A/N: Sorry~ I'm stuck with the flue at home right now and haven't been able to concentrate enough to continue the story until today, and that's barely at that.
I'll keep trying to at least update once a week~
The Millennium Earl gingerly skipped the few steps that led up to the dark mansion in front of him making sure not to rattle the small bundled baby he held in his arms.
As the Earl neared the mansion he could clearly tell that the seemingly vacant mansion was just not that, vacant. He could clearly make out a small figure peering out at him from a window on the second floor.
As the Earl opened the door quietly to not awake the sleeping child he could hear small light feet running his way alarmingly fast, seconds later he heard the loving voice of one of his beloved children calling.
"Millennie!" a small girl seemingly around the age of 12 called as she jumped from the second floor towards the Earl and swung her arms around his neck "where have you been, I've been so bored with no one to play with!~" she complained as the Earl continued to walk with the girl still hanging from his neck.
"Well~" the Earl said drawing out the word making the small girl jump down on the floor to stare intensely at him "you know I got work to do" the Earl stated avoiding the small girls eyes.
"Your hiding something!~" the girl purred as she saw the Earl avoiding her gaze "what is it, what is it?!" the girl said while pulling on the Millennium Earls Coat making him stumble a bit.
"Oh no.." the Earl said as the baby woke up and started crying "now, now see what you just did Road~" the Earl said in a reprimanding voice, cooing at the now crying child trying to ease the babys crying.
Road who just had recovered from her momentarily shock jumped up on the Earls back to be able to stare down at the small child.
"Aww" she cooed at the child and reached down a hand to stroke the baby's tear streaked cheeks "who's this" she asked in a soft voice and turned her eyes to the Earl.
"Hmmm" he said avoiding her intense stare "well, I found this small child on one of my jobs" he said rubbing the small child's back fondly.
"Oh" Road said understandingly "ere there no one?" she asked while staring down at the small child who had now calmed down.
"Well" the Earl said with a sharp edge to his voice "there was one" he said amused "but" he spat out "I was not going to hand this small 'angel' to the liked of him" he said in a cheer voice.
"who?" Road asked confused "someone you know?" she asked with a spark of interest in her eyes.
"Oh yes, someone we all know~" he said in a sing tone voice "I guess you could call him a 'old friend of the family'" he said as he continued to walk upstairs.
"who was it?" Road asked running to keep up with the Earl.
"well…." The Earl said pausing for a bit then sighed "Cross Marian" he said a bit frustrated looking at Road who seemed shocked enough to have her mouth hanging open.
"now, now Road show some manners and close your mouth" he said a bit amused at her shocked face.
"W-what did he want with the child?" she asked after snapping out of her daze.
"Well I didn't have the time to ask" the Earl said shrugging his shoulders "even if I did, I doubt he'd tell me" he said sadly while opening the door to an empty room.
"Well, let's get this small one to bed" he said walking towards the bed in the center of the round room. Careful to not upset the child he softly put him down unwrapping him from the tattered thin clothing that had covered him.
The Earl froze when he had unwrapped the baby and starred at the small child's left arm; red almost all the way to his shoulder, what looked like scaled covered it, the small boys fingernail's was a sickly black color, all in all, only the form of the arm and hand made it look just like that, and arm and hand, nothing else. He took the small child's hand in his own and looked at it more closely, something in the middle of the back of the boys hand had caught his attention, something that seemed to have a dull green light.
Road who seemed to notice him inspecting the child's hand gasped and uttered a single word "innocence"
To Be Continued!
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