Reaching the village, they were met with Gwendal who had been there to help the villagers evacuate the flames safely. All of the villagers were in a large group a distant away from the flames. Gwendal and some of his soldiers were talking, standing on guard whilst mounted on horses.
Then sound of horses approaching them, made Gwendal turn away from the village to see some of the soldiers from both of his brothers' private armies. He groaned when he caught a sight of both of the double blacks. When they were in ears range, Gwendal asked "and what are you two doing here?"
Yuri flinched to the growl in the dark grey haired man's voice. Yumi didn't even pay attention to it as she quickly jumped off of her horse and skidded down the grassy slope to stand closer to the village. She gasped when a huge wave of heat hit her with great force. Stepping back a bit, she whispered to herself "how could this be so bad?"
Gwendal stared to her with eyes of surprise. He rolled his eyes when he saw Yuri frowning to the sight of the flames. He turned to the younger double black "we couldn't have put the fire out as it was caused by a wizard."
Yuri looks to him with wide eyes "a wizard?" he turns back to the village "you're kidding."
Conrad dismounts his horse and walks toward his elder brother "was anyone hurt?"
Gwendal looks to him "some, but we managed to get almost everyone who wasn't attacking the village out, and tied up the ones who were the cause to the fire." he turns back to the village.
"Adalbert was the one that persuaded them to cause this damage" everyone turns to their queen to see her still staring at the village. They also notice how her fists are clenched tightly by her sides, to the sight of horror before her.
Wolfram's eyes soften with sympathy to see how angry she has become. He knew that she was strong willed and very wise, but for her to lose control of her emotions to something such as this was just painful to watch. Yuri was the softer and calmer one out of the two, yet he was the oldest. Wolfram looks to his eldest brother to see the surprise in his eyes as he looks to her.
Yuri, feeling the anger radiating from his baby sister, knows that it will be best to calm her down before she snaps. He quietly lifts himself from Wolfram's horse to dismount it, only to be stopped by Yumi's voice "Yuri, I would suggest you stay there, as trying to calm me down right now won't do anything."
Everyone's eyes open wide to that. It wasn't the fact of her using such an aggressive tone that stunned them, it was the fact of her knowing what her brother was about to do before he even moved.
Yuri gulps and then decides that it's best for him to just remain on the blonde's horse. Wolfram looks to him with a raised eyebrow. Yuri laughs nervously "hehe, I guess she sensed what I was going to do before I even moved. She has always been good at that."
Yumi tries to calm her nerves by breathing deeply, and turns around to face everyone. She notices a tent and runs up the grassy slope then turns to Gwendal "is that where the injured villagers are?" Gwendal looks to her then nods. She turns to her brother and gestures to the tent with a nod of her head.
Understanding what she is getting at, Yuri nods then dismounts Wolfram's horse. Once on the ground, he and Yumi run off toward the tent where the injured were being treated.
When out of view, Gwendal sighs "so they have different personalities it seems."
Conrad nods to him "yes, they may act differently but they have a connection that is strong and powerful." He turns to face the direction of where his godson and goddaughter ran off to "who knows how strong they would become if they were to combine their powers together."
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Once reaching the tent, Yuri and Yumi hold back gasps to the sight before them. There were people who had severe injuries and then there were those who only suffered minor burns and scratches.
Those who had only suffered with minor injuries were sitting up in the medical beds, legs hanging over the side and hands grasping the edge. The more sever injured were lying down on their backs on the medical beds. They had many bandages around different parts of their bodies, as they held back whimpers through clenched teeth.
A loud wail causes the doubles blacks to gasp with surprise. They turn to the source to see a man with bandages wrapped around his head, leg and elbow, thrashing in bed. The pain he was feeling was obviously too intense to hold back.
The young king and queen run to him, ready to help. "Are you okay?" Yuri asks softly.
The thrashing man turns to them, his dark brown eyes widen with fear as he tries to shuffle away from them "get away from me! You're the demon tribe! It was your fault for the village to be set on fire! Those so called humans sided with you because they were idiots!"
