DISCLAIMER: I don't own LoM or whatever inside it…
"Ange, get the mail from Pelican…. I'm kinda busy here…!" Kain shouted. He was preparing for breakfast and on verge of breaking into a fit.
"Yeah… Yeah… Coming…!" Angelique ran and opened up the door.
"Hello Pelican…! What'cha got for us?" She grinned happily while still in her pajamas and unruly hair.
"Hello… Angelique… I got a couple for you…" Pelican replied demurely.
"Hmmm…. Let me see… Bills... Nah… I don't need 'em, I'll just give this to Kain later… hmm… what else…." While she rummaged through the letters Pelican suddenly said, "You know, there's so many pumpkins in the outskirts and they're so scary… They're glowing and there some scary laugh there…. Could you and Kain please check it out?"
"Sure do!" Kain suddenly appeared wearing an apron over his simple white shirt and brown shorts.
"Hey, Ange. Give me that letter and go eat your breakfast. It's gonna get cold you know." Kain said while he checked the bills that he snatched from Angelique.
"Hey! Don't just snatch it, it might get torn out you know…" Angelique crossed her hands on her breast. Her brother just ignored her remark and continuing his reading on the letter,
"Yeah.. Yeah… Since when did you care anyway? Anyway your porridge going to be freezin' by the time you gets to your sit." Eyes shot out to her brother,
"What!! Why you don't tell me earlier I don't want my porridge to get all watery…" She ran as fast as she could to find her porridge still, in fact, HOT and STEAMY, "Tricked you!" Kain smirked while he made through his way to the kitchen
"Kaiiinnnnn….. you meanieeee….. big meannnieeee…." Angelique yelled and the doves that rest on the tree's branches fly away because of her megaphone volume.
"Dang it… Keep your voice low, can't you? And finish up your breakfast quick! You want to check out the outskirts don't you?" When Kain ordered or command, it was meant to be done, no questions, no buts, and no nothing. Even though, Angelique knew her brother was kind and patient toward her, she knew better not to test her brother when he already bark orders and glared like falcon watching his prey. "Okay…! Righty-o!" After they were finished with breakfast, they changed into their traveling gear and they went to the outskirt which was not so far away from the village. When they almost reached the outskirt, it was decorated with pumpkins that usually kids hang for Halloween. The usually large expanse of field was now stuffed with useless pumpkins.
"Look at that Kain… What bad sense of decorations… Pumpkins… Gee… What kind of things or people that would live there anyway…" Angelique said as she walked with her Lorimar Spear in her hand.
"We'll find out soon enough…! I wonder if I bring enough instruments…" Kain unworried by the pumpkins but rather on his instruments.
"GOD…! You can't fight without your instrument can't you… Why don't you just whack that staff of yours anyway…" Angelique appalled by her brother laziness to get to the front line. It was always she that get hurt and full of wound while Kain can return home remained unscathed or just a few light scratches. Shouldn't it be reversed? Shouldn't men the one who fights in the front line while the women support at the back? BUT that normal rule doesn't apply to her brother and Angelique. Kain was more adept at using magic instrument, conjurations, spells, chanting, curses, and anything that relates with magic but his physical technique is limited only to staff use and a little bow tech. However Angelique was his reverse, she was excellent with weapons, a straight A student when it comes to weapon mastery and acrobatic technique like flip kick and such and such. Now she already mastered the art of bow, knife, spear, sword, axes, flail, glove, and hammer. The one she hasn't mastered yet are the big weapons. BUT, there's a big but here, she almost had zero talent for magic, she can only use instrument but she can't control it well, she's stuck with the weak one and rarely use them anyway. They had believed until now that their trait was from their mother and father. They had known that their parents were a great swordsman and sorceress. So they had believed that, this was their inheritance from their parents.
"MhhhWaahahahhahaahha…" a silly laugh was heard in the outskirts.
"Bud, stop it! It's not funny!" a girly scold continued after the laugh.
Then it whined, "Aww…. But Lisa don't you think it's cool. We can rule the world you know. Now try it! Mnnnwahaahahhaa."
The tiny girl, Lisa, grumbled, "Rule the world… with pumpkins. As if!" Just when Angelique and Kain want to get closer, Angelique stepped on a twig… 'CRACK' She mouthed an "oops" and grinned. Kain just rolled his eyes.
