章 6: Meeting my savior and making a new friend

Everything is bright right now. I open my eyes and see that I am not home anymore. I lift myself from the bed and look around. I'm in a castle right now. I walk over to the balcony and I am barely tall enough to look over. White capped mountains and snow fall. The sun is barely coming through the clouds. Snow and sun, never seen that before. I look at the surrounding forest and trees to see a lake off in the distance to the right.

I remember what happened to my parents and Mar. I feel my eyes water up and release tears like no tomorrow. I never would have thought that my parents would die like that. Especially this soon. I thought I would have them till I was there age. They died because of me, I should have never used that magic. I should have never taken that diary from Gaunter. I have lost everything that I love because of this horrible power. 'I'm sorry Mom and Dad. I should have listened to you more.' I think to myself.

I dry my tears and look for a way out of here. There is a door to my left and I try to open it. Locked good and tight. Well a locked door cant get in my way. I use my power and immediately almost fall down some stair's.

"Whoa!! I should have taken a better look before hopping through the door." I say to myself as I regain my balance. I steady myself and start my descent down the stairs. I hear voices talking to each other. Two men, a women, and what sounds like a girl around my age. I find my way to a giant room and some scattered tables. There is also a big kitchen from the looks of it.

I see the people who are talking and the men look like they are old with that white hair, but they aren't old on closer inspection. The black haired women is very pretty. I then see the girl I was hearing. She looks like a similar version of one of the white haired ones and the black haired lady. Maybe she is their kid. I wonder how I got here, this looks nothing like the forest and mountains around home. Maybe whoever brought me here can use my magic to. Mar said my magic is special, so maybe not.

~~~(POV Yennefer)~~~

I look over and see a child similar to Ciri walk over to us. I look to Geralt and Vesemir and give them a look to say the talk is over. The best way to find out what happened is too ask Cera himself. I have no clue as to what happened to his family other than some left over frost. He will tell us what we need to know.

"I will ask him what happened. I don't want you two scaring him. Ciri you go finish your food." The two witchers give a knowing nod, however Ciri isn't two happy about having to finish burnt food from bad cooks.

I approach the boy and see he just got done crying. Its never easy to lose parents. I can only guess what happened there. Everything was gone when I arrived, and at the center was Cera. I slow down and put my hands on his shoulders as I kneel in front of him. He gives me a sad look.

"Where am I? The last thing I remember was my mommy dying." He says to me in a small voice. I don't take pleasure in asking these questions.

"You are at Kaer Morhen. I brought you here after I found you at your old home. I was wondering if you could tell me what happened." I say to him trying to make him feel safer. I have become better with kids ever since Ciri came into our lives.

"Oh..." is all he says to me. Kid really needs some comfort. I give him the best motherly hug I can give. He raps his little arms around me and puts his head in my neck. I feel his tears running down my shoulder. I pull him away and ask him again to tell me what happened.

"Mar and me were walking in the forest while Mom and Dad had a fight. It was about me and my magic." He says as he takes a pause to remember what else happened.

"Then a really cold air came through. It was so bad that plants and water froze at its touch. Mar and me headed back home to warm up. As we got closer, the cold got worse. Soon we made it back." He stops suddenly as tears well in his eyes.

"Its ok, your safe here. Nobody can hurt you." I say to him. Hoping he will continue. Its obvious he is scared. Whatever happened is bad enough to leave a mental scar like this.

"I saw black armored soldiers, they were really tall. There armor was covered in frost, and the ground beneath them was frozen from the cold." He says to me. I know exactly who he is talking about. If they are after him, then they will also come for Ciri.

"The leader said I had come just in time and he ordered his soldiers to grab me. My Mom yelled for me to run, but I tried to save them with my magic. It didn't work how I wanted it to. Soon Mar and Dad were dead. Mom tried to kill the soldiers to save me. She was also killed however." He finishes with tears coming from his eye's.

"You where very brave Cera. Go over and sit with the little girl over there. Introduce yourself just like your parents taught you ok. I need to talk to my friends now." I say to him as he hurries off to Ciri's table. He must be pretty hungry, hope he likes burnt meat and bread.

I walk over to Geralt and Vesemir to talk about the conversation I just had with Cera. I don't have to fill in the details because they heard. We do however have to talk about the enemies that were after Cera.

"So you have the same idea as me?" I ask Geralt. He has the most experience dealing with the wild hunt so he will know or not.

"He definitely had a run in with the wild hunt. He described them perfectly without even knowing who they are." Geralt says to me. I look to Vesemir and ask the question that I have been avoiding.

"Will he be aloud to stay here? I know the witchers code, but can you make an exception for him." I ask the old witcher. He is the owner of this castle. I would just make him, but that will cause even more tension.

"Hmmm...I don't see the harm. We are the last witchers anyway. Not like we are making anymore of us. He can stay here." Vesemir says in his trademark calm voice. I thank him and we continue on how we are going to hide both Cera and Ciri.

~~~(POV of Ciri)~~~

I am eating this horrible food as the boy from earlier comes and sits across from me with food just like mine. He stares at it for awhile as I stare at him. He finally looks at me and I notice we have very similar eyes. I wont lie, he is cute. As I finish my thought he opens his mouth to speak.

"Hi." Is all he says to me. Its like he never talked to another person before. I should take control of the situation since he sucks at talking.

"Hi, my name is Ciri what's your name?" I ask him with energy that hopefully makes it to him.

"My name is Cera, its nice to meet you." He says to me in a small voice. He doesn't sound shy, but sad instead.

"Why are you sad? Is it because of the food? That would make anyone cry." I say to him. This food is truly terrible. I am definitely sad I have too eat it.

"No....Well yes a little, but that isn't why I'm sad." He says dancing around my question. Maybe I can help cheer him up.

"How about we go play in the snow outside? That always makes me feel better." I say to him. It would be nice to have a friend to play with around here.

"Yeah....That sounds like a good idea. Dad would always beat me in a snowball fight. Maybe I can win against you." He says to me. Well that sounds like a challenge to me.

"Ha, if you think it will be so easy, then your wrong. I am going to wipe the floor with you." I say to him in a cocky tone.

"Well we won't know till we try now wont we." He says to me in a voice that isn't so down anymore. We run outside and start to have fun. We don't know who won or lost, but I guess that doesn't matter. Soon Geralt and Vesemir comes out.

"Alright I think that's enough fun for today you little hellions. Its getting real dark and we have to get up early to train." Vesemir says to us.

"Does that mean Cera will train with us as well?" I ask uncle Vesemir. I see the all to familiar look on his face.

"Of course! We can't have someone live here and not train." He says answering my question. I look over to Cera and see that he is more happy now. That's good, you wont be tomorrow.

"Ciri do you mind if Cera sleeps in your bunk tonight. We don't have a room set up for him yet." Geralt ask me. I don't see why not. I can tell him what to expect tomorrow.

"Yeah that's fine. Come on Cera, I'll show you your room for the night." I say as I grab his hand and take off.

~~~(POV Geralt)~~~

I look at the retreating form of the kids. I look to Vesemir and ask the obvious question.

"So do you think the plan will work?" I ask my old teacher.

"If we get help from the lodge, then yes. I will be the one to train Cera so you focus on Ciri." The old man tells me.

"Taken a liking to the boy?" I ask Vesemir.

"He reminds me a lot of Ciri. She had nowhere else to turn and neither does he. We can hide Ciri from the wild hunt since she can't use her powers yet, but we can't hide Cera if he uses his power to do long distance teleports. That's how they found him in the first place. At least that's what Yennefer told me." I hear him finish. I have a feeling its going to get a lot more busy around here.