He felt something run down his chin. He touched it with his small fingers, looking at his fingers. Blood covered his tops of his fingers. He wiped the blood off his face and stood up. He looked at his bare feet and his legs. His legs were scratch bu...
Little Jyushi stared at the castle for a couple of minutes before the man in the mask caught his eye. He watched as the man waved him over, with no answer the man turned and went back into the forest. Jyushi had questions that needed answers. Jyushi ran towards the forest were the man disappeared. "Wait! Sir!" Jyushi yelled, but no one answered. Jyushi decided to run for it. He ran for a good 10 minute,taking small breaks in between, before he reached the castle. The castle was much bigger up close. The man walked up the stairs to a huge door, the door open and he disappeared inside. Jyushi ran towards the castle, he made his way up the stairs. He looked at the huge door. He softly knocked. The door open with loud clack. Jyushi back away a bit as a lady walked out but she wasn't right. Instead of a human head she had a bird's head. No feathers, she had black arms and was wearing a black maid dress. Jyushi stared, he had fear in his eyes. "You must be the boy Master has been talking about." She said in a sweet but shaky voice. More questions built up inside little Jyushi's mind. He decide to ask one of them. "Are you talking about the man in the bone mask?" Jyushi asked in a low voice. She looked at him with her white eyes. "Yes, he has a skull mask of a bird." She said. Jyushi wanted to run. There's more than one. "Come in, little one." She said, stepping aside. Jyushi walked in, scared. He looked around the castle was so pretty and huge. There was a grand stairway in the middle of the room, painting on the wall, golden lining every boarder. A giant chandelier hanging in the middle of the room on the ceiling.
He looked around till he saw a man walking down the grand stairway. The man wore a mask of a ram skull. Jyushi watched as 2 people walked behind him. They were human, normal boys that looked like him, without the bruised eye. "Is this him? Karamatsu said he lead a boy here. Is he the one?" The man asked in a deep voice. "Yes this is the one Master Osomatsu. Master will be happy." She said. "Come follow me, little one. I will take you to your room that you will be sharing with these two boys." The man in the ram mask, Osomatsu said as he pointed to the two boys standing behind him. The one boy had a green shirt, and pants on. He was very close to the man in the mask. The next boy had a pink dress on. He had chains around his wrist, but they weren't connected. The man and the boys started walking towards a hall, Jyushi followed.
After 3 minutes of walking down the hall, the man stopped in front of a door. He opened it. "This is will you 3 will be staying till they or I come and get you." He said. They walked in and with a slam, the door was closed, Jyushi ran over to the door trying to open it, locked. Jyushi turned around. "Its okay, we won't hurt ya." The pink one said. "Listen we're scared too. I got here a couple of days ago, and Todo came here yesterday." The green one said. "I'm Jyushi." He said with a calm voice. "I'm Todo and this is Choro." Todo said as he pointed to the green one, Choro.
The 3 boys talk about themselves and how they got there. Choro was doing farm work till he saw the man with the ram skull mask. He followed him and he Choro lead to the castle. Todo was chased he by his father, his father was trying to kill Todo. But the man with the canine mask told him he would be safe in then castle. Todo went in.
They soon talked about the 3 masked man. Osomatsu, Karamatsu, and Ichimatsu. Osomatsu was the man in the ram skull mask, Karamatsu was the man in the canine skull mask, and Ichimatsu was in the bird skull mask. They each had different servants. The servants that had sheep/ram heads worked for Osomatsu, dogs for Karamatsu, and birds for Ichimatsu.
Soon a bird servant came in. "Jyushi, please come with me." He said. Jyushi looked at the other two then stood walking outside of the room. The servant closed the door, locking it. The servant took him back to the main entrance and up the grand stairway. At the top of the stairs they took a left and saw 3 doors with different symbol on them. The first was red and had a ram's skull, with leaf around the bottom of the skull. The second was blue and had a dog's skull that had candle sticking up from behind the skull. Lastly, a purple one and had a bird's skull with hands around the top of it.
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The servant opened the door for Jyushi, Jyushi walked in and the servant closed the door. The room was big. It had a huge bed with white blankets, sheets, and pillows. It also had several dressers, chairs, one small table close to the bed, a fire place close to the bed as well. A small paint with a candle set and a clock on the fire place. The ceiling about the bed had cloth around the top of the bed. Jyushi smiled as he climbed into the bed. Soft so soft. His inner child, came out as he started to jump up and down on the bed. He was so happy till he head a grunt. He stopped jumping and watched as a man sat up, a man with the bird skull mask. Jyushi stared at the man, the man looked at Jyushi. The mask had dark eye sockets so Jyushi couldn't see this eyes. "Jyushi." The man said with a deep voice. Jyushi instantly pasted out.
