Ruby Red Blood (Genshin X F!Reader)

Prologue

The seven Archons of Teyvat...

But what about the eight one?

A normal girl, young and pretty walked on the square in Mondstadt. Her (H/L) (H/C) locks swayed in the wind and in her hands were two baskets, both filled with sunsettia cakes, fresh and still hot in small bags. The price was twenty mora each bag. Not much, but with enough sold cookies she could make of a living. Her name was (Y/N) and she almost never talked, so few times that friends said to each other that she was deaf and warned the other to not talk to her unless they wanted to buy some of her cookies. And boy, her cookies were good. She was always dressed in her bright red dress with black gloves and black boots. Her dress was short with rose details and black embroidery. Around her neck was a black choker with a red rose charm. She didn't stand out much except with her ruby red dress, so no one really knew her, only her cookies and name.

People came up to her and bought cookie bags, small cute things in white cloth bags and a red ribbon. (Y/N) walked quietly around in the square, until the evening, when she walked away to stand outside angels share, selling cookies to drunkards. She didn't care that the drunk people wasn't in their right mind to buy things, as it was not her fault. She earned a living on it. And sometime close to midnight, she went home, just before a certain traveler and pixie entered the city with an outrider, exhausted and in need for sleep.

When (Y/N) woke up again she put on the red dress, her choker, boots and brushed her hair before she covered her left eye with some silky (H/C) locks. Dead eyes stared at her in the mirror, no emotions. She quickly put the cookie bags she had prepared the evening before into two baskets and walked out. Just in that moment, a boy with a golden braid and golden eyes dressed in even more outstanding clothes ran into her.

Everything went in slow motion suddenly. The girls lifeless eyes went shocked when all the bags flew out of one of her baskets and down in a puddle, at least most of them. The red ribbons became soaked and hung down and the white cloth had brown spots everywhere.

The boy opened his eyes to find himself laying on top of the girl, and in just a second he jumped up and started apologizing while helping the girl up.

She brushed away some dust and looked over to the puddle. She walked to one of the bags in the puddle and opened it. The cookies were soaked in muddy water. Her eyebrows twitched but her cold eyes remained the same. Only a few bags outside the puddle and the ones in her other basket could be sold.

"What to do with these bags?" she muttered to herself when she heard a high pitch noise.

"Aether! Where are you? Don't run away from Paimon! Huh? There you are! Whats this? Cookies? Can we buy some?!" a little white haired flying child thing ran (floated?) to the place from an alley and hungry looked at the soaked cookies.

"Paimon can smell sweet sunsettias and soft crispy cookie dough..." the kid drooled. "Aether! Ask for the price!"

"Um... the normal ones cost twenty mora... and maybe ten for the others? they are special and soak-" Y(Y/N) got interrupted.

"THE SPECIAL ONES ARE CHEAPER?! AETHER LET'S BUY SOME!! YOU COULD BUY ALL OF THE BAGS FOR MAYBE ONLY A TWO HUNDRED MORA AND SWORDS COST MORE THAN THAT! PAIMON COULD E- UM PAIMON MEANS WE COULD EAT LOADS FOR BARELY ANYTHING!" the gold haired boy sweat dropped at the flying child's(?) behavior before he turned to the (H/C) head.

"How many bag were soaked?"

"A-around fifteen... but they are soaked in dirty water and-!" Aether suddenly covered her mouth and whispered.

"Please. if she has enough cookies it might take some time before i have to spend thousands of mora a day because she is really hungry. All. Of. The. Time. here is a tip." he handed her two hundred mora instead of the hundred and fifty she was supposed to have.