Years ago, during the first year of the Triple Devastation...

Jesse and his wife ducked inside an abandoned house, slamming the heavy wooden behind them shut. The heavy rain roared thunder as footsteps of armed soldiers from the Kingdom of the Sand ran pass them.

They barked and swore at each other before moving on to the rest of the destroyed village, finding more people to capture as slaves.

"Do you think we caused a good distraction?" Jesse asked.

Lisa shrugged, her breath visible as she exhaled into the cold house. "I just hope the others escaped with the supplies."

Jesse nodded. "I just hope they didn't get caught-"

KA-TINK-!

Something rattled behind them. Both of them turned around and pulled out their iron swords on instinct, scanning around to see nothing in this dirty, empty house.

"Hi!" A frail voice greeted them as Jesse and Lisa looked down to see pale, malnourished girl looking curiously at them.

"Um, hi...?" Jesse replied hesitantly, surprised there was still anyone at this abandoned village since it was destroyed in a battle between the Kingdoms of the Forest and Ocean.

The girl took a step back, fear in her blood-red eyes as she looked at the swords. "Are you going to hurt me too?"

"What? No, no we're not!" Jesse said as he and Lisa quickly put away their weapons. "But, uh, what are you doing here?"

"This is my home." The replied simply as she hugged herself, trying to keep warm as the heavy rain outside makes it colder than ever; only having bloodstained socks to wear on her bruised feet.

"What happened to you?" Lisa got onto her knee to properly look at the naked child before her as she has many scars and scabs. Clearly infected, as she is so malnourished that her ribs are visible through her pale skin. "Why are you even here-?"

The footsteps and shouting of military soldiers could be heard approaching.

"Shoot," Jesse ran up to the window, wiping away the foggy glass to see uniformed silhouettes outside in the rain. "I think they're coming back!

"We can hide in my room," The girl tugged on Jesse's pants. "They never found me there when they came in here before!"

"Not like we have a choice," The footsteps were getting louder. Lisa nodded at the little girl. "Lead the way, kid."

The little girl started limping towards the fireplace in the living room. "In here!" She crawled down a hole in the structure while Jesse and Lisa followed.

Jesse and Lisa had to try their best to not let go of the moldy, wooden ladder as it leaked sludge every time it were gripped by their hands, or the pressure of their foot. Darkness greeted them as the sound of a button being pushed can be heard. A block of stone pushed by a piston a second later, closed the hole they climbed down.

The barking of orders from the soldiers upstairs could be heard as it slowly faded away.

"Looks like we're going to be here for a while." Jesse stated as Lisa pulled out a torch and placed it on the mossy, stone walls.

Jesse could see the illumination revealing a bundle of cloths in a corner of the underground room. The little girl limped over to it as she sat down in relief as she hugged herself to keep warm.

"Don't you..." Lisa kneeled down by the girl again, found it heartbreaking to see her like this. "Have anything to wear?"

"I did," The girl replied as she looked down at the worn-out fabric under her, stained with dried blood and vomit. "But, they broke and got dirty; I use it for my bed now."

"How did you even rig that redstone?" Jesse glanced back at the covered hole. But then realization hit as he asked an important question. "How long have you been alone to set that up?"

"A while? I get distracted easily." The girl shrugged as Lisa pulled out some spare cloths she scavenged from other houses. "But it's okay, I've got everything I need here."

"Do you?" Jesse asked in concerned skepticism. "When was the last time you ate something?"

"Oh, I can't eat food anymore..." The girl replied casually, but waved her hands in front of her in panic to calm to the two people adults before her. "It's okay!" She pointed to a source of water in a corner. "I've got plenty of water to drink over there."

Jesse looked at the water in another corner of the underground room. He leaned in close to examining the brown liquid to see that there were tiny things moving around in there: parasitic diseases.

"How long have you been drinking this?" Jesse immediately stood away from the tainted water source.

"I don't know." The girl shrugged. "I just drink i-ACK!"

She held onto her stomach as she pressed her head into the bundles of cloths under her, coughing violently as Lisa pulled out a Potion of Healing while calmly patting the little girl's back.

The girl stopped moving. Lisa shook her, calling out to her. Nothing.

A minute of silence passed before the sick child groaned in response, much to their relief. Jesse kneeled by her as Lisa gently turned her body over to reveal a fresh, bloody puddle of vomit under her as it stained her body and into her cuts.

Jesse didn't hesitate to hold her head up while Lisa tries to coax the ill child into drinking the potion. "C'mon, drink up," Lisa pleaded urgently as the girl weakly turned her head away from the medicine. "Please, don't be stubborn, it's good for you!"

"I don wanna..." The girl coughed again as blood oozed out of the corners of her mouth while her breathing became a struggle; her eyelids became heavy as they closed before she passed out.

"We need to get her out of here," Jesse said immediately as Lisa dripped the potion down the girl's mouth. "We can't just leave her here!"

"Not to mention that his place is literally killing her!" Lisa agreed as she held the girl in her arms while Jesse placed the black sweater and white skirt on the girl's frail body, both clothing garments too big due to her starved body. "We need to move before those soldiers come back."

