A/N: Well looky here, I believe this might be a new story huh... Well, this is one that I've had in my head for a while now, hopefully these guys will pull you in just as much as the last team. but for now, we focus on other things.

The Twins: Part One

Today was the day... Or that's what Sulus and Clara's mother, Catalina, kept saying. It was the day of a supposed Faunas rally, something Sulus had been keen on attending. Clara however, was indifferent, she just wanted to be with her family. And since they were are active White Fang supporters, this seemed like the best way to do it, besides staying at home and playing tag.

Sulus was in his room, idly brushing his tail and counting out loud. So far he had reached 37. His brush stroked through his fur gently and his motion was slow and precise as to make sure he didn't yank a knot out roughly. Clara leaned on the door way with a small grin as she watched her minute older brother. "You brush your tail too much." She said, her tone ever teasing as she began to approach him with a grin.

"You don't brush your teeth enough." Sulus sniped without looking up from his tail, but by the small growl and the foot stomp, he knew he had gotten his desired reaction.

"That's not true!" Clara exclaimed, arms crossed and her face set in a furious pout. Sulus snickered but quickly hushed when his mom stepped in. Seeing the two sit in odd silence made Catalina smile a bit. She knew her children, and she knew that when they were silent, the had either just argued, or were plotting some sort of surprise.

"What happened?" She asked with an amused smile as Clara grabbed her pant's leg and pointed to Sulus. "Sulus said I don't brush my teeth enough!" Sulus smiled a bit, now on stroke 56. He still hadn't denied the accusation, no need. His mom knew him well, and she knew that was something he would say.

"Sully, you know what I said about picking on your sister." Catalina chided as her hands ran through his wild light grey hair. "Yeah yeah, I got it." Sulus moved his head aside and looked up to her with his sky blue eyes and childish smile. "But she made it easy for me that time." Sulus argued jokingly. His mom sighed as she sat down beside him with a soft smile. "The easiest route isn't always the best."

Sulus sighed and finished brushing his tail, which his mother took and gauged it for a moment before she let an even bigger smile take hold. "Perfect, good job Sully." Sulus' smile brightened as he stood from his spot and fixed his clothes. His sister stepped beside him and both of them looked up to their mother. Their sky blue eyes ever curious and bright, their smiles always contagious and fun. "I love you two."

"We love you too, mom!"

After the three finished getting ready they left the house and began to walk to the town square, Catalina holding both Sulus and Clara's hands as they walked. She knew if she didn't Sulus would be off, hoping to meet the man running the White Fang, and Clara would have been running after him to try and reign him in, only for Sulus to run faster to get away from her. It was a system Catalina had learned early on. It was a hassle for their teachers who still didn't quite understand, so to fix the problem Catalina took extra time to keep them in the same classes. Of course them being in the same class didn't fix the problem... It just made it amendable, considering Sulus gets protective and worried for Clara when she's far away, so he'll actively look for her, while Clara will constantly want to be by his side so she can keep him on the right track. The joys of raising twins Catalina thought.

"Mom! Is that where the rally is?!" Sulus used his free hand to point to the center of Vale, in it was perhaps a thousand faunas, maybe even more, all congregated in front of a podium. Behind the podium sat a dozen or so people one of which was likely going to be speaking today. Catalina smiled ever so slightly as she looked down to her two jewels, both smiling with wonder in their eyes. "It is. We can't get too close up you guys, well have to be in the back."

The face Sulus made, was actually saddening. it was like someone had just taken his tail and stepped on it. "But... Mooom... I wanna meet the leader!" Catalina smiled at him patiently and knelt down in front of him, her green eyes doing their best to sooth his sorrow. "We'll try to meet him another time. I don't want to accidentally loose you, okay?"

Sulus pouted for a moment before Clara nudged him and briefly nodded to their mom. Sulus straightened his posture and nodded. "Alright... Next time, and I mean it!" Catalina smiled and kissed his head before she took both her kid's hands again and began to lead them to a nice spot to watch and listen. It was actually kind of hard to do so, seeing as most of the tow square was filled to the brim with people. Which was to be expected during a rally as large as this one. Eventually they found a space under tree that hid them from the sun and gave them a good position to see the podium unobstructed. It was there that Sulus mad a life changing decision.

