Chapter Five; Meeting
Genki smiled at Senki whom was humming a song as he skated along beside the wagon that he drove. He wished that he had his old energy back again so he could join him, but with his sickness skating for as little as five minutes would take too much energy. Genki glanced over at the horses which trudged slowly along. He had to wash some blood stains off of them this morning, before Senki noticed and freaked out. He was glad to see though that the horrific events of last night did not take as big a toll on his twin's mind as he thought it would. Senki was always so very sensitive. It was strange seeing him in the monster world, being hear with him. Senki had been the only thing he had missed about his home world, if he had been hear back then, then it would of been perfect hear. But now, now even with Senki hear he had no desire to stay in the monster world. The world that had used him.
"Hey Genki, I'm kinda hungry. Do you think we can get something to eat when we come to a village?" Senki smiled, rubbing his flat belly.
"Hm. We don't have any gold, that's money hear, we might be able to put up a good enough pity case though and get something for free."
"Or we can offer to do some work to get some money."
"I don't think we'll have time for a job." Genki turned back to the road, using his hand to shield his eyes from the afternoon sun. "We have to gather the mirror pieces."
"Hm, what will we do with them when they are all gathered?" Senki asked as he skated along.
"I don't know."
"Maybe we should find away back home instead. You do want to go back home, right?"
"Right. I don't want to stay hear."
Senki frowned at the sudden bitterness in his brother's voice. "I don't mind staying hear if you want to. As long as we're together...."
"We will be together, but not in this world. We'll find away home together as soon as we can. Don't worry." An angry look dawned Genki's expression. "I'm sure this world will get rid of us when we're not needed anymore."
"Genki...." Senki whispered, the angry expression on his twin's face made him uncomfortable. Genki must of sensed his discomfort and apologized.
"I'm sorry, I did not mean to upset you Sen-chan." "It's ok, Gen-chan." Senki smiled up at his younger twin. "Do you think the next village will be more friendlier then the last one? Those men were mean..."
"Hm." Genki shrugged. "We took care of them. Still, I hope that we do not run across another massacre."
"Me too. I'm going to have nightmares about that."
"Hm."
"Do you think we'll run into anybody you know?"
"I hope not." Genki whispered with a deep bitterness.
"Why not?"
"Never mind."
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"Ah." Colt drew back, her eyes wide as Alan, Pixie and her arrived in the village to see the blood coating everything. Holly and her friends had gotten half of the villagers buried by now. Pixie still looked the same as she did after she had combined with Big Blue. Colt had grown up rather pretty, but had a tom boyish air to her. Her hair went down to her shoulders and her bangs was pushed back by a pink hat. She wore a dusty pink skirt that went far above the knees, a long sleeved white shirt with a pink tank top over it. She wore white stockings and brown work boots along with a pair of brown work gloves. Alan had grown handsome, tall and muscular. His blue hair went straight past his shoulders, and he wore a silver loop piecing on one ear. He wore a pair of form fitting black pants, a red tunic with a yellow belt. His worms, like Colt's bird had been killed by Deyarteb's baddies. He was on a mission of revenge while Colt was on one of discovery–wanting to find out about the mirror which was written about on some old ancient scrolls that the girl found in some old ghost town and had yet to fully translate.
"Such a gruesome slaughter..." Alan breathed.
"My god, what happened hear?" Pixie questioned (Despite her combining, she refused to be called Granity)
Holly got up, dusting some dirt off of her clothing. The whole ordeal was hard on her spirits, it reminded her so much of when she had to burry the people of her own village. "A massacre."
"Was it done by Deyarteb's baddies?" "Three children." Holly told grievingly. "The survivors says that three children no older then thirteen years old were behind the killings."
"Kids!?" Colt squawked. "Kids did this!?"
"Were you hear when it happened?" Alan asked Holly, looking concerned.
"No. I am sad that we were not hear to help, but at the same time I am glad that I did not bare witness to such a slaughter."
"Holly." Alan embraced her. "It's ok if you want to cry."
Holy gave in a little to her tears but refused to cry as much as she wanted to. She had better things to do then cry. She removed herself after a few moments from Alan's gentle hold and smile at him weakly.
"Alan, can you please help us finish burring them?"
"Of course." He caressed her face, wiping away on of her tears. "Your very brave Holly."
