One disclaimer is enough right? I don't own Harvest Moon.

Chapter 1: A New Beginning

In an effort to keep her voice as low as possible, and as angry as possible. She voices her anger out in the form of a hiss, hoping that the person in front of her would realize that yes, she is a predator, and yes she will kill to get what she wants. Wait. Do snakes even do that?

"There's another farmer?" She said, scratch that. Hissed out.

The prim woman infront of her flicked a stray lock of hair behind her shoulder and gave the fuming girl infront of her a cold smile. "Annie dear, It's not that bad." She said, tapping a few more words into her rural laptop. Actually, It's surprising that a laptop still existed around this sleepy town. Annie's head snapped backward, "Not that bad!?" She shrieked, then paused slightly to look around her, surprised faces greeted her back. She quickly bowed and apologized.

"Not that bad?!" She repeated in a quieter hiss, trying her best to pull off the most horrendous scowl she could muster, and boy will it be terrifying. The woman rolled her eyes as a reply to her overdramatic exclaim. Geez, Annie thought, even her eyeroll is prim and proper, how much princess classes did this woman take?

"Annie, listen-" She starts, but Annie cuts her off, because well, she will have it her way, and not even Veronica the strong and stubborn will ruin her plans.

"No you listen!" She said, her her lips pincing into an unhappy frown. "I have worked really hard to get this far and this farmer suddenly waltzes in and gets Eda's land?!" Annie cried, her voice of destress growing louder and desperate by the minute. Screw manners, it was too late to apologize to these busybody onlookers anyway.

"Annie, he didn't just waltz in-"

"Oh, it's a he hmmm? Then I suppose he just samba-ed' in?!"

"Annie just stop," Veronica said, massaging her temples in anger and stress and possibly annoyance. "And listen." She continued, sighing in distress as she looked up from her far-too-old for this century laptop.

Annie pouted. "Ok, fine." She said, head snapped to the right to avoid looking at the woman directly. Veronica sighed again.

"This farmer who's taking over Eda's farm is-"

"Hi, uh... is this the reception desk or something?" A voice piped in.

"Ugh, why is it that I can't speak properly without getting interrupted!" Veronica yelled at the ceiling, not knowing where to pinpoint her anger at. She sighed through her nose furiously and glared at the only known person in the room to cut her off, which was Annie. But the girl seemed as thoroughly confused as she was, so she raised both hands up as a gesture of innocence as they both had an intense staredown, both not knowing who would break the awkward silence.

"Wow, mannequins" The voice said, his steps could be heard from his calm walking. He walks straight up to the two women. "Hi, um...may I ask, who's in charge here?" The stranger said, walking into their field of vision, waving a hand in between their faces he waited for a reaction.

The two immediately moved away from each other, both clearing their throat in an attempt to dissolve their awkward situation. "A-ah, You must be Johnny?" Veronica said, rolling her shoulders back and flicking her stray hair behind her shoulder again. She gave the boy a firm look from bottom to top and nodded. "As you may know, I am Veronica, and welcome to our humble town" She said, walking out of her counter in hurried steps. As she stood an arms length away from the boy, she gave a curt bow and offered a handshake. "Pleased to make your aquaintence"

The boy, who Annie, or anyone would now know as Johnny, gave an awkward smile as he shook the woman's hand. The other hand that he used to prop his bag up was switched to scratching the back of his neck. It left Annie wondering if all males did that on instict as she last saw Fritz do it too when she asked an odd question to get a laugh out of something.

"T-thanks, Miss? Veronica." He finally said after some amount of time. Then sighing in relief when Veronica realeased his hand.

"It's Mrs, and you're welcome" she said. Annie coughed, 'wait, she was married?'

Veronica stood straighter. "As you may know, your grandmother has passed awa-"

"Wait grandmother?" Annie shrieked, suddenly aware of the reason he was here. The boy took a look at her, with his confused and innocent looks, he gave her a curt nod. Veronica rolled her eyes again, yeah, ok. Maaaybe she did try to tell her about it, but this is a big sitch here.

"Woah, grandmother," Annie, mumbled soon after, coughing in attempt to clear her previous embarrassment she nodded for the annoyed woman to continue. Veronica frowned daintily at her.

