Hey I'm back for round two! Here you go!
Chapter two: Little Lost Girl
"But JJJune I'm Hungryyy!" Little August whined as she swayed in her spot before exaggeratedly falling onto the floor. June frowned as she passed her crumpled drama queen of a sister, though not before kicking her with a little extra force on her backside.
"Get up stupid we have a ways to go."
"Ow that hurt you jerk!" The girl whined as she picked herself off the floor and took a running leap and landed squarely onto her older sister's back.
June grunted before catching her balance and groaned but none the less continued to give her short, lithe, sister a piggy back ride. All had been relatively silent as they traveled for a short while through the dense forest.
The storm clouds had continued to roll in ahead blocking a real light source, so the two siblings couldn't even tell if it were day or night. Regardless the two continued to trek on that was until August became restless and began to whine about food again.
"Oh alright, alright, we will stop and rest for a little bit-FINALLY!" August cheered, cutting off her big sister. June gave her the evil eye.
"He he he, sorry?" August sweat dropped.
"Not good enough, now you're in charge of finding some berries or something while I will try and build a fire over here" June smirked as she pointed to a dry patch of grass that had been sheltered from the falling rain by two fallen trees that had toppled over each other and had formed a makeshift arch of sorts.
"But that's not fair! What if the berries are different here then they are back home? What if they are all poisonous?" She exclaimed as she threw a twig in the distance. June smirked slyly.
"Then eat one and find out if they are or not" June grin teasingly as she ducked at a well aimed stick aimed at her eye.
"You can be such a jerk sometimes June" August huffed as she began to mutter a few choice words and stormed off into the nearby forest foliage.
"Don't go too far, because I heard that those evil fairies you're obsessed with just love to snatch up little girls that get lost in a forest!" She yelled out mockingly as she watched her little sister wander farther away.
"Oh shut it!" The fuming child screamed back. June studied the direction in which her baby sister had stumbled off into and smiled uneasily to herself.
"She will be fine. She's only going to be gone for a couple minutes until she does something dumb like scrapping her knees or screaming about evil pixies again or something stupid like that." June smiled softly to herself at her sister's over active imagination. Though her musings did nothing for the growing unease in her stomach, if anything it only grew worse.
"Are you sure then Lust?"
"Yes Master, two children had simply appeared inside of a large alchemic circle in a clearing just south of here." The female sin spoke as she found herself bowing yet again before the weathered old shell that her master was currently residing in.
"Well then, that's quite a tale." Dante closed her eyes for a moment, though it was hard to tell regardless seeing as her eyes seemed to always be closed, and took another moment before speaking another command for her loyal homunculi to fulfill.
"Lust, Gluttony…" She called for their attention. Lust stood and watched her master warily as Gluttony copied his companion with an added whine.
"Find and bring these mysterious children here, I wish to see them for myself" They both turned and left but before they could step out of the door Dante called out once more.
"Envy should be returning from a mission soon as well so he will accompany you're search soon. Now go." The only sound that could be heard in reply was the sound of Dante's robes as she turned to see the door had been closed soundlessly behind them.
"…and don't fail me."
The sound of the pitter patter of the rain drops falling upon the tree leaves engulfed the forest as the little girl continued her search. She began humming a nameless tune as she continued looking for anything editable for her and her big sister.
Suddenly a low growl caught August off guard and she whirled around frantically, looking for the animal response for the noise. The growling began again and little August blinked owlishly before realizing something.
"I know I know already just shut and wait just a bit longer would you?" She groaned as she clutched her aching stomach. It rumbled again in response and the little girl sighed.
"Big Sister you better have that fire ready by the time I get back." She whined as she looked down at the fruits of her labors.
A few cups of berries that she was sure were edible, as she had watched some animals eating them before hand, a few roots she had learned to cook in girl scouts, and best of all she had the great grace to stumble across a fruit tree that had just a couple apples she could reach. She grinned cheekily at the food in her arms before placing it into the makeshift basket she created with her sister's overly sized, white, T-shirt.
"Alright let's get back so we can finally eat!" The little girl to no one in particular as she snuck through the little path she had created for herself, back to her big sister.
