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Night Ten

At the hill, where a dead tree was, stood a boy about twelve years of age with unruly jet black hair in dirty white shirt and brown jumper. He also wore a pair of gray boots. The boy had a calm face as he scanned the wheat fields that appeared to be gold due to sun's reflection with his sharp glassy dark chocolate eyes. His hair swayed gracefully to his right as the wind blew lightly.

"LOOOKIII~!"

The boy's ears perked up and snapped his head to the side at the voice. His eyes widened at whatever he saw then whispered, "No. Please not this time." like he was afraid.

The voice that called the boy, now dubbed as Loki, hadn't notice him yet, so he took this chance to run on the other side of the hill away from that being who called.

Loki run so fast as if he was chased by someone who would kill him that he didn't notice someone was walking across, just a meter from him until he bumped onto him. The two stumbled and rolled down the hill until they stopped. No, thanks to a certain man who used his foot to stop them.

"Ouch. Ma- Mashtah, ya footsh on ma feysh." the white haired lad grumbled underneath Loki.

"Sorry. Thought you were a trash." the man said as he retracted his foot against the poor lad's face. He then picked the black haired boy up and tossed him aside, earning him a pained gasp.

"Tch. That hurts." Loki complained to himself, rubbing his sore back and left arm.

A pair of footsteps was heard, and then a pair of feet appeared in Loki's view. He slowly held his head up to see man cloaked in black with golden linings and a crest on left chest. He had half of his face masked, his hair is long and red, and then an eye looked down on him. Suddenly, a gloved hand appeared in front of him. Loki traced where it came from and saw the boy whom he crashed into. The boy, whose hand still held for him, smiled brightly and said, "Hi, my name's Allen Walker. Sorry about that crash. I hope you aren't hurt?" Allen expected him to grab his hand but Loki declined his help and stood without haste. Allen stared at him and just ignored the rudeness of the boy.

Loki brushed the dust off his clothes, looked at the strangers with those very same sharp and glassy dark brown eyes, and was about to walked away when a voice calling his name reached their ears. Loki barely cringed.

"Loki! I have been calling you all this time! Didn't you even hear me!?" it was a girl with golden hair about his age wearing a floral dress. She grabbed Loki's hand and pulled him, but stopped when she notice two more people she had never seen before. "Oh, my." The girl let go of Loki and placed her hands on her cheeks. "How rude of me! I am Amy Alberts, by the way and-" She turned to Loki and forced him to bow his head. "This is Loki Umber." She said while struggling to have Loki's head remained down.

"Please to meet you Miss Alberts, Mister Umber. My name's Allen Walker and this is my Master, Cross Marian. Mister Umber and I accidentally crashed to each other."

"I see." Amy let go of Loki. "If I am right, you two are travellers, no?"

"Yes, we are." This time, Cross answered. "We're heading to the town as you can see when that idiot Loki crashed onto my apprentice."

"Wha- Hey! Loki! You should apologize you jerk!" she yelled at Loki who didn't even budge nor feeling threaten.

"Sorry."

"…Whaaat…? That's all?" Cross seemed annoyed at this point. "Didn't you know that because of your carelessness our goods got wasted?" he said as he gestured at the mess behind them. Even though Cross was so pissed he could turn into a demon himself, Loki remained calm as if it has nothing to do with him, or more like, he didn't care at all. Loki just sighed and averted his head sideward to avoid Cross' scary gaze.

"…scary…" Loki said barely audible.

"…guh…" Cross irked at his lack of proper reaction.

The two sensed Cross dark aura resonating and so they backed away. Amy was terrified and at the same worried at what Loki had gotten into. She knew the boy well since they are childhood friends, Loki wasn't rude. He just didn't know how to interact with people and didn't know how to show his true feelings.

"Uhmm…" Amy voiced out and was about to say something, but she couldn't bring it out seeing as Cross glared at her.

"What do you want?" Cross asked a little softly so as not to hurt the girl's feelings. After all, he couldn't do it to any women, because he is a gentleman, right? Or should I say… a womanizer? Anyway, Cross was a gentle person though only few knew about that fact.