Each statement thrown at them broke the Shibuya siblings' hearts as they stared at him with wide eyes. Before they can give an answer, a lady wearing a white uniform appears next to them "is something wrong here?" when the double blacks turn to her, she gasps with surprise "oh I am so sorry Your Majesties. I had no idea it was you both."
Yuri smiles to her reassuringly "that's okay; we just came to see if we could help with anything. What's your name?" he asks softly.
She smiles "my name is Gisela, Your Majesty" she bows to them "it is very nice to finally meet you both."
Yumi looks to her and smiles "it's very nice to meet you too; Gisela is such a beautiful name."
Gisela chuckles "thank you Your Majesty."
"Is there anything that we can do to help?" Yumi asks as she scans the tent again.
Before Gisela can answer, the thrashing man wails again, but this time with fear and disgust "don't you dare come near me you demon filth! I would rather die than be helped by you vermin!"
Gisela looks down then back to the young royals. She smiles sadly "it is very kind for you to offer, but I am doing just fine. Just go and wait with the others, I'll be out when I'm done."
With that Yuri looks to his baby sister and sighs. He sadly smiles to Gisela "okay, we'll see you outside."
When the green haired and eyed healer nods, Yuri takes his baby sister's hand and pulls her out of the tent. After hearing those words from the thrashing man, Yumi couldn't think of anything to say at all.
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Yuri and Yumi sit on the grassy slope, as they just watched the flames swallow the entire village. They were waiting around, whilst waiting for Gwendal's soldiers as they were questioning the rioters.
Having enough of the thick, intensifying silence, Yumi stands from her seat on the grassy slope and walks toward the fire. She stops when she reaches the point of feeling the heat from the flames on her face.
Not knowing how to stop the flames herself, Yumi decides to ask someone who has had a better view of the fire. She turns to the green advisor "Gwendal, how can we stop the fire from spreading?"
Yuri also looks to him, waiting for his answer.
Gwendal turns to him and then back to Yumi "well, why don't you try and use your water magic, as the pair of you together should be at your strongest, so it should work."
Yuri looks to his baby sister "we could, but the problem with that is that we don't have full control over our powers yet" he stands from the grassy slope then walks over to stand a little distance from his sister. He sighs then looks to the ground "I'm sorry."
"There is nothing to apologise about Your Majesty," Conrad reassures. Yuri turns to him "you and Her Majesty will get used to your powers in time, so there isn't anything to worry about."
"Sir!" one of Gwendal's soldiers calls out before Yuri can give him an answer.
Everyone turns to him to see that he and another soldier wearing the same uniform are holding a man by his upper arms and shoulders. His hands tied with rope in front of him.
Gwendal scowls to the sight of the man, having a good guess of who he is "is that him?"
The soldier on the man's other side nods "yes sir. He claims to be the one who started the fire."
"Okay, keep a hold of him until we have the villagers cleared away. We want to make sure that they are safe" Gwendal orders the two with a deep voice of authority.
"So do you think that they'll start a war due to this?" asks Wolfram, as he walks toward his eldest brother.
Gwendal turns to him "I'm not too sure, but it is highly likely that that is what they are going to do."
Yuri's eyes widen "whoa, hey, wait a minute, can we talk about this first" he pleads whilst shaking his hands side to side in order to signify shaking it off the topic.
The blonde and dark grey haired men pay no mind to his pleads as they continue to talk about war arrangements. Conrad sighs as he sees how strong his elder and younger brothers' enthusiasm for war is. Yuri continues to plead for them to stop and talk about the matter at hand, than to discuss violence as it isn't the best way to solve things.
The man being held by two of Gwendal's soldiers looks to Yumi, who's still staring at the village flames, trying to think of a way to stop it, and smirks maliciously. Feeling that the soldiers' grip on him had loosened, he takes the chance to elbow the one to his left in the stomach and kicks the soldier to his right in the leg.
He runs to Yumi, grabs her from behind and locks her in headlock. Her loud gasp causes the others to turn and face her. Yuri gasps when he sees his sister, in the man's arms and shard of glass pointed to her neck.
Wolfram and Yuri growl to the sight. Gwendal and Conrad look to them with their hands over their swords.