She giggled slightly imagining that this was what it felt to be a ninja or a secret agent or something like that. Finally seeing a light just a couple dozen feet away she grinned smugly as she readied herself to gloat in her big sister's face.
She stopped suddenly as she realized that she could hear more than one voice. As quietly as she could, August crept up towards the fire and crouched under some bushes and began to crawl. The tight knot in her stomach seemed to grow tighter with every inch she moved until August felt as if her stomach would rip itself apart.
The little girl crept closer as she could make out around six new voices, all of them deep and gruff. They didn't sound friendly to August at all, but what truly scared little August was the voice of her big sister among them.
It didn't sound like June at all, it sounded like a wounded animal caught in a trap. Her voice sounded hoarse, broken, and scared, nothing like how August knew her sister's voice to be, confident, loud, and a little bit cocky. August gulped as she slowly pushed aside a few more branches to see what had happened. August gasped loudly, completely terrified at the scene before her.
Seven people were around a little fire underneath the two fallen trees, all of them holding some kind of weapon, either a wooden bat, a rusted crowbar, or a shining gun, and they all reeked terribly and were gigantic, or at least in August's opinion they were. Right in the middle of all of them, next to the small fire was a kneeling figure, with their hands sprawled out before them to support themselves, and long tattered ebony hair that shielded their face like a black curtain.
Seeing her big sister in that position terrified August, but what truly horrified her was to the streams of blood spilling from her sibling's body as she lifted her head slightly and coughed up a thick wall of dark blood.
June tried to stand but one of the men simply knocked her back down with one of their clubs and taunted her as she fell to the floor again.
"Aw come on girly, why did you have to be so difficult?" He jeered as the man kicker her harshly in the ribs.
June coughed up blood again as she groaned and rolled away from the men's faces and her eyes widen unbelievably so.
August's tearful, wild; mint green orbs locked onto her sister's fading emerald eyes and the world seemed to pause in the moment.
June narrowed her eyes before smiling so painfully that it made tears instantly spring to August's eyes as she heard her beloved big sister whisper something.
"It's ok, it will b-be ok, please trust me m-my little A-August R-R-Rush" She shuddered out as blood continued to flood her mouth. August couldn't stop shaking, but somehow managed to whisper back as well.
"I-I w-will a-always trust-t you J-J-June B-Bug" Little August sobbed quietly as she watched her big sister smile warmly at her. Suddenly a click could be heard as one of the men pointed a gun towards June's forehead.
"Hey! Who the hell are you whispering too?!"He growled as he cocked the gun further at the beaten and dying girl before him. June turned her attention to the disgusting man before smirking as she remained quiet.
"Well, who is out there?!" He growled as he crouched down next to her and placed the cool steal on her forehead. The man peered into bushes and growled when he couldn't find anything.
"Hey you two, let the dogs sniff out if there is a rat in the bushes!" He barked as two more men came up, each holding onto two vicious looking dogs attached to chains. August's heart stopped beating for fraction of a second as all this happened. She knew that both her and her sister where done for.
August shut her eyes as tears poured over her face as she waited for her death.
Suddenly something exploded from the bushes as one of the men screamed in agony and other before they both went deathly silent. Both sisters snapped their eyes open as they turned to the source of the disturbance.
June gasped before gurgling on her blood and August couldn't contain herself any longer as she screamed in terror.
One of the men was dangling in midair were two sharp black spears had run him through in the head and gut. The other man was nowhere to be seen except for his leg that currently dangling from the mouth of an extreme pouty, bald, man as he sucked on the limb. In one gulp the short man swallowed the leg whole and smiled as he rocked back and forth on his heels and giggled.
"Now now is that any way to treat a lady?" A silky voice questioned as an immensely curvy woman slowly stepped out from behind the impaled man. August chocked on her tears as she realized that the curvy woman had run her fingers through the man. The fat, bald, man sniffed the air before grinning savagely as he looked around the campsite.
"Ah, so many, so many humans, can eat them Lust, can I, can I, can I?!"He whined like a starving little child as he bounced up and down. The woman smirked as she retracted her fingers and the man fell lifeless to the ground.
