Rei yawned after looking at the clock. It was only 0700, but he was tired from working 16 straight hours. Rei clocked out of work after he finished the work that was given, and decided to rush out to the car. Rei figured he only had time for a 3 hour nap before he had to get up to head back to work, but this was the typical schedule for the past year. Rei turned on the phone to check for any messages, but there wasn't any. So Rei replaced it back it into his pocket, and got into the car. Rei turned it on, and drove back to his apartment. Rei picked up the mail that was in the mail box, and quickly flicked through them: mostly bills, and advertising mail. Rei dropped the advertising mail in the nearest recycle bin, and headed up the stairs to his room. Rei shut the door behind him, and tossed the bills onto the table. Rei was going to deal with them after he finished work today, so he quickly changed clothes to something that was more casual to sleep in. Rei prepared the rice cooker with some custard buns to go off when he woke up, and he lumbered over to the sofa to collapse on it. Rei didn't have to worry about anyone else other than himself, so he closed his eyes to sleep.
Rei woke up when he felt someone crawl on his arm, and quickly jolted awake. It scared off what was on his arm. Rei was up in a tree, so he rubbed his eyes a bit. Rei looked around to see the foliage was pretty thick, so he looked down to see if there was a easy way to climb down. It didn't seem to be an easy climb down as some of the branches looked a bit thin to hold his weight. Rei figured someone might be trying to prank, or kidnapped him for some unknown reason. Rei shook his head to get rid of those thoughts to calm down, and assess the situation a bit further. His first objective was to get out of the damn tree, so he took what he thought was the more stable path down. About 3 quarters of the way down the branch he stood on broke, and he was forced to try to move down the other path. Once down Rei checked himself to see only a few minor scrapes, and Rei looked around. Rei seemed to be in some woods, but he didn't remember being nearby one or living near one. There was a dirt path nearby that looked to be in constant use, but Rei didn't want to go to that first. Rei started to walk away from the road through the forest. Rei heard somewhere behind him a girl crying, but it was very faint. Against all better judgement he went towards the crying sound, and after who knows how long Rei found the area where it originated. Rei looked around the area which probably was someone's house. Rei rounded a corner to find a small girl that looked around 12, so he walked up to her.
"What is the matter?" Rei asked. As soon as he finished, she looked up at him only to bolt away. Rei wasn't sure what to say, so he still stood there.
"Nothing" said the girl looking around a corner. Her eyes were a bright blue color that looked far too unreal to actually exist, but that was all he could see in the dark house.
"A person can't say nothing is wrong when they have been crying for at least an hour" Rei replied before sitting down.
"I said it was nothing, and what are you doing here?" she asked.
"I only followed the sound of your crying. Otherwise not to sure since I only just came to here" Rei replied.
"So you aren't a chaser, but I don't trust you" she said
"I'm not even asking you to trust me. Rather I ask that you don't" Rei said
With that the girl collapsed. "Uh wow. I need to back up a bit. I never met a person as blunt as you" she said.
"Take your time. I'll see if I can find some clothing for you since your clothes seem to be falling apart" Rei said as he got up. Rei only rummaged the main floor as the second floor stairwell looked unsafe to climb, and luckily there was a dresser on the main floor that fell through the rotting second floor. Rei looked through it to find mostly worn out clothes, but a few were still in good. Albeit large, but it would have to do. Rei picked up a few, and turned around to see her standing in the doorway behind him staring at him.
"I found some for you, albeit large though" Rei said holding the few articles of clothing. She slowly walked up to him with a curious glance, and grabbed the clothes only to run off as quick as she grabbed them. Rei turned around from her, and walked away leaving her be. Rei looped around to the stairwell by going around the house through the rooms Rei haven't been in yet. Rei looked up the staircase to find that girl just sitting midway up staring at him even harder. It was then that Rei noticed she had this weird blue aura emanating from her that took the shape of tails, and ears. It was then that Rei noticed her smile, but that was too late as she pounced onto him. She started to nuzzle his face before licking his neck. Her hair was a light shade of blue with some purple streaks that was at least past her shoulder in length. Her arms wrapped around his neck rather tightly.
Rei tried to pick her off of him, but she held onto his neck pretty tightly. The light blue aura from earlier grew more intense, and Rei became nervous as he wasn't sure what was going to happen.
"You are now mine" she whispered into his ear. Rei had no idea what was going on, so he grew extremely nervous. She placed her hands on both sides of his face, and started to lean in only to stop before touching his lips.
"Get away from her" Rei heard someone yell before he heard cracking next to his right ear.
"Oh thank god. If you can get this crazy person off of me. That be a pleasure" Rei said.
"Shut it" she said as she pointed something at face.
"As for you. Get off of him. He could be chaser bait, so don't fall for him. Unless you want the same thing that happened to your mom and sisters done to you" this other girl said as she got off of him.
"Fine. If you do plan to kill him. At least let me play with him prior to that" the first girl said.
"Let me see first if he is worthy" said the second before shouting at him to stand up. Rei quickly stood up, and the second girl started to look him over. She even started to pat him down to see if he was carrying anything suspicious, and quickly finished. She was also young looking maybe a few years older than the first girl. Her mismatched eyes of emerald and black did slightly match the short dark purple hair.
