Spiacente! Spiacente! Spiacente! Spiacente! Spiacente! Spiacente! Spiacente! Spiacente! Spiacente!
It's been soooo long!
I'm SOOOOO SORRY!
;^; plz forgive me
"WHAT!?" Natsu exclaimed.
"Well, not really, I don't know when my real birthday is." Aurea replied, earning on some confused looks from the guild. "Oh, well, you see, July 7, x777 is the day I was found on my parents' doorstep, and I was already about a year old. There was no note, information, or anything, just little baby me wrapped up in a blanket. And since they didn't know when I was actually born, they made that my birthday!" she explained, "Why?"
"Well, um…" Wendy stuttered, not knowing how to truly explain this to an 8 year-old girl.
"July 7, x777, that was the day all the dragons disappeared." Natsu said blatantly, a shadow covering his eyes.
"D-disappeared?" Aurea asked, starting to shake as if she was frightened, or sad.
"Yeah, they were there until one day, they just disappeared without a trace." Wendy said sadly.
"Hey, Aurea, you okay?" Kai asked as he placed a hand on the shaking girl's shoulder.
She was shaking more than before, and her head hung down. Her bangs covered her eyes, but her lips were curved downwards in a small grimace. Her hands were clenched beside her, nails digging into her palms. There it was again, happy one moment, then sad the next. Kai was concerned, he'd seen quite a few bipolar children in his small town, but this was…different.
"I-I don't know." She finally stuttered out as she pulled herself out of the boys comforting grasp and ran into the guild.
Everyone stared at her, in shock, not moving an inch. Kai quickly snapped out of it and ran after the girl, calling out for her to wait. Aurea didn't listen, she continued to run until she dashed into the guild, Kai following after. When he reached the guild, he saw Aurea; she was sitting on the windowsill, staring upwards at the sun, as if it didn't hurt her eyes, which it truly didn't. The light reflected off of her golden irises, giving her eyes what seemed to be a glossy glow, that is, before Kai realized they were unfallen tears.
"Hey, what's wrong?" he asked as he walked up to her.
Not noticing he was there, she jumped and darted her head back, only to see it was kai, and relaxing.
"I don't know…"she sighed, looking at her feet.
"Wha—"
"I don't understand!" she cried out suddenly, causing Kai to jump back, "I mean, I've never even met, or even seen, a dragon before. Heck, I barely know anything about them. So why…? So why do I feel…sad?" she asked, her grip tightening on her knee.
Sighing, Kai jumped up onto the windowsill and sat beside her. He looked at the girl sadly, as she closed her eyes tightly in thought. He looked down to his side, to see a small vine climbing up the wall, barely sprouting from the windowsill. He concentrated on it, and a white flower sprouted, it glistened off of the sun, giving it a pure impression, and Kai smiled. He gently plucked the plant from the vine, and placed it in Aurea's hair.
"Hey, it's okay, everybody gets this way sometimes." He said as Aurea turned her head towards him.
"R-really?"
"Well, yeah." He said matter-of-factly, "I mean, I did it. Got totally confused with emotions, though, I just tried to run from it all." He said, shrugging at his last comment. "But you shouldn't do that..." he started.
"Huh?"
"You're way too cheerful to do that! And besides, you'll make everyone worry. You don't want that, do you?" Kai asked, smiling.
"Well, no, I'd never want people to worry about me." Aurea replied, her state now neutral.
"Yeah, so, let's forget about this for now, maybe you'll figure it out later! So come on, I'm pretty sure people are starting to get a bit concerned."
"Okay!" Aurea replied, smiling widely.
She grabbed Kai's wrist and ran forward, pulling him out of the guild hall. When they got back to the big guild group, Aurea looked up at everyone happily, as Kai's hand was released from her grasp. The guild's faces turned into ones of confusion when they saw the gleeful girl, smiling widely, as if nothing had ever happened.
"So, you feeling better Aurea?" Wendy asked, just as confused as everyone else.
"Better? 'Bout what?" Aurea replied, as she had decided to forget about the information she had learned earlier.
"You know, about—" she started to say, but Kai's hand quickly covered her mouth.
"I kinda' got her to forget about that whole 'dragons disappearing' thing, so I don't think we should mention it." He whispered in her ear.
Wendy nodded in understanding and spread the info, just in case anyone else tried to ask about it. Soon, the whole guild was informed and everyone was nodding in agreement. Aurea just stood there, swaying back and forth slightly, oblivious to everything around her. Once the whispers all stopped, and the tension lessened, everyone went back into the guild hall and resumed their day as if nothing ever happened. Team Natsu sat at a single table and Aurea, being the social person she is, had already talked with everyone in the guild. So, she walked towards the group and leapt up on the table, hanging on with just her arms, and her chin resting on the wood.