"Yes Gluttony, you may eat them all except for the children." With that, the small fat man screamed wildly as he jumped up high into the air, as if he weighed nothing at all, and attacked the crowd of terrified bandits.
They all screamed in terror as some shot at the cannibal man while others simply ran away as fast as they could, only to get cut down by the beautiful creature's elongated spear-like fingers as she circled the outside of the camp.
The man above June stood frozen, his gun pointed down at her still as he clutched it as if it were a life line. June watched terrified out of her mind before seeing her chance and using what amount of strength she had left to kick the man as hard as she could where the sun doesn't shine.
He gasped in pain and kneeled over but didn't let go of the gun as June tackled him and they began fighting for the weapon. Without realizing it herself August had shot out of the bushes and began running to her sister.
It happened too fast for August realize, between the slaughter going on around her and her sister fighting with that man for the gun, August couldn't see nor hear much of anything, but that one gunshot she heard perfectly clear.
August stood rooted to the spot as she watched her big sister stop struggling and then fall lifelessly to the floor in a spray of blood.
Her spring green eyes were half way open and hazy with death as the hole in the center of her forehead oozed out a thick stream of rushing blood. August could do nothing but stand there shaking as she started at June's body and the slowly growing black puddle expanding underneath her.
Suddenly she caught movement from the corner of her eye and spun around just in time to see the man responsible running off into the forest while holding his left eye as it bled. Everything passed in slow motion again as August caught the gaze of the man who had just murdered her sister.
A lone angry yet wild, brown eye glared harshly at her and August felt her heart stop and her blood run cold. Suddenly the man turned on his heel and disappeared without a trace into the woods. August could only gap and then looked back to her sister before slowly beginning to walk towards her.
Suddenly a loud growl made the little girl pause and gasp as she slowly turned around. The two dogs that had been previously held by their masters were now loose and were snarling ferociously at the little girl before them. August took one step back and then another as she watched the dogs stalk her every move.
Glancing down she realized why the dogs wanted to attack her as she realized that her clothes flecked with her sister's blood and her feet were drenched in it as well. Glancing up she was just in time to see one of the burly dog's coil its muscles and spring up into the air above her with its jaws open wide.
Narrowly missing the dog's glistening canines as she ducked, August screamed loudly as she sprinted away, back into the forest, as the dogs chased after her.
The wind was barely a whisper through the trees by the time the loud commotion had finally died down around the pitiful excuse for a camp. Loud thumps and the sound of flesh being torn from bones were the only other sounds Lust could hear as she looked around the wasted campsite for the children she was ordered to retrieve. She frowned after a moment as she stalked over to a particular body as Gluttony finished his meal. He waddled up to Lust with a clueless yet semi-satisfied expression on his face.
"Oh? I missed one. Lust can I eat that one too? Can I? Please?" Gluttony whined as he leaned over the body sniffing it.
"No Gluttony this was one of the children we were sent to retrieve" Lust spoke calmly as she observed the fallen child's features.
"My my, and such a pretty face too, such as shame." She spoke as Gluttony whined fearfully.
"Oh no Lust master will be angry with us." Lust frowned for a moment longer before looking back at the forest behind them.
"Not if we can find the other child. Come Gluttony, leave it alone and let's go." Lust ordered as she began to walk away from the all that remained from the carnage that took place there not just a few moments ago. Gluttony whined once more before following his female companion into the woods once more.
The wind suddenly whistled through the trees as leaves were blown off its branches. They danced in the wind and slowly began to fall back down gracefully around the remains of the still smiling young girl that was once known as June.
Everything little thing possible hurt as August ran for her life through the thick underbrush. Her legs felt as if they were being consumed by fire and her lungs felt as raw as the tree bark she scraped against as she ran.
None the less, August ran as fast as she could as the two blood lusting dogs still chased her.
Food was their only priority and right now they were chasing it.
August wished she could have screamed for help but her throat was too raw to be of any use now as she stumbled blindly through the trees and bushes.
The girl cried silently to herself as she ran, pleading in the back of her mind for a miracle though she knows there will be none. August ran and ran and ran, but to no avail as the dog kept chase.
