~Oisin's POV~

I was tired and hungry, but I was alone. The people around me didn't even see me. I had not eaten in three days, and the ground were I slept was hard and cold. I didn't want to steal, because this time if I was caught I would be killed. I was only six, and had no one to help me get the food. It was during the night market I caved and tried to steal a handful of bread.

"You little thief! Your head is mine tonight!" I heard the man yell, so not even thinking I took off. I ran around the people and looking over my shoulder didn't see the man I ran into.

He crouched down and in an almost growly tone asked, "Child where is your family?" though he seemed to stumble of the word family.

"I 'ave no fam and no food. Tat man wan' my 'ead for tis bit of bread," I answered, holding up the bread as the man came up behind us. He opened his mouth when the other man stood up and held out a gold coin from the sack at his waist.

The mean man left and the nice one looked down at me asking me, "Do you have a name?"

I shook my head stunned that this man was helping a street rat like me. Then his next question truly stunned me, especially since he looked like a young man just starting a family, "You want to live with me and be apart of my family?"

"Why?" I couldn't help but ask.

"I was raised by a different kind of people than those here. When we saw one of the young ones or even most older ones without family we would invite them into ours. As we have a saying, 'As one we are taken by the weakest prey, but as many even the mightiest foe falls to us.' So, you want to be apart of my family?" he asked again.

I nodded, and he smiled, then he told me we could go home as soon as he found a necklace or pendant or something shaped like a wolf claw. I remembered the booth that had similar items to sell, and so I grabbed his hand and pulled him to the booth. He picked up the bronze wolf claw on a leather cord, and paid for it. He took me to a stall nearby for clothes, but none fit so we went to a stable and toward a huge horse.

"I do no ride," I told him, looking down.

"That is fine, you can sit in front of me and I will keep you safe," he said, picking me up and setting me down at the front of the saddle. Then he got up behind me and taking the ropes from the horse's mouth lead it toward his home.

When the castle came into view, he took us there. "'Ere?" I asked.

"Here, though I want you to be quiet okay?"

"Otay, I am six too," I thought to add as I did not know his age.

"I am 18, but will turn 19 soon."

"When?" I asked, because I felt the need to do something nice for him taking me in. Especially if he lived here.

"Next full moon, now shhhh," he answered, but shhhed me gently. He got us down and carried me inside to a room. I was surprised that there was a woman there. He hid the necklace, so I thought it might be a surprise and didn't say anything as he woke her. "Merida, do to how I was raised when I met this boy I had to take him in by the code of my family. I have not named him yet and do not know where he can stay, but he is only six, and…" she covered his mouth and smiled gently at him. They had to be together you could feel that he loved her greatly and she loved him as well.

"Child, what would you like your name to be?" she asked me, with another gentle smile and I was shocked.

"Wha, yer name sir?" I asked, looking at the man who brought me.

"My name is Faolchu and I am a girl, though by my family standards and as I joke I was sometimes called a man," she grinned, though her eyes said that she knew this was a shock to most people not in her family.

"I want somefing like Faolchu, and can you be my mum or da?" I asked, to show I did not care.

"I am better suit for father role, but sure I will be your da."

"You ma'am?" I asked the woman that da loved so much.

"I can be your mum, and my name is Merida." I thought on where I knew that name.

"The Princess?" I gasped shocked.

"Yeah, now we need a name so I can go back to sleep and so can Faolchu. Oh and do not think that you are getting out of telling me just where you found him in the morning," she told da, giving her this look. She just grinned back, and I smiled at my new parents.

"I fink it should be Oisin," I answered, cutting into the staring.

"Little wolf, and deer. Do I have the only none animal name in this round-about family?"

"Yeah," da and I said together so I gave a huge grin to her.

"Well let's get some rest. Oisin as I am too tired to give you a bath now, you will get one when we wake up. Tonight you sleep with us and tomorrow we deal with my parents," mum said, and da grinned before laying down in the middle of the bed. Ma curled against his right side, and I looked around for where I should sleep. Then da opened his right arm and I crawled over and laid down on the other side of her with my head on her shoulder. I feel asleep quickly, and couldn't wait for the next day with my new family. I felt the grin spread across my lips and knew that my life would be looking up now.