Alejo woke up to find the little boy has run off again. Where has he gone to this time. He was about to run out the door and bump in the to a solid chest of a man. He looked up to find the last person in the world. His father standing to the door way. He has been gone for months, at least four months. He was tall at least six feet. He would say he a gigantic of a man. He maybe big and look mean but he has a soft spot for his family and friends. On his back was his two-handed long sword called 'Nightmare'. Why he named it that, he will never know. His hair was shoulder length and tie back to a half ponytail. His hair was ash blond just like his son with hazel blue eyes. He clothing in dark green and brown. He is handsome or so his mother said. To him, he is just his father.
"Were are you going in a hurry?" Alejo had no time to tell him. He push his father out of his way. And ran pass him. His father was so surprised that his son didn't stop to say anything to him. He looked to see his son back and wonder what could be his problem.
"It must be the little boy again." The sound of her voice. Bring a little light to his heart. He turn to see her stand there. Her beauty was the same as the day he first saw her. There nothing he would do for her. He close the distance between them. In circle his arms around her. She into turn wrap her around his neck. He bend down and give her a passionate kiss. It take her breath away. This woman is the only one that can make him need her. She was his everything. With out her, he will have nothing in this life. He pull away just to end the kiss.
"Now my love, what do you mean?" He looked down on her with gently eyes. Her face flushed red.
"Your son, found a little boy in the forest. And we been taking care of him. The only thing is that little boy was kidnapped or been a hurt by some one. He hadn't told us a thing. He been with us for two months. He didn't even tell us his name or maybe he doesn't have one. He also has high fevers. He can't stay out that along before the fever takes him. We were worried that he will not live another day. That is why your son keep a eye on him."
"Well I better go and find them. I maybe get to see this little boy for myself. I may even get him talk to me. We might keep him from hurting him self." She nodded her head. He gave her one more kiss before he walked out the door. He wanted to say hi to all the people in the village. He had no time to waste. He ran after his son. He caught up with him at the edge of the forest. His son was looking at the ground. He tracking the little boy. He to looked around to find any signs of the little boy. Not to far he find some footprints and by the look of it. He had half a day on them.
"Alejo. Come over here." His son looked up at his father bending over. Looking at the footprints. He walked over to him.
"He came through here and by the look of them. The child came in middle of the night. And the looked like he head to the north. We might catch up to him if we run. That little boy won't last long in the forest by him self." Alejo look to the forest with a worried frown. The last time Alejo looked for the child. That child was on the ground with another high fever. Together, father and son ran north.
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Ella and the white fox made their way north. Walking was easier than running. Ella human body was given her pain. She never felt like this before. She had to stop and rest.
[If we keep stopping. You'll never make it to edge of the forest.]
"I know that. It's this body I am in. Do human feel pain all the time? I can't move fast enough. I wish to be a goddess again."
[How can you be one. Did you say that your one of the light's children?]
"I maybe one but I need the one thing that was taken from me. I do hope to find one of the pieces."
[Don't human eat to feel better. I know I do.]
"You right. Human have to eat. I just not use to feeling."
[I will help you find some thing to eat. Just wait here.] The white fox ran off. Ella couldn't stay long in one place. She raise her head to the sky. She found the tree branches covering the sky. In a flash of light right next to her. A man appeared next to her. He stood there looking at her. If he could he put she sister and this boy side by side. He could almost tell if this is her. The boy turn to see him standing there.
"Brother!" The little boy got up and ran to him. He though his arms around him. This puzzles him. This little boy present is just like his sister. But the boy is not a girl. He had the longest brown hair he ever seen on a boy. Almost think he was a girl. But the eyes where a different story. The dark forest green eyes just like his sister. Wait dark green eyes. Long brown hair. No it can't be.
"Orabella?" There were tears in those green eyes. Ella rub her head in his gray robes.
"Brother Lucerne. Where have you been? Kell did this to me." Between the sobbed and the rub of the robes. Ella little body gave to the fever. She fell over. He catch her in his arms. He lift her up and touch her little forehead. She was burning with a fever. Lucerne didn't have the gift for healing. But he can cool her down. In light of this, the little white fox return to see Ella in the arms of Lucerne.
[Are you by chance one of the children of the light? The human child said he was one of you.]
"Do not worry for I will care for the her. Might I ask for you to stay with me. And tell me what you know of this child." The fox told him what the little boy said. And how he was in the village and left it to find some thing. But the fox did not know was he needed to find.
"Thank you for caring for him. I shall take him off of you."
[Might I stay with him. I feel the need to stay.] This might be a good to have the fox stay. For one thing that the fox is different from other foxes. Pure white foxes are very rare. And they sometime become more to high sprits of the forest. Protector of the forest. While he was thinking. He did not see the Alejo and his father coming behind him. The white fox put him self between the two. He was already to fight for the two gods. Lucerne turn to the two before him. Mortal man and a boy. He could tell these two can help them. The father and son.
"Alejo stay back." The boy stop in his tracks. Looked to his father puzzlement. The man had his hand on his sword handle. Lucerne knew a sword can't stop him. They will get them self kill.
"You don't need that. For I come for the little boy."
"I am sorry. I will have to stop you from taking him."
"Can you win?" The man was baffled by this man. And by the look of it Alejo could not believe that his father will lose to this man.
"How can you say that. I father is a mercenary."