"He checks out fine" the second girl said before snapping at the first girl to chill out. The aura quickly faded from the first girl, and she returned to the original girl that he first met. Her original hair color was actually blond with her eyes as a light blue that wasn't as intense as before.
"We need to get out of here. The chasers probably detected that scent, and are now mobilizing to get here" the second girl said before bolting out of the house. The first girl wrapped her hands around his arm, and pulled him with her. "As Rei said. You are mine".
We ran deeper into the woods, and behind us was the sounds of people yelling coming from the house. Though the sounds were getting dimmer and dimmer as we progressed trying to make as little noise as possible. We eventually stopped when we reached a waterfall. Rei just stood there gasping for breath, but the second girl didn't care and continued towards the waterfall. The first girl followed dragging him along, and sure enough there was a path behind the falls that led to a small cave. Inside was barely anything besides a few scraps of food and knapsacks. The first girl brought him over to a rock, and pushed him down to only sit in his lap. Rei tried to push her off, but she would get right back on. Rei gave up soon after.
"Name?" the second girl asked sharply at him.
"What?" Rei asked not hearing the second girl.
"You heard me. Now answer the question" said the second girl holding what appeared to be another sword in his face.
"Name is Rei Xilon. How I got here I have no idea. How I got stuck to her was I found her in the ruins, and only gave her a change of clothes" Rei quickly replied.
"Oh that's all" the second girl said a bit disappointed as the sword disappeared into thin air.
The second girl quickly glared at the first girl and said. "Lin'fæ you know you're suppose to raise your aura within a day of me not finding you. I spent 2 days looking for you which is why I don't like playing hide and go seek with you when your bored".
"Sorry Ri'væ. I didn't want them to find me if I spiked my aura too high" said Lin'fæ
"True" said Ri'væ.
"So what now" said Lin'fæ as she got off his lap to a bag to pull out a parchment.
"We keep running. I hear south is nice with their open fields. They might not even ask if we try to settle down there. Hopefully it will be out of range of the chasers. I am getting sick of having to run an entire region just to escape" said Ri'væ
"We should be here" said Lin'fæ pointing to a point on the map.
"No I thought we are here" said Ri'væ pointing to another point.
"No it should be here" said Lin'fæ point to another point
"No here" said Ri'væ as she pointed to another point
They went back and forth on this for at least 5 minutes before they turned around to ask him where we might be while showing the map in his face. It was a very crude drawing of a circle Rei guessed the area we were located in. A red x marked a certain spot in the upper right of the map with a large black spot that said avoid near the center and at the center of the circle.
"I have no idea what I'm looking at, nor would I know where we would be at" Rei replied
"Its a map, and just pick a spot that you think is somewhere close" said Lin'fæ.
"Uh okay" Rei said as he pointed at a spot near some jagged spots that seemed to be the divider between lands on the right side.
"Maybe" said Ri'væ
"If he is right. We are nearly out of trouble, and we can just find a place to sit down at for life" said Lin'fæ
"Well we can just jump for joy yet till we settle down" said Ri'væ.
"So what I am I here for now?" Rei asked.
"You are Lin'fæ toy or something like that. She grow affectionate towards you probably due to your blunt nature or your cute face" said Ri'væ
"I have to ask what is cute about me? I look like I'm going to murder someone" Rei said
"That's probably why. She enjoys people with a cold nature as she can tell they can be good on the inside" said Ri'væ.
"Okay you got a point" Rei said.
"You are way too calm about all this" said Ri'væ as she pulled out her sword again. "You sure you never been here before".
"Chill out with that. I arrived here today. I don't even know when, but all I got was the sun was still rising. I was earlier sleeping in my bed when I woke up due to something crawling on me. Probably a squirrel since I was in a tree" Rei replied with his hands up.
"If you do anything to Lin'fæ while we sleep. I will kill you" said Ri'væ as the sword touched his neck. It was extremely cold to the touch, but he could feel it digging into his skin before vanishing into the air. Rei touched the spot where the blade was against his neck to feel a bit of fluid, and he checked to see a bit of blood on his hand. Rei grew extremely nervous of Ri'væ as she was dead serious. Lin'fæ turned around in his lap, and placed her hands on his shoulder. Rei could feel her breath on his neck before she started to lick the wound. Soon she stopped, and wiped the area off. Rei felt the area again with his hands, but he couldn't find the wound spot.
"You're welcome" Lin'fæ said before pushing him down. Rei was expecting her to do more, but she laid down on his chest to fall asleep. Rei looked over at Ri'væ who was glaring at him with murderous intent. Rei looked away to look up at the ceiling before closing his eyes. Rei had nothing better to do, but as soon as he shut his eyes Rei felt a cold sensation on his face.
"You are not allowed to sleep till I sleep. You got that" said Ri'væ who was holding his hair with something.
"Yea I got that" Rei replied.
Rei just laid there staring at the ceiling, and soon he heard the sounds of light breathing. Rei looked over to see that Ri'væ fell asleep. Rei tried to close his eyes again, but this time a sharp pain came from his chest. Rei looked down to see that Lin'fæ bit his nipple, but soon let go. Rei heaved a sigh as he hoped that all of this was some sort of elaborate dream, and he would wake up to find that he's late for work. Only to get fired for being late for the first time would probably be better than the current circumstance that he is in right now. Rei finally started to slow his breathing, and quickly fell asleep.