"As I was saying, before somebody rudely interrupted," Annie coughed." You will be taking over your grandmother's farm, the paperwork has already been done by your father, the only thing that you need to do is sign a few papers here and there, and the farm is all yours!" Veronica said, handing him a few pieces of papers and a single ink pen for him to sign.

Johnny stared at the woman for sometime, and snapped back in to reality when Veronica cleared her throat."Uh- sure." He mumbled, taking the pen from her to sign his name and break the deal.

He took a deep breath. Annie stared , watching as the pen hovered indecisively above the paper.

"You... gonna sign that?" Annie asked, pointing at the paper with a pout. He took a look at her and nodded, "Yeah" he said, signing the paper and slapping the pen onto the table, the thump resounded throughout the silent room.

Veronica thanked him with a confused nod and took the papers away.

"Now," She said, gesturing a hand over to Annie, she hummed a high tune, "This is Annie." She continued, in which the boy's line of vision immediately turned to the girl standing annoyingly beside him.

"Pleasure" Annie said, greeting the boy as civilised as she could, hand outstretched to shake and all.

He smiled at her, "Same to you" He replied.

"And here's the reason I summoned you here Annie." Veronica said, taking a loom at the girl, she coughed to stop her laughter from escaping her not-to-be-trusted very escapable lips. 'Summoned' She repeated in her head giddily.

"As you know, Eda's farm is right beside yours." She said, a not so subtle look at Annie, who nodded like a good child.

"So you're bringing him over." She said, and walked back behind her counter. Or safe haven as Fritz calls it. Annie gaped at her, mouth wide and uh, wide. Did Veronica just toss the duty onto her? "Buh-buh Eda didn't need to bring me to my farm!" She cried, taking deep breaths like she wanted to cry, her effort was gone in vain when Veronica said this, "How old was Eda and how old are you?"

"Fiiiiine," Annie said, or whined. She turned to awstruck boy and blew her fringe out of her eyes just to give him a peluctant glare. "Follow moi," She grumbled, annoyed and bowed at Veronica politely."I'll be off" She said, turning her body to face the closed doors of the guild, she pushed the rickety doors open to greet natural sunlight again.

Johnny bowed to Veronica and follwed her out the doors in a hurry. Tch, goodie-to-shoes.

"Annie berry! I found the thing you were lookin' for!" Fritz cried in his ever cheery voice when he spotted her approach. He hopped out of the river, a feat that short people would never be able to do, and ran over, bare chested.

"Fritzy, You didn't have to!" She replied happily, running over to grab whatever he found. Johnny looked thoroughly confused as he looked between the two.

"Um.." He said, trying to get thier attention. It didn't work if that was what you're wondering.

"Sea Urchin!" The redhead called, pulling the spiky creature out from his wet and dirty sack. He held it up as if it were a prize to be won, and carefully handed the creature to Annie, who held it delicately in her hands. "Perfect" she whispered.

Fritz rubbed his nose with a finger, and chuckled, "All the best for ya" he said, the turned to the blonde who stood with a confused look on his face. "Woah, who is this?" He asked. Annie glanced at him and gasped.

"Shoot! Sorry," She said, turning to face the boy, the intimidating sea urchin in hand. She looked very threatening. "Fritzy, this is Johnny, ah Johnny, Fritz" She said, using the Sea Urchin as her hands for the time being to gesture to each of the boys.

"Howdy! Nice to meet'cha" Fritz greeted, waving his hand happily at the boy. Johnny laughed and did the same. They shared a loom of happiness before Johnny's gaze wandered onto the Sea Urchin. He pointed at it.

"Oh this?" Annie said, looking down at the spiked creature as it twitched slightly. "Playing a prank on someone" She replied, like it was the answer to all his questions. Johnny knew not to inquire, so he placed it aside for another day.

"Fritz, I can't go now. So I'll meet up with you later, 3.00 p.m. sharp" Annie said, nodding at him, there was even a salute at the end as she handed the creature over to Fritz. They exchanged a pat on the shoulder and Annie set off to the mountains.

Johnny, being the polite one he was waved goodbye.

They continued thier trek up the mountain when Johnny asked her another question, "Boyfriend?"

Annie shook her head as a clear indication of 'no'. Johnny stared at the girl for a few more moments and shrugged his remaining questions away.

They continued thier trek up the mountain.

