The group to have taken the Empire out, Night Raid, having only two surviving members, disbanded. Njenda, making herself temporary leader of the country, was later assassinated. Akame, although, decided to take her own route in life, in order to atone for killing so many people. Akame disappeared, only showing up every now and again in small towns and villages. These days she was hardly ever mentioned.

There were also two survivors from a small team of Imperial Arms users on the Imperial side, called the Jaegers. The two surviving being Run and Wave. No one had heard much about the two, or even where they went. There were rumors of Wave joining a small rebellion force when the Demented Dictator took power, but those were just that. Rumors.

Run, on the other hand, had completely disappeared. No rumors of his appearances, nor any word of where he went or did later. Some think he went to another country to live in peace until his death. Others think that he was executed. And some even thought that he was still in the Capital.

Bright sunshine filtered through the trees and rested itself on my face. I slowly opened my eyes to see that it was probably around the hours between breakfast and lunch. I yawned and stretched, getting ready to leave the sleeping sack, when I felt arms around my waist.

I turn my head as far back as I can to see Luno pressing her face into my back. I make some weird sound I've never made before (something along the lines of "Ghakg"), and tried waking her up by poking her arm.

Luno, instead held herself closer, pressing her chest into my back. I continued to try to wake her up, more desperate this time. I seriously don't want another "box" issue again.

"Luno," I pinch her arm slightly, "Wake up! We need to get going!"

She moans slightly, obviously not wanting to wake up, "Just a bit longer, Crissy."

Crissy?

"No," I try to escape her grasp, "We have to pack up now."

"Aww," she whined as I stood and climbed out of the bag we slept in, "But I'm basically naked. And it's too cold."

"Don't remind me," I mumbled, and retrieved her clothing from the nearby pack, "here get dressed in there."

As she was getting dressed, I decided to call out, "You didn't think it was cold last night."

I could feel her staring daggers at me, as I strapped the small knife to my back. I'll have to watch her carefully for a little bit. I turn to face her, so she doesn't stab me in the back, only to see her fumbling with her bra as it fell. I couldn't move. She looked me in the eyes and I knew I would regret being her brother for the next several moments.

She turned around and said, "help me get it on."

Confused, I began to ask why when she interrupted, "Just help me get it on."

It was already on, but not fastened in the back. I slowly, and carefully move closer to her, waiting for her to slug me in the side of the head or the neck or something. I carefully, trying not to touch her skin, took the hook side and the not-hook side and carefully put them together.

Checking over my work, I began to stand. As I was getting up, something slammed into my side. Instinctively I grabbed the nearest thing to me, which was my sister. I pulled her as I fell, making her turn and face me as we both fell.

She ended up on top of me, my hands on her shoulders.

She screamed, and I felt her hit me in the side of the throat.

When I awoke, the sun was high in the sky, and my neck hurt like hell. I looked around to see a small white owl, staring back at me with its large yellow eyes. It looked familiar somehow. I decided to overlook it for now. In the meantime, I heard voices. Two of them.

Lunora, and another female.

"- had to persuade him so much to leave the deer back at home!"

"Aww," the other female said. She had a higher pitched voice than Luno did, but it was soft and sweet as well, "He sounds sweet."

Maybe I should play dead a while longer.

Luno was quiet for a moment, then said, "Yeah, he is. He's probably the best brother I could have asked for."

"Wait," the girl paused, "Brother?"

Silence.

"Then why were you sleeping together?" She asked, "And why were you not wearing clothes?"

Still no answer.

"You were watching us?" My voice was slightly raspy, from the punch to the throat.

Nothing. I turn towards the girls, while still laying on the ground. The other girl had short purple hair, and deep blue eyes. Her skin was fair, not as fair as Luno's, but close. The main difference between them was their chests. Luno's was smaller, but not flat. This girl was larger, not to sound like some old creep or anything. She wasn't overbearing busty, but still enough to probably make Luno jealous.

The girl was wearing a grey and white dress that went to her ankles, with some sort of lavender trim around the chest. On her right arm, I could see some sort of bracelet with a chain wrapped around and hanging off of it. It had a symbol that looked like an owl flying on the side facing me.

The girl stands up and leans over reaching her hand out and smiling, I take it. Soft. She hasn't had to do much manual labor in her life I'm guessing. She must be a city girl.

As soon as I'm up, she stands in front of us and leans forward in a slight bow, "I apologize for spying on you two," She rights herself, "You had been trespassing on my family's land, and I was sent to observe."

Luno looks at me, "That's the same thing she told me."

"This girl doesn't seem too suspicious."

"Although she was watching us," Luno blushes, "and she saw-"

"Let's not talk about that now," I had my eyes closed and my arms crossed.

Luno and I both nodded at the same time.

"P-Please don't talk about me as if I'm not here!" The girl whined.

I sigh, and turn my attention back to her, "What's your name? And what's with the owl over there?"

She smiles, a beautiful smile that seemed to light up the forest even more than it already was. She lifts her right arm, and the white owl flew from behind us and landed on the bracelet. The chain hanging over the object moved to meet the owls right leg, as if magnetised into place, and wrapped around its leg.

"My name is Megumi Tarayuuki," she motions to the bird, "And this is Nix, my Imperial Arms."

She claps her hand over her mouth, as if she said a horrible curse word. An imperial arms user? Here? Could she be with the rebellion?

I slowly reach for my small knife, and Luno backs away slowly. Nix screeches and extends its wings. That bird might have a smaller body, but its wings were huge.

"Oh, no," Megumi frowns sadly, "Please don't do that Cris. Nix attacks anyone she deems a threat."

Luno is still backing away, I keep my hand on the hilt of my knife. I stand no chance against that thing. Since it's an Imperial Arms, I wouldn't last an entire minute. Not even half of one.

"I didn't mean to scare you," Megumi keeps, talking trying to calm us down, "I only wanted to invite you inside and possibly offer transportation to the nearest city."

"I don't trust you," I said, not relaxing one inch, "Who's side are you on?"

"What do you mean?"

Nix was watching me carefully. She had folded her wings a few seconds ago.

"Who do you support?" I pressed, "The empire or the Rebellion?"

She thought for a moment, "The Empire stays out of our business as long as we pay off the guard, and the rebels don't come near us, So I guess we support no one."

She could be lying, but I'll wait and see. I think as I release my knife and cross my arms.

"How close are we to the Capital?" Luno asks from behind a tree.

"About three days from the nearest city, Fenyur, which is three days by foot."

Shit. We're going to have to trust her. I look to Luno and nod. She emerges from behind the tree, "Sorry Megumi, we don't encounter many Imperial Arms users in Castor. In fact, we've never met one other than our father."

"Well, if you would like to take me up on my offer," Megumi turns around swiftly, Nix hopping on her shoulder, and her dress spinning with her, "Please follow me."

And we did. Luno staying right behind me, we followed her to a large family home.