[ Sat in a bed was a little boy,
He was quite interesting.
He always smiled as he played with his toy,
it was fascinating.
I questioned why he stayed,
He just looked up at me and simply smiled.
I asked what he played,
He showed me a crown held by a toy child.
The boy left his toys shortly after showing,
Why, I said.
The boy just glance at me and kept smiling,
Bye, I said. ]
"Haha..Haha..Ha!"
A laugh echoed across the quiet streets. Soon, The clanking sound of metal boots followed, stepping over puddles that reflected the woven stars in the night sky.
"You wretched thief! GET BACK HERE!" A man emerged in a dark alley, clad in what seemed to be Iron armor. Shortly after, three more followed.
"Hahaha.. catch.. me... if you can!" The laughing voice appeared again. This time, the owner of the voice was finally shown.
It was a young man having a cold black hair with some white stands here and there. Facial features unseen, covered by mud and dirt. He wore a simple old leather tunic, paired with a weird patchwork leather pants that almost has the entire colour spectrum in it.
"Ha... You know, you all better give up! Because you are not gonna catch me... You slow pokes!" The boy taunted proudly.
It almost sounded like the chase was going fine for the boy in the outside, but on the inside...
'F*ck! How long are these guards gonna chase me?! It's already been like an eternity! Damn it, I'm getting real tired now.' Is what the boy was truly trying to convey.
The chase continued for about an hour, both the boy and the guards ran almost a marathon across the City. Vaulting over the high city walls, playing hide and seek across a multitude of stores and stalls, hopping between the roofs of houses.
The run seemed to be endless, until...
'Is that a carriage...?
Oh yes it is!
I'll circle these areas. Once those leeches lose sight of me, hehe...
I'll dive straight into the carriage like an arrow!'
the boy started grinning and chuckled softly as he thought of his idea.
Finally, after circling like mice in a wheel for a while. The boy found his chance and dived head first into the open carriage.
'Phew... Finally safe from those bastards.' the boy finally caught his ragged breath and rested. Until suddenly, the door of the carriage was slowly opening.
'Damn it! Are those the guards? Quick! I need to hide!
Wait...
is that a box? Perfect!'
Without a second thought, the boy plunged inside a weirdly shaped box in the carriage.
.....
After what felt like an eternity of hiding, the boy felt something weird beside him. It was cold, and quite smells quite foul. Although the boy couldn't see what was inside the box, he knew.
'Sh*t.'
The boy froze, then slowly touched what was beside him.The boy unfortunately proved his guess.
' It's a freaking corpse... Of course, it just had to be a coffin that I jumped in...' the boy hid there for quite a while, avoiding the corpse, trying not to disturb it.
Soon the noise outside stopped.
'Phew... looks like the guards are finally gone.' the boy slowly tries to open the coffin.
'Hmm...? Is it just me, or is the lid easier to open now?
Hmm... Weird.'
the boy pondered.
Finally after fully opening the lid, did he find his answer.
There, sat beside the coffin, was a lady was weeping. Although the boy's heart was throbbing fast due to nervousness, just a single glance at her, made him skip a beat.
'Of course, how lucky of me. First a literal coffin. Now, a princess too? Geez...'
The lady was roughly the same age as the boy, she was beautiful. Like a perfect marble statue made by the greatest sculptor. Her features alone could make even prettiest models go all shy.
But
The boy has other plans, he wasn't there to stare and watch the lady's gorgeous face, he was trying to escape. And that's what he did.
Until the lady noticed him, she stared at the dirty boy for 3 whole second. Before the young lady screamed "Th-there's a GHOU-!"
The boy, who was already on the move before she could say her first word, jumped and sprinted out of the carriage.
The noise not only brought pain to the boy's ears, but also the guards who noticed the scream.
'Sh*t. Here we go again.' the boy sighed.
.....
After having another round of cat and mouse with the guards, the boy finally lost the pursuers. There he walked through the slumbering streets of the city.
The boy watched as starry night get slowly devoured by the rising sun, He listened to the sound of frogs croaking, birds chirping, and the rhythmic sound of droplets falling from the sky.
After having done by the Chaotic events that happened earlier, the boy can truly at rest now.
"Hey, that was pretty fun ain't it, buddy?"
He spoke while looking up in the sky.
His voice echoed back at him without response, but he continued. The boy walked while recounting those experience that happened to him earlier. Not caring if someone responded or not, he still continued.
After finishing his recount, the boy arrived at a river bank outside the City.
'Damn, I should had ran after it started raining. I'm soaking wet right now, hopefully all my effort shan't go to waste.'
There he hastily started to trek down the river and entered the sewers connected to it.
After walking for a while inside the sewers, the boy stopped in front of a room. Then spoke "Hey Grette, stop hiding and show yourself."
A brief silence followed, then a peculiar sound emerged in one of the paths in the sewers, it was a sound of hoofs getting closer. The source of the sound got closer and closer, and finally, a silhouette appears.
What came out was neither a human nor monster. It was a hog, quite a fatty too. After revealing itself, Grette started aggressively oinking at the boy.
"Woah woah, chill out buddy, you better quiet down or the rats will start flooding through our door again."
The boy softly spoke while gesturing to Grette to calm down. Then the boy opened the door to the room and said "Come, let's talk inside."
The interior inside had an unexpected state than what people would expect from a room inside a sewer. It was quite big, although old was still sturdy and standing.
The room was full of things, from a grandfather clock, to a weighting scale. But what's most impressive is that no stink, from the sewers reach inside the room.
"Hey, I know that you're mad at me again Grette, for doing something dangerous and blah blah, but look." The boy pulled slowly something out from his pocket.
'Phew... thank gods the water haven't seeped in.'
It was a letter, neatly covered with layers of cloth.
The boy started to carefully unraveled the layers of cloth. After a short while, the letter was finally revealed, there at the top said: Knight's advancement Ceremony.
After showing the letter to Grette, the boy slowly made a grinned so wide that it almost made a Crescent moon shape with his mouth and said "It's time to make chaos."
The hog opened its mouth, dumbfounded.