CW: none, please tell me if there's anything that should be warned about. i am unbelievably dense.

Series: Legend of the Balancers - Balancer Productions

AU: Modded Balances - RLCraft

Characters: Cloud(Balance), Bell(Bally)
Luke(Wolf OC) appears very briefly.

Short Description: Takes place in RLCraft, where Cloud goes about his life with his animal companion(s). Today, he gave offerings to his Gods. Mostly Fluff.

The Stars are fading.

A lonely soul looks out his bedroom window, their dull colored eyes staring out into the dark abyss above. The night is cold, the air lightly passing by and through his home. It won't be for long, of course. He could see the orange hues bleeding into the navy blue of the Sky, creating such a sight that he could look at for hours, maybe even days.

The village outside is empty, for the moment. The Villagers never seemed to like the dark, they'll huddle into their homes and hide behind their doors whenever the night descends upon them.

He doesn't blame them, the things that comes out within those hours are horrendous. He would even say it's worse then the ones that roam in the day, but he would be lying to himself. They're just as bad.

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"Cloud?"

The steve blinks as he turned towards the ladder leading up to his room, a white wolf peeking up from it greeting him. She's armoured heavily, diamond armour covering her from head to toe. Not enough to affect her movement, but enough to protect her.

That's what he keeps telling himself, anyways.

He couldn't help a small smile at the sight, "Yeah?"

The little wolf attempts to drag herself up onto the solid floor, unsurprisingly stumbling onto it. She groans out of annoyance and brings herself onto her paws, before running towards the steve as she basically jumped into his arms. Causing him to yelp as he caught the animal, chuckling softly as he carried her in his arms.

"Haha— sorry, are you hungry?"

She pouted, burying herself into his arms as he lightly patted her head. Well, he'll take that as a yes, then.

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The sparkling of the fire in the stove was a pleasant background noise for him.
Bell, his beloved friend, had laid herself in front of the stove as she waited for the meat to cook. Her tail wagging out the corner of his eye. Luke sat next to her, curiousity sniffing the strange burning metal box. She barks at him and he stops, laying down instead.

The steve wasn't far from the wolfs, as he was looking through the chests for the things he needed for today. A weapon, items, offerings and more. His armour was getting worned down, so he took a pickaxe as well. He took the items into his inventory and moved to the stove.

He smiles as Luke barked happily at his attention, moving to pet him on the head before going to grab the food from the stove. Faintly, he heard Bell whined and without a second thought, he crouched down and petted her too. She's very pleased with herself.

He gave his pets the meat from the stove(when it cooled down, of course) before going to exit his home, not before telling Luke to stay home and letting Bell come along(after a bit of convincing from her).
Bell following closely behind as he pushed open the door, the cool air quickly flowing past them. It's nice.

From his doorway, he could see the Villagers finally exiting their homes and going through their usual duties. A pink fairy flying around near one of their houses, and cows roaming around. Nothing dangerous, good.

"Where are we going?" Bell asked, watching for... something. Touches he didn't place scattered around the area, and yet he didn't seem to be concerned. She isn't, either.

"The Alters." He says, and Bell perked up. "Got some things I think they'll like."
She knew they'll love anything he gave them.

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The two walked towards the outskirts of the village and between the Forest & Plains, where three Alters sat. The Sky are orange & yellow hues now, the Stars long gone and instead, a much larger one peeks from beyond the horizon. He wonders if the Sky choose the colours the Sky becomes, or does the Stars simply bring a colour in and make the most beauty coincidentally.

Cloud stood in front of the Alters for a moment, before slowly sitting on his knees as he placed his hands together. Bell simply sat down next to him.

"My World, I have bought something for you." The sun continues to move, and he continues. "They are things I believe are ones you hold highly, things I am unable to use. Please, accept them. I have no use for them."

Bell watches as he stood back up and placed an item on each of the Alters. She couldn't make out what they were, she didn't know what they were, but some of them are shiny. And possibly edible.

"Bally, no." She blinked. "Whaat?"

"I saw how you were looking at them. No. They aren't even edible!"

"But they're shiny!" Bell whined.

"No, and that's final."

The trees shook for a moment. The leaves falling and making small piles on the ground, before stopping. The steve smiled and shook his head, he'll clean the Alters later today.

"I need to head to the mines today," he took out his pickaxe, "Wanna join me?"

"Of course!"

The sun stayed up longer that day.

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