Feli's POV

I slowly start to wake up; cringing a bit expecting the pain to start up again as soon as I'm fully awake. Thankfully is doesn't. I keep my eyes closed anyways, deciding to sort out whatever's going on in my head before figuring out the rest of the world.

"Hey Lovi are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm surprisingly fine. I have no clue what happened though, do you?"

"No clue, I'm just glad it's over~. Although, can we make a promise to never fight over the body again? I'm pretty sure that's what started that up."

"…agreed. Sorry about that… I just realized something…"

"What's that fratello?"

"Now we have to give those idiots an explanation to what just happened."

"Oh… that's not good. What do we tell them?"

"I think… we should tell them the truth. It's going to come out at some time, either with you being idiotic, or me… or you being idiotic. It would probably be better for us if we told them for ourselves rather than them figuring it out."

"What if they think we're crazy?"

"They probably will, but we can't change that. We just have to take the chance. If they're going to be stupid then that's their problem. We know we're not crazy and that's all that matters."

"Alright… I guess I'm going to go ahead and 'wake up'"

"That's a good idea; I'll help you out if you don't know what to say."

I slowly open my eyes, cringing at the bright light coming from the lantern hanging above me. Once my eyes adjust, I look around and begin to sit up.

I'm sitting on a cot in the medical cabin of the ship. Kiku is in here, coming towards me and telling someone that I'm awake. Past him I see Ludwig and Antonio leaning against the wall, quickly standing up to come over; Kiku must have been talking to them.

"Good Lovino, you're up. Are you feeling all right? Does anything hurt?" That's a good question. Now that I think about it, I actually hurt all over.

"Ve. I'm a little sore, but I think that's from where people were holding me down. My face hurts from when whoever it was smacked me. Also, I'm really hungry. Do you have any food?"

"Ludwig, can you bring over the tray?" Ludwig walks over and puts a tray of food on my lap. As soon as he sets it down, I begin vigorously eating. After I've eaten a few mouthfuls, Kiku continues to talk. "So you were aware of what was happening and you remember it?" Kiku sounds kinda surprised by this.

"Kinda. I could mostly tell what was going on, at least at first. The longer that went on, the less I could understand. It was really scary." I decide to not explain exactly what had happened just yet, I couldn't very well tell that until I explained our basic situation.

"So Lovino, do you know what exactly that was?"

Great. Now I get to explain. Why couldn't Lovino have been in charge this time?

"Umm… kind of… but I can't really explain it without explaining some other things first and well… I doubt you'll believe me… but…

"I'll tell you, but once I start my story you have to let me keep talking. I don't really care if you believe me, but at least let me finish talking before you call me insane."

"Of course we'll let you say what you need to." Kiku says then turns to Antonio and Ludwig as if to make sure that they also agree. Apparently he is satisfied with them, because he turns back to look at me.

"Okay, so… I'm not Lovino… my name is Feliciano." When I say this, Antonio is the only one who looks surprised. Ludwig looks like he had somehow known that (he must have remembered my words from when we first met), and Kiku just looks like it makes no difference to him.

"But the thing is… there is a Lovino, and he's in here too." Now I am met with three completely confused faces. "Inside of this one body… there are two of us. Feliciano-that's me, and my brother Lovino. We're two different people… just stuck in the same body." The three both still look confused, although they are getting that look in their eyes that Lovi and I have seen too many times before. The look of pity that people only give you if they think you are hopelessly insane. I knew this would happen...

Well, it can't get worse than it already is, so I might as well tell them everything, and I better hurry too, as Ludwig and Antonio both look like they're going to go against what I had asked and start talking.

"I guess I should start at the beginning. It was around nine years ago, when Lovi and I were ten years old."

Third Person POV- Ten Years Ago

"Dare" Feliciano and Lovino said in unison. They were sitting with a group of children, all of whom were older than them, playing truth or dare. The two were playing as a team since they did everything in unison. They didn't even have to look at each other as they answered either truth or dare, but they always answered the same as the other.

"Alright then," began the boy giving the dare. He was the oldest of all the boys, and Feliciano and Lovino would do anything to impress him. "I dare the two of you to go into the haunted house at the edge of the woods. You have to go inside and stay in there for an hour."

Lovino and Feliciano gulped and looked at each other, then nodded their heads, after all ghosts weren't real… right?

At that point, everyone decided to end the game, they were much more interested in seeing the two go into supposed haunted house. The group hurried away from where they were sitting. All of their parents were having a night out and had grouped them together, hoping the older children would take care of the younger. Unfortunately they didn't know that most of the older boys were manipulative bullies, if they had there probably would have had an adult watch over them, and then nothing would have happened.