Cross sighed. He decided that no matter what he says or did the goods that they had saved for another week was gone. "Alright, alright. It doesn't matter anymore. Let's go, Allen. We're heading to the town and earn money for our expenses." Allen nodded and followed his Master's when…

"Wait." It was Loki. He was looking on the ground when he called them back. Once Cross and Allen turned their heads to him and so as Amy, he gradually moved his head to look and face the travellers with eyes that held nothing into it. "It would take you four more days before you get to town. If you want, you can stay at our house for the night."

Amy knew it. Loki was nice and a kind person.

Amy smiled at this and said, "Loki's right. It's already dark anyway, plus your foods were damaged. As sorry to what had happen, allow us to show you our hospitality."

Cross couldn't decline the offer, thus he agreed.

oOo

While on their way to Amy's house, she and Allen had a chat. She learned that Allen is Cross's apprentice and was aiming to be an exorcist. Cross also talked about the akuma, how they were made to kill, and how to avoid it. It was better to let them know just in case. Loki in the other hand didn't talk so much; however, he answered all the questions that were thrown to him. Soon, the group reached the house.

The house was simple to say though a little big. It was a farmer's house after all.

"Your house is sure big." Allen commented.

"Yeah, it's big but… only Loki, the twins, and I are leaving here." Said Amy with a sad tone and forced smile.

"Eh…?"

"Come on inside. I'll tell you the story during bedtime." She beamed as she pushed Allen in. Cross and Loki followed suit.

"But you don't have to tell me anything if it is about your family."

"It's okay, Allen. It's been seven years, besides, we don't get many visitors. And we're friends, right? So it's alright to tell you the story of my life and in exchange you will tell me yours, okay?" she beamed and Allen couldn't resist her, so he just nodded.

Friends… nobody had offered him that before. There may be some, but upon finding out about his arm they turned their backs on him. Maybe this was the first step in gaining friends.

Cross thought that this girl was a big help in order for Allen to get over with his silent dilemma that causes him grief.

Loki, in the other hand, did nothing upon hearing it. He didn't show any emotion or something in the lines, instead, he walked up to the living room with the rest as if he heard nothing.

"Welcome back, Loki, Amy!" the twins, male and female, with same golden hair as Amy greeted. They young man wore a simple navy blue shirt and black trousers and a pair of slippers while they young lady wore a beige dress and slippers. Both were 18 years old.

"Oh… what is this!?" the young man exclaimed, clutching his head in an exaggerated manner. "Yuna!" he grabbed his twin's shoulders. "Is this the end of the world!? We have visitors after decades passed!"

"Brother…" Yuna sighed. "Calm down, please? You're scaring our visitors." She said and gestured to Cross and Allen who looked at them dumbfounded.

"She's so beautiful…" Cross whispered, his cheeks tinted pink. Allen heard him and looked up to see his expression of admiration to Yuna's beauty.

Master really likes ladies…

"Hello, Yuna, Tidus! We're home~!" Amy chimed as she waltzed towards them. "Mister Marian, Sir, Allen, these are the twins, Tidus and Yuna Alberts. They are my older brother and sister." The twins smiled and said hello to them and invited them to sit.

Loki stepped in once Tidus was done clinging on his twin and sat on the couch between Amy and Tidus. At the opposite were Cross and Allen.

Yuna excused herself for a moment to check if the food she was cooking was done.

The remaining group chat about themselves, their interests, and goals in life except Loki who walked out without a word and into his room. Tidus said he was just shy and doesn't like to socialize and Amy explained that Loki wasn't the type of person who talks so much and that even though he acted rude, Loki was a kind person once you got to know him. Allen seemed to forgot all his musings as he was very entertained by Tidus' jokes and comical behaviour. The whole living room was so noisy and lively until Yuna came out of the kitchen to inform them that dinner was ready, thus cutting their happy time.

The dinner came by with Tidus teasing the annoyed Loki, Yuna's sighs because of his brother, and Amy as she kept on throwing punch on Tidus.

Cross observed Allen's facial expression that time. He noted that it was the first time he saw Allen laughed without masking his sadness and he was glad that at least, even just now, Allen was able to forget everything that bothers him that night.

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