Aya sighed and looked down at her dinner. It was left-over stew. She swirled around her spoon in it until it became a repulsive grayish brown lumpy, gross blob.
Aki, her twin brother, put his hand on her shoulder and said "Come on Sis, cheer up. We turn sixteen tommarow!"
Aya set aside the mushy mess, "I know but...Aki, have you noticed how boring our lives are? I mean everyday all we do is go to school and come home. Nothing interesting ever happens, we've never had anything exciting happen, heck I don't even have a boyfriend."
Aki's smile faded from his soft face, "Sometimes Aya," he looked at her seriously "it's better that way."
Aki saw Aya's look of confusion and replied smiling "You must be too stupid to understand."
Aya hit him over the head with a pillow, laughing.
Aya felt a little relieved of her depression when she realized Aki will be with her. He wasn't just a brother though, but a friend, the closest kind of friend anyone could have.
Even though they fought, and argued, the two were still extremely close.
Aya decided Aki was right, boring was better than horrible...but little did she know what fate awaited her the next day...
(A/N) Ahem this is your official warning. This fanfiction is much deeper and more serious than my others. It is rated M for good reasons and I'm not telling you why because it'll just ruin the story. This story is not placed before or after the real Ceres, but is put instead of. It's something else that could have happened on Aya's sixteenth birthday. The only characters that are the same are pretty much Aya, Aki, and the other Mikage's.
"Happy birthday dork!" Aya awoke to her brother yelling at her.
"Aki, there's no school today, can't you let me sleep in?" she whined.
"Nope" he said exitedly "Not when I have presents awaiting me."
Aya jumped up at the word presents. She stumbled out of her bed, ready to get changed, when she realized she must have fallen asleep in her school uniform.
"I'll change later." she said aloud leading the way to the family room. She and Aki sat down on the couch.
"Morning mom and dad." she said cheerfully, and greedily, waiting for her presents to come.
Her mom looked at her and quickly turned away. Aya could hear a few quiet sobs coming from her mother.
"Hey dad," Aki said concerned "what's wrong with mom?"
"Nothing." their father solemly replied.
Aki and Aya looked at eachother both confused and suspicious about what was going on.
Aya's cheerful voice broke the silence "Oh she must just be upset about her kids growing up."
At least...that's what I hope.
Her mother wiped her face and looked back at the twins "This year you will only get one present."
"EACH!" Aya and Aki cried out in unison.
"No," their father replied "you get one for the two of you. It's a very important gift from the entire Mikage family. You will be presented with it when the rest of our family comes here for dinner tonight."
"Okay..." Aya said with a sound of disappointment in her voice "I'll go grab the present I got you right now Aki." Aya headed for her room.
"Yeah, I'll get yours too." he replied.
Aya went into her room and changed into a tank top and jeans. She brushed out her hair and pulled it back.
She went over to her bed and grabbed the hidden present beneath it, hoping Aki would like it.
Aya returned to the family room and saw that Aki had already returned with hers.
She handed him the small box "Here." she said.
He opened the box and pulled out the pocket watch placed inside. It was the shiniest silver Aki had ever seen. It had an interestng design on the front and when he opened it he saw something etched inside of it.
'Never forget me. Your sister, Aya'
He smiled "Thanks, this is really cool." he attached it to his belt loop and stuck it in his pocket admiring the shimmering chain as it hung.
"Oh," he said remembering Aya "here." he handed her a box slightly bigger than the one she'd given him.
Inside it had a black choker with a silver heart shaped pendant. On the back the words 'I'll always be your brother. -Aki' were neatly inscribed in the metal.
"It's gorgeous..." Aya said in amazement "and the inscription is way neater than the one I did..."
"Your handwriting always did pretty much suck." Aki joked.
Aya laughed and put the choker around her neck.
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Aya and Aki had gone around the city just sort of wandering around wondering what the Mikage family was giving them that was so important and special.
When they returned home, their Aunts, Uncles, cousins, and other family members began arriving.
Aya swiftly went into her room and got dressed into a blue off-the-shoulder floor length dress. Everyone who was coming showed up in formal wear so Aya decided to dress up as well.
She looked in the mirror at her hair and decided to pass her time fixing it.
Aki had also gone into his own room and changed. He put on tan slacks and a white, button up shirt. He considered putting on a tie, but quickly banished the thought.
When Aya had finally come out of the room, her hair was up in a bun with small bits of hair dangling down. It was evident that before putting her long blonde hair up, she had curled it.
She looked at the faces of all her relatives, they all looked depressed and remorseful, but for what she had not known yet.
"Aki, Aya." Their grandfather called them over to the table. "Come here."
The walked over to the table where nothing but a scroll and a box sat. Soon all the others gathered around them.
"Aki, pick up that scroll and read it please."
Aki slowly unrolled it as he recognized its age and carefully held it as he read "When the two mirorred children reach their seventeenth year, their Mikage blood will become pure and their true power released..."
Aki paused when he realized what it meant. "That's enough Aki." his grandfather said. "Do you two understand? You are the perfect mikage's. pure of blood and shall spawn the perfect Mikage line, and we shall have the most powerful family in Japan. Your true power wll soon manifest."
"True power...?" Aya echoed.
"We do not know exactly what it means by that, but we do know that you two shall bring upon a powerful family line."
Aki's face went pale, but Aya still questioned.
"But wont your precious bloodline be destroyed by whomever we may marry...?" Aya's eyes filled with sadness when she realized what ws happening "Oh gawd..." she whispered.
"Yes, some may call inbreeding disgusting but in order to let the Mikage power reach it's greatest potential we must-"
"I don't give a freaking hell about it!" Aya screamed at the top of her lungs, making her voice hoarse. "You wont...WONT make me and Aki do this...you can't! Bastards!" She screamed again as tears rapidly flowed from her face. Suddenly her grandfather was gushing blood. It drpped all over and he coughed up even more. His entire body began trembling but everyone's eyes were on Aya.
Her face shone with an incredible light and her body floated above the ground. Suddenly her grandfather was released from his pain as she returned to normal.
Quickly before anyone else could possibly do anything Aki grabbed Aya by the wrist and dragged her into his room.
"Aki," Aya cried even harder "I can't believe I can do that? Did you see what I did...I...I didn't even mean to. That must be the power the damn legend was talking about..."
"The powers aren't the scariest part Aya." Aki said calmly.
"I know!" she began freaking out again "Now the want us to produce a bunch of kids for the 'perfect Mikage lineage', how bogus is that? I mean, we can't be married, that's just wrong."
"Aya...the scariest part isn't that..." Aya's face turned from angry and scared to the most horrified expression ever "it's that when they said that you would be mine...something inside me...wanted that."
(A/N) Don't worry it's not ending like this...just the chapter is. You know, there really need to be more Ceres fanfictions out there...review and please no flames, I don't take them well...