Lisa felt a lump in the girl's left sock; she reached in to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper soaked in blood. Lisa just placed it in her inventory before she started to remove the girl's bloodstained socks. "Let's get her a fresh pair of socks on and-"

Lisa had to try and not cry at the sight before her. A few of her toes were broken; improperly set and crooked as the sickly color of her chipped toenails brought on a stench of poor hygiene and infection while the bruises had a mixture of bleeding blisters too.

Jesse quickly placed a fresh pair of mismatched socks on the girl's feet as Lisa pulled her into a tight hug. He said it once, and he'll say it again. "We're getting her out of here."

"No..." The child groaned, trying to push away, but Lisa just held on tighter as if the little girl in her arms would fall apart. "I don't want to leave..."

"I know it's scary to leave your home," Jesse gently stroked her dirty, overgrown black hair as the girl buried her face into Lisa's shoulder. "But it be better than this, I promise."

"But I don't want to leave..." She tried to push herself away from Lisa. "I need to wait until my parents come home... it's my birthday..."

"How old are you?" Jesse felt dread building up as that question escaped his mouth. "What's your name?"

"I'm Jennifer," The girl coughed and groaned again. "I turned six this year..."

"Tell you what, Jennifer," Jesse was eye level with her, and spoke in a tone his mother would use when he was scared. "Lets get you out of here, and give you a proper birthday cake."

She looked at Jesse, her red eyes shown confusion. "... I get a cake on my birthday?"

"Of course you do!" Lisa said as they worked their way out of the underground room, still carrying Jennifer. "Why wouldn't you?"

"My mom and dad said I wasn't worth the effort." Jennifer replied simply.

"Well that's ni-wait, what?!" Jesse sharply turned around to face Jennifer as Lisa carried her out. "What did they say?"

"They said I wasn't worth it or any energy." Jennifer repeated as if there was nothing wrong with that sentence. But then a small, nostalgic smile formed on her pale face. "But then when the fighting happened, they said they would go out and get me a present!"

"During the war?" Lisa secretly whispered to Jesse skeptically as he gave Jennifer a concerned glance.

"Oh, that was, uh, nice of them," Jesse played along as they neared the door that leads outside. "Is that why you don't want to leave?"

Jennifer nodded as Lisa gave her to Jesse to carry on his back, his arms used behind him to carry her from under.

"So!" Lisa lightly clapped her hands together, trying to lighten the mood as Jesse gave Jennifer a piggyback. "What did they get you?"

"I don't know." Jesse felt her cough into the back of his neck. "We were running out of food, and they said they would trade the food and all of our crafting materials for my present."

"And?" Jesse asked, not even convinced that her parents were being honest.

"Then they left." Jennifer finished, and didn't say anything else when they were outside; the rain stopped, but that didn't mean it wasn't still cold.

"They just... took everything and they left?" Lisa glanced behind to see the house shirking in the distance while they walked away; at least they knew why the house was so barren. "Why didn't they take you too?"

"I don't know." Jennifer shrugged, resting her head on the back of Jesse's neck, tired yet comfortable for once. "They gave me a piece of paper, and told me to give it to people who ask."

"Well, where is it?" Jesse asked.

"It is in... my... socks..." Jennifer answered, yawning as she was slowly drifting off to slumber.

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"Alright, easy does it..." Jesse whispered to himself, gently placing Jennifer down on the bed Lisa set down. He stood up and placed a torch at the mouth of the cave they're in, looking out too see heavy rain and cold fog again.

"Looks like everyone else didn't make it yet," Lisa stated as she covered Jennifer with extra clothes to use as a makeshift blanket.

"I don't get it," Jesse began, tired as he walked back to sit down next to Lisa, next to Jennifer's sleeping body. "Why is she all alone? Why did her family leave her with a piece of paper?"

"I think she means this," Lisa pulled out the bloodstained ball of paper from her inventory. "I found it in one of her socks."

"Do we... do we open it?" Jesse asked to break the silence.

"I don't know," Lisa admitted as she looked back at Jennifer, who's starting to wake up. "Is it wrong to read something that isn't yours?"

"...It's okay," Jennifer yawned, slowly sitting up, dangling her feet off the edge of the bed. "My mom and dad said to give to people who asked."

"But why was it in your sock?" Jesse went to sit besides her, on the bed adjusting the other clothes around her frail body to keep her warm.

"There some was red stuff coming out of my feet," Jennifer tapped her left foot. "But more stuff was leaking from this one, and my sock wasn't enough."

"I thought it was paint," Jennifer mentioned as Lisa unfolded the crumpled-up paper. "But the more I used it, I started to feel dizzy."

"Just... please don't ever do that again." Jesse said; worried that she didn't know how bad she was losing blood. At least she stopped before she bleeds to death. "Do you even know what the note even says?"

"I don't know..." Jennifer admitted. "I can't read it."

"Are the words are too long?" Jesse tried recalling reasons why he couldn't read words when he was six. "Too advanced?"

