Taeyang was an orphan in the Solar Zone of the outside world.
Abandoned by his parents, which he didn't even know, he started living in the Doom Orphanage since the day a woman with golden hair and emerald eyes found him trying to find food in a trashcan when he was three.
There he discovered that the name of the woman who brought him in was Marie, she was the owner of the place and Tae also discovered that she wasn't from there, but none of the kids knew where she was from.
He also met Dawgreen, an orphan boy one year older than him, with white hair and bright grey eyes, who became his brother and best friend in that place.
But when they were nine and ten years old, the orphanage was attacked by a group of unknown and dangerous people.
Those people killed almost everyone in the place, except for Taeyang, Dawgreen, and Marie.
Once Marie hid Taeyang into the kitchen cabinet and locked it so they wouldn't find him, but he saw when the bandits kidnapped her and Dawgreen.
He tried to scream, but his voice didn't come out.
And what scared him the most, was the smile on Marie's lips when they took her away with Dawgreen, he froze at the sight of her smile, a smile he had never seen on her, a true smile.
Taeyang cried silently inside the kitchen cabinet, waiting for someone to find and free him, but no one came for days.
A whole week passed until someone appeared in the orphanage, by that time his voice was already back, and he used the few strengths he had to beg for help.
"Honey, there's a survivor inside the kitchen cabinet! Hurry up and take him out of there."
Said a woman with a worried voice.
He couldn't see anything because his eyes were too tired to open, but he felt it when someone approached him, finally saving him from that lonely and endless darkness.
No words came out of his lips when arms embraced his little and weak body, only tears rolled from his eyes.
"Hey, calm down, kid..."
This time he heard the gentle words of a man.
"He must have been traumatized."
Said the woman from before, closer, to the man who was holding him.
"Did you saw who did this, kid?"
Taeyang nodded, still crying.
"Did you saw... they killing the other kids?"
He nodded once again.
"Was you the only survivor?"
His crying became more intense and his body trembled in the arms of the person who held him when he remembered Marie and Dawgreen.
He denied.
"And where's the other survivors now, kid?"
She asked calmly and slowly petting his head.
"Ki-kid..napped..."
"When did this happened?"
The man holding him asked.
"La-last... we-week..."
"You were locked in that place for a whole week, kid?"
The woman asked uneasily but he only nodded, feeling his throat dry and unable to speak more, but without being able to stop his tears.
"He is about to pass out because his body is very weak and dehydrated, Karina, we have to get out of here fast."
"Hang on just a little bit, kid, we'll take care of you."
He nodded but passed out soon after.
They breathe deeply and shared a worried gaze.
"I told her... I told her to get out of here. To go live with us in the Lunar Zone, but she didn't hear me. Tsc. She knew this was going to happen anytime if she stayed here close to the border of the tower, but she insisted. She said she needed to find, raise, and go back with the boy from the prophecy. But-"
"I know, darling, I know. But both of us know Marie well enough to know that she isn't dead. The kid said the survivors were kidnapped. Be at ease. We know that she wouldn't be harmed by the people of the tower, because they need her. That's why they were looking for her all this time. So she's certainly one of the survivors who they kidnapped."
Karina nodded but she wasn't at ease at all.
She looked at Taeyang's face and felt her heart conflicted.
"Do you think she got back with the boy from the prophecy, Lumiere? Or do think this kid could be him?"
"I think we need to wait until this little boy here is healthy again and has recovered from the trauma of seeing everyone he grow up with, dying in front of his eyes."
"But something is sus about all of this. Marie must have been the one who put this boy inside the cabinet to protect him. If he was a nobody, she wouldn't care at all, she would have left him to die, just like she probably did with the other kids."
"Good point, let's wait and see then. The kid must be able to give us some answers."