He breathed, heavily and loudly, drops of sweat climbed down his furrowed brows and onto his chin as he stared at the farm that once belonged to his grandmother, still calming and serene as he remembered it. As he mentally healed himself with the current scenery, he had to take time to realize that his body could not keep up with his brain's healing process. So he fell face flat onto the ground.

The girl with the brown locks stared at him in complete awe. "Wow, worse than I was when I first came here." She said, squatting to stare at him at a closer angle. "Fabulous" she muttered soon after.

"You won't last a week" She said, her tone indicated that of pure happiness. She smirked, "C'mon to your room son".

The house was still in good shape. As if his gramdmother had never left, the paint still vibrant, as if the villagers had refused to give up this memory of the old woman. Johnny sighed sadly. He'd only met his grandmother when he was young, but never again as he got older. His father had suddenly got a new job someplace faraway, and they never once bothered to see Eda again. A heavy feeling of guilt was placed on his chest as Annie pushed the doors open.

"Voila." She sobbed, "Your... home..." She mumbled sadly. Looking at him fully as she held in her tears.

"She treasured her home, so I hope you do too," She said as her lip trembled uncontrollably, she breathed in and walked out of the house. Johnny could only nod as he watched her gather her emotions and calm herself down. She released her breath and nodded at him.

"Please tell me you know how to farm" She said, dabbing her fingers at the corner of her eyes, her voice still trembled as she spoke to him. He shook his head, and she frowned. "Yeah... kinda guessed you'd say that." She said sadly.

"Alrighty, well since I'm faaar to lazy to teach you anything, you'll just have to come to town with me as I do my stuff 'kay?" She said happily as if she didn't just cry infront of him just a few moments ago. He nodded. And she smiled, "Great, go get whatever you need and we'll meet at..." She checked her watch, which had remained invisible to him ever since he first met her, "At about 2.40 p.m."

She looked up, "You good?"

Johnny chuckled awkwardly to break his own self set silence "Yeah."

"Good."

"Johnny- o boy!" Fritz's voice yelled as it echoed throughout the neverending mountains, simply terrifying.

Johnny fliched and looked up to greet the boy, who was, at the moment, nowhere to be seen. Annie cleared her throat to get his attention, and pointed at the river. Where a giddy Fritz stood, half submerged in water he waved.

"Fritzy, you got the goods?" Annie asked, bending down to talk to the half-naked boy, who smirked like some detective and handed her a tuppaware. Johnny stared. "What," he yelped, "Is that?"

Annie raised the tuppaware for him to get a closer look. "Sea Urchin bowl" she said, and giggled soon after. "With hawt peppah" Fritz said from the edge of the river, they both laughed and gave Johnny a thumbs up. He returned it shakily.

"Is he comin' with?" Fritz asked, a hopeful look in his eyes, Annie nodded. "Wanted him to meet the wonderful townsfolk anyway, I mean it's necessary since the start of this game" She said, and both boys turned to give her a confused look, but Annie only shrugged it off and the boys never dared to ask again.

"Off to Reaggie's then" Fritz said getting himself out of the water. He shook himself off, splattering the water onto Annie and Johnny, who both cried out a scyncronized "Hey!" Fritz looked up and mumbled an apology.

Johnny swiped off some water droplets from his hair and turned to Annie, "Reggie?" He asked, the girl laughed and said, "Reager"

He would probably get it later once he meets this Reaggieger.

"Reaggie!"

"Reager!"

"Uh..."

Came three simultaneous greetings as said person looks up to the ceiling screaming 'Whyyyyyyy!' in agony. The man then glances back to them with a blank expression like he didn't just throw his dignity out the window and ruin his chances of a good first impression for Johnny. The grinning duo then marches into the restaurant like they own the place as Johnny walks in after them like the civilized person he prides himself to be. Annie then slams the tuppaware of Sea Urchin Bowl on the counter as this Reaggieger person eyes it with curiousity. Johnny suddenly feels pity for the man.

"Can I help you two...three?" He glances at Johnny in question. "And who is this?"

"Oh, well this is-" Annie stars but immediatly gets cut off by an overly excited Fritz.

"This guy here is Johnny-o boy!" The brunette exclaims enthusiastically as he hooks an arm around Johnny. He then gets a kick on the shin from Annie for cutting her off.

"Hi...Reaggieger, I'm Johnny. Nice to meet you," the confused blonde said while shrugging Fritz's arm off.

