Nitsu No Sekai

Prologue

"So cold... So cold... So cold..." Yuukimaru thought as she tried to make a fire with two sticks. She was in a cave, hiding from the vicious blizzard outside. "So close to making a-" The green haired girl was saying before her twigs broke in half. She let out a sigh of despair, watching the little fire slowly fade away. "I could burn my mittens... That would help." Yuukimaru thought as she took off her gloves and threw them on top of the small ember, completely smothering it. She waited a couple seconds, seeing if her fuzzy gloves had any effect on the glowing piece of wood. "Did it work?" The little girl asked herself, waiting for the fire to burn her mittens. She carefully picked up her mittens, inspecting the gloves to see if they were burning. There was only tiny, charred marks and even smaller holes in them, barely grazing the seafoam green fabric of the two mittens. The green haired girl let out another disappointed sigh, seeing that her idea didn't work. She put back on the fuzzy gloves, hoping they would still keep her warm despite the burnt holes in them. Yuukimaru looked outside, watching as the frosty snowflakes shot across the outside domain. She blinked a couple times before turning away. Memories crowded her mind, memories she wanted to forget. All the knowledge she had about everything, but none of it was about herself. She knew where Sekizos came from, who created the Necromancer clans, and what will happen to a pair of two young adults. Yet, she didn't know a thing about herself. It was like knowing everyone else, but having Amnesia and not even remembering your own name. As her thoughts drifted away, reality struck in. She got colder and colder as the storm got wilder and wilder. The damp ground sent shivers up her feet as they trembled from the temperature. Yuukimaru's old, green parka was falling apart and one of her boot soles started to fall off from being overused. Everytime the little girl blinked, frost would break off her eyelids and onto the ground. Her fingers shook as the winter wind swirled around them. the green haired girl took something out of her old, brown backpack. "How was your day, Mister Smiggles?" Yuukimaru asked a wooden doll she pulled from her bag. "I'm doing just fine, thanks for asking." The little girl answered for her wooden toy, imitating the voice of Mister Smiggles. All this time being alone, made Mister Smiggles an actual person. Yuukimaru honestly couldn't tell the difference between a human and the wooden doll she fiddled with in her hands, in her world, a doll and a human had the same worth of life, and the same amount of life in them, even if you had to make one talk. "Do you wanna play, Mister Smiggles?" Yuukimaru asked as she nodded the doll's head "yes"

"Well, what do you want to pla-Yaah!" The green haired girl was saying before a violent current swiped the toy from her hands and into the wall. The overused doll shattered, too old and cold to survive the crash against the hard, cave wall. "Mister Smiggles!" Yuukimaru yelped as she crawled over to her broken doll. "Mister Smiggles! You'll be just fine!" She told her toy, trying to put him back together with her cold, stiff hands. "It's okay! I'll... I'll..." Yuukimaru tried thinking up only for nothing to pop up. Then the little girl got an idea, one she absolutely hated but one she had to do to keep warm. Yuukimaru tearfully tore her doll apart, hoping to make firewood for warmth. "I'm sorry, Mister Smiggles!" She cried, tearing the doll to pieces until she had sufficient amount of firewood. "OW!!!" The green haired girl screamed as one of her cold fingers froze off. "Ahehehe! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!" She cried, watching blood soak her grey mitten. The green haired girl quickly took off her glove with the decapitated finger in it. The glove hung in her left hand like a messed up potato with one potato in it, that potato being a finger of course... cause that makes sense. "Aaah! It hurts! Mister Smiggles kiss it better!" Yuukimaru asked before she remembered what she had done to the doll. Yuukimaru could not be sadder than she was right now, her only practical family member and best friend wasn't there for her, "he" was "dead"

