The next couple days were spent recovering in bed. Romano was constantly by your side helping you with whatever you needed albeit grudgingly.
"Damn it, why do I have to get water for hobos like you," muttered Lovino walking into the room.
"Thanks Lovi," you said ignoring the insult.
"Now get some sleep, if you don't get better soon I'll have to keep taking care of you like this,"he said handing you the cup of water.
"G'night," you said as he walked out the door. You smiled to yourself, despite always acting so distant you could tell he was worried about you.
You closed your eyes trying your best not to look out the window, you usually slept around seven as not too be caught in the dark, but as of late you had been sleeping so much in the day you even stayed up all the way up to nine and one time even ten o' clock! This time you had to sleep soon or else...
You closed your eyes trying to will yourself asleep, letting exhaustian take over you fell into a nightmare induced sleep.
A ray of light slipped through the curtain of your room waking the seven year old version of you up. Remembering what day it was you jumped you of bed.
"Mommy! Guesss what? Today is my birthday!" you exclaimed. running into the kitchen you were suprised to find your mother gone. "Mooommmyyyy!" you yelled searching the cupboards and drawers as if she was hiding. As you were looking around you noticed a note hung on a top cabinet, you sighed to yourself, it was just like your mother. Honestly, how did she think you would reach it?
You stacked several boxes , bowls and sacks on top of each other so you could read the note left by your mother. Slowly you climbed the wavering tower of kitchen supply trying to keep your balance, finally you grabbed hold of the note just as your makeshift ladder collapsed leaving you sprawled on the floor covered in flour and spices.
"Ouchie," you muttered rubbing your head. "Eew I'm all covered in icky gunk," you muttered. wiping your face. Looking at the note you read out loud "Dear, _ your father, sister and I went out for some food, we'll be back in a couple of hours, breakfast is on the counter Love, Mom,"
You looked up seeing a stale plate of bread on the coutner as promised. You stared at the rock hard sorry excuse for food.
"My name is _ I am the captain of the GodSpeed and the sole heir of the Tooley family," you whispered to yourself. You picked up your only breaksfast and brought it to your mouth with a trembling hand. To force yourself to eat it you continued saying "I fell of the ship in a bad storm and now I'm stuck on this deserted island. By coincidence I found this piece of bread on this supposedly uninhabitated island. This is a battle of survival! I have to do whatever I can and live on!" you sunk you teeth through the outer layer wrestling with 'your means of survival.'
Hearing a knock you quickly spit out the bread and ran towards the door, throwing it open you saw a tall man, about 25 years old, though even your little seven year old mind could tell his eyes seemed like that of an old man, worn down by life. He wore a hat low over his head, his hair was white, his eyes a piercing red and his skin was super pale. He wore a large trench coat and pants that were so long that they dragged across the floor. From what you remembered your parents said all those things were a sign of an albino
"You made it through the storm!" you exclaimed. "How are the others, was the treasure saved?" the man seemed to understand that you were playing pretend and saluted you.
"Sorry captain, the treasure was lost, but the men have all returned safely,"
"Oh what a sad loss, but as long as my men are safe thats all that matters to me,"
"What a good captain you are," the man said ruffling your hair, "Captain do I have permission to ask you a question.
"I guess I can overlook it," you said after pretending to give it some thought.
"Do you know if Dr _ is home, or where I can find his daughter,"
"The doctor? Yes of course, good man, he left in search of food, bless him. Of course I would know, I am the sole heir of Dr _," you said taking on an air of royalty. "Hey, whats wrong?" you asked forgetting your game of pretend when you notcied his eyes saden.
" You shouldn't concern youself with a mere crewmans problems" he replied smiling again "Now I hear its your birthday," he kneeled to your height and handed you a giant book, flipping through it you found the name of several herbs, pictures of them and their uses. Most kids would have been disapointed but you were different, you had studied herbs with a passion the second you knew how to read, your parents were doctors so that possibly had something to do with it.
"Wow! Its so big!" you said your eyes sparkling. "I bet it has every kind ofherb out there!"
"I'm glad you like it, its the least I could do, sub though it can never repay what I'm about to do to you /sub ,"
"What was that?"
"Nothing, now lets see this rather nicely made makeshift hut, captain," said the man walking in.
For the next couple hours you showed him around the house, like your room the kitchen and the garden. You taught him all about the herbs and what you've been doing since you washed ashore the uninhabited island. He nodded his head and played along with your game. Though you felt like there was something he was holding back from you.
"_ we're home!" said your mother from inside.
"Oh, welco-," the man suddenly covered your mouth. His voice no longer held the lighthearted sense of play it did a couple seconds ago.
