AN: So here's the next chapter^^ sorry, it's late, but I didn't have time to write and then I finally had time, but I was sick... and I am still sick...

Chapter 2:

To the same time, two other children grew up. They lived on the other side of the mountains and they as well grew up in a rich family. The mansion they lived in with their family was more like a castle with a little gothic touch. Their father was one of the most important men and had a lot of power. As soon as he would die, the twins would take in his place. Until this time would come, they were supposed to be educated here. They were treated like princes, but their live was nevertheless hard. They were demons at all and being a demon means much more than to be a human. Except for the normal classes, the humans as well were taught, the devil kids had to learn to control their special powers. At this moment they sat in the library of the castle and their private teacher tried to teach them something about literature. It was about an old book – no wait, an old boring book, yeah, that would describe it better. The book was an autobiography written by someone who lived in the time of the "War of change". So they book was used for history classes as well. The author had a terrible writing style which made the whole book only more boring. The twins complained the whole time and soon their teacher was really annoyed of the interruptions.

During the noon, the weather became warmer. Plus in the library it was warmer than outside. It was too warm to learn something. So the classes took place outside in the yard in the shadow of a tree. Finally after lunch both demon children were allowed to do what they wanted. They had only a few free time, but if they were allowed to do what they wanted, they always strayed around in the big lands owned by their father. The county was big. It included the whole south part of the demon kingdom. Together with the eastern county it had a connection to the mountains. Already as little children the brothers were taught to stay on their side of the mountains. On the other side the humans lived. They were dangerous. They had special weapons and holy water, not to forget that they had God on their side. No devil who crossed the border came back alive. Of cause the mountains were very interesting for the kids and fascinating as well. The mountains were so huge and on their tops there was always snow. Most of the time the tops were covered with clouds, therefore nobody knew exactly how high they were really. The kids always played close to the border, but they never took a step on the mountain area because they knew exactly that they would be punished later.

At the moment they were lying in the shadow of a big willow tree, taking a little nap. Suddenly a loud call coming from an employee reached their sensitive ears. One of the twins sat up from his lying posture and looked into the direction where it had been coming from while one hand shaded his eyes. "Nya, we gotta go home again." He murmured and pulled a face. His long purple bangs were bordering his face while the rest of his long hair was pulled back into a low ponytail. On his back were little bat like wings, two small ivory horns stuck out of both sides of his head. He wore a white shirt and some dark brown trousers with suspenders. His brother's clothes were similar to these, but the trousers were black. He also had the same haircut, but his hair was silvery white, his horns were like ebony.

"Ah, at first they have to find us. That takes time. Relax, Chrno." He said without opening his eyes. Arms crossed behind his heads he enjoyed the nice spring days here. All trees and bushed had already got their flowers. They sent a beautiful scent into the air.

"Right…" Chrno grinned and got on his feet. He brushed the dirt on his trousers away and looked towards the mountains again. "Let's go further away, Aion. Then it will take longer until they find us." Now the other one got up as well and they made their way over a little meadow between the willow tree to the forest. They followed a little path. The forest was one of their favourite places. The trees there were huge. At the beginning of the forest there were some deciduous trees but further away resp. closer to the mountains there were only coniferous trees. Some of the deciduous trees were ideal to climb onto them. There was one of them that was the biggest tree in the forest. It had a thick trunk with a diameter of at least seven meters. The branches were so thick that they were able to carry a full-grown dragon. Aion and Chrno had seen a dragon there before. But it was only one time and they never saw it again. Furthermore there weren't so many dragons than before. They had heard stories that about fifty years ago the dragons begun to disappear. Now they had almost vanished completely. Anyways, the huge tree was home for lots of animals like squirrels and some birds. The animals lived in the niches, ramifications and other parts that stuck out of the trunk.

Aion and Chrno climbed onto to tree. From the top of the tree they were able to see over the leave roof of the forest (AN: is that word right? Leave roof? In German it's 'Blätterdach'…) As a little spot in the distance the castle was seen. But it was too far away to see more of it than this black spot. With his face turned into the light wind Chrno enjoyed the nice view over the landscape until Aion told him to listen to the sound on the ground. Their ears were much more sensitive than human ones, so they were able to hear someone even if he or she wasn't close to them. Now it sounded like someone was trudging through the forest and calling their name. "We have to find a better place to hide, ya know." Aion said annoyed. "Let's go somewhere else. They know that we're always hiding here…" Chrno agreed with his brother and they jumped down the tree. The little wings braked their fall and they landed softly on the ground. "This is just a question, but are we running away and not flying?" Aion suggested. "Because" Chrno answered. "This is much more fun!" They jumped over some wood and arrived at a little path. They didn't really know who had made that path, but it was there. Perhaps it was made by some animals like does or wild boars looking for food or water.