"Ahehehehehe! Someone please kiss it better!" The little girl begged the air as she continued to sob. Before she could cry anymore, another spine shivering current crashed against her bare skin, making her shudder and shake from the frosty weather. Yuukimaru held in her tears as she tried to get back on task, trying not to move her hand as much as possible. She rubbed two pieces of her doll together, surprisingly making a small flame. The little girl quickly put splinters of wood onto the ember until it finally started to rise. She sat in front of her tiny fire, protecting it from the cold winds trying to blow it out. As the fire got bigger, Yuukimaru got warmer. "Owowowow! It still hurts!" The little girl started to cry again as she looked at her stub of a index finger. Her bag fell over, spilling all of its contents onto the stone ground. Yuukimaru quickly started to clean it up until spotting a med kit. She looked at it closely, unable to read some of the words that was on it. Her eyes went wide as another brilliant idea popped up in her mind. Yuukimaru quickly grabbed the med kit, opened it, and threw it into the fire, unaware of its actually uses. The flames roared as they consumed the hazardous medicines, making it bigger and smokier. "Ooh, I'll be able to stay warm forever..." The little girl mused as she stared at the blazing fire. "But my finger still hurts!" She continued to complain before inhaling the fire's fumes. The green haired girl started coughing and gagging from air as the burnt medicine gas entered her body, making her feel nauseous and sleepy. "It smells bad..." Yuukimaru thought as she started to lose consciousness. "I'm... I'm going to..." She was trying to say before face planting into the hard ground. Before she lost complete consciousness, she could feel a huge current of wind blow through the tiny cave, continually pushing the poisonous gasses into a corner. The little girl fell asleep, not feeling the pain of her lost finger anymore. The very next day she woke up, the storm was gone, the fire was out... and there was a puppy licking her face. "Eeek!" Yuukimaru squealed as she quickly got up. The puppy was skinny and had white fur, blending in perfectly with the snow. "Huh? A puppy?" The green haired girl thought, taking a closer look at the dog. "A puppy!" She yelped, joyfully picking it up and snuggling with it. The small dog happily wagged its tail as Yuukimaru cuddled it. "Your name is... Mister Smiggles!" The little girl thought up as the puppy licked her again. The dog hopped out of her hands and headed outside. "Hey! W-Wait for me!" Yuukimaru shouted as she picked up her backpack and followed the small animal onto the frosty terrain. The outside looked like a giant pillow, covered in freshly laid snow that seemed to glow brightly as the sun gleamed on it. Mister Smiggles patiently waited for Yuukimaru to catch up to him, his tongue out and his tail wagging. As the green haired girl ran to the small animal, her footsteps engraved themselves into the white powder. "Don't run off like that!" Yuukimaru ordered her new dog as she finally caught up. "Oh! It's time to get breakfast! Do you wanna help, Mister Smiggles?" She asked the tiny animal. The dog let out a sneeze then went back to wagging his tail with his tongue out. "I knew you would!" The little girl said as she picked Mister Smiggles up and started running towards a cracked open mountain. The huge landscape was split open, like a huge lightning bolt struck it and left its shape. "I hope you're ready to eat lots and lots of fish!" She told the dog, reaching a clear, unfrozen spring with crazy amounts of fish swimming in it. Mister Smiggles jumped out of Yuukimaru's hands again and into the warm lake, catching a fish and bringing it back to her. "Ooh! You're such a good boy!" Yuukimaru giggled only for the small dog to shake itself off, getting the green haired girl's face all wet. "Well, maybe you are a little bad." The little girl flatly stated. She looked at the warm lake, it was like there wasn't any water, just a large window of glass on top of a hole with floating fish, that's how clear and calm it was. Mister Smiggles turned around and sprang back into the water. "Don't drown!" Yuukimaru warned her dog, a bit nervous. "Well, while he's getting his meal... I'll get mine too!" The green haired girl thought as she took off her parka and shoes. She stepped onto the cold, snowy ground, letting out a little yelp until she reached the warm water. The little girl continued to walk through the spring, not daring to go into the deep side of the water. Fish brushed against her legs as she went by, not even scared of the green haired girl nor the dog. "Hm, blue macarol, blue macarol..." Yuukimaru told herself as she looked for a certain type of fish. She looked over at Mister Smiggles, watching him pile fish up onto the snowflake covered ground. "Hey! We can't eat all of that!" She shouted at her dog, frowning at him. Yuukimaru spotted a blue macarol out of the corner