Do you know how Geraint and Argenta became siblings?
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Remember Today Is Now Yesterday
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A Dragon Nest fanfiction
Dragon Nest SEA - Shanda Games
Warning: AU
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There's a girl that lived on the street. She did not have a roofed shelter. When there was rain at night, she would be all wet in the morning. Winter was the worst for her. She nearly died many times.
This girl's name is Argenta. It was because of her silvery hair her parent named her so. Argenta only had a mother, who dumped her to the street long time ago. She was a "product of a wrong negotiation". Yes. Her mother was not-so-decent "a lady", and was too late to know that she was pregnant. So she gave birth to her prematurely, only so that she could go back to work again earlier.
Argenta was never loved. She was regarded as rubbish all her life. She never went to school. Her mother forced her to do whatever that would give her some golds. Argenta had nice figure, so her mother sold her to older men when she was only eight. She had a very terrible life, worse than most lives. Seriously. Not a day of her life she could boast to anybody.
It was supposed to be her sixteenth birthday that day, though she did not care. She probably had forgotten that anyway. Not a day is important to her. Probably, taking her life story as a reference, you would end up suggesting her to kill herself and die. Seriously.
But Argenta never tried suicide. Well, she did once, and on that day, she saw an advertisement that says like this:
Hope is here.
It was a bar with "extra back service". Argenta knew, that sentence was in a very wrong place, as she knew there is no hope in prostitution. But she hanged to that word until then.
Hope is here.
"Where?" she asked herself many times, though. "Where is here?"
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Argenta was taking the darkest road that midnight. She was looking for a place to sleep. She was starving, but it could be worse. All of sudden, she heard some noise from below her when she was crossing a bridge. It was a cat's meow. Sounded like a cat was drowning. Argenta rushed to see if she could do something, and there she found it! The cat was quite far away near to the rim, but she could see it pushed its power to the last. It was fighting to sustain its own life.
A flash of imagination struck Argenta's mind. She was like that cat, right? Hopeless, almost gone, but keep fighting for her live.
Quickly, Argenta come to the rim and reached out her own hand.
"A little more… hang on there!"
The silver-haired-girl exerted all she had. Just a little bit more, she could reach the cat! Come on! You can do this Argenta! She said.
At about some centimeters more, she slipped her foot, and plunged to the cold river. It. Was. Cold. Cold. Freezing cold.
Argenta panicked, though she managed to focus her mind again and reached for the cat. Suddenly, she was pulled out of the water.
"You alright?"
That's a young man's voice.
When she was finally calm, she could see her savior. Indeed, he was young. His shirt was wet, maybe because he pulled her from the water. She could see he shivered a bit. And Argenta stopped moving, because that boy gave her a smile.
"Saving a drown cat, huh? Perhaps there are only two people who will do that it the middle of the night. Haha!"
His face was… shining. Like an angel's face. He was… goodlooking.
"Let's dry you and this catty."
Argenta took one step back. What is that supposed to mean? Aha. Maybe he was one of the lechers who's trying to liberate their lust.
"Don't be afraid. I'm still under-aged. Haha! My house is near. It is dark already. Maybe you can stay at my house. I will ask my parents to let you stay."
He was so straightforward. He did not even ask her name first. He knew Argenta rightaway when he saw her appearance, and he knew she needed a place to rest.
Argenta felt weird. She felt underestimated, but he was not wrong either. She wanted to thank him, but she realized she still had some pride that wouldn't allow her to.
"Stay away!" she said when the boy approached her.
"I told you not to be afraid, right? Ask your heart. Am I such a bad person to be feared of?" he said, keep going.
No. He is not a bad person. Argenta knew how a bad person is like.
"Don't get closer! Or I…"
"Why?"
The girl halted.
"B-because I am dirty and smelly…"
The boy just smiled. Yes, you are, his smile said. So what?
Argenta was captivated. Probably this is the biggest good will she had ever received, ever.
"You don't want to have somebody like me in your house."
"Why?"
"I had a terrible life. Terrible past. Terrible story."
"Today is a different story, friend. Come on! I'll show you."
"Do you have name?" the mid-aged woman asked her.
"By the way, I haven't told her my name, Mom. Ahem. My name is Geraint. Nice to meet you," the boy with golden hair interrupted. Her mother smiled to him.
What a loving family Geraint has.
Argenta kept quiet. She just ate her soup little by little, saving it so she could enjoy it for long.
"We have plenty of that, you know. You can have as much as you want. Hehe."
Again, he surprised her with that infallible remark. Is he a psychic?
Till the end of that day, Argenta kept quiet. The family insisted her to stay at least till tomorrow. They let Argenta took a shower and gave her new clothes. They packed a bag containing daily essentials. Argenta slept in Geraint's room that night. But the next morning, she left without a single word. She did not take the bag with her.
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to be continued.
I need to complete this story! I thought I should make it oneshot, but. But! I still have exams! And I need to eat my dinner.
Okay. Let's make this multichapter! Haha. So easy to spit those words.
I will reveal Argenta's part some chapters ahead. Yeah. And well, let's just be straight, this will not be a love story between Geraint and Argenta, ok!
I hope whoever's reading this fiction enjoyed the story! Have a nice blessed day. Let's celebrate this life, because there is a meaning in our lives. Each one of it. Yeah!
