Daemon Born

February 1

          I heard a noise out in the hall. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. I still felt really tired and thought that it must be really early. I raised my arm and sent a thought to the device on my hand. It made a noise and a little light flashed.

Then a projection was brought up and it read; "JAN16-2090 03:08:53". I wonder what's making that noise so early. I rubbed the back of my head, rubbing my hair. I got up from my bed and looked around my room a bit. It was dark and everything was quiet.

I walked over to the door that leads outside into the hall of my room. I passed some furniture that had various items on them, some turned off lamps, some digi-cubes, a pitcher and a glass of water, and a small framed picture of a red-haired woman, a small child with blue eyes and brown hair, and even shorter girl with short black hair, she had her eyes closed. She was rustling up the hair of the child and she smiled happily, the boy was laughing delightfully.

I picked up the photo and looked at it, ran a finger over the image of the little girl, I could feel my heart drop remembering what happened to her. It was about a year ago. Me and my party took on a quest and were dispatched to the red forest.

I could still remember it all and could feel how it all felt, the air and the people I was with. I closed my eyes and brought myself back to the place. I remembered the red leaves that would fall softly around the air, the trees would be a very brilliant maroon colour, and I can understand why it is one of the 10 wonders of the world.

"Hey! Could you stop fooling around! We're on a job you know!" A voice snapped from behind me.

I opened my eyes and looked over my shoulder, it was a girl with long black hair and she wore a red and white uniform. There was our crew emblem embroidered into the shoulder of her top. She had a katana strapped onto her back, it looked really skilfully made. The girl had a serious expression on her face. Her black eyes cut through me like the blade on her back.

I flinched at her look. I rubbed the back of my head and gave out a sigh.

"You don't have to be so serious Kiru." I gave a distressed sigh again. I straightened out my black cloak. I started walking towards her, and as I did I could hear the leaves crunching under my feet. Everything about this place was so relaxing. I looked up at the girl again.

"It's not like we found the thing yet. It's been quiet the whole time." I complained to her.

"That doesn't change the fact why we're here. Don't forget, the mission comes first." She waved her finger around as she said that in a very mighty tone.

I groaned at her. We were sent here to find and kill something that was disturbing the peace, or something like that, I wasn't really paying attention to the briefing. Kiru would probably smack me if she found out I wasn't listening again.

We continued walking back to our small camp which we set up just awhile ago. It had a small campfire in the middle with something roasting on it, and there were our 4 tents that were set up. It was enough for each of us.

Sitting by the fire was a large tanned guy wearing a white and tank top, and a blue and black cloak, emblem clearly on the front pocket of his torso. He smiled and waved at us. On his fists were knuckles of some sort, they seemed heavy and I'm not sure what they were made of, but they seemed specially made.

"Where have you two been? We're already cooking the food!" He laughed very heartily.

Sitting beside him was a girl much smaller than he was. She wore a pure white cloak that seemed a little too big for her to be wearing it, she held her head down and I couldn't really get a good look at her face. She looked a little shy. I can understand that considering she is the newest member of the group after me.