\\Alleyway//
3rd Person PoV
"*pant* *pant* Stay away from me! I know what you did, you're killing people aren't you!?" Screamed a small boy running away from a man wearing a black robe and a strange red hat.
"Stop! Someone will hear you, and if they do we will do worse to you than we did to that mother of yours!" said the man wearing the weird clothes chasing the boy.
\\Cultist HQ//
3rd Person PoV
In a jail cell inside the Acraria Cultist HQ inside the Acraria Kingdom, a woman lay unconscious. This woman was the boy's mother and the princess of the Acraria kingdom. Of course the boy didn't know this because the mother whose name was Amber Hunt, disowned by her mother Emma Acraria, didn't want him to know.
Technically, Emma disowning Amber shouldn't even be possible according to the anti-tyrant laws passed by the 18th monarch. But, Emma Acraria is a tyrant, and why would a tyrant follow a law meant to stop tyrants?
The Acraria Kingdom is a monarchy, and the only reason no one has tried to overthrow the kingdom is because people actually liked the monarchs of this nation. Of course, every ounce in a blue moon, there comes a tyrant that everyone who cares about human and non-human life, hates. There have only ever been three of those, and Emma Acraria is the third one.
\\Back in the Alleyway//
Rei's PoV
"*Ugh* what happened? I feel horrible, my stomach doesn't feel like it's even there, and my throat feels like I just had my tonsils removed with no anesthesia" I groaned as I tried my best to sit up. When I woke up I was in a quiet and dark alleyway. Well, quiet until two people came running down the alleyway, screaming. One was a small boy with tattered clothes, blackish-blue hair, and black eyes. The other was what looked and sounded like a grown man with not so tattered clothes that made him look like a classic cultist in movies, and his facial features were completely covered up.
'I usually don't interfere in stuff like this because of my old man, always telling me not to get into any trouble. However, I did always love seeing the look on his face when he found out about the crazy sh*t me and my friends occasionally got up to. Well... crazy sh*t we used to get up to.' I thought in a said tone, if that's even possible. And at that time, I don't know how I couldn't have, I guess I was just too disorientated to notice that time had kind of slowed down around me.
I waited till the boy ran past him and the cultist looking guy was about to, and tripped him. I then used some of the military training that I learned from my dad, to apprehend the guy chasing the kid.
"Hey! What are you doing!" Said the cultist looking guy.
"Yeah, what are you doing?" Questioned the boy that stopped a few meters away.
"Hey! Get off of me already, that's my son!" The creep yelled pathetically trying to get out of the situation he had been caught in.
"No I'm not! He was trying to kidnap me" said the boy.
I then knocked him out. Even if the man had been telling the truth it would have posed a greater threat to let him go than to knock him out and turn him in. The least I could be charged with was aggravated assault.
"Is he... dead?" said the now scared looking boy.
I then said "No, just unconscious. So, what happened?"
The boy said with a suspicious face, "How can I trust you, I mean you just kil-!"
I cut the boy off and said, "First of all boy, shut up about people killing other people. Second, he's not dead, he's just unconscious. Third, I don't know where I am and if saving your butt did'n-"
The boy cut me off this time and said, "Alright alright , what do you want?"
"Information, boy." I said
"What kind?" said the boy
"What is your name? I can't just keep calling you boy." I said with a bit of curiosity because I always loved meeting new people.
"My name is Stelios Hunt" he said with a bit of pride for some reason.
"Alright Stell we need to go before this guy wakes up, do you know a place where we can lay low?" I said, letting an old habit of mine get away from me: on-the-spot nicknaming. Also deciding that the kid was telling the truth about the man trying to kidnap him.
"Who said you could call me Stell!? Only my mom calls me that... at least, she used to, until those men kidnapped her... But anyways, I do know a place where we can hide, and thank you for saving me." Stelios said with a very sad look on his face.