Without having food or water for a while and hardly any sleep, August knew she was a goner from the start as she continued to move.
After what seemed like an eternity the little girl suddenly felt her legs go rigid and then numb as she collapsed and then skidded to a halt in the dirt. She cried out as she tried to stand but the feeling would not return to her legs and she began to crawl with her hands and stomach.
A loud gushing sound was the first thing that can be heard before August screamed for as loud as she was worth into the night. The sickening noises continued as one of the dogs had finally caught their prey and had sunk its teeth around the child's calf and began shredding the muscle.
August had never before in her life felt such immense amount of anything in her whole life that could amount to the pain that wracked her body now, not fear, not sadness, not anything. August screamed one last time before everything in her swimming vision began to be drowned out in black and red.
August lost consciousness just as the second dog approach her. It snarled, pushing back its lips to show off its glistening pink gums and rotting teeth before going in for the kill.
Two loud thuds could be heard as both dead dogs were thrown to the forest floor, each having been impaled in a different way, the first through chest and the second through the head. A loud laugh rang out as a pair of barely clad feet approached the prey that the two dogs had so viciously hunted down. A pair of slanted violet eyes leaned closer to the unconscious victim as the person crouched down next to them. With a grunt he swiftly kicked the person so they were facing him.
"A little girl huh, hmm how interesting" Envy paused as he took in the dried blood that was already splattered all over the child's clothes and face. He grinned before chuckling to himself again.
"Ah, well now it seems you're going to die here anyway even after I got rid of those mutts for you, sucks for you kid" He mocked as he watched the little kid's face contort in pain even in her sleep and the puddle of blood grow around her legs. Suddenly he had an idea.
"Hey I know, seeing as no one cares for a pathetic human like yourself, how about I give your short miserable life some meaning as I have fun finishing you off right now!" Envy laughed sadistically as his arm morphed into a blade. He raised his arm high and his grin grew in anticipation.
"Envy stop."
The envious sin halted his bladed arm just a few inches from the child's still slowly moving chest. Narrowed violet cat-like eyes glared as Envy turned his head slightly to meet the equally glaring Lust.
"What did you say" He growled, angry at the lustful sin for stopping him from killing this miserable little waste of life.
"Envy, the master ordered us to find and bring back that child and her sister back to the manor." At this Envy snorted. "Why would Dante want something as pathetic as this thing" He sneered as he turned back to look at the dying little girl before him.
"The master wants to question them about the large alchemic explosion that happened here just an hour south of here. They were found inside of it. Don't pretend you didn't even notice it on your way here." Lust frowned broadly as she sat on one of Gluttony's shoulders.
Envy growled, unable to figure out what he hated the most at this point, either not being able to kill anything in a whole week or being informed an then ordered around by Lust. He growled again when his mind came to a tie. He turned back to Lust and Gluttony.
"Fine then take her back to the manor then!" He snapped.
"We can not, not yet" Lust interrupted as she stood.
"The child needs medical treatment or she will bleed out before we can get to the manor and hand her over to the master, then perhaps the master will properly dispose of her." She smoothed over once she noticed Envy losing his temper yet again.
"The nearest military doctor is only twenty minutes from us now due west on the outskirts of Dublith. I can lead you there but you would have to disguise yourself as part of the military and take her inside." Envy's patience grew thinner and thinner with each word and he grew closer and closer to tearing all three of them apart and going back to the manor himself, especially the human.
He hissed angrily like a cat and in one quick fluid motion he spun around, picked up the bloodied human, and brushed past Lust and Gluttony in something less than second.
"Hurry up and show me where it is Lust!" Envy snapped as he glared pointedly at Gluttony who he had just caught licking the little girl's bloodied leg. Gluttony sat back with a whine of disappointment as his stomach growled for him.
"But it's so tasty" He groaned sadly as his stomach rumbled again. Lust sighed as she walked ahead of them and patted her constantly famished partner on the top of his head.
"No Gluttony, not this one either." Envy simply rolled his eyes. Like a candle snuffing out in a breeze they all disappeared silently and swiftly as they traveled out towards their destination. Needless to say the military Headquaters in Dublith got quite the surprise that night.
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