"It's Reager actually," he says this while glaring at Fritz. "Pleasure to meet you as well," he said and offered Johnny a handshake. Johnny thanked the stars for finally letting him meet someone normal, totally forgetting about Varonica's existance and Reager's earlier outburst.

"So what brings you here," Reager directs the question towards the two grinning idiots. The restaurant owners eyes are narrowed with suspicion as he scrutinized the honey blonde and brunette duo.

"We brought you a-" Annie starts but gets cut off by Fritz once again. His bouncy additude really isn't helping him in this situation, Johnny notes as he notices the Annie's death glare being directed towards the excited brunette.

"We brought you a gift!" Fritz exclaims happily and gets hit on the head by Annie, a hard hit. Johnny winced at the loud sound and prayed to the Harvest Goddess that that hit didn't cause anymore damage to his already damaged brain.

"You do not interrupt me! Got that Fritz?!" Annie scolds with the most frightening scowl Johnny has ever seen. How did he get dragged in to this again?

"Sorry ma'am..." Fritz apologizes with a pout.

"Wow, a gift." Raeger says, face devoid of emotion, he looked at Johnny. "Can I trust this?".

Johnny looked to the right, where Annie stood, her face said that of murder, so the blonde chose to save his own life over Reager's. Johnny wasn't a bad person, honest. He was just a coward who would really rather live to see the next day than die in the hands of some sweet little girl who was possesed by the devil. He looks back at the Reager's 'gift' and he swore he saw a purple-ish dark aura surrounding it. Yup, he was glad he wasn't Reager right now.

"They made it with love," he croaked out guiltily and gave him a shakey thumbs up.

"Really now?" Reager queries with a look of astonishment while glancing at the duo. They nod their heads eagerly, hoping that he would just eat the thing already. "I don't belive it for a second," he says with a frown and the grinning duo's smiles slowly melted.

"Aw c'mon Reabae! It's not like we poisoned it or anything!" Annie whines childishly.

"Then you wouldn't mind eating it would you?" Reager counters with a smirk. "I'll feed it to you," he offers, the smirk growing.

Annie gasps dramatically. "How could you?! You know I can't resist it when a hot guy offers to feed me food!" It was then that Johnny decided to question his life choices.

Reager gives Annie one of his charming smiles. "Say ah~"

"D-damn it..." she curses as she slowly opens her mouth.

"Don't do it Annie! It's a trap!" Fritz yells and pushes her away. She trips forward and Johnny catches her by her shoulders, he then sends her a deadpanned look as she smiles sheepishly at him. The brunette then had the look of a crazy person who just thought of something brilliant, and Johnny feared for his life.

"Take my place and be fed by Mako-I mean Reager, Johnny," she orders him with a spark of hysteria in her eyes. Johnny really feared for his life.

"Are you crazy?! There's like hot pepper in there!"

"I knew it," Reager says with narrowed eyes.

"Look what you've done! He won't eat it now," Annie pouts childishly and crosses her arms over her chest while stomping one foot down.

"But I worked hard on making it," Fritz frowns and lets lose a sob.

"And it's a waste too," Reager sighs. "Such a delicacy being wasted by the likes of you two. Shame," he tsked and wave a finger at them.

Annie tsked him back in anger.

Johnny snorted when Reager took out a note book and announced the scores for whatever sick game they were playing, ten for Reager and zero for the two of them. He then snapped his book shut and wished them both better luck next time. Annie responded by stomping her feet again facing away from the smug restaurant owner, still keeping the pout on her face. Fritz just sighed and scratched his cheek while letting a sheepish laugh escape his lips.

Winter, Day 8th,

I've finally arrived at Oak tree town. And as promised, I'm writting a journal as to keep track of my life here.

Grandmother's house hasn't changed since I last visited her, I miss her quite alot already. Hopefully She'll allow for me to redecorate the place because her things are not my cup of tea. Also, where can I get decent electricity here.

My first impression of this town- How do people tolerate each other so much.

X : I have this strange headcannon of Fritz giving everyone in town a specific nickname in order to feel closer to them. And, Raeger looks like Makoto Tachibana. Fight Me.

Y: I don't know why I supported my sister's weird idea into writing this fic. But it was fun, I had fun writing about Reager too as well as Johnny's reaction towards their interactions. I'm in charge of beta and editing by the way.

-X & Y