"Mom, can I climb the tree and sit up there?" Catalina looked at the tree above them and pursed her lips, it was reasonably tall and had an outstretched branch in the direction of the podium. "Alright... But be careful." Sulus smiled and let go, he zoomed up the tree and sat down on the branch with his legs crossed. A small tug on Catalina's arm made her look to Clara who had a pleading expression. A small sigh escaped her lips and she nodded. "Don't pester your brother." Clara smiled and climbed up after him and did her best not to knock Sulus over, or get in his way, thankfully their small frames allowed them to sit side by side with hardly any issue. Catalina was pretty glad that her daughter listened a bit better than her brother. But when the cheers began, her attention was pulled away and back to the podium.

A giant faunas had began to walk across the stage to get to the podium, "Mommy, is that him!? The leader?" Sulus asked from his tree. Cat couldn't help but smile, her son sounded beyond excited, she could tell he was probably bursting from the seems right now. "Stop jumping so much Sully!" Eeyup, he was happy.

The rally began with cheers from the surrounding supporters and definitely from Sulus, he was seeing his role model for the first time. The man Sulus had looked up to and the person his mom told him stories about, Ghira Belladonna, High Leader of the White Fang. "Cool..." Sulus muttered dreamily as watched and listened.

Sulus was excited, surprised, and breathless all rolled into a small package. His sister was much more contained however, wearing a gentle smile and watching with inquisitive eyes. Neither spoke while Ghira did, both were too focused on trying to understand him. It wasn't that he had an accent, it was just that he was using big words like segregation and inequality. And when a kid can't understand they loose their focus, Sulus was no exception.

After a while he ended up looking away and around, just seeing what was around them, there were many buildings of course, this was the town square after all, it was meant to be in the center. in this area of Vale it seemed that the buildings hardly ever went over two stories, but there were a few buildings that did go up to four, such has parking garages and hospitals. There were probably other buildings of importance, but Sulus couldn't name them.

One building seemed to have an odd sparkle in one of the rooms... What had his mom called it? A hotel? Sulus didn't know, but something peeked inside of him, something dangerous to most little kids, his curiosity. He gently nudged Clara to get her attention. "What Sully?" Clara looked at him with clear annoyance, Clara seemed to understand the speech and had gotten interested in it. Sulus pointed to the room with the sparkle. "What's that?"

Clara looked at it and shrugged. "I dunno, ask mom." Sulus gauged that option quickly and shook his head. "She won't tell me..." Sulus knew the answer he would likely get, 'Just ignore it Sully.'. Sulus didn't like that answer and he hadn't even heard it yet. He pursed his lips for a moment before he quietly stood from his spot and jumped from the tree, landing softly and proceeding to jog after the building with the sparkle. Clara gasped and looked down to their mom who was none the wiser to the issue going on behind her. Clara sighed and hopped down the tree and took off after Sulus.

When Clara caught up to him she grabbed a hold of his arm and pulled him back. "We gotta go back to mom!" Sulus pulled away and kept going. "We'll go back before she sees! Come on!" Clara couldn't even get a word out before Sulus broke off in a sprint that even an adult would have an issue keeping up with. Clara sighed and chased after him. She knew this could only end badly.

Sulus watched the sparkle as they ran, noting that it didn't move from it's position, but it did flicker depending on the angle he ran. He didn't understand it, but he wanted to see it up close. It was in the fourth story of a hotel. He pushed inside of the hotel, Clara stumbling in after him panting. Sulus didn't take a break as he stepped in and looked around. They were in the center of the lobby, some people were walking around, workers were moving carts and doing their jobs. Clara stepped up next to him and looked around worriedly. "What are we doing?"

"Hunting." Sulus said with a grin as he made his way to the elevator. Only to be stopped by a man double his height, which wasn't had considering he was only 7. "Young man, if I may ask, where are you going all alone?"

Sulus thought for a moment before he gave the man a childish smile. "Me and sis were going upstairs to go see our dad! We just got dropped off by my friend's mom and said we could get the rest of the way." The man raised an eyebrow and watched Sulus for a moment, his gaze turning to a squint. "Tell your father to meet you in the lobby next time, we can't have any child getting lost, now you and your sister get to your dad."

Sulus smiled and nodded, grabbing Clara by the wrist and tugging her to the elevator before she could ruin the whole plan. "Thank you sir!" Sulus waved as he pressed the button to the elevator doors and they slid closed. As soon as they did Clara socked him in the arm.

"What was that?!" Clara knew they didn't have a dad, as did Sulus. "I lied, I really wanna see what's up here and they wouldn't let us if they knew no one was here for us." Clara sighed and shook her head, face palming as she did so, "We are in so much trouble..."

