into jail for murder! If I could only slap you right now-" "Than why don't you?" She asked him as she stopped his finishing words. "I'm not that kind of person." He growled as the girl pulled her hood up, hid her face, and touched her spiky ponytail. "Great, now I have to fix it." Her ponytail was dripping with droplets of river water, it had lost it's straightness and was now limp and arched. A small click echoed in the cave as she pulled out her hairpiece, causing her ponytail to spread out and surround her head. "Your hair is really long." Ryuga commented as the girl examined the black colored hairpiece in her hand. "It's hard to cut, so I just leave it long." She gathered up her hair and ringed the water out before putting it up in the spiky ponytail again. "Why do you wear-" "Stop asking questions and let's get out of here!" The girl got up and walked outside, when she saw snowflakes before her eyes. "It's already that cold for it?! Maybe the fish are still swimming."
Ryuga was left in the cave when he heard some splashing from outside. The girl was now walking inside the cave with two flopping fish in her hands. "You caught that?" Ryuga asked as the fishes stopped moving. "I just reached into the river and grabbed than. Can you give me two sticks?" The girl asked. Ryuga tossed her two sticks. She placed the fish on the sticks, and planted them by the fire. "How much further do we have until the cliffs?" The girl asked him as she put her hood over her head. "We're off course. We need to be on the other side of the river." Ryuga looked outside, the snow was starting to pile up, and the snowflakes were getting thicker. "You dragged me to this side, I didn't. So you can't blame me." The girl chuckled as Ryuga grew irritated. "Don't be such a smart head!" He shouted at her. "Didn't your mother tell you not to yell at girls? No manners at all. We'll won't matter after the cliffs." The girl laid back down and curled up into a ball as the fire crackled. "I think the fish is done." Ryuga mumbled as he picked up a stick with a fish on it. "Good." The girl sat up and grabbed after the last remaining cooked fish.
I bit into the fish and chewed quickly. I was starving actually. 'How many days has it been since I ate? Three? Four? I don't even remember.' "Calm down." Ryuga told me as I came back to reality. I looked down to my fish, I was already down to what was left of the ribs of the fish. "My bad, I'm just hungry." 'Great, I'm eating like an animal. I have to strain myself from that.' I thought as I took smaller bites. When I finished, nothing was left but bones. "You're done?" Ryuga asked as I threw the bones to the back of the cave. "What, I was hungry!" I told him as I laid back down. "I'm going to sleep, wake me up when the snow stops." I told him. "Fine." He told me as I drifted to sleep.
The Next Day . . . .
I woke up before Ryuga, and it was pure white outside. 'It's still snowing!' I stood up and gently kicked Ryuga in his back. He let out a small groan. "Hey Ryuga get up." I said after I kicked him again. "Stop it." Ryuga groaned again as he turned. "Don't make me kick you in the stomach!" I shouted at him. "You won't do it." He groaned. I kicked him again, this time with more power. "Ow! That hurt!" Ryuga sat up and glared at me. "I warned you." I snickered as I walked outside. This snow was thick, but the sun was shining from behind the clouds. "I wish it snowed like this at home. More excuses to avoid my family." I mumbled to myself as I saw bits of snow hit the calm river. "Why is that?" I heard Ryuga asked from behind me. "No reason, just a problem I have. Please do not ask." 'If he keeps on asking me questions about my personal life, I'll rip his head off. Just keep cool and just get to the village.' I turned to see Ryuga staring at the river. I started walking without him. "We have to be on the other side of the river." Ryuga said as I walked to a nearby dead tree. "Well I know one way across without swimming." I climbed the dead tree to the strongest branch that reached out to the river. "Jump over it." I leaped from the branch into the air, and I landed gracefully on the other side. "I can't jump that far!" Ryuga shouted from the other side. "Just try and if you fail you needed a wash anyways!" I shouted to him. Ryuga walked over to the tree and had climbed to the same branch I had. 'He trust me enough to believe he can do that?' "AHH!" Ryuga had landed in the swallow part of the river, close enough to the river banks. "Well I told you needed a wash." It was amusing to see him in the water, he was pissed at me. "Well at least you're on the other side. Let's get a move on." I told him. "You knew I wouldn't make it did you?!" Ryuga stood up and shoved me again. "Don't shove me!" I pushed him to the ground and started walking away. "You'll pay for that!" Ryuga picked up a rock and chucked it at me,I dodged it barely, and I looked at him, he picked up another rock. 'Uh oh, better run!'
