A/N: So, first of, thank you for reading this far! Uh, updates might go slightly slower than what I promised, because I started school again last week. (Evil, evil classes.) But I will still try to get it in that time window. (I will probably not get it in that time window.)

I have amazing news for you all. The awesome HeroicVal-Rye has offered to be the beta-of-epicness. Give a big round of applause to her for being so awesome.

So, tons of dialogue. But, I had to get explanations out of the way. And establish a plot. Thanks to Baka-neco-san, HeroicVal-Rye, undertakerkuroshit, HetaliaEarthChara, and RavenAndRobinLover for the reviews.

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Review, favorites, and likes are always appreciated. Hell, I even love to laugh at flames! Plus, I love the conversations that follow. The lovely, lovely conversations. So, talk to me! I'm lonely! Even if it's not a review, PMs are loved, too!

I have also realized that, upon abusing the word "Awesome" for Gilbert, it is completely normal for it to be like that for me. I really have to cut down on my use of awesome in my daily conversations.

A point Val-Rye brought up to me, Alfred and Matthew are fraternal twins. They have similar DNA, but it is not exactly the same.

Summary: Alfred F. Jones had been a normal teenager. He went to a normal high school, was the star football player, and had normal friends. Then his parents decided to send him to this weird-ass boarding school. There his life changes and he learns he has magical powers and a twin brother. Not only does he have to deal with a new school, but also these twelve weirdos insisting he's one of them.

Pairings (Currently planned): USUK, PruCan, Spamano, GerIta, Edelweiss, with mentions of SuFin, and onesided RusAme, one-sided Belarus/Russia.

Word count: 1,594

Chapter Three.

Alfred found himself back in his and Matthew's room.

"Ok, so someone tell me what the hell is going on?" Alfred said as he sat on his bed.

"I believe Matthieu should explain." The blonde French dude, who had claimed Alfred's desk chair, said.

Matthew fidgeted where he sat on his own bed, next to Gilbert.

"R-right. I guess I should have explained before Gil and I left." Matthew took a breath. "Well, about seventeen, eighteen years ago, there was this group of scientists. They were working with human genes, trying to unlock and lock traits within the human genetic materials. They were trying to close off the traits that lead to things like cancers and other conditions that can be traced within the human DNA." Matthew briefly met Alfred's eyes.

"They ended up doing something else," The Spanish brunette said from his spot on the ground.

"Let Birdie speak." Gilbert frowned.

Matthew mumbled a small thank you to the albino before continuing.

"Like Antonio said, they did more than they intended." Matthew took a deep breath. "A meteor had crash landed in the ocean, close to the lab. It was carrying foreign DNA. Being people of Science, they were curious. They needed to know what would happen when the new DNA was introduced and combined with human DNA. So, they spliced the alien DNA into fifteen fetuses, over the span of three years. Some of the scientist carried the fetuses until they were born, to ensure nothing compromised the data. They had one set of twins, coming from the same donors, carried by the same scientist." Matthew looked around the room, like asking one of the other boys to pick up.

"When the children were born," Gilbert said, the most serious Alfred had ever heard the white haired teen, "the scientist discovered that fourteen of the children had access to parts of the brain that normal humans don't. The fourteen also showed powers. Each had control over one element, which was what they had in common. Different children had different powers. The twins could communicate telepathically, while one could conjure water from nowhere; one had extraordinary strength, one could always tell truth from lie, to list a few of them. Nobody knows what the fourteenth's power was."

"It was never recorded." French-dude said.

"For some reason, they were sure the children's powers was connected to the Astrological signs. We're not quite sure where they got that data, but it's true." The Spanish-dude added.

"Let me guess," Alfred said sarcastically. "All fourteen children were gathered to this school to defend the world from invading aliens and whole bunch of evil?"

The others raised an eyebrow.

Gilbert laughed. "Almost!" He grinned at Matthew. "He's sharper then I gave him credit for, though."

Alfred twitched. They obviously didn't know when he spat the plot of pretty much the majority of the Magic Girl Genre back at them. Band together, defend the world from unthinkable evils, and "fall in love" with the cute boy in class, although he had left that last part out.

"We weren't done, amigo." The Spaniard said. "Together, the children where dangerous, especially when they were so little and didn't realize what they could do. They couldn't take the powers from all of them, so they scattered them around the world, with the women who gave birth to them. They buried any evidence of the tests and closed the labs."

Matthew spoke again. "But they could take the twins' power, by separating them. So, one twin was sent with the birth mother to New York City, and the second twin was sent with the biological father, who had worked at the labs, to Ottawa, Canada. This school was founded for when it was time to bring them back together. That's why it's open for all grade levels."

"What does this have to do with what happened earlier?" Alfred demanded.

"Ivan is the thirteenth child." Gilbert said. "It's believed he is connected to the unawesome sign Ophiuchus[1]. They, the scientist, believe that he's up to something that doesn't bode well. Like maybe blowing up the planet or something equally unawesome."

Alfred opened his mouth to speak, but Matthew cut him off, knowing the question. "We believe you are one of the twins."

Alfred snorted. "Ok, sure." He stood up and crossed the room, speaking over his shoulder before he left. "You guys are a kind of nuts. And if thirteen of you people believe that, then you need some help."

And then he turned the knob and pulled.

And he pulled, jiggling the knob. The group watched him struggle with the door.

"It's not going to work, mon ami." French dude cautioned.

