Near... By your side... Always

When we meet. (Ten years in the past)

Chapter 1: When we meet. (prologue 10 years ago)

It was a hot day. Well hot was a subtle adjective for the day of a travelling family that seemed to wander thrugh the desert of Sander as if they were lost, but that wasn't the case, they were indeed looking for a certain place.

The figures that walked were three, two of them belonged to adults, the other, a mere child. Their clothes, betraying the weather, seemed to cover their bodies from direct contact with the blazing sun. Colored in pure white the family were simple mere dots in the vast desert, as well as the lone inhabitants of such place.

"Mother... how much we need to walk?" the boy was the first to speak removing the cloth, showing his magenta eyes as well as a bit of his white messy hair.

"Hang in there Add sweetheart" his mother answered softly removing the cloth on her mouth to show him a delicate smile while she closed her eyes gently.

"Here we go" immediately stated his father as he lifted the boy and placed him on top of his head carrying the young male on his shoulders.

"Yay!" Exclaimed the young boy smiling as the family continued walking on the sandy surface.

The group continued walking for a prolongued period of time, but their traveling seemed to be fruitless as only sand, cactuses and the regular dead animals skeletons were all their sight could muster, yet, suddently right in front of them the sand began to move. Flying through the air as a small mole-like figure appeared.

It was and old mole male similar to a phoru but his nose being larger and thinner and his two middle claws being way longer and thicker to ease his excavation abilities.

"Finally I found you again master. It's dangerous to venture in the desert like this!" exclaimed the anxious servant as he bowed in front of Add's father.

"Raise your head Hamelin and excuse our imprudent behaviour. We just wanted to take a walk, as it didn't suit us to make you do all the work in finding that place.

The place that Add's father was talking about were the whereabouts of the Haan clan. An ancient village of nomads that travelled from place to place after the curse of Eun, the silver nine-tailed fox spirit, afected them morphing their people into its envoyers giving them fox-like features as well as a wild aptitude towards humans making them unsuitable to live around people anymore.

For others they were monsters but for his father, the only one adventurer that could contact them, they were the kindest people he had ever met and he wanted to show those people to his family specially to Add as he didn't have many friends.

Add didn't matter that lack of friends as he always stated that the nasods and his family were all he needed but his father was always right and thus for that only reason he accompanied them through this ordeal.

"Anyway. Do you have some information for us, Hamelin?" The male questioned as the servant rose.

"I do master but-" he was saying when a roar was heard alerting the group as they looked at the source of it, a sandstorm.

The next minutes for Add were a mere blur as his father quickly launched him from his comfortable seat towards Hamelin making the mole-man catch him and immediately jump into the hole he had made seconds ago.

Soon darkness covered his vision as the sand began to fill the subterranean entrances and it was just then that for a second he trembled for his parents life as a sudden movement of Hamelin made him return to reality as they entered in a tunnel to dodge the sand avalanche reaching a temporary safe spot.