Chapter One
Burning. Everything around Melody and Harmony was burning.
They had been having a party because it was their 5th birthday. There had been singing, dancing, gifts and a feast. Everyone had been laughing and smiling.
But now terrified screams filled the air and their village was in flames.
Their parents were on the ground, dead. They had been run through with spears, in an attempt to protect their daughters. The clan leader was dust, from being hit by an akuma. Women and children and men were either fighting or lying on the ground dead.
The clan were warriors, they would never run away and would never give up. Running away would result in exile because the clan didn't need 'cowards' who may leave their comrades to die in the middle of battle. Giving up would mean that you had no faith in yourself or your comrades.
The CROWS had come first, trying to make the clan give up the two girls because they had innocence and almost had the clan's ability; to see into the future and sing their enemy to do their bidding. (But I'll keep their innocence ability a secret for now) Their innocence was located in the middle of their chests, just below their throats. It made it hard for them to hide so the Black Order caught wind of the twins quickly.
The clan had refused to give up the twins.
The CROWS took that as an act of rebellion and started to round all of them up and kill all of them, regardless of their age or gender
Then the akuma came. The clan had no chance of survival. Not with akuma and the CROWS attacking from both sides.
Soon, everyone else was dead, leaving the twins in a burning village, filled with akuma and CROWS.
The twins were terrified but refused to show fear to the enemy. It was what they were taught. They looked at each other and clasped each other's hand, in agreement and reassurance.
Soshite bouya wa nemuri ni tsuita
Ikizuku hai no naka no honoo hitotsu futatsu to
Ukabu fukurami itoshii yokogao
Daichi ni taruru ikusen no yume yume
Gin no hitomi no yuragu yoru ni
Umare ochita kagayaku omae
Ikuoku no toshitsuki ga
Ikutsu inori wo
Tsuchi e kaeshitemo
Watashi wa inori tsuzukeru
Douka kono ko ni ai wo
Tsunaida te ni kisso wo
The twins sang sweetly and their fingers pressed the keys of an imaginary piano as they played the accompaniment. The melody and the twin's enchanted their enemy and the CROWS dropped one by one and the akuma exploded. As the song ended, there was no one else standing but Harmony and Melody. They didn't kill the CROWS, they just ordered them to fall asleep.
The twins left, after burying the clan (using their powers to speed things up).
In a few hours, the CROWS would wake up in the middle of a graveyard with the two girls nowhere in sight.
It had been three years since Harmony and Melody's village had burned to the ground. They had been working at a circus for two years and a half. They were mistreated and often punished but it was better than nothing.
They were now eight and were surprisingly mature for their age. But then, the two eight year olds had been forced to grow up.
"Useless brat!" they heard Cosmos yell. There was the sound of a whip cracking and a cry of pain.
The twins looked at each other.
Red was getting a beating again.
Melody gritted her teeth and glowering as they watched their friend getting a beating from the spiteful man.
Harmony looked at her twin alarm.
Melody had the look on her face when she was about to do something rash, something that would get both of them punished severely.
She was about to put out a hand to stop her but it was already too late.
Melody had thrown herself at Cosmos and snatched the whip away.
Cosmos looked at her, furious. He raised his hand, and was about to bring it down when Harmony stepped in front of her sister and took the blow instead.
Harmony flew through the air and crashed into the wall opposite.
Harmony groaned. Her head was spinning and she felt like she was going to throw up. Not that she already felt sick. She had been feeling ill since she had woken up. But she hadn't told anyone except her sister, though Melody already knew because they knew each other extremely well. Cosmos would have beaten her for trying to get out of performing.
Cosmos left, muttering about useless brats.
Red and Melody ran up to her.
"Idiots. Why'd you do that?" Red muttered, angrily.
"Cause you're our friend. Duh." Melody replied.
"But it wasn't any of your business."
"Yes, it was. Now shut it both of you." Harmony moaned, "I feel like I'm gonna hurl..."
Melody examined her sister's forehead, which was bleeding slightly.
"Woah, sis. That's some major concussion you got there." Melody whistled.
"You don't say." Harmony grimaced, then promptly throwing up her lunch.
"Yuck. That's gross." Red said, in disgust, pinching his nose.
"Oh, shut up Red. You're not helping."
"Are you going to be able to perform?" Melody asked, "Don't want you to suddenly collapse or throw up in the middle of the show."