The teen softly sighed as he stood up from his crouched position and he wiped his mouth off. Underneath him was only a Skelton of Ricky, blood splatters were on his white shirt as he shook his head and zipped his hoodie closed.
"Damn is that Ricky?" asked a male voice.
The violet eyed teen looked over his shoulder and saw a fellow male teenager standing at the entrance of the alleyway with a grin on his face. The male was 18 years old the same as the violet eyed teen. He had a black leather jacket over a plain red t-shirt that had the word Rad in bold yellow. He wore a pair of plain navy denim jeans and dark grey high ankle sneakers. He also wore a plain black head band that pushed his dark blue hair in a spiky fashion. His eye color was a dark green. This was Jules.
"Yeah, well what's left I didn't wanna eat the bones" replied the other teen kicking the clean skull towards Jules.
The green eyed teen chuckled and then soccer kicked the skull onto a nearby roof.
"Always such a picky eater Yuri" replied Jules walking up and patting Yuri who was the violet eyed teens name shoulder.
"He deserved this he stole from us and confessed he didn't have any intention on paying us back" said Yuri.
"Oh no I would have done the same if I found him first" responded Jules glaring down at the skeleton before he made a "Hmm" and walked over to the fallen girl.
"Who is this?" asked Jules squatting down in front of the unconscious girl.
"Dunno Ricky over here was about to eat her" gestured Yuri while putting his hands in his pocket looking up at the dark clouds.
"Aww so you do care about others" teased Jules as he chuckled.
"Tch She was just lucky my target was Ricky" scoffed Yuri as he glared at Jules who was grinning at him.
"Mmm she's got internal organ damage and her left ankle seems to be sprained pretty badly" mumbled Jules to himself as his eyes got a light blue glow.
"You're not thinking we take her back home with us, do you? What if she is a Ricky Spy and that fight was just a way to convince us" said Yuri only to sigh seeing Jules didn't listen to him at all and pulled the knocked-out girl on his shoulder.
"I'll tell Grams that answer and you know she won't give you any stew tonight" reprimanded Jules as he saw Yuri flinched before grumbling and holding the girl's others side so they both held her up.
"You tell no one ok?" said Yuri glaring at the blue haired teen.
Jules laughed and grinned at his friend. The trio soon walked towards their home.
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A gasp soon echoed in a lone room as the girl quickly sat up. She immediately winced in pain as she looked down and saw her foot was wrapped in bandages. She moved her hand up and also felt that her forehead was wrapped in the soft fabric of a bandage. Memories soon came crashing in her mind as she remembered Ricky using that skill over and over the pain was unimaginable it felt as if a mountain was crushing into her over and over. Then the last thing she saw was the teen who helped her devour that man like a wild beast.
"Ah it seems your awake" said a soft voice drawing the girl to look to her side.
There washing a bloody rag in a bowl of water was an old lady wearing a plain black sweater and sweat pants. She had soft grey hair that was made into a bun and dark green eyes, this was Jules Grandma Mary.
"Where am I?" asked the girl.
"My grandson and Yuri brought you with them to get you healed up, apparently you were running from Ricky" answered Mary passing the girl a steel cup that had water in it.
The girl quickly grabbed the cup and gulped the liquid down not even realizing how thirsty she was.
"Now what's your Name missy?" asked Mary as she walked back and filled the cup with some more water.
"...My name is Winter Ma'am" replied Winter softly.
"Such a beautiful name" said Mary with a smile on her face.
"Thank you, Ma'am," responded Winter bashfully.
"Gram's is food ready!" shouted a voice from outside.
The sound of footsteps was heard as the room's door opened and Jules came walking in a grin still on his face.
"Didn't I teach you to knock first!" shouted Mary as she threw a cup straight in Jules face making him fall on his back.
"I'm sorry!" said Jules as he quickly crawled out the room dodging more tins. Once he was outside the room Mary huffed and crossed her arms.
"Honestly that boy" sighed Mary out.