"Who's there? C'mon Lisa let's get rid of them." Bud readying his frying pan and got into some weird stance.
"Hmmphh… No more of this nonsense." Lisa got out her broom.
"Wow…" Kain and Angelique was in awe with them but soon enough they were ready for battle. Kain started by playing a serene melody with his harp and Jinn came out, "Tornado Cross" swirled by the wind Lisa and Bud was practically flying. To complete the assault, Angelique high jumped and knocked out Bud.
"BUD!!" Lisa screamed when she saw her brother was not moving.
"Don't worry… He's just unconscious. So can we settle this quietly since we don't want to fight you?" Angelique said calmly to Lisa. But Lisa won't hear any of it because to her, Bud was her only living relative and she thought Bud was dead.
"NO! I won't ever forgive you! You killed him!" She charged toward Angelique faster than before. This caught Angelique off guard but she was stopped with vines as Kain played his flute and Dryad summons its 'Emerald Jail'. "Let me out...! Let me out…! How dare you trap me in this vine!" Lisa screamed and squirming as she cried.
Kain crouched down as he brought down Bud with him, "CALM DOWN… your brother is alright. He's still breathing. See…" Kain smiled after he brings Bud closer to Lisa.
"Oh, thank goodness! Bud is alright." Relieved, Lisa fainted on spot.
"Well, Ange… can you bring the girl? Since I'm gonna carry the boy." Kain angling his head to his sister. Angelique nodded, she scooped Lisa up and they walked to Home. When they reached home, they tended the kids wound. Earlier in the battle, they don't took much notice of their features. Now, they just realized that these kids are elves. The brother had a violet hair while the sister had a red-purplish hair. They were still very young maybe 6 to 7 years old… Angelique went to Kain's room to check on the brother and found out that he has started to wake up.
"Unnnhhh…. Where am I? Lisa? Lisa, where are you?" Bud started to cry when he didn't see his sister.
"Hey, you alright? Are you hurt somewhere? Did I hit you too hard? Do you need something?" Angelique rushed to Bud side and bombarded him with question. She was concerned about him because she hit him in the head, hard and she never fought against children before so she didn't know if she overdid it or not.
"Where am I? Who are you? And where's Lisa?" Bud confused with her question retorted with question on his own.
Smiling, Angelique was relieved to hear his answer because he seemed to be fine, "Okay to answer your question, first, you are in my home to be exact my brother's room, secondly, I am Angelique, I lived here with my brother, Kain, and your sister is next door in my room. She's still sleeping, I think she's tired but she'll be fine since Kain had healed you guys."
Bud tried to get up but suddenly a hand stopped him, "You should get more rest, you're not really well yet." Kain said gently but firmly while setting Bud to rest in his bed again.
"But… I want to see Lisa if she's alright or not." Bud argued with Kain but he was growing sleepy as he talked.
"Don't worry. Your sister going to be fine. Here, drink this, it doesn't have the best taste but if you drink you'll get better in no time and can run around again." Kain assured Bud while offering the medicine to him.
"Bleaakkkhh…. It's bitter" sticking his tongue out and suddenly his mouth welcomed by a sweet taste.
"There's your present for bravely drinking the medicine. Just rest now and you'll get better in no time." Kain smiled while he tucked Bud in.
"Mmmhh okay…! Thanks mister" Bud replied sleepily.
"You're welcome" closing the door, Kain headed to the kitchen.
Angelique tugged at his shirt in the middle of the way, "Kain, could they stay here and maybe we can watch over them, you know, so they won't get through the same thing we do?"
Remembering their past, was not really their best interest but with this new encounter Kain and Angelique just couldn't help but remembered the times when they had received news of their parents' death….
A tugging at Kain's arm broke his reverie, "Kain, hello……?"
"Huh….? Sorry, what did you say again?" snapped from his reverie, Kain was still in a trance like condition. But seeing his sister pouting face, he just smiled and asked again one more time while uttering his apology again.
"I said! Can they stay here and live with us? So they wouldn't face the same thing we do."
He just closed his eyes, "Yeah, sure. You know, it's weird but I felt like I already got a big affection to those kids."
Angelique brimmed happily, she walked with him to the kitchen while hugging Kain's arm, "Yeah, me too. I wonder how they will react to this news."
"Who knows…? We'll find out soon enough." Kain smiled tenderly while they went to the kitchen to prepare something when the kids woke up.
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