My heart stopped as I caught sight of two people I hadn't seen in a long time. I linked arms with my brother and began steering him in the opposite direction, my pace increased as my panic briefly brought my aura to life around me. The strong smell of cinnamon filled the air, my pace increased to a jog and then a run, Jay remained silent and followed my movements through the crowded streets. I ducked into an alleyway and paused to compose myself; Jay looked at me, his face full of question. I mouthed a single word and his expression turned hard,
"Flamel." He said, his voice full of hatred as he repeated the word I knew he would recognise. They walked in front of us and Jay put himself between me and them, I squeezed his shoulder and tried to control my breathing.
"You're still alive." Nicholas said, surprise filling his face and voice, I smiled at the realisation that he still didn't know who we were. Two people appeared beside him, a boy and a girl, they were alike enough to be twins and I could see a brief outline around of gold and silver around their bodies. I caught my breath as I realised what I was seeing.
"Yep." I said, glaring at the Flamels. "So are you, that's a shame, I so hoped that that shadowrealm would consume you." Their expressions were dark and angry.
"You tried to kill us." Nicholas snapped.
"No, we simply left you to your fate, whatever happened you brought on yourselves. We knew we weren't the twins of the legend and we weren't going to let you turn us into something we weren't. You found you're oh so special twins in the end anyway. How many lives did you ruin along the way? How many people did you kill?" I asked, a flicker of anger flashed across the boys face. Nicholas and Perenelle remained silent. "Don't trust them." I said to the twins. "They'll say anything to keep you from knowing the real truth." I started to walk away when someone's hand gripped my shoulder. The boy with the gold aura stood behind me, he smiled and then glanced briefly at the Flamels, and something told me he didn't trust them. "You don't know, do you?" I asked; addressing the Flamels as they stared at me with confusion, shock filled Nicholas' face.
"Sophronia." He whispered, calling me by my full name, I laughed.
"No one's called me that in centuries, it's so old and nobody uses Greek names now, I go by Sam." Perenelle's face had become as pale as her husbands, I giggled, enjoying the fear I created. Nicholas turned to Jay. "Javan." He said, stepping backwards, Jay smiled.
"It took you long enough." I said, still smiling. "We're not that bad." I said as they continued to back away, I pushed out my bottom lip and then smiled again.
"Are you vampires?" The boy asked, his ignorance obvious, I giggled again.
"No, if you had any knowledge then you would know that. We are the children of the Elders Zeus and Hera; they appeared in Greek mythology though a lot of the facts were distorted." I waved my hands in the air and they looked slightly confused. "I suppose we have to help you, it is our destiny after all." The Flamels had regained their composure and were now standing between us and the twins. "Why do you fear us?" I asked, stepping forward.
"You are cursed." He said simply, shock washed over me, no one knew about that, we had made sure. The only people who knew were our parents and the disgusting being who had cursed us.
"How do you know that?" I asked, glaring at them.
"Prometheus told me." He said, saying the name of the man who had doomed us to this existence, he had changed us so that we wouldn't be a threat and it had resulted in us being even more powerful than before.
"Do you know what the curse does?" I asked, stepping towards them. Flamel shook his head. "We can't use fire without losing control, that little trick nearly killed me, but he missed one small detail. He thought that it would make us weaker but it only meant we had to try harder to control the other elements." I smiled, the darkness taking control for a brief moment. "The chaos we caused." I whispered. "He decided that we were too strong and waged war against us, he underestimated our power. Again he missed one small detail and it led to his downfall, he didn't die but I'm sure it wasn't good for his ego. After that we met you and we've stayed out of trouble since then." I said, careful to miss out the part about the darkness taking over and causing me to nearly destroy the shadowrealm and myself.