"So, is that a no to food being ready?" asked Jules as he stuck his head back in the room.
"10 minutes ok?" said Mary as she winded her arm up and through a bucket at Jules head causing him to roll backwards outside due to the force.
"Hey Yuri Gram's said food will be ready in 10 minutes!" came the muffled voice of Jules outside.
"Hnn" replied the muffled voice of Yuri as a yes.
The muffled sounds of laughter drew Mary's attention to see Winter softly laughing to herself. This made Mary crack a smile as she chuckled to herself and walked over to a giant cooking pot Winter only noticed now. Mary quickly grabbed a big wooden spoon and stirred the contents of the pot around.
"You have such a lively Grandson" replied Winter as she climbed of the bed and stumbled over towards the elder woman.
"When he comes back you should thank him, he was the one to bring you in" said Mary as she quickly tasted some of the stew nodding to herself.
"The other teen the one who saved me he... he ate that man" said Winter softly shaking to herself.
Mary sighed softly and escorted the girl to a big wooden desk that had wooden chairs around it.
"You're from the Noble area arnt you?" asked Mary.
"Yes I am... but..." said Winter only to stop herself.
"The noble area doesn't have any Rot infected people so you all arnt used to seeing any of that but down here in the slums you get used to it pretty quickly" said Mary as she was placing plates around the table.
"Are they even humans! How can you just... just eat someone like an animal!" shouted Winter scared holding her head.
A comforting hand was placed on her shoulder as she looked up and saw Mary giving her a small smile.
"They didn't ask to be cursed by this cell Winter but just because they have it do; they not have the right to live like anyone else?" asked Mary.
"No but..." started Winter.
"Everyone is allowed to live winter Rot infected or normal no one has the right to pass judgement on someone if they haven't walked in their shoes for a day" said Mary walking towards her door and ringing a golden bell by the door.
"But keep this at the back of your mind, you've had a long day and need to rest your mind plus fill your stomach with warm food." Stated Mary as people showed up in front of her house.
Winter slowly nodded her hand and turned to face her plate which was in front of her. She looked up and saw other elderly people with kids walk happily in the room sitting at the table. Mary was about to close the door before Jules and Yuri quickly ran in. The duo walked over to the table and sat next to Winter, Jules held his hand out for a hand shake and gave Winter a grin.
"Yo names Jules how you feeling?" asked Jules.
Winter gave his hand a soft shake and spoke softly.
"I'm feeling better thank you Jules" responded Winter giving the teen a closed eye smile.
Jules suddenly held his heart and thought to himself.
"Such an Angelic smile!"
Winter looked over to Yuri and as she made eye contact with him his emotionless violet eyes looked straight at her causing her to flinch and look down at her lap. Her plate was suddenly filled with a hot bowl of beef stew that had bits and pieces of food in it. Mary and a few other people were walking around the table and dishing up. Everyone soon had smiled on their faces as they ate the delectable food, even Yuri cracked a small smile. All the people started talking to one another of their day and what they did while the kids tried to impress their parents making everyone chuckle at them. Was this how a family was supposed to feel asked Winter to herself.
A quick flash back appeared in her mind as it showed a massive mansion overlooking the slum area, inside the house it showed three people sitting far away from each other around a dinner table, the entire room was deathly quiet the only sound was the sound of cutlery scraping.
"Tell me Winter have you finished your studies?" asked the man at the head of the table.
"Yes father" replied the young Winter shaking lightly.
"Good and why did I hear by the servants you didn't go for your daily injection?" stated the man now looking coldly at Winter.
"It hurts father" said Winter.
"It hurts hmm? Well to bad!" shouted the man as he stood up causing the table to move forwards.
Winters memory was interrupted as time went into slow motion. She looked to her left and saw Jules dive and quickly tackle her down as Yuri next to him quickly jumped on a pair of children sitting next to him. When time resumed the entire house was suddenly engulfed in a massive explosion. The impact caused everything to go dark for winter.