The man backs away from the group "don't try anything clever or I'll slit her throat got it." Seeing that the group freeze, he smiles wickedly "I'm going to take her and sell her off to the closest market then gain eternal life." He shoves his nose into Yumi's hair and deeply inhales her scent, making her cringe to action.
Yuri clenches his fists by his side as he glares to the man "over my dead body that is."
He steps forward only to have Conrad stop him "Your Majesty don't, you could get Her Majesty hurt, or worse."
This infuriates Yuri even more as he releases a growl, feeling helpless to not being able to help his baby sister.
Seeing that they can't do anything to stop him, the man smirks and walks closer to the group. He nods to Gwendal "give me your horse."
The dark grey haired man hesitates as he looks to the girl being held prisoner. Knowing that he can't do anything to help the situation any, he sighs then dismounts his horse.
"Brother" Wolfram exclaims with surprise and disbelief, to see his brother do something so reckless, at the risk of Yumi's life.
Yumi tries to keep calm as the man picks her up still with his arm keeping her head in headlock, so her feet aren't touching the ground, and carries her to the horse. With the curse of her being small, she can't even touch her toes on the ground. And with the feeling of the man's arm crushing her windpipe, she holds back a choking noise, as she doesn't want to worry her brother any more than he already is.
As they reach the horse, the man slashes the air with the shard of glass in order to signify needed space "step back, and don't try anything." When the group regretfully step away from him and Yumi, he smirks, glad to see that everything is going his way. The man pushes Yumi closer to the horse "get on it" he orders.
Yumi doesn't do as her told, she just stands there "do you really think that I'm going to do as you say."
Yuri smiles a little, to see that she hasn't lost her confidence "go on Yumi, show him who's boss."
The man growls with irritation then grabs a fistful of her hair and grazes the glass shard against her neck "oh I think you will."
Yumi looks to him with icy midnight eyes and growls, as the hand grasping her hair tightens.
"NOOOOOO!" a voice of a small boy screams. The man, frightened by the noise, quickly brings Yumi into a choke hold again then turns to see the boy running to them. Before the boy can reach them, the man kicks him and sends the boy flying across the ground.
Everyone's eyes turn to glares as they look to the boy then back to the man choking Yumi.
Knowing that Yumi won't climb on the horse willingly, he tries to lift her "get on the damn horse!"
"How about you get your. Filthy. Hands. Off. ME!" Yumi growls, finally letting her anger loose. She throws her elbow back to hit his chest then throws her arm up to hit his face with her fist. He lets go her and backs away to hold one hand over his nose, to stop the bleeding she caused, and with his other hand, he points the shard of glass to her.
Yumi turns around and faces the man with eyes of vengeful flames. She steps towards him and kicks the shard of glass out his hand, sending it flying to the side. He growls with irritation then charges at her, which only proves to be helpless.
She rolls her eyes, seeing the predictability in his actions. She grabs his wrist, moves it out to the side and pushes his chest with the palm of her hand. He takes a couple of steps back then tries again. Yumi crouches and brings her left leg to balance just above the ground in front of her then swipes it through the air knocking his legs out of balance under him, causing him to fall backwards onto the ground.
Yumi regains her posture and stands. In the corner of her eye she sees the man attempting to stand again but she quickly hits the back of his neck with the side of her hand. This time, the man falls to the ground unconscious and unmoving. Seeing that he's dealt with, she brushes her uniform off as she turns to Yuri and the others.
Wolfram's, Gwendal's, Conrad's and the soldiers stare at her with wide eyes of shock and disbelief, as if she was a complete myth that just appeared before them. Yuri, knowing his sister's skills, smiles with relief as he walks to her "I was surprised you didn't do that sooner."
She looks to him "well, I lost it when he hit that kid" hers and Yuri's eyes widen to the remembrance of the boy.
They both run over to him and see him open his eyes. The little boy smiles "thank goodness that you're alright Your Majesty."
Tears well up in Yumi's eyes as she fakes a smile "I'm only okay thanks to you, but you don't have to call me 'Your Majesty'."
"But you're our queen along with His Majesty aren't you?" he turns to Yuri "Your Majesty, she's your soul-sister isn't she?" he asks with a rough, sweet tone. Making it sound worse than he wanted it to.
