Mauricious!

You! You're back! Future me!

Yes, and I couldn't warn you last time. I apologise, but there isn't a lot of time when you travel realms. Your body is between two worlds.

OK. You were saying something about trust...

Oh, ignore that. Listen, you must remember what happened, let it prepare you. Something bad will - THERE ARE FIFTEEN REALMS! WHAT-

He fades out of my hearing.

Err, what?

Sorry about that. Something bad will happen and it will break you. But let yourself be mended. It mustn't break you beyond repair.

Oh, erm, OK.

Good. Now-

But he's gone

"Mauricious! Mauricious, wake up!"

I give a small groan and open my eyes. Thekallcius's worried face swims in front of me and I blink to get it in focus. "Theke?"

He gaps in relief and helps me sit up. "Urgh, where are we now?" I ask him. He shrugs and I look around. It's a new realm, I think, though it looks rather similar to the last one.

Maybe it'll be the same. Maybe, no matter where we go, we'll be the freaks, the outcasts, feared and alone. Neither good nor evil. We'll never fit in.

I draw up my knees to my chest. Thekallcius looks at me curiously. "What's wrong. This seems an alright place."

"We're freaks." I mutter bitterly. "They turned us out, even though we're like them! We'll never fit in, anywhere! No one accepts us!"

"Hey, calm down." Thekallcius kneels beside me, his hand on my shoulders. "As long as we have each other, we'll be alright. We don't need anyone else!" I look into his eyes. They're no longer purple, but there's a desperate look in them, wild even. I shudder.

Then I get an idea.

"Let's not stay here." I tell him. He frowns, and I look up, a sudden light in my heart at last.

"Where do we go?" Thekallcius asks. "Another realm?"

"Well, sort of." I tell him with a smile. "We'll never belong in other places, right? So let's make our own! A mix of good and evil, just like us!"

"Mauricious, I don't know." Thekallcius tells me, frowning. "You've created things before, but not on that scale!"

"Thekallcius, we need to do this!" I stand up so we're face to face. "We can't find a place to belong, because we're of two worlds, right? But there are fifteen realms, so shouldn't there be another, to balance it out!"

"Mauri, you're not, wait, how did you know that there are fifteen-" But I'm not really listening, I'm too excited about this.

"We need to create a realm of our own, like the dragons and Oni used to do. I bet we can do it, I create, you add destruction into the mix, we can do this!"

He looks at me like I've sprouted an extra head.

"Mauricious, well..." He blows up towards his fringe. "I don't really know what to say."

"Oh, come ON!" I grab his arm. "You've known me my whole life, this could be a brand new start for the pair of us! Because I trust you more than anyone else." Her gasps.

"Really?" I nod and he smiles. "I trust you exactly the same. Come on. Let's do it!" It's my turn to gasp.

"Really?"

"Of course! Let's create our own world. Just the two of us!" I smile and grip his hand. My brother. My destiny. My life.

Everything.

"What was in the bag Thsaa gave you?" He asks, looking over at the package, discarded on the ground.

"I don't know." I go and pick it up. It's light, and no logos or anything. Just a perfectly ordinary cloth bag.

"Well, open it!" Thekallcius urges me, coming to my side. I hesitate, then shake my head. I open the bag.

"What's in it?" He asks.

"Erm, a note." I pick it up, and find, even though no one taught me, I can read it. "Greetings, future generation. If you are reading this, our community has been destroyed by the dragons-" We share a grin. "In this bag we give you the last gift from the creators. Here are... the elements of creation! Create a new world and the rest of the elements will follow!" I look up at Thekallcius. We're both frowning.

"So, anything else?" He asks. I look in the bag and gasp.

"What?" He looks too. I rummage in the bag and bring out.

An orb of brilliant white light.

"What is it?" Thekallcius gasps. I examine it. It's light, and barely feels like it's there, but I somehow know it is, I can tell. It's got a sort of... magical presence.

"It's our answer!" I smile down at it. "An element of creation. There's three more in there, all different colours. They'll help us create our own realm!"

"OK." Thekallcius says, nodding. His face says he thinks I'm crazy, but I don't care, that's what brothers are for, right?

This was kind of boring, so I kept it short :)