The two shared a confused look, who was Ian?
"Ok, who the hell are you?" Tala asked as he lowered the rope ladder down to the small boy, it must have been straining his neck to stare that far up.
"Ian, came to the school a few days ago, I'd been looking for you but the idiotic school had me put into the wrong form. Had to be switched over to yours this morning. The teacher told you all I was moving in right?" He asked as he climbed the steps
"Yea we were told, why were you looking for us?" Kai asked moving away from the window so Ian could come through.
"I've been sent to come get you"
"Get us?" They asked in unison.
"Yea, it's kind of a long story and I don't particularly want to go through it but yea I need to come get you to come with me. In fact your little run away plan today was the best thing you could have done, made my job a hell of a lot easier" the twins stared at the much shorter boy.
"You know the school said you don't talk much, you talk a lot" Tala told him slightly taken aback.
"I talk to people when I need to, they were of no importance to me. You two are, hence I'm talking" he answered as he settled himself down in the corner of the tree house.
"Ok, we're of importance why?" Kai spoke now, he didn't like being confused and not knowing what was going on, especially if it involved him or his brother.
"Cos of your parents" Ian answered, speaking as though it was the most important thing in the world. The two sighed, not another kid who wanted to help.
"Look, nothing is going off at home that you can help us with, we appreciate the concern but it's unneeded. It really is" he wasn't sure why he was speaking so politely to the small boy, anybody else and they'd have been slaughtered.
"No, no not that, those parents aren't any concern. They aren't your parents after all. But the others" they paused at that, eyes wide in shock. He was joking right? He had to be joking.
"W-what do you mean?" Kai asked him, staring the boy dead in the eye trying to mask the slight shake in his voice with a glare. How dare he say they weren't his parents, they may not have been perfect. Far from, but they were his parents.
"What? You don't know?!" Ian asked stunned, how could they not know? "They aren't your parents; your parents sent you to them because of the similar traits they held to your real parents. To make it less obvious that they weren't really your parents. Of course we had no idea her hair was dyed. That did cause a few problems" The last part of his explanation was but a muttering to himself. But the two still heard.
"Problems? What do you mean problems?" Kai asked again, Tala staying quiet trying to process the information they were being given.
"Well where we're from people can have blue hair, here? Not so much, well unless they've dyed it. Which that faker did."
"So I'm guessing your hair isn't dyed either" Kai questioned feeling like less of a freak at knowing his hair was an actual natural colour. He had been told he was a freak by who he thought was his mother on more than one occasion.
"No, I like my hair, it's purple. Kind of quirky I think. So anyway, you can't really have thought they were your parents; didn't you ever wonder where they came from?" He asked them pointing towards the chains hanging off their necks.
"We were told they came from a relative, but we weren't supposed to still have them. Mother and father told us to get rid of them when we were about four" Tala answered his hand going to the icy wolf hanging over his shirt, it must have come out when they were running.
"Your protective of it" Ian noted a grin coming to his face.
"Maybe, what's it to you?"
"Says a lot, your 'parents' told you both to get rid of them. You both defied them. Why?" He asked but it was rhetorical "because they had a pull over you, you couldn't, they were your only tie to your true parents who wanted you both to be safe. The two bits couldn't do much for you both over the years, you were unaware of their names and couldn't call for them to help you-" he was cut off by a suspicious Tala.
"Hold on, I can believe you to an extent but calling them to protect us? They're nothing but a bit of plastic that we liked. They aren't anything special." The small boy sighed turning to the bluenette who seemed more willing to listen.
"The two bits, you like them, right?"
"Yea what's so important about that?"
"Well, you wanted to keep them; you were told they were from a relative. One you'd never met, right?"
"We've never met any relatives" Kai answered him hearing a scoff from the red haired boy.
"Oh come on Kai, you can't actually believe him can you?"
"I don't know Tal, but what he says kind of makes some sense. I mean we've never met any relatives and they never treated us like their children, we would get hit just for speaking without permission. Parents don't do that" his words make the redhead falter to answer, that was true.
"Alright then you say they have names, what are they?" Tala asked, challenging the purple haired boy.
"Oh that's easy, the red phoenix is Dranzer and the white wolf is Wolborg" he answered, smug, with just a shrug of his shoulders. "Don't believe me?" He could see the boy's scepticism "try it, they should respond to your voices"
Kai looked down at the chip around his neck, should he try it? What if the boy was lying? He most likely was, but he seemed so sure of himself.
"Alright then, might as well try" he agreed looking over at Tala "come on Tal, it can't hurt to try"
"It bloody can, just proves to the midget that you're gullible"
"Well, let's forget about grumpiness over there, try it" as Kai was about to try Tala cut in one more time.
"Just for the record I'm not grumpy I just don't like people interfering with our lives, and why should we do anything you say, you don't even know our names"
"I do, your name is Tala, and his name's Kai" that did surprise not only Tala but Kai as well.
"How'd you know out names?" The redhead asked looking mildly annoyed; he didn't like people knowing things about him without his permission.
"Found out by hacking into the school computers, I already knew what I was looking for, the energy the bits give off is visible in pictures, but only to someone who knows what they're looking for. Once I found that it was easy." Kai nodded turning back to the bit on his neck, he lifted it up with his hand so it was raised closer to his face.
"Dranzer" he tried, expecting nothing, but to his, and Tala's, surprise the bit glowed, a faint red shimmering over the phoenix picture.
"See, she responded to her master's call"
"She?" Kai asked
"Yea, she, Dranzer's a girl, bits have their genders. His is a boy" he motioned to Tala. "Go on then, try yours"
"Wolborg" his voice came out as a whisper, he feared seeing what would happen, plastic shouldn't shine. The bit that was hanging over his shirt began to glimmer, shine a faint white.
"Told you didn't I" the small boy gloated.
"H-how'd you know that?" Kai asked.
"Simple I have one too." He dug his hand into his pocket. "Meet Wyborg" pulling out his hand he revealed a small chip, a serpent on the front.
Tala moved closer, ignoring the chip hanging on his neck, the shimmering having died down.
"I'm going to ask you something Ian, I want the full truth. You aren't from around here. I know that, it's quite clear, but no one at school knows where from. Where are you from?"
"I'm from the same place as you two" he cast his eyes to the sky through the window. "We're from another world"
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