Prologue
Kid
"So," I asked, "What, or who, should I say, are we looking for?"
"Easiest question all night." Xan responded, as we walked down a street of the run-down and crowded favela neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. "We're looking for an Afreet. It's what we do, you know."
"Stop with the smartness! I mean their names!"
"Why does it matter?"
"I like to know their names. I don't know why, but it makes me feel better about it if they seem more like their former human selves," I confided.
"...I know what you mean," Xan stated knowingly. "Their names are, were, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. You know, I enjoy the poeticism of these Afreets. One I fought before had drowned people for execution, and had turned into a fish-thing. These two were conjoined in death, and it appears, stay together in coming back. I hope to send them to their final peace together tonight."
"Well, you seem to be getting sentimental!" Patti cut in, in her pistol form.
"That's what I was about to say!" Said Shinobu, also in weapon form.
Xan
The girls had become quick friends since my feud with Kid had been settled a couple weeks ago. They'd taken to hanging out together, even so far that I often saw Shinobu for scarcely several hours a day sometimes.
It was the right thing that Shinigami-sama had done at the time, allowing Shinobu to attend DWMA, though I couldn't see it at the time. We'd gotten so much stronger in battle, and our friendship was also at its greatest. She was, at this point, the happiest she had been since I had met her.
"Xan, pay attention! You don't want to be surprised out in the field!" Kid scolded me.
"Sorry, but just because you have more souls than me doesn't mean that you get to order me around!"
"In case you forgot, your reckless behavior earlier made Father decide to send you on missions with a chaperon! That makes me your superior!"
"I had forgotten that!" I skulked.
Just then, we were attacked by a monster-no other word for it- that appeared to be two humans, only conjoined at the hip, with a single serpent's tail below the joint portion, and each had one of their arms joined to the other one's opposite arm.
It charged, and I threw one of my new Shinigami Instant-Freeze Grenades at it.
Boom!
Its' tail was frozen to the waist by the chemical spray from my explosive, leaving it unable to move any more that a crawl on its' two good arms. I used Shinobu's weaker resonance to finish the job by a knock to the head with what could be called a lightning-strength taser.
"Why didn't you attack it?"
"It was so symmetrical! How could you do that! Destroying something so beautiful!" He said in a rage.
"Kid! You don't look very hard sometimes! One head had no hair, the other had very short hair!" I explained.
"Are you sure?"
"Am I sure! I busted its' heads open myself!"
"Oh, well, good job!" He praised. It was weird hanging around with Kid.
"Okay. Being in Rio de Janeiro, I think we deserve to at least celebrate a little. But, since both the beach and the clubs would be too asymmetrical, let's have a cup of coffee at this cafe I know. I go to it every time I'm in town."
"How much do you get around, exactly?"
"More than you'll ever know!"
At the Cafe
We sat there, drinking coffee. We must have looked odd, five teenagers just drinking coffee, sitting in a way as to make the patio table symmetrical, Kid at the head of the table.
"So, where have you been?" He asked.
"Well, with Shinobu, I've been to Spain, France, oh, and Sardinia, that one was interesting! Let's see, Morocco, Algeria, that one sucked, The Gambia was, oh wait," I said at the dirty look I got from Shinobu, "I can't tell you that story, and-"
I was cut short by a large explosion.
"What the hell?" I said, as more explosions followed.
Then we looked up at the television playing the news, reporting around twenty explosions and counting.
"We've got to go help these people!" I shouted.
"How? Your weapon can't put out fires!"
"My ice grenades can!"
