Chapter 1

I was sitting under the old tree in the small secluded backyard of my sister's and my house, resting peace as I watched the birds fly overhead and the small bugs scurry about among the garden Tessa and I had grown from scratch together. Tessa was out doing her job as a Healer, helping the sick or injured. She was known as the Angel of the city we lived at, but she didn't like being called that. She said it made her feel more apart from me.

And since I was a Demon, that wasn't so hard to do. Even being twins, I was the Demonic one while she was the one who can heal with just her touch and a pleasant thought. One of us was supposed to die before our birth because that was the way it worked with twins, either the good or the bad one dying out first to be molded into the survivor to create the perfectly imperfect child, but something had made it so that we were both born instead. Our parents had died when we were little so we didn't have very many memories of them, but we still lived in the same house since our birth. Tessa worked as a Healer to pay for it or doing odd jobs while I hid out at the house since I technically wasn't supposed to exist at all. Tessa had made sure I knew if anyone figured out I was alive we would both be killed for it.

Both twins can never be allowed to live in the same world together. It could cause some serious crap to happen.

"Nothing bad has happened yet, though." I sighed to myself and the plants around me, getting up and stretching and yawning. I always got tired around this time. But it was also around the time Tessa said she'd be getting home, so I couldn't go to sleep yet. I had to wait for her to get back, and to do that I had to be awake.

Ugh.

Tessa's sweet, innocent perfume breezed through the small house we shared as she came in, her arms full of bags of food and other house-hold stuff. "Sorry I'm late, Emma! I almost forgot to go pick up something for dinner." she sighed as I took as many bags as I could from her, following her to the kitchen to help unpack the load. Her long blond hair that matched mine almost completely except for color twirled around her as she hurried around the kitchen, putting everything in its new home in the drawers and cabinets. Her eyes, a bright sky blue unlike my midnight steel, smiled as she looked over at me.

She was always smiling when she looked at me, as if I had done something she loved. Even though I hardly did anything. Never being able to leave the house doesn't really give me that much to do.

"It's almost time to pull the flowers." I said, stuffing the last bag as far as it would go into the garbage can under the sink. I didn't know why, but I could always tell when it was time for us to get rid of something. Demonic Power of Death, she sometimes called it playfully. I just called it That Terrible Smell in the Air When It Gets Close to Being Time to Pull the Flowers, but that would always just make her scowl at me so I never said it very often.

"This year has gone by so fast!" she sighed, leaning back against the counter as she ran her thin fingers that looked just like mine through her caramel colored hair. Mine was pure snow white, clashing almost violently with my dark eyes. Tessa always said I was beautiful, though. Like a Snow Princess. I always told her she looked like a Summer Princess, then. Snow and Sun. We clashed almost violently, too.

"Yeah, it has." I agreed, and after a while she smiled and came forward and hugged me. She always knew just what to do when I got into one of my bad moods.

"I'll make us a special dinner to celebrate."

Sometimes, even though we're the same age, she reminds me of our mother so much. So loving, so caring, so warm. And her eyes. She never looked at me as if I was a Demon. I was just her sister to her.

I love Tessa so much.

It was late or early however you look at it, probably two in the morning or something, but I was ready to get up. The Demon blood that ran in my veins made it so that I usually didn't that much sleep, and usually with my daily naps I got all of my hours needed to be fine. I got up, slipped on my boots, and quietly slipped out of the small bedroom Tessa and I shared and went out to the backyard. That small plot of land was like my own personal world, so quiet and away from everything else.

I stayed out there until the sun came up, its gentle rays reaching up through the sky to chase off all of the darkness in the world. It was beautiful to watch. All of the reds and blues and oranges as it sped through the air…

"A Demon in the area? Are you sure? Wouldn't we had heard about something like that if a Demon was going wild in the area?" a guy asked, his voice cutting through my peacefulness and sounding as if it was coming from inside of the garden itself. But I was the only one out there, so that was impossible. He had to be walking along the edge that faced the street.

"Who said anything about it going wild? Not all Demons are reckless and stupid, you know. Some have brains that work." another guy sighed, their voices fading a little bit as they got farther away.

"Emma, what are you doing out here so early?" Tessa scowled, opening the door to the garden. She was wearing matching pajamas to mine, hers a soft blue like her eyes while mine were black.

The next thing I knew I was pushing her back into the house, slamming the door to the garden hard enough to make the glass rattle. "Don't go out today. Don't leave the house." I said breathlessly, gripping her arms tightly. But not too tightly, because I didn't want to hurt her.

"What's wrong, Emma?" she asked, frowning.

"I don't know. But people are here, Tessa, and they're looking for Demons. Demons, Tessa!"

That got her attention. "We'll stay inside today together. I wasn't even planning on going out today anyway." she said softly, and leaned her head on my shoulder, shaking a little bit with small sobs. "They can't take you from me, Emma. I won't let them." she choked out, and hugged me tightly.

"Just duck if I say duck." I murmured, hugging her back just as tightly. We both knew she was the weaker one, my Demon flesh making me stronger, faster, and more deadly than her by a lot. We might look similar, but we couldn't be any more different. Her Soul was as bright as sunlight whereas mine…

Well, mine wasn't.

Have no idea where this idea came from, but wherever it was I certainly want to go there. This story will hopefully have an ending, so please be patient. Reviews are appreciated, even if you think it's bad. Which I hope you won't. Criticism will make you loved, so please don't hesitate.