"I have to be. We're the only ones whom can stop Deyarteb. Everyone is depending on us. It hurts me to know that we failed them." Holly mournfully glanced at all the buried and yet to be buried. "But as the heros whom defeated Moo, we will avenged their deaths."
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"Wow, they look just like the monsters from that game of yours." Senki looked around in awe as he sat in the back of the wagon peering shyly out at all the different kinds of monsters when they arrived in the village. It was the village where they had first met Hare, Genki glanced over the monster arena. He was sure his brother would get a kick of seeing a battle, it was just too bad that they had no monsters with them so they could not win any prize money. They were both staving.
"Try not to say game so loudly." Genki whispered to him. "You'll get weird looks."
"Oh...sorry."
Genki halted the horses and carefully got out of the wagon, his weak limbs made it difficult since steering the horses and driving all night long had made him very tired. The nagging hunger was not helping much either.
"We need to get something to eat." He concluded. "Hopefully we'll find someone who is feeling charitable. If not...we can sell the horses and wagon."
"Hey." Senki frowned. "Genki, you need that. Your not strong enough to walk...."
"I know. But we'll both suffer if we stay hungry."
"Your not sacrificing yourself for me. You've done that far too much for me in the past."
Genki met his brother's serous gaze. "........."
"We'll find food even if we have to steal it. I'm not going to have you leave me..."
Genki smiled and gave his twin a hug. "Don't worry. I wont leave you."
"Gen-chan...."
"Let's try and find something to eat, ok, Sen-chan?"
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Deyarteb's five Pixie baddies were in their room, that was near the top of his tower which towered over a forgotten village. They were setting in the room chatting away, but were mostly teasing the Silhouette, Lain about losing sight of the twins.
"Dammit, shut up!" Lain snarled at them. "That brat's blast really hurt, give me a break!"
"I think he already gave you one!" the mia, Mio giggled as she pointed to the bandaged around Lain's abdomen, where she had received a few broken ribs.
"F.U.C.K. Y.O.U."
"Now, now." The futurity, Norika tsked looking up from her hand computer. "There is no need for profanity Lain."
The allure Shigeko laughed, pausing in putting on a pair of ear rings she had swiped from the corpse of a woman from the last slaughter she had participated in. "You could not stop two injured little boys! How sad!"
"Well." Lain began angrily. "At least I did not get defeated by the girl and her friends because I was having too much fun molesting that blue haired jerk, unlike a certain other girl in this room."
Shigeko blushed. "But he was so handsome!"
The mint, Mayu shuffled her feet on the floor. "Lord Deyarteb is acting weird lately. I wonder why he ordered us not to kill the twins..."
"Dunno."Mio shrugged. "Don't really care. As long as we get to do a little slicing and dicing, I'm happy." "I wonder what the mirror is for?" Norika wondered. "It's suppose to be the only thing that can destroy the lord, I don't see why he wants us to gather the pieces when all we need to do is destroy one piece of it to render it harmless."
"He wants it whole." Shigeko fell back on some cushions. "It *is* rather pretty."
"I'm board." Mio whined. "I want to go out and kill something!"
"The lord did not order any slaughters."
"It's been three days!!" The mia whimpered. "My hands ache with blood lust! The lord is such a meanie to deny me my fun!!"
"I like the quite days." Mayu whispered. "I hate the smell of blood."
"Are you joking!?" Mio gave her a shocked look. "The smell of blood is the best! They should make a perfume that smelt like it! I'd swipe that in a heart beat!"
"Oh, here we go again." Norika sighed. "Mio's psychopathic rant of the day."
The young cute girl began to bounce around the room excitedly as she spoke. "The smell of blood is what makes a battle field what it is. Death without blood is like a Sunday without a cherry, or a lemon pie without the meringue!"
"Someone has got to get me some pretty ear plugs for when she goes into these rants." Shigeko covered her ears annoyed.
"The smell of blood is needed! A necessity! A kill would not be a kill without it! A death would not be a death! To spill blood is to spill the essence of a person's life! To see that crimson liquid slowly spill out of their cooling bodies that is one of the greatest pleasures in killing...no! One of the greatest pleasures in life!"
"Blah, blah, blah. Can someone shut her up?" Lain asked exasperatingly.
"Stopping Mio in the middle of one of her rants is a death wish." Mayu sighed.
