It is a fine day today. We are in a forest and on our way to the next town.
"urgh! I hate walking!" Auriga complained while cutting some small branches from trees that were on his path.
"please stop nagging." Lupus replied with a sigh. He must be tired of Auriga's complaints.
We ignored Auriga and continue our journey. After 35 minutes of walking, we found ourselves a waterfall that was so beautiful. We agree to take a break and rest to get a dip in the water.
Lupus, Auriga, and I swim while Cygnus just sitting on a stone while her feet are dipping in the water. Pyxis on the other hand is collecting some material. Suddenly, I heard a sound that was coming from a nearby Bush. I walk slowly towards it and quickly see what's behind it. It was just a bull that was eating the grass and still chewing it.
"Oh, it's just a cow," I said in relief. I when back and tried to relax. Sunset arrives and we set up camp. We bought a few camping materials before leaving the town. We set up the tent and the process was very funny cause lupus always gets tangled between the robe and the tent's fabric. Pyxis came back with a lot of firewoods and we are ready to cook. After I lit up the fire, Cygnus come to me.
"master, I want to cook too!" Cygnus said while grasping both of her heads.
"why?! You don't even know how to cook." I said.
"I can learn that from you. Lately, I think to myself that I am useless to the party member. Lupus can attack, Pyxis can make an escape, Auriga can control meanwhile Berenice know many things. I'm on the other hand only know how to heal and we didn't always get injured." Cygnus explains while playing with her fingers while looking down to the ground.
" you should not say that! Everyone has their worth. You just don't know yours yet but someday you'll know it for sure." I encouraged Cygnus while looking at the stars.
It reminds me of when I was just a little kid.
"grandfather, does my existence is just disturbing?" I said while crying cause last night, my parents came by and told my grandfather that they have a baby but don't want me back.
"who said that? I will surely educate them! Don't worry Kyo, everyone is here on earth for some reason. Now, you are here to accompany me." my grandfather smiled while scratching his beard.
"but when I grow up, you will not be with me," I said still crying. Grandfather seems shocked to hear that from a child but suddenly burst out laughing.
"I didn't say people only have one purpose. Okay, I will give you an example." he said smiling. "what is the purpose of a firefighter?" he asked me. It was very obvious that the firefighter put down the fire.
"firefighter put down fire!" I answered.
"correct! What's other firefighter do besides putting down fire?" he asked me again. I was confused cause what would a firefighter do? My grandfather saw my confused face and smiled. "Firefighters can also help you when you are trapped inside a house when a snake or other hostile creatures inside your house," he said.
"wow! I don't know firefighter can do that!" I said with a happy expression.
"it's the same to every existence, we have more than one purpose in this world." he continues.
"Cygnus, I once advised that everyone has many purposes, some are trivial and some are bigger but everything is important." I said to her. "but, if you want to learn how to cook, I can teach you. You can help me with it too." Cygnus and I smiled. Her face has a bright smile like a kid just get praised by their parents.
I thought Cygnus how to cook fish and the best methods to cut it. Cygnus was very quick to learn all of it. It took me about two weeks to learn how to cook fish when I was younger.
"Are you guys done yet?" Auriga yawn.
"it's finished!" Cygnus said while putting the fish that has cook on top of a big leaf as a plate. Everyone eats with a happy face and Cygnus enjoys watching all of them like the food she cooked.
The next morning, we continue our journey and finally arrived at the next village. The houses were made of gray wood while the roof has a cyan colour and the road has a cobblestone pattern on it. It was beautiful but it looks like no one here. We looked around and the place is very quiet. We check everywhere, the guild, the shops, even the houses but no human was in our sight.
Berenice, why is the place very quiet?
[it seems that all the people in this village left this place a long time ago.]
Why would they leave such a beautiful place?
"Master, I'm very sorry but I don't find any human." Lupus said in his true form. I smiled and pat him on the head. He wagged his tail and smiled.
"same here, I don't find any existence here." Auriga scratches his head.
"Master, I didn't found a single life here," Pyxis reported to me. It seems that there is no human here.
As I look around, I spotted a trash can. I walk toward it and open it. Maybe there is a child inside it. I doubt that. I lifted the trash can's hat and found a back crow lying on top of many trash. I look at the crow, it must be dead now. I look at it for a few more moments and suddenly its eyes open and it flew out of the trash can. I was shocked and fell down on my butt. The crow flew and landed on a chimney in one of the houses. I walk back to the others and regroup to borrow a house. We enter one of the houses. What surprises me about this place is not that there is no human but there is furniture and items in all of the house. The house we enter has two bedrooms, a toilet, a kitchen, and a living room that has a shelf with many books inside it. We planned to stay here for a while. The house was pretty dusty but we managed to clean it up before dawn hit us.
After cleaning, we took bath and were ready to hit the sack. Cygnus and Lupus shared the room on the right of the house meanwhile Pyxis and I shared the bedroom that was located at the left of the house. Auriga on the other hand said that he wants to keep guard if someone comes here. The next day, no one came here and I woke up and see Auriga sleep on the floor. I wrap him with an extra blanket that I found and keep searching the house to see if anything can help us. I look through the books and found a red and gold book. I open it and it was a diary.
25 Pisces 1892,
Dear diary,
Today our town was cursed! We only knew this because every since lately, our village lost many of our crops, and our food supplies began to slowly disappear. If only we know how to deal with it, we will have a healthy life.
30 Pisces 1982,
Today, a neighbourhood nun came to our village and advised us to leave the village and didn't bring any of our stuff cause they were afraid that it was already infused with the curse.
3 Aries 1982,
We will be leaving this village tomorrow. I am glad to leave the village but I can't bring you my dear diary.
The diary was written from last year and it seems that the villagers were desperate to leave the village. I shared this information with the others.
We discuss our plan on a dining table. We discuss our plan after leaving this place. As the other discuss with themselves, I turn my head to look around the room and saw a crow on the couch staring at me. That was the same crow that was inside the trash can. We continue to stare at each other until Cygnus saw me.
"Master, what are you looking at?" Cygnus asked me.
"the crow. It's weird that a crow got into this house. I thought that I close all of the windows.