of her eye and quickly pounced on it, only for the salt water to reach her open wounded, stub of a finger, and seep into it. "Yow! Owowowow!" The little girl cried, holding her hand as she frantically jumped in the water. "Mister Smiggles! Kiss it better!" She pleaded, getting out of the water and near her dog. The small animal licked her wound, slightly making it worse but better at the same time. The sobbing Yuukimaru saw how much blue macarols Mister Smiggles had caught, surprised that the dog had found so many in such a short amount of time. "C-Can I have one, Mister Smiggles?" The green haired girl sniffled as she wiped her tears away. The small dog stopped licking her finger and ran over to its little pile of fish, picking out one at random. Mister Smiggles brought back a fish to Yuukimaru and dropped it in front of her. "N-No Mister Smiggles, a BLUE macarol." The little girl specified. The puppy turned back around, grabbed another fish, and brought it back to her. "Th-Thank you, Mister Smiggles." Yuukimaru sniffled as she took the fish out of the puppy's mouth. The green haired girl took a bite out of the squirming fish, no better than the dog. "Mmm, so good..." Yuukimaru thought as she took another chomp out of the live fish. Blood dripped from her hands as she ate more and more of the scaly creature, not even caring that she could feel the warmness of the blue macarol. Mister Smiggles patiently waited for her to finish her meal. "D-Do you want some?" Yuukimaru asked her dog, holding out the blood seeping macarol. The puppy simply walked away, not having any interest in the fish the little girl ate. As Yuukimaru took another bite out of her breakfast, she looked at the warm lake. Fish calmly swam around, not knowing what fear was, just living a peaceful life in a spring where no one bothered them, except Yuukimaru. "I think it's getting deeper..." The green haired girl worried, remembering how last month it only reached her knees. Yuukimaru looked down at herself, soaked with warm water that reached her hip. Blood dripped onto her legs as the fish started to lose its warmness. Mister Smiggles jumped back into the lake, dog paddling his way over to the middle of it. "Mister Smiggles! It's time to go!" Yuukimaru yelled out to her canine, feeling the water on her knees getting colder by the second. The dog quickly responded as it swam back to shore and shook itself off. Mister Smiggles tongue gleefully stuck out as it made its way back to the green haired girl. Yuukimaru took another bite of her fish before she put her parka and shoes back on. "Let's go." She told her dog, starting to walk away from the pond. Mister Smiggles happily followed, understanding every word the little girl said. "Uh oh..." Yuukimaru gulped as she spotted something in the distance. A huge, grey snowstorm was far east, slowly approaching the little girl and her pet. "We better go." Yuukimaru suggested as she started running. Her old boots stomped into the snow as she ran towards three, little, grey dots that was awfully close to the upcoming storm. The little girl's puppy ran after her, trying to keep up with her pace. "Hurry, Mister Smiggles." She told her dog, looking behind herself at the running puppy. As she got closer and closer to the three dots, they started to show their true appearances. Three capsules in the ground, completely consumed by snow and frost. "We're almost there, Mister Smiggles. Just a little more." Yuukimaru reassured her dog as she felt the cold wind blow across her face. The approaching storm was closer then comfort. It howled in the air with vigor and violence as Yuukimaru approached one of the capsules. The capsule door had a giant wheel on it, clearly made out of some kind of old bronze. The green haired girl put her covered hands against the wheel, trying to turn it. Yuukimaru could feel the cold metal through her gloves as she firmly grasped it. The pivot of the wheel squeaked as Yuukimaru pushed it with all her might. Mister Smiggles quietly watched with his tongue sticking out and tail wagging. "Almost there!" Yuukimaru grunted as ice started to break off the crevices of the capsule door, making a cracking sound the more and more the green haired girl tried to get the door open. "Tch! I almost have it open!" Yuukimaru grunted, feeling the giant blizzard in front of her. The giant cloud of frosty death was so close to Yuukimaru, she was practically in it. "Almost have it! Almost have it!" The little girl stated as the wheel creaked and clacked. Frosty wind shoved Yuukimaru and her dog as she tried to open it. "Almost have it! Almost have it! Almost have i-"