"...I don't know how to read..." Jennifer admitted in shame as Jesse saw her wipe her tears away with her long sleeve. "I-I tried to write, but I keep spelling my alphabets wrong." Jennifer sniffed. "B-But they told me that it says where I can find them."

Lisa started to walk up to them. "Oh, hey," Jesse greeted her. "Did you find out what it-?"

Lisa pulled Jesse aside, and by the force of the pull, it must be urgent. She held up the note in front of Jesse's face and placed a finger on her lips to silently tell him to be quiet when he silently reads it. Despite the paper covered in blood, it wasn't hard to read the single line.

'Take her. She's not our problem anymore.'

"J-Jennifer." Jesse called out behind him, trying to keep his voice calm. "We're going to be outside for a while, don't leave the cave and yell if something is wrong."

"Okay!" She smiled at them as they walked outside the cave. She wonders how long she'll have to wait for them to come back. Jennifer hoped her family come back first so she can introduce them to these two nice people! That will be nice...

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"I think the rain will be enough to drown out our voices," Jesse somewhat shouted to Lisa as they stood a distance away from the mouth of the cave in the rain. "But that note explains everything; the empty house, the lonely child, it all makes sense now."

"Jesse, I don't think Jennifer knows," Lisa started to worry as she looked back at the cave. "I don't think she knows her parents abandoned her..."

Jesse groaned in frustration into his hands, not knowing what to do. "How are we supposed to tell a war orphan that her parents left her to die?" Then Jesse grabbed Lisa by the shoulders, a look of panic on his face. "Should we even tell her?"

"Jesse..." Lisa gently pushed his hands away as she was starting to cry. "That girl is suffering enough. She's already emotionally weak and physically frail; she limps when she walks, and she cried when she admitted she couldn't read!"

"But we can't keep the truth from her!" Jesse argued, but then started to think critically. "Do we?"

"A part of me says that we should tell her," Lisa looked at her friend, her eyes pouring more water than the rain. "But Jesse, I don't want to see a little girl die of a broken heart; it'll be too much!"

Jesse pulled Lisa into a hug as she sobbed into his shoulder. "I think I have an idea..."

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Jennifer looked back at the cave entrance to see Jesse and Lisa, soaked by the rain, walk back inside.

"Are you okay?" Jennifer noticed that Lisa's eye were puffy.

"I'm okay now," Lisa gave her a reassuring smile. "I was, uh, crying earlier."

They saw tears leak out of her red eyes. "...Was it because of me?"

"No, no, of course not!" They immediately went to comfort her. Jesse wiped the tears away as Lisa pulled her into a hug. "It's because of what the note said."

"What does it say?" Jennifer asked blinking the remaining tears away.

"It says... uh, it says..." Jesse steeled himself for the lie he's about to say and put on a smile. "It says they got us for your birthday!"

"R-Really?" Jennifer couldn't believe it. "But doesn't it say where they are?"

"It does!" Lisa lied, it hurts when you have to exploit a mentally challenged girl's mind. "That's why they sent us to pick you up and adopt you!"

"Adopt?" Jennifer asked in concern, not even noticing the flaw in their lies. "Are they not coming back?"

"No, they... they're not." Jesse said sadly, he could already see the tears building up behind Jennifer's crimson eyes. "But, they made sure to send someone to take care of you since they're gone! Don't worry they deeply care about you!"

Jesse had to keep up his smile throughout that lie; it was just painful to lie to an orphan.

Maybe it was the good news that she won't be alone anymore, or maybe it was the fact her family wasn't coming back for her, that caused Jennifer to break down and cry.

"Shh, hey, it's going to be okay now," Jesse whispered to her, Lisa still holding Jennifer's sobbing body while he stroked her black hair. "I promise, we won't let anything hurt you ever again. Your family loves you, and so do we."

Jesse didn't know how wrong he is. Especially when his daughter jumps off the roof of their home when she finds out the truth in the distant future.

A/N: The Deicide arc will continue after this, I just didn't name it in this chapter because I felt that it was separate than when Jess attempts to kill a god. Don't forget about the Raven and the homunculus, their fight will be shown too!

Other than that, I've gotten inspired, and I think that I will write something for Luke. I think I'm just going to add the other OC, his sister's OC, as a minor character. Frankly, I honestly don't like their OCs because I've gotten useless information on one, and little to none on the other. However I like a good challenge, plus they've shown positive support on my story, doesn't make up for their disappointing behavior and the stuff they did, but I will show respect where it is due. So get ready for Luke, I got something big planned.

Also, Jennifer committing suicide in the future... it's going to happen. As much as Jesse denies it, he is just like his sister; just like her, he is a damn good liar that's for sure. I'm also thinking about Jennifer: 'should she survive?', or 'let her die?'. Eh, I'll think about it later.

C'mon people, my svtfoe fic,Revelations, is about a suicidal princess and her psychopath friend as he does some dark magic. While my Dreams of Estorra fic is about a large majority species, hating the minority species, for simply existing while living in a video-game-like world. What else would I write?