The girl stated running down the path as Ryuga chased her throwing whatever he could at her, His anger had the his role to play now. 'Gotta go, I gotta get away from him!' The girl thought as she ran passed the river. Ryuga on her tail, she ran as fast as she could.
The girl had been running for a while, with Ryuga still after her. "Get back here!" Ryuga shouted to her as the path twisted away from the river and grew higher. "No! Land a hit on me, I'll be digging your grave! So go away!" The girl shouted back as the river became smaller and smaller. The path stretched into two different paths, one leading up to the tree line, the other to jagged cliffs and rocky slopes.
'Are these the cliffs? I must've ran far enough to reach here.' The girl stopped running and just stood on the edge unknowing of Ryuga rushing toward her, and just stared at the ravine below. "Stop!" The girl shout to him causing him to return to reality. He couldn't slow down. He had tripped trying to, and shoved the girl off the side. He reached out for her hands, but ended up falling with her.
Ryuga had landed with a thud on solid ground, there had been another path beneath them. Ryuga had hit his head hard on a rock and was now trying to focus on his vision. The girl was in a much more worrying state then him. Only her fingertips were seen on the ledge. The rest of her was dangling from them. Her cloak's hood had fallen off revealing her spiky ponytail and face to the sun. "Okay. Just climb up." The girl told herself as she pulled herself up, then, pebbles started hitting her face and bits of dirt. Crumbling was coming from underneath her hands. "Is it . . . breaking?! No!" The girl now used her feet to help her climb up, but the dirt underneath had just collapsed with every step. "I can't pull myself up, I can't fly with the cloak covering my back, I can't focus either! I can't do anything to help." The girl was starting to breath heavily and tried to think of what to do. "Ryuga . . . . Ryuga? Ryuga! If your there, help me!" The girl tried once again to raise herself up to the ledge, when her right hand broke off a part of the cliff. Now only one hand was to help her now.
Ryuga had heard his name being called, but he couldn't focus. "Ryuga!" She cried out as she tried to pull herself up. Now chunks of the earth were breaking apart from under her hand. "Guess this is it." She told herself as she looked up to the sky. More chunks fell from her hand, and then in one last attempt, the girl cried out once again. "Ryuga! I need help!" She shouted as Ryuga finally knew where his name was being called from. He barely saw the girl's hand before, the remaining earth had finally broken off from the weight of the girl. Ryuga dived toward her, and grabbed her hand before she fell so far from his reach. "You okay?" Ryuga asked. "I nearly fell off a cliff, what do you think?!" The girl shouted at him. Ryuga tried to pull her up, but he couldn't. "Give me your other hand, I can't pull you up like this." Ryuga told her. "Okay!" She gave him her hand, and he pulled her back up with ease this time.
'I had nearly fallen off a cliff, I can check that off of my bucket list.' We both just laid there on the cliff. "Thanks for the save." I said to Ryuga ask I closed my eyes. "Don't thank me." He told me as he sat up. "Why? You pulled me up from when I had fallen from the cliff's edge." It didn't make sense, I have to thank him, even if I don't like him. "I was the one who had pushed you off." He said to me. I stood up, and towered over Ryuga. "I saw you trying to stop, so this was an accident . . . from the other times though." I mumbled the last part under my breath. "You forgive me?" He look at up at me, with a questionable look. "Yeah, you kind of saved my life. So I have to forgive you for shoving me off." Ryuga was now standing up with me, no smile at all. "Come on, let's get going." "Wait what?" I asked him. "I thought you wanted to ditch me when we got to the cliffs. What changed your mind?" I asked him. "I might as well go to Koma village to get a few things." He walked away after that, up the new path of this cliff, but something had slipped from my hand. 'All this time, I hadn't noticed that I was holding his hand? How can I miss that?!' After Ryuga had pulled me up, I guess we still held hands, maybe it was from the trauma of falling of a cliff that made me do that. "Hey are you coming or not?!" Ryuga yelled at me from a far. "I'm going!" I replied as I shook away the thought.