"Stop being such a wimp, it's not like we're gonna be gone long, and even if we were, we can just say that it was hot so we went find a place to cool off." Clara looked at him for a moment, expression uncertain. "It's weird that you can lie so quickly." She said as the doors opened to the fourth floor. Sulus peeked his head out and checked to see if any grown ups were around to spot them. Once he was sure they were clear he stepped off the elevator and walked left to where he was sure the sparkle was, only problem was, he couldn't see into the rooms and he was sure there were at least 40 rooms on the left side of the fourth floor alone, there was no way he could find it quickly, at least... Not from this view.

"Follow me!" Sulus waved for Clara to follow as he stepped into the employee only stairs and started going up to the roof. He pushed the door open and smiled as the light blotted out his vision for but a moment and then he could see the sky and a few other tall buildings. Sulus wasted no time running over to the edge and looking down to see what it looked like being so high up.

"Wow... we are really high up..." Sulus muttered as he looked over to Clara who had her arms crossed. "And why are we up here?" Sulus shook his head and hopped onto the ledge and pointed down. "We're gonna climb around." Clara's mouth fell open. Sulus cared little however and soon was lowering himself and gripping small ledges tightly, his tail providing balance as he shifted along the vertical surface, gabbing onto any outcroppings he could feel or see.

The search took time, maybe ten or so minutes, long enough for Sulus to know his mother was probably calling their name and getting worried. It mattered little to him, because as he peeked into the last possible window, he found what he was looking for, or at least what he thought it was.

It was a black, cylindrical object that was connected to a bigger object. It had a really skinny and long cylindrical shape, attached to a black rectangle. He wasn't quite sure what it was, but at least now he knew what room to knock on. He saw a man sitting near a table doing something so he knew there was someone home. So knowing this information he climbed back up to Clara who was definitely mad at him.

"Come on! I found it." Sulus booked it before she could even yell at him. He almost leaped down the stairs and out of the stairwell and back into the main hallway. He stopped outside of the room that had the sparkly thingy and waited for Clara before he knocked on the door. It took the man moments to open the door with a friendly smile, only problem was he was looking above them, unaware of their presences, so Sulus got his attention.

"Hello sir, I was wondering if I could come see your sparkly thingy." Sulus smiled up to the man happily. The man tilted his head confusingly before shaking his head slightly. "What are you talking about?" Sulus sighed and ducked past the man despite his protests and pointed at the object again.

"That thing." Sulus said with a determined expression, he had ran away from his mom, endangered his life, and lied. He was going to see the sparkly thingy. Clara meanwhile stood with a wide open mouth, but soon it clicked shut and she spoke quietly. "Sully... That's a gun..." Clara all but whispered.

The man grabbed Clara by the hair and slung her into the room with Sulus, slamming the door shut and locking it. His smile now gone, replaced with a snarl. Sulus was looking at him with the same expression. "No one treats my sister like that!" Sulus charged forward in an blur and hit the man with all his might, nothing happened.

Except the man doing the same to him.

Sulus was laid out in a single punch, his head swimming and his body going limp. He could hear the sound of crying as he faded into a deep sleep.

It didn't last long, or maybe it had, he didn't know. He woke up tied to his sister back to back, he could her sobbing quietly. He then looked to the man and saw he had a chair pulled up behind the gun and was looking through the sparkly thingy. Sulus knew a bit about guns, but he didn't recognize the one the man was using, that was why he didn't think it was a gun.

"I wanna go to my mom... Let us go... Please?" Clara's voice was strained and raspy, like she had been crying. Sulus didn't like hearing that. He gently nudged her and turned his head so he could kind of see her.

"Clara, your claws..." Sulus whispered, his voice so low even he had trouble hearing it. Clara merely shook her head and looked down. "Even if I did, he would catch us before we got to the door." She whispered back. Sulus bit his lip and looked down. He could feel tears pooling at the corner of his eyes from pure frustration. They had to get out of here... But something also said that the man needed to be stopped.

"Just do it...I got a plan." Sulus said, his gaze fixed on the man now. Sulus could tell he was going to hurt people. He showed his true side when he grabbed Clara like she was a grown man. In Sulus' mind, that meant war as best he could wage as a seven year old boy. Sulus heard Clara sigh and soon the sound of the rope getting cut could be heard by him. It felt like it took several hours for the ropes to finally slacken around their wrists.

