Hello. My name is Owen, Owen Colville to be exact. For a few years, I've been laying low just waiting for the right moment to appear to public faces once again.

Rumor has it that I've become a ruthless outlaw stealing peoples' money and taking food from outdoor vendors just to survive…but that's not true. Only a few people know the truth.

Only a few years ago, I was out searching for some mysterious crystal that the AC scientists requested. These scientists had expressed their urgent needs to me for the use of the crystal saying that it would help a lot of new weapons develop.

New weapons? Why do they want new weapons when we already have plenty? I have a feeling they're only covering up for now.

Still orders were orders. Me being only a kid that was six years of age, I eagerly agreed to search the caves, scanning every nook and cranny for this imaginary crystal. I quickly put on all my scavenger gear and rushed off to take a deep breath of the synthetic, yet all too real forest.

Then it happened.

As soon as I stepped in the leafy green forest, hell broke loose. A bomb zipped above my head. After that it seemed like a cloud of bullets had suddenly appeared streaming back and forth. In my young, I scrambled about and screamed a great deal wishing for one of the older agents to come and get me. At that point, I didn't care who scolded me for what and the punishment I would be taking, I just wanted out!

At first, I thought I had found a shelter. For a few minutes, I cowered in the shelter waiting for the crossfire to subside. The few minutes of peace and quiet allowed me to think for a short while. Why was there shooting in the forest? Didn't the agents know that was illegal, a major offense? What if I had run into the wrong area…wait! That was it! I must have run off into the wrong direction mistaking the training area and the area they wanted me to search or what if they scientists had double crossed me? Some of them were jealous that I had a rich background anyway. Me being kid I didn't think much of it. I didn't even get why people would be so envious of money.

The cave started to rumble then. I ran out as fast as I could and then it came. The mysterious monster had come up and bit me right in the back of my head. After that I lost all consciousness.

This is where those rumors had set in. I apparently disappeared from the AC, erased from the database to be exact. People were sent out to search for me but I don't think they gave much effort. The crowd started to say things such as that I became a ruffian or that I was eaten up by a wild animal that the zoo had let loose.

Truth is, I was in that forest for a year. I almost died there. I almost died until some man had come through and picked me up. After I woke up, he told me that he took me with him on his flight back to America and decided to adopt me so he could teach me how to be a good child. I didn't quite get the part of being a good child since my parents had constantly reminded me of how well behaved I was. What they had also taught was to never disobey an elder and the man looked like an elder I could trust so I took his words very seriously.

From that day on, I was his little pet. For a few years I was home schooled with various tutors coming from all parts of the world. Thus I became very smart for my age. After the first few months, the man announced that he would be sending me to his sister in Ohio. I've never heard of the state before so I decided to research it. Only basic things came up, such as the state motto and some trivia facts but just thinking about it gave me a strange feeling.

In October I finally arrived at the man's sister's house. It was a nice, two-story Victorian styled home. It was nothing like the old man's home that was huge, lonely mansion. The lady was very kind to me but as I noticed she wasn't so nice to the neighborhood kids. She called them brats and threatened to tell their parents. The kids looked back at me staring weirdly. Perhaps it was the suit I was wearing or the fact that I was the old lady's replacement son.

Right now, I'm about ten years old and when I was ten years old, I met them.

The Delightful Children.