"Leia, Leon, are you around?" Aria called, holding the gifts she bought earlier close to herself. "Sorry I left suddenly while you were both resting, but-"

The girl cut herself off as she heard muffled screaming and wailing, causing her to become alerted and run over to the source of the noises. She then looked at the sight before her, her surroundings, and engraving it all into her mind. Horror, shock, fury, everything growing and mixing into the pit of her stomach as she looked at turned chairs and tables, dropped items like yarns, strings, and flowers, broken glass, and ripped cloth. She then snapped over to look at Mrs. Florence laying on the floor with the young boy, Leon, next to her crying and begging to whoever it was that broke into the house. How ironic. It was a squad of imperial knights. Cumore's squad to be exact.

'This can't be happening..' she thought, speeding over even closer to the scene.

What she saw when she got to the room was the man, Cumore himself, grabbing a fistful of Leia's hair long snowy white hair, holding her up to where she wasn't able to touch the floor anymore, and a group of knight surrounding the room. His blade was up and near the young girl's face to threaten her and her brother. Leia was crying and shrieking in pain mixed with terror, holding her hands up to her head to try and get the man to let go. Leon was shaking his mother to wake her up as he turned over to his twin and reached out for her, completely petrified. Mrs. Florence was already dead; her mouth was gaped, her eyes wide open, her body still and covered in blood from the liquid pooling around her body.

"Leave my sister alone!" the boy sobbed, knowing he couldn't do anything. "Leave her alone...!"

It looks as if he was about to give up on hope and just try to get himself killed if his sister was killed with his mother. His body was all soaked and covered in his mother's blood along with his sister. No one had notice Aria near the room just yet, so the girl ran over as she threw the no longer needed gifts to the side and struck Cumore on his wrist, making him let go of Leia. Aria quickly caught the girl and ran to Leon and his mother's side, holding them both close as they continued to cry.

"Well, well, the person we were after finally came to us!" the commander of the Cumore Squad said.

Aria growled and glared deadly sharp glances at each and every knight in the room, intimidating them all as much as possible.

"Aria..!" Leia cried.

"What. Just what the hell is this," she began lowly and angrily.

Cumore only smirked in response and then flicked his light blue hair back off his left shoulder before giving out a straight answer.

"A work of art. Offenders deserve punishment right on the spot and luckily for her, this house is her grave. Don't you agree?"

Aria's clothes and hair were now stained with blood, the scent of the metallic liquid substance becoming overwhelming in the room. Leia began to bury her face into Aria's body as Leon hugged the two tightly, not wanting to let go. Aria was able to pry them off softly, telling them to stay put before she stood up to face the man she despised head on.

"Mom...!" Leon called, shaking Mrs. Florence again. "Mom, wake up!"

"You've already killed an innocent civilian. I won't let you kill another," she hissed. "Leave them out of this! They're only kids!"

"Ugh, how awfully boring of you.. These rats all deserve to be killed. You, however, deserve the divine punishment I always wanted to try," Cumore groaned disgustedly. "I'm seeking you to become my personal test subject. Feel honored."

"If someone is to be a rat or a test subject, then that'd be you! Now leave this instant!"

"Not a chance~"

Aria could no longer keep her patience up, swiftly kicking Cumore's possibly make-up covered face and smearing as well as flicking blood onto him in the process. That angered the man, causing him to swing out his blood cover blade at Aria. The girl quickly blocked the attack with her sheathed blade and draw out her own weapon to block his second blow. Slowly being pushed back, Aria tried to fight back as best as she could to protect her only family members left. She then swiftly knocked Cumore off balanced by sweeping him off his feet and made him fall forward, allowing her to step on his blade once she got him down to the ground. She then stabbed the floor next to the man's head, scaring him to death, and traced out his upper body as she kept stabbing the ground. His face was finally beginning to swell and grow red and purple from the kick.

"..uck you... Fuck you.. Fuck you, fuck you, FUCK YOU!" the girl cursed, her voice raising each time and her thrusting speed with her sword increasing as she said the phrase.

"Criminals deserve punishment for disobeying the laws and imperial knights," Cumore grunted shakily as a few knights went after the teen.

Repede suddenly jumped in and knocked them out of the way, keeping the small family away from danger as best as possible. Aria was confused to why the dog was there and was about to be attacked by another knight, but before his blade landed, the girl knocked him away and gave him a small cut. She's never killed a person before and she plans not to. The man was certainly frightened and then coward away from Aria in hopes of not getting killed. Cumore was stubborn about fulfilling his goal, but decided that it was best for him to stay low and retreat.

"We'll be back before you know it!" he hissed.

Aria dropped her sword next to her feet and gritted her teeth to bite back the sobs and tears that threatened to escape. Her face was all red from the constant yelling and the hatred that she felt spreading throughout her body. Failing to hide her sadness, the girl turned around and ran over to the kids, falling to her knees and hugging them tighter than ever to keep them comforted and safe. Repede watched the little group huddle together and then decided to brush himself over them to help sooth them, blood coating his fur as he pattered over and did so.

"Mom is gone..." Leia cried. "She's never coming back..!"

"D-don't say that, Leia!" Leon sobbed. "We'll just feel worse if- if we keep telling o-ourselves that."

Just hearing the kids cry stung the girl's chest, her own tears finally beginning slipping out of her teal eyes.

'I'll take care of you kids. I'll make sure to get whatever you need and raise you how she wanted to raise you. I promise, I won't disappoint you all, not at all...' Aria whispered, mourning for the woman's death.

Repede decided to stay with the family for a little longer and sat in the pool of blood next to the now frigid corpse, everyone embracing each other. After sitting in the drying up blood for a few minutes later, Aria stood up and pulled the twins up along with her.

"Let's get you two cleaned up... I'll try to clear up this mess and fix up some dinner for you both..."

The kids didn't answer. Their grieving faces were just so hard to look at and their lifeless eye- Oh, their lifeless eyes just made it look like as if they just died themselves from being burdened with sorrow. Aria released her breath knowing they were no longer able to move around on their own and brought them up to the bathroom anyways, readying the water for their bath. The girl then stripped the two kids and set them each into the wide tub now filled with warm water, soaping them up and washing their hair and body for them. After all that, she was able to dry off the kids and dress them up in fresher clothes, throwing their stained clothes away in her room to keep it away from them and taking them both into their room.

"Don't worry, okay? We'll be fine and your mother wouldn't want you to make a mistake in life by killing yourself.."Aria told the kids, patting and smoothing out their hair.

They finally responded with a simultaneous small nod. Aria left the twins' room to find Repede still waiting downstairs even though she left the door open for him to leave anytime. She blinked and smiled sadly yet gratefully at the dog, bending down to call him over. Repede complied and slowly walked over to the girl, allowing her to hug him tightly and show her gratitude to him.

"Thank you, Repede, for being there. Did someone send you to follow me?" the girl asked earning a low bark and nudge. Let's get you washed up first. I still need to run out and look for help with a proper burial for her."

The dog didn't want to bathe just yet and barked again looking at the door. Aria blinked and pat his back once she got what he meant.

"You want to come and help too, huh? Alright, we better get a move on then. Everything is a wreck here..." Aria said, standing up and running out the door.

The white thread and both brown and white bears were now fully soaked in the deep crimson red liquid by now, no longer in use. After the sudden turn of events, they were now forgotten by everyone in the world.