Reyna

(Five year old Reyna has trouble saying the letters 'R' and 'L' so she'll say them 'w')

A five year old Reyna hugged her dog shaped teddy bear, her hair pinned up behind her head. She roamed the house, making sure to stay away from the room with her father in it. She walked to the window and waved at the nice lady across the street. She had told Reyna her name but she always forgot it. Sometimes the nice lady across the street gave her yummy food, or braided her hair. Reyna fingers always got tangled up in her hair.

Today Hylla had put her hair in a ponytail with a little bow in it. Reyna was proud of her little red bow. All the other girls liked it as well. Except Skylar, but Skylar didn't like anything. She was always sad. Maybe because she had no bow. Skylar also had no teddy. Maybe that was why.

Reyna sat down on her little table that she used to play tea parties. She sat down Teddy one side, and pulled out a chair for herself. Then she pulled out another, for Hylla. Even if Hylla didn't want to come, Reyna imagined she was there. Reyna ran barefoot down the hall to Hylla's room and opened the door slowly.

"Hywwa wiw you pway with me?" She asked before the door was fully opened. What she found when she opened the door shocked her. Hylla was crying.

"Hywwa, yo'kay?" She asked. Hylla turned away from the concerned five year old and cried harder.

"Hywwa?" Reyna fretted.

"Go away Reyna!" The seven year old yelled. Reyna backed away. Hylla never yelled at her. Reyna ran out of Hylla's room and back to hers. She looked at the table and frowned at Hylla's chair.

"Today Hywwa no get chair." Reyna said sadly and dragged it away, scared and a little angry at her. "Today Hywwa mean." Then, trying to ignore the chair, Reyna dressed herself up in a purple princess dress and plastic tiara. She then dressed Teddy, in a tiara.

She sat Teddy down in the chair and frowned, feeling like she had forgotten something.

"Ah-hah!" She yelled remembering what it was. The tea and cups. She snuck down to the kitchen and took out two cups and plates and three jars. She filled one jar with water (tea), another with sand (sugar), and the last with water (milk). She then walked up to her room, careful not to drop anything.

"Teddy! Time fow tea!" She said and put the things on the table. She put a plate in front of Teddy and a cup on top of it, and did the same thing for herself. She then arranged the things nicely in the middle of the table. She poured water in both of the cups, and then held up both cups and clinked them together.

"Cwink!" She giggled happily. Then she put the cup to Teddy's lips and talked to him.

"Wike the tea Teddy?" She asked. She nodded his head. Then she drank some of hers.

"Yummy!" She said.

The tea party continued on for a while, until Reyna got bored and went back to wandering her large house. With no Hylla some parts were a bit scary.

She came to the large dining room, where the important pretty things were held in the cabinets. Suddenly, Reyna stopped.

Something growled from outside. She peeked at the window. Outside, a big dog that Hylla had told her was a hellhound was pacing up and down the street. Reyna let out a shrill scream.

"Hywwa! Hywwa! The monstew's back!" Reyna yelled at the top of her lungs. She saw Hylla run out of her room holding a pretty decorated knife. Hylla went outside, while she told Reyna to stay away.

Reyna his under the bed until Hylla came in. Her dress was torn in places, and her hair was messy, and there were scratches all over her legs and arms, and she was covered in golden dust.

"Hywwa! Yo'kay?" Reyna asked timidly.

"Yep! I'm fine." Her seven year old sister answered. Then, a gruff voice yelled from downstairs,

"Reyna! Hylla! Dinner time!" Reyna and Hylla locked eyes. Their father usually didn't pay much attention to them, and instead the found food for themselves. Reyna shrugged and ran downstairs, and Hylla ran after her.

Downstairs, the table was full of food, too much for even all three of them to eat alone. Maybe he was inviting someone else? No, he never did that. There were three seats around the table, all far away from each other. Just like she would do at her tea parties, Reyna dragged her chair to be closer to Hylla's. Her father frowned, possibly suspecting something of them.

Reyna piled food on her plate until the load was almost bigger than she was. She started to eat, and saw Hylla and her father doing the same, but much neater and with much less food. Reyna's father sent her a disapproving look. Hylla whispered in Reyna's ear:

"If he starts shouting, run and hide." Hylla worried a lot about her younger sister. She had been forced to grow up earlier than most kids, just so that Reyna didn't have to, and Reyna could sometimes tell. Their father scowled at the whispering.

"You're plotting against me, aren't you? You're trying to kill me! Traitors!" He said and the doors closed by themselves. Reyna started to cry, and since she couldn't run like Hylla said, instead she just hid.

"No, we aren't! We're your own children!" She desperately tried to fight back, but Reyna knew it was hopeless. A chair moved from under the table where she had hidden, and for a second Reyna was scared that her father was going to crawl underneath and get her. Instead, it was lifted into the air, and Reyna heard a crash, and then a thump as something hit the ground.

Curious, Reyna lifted the tablecloth and looked at what had happened. What she saw chilled her to the bone. Hylla was dead. Their father had thrown the chair at her and now she was dead. Reyna screamed and picked up one of the knives in the shelf and threw it at her father, where it pierced his heart.

Reyna ran to Hylla and sobbed into her chest, until Hylla moved. Reyna pulled back.

"Rey?" Hylla asked, sleepily. Reyna was shocked, and she looked at her hands. If Hylla wasn't dead, she had just murdered someone for nothing... She started to cry and Hylla picked her up and hugged her.

"Oh Rey." She said. "We'll have to go somewhere else now, won't we?" Reyna nodded her head. "Don't worry, it wasn't your fault. It was self defense." But Reyna wasn't sure. She had wanted to kill him, wanted him to pay for what. She had thought that he had done. Ghosts appeared on the balcony and started whispering.

'Murderer...' 'Traitor...' She cried harder.

Hylla put her down.

"Go pack your things, we're leaving." Hylla seemed to have a plan, and Reyna trusted her completely. Hylla knew what she was doing.

Reyna went upstairs and got her school backpack, emptied it, and started stuffing her things in. Then she took a suitcase from under her bed and opened it.

That suitcase had been under her bed since she could remember. She hadn't opened it though. Inside it were two daggers, with beautiful silver decorative hilts and a golden blade. There were also two whistles, one gold and one silver.

Reyna blew on the silver one, and a silver dog appeared. She patted it, and although she had expected it to feel cold like metal, it was warm.

She blew the other, and this time, a dog appeared, the same as the other except gold. She heard a voice in her head, /They are yours now. You do not need the whistles; they will come when you order them to./ The whistles disappeared, and Reyna started packing the now empty suitcase with her clothes.

When she had finished she put the backpack on her back and rolled the suitcase out the door. Her backpack so it would be easy to reach, Reyna had made sure to pack Teddy and her tea things, as well as a book to read and a notebook and pencil.

"Hywwa, I'm ready!" Reyna yelled and walked out.

This was originally a one shot, but this one turned out longer than expected so I decided to do it in chapters.