Laying in a bed made out of rough wood but with a mattress lies lunar. He was a normal sized teenager, maybe slightly taller than average. He stood at 5'11. His eyes were black like onyx rocks. And his hair was black with white streaks on the ends. He was wearing full black clothes. These would be the only pair he could wear right now. His pants and shirt were black.
His eyes fluttered open. But a faint sense of restlessness still lingered in his mind. Lunar choked it up to him just waking up and got out of bed. Moving through his small "room" he found where his broken mirror was and looked himself in the mirror. He opened his mouth, his hand plunging inside it to scrape the bacteria off his teeth.
Lunar than walked away from cracked mirror and turned back to his "room"
Lunar had lived inside a sewage drain that he assumed was shut down since there was no more water coming through and the poop and piss had long been cleaned away.
'How many years had it been now'
Lunar thought. It had been 10 years since he ran away from his sister out of anger. He was just a child back when he made his escape. He had of course sometimes wished he never had and wished he was still with her and got adopted with her. But nowadays he never wished for that. His life was simple. Wake up, brush his teeth, and find food. Then repeat.
No one had ever come looking for him so he only really assumed that his sister never mentioned her having a brother. He used to resent her for that. Now he just wished to be left alone. Of course there were days where he talked to other people. He sometimes liked to trade with another teenager who was deathly short and skinny.
He never quite got his name; he just called him shrimp. Despite being his same weight and taller. Usually he would trade synthpaste for something since that's what lunar could only get somewhat easily. He had known of a disguise warehouse where he had been looting for the last two and a half years. Today he was heading back for a supply run. Then maybe head to the last place he had seen shrimp and trade with him.
Lunar days were certainly peaceful. At least the most peaceful one could get inside the outskirts. Lunar walked up to where his drain he had called it. And picked a stone up. Once he got to the ladder he began moving up it until he came face to face with the manhole cover. He pushed it aside and then peaked his head through. Once the coast was clear cosmos crawled out and put the man hole cover back onto his home.
Then he threw the rock at a wall and watched it smash and crumble into the wall. Lunar had done this every day since he found the man hole cover and it was now more or less a ritual that he did for good luck. After smelling the air. Which stank of poo and piss he then began walking down the ally his home was located in.
After cosmos came to the end of the ally he turned left and was faced with another wall. It had a tiny box on the right side of it and a tube running along the top. It was bent and broken, no longer attached to the other building; the wall had served as a connector between the buildings. It was also the way he used to get to the secret warehouse.
Lunar frowned, he would now have to find another way to get there. And the way he went was already a challenge to find. Lunar was about to turn away when a thought entered his mind.
'The rocks!'
***
After about 3 hours of staking rocks. Lunar was finally finished; he could now get in and out, possibly easier then before the pipe broke. Lunar started to move up the rocks one foot in front of another. Eventually he got far enough to where he could pull himself over the edge of the wall which he did with surprising effort. His body felt so tired now he couldn't wait to go to his bed and sleep.
Landing on the ground he noticed his way back was perfectly fine.
'Good'
His way back was almost the same thing except the pipe and box were white instead of black. Lunar then turned around and began walking towards the warehouse.
Lunar walked past different style buildings. Until he got to a brick wall with a hole in the center. Lunar placed a hand on the entrances. The bricks were cold and rough as he assumed. He then crawled through the gap where bricks were. As he walked through the tunnel it slowly became smaller. At first Lunar just had to crotch, then he had to crawl on his stomach. After some time, Lunar stopped.
He placed a hand on one of the walls which had turned into metal and slowly moved his hand up until he felt a screw. He began unscrewing it. A smile grew on his face and he pulled the screw out. He did the same thing to the other one. When he finally got the other one out he pushed up on the panel and it moved up letting him crawl through the panel onto a metal floor.
Lunar smiled as he looked around. Stacks of synthpast lined the interior. There were hundreds of pallets. All filled with disgusting slop. But Lunar did not care. food was food.
"What was that!
A raspy voice said it was manly and clearly it had gone through hardship.
"Shh someone else is here Syndo" a younger voice whispered but the echo's made it to where he could still hear them.
Lunar saw flashlight beams approaching his corner of the warehouse. Quickly but quietly Lunar stood up and ran to a row in the warehouse. The flashlight beams got bigger until they went past him. He saw a bit of their face which had a scar on the side he could see. His clothes were strange like a suit of armor rather than normal attire.
"Where did he go? I'm sure I heard something!" the man asked his partner
Lunar grabbed one of the synthpaste on a pantry and stuffed it in his pocket. Lunar grabbed another one and then suddenly the beam of light hit his face. It was blinding. The person was clearly using one expensive flashlight.
"Freeze!"
Lunar did not listen to the man instead he did the opposite of what the man said and ran. His feet hit the ground hard and he grabbed another synthpaste before stuffing it inside his pocket and continuing to run. He had to get back to the crawl space so first he had to lead them away from his escape route and then run back.
