I started walking towards my old home Hashi and Kathryn behind me. As I keep on walking I can't help but have memories hit me one by one every time I see a familiar place or smell. I passed by my Aunt's little shop. She owned a small shop here that had mostly survived. It still had racks of old clothes still in there, most of them having moth balls and holes in them by now. I still remember the first time I came into the shop and my Aunt had wanted to make a dress for me. She easily measured me up and started to get to work. I got to pick the color though. That was the deal; she'd make me a dress but I'd pick the color. Silly younger me however choose yellow and soon later came that dress from my dreams. A beautiful yellow sundress with a bow in the back, no sleeves, and bright white socks to match. She tie my hair up in a ponytail with a ribbon as well and I play in that dress all day. I loved it so much. I'd then help out at the shop all the time selling dresses,directing people to my aunts office. I stopped and looked into the window as all these memories went through my head. 'How long has it been? How long had it been since I was that happy? Or when this store was alive with costumers?' I wondered to myself my finger tips just touching the glass. I then heard a crash in the store. It was glass breaking.
"What the hell?" I say and immediately open the door. Hashi and Kathryn confused walked in right after me.
"Someone's here." I whisper to them and the give a slight nod, getting into a fighting stance. We hear something roll out from under the desk and I rush towards it. 'Sorry Aunt Myra.' I think hoping she'll hear me. I jump up and slam my blade through the desk, splitting it in two to reveal a small man. He quickly runs before I get a good glimpse at him.
"Hey! come back here!" I yell, while Kathryn uses her super speed to catch up to him.
"Ha! Gotcha!" She says triumphantly as I go to the other side of the man cornering him.
"No, you don't." I hear a growl say as a were wolf comes out the door and knocks me over. He instantly pins me down. It was kind of a waste of time to struggle since he had super strength but it was worth a shot.
"Let her go!" Hashi says charging at the werewolf.
"Hashi! No!" I yell trying to stop him. He doesn't listen and with one swing of the werewolf's hand, hits Hashi and knocks him against the wall, knocking him out.
"Hashi!" Kathryn and I scream, while I quickly try and move my arm to grab my sword but fail when the werewolf puts his hand back on my wrist. I look over to Kathryn worried when I see her knocked out by the small man. He had excellent speed as well. He must be an elf I thought.
"Why are you doing this?" I ask looking at the werewolf.
"Because Lunar blackstone, you and your friends are wanted on a bounty." He says baring his teeth. My eye lids beginning to close. How is this possible? I just slept a while ago. I should be fine.
"Wondering how your getting sleepy aye?" The elf says grinning. I barely had enough energy to nod.
"That is the effect of dark red dream shade. Very rare but very powerful. The only reason we're not asleep is cause we took the anti potion." He says informing me but I could barely hear it.
"You guys are magical bounty hunters?" I ask murmuring from time to time. I could still fight for me staying up just a bit longer.
"That's right. Now night night copper." One of them said before I went into deep sleep.
~dream~
I was back in that yellow dress and my hair back in a high ponytail tied with a bow. I was that little girl again. Still so innocent. I look over to see my sister in her purple sundress like mine, her scarlet red hair in two pigtails behind her back. I smile and run towards her and hug her tightly, I look over to also see my Aunt Myra. They both looked so happy and my sister was just patting my head. I smile and tears silently fall from my face. Oh how much I wanted to stay like this. Everyone has to wake up from a beautiful dream though.
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I wake up to a insane head ache. It felt as if I really did have gears running through my head.
"Hey teary girl, you alright?" I hear a rough male voice ask. I turn around to see almost an exact replica of the werewolf that took me down. I scatter to the other side of the cell and go to grab more sword when I feel it's not in its sheave. My eyes widen with terror.
"Don't come anywhere near me!" I yell.
"Relax brunette, I'm not him. Look at me closer." He says coming more into the light and I see the difference. This werewolf, had brown ears popping out of his head, with brown tussled hair the color matching his eyes, tan skin and had a brown tail. He looked exactly like the one who put me in here but he had a scratch on his right cheek and he wore different clothes like jeans, a black jacket and black Nike tennis shoes. The other guy was in practical rags of some sort, I'm not exactly sure why.
"Y-Your not him?" I ask shakily. He nods. He comes over closer hesitant at first. I nod, telling him it's ok. He comes closer till I'm looking directly in his eyes. I could see he was telling the truth. He takes a step back, seeing I believed him.
"How come you look like the man that kidnaped me? Where are we? Where are my comrades?" I ask just keeping the anger from coming into my voice.