We had walked through the cliffs as if we were weaving right through it. Up and down, left and right, across and zigzag, the cliffs had so many places to go, caves were everywhere, and more ledges that were crumbling. We had finally made it to leveled ground, at the bottom of the ravine, but the river was far from here, it had turned and went another way. The sun was almost past the horizon, when we find a big spruce tree. "We can camp here right?" I asked him. "Yeah, if it snows the spruce tree will shelter us. You doing okay?" Ryuga asked as if he really was concerned about me, I was hungry. "I'm good." I said to him weakly, as I felt my stomach growl in silence. "The sun is still out a bit, I'm going to go see if I can get us something to eat. Stay here." With that, Ryuga ran off, leaving me at the spot as I gathered up sticks and tinder for the fire. "I hope he finds something to eat. Fish would be great right now." I placed a hand over my stomach as it growled again. 'But the river is far from here. No chance of eating fish now.' I set down the sticks and tinder and sat before it. "At least no one is here." I still checked behind my shoulder to see if Ryuga had come back, and I looked at the sticks, and snapped my fingers. A tiny wisp like flame danced on my forefinger, and it was yearning for the sticks. "Hello, welcome to this world, now let's make you grow." I tapped the sticks with my forefinger, and the flame slipped off and in a burst of crackling, the fire had started. "There, nice and warm." I scooted close to the trunk of the spruce tree and hugs my knees. I closed my eyes and rest my head on my knees. 'I might be hungry now, but I'm better off out here in the real world then at home. It was so snowy by the time I could get away. I just only could remember the snow, the snow of his domain.' I shook off the thought due because it gave me shiver up my shine. 'I have to move away from the mountains, as fast and as far as possible.' I sighed as I stared at the fire, imagining Koma village.
When Ryuga got back I had climbed up the spruce tree to rest better. "Did you find food?" I asked him. He looked up and a surprised look on his face came. "Yeah, can you come down here?" He asked me. 'He's being a bit nicer now, guess he was traumatized too.' I thought as I jumped down. "What is it?" I asked him impatiently as an aroma surrounded the camp. "Is that fish?" I looked to the fire, fish was cooking over the fire, two to be exact. "Wasn't the river real far away? It's already dark now, how did you see the fish?" I asked him as I stared hungrily at the fish. "Yeah, I got them, to say sorry." He paused before he had said sorry. "Sorry for what exactly?" I asked him. "For being a jerk to you, and pushing you off of the cliff, and the river." Ryuga was leaning against the tree now, trying not to show the blushing on his face. Must've been embarrassed. "Sorry for mocking you and dragging you into the river." I apologize as my stomach growled more.
Ryuga had wanted to say something, but only silence came out of his mouth. "I think the fish should be done, you can go ahead and eat." Ryuga told the girl after he had turned to stand in the darkness where the fire could no reach. The girl picked up one of the fishes that were on a stick, and started taking bites out of was already half way done when Ryuga spoke again. "Why aren't you wearing your hood?" Ryuga asked her. "Oh, it fell off whenever I fell, but I thought I would leave it off for a while." The girl told him. "Do you wear that cloak to hide your eyes?" Ryuga asked her. "No, to hide my face. I don't want anyone to see me, I was once called a freak." She told him. "I think the hair and pale skin is why, but, I never seen someone with real purple eyes." The girl stopped eating ford a moment, and stared at the fire. "It amethyst colored, like the gemstone, just a bit darker though. Like my hair." The girl got quieter and set down the bones of the fish and put the hood on quickly. "Is your hair purple too?" Ryuga blurted out with realizing how curious he was. "It's a very, very dark purple, it's hard to see in regular light." The girl grew more quiet as Ryuga sat down on a nearby rock, and started to eat. "Ryuga, I never heard of the name before." The girl told him as she leaned against the tree. "Everyone at least would've head of my alias. Even the most remote villages knows the name." Julie seemed like she stopped breathing all together. "My . . . village doesn't get many visitors, so we don't hear much about the outside world I guess." 'I feel so tired from just answering these questions, I really don't want to talk about this anymore.' The girl thought as Ryuga ate his fish. No more questions were asked. "Julie." The girl told Ryuga quietly. "Huh?" Ryuga asked. "My name is Julie, Julie Draco. You asked me what my name was when I first met you, and I said it didn't matter. Now that you are taking me straight to the village, might as well have a name." Julie said as the spruce's branches swayed in the wind, barely dropping needles onto them. "Well Julie." Ryuga paused after he said her name. "Get some sleep, we have to leave early. There is still a long way till we even reach the first village." Julie nodded in response, and climbed up onto the branches. "Good night then Ryuga." Julie whispered, hoping Ryuga didn't hear it. "Night." Ryuga told her as Julie fell asleep. "Julie, never heard of that name." Ryuga smiled slightly as the name rolled off on his tongue.
Me: Thank you for reading this, if this was a bit boring at first, don't worry, the drama and story will pick up the pace! This story will also be on wattpad, so yeah.
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