I heard that the greatest stories start with a certain phrase, so that's how I'm going to start. Once upon a time, there were two brothers. My brother, Melvin is 22 years old, blonde hair and brown eyes, and my name is Marik, I am 20 years old also with blonde hair and brown eyes. We were both looking forward to doing nothing all summer long. But our hopes were ruined when our father told us we were spending all our summer with our grandparents, which were Yami, our grandpa, and Yugi, our grandma.
Before we left, father took our phones and any other electronics away. Crying to ourselves, we said goodbye to our house and sat inside the car. It was a two day drive to the middle of nowhere to get to our grandparent's house. Finally, around midnight, we saw the little wood house surrounded by a valley and forest. Yugi came` up and hugged us so hard we couldn't breathe. She let go and smiled down at us.
"Welcome children, come in, come in!" she said cheerfully. I walked in and plopped myself on the couch, Melvin came in and sat next to me.
"I hate this place already," Melvin told me. We heard dad talking to Yugi, and we knew he wouldn't stay here long. He never liked to stay anywhere for a long period of time, and truthfully he didn't like us. I have a scar from him, a big one down my back, but that's not important. We've never actually been to our grandparent's house before, Yami and Yugi would always visit us. I looked around the room, there wasn't much, the wall was like a light yellow, with some pictures on it. The only pictures on the wall were of Yugi, Yami, and all of us in one picture. And there were three places to sit, on the couch, a rocking chair, and a comfy looking little red chair. Two doors were leading in and out of the living room, one of them was open and I think that door led to the kitchen but the other one wasn't. Yugi came back in and led us into the kitchen, after yelling at me to get off the couch. We walked in a brightly light, old looking room, old as in old fashioned. It had all the old appliances instead of the modern day ones, and the refrigerator looked like it could give at any moment. Other than the table and four chairs at the table, there was a beautiful looking strawberry plant on the windowsill. The tile floor was the old black and white checkers. We sat down at the table and waited for someone to say something but no one did. So Melvin decided to break the silence that had been loaming over us.
"Yugi, where's Yami?" Melvin asked. She looked at him and thought for a second, I don't think she wanted to talk either.
"Yami is out fishing still. He'll be another hour or so," Yugi said, getting up and making us some hot chocolate. After it was done Yugi poured three cups she gave me the purple one and Melvin got the blue one. I waited for mine to cool down, and so did Melvin. We finished our hot coco and had to wait for Yugi to tell us something before we could go to bed.
"There are rules here," she said very seriously, "1) No screaming, no running, or yelling, 2) No talking back and acting like brats and, 3) Have fun," Yugi said. I looked at Melvin, he shrugged. I looked back at Yugi and glared I hated following rules. She sent us off to our room to go to bed, we had to share one, and I was okay sort of with that.
The second day at our grandparents house we had to do chores all day long, only stopping to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We had to get up at five in the morning till eleven at night. It was so tiring Melvin and I both passed out by the time we were done. They were easy chores, but they got harder and harder. Yami came to tease us after he woke up and joked how we should go find a snipe. We laughed until he said he was serious and we searched in the woods for a 'snipe' for about three hours before we quit. The other jobs we had to do were like; clean the WHOLE house, clean the dishes, organize this and that, make us breakfast, lunch, and dinner, paint the outside of the house, dust here, chop firewood, make a grocery list, and dig for bait. It was a very tiring day, we had to put a second coat all around the house, it was not fun at all.
After a couple days in the life of boredom, Melvin and I decided to go explore the woods. But again, that summer our hopes were crushed when Yugi told us to come in and help her with the laundry. We walked with her to the basement, Melvin and I were barefoot. The basement was dark and cold, the cement floor froze our bare feet. The only thing down there was a washer and some poles and wires. It was about 50 degrees below, Melvin and I were dying. There's no drier, that's weird. I thought. We loaded the machine, and had to sit down there and wait until it was done. Yugi said she couldn't tell when it was done so we had to wait down there barefoot.
"I'm freezing! How can you stand this?" Melvin asked me shivering on the cement floor. We were sitting against the cement wall next to each other. Our backs were against the walls and our feet frozen to the ground.
"Just like I can stand you, I can stand this," I told him with a smile, he frowned glaring at me. But we were both frozen, we couldn't feel our back, butts, nor feet. I got up and started moving around to get warmer, Melvin did the same. He ran along the wall around and around and around, it got me dizzy. He stopped all of the sudden and ran his finger along the wall. It was weird, I thought he went crazy. He called me over, so I slowly walked over to my crazy big brother. There was a very thin outline of a big circle in the wall. Melvin pressed the middle of it and it slowly started opening, he moved back, to my side. I stepped forward and went through the blackness of the circle.
Inside the circle was a ladder leading up into the house. Melvin decided to climb the ladder first, I followed him. I looked up and noticed it was a dead end. Melvin looked down at me, looked back up and pushed into the nothingness of the dead end. The darkness was soon brightened. Melvin climbed up into the brightness, so I followed. Behind me though, I heard a thump of something closing.
Melvin helped me up onto polished wood floor, it had at least one layer of dust. I looked around, the whole room was outlined with windows. I turned a full circle around the room, almost falling into the hole we came up from. I closed it knowing that might happen again. I looked and found a lone purple mirror standing by itself. I slowly walked over to it reaching out my hand to touch it. Melvin came behind me and pulled my hand away.
"Don't touch that! There's something wrong with that mirror. Look at that the purple is actually inside the mirror moving!" he yelled at me keeping hold of my hand. He was right the purple was moving in swirls, but it wasn't that odd was it? After a while, he let go of my hand and looked around the mirror. He came back holding at note I immediately took it from him.
"Thee who is not worthy to touch thy mirror, shall be sent to nothingness. Thee who is worthy and touches thy mirror will have an adventure of a lifetime. But thy worn thee, thee may not come back," I read, I handed it back to my brother who was now staring at the mirror. He put the note back where he found it, and looked at me with a weird look.
"That wasn't weird at all was it?" he asked looking at the mirror. I smiled and heard Yugi yelling for us. I went over to open the door but it wouldn't work. I kept trying and trying while Melvin was standing right next to a slide that went in the ground. I walked over and looked at him sheepishly. As we were sliding down the slide we were laughing, how random huh? We rolled out onto grass and I hit a tree, Melvin hit a bush. I sat up and looked around, we were in the forest. I helped Melvin out of the bush, he looked around too.
"How far do you think we are from Yugi's?" I asked, not really wanting to say both their names it was too much work.
"I don't know, let's go find out," Melvin said pushing me forward to go in the forest. I was in the lead, and Melvin followed behind, looking behind him, and to his sides. I spotted the end of the forest and run to the end, with Melvin following close behind. Melvin spotted the house and we ran as fast as we could to it.
We ran quickly and hurried down the stairs to a yelling and angry looking Yugi. She turned around and saw us walk down the stairs. We were instantly yelled at by her and sent to our room. Melvin sat himself down, and I just fell on the bed, burring my head in the pillow falling asleep. That night I woke up and told Melvin we should go explore that room again he agreed and we fell back to sleep.
"Marik! Marik wake up, come one let's go! You're the one that wanted to explore so let's go," Melvin yelled at me pulling. We walked quietly down the stairs and down to the basement.