"I need you to listen to me, what I'm about to do is unforgivable, but see your parents, let my little sister die,she was about your age too, all because we were different, that's not right is it?"
"Well I guess no-," the man put a finger to his lips motioning for you to not talk, you shook your head.
"That's why I have to get revenge," hearing a scream you both turned around , your mother was standing at the back door entrance.
"John! John come here hurry!"
"Please somehow forgive me!" the man grabbed your arm sinking his fangs into your skin.
You were lifted above the ground by an unseen force a shining circle with strange drawings apeared below you. Pain coursed through your veins, pain so deep that you didn't even have the strength to scream. Never in you few years had you felt like nor would you ever feel anything as painful. An unmatched burning sensation on your forehead seemed to last for hours but could be no longer than a couple seconds then the scene changed.
"Sis hurry wake up! They found us!" said your sister, Selena, shaking you awake. Rubing the sleep out of your eyes you looked around yourself the confusion slowly wearing off. You remembered now. In search of a place to sleep this old farmhouse was the only place you could go to for shelter. You had run away from home, tired of the crap treatment you had received from your parents. Your sister followed despite your initial arguments and you had been like this for the past couple of years, hiding out in whatever building you could find.
Hearing a voices from outside the two of you hid inside a pile of hay, holding your breath waiting for an angry farmer to burst through the door and chase you out. Instead the large door opened revealing three men, it was too dark to see thir faces but you could tell from the silhoettes that they were male, no doubt about it. They leisurly strolled through the animal infested building taking a look around.
"Looks like they aren't here," said one.
"Too bad, I thought for sure that we'd find them this time," said the other.
"Just another empty rumor, we'll find that _ one of these days though," said the third sighing. He walked increasingly closer to your hiding place eyeing it suspiciously.
"Come on lets go," said his companion. He gave the pile of hay a glare before walking away. Seeing the burning lamp you had left out in your panic he blew it out just before he was about to leave making you gasp. You sister put a hand over your mouth but it was too late, they already heard.
"Don't come out no matter what," your sister whispered. Before you could react you sister stood up out of their hiding spot.
"Ha looks like you found me," Selena sighed.
"So your _, one of the only werewolfs in all of the Ydnac Region?" said the man.
"A bounty hunter?" you thought to yourself. You were constantly hounded by those type of guys. While werewofls were feared throughout the world in the region you lived in they were hunted for their rare practically indestructable coats.
"Then you know why we're here I presume, hand it over," said one man.
"Hand what over?" asked Selena her brow furrowing and confusion evident in her voice.
"You know damn well what were asking, though if you dont tell us, we might be forced to defile that cute little body of yours," said one of the other men.
"I don'-,"she stopped midsentence and then a stream of crimson spilled from her lips as she collapsed to the floor.
"I grow tired of this, the key isn't reacting right now, meaning she doesn't have it, lets go," said the man who had stabbed your sister, he cleaned the blood of his knife with is shirt and walked out
"Aww thats too bad, she didn't look half bad, I waned to play with her a little longer," said one of the men as he left the third followed suit.
You sat up straight gasping for air and covered in a sheen of sweat. Half asleep you got out of bed and went into the room next to yours. You didn't care who it was you just needed someone near you.
You looked around the practically desolate bedroom, it had the essentials, a bed and a dresser, other than that it was compltly empty.
Ludwig was wrapped up in a pile of blankets, going up to the bed you tugged on a part of his lseave that stuck out. "Hey Ludwi-"
Suddenly Romano threw of the covers giving you a heart attack. "What the heck do you want! I'm fricken tired, so it better be good!"
"Romano!" you said at the same time as Ludwig who was awoken by the sudden stream of cold air that always acompanied the sudden disapearance of a blanket.
"Weren't you supposed to be sleeping on the couch?" asked Ludwig.
"Yeah but it's cold down there, we only have enough blankets for two people damn you!"
Ludwig sighed, as if he was used to people secretly intruding into his bed. "And you?" he said looking at you.
"I had a bad dream," you said, receiving the same look you had now gotten used to, as if you reminded them of someone.
"Let me guess, you wanted to sleep here for the night," said Ludwig.
You opened your moth to deny it, but then realized, that was just what you had intended, wasn't it. Had you really felt so close to people you had just met? You really did get too attached to people. "I guess I did," you replied sheepishly waiting for them to freak out at the fact that a girl they had just met wanted to sleep in the same bed as them, two full grown men.
To your suprise the two boys scooted over and Ludwig patted the spot open next to him smiling at you.
"Hey sis," you prayed in your head as you put the covers over your head biding the two goodnight. "While I may have lost one sibling I seemed to have gained two new ones, I wonder what kind of things will happen next?"