Three years and eight months passed since Suzaku and I became best friends, and we were now nine years old, the both of us. This is where our real legend begins. It began on the night of November 15th, 2009.
Mother Charlene came into the room with our seven-month-old sister Sabrina in her arms. "Children, it's time for bed now," she said, her brown eyes glowing in the semi-darkness of the living room.
My four brothers (Joseph, Paul, Bill, and Solaris) and I stood up from where we were sitting and began to leave the room without questioning her. But right before we could fully exit the room, nearly every window around us shattered, and the invasion alarm was sounded off at the entrance to our territory.
I began to panic and screamed, clinging to Solaris, "What's happening? Mother, what's going on?"
"I don't know, but the five of you need to take Sabrina and flee, fast!" Mother ordered, handing our crying baby sister to Solaris. "Quick, my children, before you are all killed!" She pointed to the back window, which was shattered, but no one was near it.
"But, Mother…" I began to protest.
"Do as I say, and flee!" Mother said, this time much more firmly than she meant to, and we ran to the back window without saying anything more, and we climbed through it one at a time, and fled to the forest.
I, Solaris, and Sabrina got separated from our older brothers when we made a turn on the run. To me, it seemed that they had apparently gone back to help Father, against Mother's orders.
"Sister, come on!" Solaris yelled, holding the bawling Sabrina close to his chest, and the two of us started to run again, and just as we skidded to a halt near a cliffside, Solaris began to run alongside the cliff, whilst I slipped and began to dangle.
"Solaris, help me!" I screamed to my brother, who stopped and looked back. When he saw me the way I was, he gasped in horror and ran back to get me. When he was right in front of me, he kneeled down and reached for me. However, his attempt was futile when the part of the cliffside broke and the three of us fell into the river below together.
We plunged into the raging currents of water, and forced ourselves above in order to keep Sabrina alive. In the midst of fighting the currents to keep above water, I got separated from my brother and sister when the river split into two different paths, and everything went black as I screamed for my brother.
The next morning, I woke up, rather dazed, and washed up on a riverbank. I groaned as I slowly opened my green eyes, my reddish-brown hair soaking wet. I managed to slowly lift my head off the dirty sand and look up as I heard two young male voices in the distance.
In the next second, I caught a small glimpse of two human boys standing about ten meters away. It seemed like one of them was Suzaku, but before I could get a good look, my eyes rolled into the back of my head and I passed out.