"So…what do you guys wanna do today?" she asked cutely.
Lucy seemed to think for a moment, and soon spoke.
"I think we should go shopping, it can't be good for you and Kai to keep wearing those dirty clothes all the time." Lucy declared, causing Aurea to look down at her clothes.
She was in the same clothes she woke up in, and it was indeed, dirty. Even worse than before. Now specks of dust, dirt, and some of that stuff Khana was drinking accompanied the burn marks. When she looked at Kai, she realized his weren't much better either.
"I guess so!" she agreed and grasped Lucy's hand, smiling widely.
~~Timeskip by WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE MARKET!~~
It has been about an hour and Lucy and the children had found new clothes for each of them. Kai found a good amount of clothes, much like the ones he was wearing now, but with a different variety of color and some new shorts and jeans. Aurea had found a small variety of clothes as well, even though they were mostly meant 'for boys'. They were almost the exact same as Kai's, except for a few color and size differences, since she was about an inch shorter than her friend. She would've gotten clothes 'meant for girls' but they were all dresses, and much too frilly ones for her taste. Though, she did find one place that had a nice set of clothes that she instantly fell in love with. They weren't anything special, just a yellow T-shirt and some cacky-looking shorts, but nevertheless, she adored them, and Lucy was more than happy to get some for her. On one condition. That she had to get some summer dresses too. Why? Because Lucy thought it would just look too cute. Reluctantly, Aurea still agreed, and Lucy was carrying all the clothes, with the new addition of some not-too-frilly summer dresses. She walked over to pay for everything, but stopped when she saw the large line ahead of her.
"Hey, how about you two go and play around outside, while I deal with paying for this stuff." she said.
"Are you sure, Lucy?" Aurea asked.
"Yeah, we don't mind waiting here with you." Kai continued.
"No, no, it's cool! Go on and play for a bit, I'll be out soon." Lucy replied kindly.
"Well, okay…if you say so." Aurea replied, a bit sad about leaving Lucy there alone.
"Be careful!" Lucy called out, as the two children started to walk out of the store.
"Yes ma'am!" Aurea replied happily.
They left the small shopping area and turned to go behind it. As they passed the last part of the building, they emerged into a slightly small area that was ended by a large cliff at the end. As they walked, Kai and Aurea both looked at the cliff uneasily, and made mental notes to stay away from it. They soon got to the middle of the area, and sat down on the ground.
"So, what do ya wanna play?" Kai asked, starting to get a bit bored.
"Hmmm," Aurea said, as if she was thinking. Suddenly, her hand shot forward and touched Kai in the shoulder. "Tag! You're it!" the girl exclaimed happily as she stood up and started running from the blonde boy.
"Hey, no fair!" Kai exclaimed, giggling. "Get back here!"
Soon the two tiny mages were running around happily in their little game of tag.
"Tag!" Kai exclaimed as he touched the year younger's back. 'Bet you can't catch me!" he exclaimed happily ash he ran backwards, smirking, his arms out by his sides in mock provoke. Sadly, with this careless act, he hadn't notice he was running straight back towards the edge of the cliff.
"Kai, look out!" Aurea exclaimed, noticing what the boy was heading for.
"What?" he asked, looking behind him. When he saw where he was, he freaked out a bit, and tried to dash away from the edge. Unfortunately, in his desperate attempt, he tripped and fell down over the cliff.
"KAI!" Aurea exclaimed as she rushed forward and looked down the edge of the cliff.
She saw the boy, hanging by the large root of a tree, a fearful look on his face. His legs flailed around as he desperately tried to climb back to the surface, but to no avail.
"Kai!" Aurea exclaimed once more, "Grab my hand!" she commanded as she reached her arm towards the boy.
Kai seemed to start too let go of the root, to grasp his friends hand, but with a swift moment of hesitation, he grabbed back onto the root, even tighter than before.
"What are you waiting for!? Grab it!"
"No!" he exclaimed, "You won't be able to hold both of us up! You'll fall in too!" he said sternly.
"No I won't! Kai, just grab my hand!"
"I don't—" he started.
"PLEASE!" the golden-eyed girl pleaded, her arm stretching even farther down towards the boy below.
Kai looked up into Aurea's eyes, and saw the many emotions in them. Desperation, fear, and most of all; determination. The look that said 'I promise, I can do this.' Just looking onto her eyes, he felt the determination inside himself, and in one desperate attempt, he hoisted himself upwards and grasped the caramel haired girl's hand in his own. Noticing this, Aurea smiled, and started to try to bring the boy upwards, but was stopped by cracks forming in the floor below her. Before any of the children knew what was happening, the floor crumbled beneath Aurea, and fell over the side.
Bringing the two children along with it.
Yup, ending it with a cliffhanger.
Sorry!
Review Responses!
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Hasta-la-pasta!