"Aria, are you going to work again?" a young boy's voice asked.
"You're leaving again?" another voice chimed in, though this time it was a girl who was the same age as the last child.
Aria turned to the two and gave them a soft smile, crouching down to their level to have a better look at them.
"I'm sorry, Leon, Leia, but I'll have to go out again today..." the young woman apologized.
The twins were now pouting disappointingly as they crossed their arms and looked at the teen. They seemed to disapprove her constant work she had to tend to nearly everyday. Her work, though, was none other than annoying the crap out of nobles and stealing their useless valuables.
"But you're only nineteen!" Leia argued.
"I don't think you need to work so hard either!" Leon added.
Aria just chuckled and hugged the two children before standing back up, adjusting the cloak hooked onto her arm.
"Being nineteen means nothing when it comes to work. How about I propose to you both something?" she asked, their big golden eyes sparkling.
It's the one familiar phrase the older girl always used when she gives a promise to the two. Those promises she gave to them were always fulfilled and never broken no matter what she got herself into.
"I'll come home early today with a little something for you," Aria said, a bright smile flashing on her face.
The offer seemed to have sparked an interest in the two siblings as they were now bouncing up and down excitedly.
"Okay!" they two chimed. "Mom, Aria is heading out again, do you need her to run an errand for you?"
The twins scattered away quickly to look for their mother who was currently sewing a decorative looking shirt in the family room.
"Ah, yes! Aria? Is it alright if you can get me another spindle of white thread?" the woman asked.
"Sure thing, Mrs. Florence," the girl replied before she left. "I'll be back by noon."
The twins followed her to the door and closed it for her as she waved a good bye to the family who took her in.
"Be safe, my dear!" the woman called.
"Mom, why does she call you Mrs. Florence instead of mom?" Leia suddenly asked.
The woman just smiled and pat her daughter's head.
"I asked her to, dear," the woman replied. 'She's a noble who has no clue how her life is supposed to be played out...'
The girl noticed how grim her mother looked as she thought about Aria, not wanting to ask anymore questions towards her mother.
After the doors closed and the children were nowhere in sight, Aria peered around the streets and headed over a nearby alley way. The girl let out a short silent sigh and covered herself with the dirty brown cloak that hung on her arm like an empty sack. The cloak managed to cover her from head to toe; it covered her gold and olive green sleeveless coat, her long sleeve white and gold turtleneck short dress, and her gold, light brown, and white thigh high boots.
"Time to do more strenuous work..." she muttered as she took a deep breath and changed her attitude.
The girl pulled up her giant hood, covering up the rest of her bottom length light raspberry hair and most of her face. She then brushed her long bangs to the left, allowing it droop back to its original place and tucked a few locks of it behind her ear. Targets were the nobles as always, and so the girl stalked off silently in the direction of the imperial castle hidden. Aria felt nervous doing the job she assigned to herself only because she knew she might get caught one day and get into deep trouble with the imperial knights. Silently avoiding them and hiding in the shadows, Aria swiftly broke past the first security. It was yet to be the poorest security this place had on watch.
'Idiots...' she thought.
Breaking into a building without getting noticed was the next step on her list, then grab a few things, and lastly was escaping unharmed. The teen casually walked to the closest noble building she could possibly reach without a problem and headed to the back covered up windows, carefully picking at it and sliding it open. Luckily, no one was at home at the moment so she had time to rob a few items and leave. The girl grabbed nearly all the jewelry, fancy decor, and most of the money that the person left out carelessly, planning to sell off the items she took. Remembering the promise, the girl looked at the items swiped from the house and thought about what she could exchange it for.
'I should get going before someone comes back,' Aria thought, tucking in the goods into the tan pouch that hung around her black and gold belt. 'If only I could fit a little more in this pouch...'
Without using much effort, the girl leaped out of the window she opened earlier, quickly closed it back silently, and ran off deeper into an alley. Much to her dismay, a few knights seemed to be scouting the area she usually headed into to get back to the lower quarters, quickly taking her as a suspicious figure, to be exact, the suspicious figure they've been looking for.
"Halt! Who goes there?" one of them asked when they spotted the disguised girl. "I-it's you!"
Aria grunted quietly and quickly turned around to escape, not wanting to be captured by the likes of them.
'Not good..' she whispered to herself as she ran.
"SEIZE THEM!"
As the knights chased her out of the alley way, Aria quickly scanned her passing surroundings, looking for items to use and things she could topple to block their path. There was nothing to use during her great escape and only a few crates at the end of the said alley. Using the crates as blockade with a quick topple, the girl was able to slow the three knights who found and chased her down. This only caused a commotion and catch the attentions of other noblemen, something she needed to avoid from the very beginning. It was already too late.
"It's that mysterious cloaked figure! The one that's been robbing nobles from their goods!" a few people said among themselves. "How did they get in here unnoticed by the knights?"
Aria took the liberty to ignore them all and took off in the direction of where the lower quarters were located, avoiding all possible trouble that got in her way. The knights behind her were going to escaped from the barricade anytime soon, so she mustn't waste anytime.
"What's all this commotion?!" another male knight, sounding younger than the ones who chased down the thief, asked in a clear voice.
Finally getting rid of the boxes in their way for space, the men glared at the figure that was slowly disappearing from their sight.
"S-sir! we've located the mysterious cloaked figure just now and they're headed that way!" the knight exclaimed, pointing over to the lower quarters. "We must quickly round up a search party and catch that criminal!"
The blond haired man nodded and turned to the young woman with short ginger hair next to him.
"Sodia, quickly," he said in a softer tone. "Head into the lower quarters once you finish the gathering."
"Sir, as you wish," the woman named Sodia replied.
She immediately turned away and took off to gather the rest of the knights under the name of his crew, getting ready to chase down Aria, the so called thief.
"And as for the few of you here, quickly search for the culprit before they get away. I'm coming with you all as well," Flynn said, his light blue orbs flashing with curiosity.
Flip. I have too many stories. And I'm getting impatient with myself.. All OCs belong to me.
~stormy003