Nightmare Redemption

Prologue

Author's Note: Please do not ask for smut or kissing scenes, the characters that are the main focus of the story are twelve. Some parts have angst in them, I don't want to cause people to freak out.

[Three years prior]

Six left the Maw for the last time, with her she brought the Nomes and watched as they all scurried to the wood's cabin. Unsure of what to do next, she decided to follow them, where they led her to the attic. 

However, she did make a detour before following them, she went left, instead of following the Nomes to the right. In that left room, she found a coon skin hat, and so she picked it up and put it in her coat pocket. Then she went and followed the rest of the Nomes to the attic and up to a part Mono had told her about, she winced as she thought of Mono, the poor bag boy she let go of in the tower. 

She saw another hat and did some puzzle solving to get to it, and it was a hat similar to a Nome's head, and she collected it too, then followed the Nomes out of the attic. She ran to keep up with them and then saw yet another hat, a rain cap, in a cage high above them. So, she got up to where it was and jumped on the cage until it fell, luckily none of the Nomes were standing underneath it. 

But she collected the hat and put it into her raincoat's pocket with the others, and continued to follow her Nome friends. 

Some Nomes were afraid of her, while others ran close to her, and then finally, they reached where she and Mono killed the hunter. Six noticed that her shadow was now there, poking the hunter's body with a stick, 

"Why are you poking the body?" she asked, but wasn't expecting a reply, 

"Because it is interesting," it simply said, dropping the stick and beckoning her. Six shook her head and followed the Nomes and the shadow followed her. 

And at that very moment, she had decided to save Mono, even if the journey seems stupid. "You'll need to prepare before saving him, ya know," the shadow whispered in Six's ear and she nodded and left to prepare for the long journey she'd have to go thru to even reach Mono.