"Kami! If you guys don't hurry we're going to be late!" Koruru shouted, wearing a flowery dress with a pretty stargazer lily in her hair and well as flat shoes. She looked as though she'd be out of place in any sort of concert. Gash was running from the Kitchen with a barely-cooked fish between his teeth and the same clothes that I had given him the day before. I warned him that if he got any blood on those clothes I'd be pretty sore. As per usual, he ignored my threats and proceeded to stain my old clothes with fish blood.

I sighed at him. My thin button-up top was completely unbuttoned with a black undershirt and black skinny jeans. My shoes were purple and silver, a pair of sneakers my father insisted I have, saying that it matched my facial color scheme and would drive the princesses crazy. Ironically, I rarely wore them and whenever I did they insisted I change out of them. So I never had a use for them until now.

"Sorry Koruru!" Gash and I called as we tried to run after the girl that was high-tailing it out of the castle. Since I had long legs than Gash and since he was preoccupied with eating the fish that he had caught not much earlier that day, he was lagging pretty far behind us and although we both know we should have been paying him some attention, we allowed his location to fade out of our minds altogether and it wasn't until we got to the concert location that we realized that he was gone.

The pink haired girl looked at me and then at the path we had just com from, hoping that he was just behind us. After Five minutes Koruru started to groan. Had we really just lost Gash in the city? Yes. Yes we had. "Oh goodness. We have to find him!" I nodded and saw her look back at the concert with a sad look in her eyes. I told her that she could go to the concert, and since I had never seen the band before I wouldn't feel as bad.

She smiled and nodded, thanking me briefly before handing the burly guards her ticket. I ran off in the direction we had coming, calling out to Gash to see if I got a response. Nothing. The city was huge and the streets twisted around a lot. I could easily get lost in the confusing streets and throngs of people. Gash wasn't even from this kingdom, so we were like two of a pair, lost in the same city, looking for one another.

"Gash! Gash, where are you!" I shouted into the air, hoping to find the little demon. I sighed--the obviously wasn't working. There had to be a way to call him without shouting at the top of my lungs. There had to be one! Then it hit me.

Zakeru.

If I fired A Zakeru into the sky, the whole sky would light up. I've told Gash and Koruru about my lightning power, so if he saw the blast he'd have to follow it to me. I lifted my hand into the air and murmured my spell, allowing the lightning to rush through my arms to a point that left them sort of numb. The entire sky lit up. Even if he happened to be outside of the city, he had to have seen it. There was no way he couldn't have, right?

A few seconds passed before another lightning attack--like my own but significantly weaker, went up. It was about seven blocks from where I stood. A minute passed before it went up again and I followed it with the same spell. Soon enough Gash cut through the crowd, blood still staining his shirt and pooling on his lips and cheeks.

"Where did you go?" I demanded, not giving the blond enough time to catch his breath. Instead of responding right away he panted before answering. He said that he was trying to keep up with Koruru and I, but he had to stop eventually. In the time that he stopped, Koruru and I had turned a few corners so he had no idea where we went. After that he had just begun wandering around town trying to find the concert and us. I felt sort of bad--seeing as we just kept running while he tied his shoes.

We laughed off the bad feelings as we went back into to concert. We couldn't find Koruru, not to mention that the place was pretty stuffed with people. So we relaxed pretty far away from the stage, and even though the people on the stage looked like tiny ants, thanks to the large and powerful quality of the speakers, we were actually pretty glad not to be right in front of the stage were people were liable to lose their hearing listening to their favorite music. That was irony.


Koruru's ears were ringing for almost a week after the concert. We tried not to talk to her or laugh since we had to yall really lound to be heard. The yelling eventually got Gash in trouble with his boss, whom bound him to his bed with no food or water for two days. Feeling sorry for him, we managed to sneak him food for the days he was bound. We also made sure to give him a pan, since him making a mess of the bed didn't help anyone.

By the end of the week Koruru and Gash were put through a fair bit of hell for the concert. The worst part was that they didn't even really like the songs they played at the concert, although they seemed pretty happy to have gone to the concert at all. Sometimes I thought that these guys were far to optimistic for their own good.

We saw hide nor hair of Hyde and his new girlfriend, and that was good considering neither Gash or myself wanted to see Angry Koruru again. She seemed to be in a good mood most of the time, and even Eduron was starting to lighten up. Things were starting to look very good in my father's castle, and everyone was happy now. Maybe I was wrong, maybe Eduron was just trying to get used to having a son.

And maybe the world would implode from a society of wood lice. She was up to something, I knew she was up to something, and it didn't take a genius to figure it out.

Something else began to bug me. Gash has a lightning attack, and so do I. Granted--his lightning attack is a lot less powerful than my own, and his comes out yellow instead of white like mine does, but all that aside, the attacks look SO much alike that I could possibly go as far to say that we had the same spell. I've heard of that happening; two demons getting the same spell. That only happened in families though, right? And Gash was not related to me, at least, not in any way I knew of.

My birthday was coming up soon, and I shared this with my friends. Koruru knew this already and wished me a happy birthday. Gash sort of stared into space and responded by saying that his birthday was on the same day as my own. This was sort of weird, but I acknowledged that there aren't enough days in the year for every demon to have a different birthday, so Gash's happened to fall on my own. Pure coincidence, right?

The party was a big ball, with everyone from other kingdoms coming to wish me a happy birthday. When they did I would state that one of my friends had a birthday today too. Their faces went sort of pale--I guess my notorious friendship with my servants precedes me. I didn't care that they scowled at me or their eyes would search around for Gash whom was making funny faces at some of the other servants and Koruru offering food to the guests. I spent the entirety of my party on my throne, sliding down slightly, legs out in front of me. Some of the older demons commented on how much I was growing.

Eduron was not at the party at all. Neither was my father, and that was sort of odd, but I couldn't really look for them. I went to sleep that night with no problems.

The next day however, I told my father about what I had learned about Gash. Her stroked his beard for a few long minutes before murmuring something under his breath and kneeling down to my level. His eyes looked as though they had some sort of confession. "Zeon." He said. "You have a twin brother. Your twin brother is Gash."

He went on to explain that he didn't know whether Gash and I would get along, so he separated us, giving him to Queen Eduron as a servant. It was my mother's idea, and she wished that Gash and I could be reunited after she died. She wanted us to be older and be friends, so have seen things that we would have never seen otherwise. So my father waited ten years after her death--when my and Gash would both be 15--to marry Queen Eduron and bring Gash to the castle.

My life no longer made sense.


Alright, finally done. I'm finding it hard to come up with 2,000 words, so I'm lowering my bar a little. 1,500 is still a lot, right?