Chapter two: Alone in the night

A/N I didn't think I would be writing an authors note so soon but I want to thank Sketchy Tetra for your review and I want to thank anyone who reads this. I have finals coming up so I may be a little late getting the next chapter out but I will still be writing and I don't see myself stopping soon. please leave advice since this is my first fanfic.

when we got back to the room we all decided to take showers. the order went from oldest to youngest so it was Saiko, Zeus, Lucas, Dawn, and then me. Don't know why but that's how it happened I really didn't expect Dawn to be older than me. It's only by a month but still. Oh well even if it wasn't in order of age I would have let her go before me anyway.

After everybody took their showers they all started to fall asleep until it was only Dawn and I still awake. I couldn't sleep so I decided to try and start a conversation with Dawn.

"So why did you join the guild?" I decided to ask since she joined the guild before I did.

"huh... oh um well I" she's flustered does that mean she doesn't want to talk about it.

"It's okay if you don't want to tell me. I understand."

"No it's okay I just didn't expect you to want to talk to me especially after what happened."

I absentmindedly rubbed the bracer on my right arm "why would I not talk to you for that?"

"well I mean you got hurt because of me and..."

"look I'm not going to let a thing like that get in the way of a friendship. Okay?"

She smiled her beautiful smile, not that all her smiles aren't beautiful but when she smiles like that it makes me happy no matter how sad I am. "thank you Sly."

"there's no reason to thank me. I only spoke my mind."

"okay. Well back to your question. Back where I came from I didn't have any memory of my family or a house of my own so I lived on the streets forced to eat scraps and sleep in the cold."

"wait does that mean you have amnesia?"

"yes I cant remember anything from before I was ten. One night it was raining so I slept in the attic of someones house. In the morning the owner found me. I jumped out of the window and started running but he chased me to an alley that was a dead end. He caught up and I was too tired to run any more. He raised his hand and was about to hit me when Saiko grabbed his hand and said 'what do you think you're doing don't you know it's wrong to hit little kids?' the man said 'so what I found this little street urchin sleeping in my attic.' then Zeus showed up and said and yes I mean he actually said ' so what if she was sleeping in your attic it was raining last night if I was her I would have done the same thing and if I was you I would have let her stay there instead of chasing her here to hurt her.'"

"did he really say all that?"

"yeah it didn't surprise me when I first met him but after I got to know him it surprised me that he said that much too. So back to the story when the man saw that there were two people protecting me he gave up and said 'fine but if I ever find her in my attic again I'll kill her.' the man quickly ran away and Saiko knelt down and smiled at me and said 'don't worry he wont hurt you. Are you okay?' I was only able to nod before I passed out. When I woke up I was in a bed at the inn and Zeus and Saiko were talking about me. Well Saiko did most of the talking Zeus just nodded his head most of the time. Here's what I got out of it 'we can't just leave her here what if that man were to find her.' 'yes but what if she doesn't want to come with us we can't force her and it will be dangerous.' 'yes I know but it doesn't look like she'll last much longer here.' 'then why don't we ask her?' they turned to me and saw I was awake. They walked over to me and Saiko asked 'so what is your name kid.' I quickly replied 'my name is Dawn.' ' well Dawn were going to tharsis to start a guild and we were wondering if you've got no were to go would you like to come with us?' I bet my eyes grew as big as saucers and I asked 'do you really want me to come with you?' 'only if you want to.' my eyes started to water as I quickly replied yes about a thousand times."

As she finished I felt sad and happy at the same time. Sad that she had to go through all that and happy that she finally found a place to belong.

She asked "so what was your life like before you joined the guild?"

"well before I joined the guild I used to live with my mom dad older brother and little sister on a little farm. Then bandits came and raided our farm they killed my father and took the rest of us as slaves my brother was away with his girlfriend at the time so he wasn't captured. The guard who tied me up didn't do a good job and my mom was able to untie the ropes but I didn't have enough time to save her or my sister and was forced to run. They chased me but I was able to get away. I was there for a few weeks when you guys found me and I joined." I looked over to her and saw she looked sad so I quickly said "don't be sad if that hadn't happened I wouldn't have met you." after a second I added "or the others."

She smiled sadly and said "okay but if you ever want to go looking for them please know that I'll go with you."

I smiled and said "thank you." I then asked "so what do you think of the others?"

"well I like them all they're so nice and are like the family I never had."

I asked hesitantly "and what do you think about me?"

"well I um I don't really um." she's flustered again does she not like me?

My heart felt heavy as I said "it's okay you can say you don't like me it wont hurt my feelings"

She quickly said "No it's not like that I like you a lot." after she realized what she said she blushed and turned away.

My heart skipped a beat as I thought over what she said. I stuttered as I said "I-i li-like you too Dawn she turned around and looked at me. I could feel my cheeks burning intensely as I waited for her to speak.

"do you really?" she had said it so quietly that I almost couldn't hear her over Lucas' snoring

"yes." we caught each others eyes and I was lost in them. Her eyes were beautiful just like the rest of her. We stared at each other for a long time when I finally looked away I saw that the moon was almost in the middle of the sky and said "we should get to sleep we have a big day tomorrow."

"yeah. Goodnight Sly and thank you."

"Goodnight Dawn." as I drifted off I wondered what would happen next.

A/N for all of you wondering I'll put a chapter up that will explain what happened to Sly later so sit there and wait a while. Thank you all for reading.