"I bet I'm faster than you!" Aion shouted while they were running up the path.

"I bet you don't!" Chrno countered and both started a little race. At first it looked like Aion won, but soon they were next to each other. Suddenly there was someone in front of them and they had to stop immediately. They were only able to see a silhouette of a devil and nothing more. He gripped both of them on their suspenders and lifted them up. Not happy about the situation the younger ones pouted and crossed their arms.

"Seems like I finally got you two." The unknown person said. Because of his voice, Chrno could tell that he was one of their guards. Normally the guards were supposed to follow the two princes everywhere, but they had gotten rid of them as they played hide & seek in another part of the forest. Now it seemed like one of them had found them. "Your father is not pleased with you behaviour, young Masters. You shouldn't run away so often. And your mother already awaits you for tea." The guard went on talking. Aion groaned and stuck out his tongue. "Not tea again…"

The older demon had still a firm grip on the suspenders. Nevertheless he spread out his wings and flew in the direction to their home.

"We can fly alone!" Aion complained again.

"Sure, and then you fly away again and I was to search you for more than five hours." Again the twins groaned. After a ten minutes flight they landed in the yard of the castle. Directly a maid rushed towards them. She quickly bowed and began to speak while she still looked down to the ground. "Your mother has been worried about you two. She wants you to come into the salon for tea as fast as possible." She lifted her head and nearly fainted. "Oh my… How are you looking?! The… the new clothes! They were so expensive! You can't go into the salon like this. You have to take a bath before!" She stuttered.

One of the first rules when you talk to little kids younger than 10 yeas is: Do never use the word 'bath' or 'soap'. I don't know why it's like that, but it's an important rule. The brothers exchanged glances, screamed and spun around to run away. Unfortunately they were caught at their suspenders again.

Later the kids were bathed and wore new fresh clothes. Chrno sniffed on his sleeve. Bah, it smelled again like some sort of flowers, disgusting. Don't get me wrong the scent of flowers in the nature was okay and nice, but PLEASE NOT ON THE CLOTHES OR AS BATHING OIL OF PARFUME OR WHATEVER!!! That's okay for a girl, but not for a boy! Listlessly the brother went into the salon. The salon looked more like a winter garden. The roof and three walls were of glass. The fourth wall was a normal wall which was the connection to the rest of the house. In this winter garden thing there were some exotic plants, flowers and little bushes. In the middle of it there was a round elegant table with some elegant chairs around it. The lady of the house Lilith already sat on her chair and listened to some music a servant was playing on a violin. She was a beautiful woman with long dark hair and a cream coloured dress. Two sparkling curved horns stuck out of her head. She wasn't in her full demon form because she thought that something like wings would only be annoying at the moment. It was a rarity to see her in her full demon form. She saw her two sons and got up to greet them with a big kiss on their cheek.

"Do you always have to do that?" Both kids asked in common while rubbing their cheeks.

"Of cause I have to. You're my two sweet babies." She patted their heads and told them to take a seat. Afterwards she asked to servant to bring the tea and the cake. Immediately a maid came with a tabled and poured the tea into the cups. Another one came with two tablets. On each one was something to eat. One was filed with biscuits, while on the other one was a cake. The maids asked what they wanted to eat and gave everyone of them a huge piece of cake.

"Why doesn't father eat with us?" Chrno asked his mother.

"He has a lot to do. There are some problems he has to solve." The woman explained with a warm smile.

They were eating in silence for a moment. Aion took one of the biscuits. It was filled with some sort of cream and after he had bitten in it, it burst at the other end and the cream splashed on Chrno. "HEY!" He screamed and wiped the cream out of his face. Aion smiled at him with an innocent smile and said sorry. Well at least he tried to, but a piece of cake had landed in his face. A cake fight began between both and they were chasing each other to throw more cake on the other one. At first they only ran around in the salon-winter-garden-thing (AN: lol), but then they escaped thought the door which lead into the main building.

Stunned Lilith looked at the door, her hand with the fork like frozen in the air between cake and her mouth. "I hope that behaviour gets better when they're older…"

AN: hehe… so in this chapter I wanted to show that devils and demons aren't bad, uncivilized, brutal, violent or whatever… Just look a t Lilith. Does she behave like that in this chapter? No. So demons and devils can good as well.