I am very sorry to anyone who cares. I promised an update in a week and then completely forgot about this soon after, meaning a day or two. This is a sincere apology and I will try to update much more often. That may be a promise I can't keep though. Time will tell.

Chapter 2: Names and New Life

"I still never caught your name," I said to the teen on the ladder to the belfry tower. "Rain" he said coldly. Really? His name was Rain? I tried to suppress a laugh. He must have heard me because he pretended to cough and threw a prism stone at me. I laughed, "Rain, huh? Well your name doesn't fit considering that you can't even make it rain!" And then I noticed it, there was a small tear in one of his enchanted packs. There was something glowing inside.

Prism stones. A whole lot of prism stones. "Yeah," I heard Rain say. "You wouldn't dare." I was wrong. He fake coughed again and tore open the pack. My life flashed before my eyes, it was boring. The rain of prism stones fell on me and Rain slid down the ladder, "Still think I can't make it rain? That was just a prank, if I was actually angry, I would rain fire." Oh his name was Rain Fire. "It's spelled F-Y-R-E," he corrected me as if he had heard my thought. He offered me his hand. I took it and he pulled me to my feet. "Let's go back to Andre," he said.

Back at the blacksmith I couldn't help but stare at his chest. He was RIPPED. Rain noticed me staring and laughed, "Hey Andre, maybe you should start wearing a shirt." The blacksmith rasped out a laugh, "I'm afraid that isn't an option. As you could probably tell, I'm a small amount bigger than the average person." Rain, still joking around, said, "Aww, c'mon. I'm sure I've got something in my armor pack." He reached into his pack and pulled out somewhere around forty full suits of armor. He started pulling out one more, "Ah, here it is, Berenike knight armor!" Andre's eyes went wide, "Where did you get that? The only way to loot anything in this world is if there's a white flame above its body. And last time I checked, that doesn't happen with Berenike knights."

"I bought it from an annoying merchant on his way to Sen's Fortress. I killed him afterward because he said that I was worthless." I slapped Rain, "You killed him!?" "Well, yeah wouldn't you?" Rain asked innocently. I was faintly aware of Andre just sitting there not hammering away anymore and instead chuckling. I told Rain to shut up and screamed at Andre, "This is no laughing matter! Rain killed someone!" Andre still laughed and just explained, "If you knew that boy, then you would know that he gets angry very easily, and he's very skilled at killing. It's his craft and he seems born to do it." What was he talking about? "H-his craft?" Andre stared at me with concern in his eyes, "He didn't tell you?" "Tell me what?" I looked at Rain who looked nervous, "Are you hiding something?" He sighed, "I'm the Chosen Undead."

Andre watched me beating Rain and laughed, "Maybe you should have told the little lady sooner!" Rain was annoyed, "Shut up Andre! This isn't the time! She's like four years older than me anyway!" I punched him again and he screamed, "THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH!" The next thing I knew I was flying through the air with my life flashing before my eyes. That was the second time since I met Rain that my life was flashing before my eyes. I'm starting to think that being near him endangers my life.

I didn't hit the wall and that really confused me because it was something that felt only slightly softer. Had I hit some area that was going to break? I've been thrown into enough walls by hollows to know when a wall is going to break. I was regaining enough feeling to know that there was only a horizontal strip though, so it couldn't have been a wall. Wait a second, that means it's…

I jumped out of Andre's outstretched arm and started stuttering like I did when I was teenager. "S-s-sorry A-Andre I d-didn't mean to-" "It's alright, Rain shouldn't have thrown you anyway," he looked over to Rain, "Should you?" Rain was entirely unfazed and he responded with no emotion except maybe annoyance, "If you're looking for an apology then you aren't getting one." Andre just shrugged, "I guess I won't be helping you upgrade your weapons anymore then, and last time you talked to me I could have sworn it was about some cool new sword you found when you fell off the stairs at Firelink. The Iaito was it?" Rain was livid, "Okay, Andre that's just dirty." Andre showed no sign of caring so Rain gave up, "Haaa okaaaay," he looked at me, "I'm sorry."

"So did you really mean it?" I asked him as we were walking back to the Parish. "Do you really need to ask that?" he stared at me like I was an idiot, "Of course not. That was entirely Andre." "That hurts, no need to be such an a-" He had grabbed my jaw with blinding speed. "Well sorry but I forgot to tell you that there is no foul language when you travel with me. It's disrespectful and rude." He let me go and my face was now partially numbed, "Jeez, either you have the strongest grip ever or you wear gloves with contact poison all over them."

He kept on walking and I jogged over to catch up. We were almost to the Parish and the first demons I would ever fight. Somehow when I travel with Rain I feel that he endangers my life I also feel a lot safer. Like he would never let anything happen to me. I hope I'm right about this, if I'm not it could be the end for me.

Rain stopped and I walked straight into his back. He didn't even move, so he is definitely made of harder stuff than most. He looked at me, "What's wrong with your sword?" I had no idea what he was talking about, mostly because I can't answer random questions quickly so I stuttered, "W-What? W-Where did that come from?" He looked concerned, "The energy coming from it feels wrong, evil, much like the darkwraiths actually." Now I remember, my sword is cursed, but how could he tell?

I thought for a moment and decided to tell him. "It was cursed by my ancestors though I don't remember what I was supposed to do with it." He looked a little nervous, "Could I see it? I don't know if I can clear the curse but I can try." He was able to clear curses? It couldn't hurt to try. "Here," I said, giving him my sword, "You can try." He grabbed the sword and tensed up. What was he doing? He looked partially pained and said, "This is a sapping curse, it's been tied to you since you were an infant. The weaves put into this are very complex, like they were meant for you to never find out."

He started working magic into the blade, "It's tied directly to the blade, almost done." Rain stopped and looked at me with concern, "This may hurt a little or a lot, I just need to know if you are okay with this." I thought about it, "I'm okay, do it." With that he pulled the weaves of magic out of the blade and shattered them. I felt new life rushing into me, so much that it hurt, a lot. I couldn't stand up to this, so I blacked out.

I awoke to the somewhat distant sound of hammering metal. We were back in the bonfire room above Andre. I felt new, though I also felt as if I fell off of the side of Sen's Fortress. "You're awake," I heard from Rain "I was starting to think removing the curse had killed you. Though I guess I was wrong, because you look better than ever." I looked at him with a confused face, "What?" "Just look at your hair." I pulled some of my hair in front of me to see. It had changed its color. It had gone from the gray that it had been to a shining silver.

I was interrupted from my thoughts by Rain's voice, "You know, I never caught your name and I figure that after what I did for you, it would be nice if you would tell me." In truth I had almost forgotten, I hadn't heard it or had to use it in a while. I remembered what it was and stared at him, "Luna."

So that's the name I came up with, in truth, I hadn't even thought about what she looked like when I started the story, well not much. The name fits though. Yes that whole bit about the curse was why she was so weak, more will be explained next chapter that will hopefully come soon. One more thing though, I still haven't figured out the size that I want my chapters to be so if any nice people have suggestions I'd be grateful.