"It's just stuck. It will open." Alfred growled, yanking at the door.

"Gil, let him out." Matthew sighed.

Gilbert scowled. "Not until he listens to the awesome us." [2]

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Matthew sighed as he leaned against the wall, watching Alfred.

The American-raised boy took it better than Matthew had expected. And he stayed a lot longer than he expected. If it had been anybody else, they would have been out the door by the time gene splicing was mentioned, yelling about crazies and requesting a dorm change. But Alfred stayed through most of it, and only made one small comment about how they were nuts.

"Alfred, we can show you we aren't nuts. Just sit back down." Matthew tried to reason. Francis and Antonio watched Alfred, waiting for him to make a move.

Alfred remained at the door, but he made no move for another chance to escape.

The boys remained silent for a moment.

"The awesome me represents the awesome Sagittarius, the archer." Gilbert said, holding his hand out, palm facing up. "Sagittarius is a fire sign." A small ball of fire appeared in his open palm. It disappeared after a nervous look from Matthew, who did not want his bed set on fire again.

Alfred frowned. "I thought the element thing was introduced by Empedocles, used for the whole love and strife thing."[3] He received a few shocked looks. Matthew never would have thought the other blonde would have a clue about astrology. He just didn't look the type. Alfred simply replied to the stares by muttering something about an ex-girlfriend.

"Oui, Empedocles did introduce the elements into astrology, but it a trait we have." Francis said as he twirled a pen lazily. "We can't explain it, and the scientists never felt the need to tell us why."

Just for the sake of trying to convince Alfred they weren't short a few marbles, Francis and Antonio stated their signs, Capricorn and Scorpio, along with their elements. Francis used his powers as the representation of Capricorn, an Earth sign, to make the rose he kept in his pocket for God knows what reason bloom.

Matthew kept silent about his sign. Alfred already had enough with the "hey, we just met you, and this is completely insane, but you're the thirteenth member of our group, you have a long lost twin, and when you meet up with him, you're going to have these weird powers! Help us defeat that scary Russian that was creeping on you earlier, because he just might be trying to destroy the earth?" Matthew was sure he didn't need the whole "Hey, I'm said long lost twin, and now we're going be sharing a room together. Did I mention that we're related, despite this is the first time we came face-to-face since we were about three years old?"

"Forget what I said earlier." Alfred said. Matthew felt hope bloom. He believed them! He just might help them with Ivan! "You guys are completely insane."

Matthew felt that hope being crushed.

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"I have no idea what special effects you guys used for that fire ball and the rose thing, but this is insane." Alfred said, running a hand through his hair. "And there's no way I can be this Gemini, other half of the Gemini, whatever. First off, you said he went to NYC. I'm from White Plains, which is in Westchester, New York. Second off, my mother is not a scientist. She's a CFO for Jones Incorporated. She worked for the company for twenty years, which is longer than I've been alive. And, I'd think I'd know if I had a brother. I don't."

Alfred swung the door open, now that it was free from whatever had been jamming it. He refused to believe it was Gilbert. No way the guy could ever do something like that. It was impossible. It had to be some sort of special effect like they used in movies and stuff.

"Alfred, wait!" Matthew called out.

"Let him be, Birdie. You weren't much better when you found out," Alfred heard Gilbert say before the door slammed shut.

Alfred had no idea where he was going, but he just started walking. He had to get away from the room of nuts.

That was how the American found himself lying on one of the perfectly manicured lawns of the Academy.

Alfred had to admit, he knew there was going be something off with this school. It did have a fruity name like Equinox Academy. But, Alfred had thought the off bit was going be coming from the school or staff, not having insane students. Or was it this school that caused them to descend into madness? Gilbert had said Matthew wasn't much better when he found out. Had Matthew been completely sane, and the others just pulled him into this?

"This place is crazy." Alfred whispered to himself.

[1] "Stephen Schmidt in 1970 introduced Astrology 14, a system with additional signs based on the constellations of Ophiuchus and Cetus.

In 1995, Walter Berg introduced his 13-sign zodiac, which has the additional sign of Ophiuchus. Berg's system has been well received in Japan after having his book was translated by radio host Mizui Kumi (水井久美) in 1996."

~Wikipedia, Sidereal and tropical astrology. I know, Wikipedia is not the best, nor the most reliable source, but it's fast and easy. And, if you have yet to figure it out, I'm lazy. And busy. So, Wikipedia is my best friend right now. I'm using Berg's thirteen sign zodiac, so you guys don't have to worry about Cetus popping up anywhere. It's already confusing enough with fourteen magical people.

[2] Gilbert, as Sagittarius, has control over fire and heat. Using his awesome powers, he heated up the air around the door. Things tend to expand when exposed to heat, wood included. By expanding the door, he's making it stick. This is a common problem I have with my own back door in the summer. I swear that piece of wood hates me. Yes, inanimate objects are able to hate. I should know, a lot of things hate me.

[3] "Empedocles, a fifth century BC Greek philosopher, identified Fire, Earth, Air, and Water as elements. He explained the nature of the universe as an interaction of two opposing principles called love and strife manipulating the four elements, and stated that these four elements were all equal, of the same age, that each rules its own province, and each possesses its own individual character. Different mixtures of these elements produced the different natures of things. Empedocles said that those who were born with near equal proportions of the four elements are more intelligent and have the most exact perceptions."

~Wikipedia, Astrological sign.