Hello you beautiful humans! Well...at least I think MOST of you are humans, no cyborgs right? Anyway...hi. I apologize for another lack of update, it's been a particularly hard past couple of weeks. A lot of cruddy crud stuff has been thrown at me...I say that in the most mature possible way. But I have taken a day off today from my current reality affairs, sat down and started typing. Writers block is a royal pain...but it's here! A fairly short but useful chapter! I hope you like it, as always: Stay awesome, nice shoes, buy gold! -Silver
Sibling rivalry sometime leads to the bitterest competition -Phillip Meyer
Nadilines POV:
"Ok Nadi, just stay there. We'll try one more time. BUT FOCUS." Bill orders sternly.
"She c-can't do it. You're w-wasting your time." Lumi nags, floating not too far from me.
"Shut up Lumis, I can do this!" I yell at him, getting annoyed by his smart-arse comments. "Hit me with your best shot." I order my eldest brother cockily, who now hovers a couple feet away from me. His eye closes just slightly in focus, trying to find a good angle on me, but at the same time being slightly careful. "Just throw the damn spell already, it can't hurt me." I complain, getting impatient of his overprotectiveness. But before I know it, a giant ball of blue flames is flying towards me. I hold up my black, sleek arms and summon a shield incantation. The flames are hit by an invisible force, cascading around my triangular form. "HA! I told you blank brains!" I cheer happily, hovering quickly over to Lumi and grabbing his two hands, spinning us in a circle through the air.
"AH! Slow d-down Nads! Slow d-down!" he laughs, becoming dizzy from my little celebration.
"Good work Nadi, now we can finally move you up to intermediate spell casting." Bill says behind me as I let I let go of Lumi and come to a slow halt.
"AH! Jeez Bill! Quit it with the teleporting! It freaks me out!" I complain, getting a jolt from his sudden presence.
"Not gonna happen."
"How the heck does that come so easily to you?" I question, still astonished by his advancement in dark arts.
"Practice Nadiline, practice. A little tool I think you can greatly benefit from." he teases.
"Ya, ya, whatever you say bowtie."
"Bowtie?" he laughs, acting all offended.
"That's what I said. You going deaf big bro?" I tease.
"A physical impossibility Nads. When will you learn?"
"I don't know! We've only been stuck like this for a year now! How fast do you want me to get used to it?"
"As fast as p-possible, then maybe y-you'll stop goofing o-off." Lumi complains.
"Me goofing off? What about him?! He's the king of goofing off!" I point out, motioning a hand towards the demon himself.
"I don't count." Bill drabs on.
"Oh, sure Mr. All Exceptions." I say mockingly. "Let's get out of here. I don't want to run into any werewolfs tonight. They always ruin the party."
"Whatever you say Nads, but I got somewhere to be. I'll catch you guys in the morning." Bill says, backing away from Lumi and I.
"What? Come on! You've been leaving so often lately! Just come with us, can't it wait until tomorrow?" I complain, grabbing ahold of his thin arm, but he pulls it away.
"No dice. I'll see you two later. And STAY OUT OF TROUBLE." he orders, going all parent phase on us.
"Uhu, whatever you say bowtie. You do the same." I say, pointing a finger at him.
Bill floats a few meters off of the grass, a vortex of darkness starts to open behind him while lighting crackles in a great spectacle, and then, the expected circle of light. It turns around him, empty pieces filling it, each lighting up in a grand display. Even now, we still don't know what it means. The next thing we know, there's the typical flash of light and he's gone.
"Show off." I hear Lumi mumble. "Come on N-Nads, let's get o-out of here."
"You shouldn't be so jealous you know, it's bad karma."
"J-Jealous!? I'm not jealous! Why the heck w-would I want to be anything like that f-fool? Besides, what do you a-about karma?"
"Ummm, I know everything. It's my job. I do the READING around here, you two do the spell casting. And it's BECAUSE of that jealousy that you two fight all of the time. It's getting frustrating."
"Well you find a w-way for him to stop being so...so...B-Bill, and the fighting might s-stop."
"Stop Bill from being Bill? That's a paradox waiting to happen." I remark, but frustration gets the better of me. I stop us in our tracks and make Lumi face me. "Lume. Look. I'm going to give you the cold hard truth here. I'm scared, ok? I can feel you two getting more tense by the week. The fights are getting worse and you two are acting like children. I'm starting to think that this is all just getting out of hand. All of the competition? It's ridiculous, a joke. And this time Bill's not the one causing the joke."
Lumi just gives me a blank stare, his rectangular eye not moving away from me. Akward silence is becoming a norm for us. "You have a loose screw or s-something?" He questions me, breaking the silence.