The man yelled something at the other man and suddenly his legs started to cramp like really bad really bad. Lunar gritted his teeth and pushed through the pain grabbing some more synthpaste as he went.
Lunar stopped in front of a wall the sounds of footsteps approaching him at an alarming rate.
'Please still be here please still be here'
Turning to this right cosmos found exactly what he was looking for.
***
"Dame where did that brat go…" crickets voice was agitated
Clan song really was right about there being an intruder here. And he finally showed up after a week of waiting for him. He had been assigned here for about 4 days. His replacement said he was too bored to do a good enough job. So now he is stuck here…
So what if someone was stealing synthpaste? We have plenty and our people are not dying why does clan song care so much about the outskirts that we have to help distribute the homeless food. We should just keep it as our rations in case of a bad winter in the dream realm…
Cricket sighed and kept moving. He was now walking slightly faster than normal but still he was just walking. Apparently one of the song sisters had instructed this whole operation with the distributions it was going to make Clan Song look really good for the media. At least that's what Beastmaster had told his squad of 4 awakened. She even promised a promotion if they managed to catch the little thief who was stealing the synthpaste.
Cricket heard footsteps behind him and turned around. It was his friend and teacher. Syndo had been with Clan Song longer than cricket had been alive and he was meant to be overseer of the whole operation. But that meant tons of paper work everyday so Syndo decided to hand it off to some government employee with a smoking problem.
"Did you see where he went" Syndo asked me and i shook my head in grievance
"Alright im calling it ill use my aspect and just deal with the migraine later" cricket continued to walk down one of the rows and right when he was about to turn his Xray vision as he called it. One of the stacks of synthpaste was falling on top of him and Syndo.
"AHHHHHH!" cricket yelled before being buried inside a mountain of edible toothpaste
***
'I can not believe that it worked'. Lunar was holding a metal rod where the bottom of the stack of synthpaste would have been moments before.
Lunar walked up to the pile of synthpaste and grabbed 5 and stuffed them in his pockets. Which were overflowing with synthpaste tubes.
Lunar began walking away from the pile of synthpaste. He probably wouldn't be able to return anytime soon. The whole ordeal lasted maybe 10 minutes. But he was so tired he felt like he could fall asleep at any moment.
"Good job lunar now time to go home and go to bed" lunar said before leaving
Once he finally got the panel with the loose screws and propped it up with a hand and crawled through. Once he finally was in the tunnel he screwed his route back up and crawled through the space retracing his steps until he finally managed to get back to his drain and collapse on his bed.
'Why am I so tired I could sleep for a month…' lunar closed his eyes and immediately fell asleep
[welcome sleeper lunar! To your nightmare!]
***
{Days later}
"How the hell did a mere mundane do that to you too! You have got to be the most incompetent dumb ass I have ever met! Cricket you can see through walls! How the hell did a mundane person hide from someone like that!"
Beastmaster spoke loudly and was very harsh. As she normally was. But this time it was different because there was a reason. Cricket had managed to not only lose the mundane but then fell for a trap. He was probably going to be demoted or worse…
"W-well my princess.. We managed to see what he looks like with the new camera installed inside the warehouse. We can use that to at least find him and send him to prison…"
Beastmaster looked at me with a glare like I had said something she had not thought of.
"You're lucky your cute cricket but I suppose you're right, then bring me the footage…"
Crickets face turned beat red and he stood there for a second while flustered
'D-did Beastmaster just call him cute' no no he must be hearing things wrong.
"U-um what di-" he was cut off
"What are you still doing here! I said go! You really are a fool!!"
Cricket locked in…
"Yes ma'am!" He quickly ran off with his teacher/friend and about 4 hours later he was watching the footage with Beastmaster, just the three of them.
"Ok now if there are any problems in this footage i swear to god ill ripe your head off and feed it to one of my nightmare creatures cricket…" Beastmaster said
Cricket gulped
"Y-yes ma'am" he said softly as the screen began to start
The screen showed a young man, probably a teenager, hiding behind a small row of synthpaste. His hair was black with white endings and his eyes were onyx black. He had porcelain skin and was wearing full black. No wonder it was hard to spot him.
The teen stole a few synthpaste before he was caught by Syndo and chased down by cricket as Syndo used his aspect making the boys muscles start cramping. After that he ran for a few more minutes turning a few times and coming up against a wall and he grabbed a metal rod and pushed it into the base of the stack of synthpaste that fell on the two of them.
Of course a few seconds went by and they were buried under a pile of edible tooth paste and the little boy grabbed 5 synthpaste from the pile and like an idiot said his name out loud.
"Good job lunar! Now it's time to go home and go to bed"
Cricket looked over at Beastmaster whose eyes were wide with… happiness?
"God cricket I could kiss you! You found him!" Beastmaster said laughing
"You found Luna's brother!"