Chapter 56; Nix Awakens

"According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man's best friend is his dog."

– Jay Leno

Once I had gotten decent I walked home. The woodlands were silent, there weren't any signs of hunters walking through it. Night animals began to come out slowly from the shadows in which they had hid. Owl's hooted their greetings from high in the trees as a peaceful silence and melody descended upon me, the birds and crickets joined in their songs as the sky began to clear. I mentally sigh when I looked up, at least here the sky isn't as polluted as back home, crap I'm getting home sick. Scratching the back of my head I looked back down to earth sometimes it isn't a good thing to want to reach for the stars instead it's good to be down to earth. The door creaked open and my head nearly went flying, I ducked down as the golden sword passed the place were my neck stood a second ago. Tacking the person who has the sword by his waist I threw them over my shoulder whilst holding the swords hilt my eyes twitching.

"Edcart? Or was it Isaac?" I ask, the boy in front of me shook his head and pointed towards himself.

"I'm Isaac! That's Edcart! And you're late!" Isaac says sounding indignant.

"Hey! This is my house I can come home whenever I want! And you can't just yell at me! I'm giving you a place to sleep ya brat!" I say picking Isaac up by his waist and doing the same to him. Both he and his brother pounded their fists against my back, shaking their legs and yelling cus words at me and telling me to let them go. I walked up the stairs and to the top floor going straight for the library's balcony. I held both boys by the scruff's of their necks and over the railing. They hugged one another instantly.

"DON'T LET US GO!!" Both yelled in unison.

"Mhmm,let me think about it..... Meh,I'll drop ya!" I say cheerfully and loosed my hold on the boys. They screamed like a bunch of school girls.

" PLEASE DON'T LET US GO!" They yelled Orella walked out and froze.

"Ah, Khaleesi what are you doing?"

"ORELLA! SHE'S GONNA KILL US!! HELP!!" The boys yell in response.

"Oh? If Orella takes another step I'll drop you, well unless you stop being such brats and find a clearing large enough to house a mansion bigger than this one. Will you do that,or should I....drop you?" I ask smiling evilly.

" WE'LL STOP BEING BRATS AND DO WHATEVER YOU ASK,JUST PUT US DOWN!" They yelled tears now streaming down their cheeks. I giggled and dropped them on to the ground next to me patting their heads.

"Good. Now you and I will have no problems,I'll even help you improve your fighting techniques as thanks for finding me a clearing. Night~ Night~" I said in a sing-song tone of voice. Grabbing Orella and pulling her along with me.

"Was that....really necessary?" She asks me.

"It was. They wouldn't have done what I said if I hadn't scared them. Plus their getting annoying when they hide whenever I pass by them." I huff as I respond. Orella giggled,she had told me that she was just a ten year old and that her parents are dead, her friends,those two boys have lost their family as well due to the monster roaming the forest at the moment. It had tracked them down. I frowned as my eyes sadden.

"What is it?" I ask her.

"I...I honestly don't know." Orella says shaking her head, I sigh and stretch my shoulders out as we pass by the staring pictures of my ancestors.

"Any how, good night-" I paused when something moved inside of me. I blinked and grinned. "Good night and sleep well,if you have a nightmare again, don't hesitate to tell me." I add as I ruffled her head. She grin and walked in to her bedroom which was next to my own. Plopping down on my bed I smiled excitedly.

"NIX!" I yelled and in a bright flash of colour a different coloured Nix awakens and appears in front of me. The fox had an array of different colours and hues in its usually snowy fur. I ignored it however as I pulled the little thing in to my arms.

"Nixy! Oh how I have missed you!" I cry snuggling in to the little fox's pelt. He purred.

"I've missed you two, what I was about to say was that the vampire venom can harm us spirits or it can empower us, apparently it was the later for both of us. So you should be happy I survived cause now you got a serious boost." Says the fox acting proud and mighty as it snuggled it's head in my white hair. I giggled and tickled it's belly causing it to roll around laughing. And let me tell you a fox's laugh sure is contagious. Pulling Nix in to my arms and then covering us with my blankets I smiled as I fell asleep.