A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE WEDDING/ENGAGEMENT CEREMONY
"Okay did I get everything I need" Levi says as he walks out of the convenience store "Mom won't be back for a while since they've already paid for lodging and everything, so this should last right?"
he checks the bag he's with making sure he has everything to last for the few days Riel would be absent,
"I should start heading back before it gets late" he says thinking to himself.Walking back down the street to the direction of home, he feels the stares of someone watching him, they're not cold, nor do they have a murderous intent but they have a scent being carried along, the scent of GREED.
Turning back to take a glance he sees nothing just an empty quiet space. Although he sees nothing, something feels suspicious like he's being followed.
He tries to ignore it and continues moving but suddenly a strange man walks right towards him from the nearby alley. Levi freezes in place from both fear and trying to observe.
Tall with a huge build, scars across every part of his body, his eyes dilated like he could fall at any given moment from stress and exhaustion and his steps heavy but not loud.
He had been in countless situations like these due to his hair colour or appearances, but not any like these.
Right at this moment every muscle, every fibre, every instinct was telling him to retreat, hide, run or even cower in fear, but his body wouldn't listen, it wouldn't budge.
"Who, who are you?" he asks fear consuming him, his knees weak but unable to fall, he asks the question one more time but same thing no reaction just the quiet footprints and the gradual image of the man moving closer and closer.
He finally regains his strength to move, he takes a few steps back and make a u turn to retreat but he's encountered by another figure, this one skinny and looking like he had not eaten in days.
He moves back in a bit of shock and tries to regain composure to run away but his reaction time was to slow, the hugely built man had already caught up to him grom behind and holding onto him with an ever so firm grip.
The man brings out something from within his pocket a handkerchief maybe, and places it over his nose, not long after everything gets fuzzy and the world seems to be spinning.
"You're the Gemstone kid, aren't ya, kiddo" the slimly built man asks
"GEMSTONE?" who the heck is that Levi said asking himself
"Is that why they're trying to kidnap me, because I look like this gemstone kid… the heck I don't even know them"
"Quit asking the kid questions, not like he's in a state to answer them anyways" the man holding Levi firmly says, he's voice gruff and rough.
"Well look at that, the kid isn't passed out yet, that some pretty strong stuff he inhaled talk more of a seven-year-old. Sure, must be great to have great genes."
"He's going to be passed out anyways in a matter of time, so it's literally useless to struggle at this point."
"Crap, I'm losing consciousness if I don't get home on time mom would be worried… Mom" the only thing he could think about at the moment as he was losing consciousness he could no longer seem to hear what the kidnappers were talking about as their voice turns to indistinct chattering, then everything fades pitch black silence and an empty void.
"Levi, you went out alone again and at this late hour…. If something happens to you not even all the groceries in the mart would fix it…. Promise me you won't go out alone again alright….
(Indistinct laughter and giggling)"
"Levi"
(Gasp)Levi wakes up, gasping for air as though his throat was on fire, the last thing he remembers him being kidnapped and the laughter and giggles of his mom.
"Mom" he says in a whisper feeling melancholic, but he sobers up soon after,
"This isn't the time to be feeling melancholic Levi, if you don't escape mom will be worried" he says assuring and thinking to himself as he wriggles his arm in an attempt to loose up the rope a little.
Wriggling and wriggling and wriggling, he pauses as he hears what seems to be an argument, some voices he could recognise as the kidnappers from earlier but the others a blank space.
"Are you idiots out of your freaking mind, you want to get us all killed and sent to our early graves, doubting they'd even gives us some"
"But boss, that's Gemstone's kid, we could use him to rake up some cash"
"Yeah, it's the kid alright, that's all the more reason not to do something so stupid, you fucking ass holed bastards… what you idiots thinking with huh, the shit coming off your assess, HUH!!!"
"Still, I bet he'll fetch a lot of money"
"Fetching money or not, Gemstone is those guys territory and doing something like this goes against the treaty"
"But, it's not like were killing the kid, were just demanding some ransom that's all"
"If He finds out were dead meat, just you fucking idiots haven't called yet"
"Um…"
"Um what, don't tell me you idiots have"
"…., wh... what are we going to do now boss?"
(Phone rings)
"You idiots' figure that out"Listening to what seems to have transpired Levi holds his breath trying not to make it obvious he was awake as he also tries to process what had just happened.
"Money, Gemstones, Treaty?" he asked himself as he tried to makes sense of the words he had just heard
"What are they talking about and what's going on here?"
"hey, kid, you awake?" the gruff voice asked, it was one of the men that had kidnapped him, but he knew better than to answer in this situation.
"Huh? Maybe I misheard"
"Hey, get your head out of the clouds, one of those Gemstones guys are here"
"What already? Don't worry I'll handle this, you guys watch the kid"
"Back up, call for backup"(The sound of footsteps, running through)(Silence)(The sound of footsteps, moving closer and closer)
"Young master it is highly inappropriate to snick out of the ceremony before it ends, your father will be very furious, and what happened to the young masters' clothes? these are surely not the ones you wore out of the mansion" the voice asks, but seeing as there are no replies he sighs "Young master please don't make things harder than they already are, we have a very busy schedule lately, and you know it is highly prohibited from going out on your own"
Confused, Dumbfounded, flabbergasted any term would do, but Levi could not explain the shock he was going through, he could only remain silent and think
"Young master!! What is he talking about? Which Father?!" at the moment the whole world seems to have been spinning with questions which no one could answer
Looking at the young Master before him the man sighed once again before untying him and yanking him up the shoulder, he brings out a pocket watch checking the time before he starts moving.
"Wait, wait put me down" the only thing Levi could say amidst the confusion.
"I'm sorry, young master but that is unacceptable at the moment young master" saying that the man moved towards the exit making only a temporary stop whispering something to what seemed like an associate and carried down.
He stops opening the door to a fancy looking vehicle and dropping his "Young master in the back" not saying so much as a word after, he enters into the passenger seat, tells the driver a phrase in which Levi didn't understand, but was supposedly meant to since he was the "Young Master" and zoomed off.
MEANWHILE
A FEW DAYS LATER
Riel and Levi sit opposite both edge of the table, Levi slurping down a cup of instant noodles and Riel inspecting him.
"Strange"