We're the same, we're both rabid animals who have sick heads and minds.
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"Jackson! Come back over here!" I yell through the window. My twin brother was running around in the backyard just out of spite. He knows we have plans for the day, yet he insists on wasting my time.
"Don't be a stick in the mud, Anya." He says through a laugh. The freckles on his face scrunch together. "We have all the time in the world!"
"That's a slight exaggeration," I mutter to myself. I climb out the window and in the blink of an eye I have him by his ear. I furrow my eyebrows and give him a disapproving look. "I can't believe you sometimes. If we're late, then you get in even more trouble than I do."
"You're a cat familiar, it's normal for you to be late. I don't know why you try to hard to act like you're not." He says as he swats my hand away. I glare at him. He sighs but laughs after he sees me notice his tired eyes. He picks me up and throws me over his shoulder.
"Hey! Put me down" I hit his back and kick my legs. I hate it when he does this. But he just laughs even more.
"You said you didn't want to be late!" He says.I huff. He walks down the dirt path from our backyard into the forest.
"My legs work just fine, I can walk myself!"
"Jackson" I hiss at him. I'm not in the mood to be playing games.
"Damion." He responds playfully. I groan. "Come on, you act like it's the end of the world that your older brother is carrying you."
"You're older, by like, a minute!" I complain.
"But still older."
"You're impossible." I give up. I never win with him. His stupidity always amazes me. He simples laughs again. God, how I dream of ripping out his vocal cords. Make him beg for my forgiveness. I know that will never happen though.
Tomorrow is our eighteenth birthday. Then we will be able to pick the witch or wizard to serve. Soon I will never see my brother again. As a familiar, you're always traveling. Familiars never hold ties with family, it's just how it is. I know his more distraught about it then me, but I don't really understand why. We always knew that it was going to happen.
I assume that I came to terms with it when I was quite young, hence how detached I am currently. "Hey Dames,' He says with a breathless voice. I snap out of my thoughts.
"What?"
"Did you see that?" He looks amazed as he looks to the side of himself, deeper into the forest off the path.
"See what?"
"That" He says. He takes a step of the path and begins to walk on leaves. I still have no idea what he's talking about.
"Hey, what are you doing? Are you stupid?" I say. I get no answer. He looks out in the forest. I look at the side of his face in confusion. Silence falls on the forest floor. "Jackson, come on, you're wasting time."
"Sh-" He says. That's a first. I blink, surprised. "I think.."
"What?"
"I think there's a thing over there."
"Thing? Really? Because that's so descriptive." I mutter. He rolls his eyes. He takes me on his shoulder and carries me with both of his hands. He tucks my head into the crook of his neck."What the fuck-"
He breaks out into a sprint, deeper and deeper into the forest. Searching for what he thought he saw. But then..I saw it too. It was a bright blue light. I knew instantly what it was. He didn't. I always was more book smart then he was. I took pride in knowing as much about magic as I do.
"Jackson!" I say, caution and haste in my voice. "Turn around! I'm serious."
"No, I gotta see it." We grew closer and closer to the light. My heart raced. I know what's going to happen and I can't stop it. When this type of light comes, it's fate. No matter how much I could hold my brother back, he would go to it. I could escape it. This isn't my fate, I can jump out of his arms.
But.
I don't want my brother to die from something I know I could stop. I've been learning all these years of magic to save people, how would my potential witch recate knowing I let my brother die?. So I hold my breath and push down my pride as I go with him into the bright blue light.
"Woah, Dames, you okay?" As my vision came back to me, the sky was dark instead of the once shining sun that was in the sky earlier. I saw my brother freckles and cherry brown hair looming over me. He bared a face of concern. I struggle to form words, but with the roll of my eyes he knew I was did his usual cheeky smile and gave me space to breath. "Good." He said. I then noticed I was propped against a cobble wall in an alleyway. Horse drawn carriage caught my eye.
I was right then, it was universal power portal. No magic in the world allowed for time travel, however, universe travel was more than common for high ranking wizards and witches. The problem was, me and my brother where not witches. Sure, I am knowledgeable on how to cast spells and create potions, but I can only know how. I cannot create. Small things, like having a vacuum clean, sure. I can do that, however it drains me to a point where it causes more trouble than actually using the vacuum like a humon.
So we are stuck here, unless we find another wizard or witch. The chances of that are low, our past universe was the only one with magical beings possessing the ability to universe jump. "Jackson, do you realise what's going on?"
"..No." He says. I sigh.
"You'll figure it out soon then. I'm not the one for explaining things." I motion to him to help me up, he gets the point and grabs my hand. "But currently, please act as a human."
"Aw man, really?"
"Really." I say. I take out my phone from my pocket. Nine p.m. I sigh. I should keep this hidden as well. I put in back in my pocket. "I do not believe magical beings are common here. I assume that you're getting the same vibe of a demon being near, however."
"You guessed right. Man, I never thought they actually existed." He says, but sudden realization hit him "...And now I know what's going on."
"I hate to say that I thought the same." I say. "Please don't wander off without me."
"What, you scared of actually finding the demon?"
"Shut up."
He laughs, "Don't worry, you're big, strong brother will protect you!"
I ignore his comment. "We may want to find shelter soon, it's going to rain."
"Have your senses always been better then mine?"
"Yes. Unlike you, I actually train."
"You must be like, the most over achieve cat familiar out there."
"You must be the most under achieving crocodile familiar out there."
"Aw, you still bitter about being a domestic cat?" He says, "Not everyone has the ability to be a three star familiar like me."
"I hate you." I hiss. "It's all luck and you know it."
"But it's still fun to mess with you." I glare at him and push him to the side."Hey, that was uncalled for."
"Y-You're face is uncalled for!" I retort. My face was red with embarrassment. He pushes me back, but he wasn't watching like I was. I hit another body by accident. I sounded like it fell as well. I turn around as fast as I could. Apologizing as much as my brain could keep up with.
"Are you okay?" I manage out, the boy sighs and gets up with the help of his...butler. I didn't even sense another person here before. I look at the butler. My brain was screaming at me. As much as I learned about them, they still terrified me.
"My sister apologizes." I felt two hands on my shoulders. My brother was behind me, the hands belonged to him. For once he was smart and realised what was going on. What we were in the prenses of. "I hope you pay no mind."
"It's quite alright." The boy huffs out. The butler hands him his top hat from the ground. The butler speaks up. "You two don't seem like you're from here, are your parents around?"
"I'm afraid it's just the two of us." My brother says. "They got sick back in America, died they did. We came over here to stay with relatives. Until, of course, we learned they passed as well."
"Where have you been staying then?" He asks.
"Where we can." My brother responds. "I like to think of it as a big camping trip."
The boy clears his throat. "I would like to proposition you two a job at my estate." I narrow my eyes. The demon knows we're not human, but doesn't know what we are. He must have told the boy. He doesn't seem the type to be so gracious.
However, my brother doesn't get what I was thinking and breaks out into a smile. "We cannot begin to thank you enough!" He says. I've never wanted to kill my brother more then now.
Welp, there it is.