However, they didn't so it did.

The group of boys was standing just outside the fence, watching the house with fear. "Well then, go on." The boy who had given the dare instructed. "Or are the two of you too scared?"

"Of course not." The boys responded in unison. They then climbed through the fence.

"You have to stay in there for an entire hour." Lovino and Feliciano nodded and then quick started walking towards the house, as if they were completely confident, but as soon as they were sure that they were out of sight of the group, they grabbed each other's hands and slowed down tremendously.

They almost decided to just wander around in front of the house for the hour, but they knew that they were awful liars and would never be able to convince the others they had been inside.

Because of this, they cautiously walked towards the front door, and opened it slowly, slipping inside. Because the trip had been so last minute, they didn't even have a candle, so they were stuck in the darkness. Thankfully the rooms did have windows, so there was just enough moonlight to move around in.

The boys wandered around the house for about a half hour. They were just starting to calm down when they heard a loud scratching sound. If asked later, they would have said that it was probably just a mouse or something of the like, but at that time they were sure it was a ghost out to kill them.

As soon as they heard the sound, they ran. They ran through rooms and rooms until if they had tried to find a way out of the house they would have been unable to. However, instead of even thinking about getting out, they just continued to run. They held hands as they sprinted, both to keep from losing each other in the dark, and for comfort.

Finally they came to a room that had light leaking out the bottom of the door. Normally, a person would find that scary, but in the condition they were in, light, no matter the source, was a comfort. Because of this, they ran straight into the room, and kept running until they hit something and fell backwards.

They had crashed into a man dressed in a black cloak, and he also fell backwards. He landed on top of a candle. That was when the two boys realized that the things lighting the room were many candles, each burning brighter than they thought possible. Something was odd about these candles though, when the man in the cloak knocked one over the fire didn't spread, and it didn't flicker. Instead, the flame turned black before disappearing completely.

The sight scared the children, as it made them realize where they were. They were in the middle of a witch circle. Looking around, they were even surer of this, the other candles were in a perfect ring with what looked like lines of blood connecting them. Until that moment, like most of the rest of the world, they hadn't believed in magic, but now they saw no other explanation.

Once the man stood back up, he walked over to the boys, and they shrieked when they saw his eyes. They looked like they were burning, in the same way that the black flame had been before it disappeared. They were a bright green, and yet they somehow seemed to suck all the light out of the room.

"What have you done? She's gone! SHE'S GONE!" The man screamed at them, with hatred, anger, and a hint of sadness in his voice. The man stalked towards them, and reached out to grab them.

With that, they got up and ran. The man shouted out something the boys couldn't understand, and they felt something wrap around their feet. It felt like a rope around their ankles, but there was nothing there. After a second, they felt a tugging, and they were pulled across the room.

They were then lifted up so that they were in a standing position and slammed against the wall. The man walked towards where they were, and glared at them. They tried to run again, but they couldn't move their bodies.

"Because of you, she is lost forever. Do you understand what you have done?"

The boys tried to shake their heads, but they still couldn't move. The man most likely knew that they had no clue what was going on, but he continued anyways.

"My name is Arthur Kirkland, and you have just made a very powerful enemy. I should kill you, but that's too easy. I'll give you a different punishment instead. You two are identical twins I presume?" Arthur didn't even give the two a moment to attempt to respond. "Alright then, I think I know what your punishment will be. I will combine your two souls, your two minds into the same body. You will be stuck, having to control the body when it's your time, and sit back and watch when it's not. Do you have anything to say before I carry out my curse?

The boys were released from their immobility so they could respond, but they knew that there was no point in trying to run because of that.

"Why are you doing this?" Lovino began, "We did nothing wrong!" Feliciano continued.

"You have done everything wrong, and you will suffer for what you have done!" The man shouted in rage

The twins shrank back in fear, not understanding what they had done to make the man so angry, all they knew was that something horrible was about to happen.

"From this day forth, the two of you will live in the same body, but with both of your minds still intact, as punishment for what you have done!"

The boys whimpered in pain, as a wave of black magic washed over them. The magic dug down into their very being, pulling each of them apart while simultaneously pulling the two of them together. As the spell went on, the man continued to speak.

"But that is only part of your punishment,"

Feliciano's POV

"Only part of it?" Ludwig asked pulling me out of the daze I had fallen into. Oh no, I wasn't planning on telling them that part!

"Oh yeah, after that he just went on to explain the details of the curse, that kind of thing." If Ludwig, Antonio, and Kiku weren't already looking at me with disbelief, they would have at that point. They could tell that I had more to say, but they didn't push it, probably since they thought I was insane anyways.

