It had been four years since Matthew and his twin brother had been attacked. It had been four years since he had taken guardianship over the boy. Over the four years, Matthew had slowly forgotten his brother. Whether he did it himself or time did it, Ivan had no say in it.
"Hey! Papa!" The Russian looked down at the ten-year-old who was five-foot-three. His head was roughly nearing a few inches on Ivan's forearm above his elbow. Ivan himself was now twenty. "Is big sis still here? I wanna give her this!" Matthew (or Matthieu as his older sister called him) held up a metal bracelet.
"Da, she is. She's probably in the backyard, watching Aloe and Mama." Ivan smiled to himself as the blonde child ran outside and set the bracelet on her head like a silver halo. It kind of fit his sister. The taller boy looked outside the window in the front and narrowed his eyes.
He shifted over and grabbed the iron faucet pipe by the door. A blonde man was walking up to the door. "Katyusha, is that..." The girl met her brother's violet gaze with her blue one. She got to her feet.
"Da, it is." His sister scooped up Matthew and walked back into the house, and down to her room, Aloe and Mama following. "Stay here, Matthieu." The young vampire blinked, but nodded as his 'big sis' closed the door behind her, and walked back to the living room. "Werewolf, da. He's controlled, a bit unusual for a lycan."
They looked at each other as the blonde man knocked on the door. A bit odd... Mama trotted back out, half-transformed. Her big gray ears twitched in irritation. "If ya th'nk I'm 'bout to let some stup'd k'ds answ'r the door to a lyc'n, then yer fools." She opened the door. "Name yerself, dog-boy." Her tail tip twitched.
"Ah, you're quick. Ludwig." The blonde at the door said, his hands behind his back. Mama's ears, tail, and paw-like limbs vanished, replaced by a human facade. "Cat shapeshifter, hmm? And... a Reader, an angel, another cat shapeshifter, and a vampire. Am I correct?"
Ivan's eyes glittered and he stepped forward. "How do you know that? No one knows that, da." Ludwig simply stood there, a half-smile on his face. "How. Do. You. Know. That?" Katyusha placed a hand on her brothers shoulder, shaking her head. He shook her hand off and looked at the lycan with glinting violet eyes.
"It took about two years, but Natalia finally told us." His blue eyes gleamed as he turned and walked away from the house. "And she told us everything else. Our Readers didn't even need to do anything. Very cooperative when people she loves have their lives at stake." The two siblings watched in horror as the blonde lycan got into a car and drove away.
"N-Natalia broke... She was the toughest in our family... Ivan, what are we going to d-do?" His older sister's blue eyes watered with tears. Mama walked back to Katyusha's room in her cat form, yellow eyes on the carpet below her paws. What could they do?
"Mama! What happened? Are Kat and Ivan okay?" Matthew walked down the hall towards the two in the living room, worried. Aloe's mom told her what had happened. They both knew Natalia, especially Mama.
"...Did I cause this?" Katyusha and Ivan both looked at Matthew, shaking their heads.
"No... In fact you didn't... da. Should we go ahead and tell him...?" The two older blondes looked at each other, and they both nodded. Katyusha sat the younger blonde down and knelt next to him.
"We think... a war is starting up for the supernatural world, Matthieu." The older sister sighed, and looked at his confused face.
"Between who and who?" The little vampire tilted his head to the side.
"The dark vs. light side. Me and Vanya will be aiding the lighter side." Katyusha sighed.
"We will also help you." Aloe and Juniper piped up. The fox spirit guide was in her fox form, her pet quail on her back. "My mama left a while ago, and never returned. The only thing she left behind was an angry note addressed to me. It said she hated me." Aloe nosed Juniper's side at her words, mewing.
"Who are on the dark side, big sis?" Matthew asked, looking up at Katyusha.
"Demons, werewolves, loup-garou, shadow spirits, and the barghest people. Loup-garou are basically establishing their own race, even though they are shapeshifters." The older Russian girl sighed again.
"And who is on the light side?" Aloe asked now, tilting her head to the side, waiting for her answer impatiently.
"Angels, vampires, all the shapeshifters except loup-garou, light spirits, and... I believe the dragons. It may be odd, but the leaders of the dark are all male, and the leaders of the light are all female..." She shook her head.
"Damn right we're all female!" Juniper and Aloe jumped up onto the windowsill and peered outside. A girl with a red hoodie and black jeans stood there, tapping her foot. "We're gonna meet at your house since my awesome house got invaded by my stupid brother and his 'dark' friends." She rolled her crimson eyes and walked in, running a hand through her silver hair, disturbing the yellow chick perched on her head.
"Maria Beilschmidt! Don't be so cocky. Stupid albino. I'm Elizabeta Héderváry, and that... girl is Maria. I'm the angel's leader, and she's the vampire's leader."
"Sí, and I'm Antonia Carriedo, the shapeshifter's all out leader. This is Lily Zwingli, the light spirit leader." The cheerful Spanish brunette grinned, then ruffled the little blonde girl's hair. The blonde ducked away. "And... I don't know where Yui is. She's the dragon leader. Her real name's Yao, but she hates that."
"Hey! Don't call me that, aru!" A petite Chinese girl walked in, scowling at Antonia. "But yeah, I'm Yui Wang. Call me Yao and die. Plain and simple, aru~!" She winked and seated herself on the floor.
"Alright... So the leaders of angels, vampires, shapeshifters, light spirits, and dragons are here?" Elizabeta, Maria, Antonia, Lily, and Yui all nodded. "Do we even have a plan for anything...?" All the girls (and Matthew and Ivan) leaned in...
"So I'm, like, Feliks Łukasiewicz. I'm the demon leader, and, like, it's kinda boring." Everyone rolled their eyes.
"You already all know me, Ludwig, the werewolves leader."
"And I am the fabulous Francis, the loup-garou leader, no?"
"Lovino Vargas, and I hate that werewolf bastard." Ludwig rolled his eyes at that.
"Arthur Kirkland, the barghest leader. Don't glare at me, Francis, you git! You left that kid alone! He's mine now." The barghest scowled at the loup-garou, then turned his gaze away. "So what's the plan, lycan? I don't think that starting up the war immediately is smart.
"Like, when do vampire's stop aging?" Feliks asked, brushing his hair from his eyes.
"I heard that they stopped aging at... sixteen. How old is that vampire child? About ten or so? Six years is a long time to wait, though..." Francis sighed to himself and looked away. "It's up to you, really, Iggy, since you're the one who wants to start the war with my son." The Frenchman looked at the British man.
"We should wait. I want to make the little loup-garou child stronger, and I assume that the angels will let the little vampire child train with the vampires..." Arthur smiled to himself.
This was going to be a war that no one in the supernatural world will forget.
Hey all, ChibiGrape here.
Did the time-skip confuse you? Sorry.
There's gonna be another one in the next chapter. C:
Why, you ask? Well, because I'm plotting stuff, and because I can.
He'll be sixteen in the next chapter. Sowwy...