Death honestly honestly had no idea how she ended up here. One minute she was on her way to get an assignment from Xanxus, and the next she was plummeting from the sky. Above her was a beautiful blue sky with hardly a cloud to be seen. Below was a carpet of clouds, obscuring any view of the surface. Not a minute of falling passed before she was caught in the claws of a truly massive grey bird. It almost looked like it had a saddle from her perspective.
Upon being dropped onto what seemed to be a pier like structure of wood she realized one important thing, "I have a feeling I'm not in Italy any more, Levi."
Before her was the grey bird. Upon its head was an odd helmet like contraption and upon its back was a saddle. Atop this saddle sat what looked like a pointy eared man wearing a tunic. He spoke in an unfamiliar language, vastly different from any languages she had learned. The man seemed to be able to tell something was wrong when she looked up at him confused. He landed his bird and dismounted easily. From here he knelt down and continued to try saying different things to Death. When nothing worked he took her hand and gently began pulling Death in the direction of a flight of stairs.
This brought another realization to Death… "WHY AM I A KID!" She hissed in alarm. From the look of her arm and how large her Varia coat looked on her tiny form, she estimated the age difference was by AT LEAST fifteen years. Probably less knowing how small Fennec Foxes get.
The man guided Death to a large building with a bell hanging high above the front doors. To the right was a reinforced building and a bit further to the right was an odd statue of a bird. The man pulled her into the building with a bell and straight to a pair of large doors made of a dark wood.
Within was another man, this one looked more broad in appearance and was balding. He had a pair of truly impressive eyebrows, a goatee and a thick mustache.
Both men talked in a language she couldn't understand. It sounded very Airy with almost clicking like sounds spread out here and there. She tried to pick out any familiar sounding words but failed. The way the two kept glancing at her was rather disturbing for the child sized vixen.
Finally one knelt in front Of her, the larger man, and pointed at himself. "Gaepora," he said while pointing at himself. He then pointed at Death and asked, "What is Your Name?"
Death didn't understand his words, but his meaning was clear. She pointed at Gaepora and tried her best to pronounce the interesting language, "Gaepora." She then pointed at herself and said, "Death."
The old man tried to say her name, but had trouble speaking it. Hearing him having trouble with the name, Death decided to try finding what Death is in his language. She tried to do the usual gun motion, but the man seemed extremely puzzled at the gesture. Second she tried to point at herself then ran her finger across her throat in a slit throat motion then pointed at herself again.
The man look rather surprised, but asked, "Dead/Death?" (I'd imagine past and future tense didn't develop much so long ago.)
Death nodded hopefully and pointed at herself while repeating, "Death!"
The man pointed at himself and said, "Gaepora," then at the child and asked, "Death?" Death nodded and repeated what he did.
Gaepora looked surprised. He stood to his full height to talk to the man in the grey tunic. After a while Gaepora took Death's hand and gently lead her down the hallway to middle door on the left. He opened the door to reveal a pair of blond haired children playing with carved pieces of wood in the shape of birds. One looked feminine with long blond hair and the other was masculine with dirty blond hair. Gaepora pointed at the girl saying, "Zelda," and the boy saying, "Link." He then pointed at Death saying, "This is Death. She fell from the sky and doesn't understand what we say. Could you please teach her and take care of her?" Death could only understand her name out of the flood of strange words.
Zelda smiled at Death and waved at the child, "Hello Death!" Link could only stare at first, but a well placed elbow from Zelda prompted the child to repeat what she did and said.
Death tilted her head to the side, but attempted to say, "H-He-llo?"