"Seriously? That's what you took from that!?" I say, exasperated by his sarcasm.
"What do you w-want from me?"
"I want you to take a chill pill!" I yell.
"...chill pill?" he asks me, completely bewildered by my phrase.
"Yes...chill pill. I quite like that actually, I'll have to use that more often."
"...Ok. Odd note of new slang a-aside, I guess...I g-guess I could try a LITTLE b-bit harder to get along w-with him."
"THANK YOU, took you long enough….you're lying aren't you?" I deadpan.
"Yep, that d-demon can either choose t-to get a thinner ego or B-BUST."
I sigh in frustration, "I swear, one of these days, it won't be just the trees that get burned by one of your little feuds."
"Don't worry, I'll try to aim for the eye." he jokes. I don't laugh though.
...
2 Years Later: 1890
"GET OVER HERE YOU COWARD! Fight like a man!" Bill yells, throwing a paralysis spell at Lumi.
"I'm the only m-man here! You're the ch-child!" Lumi yells back, dodging the spell and throwing one in return.
"At least this child knows when to grow up!" Bill yells again, this time exchanging to a void spell. He throws it to the left, calculating Lumis latest move. But he dodges it and the spell hits the wood paneled roof. A roof we haven't lived under in 16 years. It creates a small swirling void, sucking a part of it in instantly, leaving a large hole in their once cozy home. Now it stands in a wreck from multiple blows in the past.
"Hey! Do you know how long it took for me to fix that last time!?" I yell at Bill, floating on the side lines. "Three hours, and MULTIPLE repair spells you twit!"
"Stay out of this Nadiline!" Bill barks back at me. The three of us have been out here for a few minutes now, all I wanted to do was retrieve some old books from the cabin. But all it took was a spark caused by my brothers arrogance and another flaming argument burst between the two. Lumi continues to attempt at a paralysis spell, but Bill is too quick, him throwing more voids in return. Their childish duel destroys trees, rocks, ground, laying waste to the forest. I feel heated feels bubbling in me, but I try to keep it contained. The last thing I want is to have another 5.8 earthquake. The creatures hated me that Tuesday…but they'll hate it more if their home is reduced to rubble.
"Both of you stop this now! You're acting like toddlers fighting over who has the best toy! Enough of this nonsense!" I scream at them.
"KEEP OUT OF THIS NADI, OR YOU'LL REGRET IT!" Bill yells again, but much more sternly this time, making me shrink down into a smaller form out of fear. He hasn't yelled at me like that in years. I want to stop them, but I'm not stupid enough to challenge them in a fight. "What do you say Lumis!? Should we finish this!?" he yells maniacally and the green triangle.
"Ag-greed!" he yells back. He goes to attempt another hit on Bill, but he suddenly disappears into thin air. "Wha-come o-out Bill! No m-more hiding! Or are you just going to remain a coward...like that little Ruth of yours..."
"You sick bastard…" Bills voice echoes through the trees, but he remains no where to be found. "You better watch your tongue, or I'll cut it off." he threatens menacingly, it sends a chill up my...well, where my spine WOULD be. Bill suddenly appears in front of Lumi, but in a small flash, he's gone again. This repeats over and over, him appearing and disappearing all over in a distracting manner. Lumi starts to hurl random offensive spells every which way, trying to get a hit on him, but fails. Bills sudden appearances comes to a halt, keeping himself hidden among us. "A little spell I conducted myself, I think you'd enjoy it. You can't see me, but I can see YOU. I believe it's called invisibility, just so you know, you dim twerp. "
"Neat t-trick, is that all?" Lumi chuckles bitterly.
"No, I have a much better trick...hidden away. You've always nagged on about how much you miss being human, just a powerless, weak, MORTAL HUMAN! How about I help you?" he chuckles insanely. His mind has travelled away from him again...so much rage, it's clouding his judgement. What's he planning?
The next thing I know, Bill is in the middle of the clearing, hovering just a few meters from Lumi and I, "See you never, Lumis." Bill says quietly, he lift up his arm and I can see a white ball of light in his palm.
"BILL! Stop this! You're not thinking right! Just put down the…" I get cut off by the realization that he's ignoring me, he hurls the ball of light out of his hand.
Now is a good time to be stupid.
I suddenly find myself in between them, me facing Bill. In the very millisecond of my action I can see his almond eye widen in shock and see his hand reach up in regret. I hear Lumi yell my name fearfully behind me, trying to order me out of the way. But it's long too late for that. I suddenly feel a cold sting in my gut and I look down at my cyan form. A bright light is emerged in my body, cracks start to break around it like a baseball in a glass window. I give one last disappointed look to my eldest brother, before the expected blackout...