"When I say go, run to mom as fast as you can." Sulus said, his teeth grit. Clara looked at him and bit her lip. "Be careful okay?" Sulus gave her a singular nod, his hands grabbing a hold of the ropes that once confined him. His heart beat as he watched the man touch on top of the sparkly thing. He leaned in close to the thing and squinted one eye. As soon as he did he whispered to Clara.

"Go quietly." Clara nodded and pushed herself to stand, Sulus did as well, his hands still holding onto the rope. Clara gently stepped up to the door and reached for the nob and twisted the lock. As soon as it clicked Sulus enacted his plan, the rope went over the man's head and under his chin. With all his strength he pulled backwards with both his hands. The gun went off with a thunderous bang, though it wasn't as loud as he expected for a gun that big. Sulus heard the door open and slam shut and then distant footfalls as his sister ran to get help.

Sulus yanked back when he felt the rope begin to pull away from him. Sulus curled his body into a ball meanwhile holding the rope, all of his weight being used to choke the man. The man choked and gurgled as the weight pushed into his trachea and cutting off his oxygen. the weight from Sulus and the man leaning back made the chair lean and fall back onto Sulus, making him gasp for air and from pain.

The man coughed and sputtered as he rolled from the chair, he tried to regain his lost air, giving Sulus time to push the chair off and take off for the kitchen, grabbing the first thing he saw laying on the counter top. It was a knife with a curved blade and black handle. His mom had one at home, he knew those were the really sharp ones. It was a fillet knife. He grabbed it by the handle and turned around to see the man storming over to him.

As the man reached out to grab Sulus with both arms, Sulus ducked under the arm and slipped past him, the blade cutting the man's jeans and into his flesh by accident. The man howled in pain and spun around and kicked Sulus in the back with enough force to knock all of the air from his body. It was then that Sulus made up his mind.

He didn't want to fight. He just wanted to be able to run as far and as fast as he could. He was afraid of getting hurt, he was afraid to die. He just wanted to go back to his mom and take the punishment he likely deserved.

"Where'd you go you filthy fuckin' faunas?" Sulus sat up and looked at the man with teary eyes. Only to be really confused. The man was standing almost directly over him. The man didn't see him? Sulus looked to his hand and to his surprise he couldn't see anything. He tried to look at his leg, only to see nothing...

He was invisible?

So many questions ran though his mind so rapidly he couldn't even open up his mouth to speak. The man growled and turned around, thinking Sulus was there. Sulus pulled the hand up that he was sure the knife was in... Nothing. He stood up and looked at the man with squinted eyes. If the man couldn't see him... Then he couldn't hurt him. Sulus grinned as he dashed forward and stabbed the man in the back of his leg.

The man howled in pain and swung around, aiming to hit Sulus, which he managed to do. Sulus fell backwards with a yelp, his face stung as he looked at the man. He was grabbing the knife and trying to get it out of his thigh. Sulus looked around for something that could help him fight, his eyes strayed across the gun.

He rushed over and grabbed it, the weight hit him instantly as he did his best to lift it. The rifle clacked in his arms as he grit his teeth and groaned when he couldn't get the weapon up. Then the sound he feared happened.

The knife clattered to the floor.

Sulus looked up in horror to see the man looking dead at him, his smile turning cruel and evil as he slowly approached Sulus. "You were gonna shoot me? Hehe, you tried kid, I'll give you that." The man balled up his fists as he kept walking.

Sulus stepped back, weapon still in his hands, his fear more that evident by the tears sliding down his cheeks, "Get away from me!" The man laughed and kept walking, "Is the big bad kitty getting scared now?" He was messing with Sulus. And it was working. Sulus didn't want to die, he didn't want to get hurt... But he didn't want that man to hurt anyone else.

Sulus could feel his heart beat fast and his muscles tensed as he yanked the gun upwards as high as he could, positioning the barrel snugly at his stomach. The man froze in horror as he looked into the eyes of the boy in front of him. Sulus was crackling with a light blue energy as he watched the man. The man shook his fear away and reached for Sulus.

The gun went off. A loud boom filled the room and the man screamed just as loud, if not louder. He fell to the floor and clutched his stomach as blood spilled from his body and spread across the floor, his face etched in pain and fear. The sight made Sulus stare blankly for a moment before he eventually dropped the gun and ran past the man, but as he got passed the door he could feel his energy plummet. His body collapsed as soon as he got out of the room. He was down for the count.