Yuri looks to Yumi as tears begin to blur his vision. With a shaky smile, he looks back to the boy "yes she is, but you don't have to call us 'Your Majesty'."
The boy smiles weakly to him "Your Majesty, will you teach us how to play baseball with Conrart?" That breaks Yuri's heart, to hear how weak the boy sounds.
The little boy's eyes close and his head rolls to the side. Yumi gasps as tears begin to stream down her cheeks. The tears that Yuri was holding back also begin to flow as he grits his teeth with anger and screams. Dark clouds begin to fill the sky and rain starts to fall. Both Shibuyas' tears mingle with the raindrops as they fall freely from their eyes.
Conrad reaches them and puts a hands on each of their shoulders "Your Majesties, we will take him to Gisela so she can heal him."
They both nod and watch as some of Conrad's soldiers carefully lift the boy from the ground and take him to Gisela.
The others notice how the rain begins to dull the flames from the village. Yumi smiles to it and shakes her brother's shoulder. He looks up to her as he wipes his eyes with his sleeve. She gestures a thumb to the village. Yuri looks to it and smiles with relief.
Once the flames are completely out, the group of them return to the castle.
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The ceremony to officially crown the Great Demon Kingdom's new king and queen was to take place the next day. Many things had happened to the pair of double blacks since their arrival to their new kingdom. The people of their kingdom were even more excited to hear that they had both a new demon king and queen, and they loved the double blacks equally.
Yuri tried to reassure his baby sister that there was nothing to worry about as he knew that all of these people were kind. She did eventually push down her nerves to the point of not feeling nervous at all. And that relaxed the both of them.
What did clue her mind was the fact of Wolfram breaking the engagement off with her little big brother. Yumi understood that he was blinded by his pride, but it was the fact of him being the one to break the engagement that shocked her. But she began to understand why, when the blonde explained that he was growing feelings for someone else. Of whom she didn't know, but as it wasn't her business, she knew best not to pry. And nothing changed between him and Yuri as they began to get on like a house on fire. As if they had been best friends for their whole lives.
As soon as Yumi had set her eyes on the blonde, something inside of her began to grow warm. She didn't know him well enough to call it love, but whatever she was feeling was something that she had never felt for anyone before. She had grown to get along with Wolfram as a good friend within the few days of her being in the Great Demon Kingdom.
She was surprised herself because when it came to boys, she would always run away from that topic all together. The only boys that she was comfortable with were her father and her elder brothers as they were her family. She tried to keep the fact hidden from everyone that she had never even had a boyfriend in her entire life. One, that her brothers would never approve because they were always so protective, and two because she was afraid of meeting the wrong boy, that would just be an insensitive idiot that would trample on her heart as if it were nothing more than bug on the ground.
And as she was really close to Yuri, she didn't even bother trying to look for a boyfriend as all the boys that asked her out, were ones who only wanted her for her beauty, and not for who she was. And even at the age that she and her brother were now, they still basically did everything together.
Before, they never knew the reason for them being so close, but since being explained and proved that they shared the same soul, they understood why their bond was so strong. They were so close because they were each other's other half. So they couldn't live without each other.
Gunter had successfully persuaded Yumi into wearing something elegant enough for a lady, and that resulted to her wearing a long black gown. She frowned to how unfair it was for her elder brother to be allowed to wear his school uniform. But not wanting to start an argument over something pathetic, she just abided by Gunter's pleads and wore a black dress that reached the floor with black heels. She was happy to reach at least past her brother's ear, due to the height of the heels on her feet.
Yumi joked around with Gunter when she asked if she could wear some heeled boots instead of pumps. But when the lilac haired advisor's face paled to the thought of his queen wearing boots with an elegant dress, she explained to him that she was only playing around.
That information made him relax to also know that she had a sense of humour aswell as his young king. Yuri knew she was joking to begin with anyway, but he didn't say anything as it amused him to see Gunter's reaction to her request.
Conrad, Gwendal, Wolfram and Gunter were the ones to escort their new king and queen to the crowning ceremony. Yuri and Yumi had an identical scarf looking like piece of material wrapped around their shoulders, to show their positions as king and queen. Under both of their left shoulders was a golden coloured rope that was attached to the blue material, and on each right shoulder was placed a large red clip to hold the material in place.