"Uhh… well after that Arthur let us go and disappeared. At that point we were like we were now, two people in one body. Lovino was in charge at that point. We ran out of the house, but when we got out it was almost morning. The spell had somehow taken all night even though it felt like only a few moments. The boys had all left at that time, I guess they got scared.

"We went back home. Our grandfather, who took care of us, was at there waiting for us. He had some of the other adults out looking for us, but he had stayed at home in case we showed up on our own. When he saw there was only one of us, he told the search party to keep going, to find whoever was still out.

"He couldn't tell who was gone and who was still here, since we were identical, and when he tried to ask Lovino who he was he didn't answer.

"The two of us didn't speak for days, except to each other in our minds. Eventually Nonno gave up on the search. He finally got us to tell him what had happened, but just like you all," I stop and look at all three of them individually, "he didn't believe us. He thought that we had seen our twin get killed, he still couldn't figure out who he thought we were, and were traumatized by it. That we had come up with this story to make ourselves feel like our brother was still with us.

"For the longest time, he tried to 'help' us, bring us back to normal. Eventually he realized that wouldn't happen. He moved us out into a house in the countryside to protect us. He still loved us despite our apparent insanity, but some of the other townsfolk thought that we should be locked up, or even killed because of it. We lived in that house for a while, Nonno didn't believe our story but he realized that we did have two personalities. He would always ask who we were, Lovino or Feliciano, and he would treat us accordingly. It was probably the best life we could have lived in the situation.

"About a year later though, he disappeared. We stayed in the house for a while more, but eventually we ran out of food. We had to leave the house to survive, and we ended up living on the streets. We couldn't hold a job; we would eventually start acting 'insane' and we would lose whatever job we had managed to find. Sometimes we would even get chased out of a town, but that only happened the few times people did believe us; they didn't want anything associated with black magic near them. Eventually we learned to travel from city to city so no one had the time to figure us out. We lived like that for years, until we met up with you guys.

"You all know most of the rest of the story from there.

"Yesterday was a complication of the spell; for some reason we kept switching back and forth so quickly that it was hurting us."

I can tell from the way they act that they don't believe a word I said, and they all look like they want to say something.

"And yes, I know that you all think I'm insane, and it doesn't really make a difference. Now I'm sore and I'm tired from all that talking, so I'm going to sleep now. You can tell me how crazy I am when I'm feeling better." I'm not usually so rude, but I decided that it was probably alright for the situation. I would get all my bitterness out today so that I could go back to being my normal self tomorrow. I move the now empty tray of food to the table near my cot then lay down. As I do, I can hear them moving around.

"Feli, tell them I think they are all idiotic bastards."
 I remain lying down, with my eyes closed, but I do as he asked. "Also Lovi told me to tell you that he thinks you are all idiotic bastards." I hear their movement stop for a minute before starting up again. After a few moments, I hear the door open, and I think that Antonio and Ludwig both leave, leaving only Kiku.

I hear a creaking sound, and I assume that Kiku has sat down somewhere. I'm about to actually fall asleep, but then I hear Kiku begin to speak.

"I know you're awake Feliciano. You should know, although I know you have not told me everything, I do believe what you are saying. You are not insane."

"Why do you believe me?" I ask, opening my eyes, sitting up straight, and excitedly turning to Kiku. I'm really happy that he says he believes me, but also extremely confused as to why.

"I was once close friends with a man named Arthur Kirkland, presumably the same man that you met, and I know he has the magical abilities to do what you described. I don't know why he would; he didn't seem like the kind to curse to ten years olds for no reason when I knew him, but he is definitely capable of doing so."

"Do you know where he is now?" I ask excitedly. If we can talk to him he might be able to change us back.

"I have not spoken to him for many years, most likely much before you even met him." That was surprising; apparently Kiku is older than I thought he was. "Now sleep, you'll need it. I'll try to help you out, but I doubt I'll be able to convince anyone you're not insane."

I do as he asked not knowing what else to do, and lay back down.

"Someone actually believes us!"

"Don't get your hopes up; he might just be lying to make us feel better or something."

Despite Lovi's words, I can tell that he is as hopeful as I am. If Kiku is telling the truth, than things are much better than we had dreamed of. No one, not even our own grandfather, has ever believed us about this before. Even if everyone else on the ship thinks we are insane, at least we have one person who doesn't.

Although he's right that we weren't telling the whole truth. Oh well, that problem will sort itself out when the time comes; his knowing about it will do nothing to save us.

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