Board Thread:Other Roleplay/@comment-4998588-20151004224052/@comment-25535739-20151004232536

In an Unknown Location...

He laid down his weapons and ran over to her, weeping. His light grey hair flapping around in the wind. He couldn't believe what he had just done. Grabbing her, he pulled her up to his face to see a small smile form. "Ha ha... I never knew you were... This strong..." She muttered, clearly struggling to both talk and breathe.

"Damn it, woman! Don't leave me he-" She placed her finger on his lips.

"Don't... Be so rude... Alright? I'll... Leave you in charge of..." She began to talk slower and quieter, until her speech eventually faded.

He shook her, but to no avail. "No... Don't... Not like this!" He returned to where he had put his weapons and picked out the sharpest of all, a sword. Not a really big one, but a sword nonetheless. He held the sword in a position that could only be aiming for his chest. He uttered no more words before driving the blade straight into his chest, causing his vision to go blank.

In the Animatronic Kingdom...

Cain awoke with a startle. He was breathing heavily as tried to calm himself down. Even though he felt no pain whatsoever, he checked his chest to see, as he expected, nothing. No scar, no bruise, absolutetly nothing. His breathing returned to that of a normal pace as he stared outside his window. Outside, various peasants were already getting prepared for their day in whatever worthless little jobs they had. He slowly got out of bed and stretched, he couldn't even remember what time he had slept last night, but it must have been late, because he was more tired than he had ever been.

He walked out of his room, passing his mother's and brother's, and went downstairs. Quickly making himself a bite to eat, he got dressed into his Animatronic Kingdom attire. That is, normal clothing to you and me. As he went to leave, he felt something staring at him from the staircase, so he turned around to face his... brother. "...Mom said you shouldn't go today." He muttered, quite aware that he couldn't change his brother's decisions at all.

Cain grinned "Yeah. You know what else mom said? She said I shouldn't join the army. I'm one of the best soldiers there, you know she knows nothing, Abel."

Abel lowered his eyebrows. "Come on, Cain... Mom's very sick, couldn't you just stay a little while longer?"

Cain shook his head and opened the door. "Sorry, Abel. Apparently, there's gonna be a very important meeting today, and I'm invited." Halfway through the door, he shouted again "Or not, I might have just made that up. See you at noon." Cain made his way through the streets to the main castle, where the main doors were open for him. Taking a deep breath and smelling the signature smell of fresh burritos, he made his way inside.

Back at the house...

Abel sighed and went back upstairs. It was a good thing today was one of his few days off school, because when Cain wasn't home, Abel was all the company and help his mother could get. When first starting with the Animatronic Kingdom, they were no better than the peasants outside, but when Cain joined the army, they rose quite a bit. But Abel knew that if they were to pay for any sort of medicine, they would just be back where they started. He fed his mother some fruit and sat on the edge of her bed, something she didn't like him doing. "Abel, dear, you're going to catch this!", she told him between coughs.

Abel laughed "No, mom. Remember what I told you? I'm gonna stay at your side until you're finished with this!" His mother raised an eyebrow.

"But Abel, you're at the bottom of my bed!" She said, jokingly.

"Mom..." Abel laughed. He wanted to hug her, to feel her sweet embrace and strangely-scented perfume once more, but he knew he couldn't. Cain probably wouldn't even care if they both had it, he'd still be working his butt off either way. There's no way they could even survive, so Abel kept away. After talking for a short while, Abel decided to go outside. After getting permission from his mother, he ran, dressed in a black shirt and red pants.

However, inside the house, his mother's smile grew into a frown. She sighed as she looked at a photo at her bedside, taken just a few short months ago, it showed her and her sons in front of the Mask Kingdom's castle, when she looked just as well as Cain did. She turned away from the photo for a short moment and coughed fiercely, coughing up blood as she did so. She quickly wiped it up so Abel and Cain wouldn't see, and then decided to take a short nap.

Outside...

Abel ran outside. Compared to all the other children there, Abel looked far more "normal". Most children sat at the side of the roads, dressed in nothing but rags, asking for change from passing soldiers. If they were lucky, they'd get a penny or two, but most soldiers would either ignore them entirely, spit on them, or something even more degrading. Abel noticed two strange-looking children at the side of the road, two that he had never seen before, not in school nor outside. One of them, the boy, looked rather chubby, and appeared to be an animatronic, while the girl sitting next to him looked thin as a skeleton, with long (albeit faded) green hair tied up in a ponytail. At this point, the two had basically given up on asking for money, and were sitting their in silence.

Abel felt sorry for them, he knew their pain. He approached them and shot them a smile, which they both weakly gave back. He sat next to them and started conversation. "Hi! I've not seen you two here before, where are you from?"

The two didn't speak for a moment or two, before the boy finally responded. "We're... Um, new here. Our mom didn't want us living in the outskirts, because she thinks they're dangerous. Not that the city centre is any different, mind you..." He sighed.

Abel nodded. "I know how you feel. When I first got here, I was just like you two-"

"What's that supposed to mean?" The girl glared at him, though her gaze just as weak as her ability to keep herself from fainting.

"Um... I was very poor." Abel clarified, "So much that my brother had to go and join the army just to support us! Ha ha..." Abel attempted to cheer them up, though it seemed he was doing nothing of the sort. "Would you two be interested in coming to my house? I have some food there, you can ta-"

Instantly, their heads lifted up and they both gave Abel a large smile. "Are- Are you serious?" The boy asked, his eyes filled with glee. Abel nodded, causing them both to squeal with delight. He stood up to walk home, and the two ran after him. ''"Wow... They're really fast, even when they're famished... I guess food can do anything for people." ''Abel thought as he opened his door, introducing them to the wonders of a fridge.

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