Rising Sun

Chapter 2: Help?

"I look so embarrassing." Ji pouts after Starlight showed her the picture. They decided to check out the book and take it with them to their room and read it on the small couch.

Starlight doesn't comment and continues to read the information.

"Your records haven't been updated for years now but I find it strange that your father and mother died on the same day."

"Oh…" Ji didn't really know how to respond to that. She didn't even know how to feel about that. She feels sad and distraught but strangely enough, she feels as if it was none of her business.

'I've been gone for several years and I hardly remember anything about my parents.' She thought, disappointed in herself until she felt a paw on her arm.

"Ummm… Well… I'm not the best at comforting people but I at least your brother is alive." Starlight said awkwardly, not exactly sure what to say.

"Brother?" Ji tilts her head sideways.

"His name is Chris Keys." The little girl's eye twitched with annoyance, hearing the similarity of his and her name but Starlight continued, not noticing the girl's reaction. "He's 5 years older than you apparently.

"So, if I'm 11, that makes him 16."

"You're 11?"

"Yeah…?"

"When I first met you, Lucy, and Levy, you looked you were about 8 or 9 years old."

"I'm not that short!" She protested before calming down. "Can you flip to the page about my brother?"

Starlight flipped back a page and they both skimmed over the information about her brother.

"Starlight look! He's a mage! Maybe he can help us!" Ji shouts excitedly, pulling her cat into a suffocating hug.

"T-that's great." Starlight huffed out. "We just need to find him."

Ji lets go of Starlight and grabbed the book. "We can use this picture to find him."

"I don't know Ji." Starlight brushes off imaginary dust from her fur. "You're picture hasn't been updated in a while. What makes you think his picture is up to date?"

"Well, it's the only reference we have as of right now. We need to use it at our advantage."

"Also, now that you know you're real name, what would you like me to refer you by?"

Ji puts a finger on her cheek as she thought. "As far as I know, everyone who knows me personally, excluding my brother, calls me Ji so I guess I can be called Christina when filling out papers or during fancy meetings and stuff like that."

"Very well." Starlight shrugs. "Now to find your brother-"

Starlight was cut off when the librarian ran in, slammed and locked the huge double doors.

"I'm sorry if I may have spooked the two of you but this is for your safety." He spoke quickly, rushing to check that all the windows were locked.

"What's going on?" Ji asks, her voice instinctively getting softer.

After the man checked the all the windows he made his way back to them. "It's the Fletchers." He whispered.

Author's Note:

And I'm back after an extremely long hiatus. I've just been very busy with my first year of high school which has been very fun so far. Busy but fun. I'll try to update more of my stories just to let you know that they will not be tossed out. Well, I'm not sure about Heartfilia Empire though. I personally thought I did a bad job writing that one since the characters are extremely OOC. It depends on whether people actually like it or not but other than that, stories will be updated. Yay!

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