As Yumi didn't have any sleeves on her dress, she giggled to the ticklish feeling when the golden rope was wrapped around her shoulder. Wolfram smiled to hear the cute giggling but hid the smile from the others as he didn't want them getting the wrong idea.
Ever since the young queen scolded him, Wolfram had changed from being his spoilt selfish self, to being an honourable and calm young man within a matter of only a few days. His elder brother Conrad, who had noticed this remarkable change, teased him about it. Well he only teased him when Yumi wasn't around, which infuriated him even more. He had always been a very sensitive person, but he had never grown to know the feelings of love toward someone before. Well that was until Yumi scolded him the day after his and his ex-fiancé's duel.
The blonde had become great friends with his ex-fiancé and had gained a good friendship with his younger sister. But something about the female double black struck an odd unknown feeling inside him. The foreign feeling only hit him when he was with her. He had no idea why or where it came from, but he told himself that he would, in time, figure out the reason to why this feeling was growing inside of his chest, and to why it warmed when he caught sight of the young queen. And if it was love that he was feeling towards Yumi, Wolfram would never admit it to her as she probably wouldn't feel the same about him. Oh how wrong he was.
"Hey Wolfram" the said girl's voice calls to him. Bringing himself out of his thoughts, he looks to her. She gestures toward a group of taller soldiers with the similar blue military uniform to him "are those Bielefeld soldiers?"
Yuri looks to him aswell. Wolfram looks to the group of soldiers standing to the side of the carpet leading up to the fountain and nods "yes. I don't actually lead them but they are soldiers from Bielefeld."
Yuri looks to his baby sister "how did you know?"
Yumi rolls her eyes "Yuri it was kind of obvious. They have the same colour uniform as Wolfram."
The double black boy makes an 'oh' movement with his mouth then turns to looks at all of the other groups standing on both sides of the red carpet leading to the fountain. Feeling a little intimidated by how many people there are, Yuri leans closer to his sister "there's a lot of people here."
Keeping her eyes on the fountain, Yumi whispers back to him "yeah I know, I think these are from the other aristocrat families."
They reach the bottom of the steps and look up to see Lady Celi standing to the side of the fountain wearing a red strap gown. Yuri and Yumi exchange looks of reassurance then turn to walk up the steps. Once reaching the top, the siblings turn to the blonde woman. Lady Celi smiles to them "there is nothing to worry about my dears. All you have to do is place your hands into the water and wait for something to take it."
Yumi's eyes widen "t-take it?"
Lady Celi chuckles "not literally, it just feels like a hand taking a hold of your own. It was strange for me at first, but then I just knew that it was the Great One."
With that, both double blacks sigh with relief. They straighten and step closer to the fountain. At the same time they lift up opposite hands, Yuri lifting his right and Yumi lifting up her left, then slowly place their hands into the falling water of the fountain.
After a moment nothing happens. Yuri and Yumi look to each other with confusion evident in their eyes. Yuri turns to ask Gunter about it, when both him and Yumi get yanked forward with great force. Yumi gasps "what the-somethings pulling me in!" she exclaims panicked.
As the both of them are pulled forward again, Yuri grits his teeth as he concentrates on trying to pull his hand free "its…got me…too!" he turns Gunter and the others behind them "guys help!"
Gunter, Conrad, Wolfram and Gwendal run up the steps ready to pull them out of the fountain, but before they can reach them, Yuri and Yumi get yanked forward again and into the water. Within the next second, both of the double blacks disappear into the water leaving behind expressions of shock and disbelief to what just happened.
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Yuri and Yumi find themselves in water again. They sit up to find themselves sitting in the fountain back where they last saw the bullies. Looking around, they meet the eyes of Ken Murata sitting on the edge of the fountain, with an officer standing next to him. His dark eyes look to them with concern "hey are you two okay? We actually thought that you had drowned."
The Shibuya siblings look to each other then back to Murata. They decide that it would be best to just nod and get home, because if they began to spill to Murata what they had experienced, they were sure that he would think that they were crazy.