"So, as I'm saying, if a person does not bleed when they die then...the death is meaningless. There is no pleasure to be found in it....and furthermore...."
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"Lord Deyarteb." An Angel whispered as she listened to the group of Pixie's talk. "Why do you keep those useless girls around, anyway?"
Deyarteb chuckled. "Their good dupes for the time being." "But what good are they? All they can do is kill people and you already have a plan for that, my lord."
"You'll see in dew time, my dear Tailm."
"I'm sure I will, my lord." The angel laughed as she gleefully hugged him. "Tell me, why did you let the twins go?"
"I need them in the outside world. Don't worry. It'll be an easy task to get them back. They are playing right into the palm of my hand."
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Senki took a worried glance at his brother as he stumbled for the tenth time. He looked ready to pass out at any moment. No one helped them. Some people gave them weird looks, some people walked away from them, but not one looked to give them a helping hand.
"Genki, hang on. I'm sure someone will give us something to eat..."
His brother laughed bitterly. "I doubt it...cruel people....for a cruel world...."
"Gen-chan...." Senki whispered but got no response. His eyes widened worriedly. "Gen-chan! Gen-chan!"
He shook his brother trying to wake him up as the younger twin fell onto his knees in a faint. Panicked he drug him back to the wagon and laid him in the hay gently. "Don't worry, I'll be right back with some food for us!"
Genki did not answer and worriedly Senki scurried off, trying to find something. He'd steal the food if he had to.
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"Ah, doesn't this place bring back memories." Hare smiled as they arrived in the village where he had first met the group, trying to lighten the mood from that mornings burial.
"This is where your swindled us." Tiger recalled.
"Aw, come on, I changed since then!"
"Yeah right. Your still a money grubbing fur ball."
"Well your still a—"
"Enough!" Holly scowled. "I'm not in the mood for this." "That's right!" Colt piped up. "We've had a hard morning!"
"Sorry..." Hare apologized while Tiger just grunted.
"These villagers seem upset." Pixie observed.
"What's wrong chi?"
"I don't know." Alan frowned. "We did see wagon tracks on the way hear. Do you think....?"
Suzo shuddered. "I don't even want to think about running into the demented kids who did that."
"It hard to believe that children did such a thing." Golem spoke up.
"Well according to those villagers, children did do such a thing, and all the graves in the village is proof of it."
Holly shivered as Alan spoke, at the memory of all the blood and death. No one had been spared not even the children. Her eyes widened as she felt the magic stone grow hot against her skin.
"Holly what's wrong?" Alan asked as he caught the look on her face.
"The stone..." She pulled it out. "It's glowing."
"Could it be reacting to a mirror piece?" Pixie asked, but Holly shook her head.
"No. I do sense there is a mirror piece hear but...there is something different about the energy from the stone. I don't think it glowing because of the mirror. It's a negative glow...responding to a negative energy."
"Oh!" Colt shivered. "Scary!"
"It's getting stronger with each step we take into the village...."
"Then let's fallow it source." Alan lead them deeper into the village, the glow of the magic stone got brighter with each step. They stepped through a narrow ally into the plaza where lots of merchants were selling food and other goods.
"It somewhere close to hear." Holly whispered. "Down a little more to the north."
The group began to fallow her when Mocchi halted in his steps as he spotted a figure out of the corner of his eye. He stopped in his steps and turned to look at the figure, his eyes widening in shock. "Chi!!"
The group turned towards the little monster at it's startled cry. "What is it Mocchi?" Golem asked.
"Chi! It's...!"
The group turned towards where Mocchi was pointing, all having different reactions. Pixie's eyes widened.
"What is he doing hear?"
"Is it really him?" Colt asked, looking confused.
"Could it be...?" Alan began with uncertainty.
"How can he be hear?" Golem wondered.
"Unbelievable!" Hare exclaimed.
"Woah, of all things I was expecting this was at the bottom of my list." Suzo gaped.
"I thought that he..." Tiger trailed off. "He's alive...he's really alive..."
Holly did not know what to think, she just stared ahead of herself feeling tears well up in her eyes as a smile spread across her face. "Genki...your hear, your really hear..."
They watched in shocked silence as whom they thought was Genki strolled around a merchants stand causally. It was however Senki, but they didn't know that. They watched as their 'friend' paused in front of a stand selling fruit, and stood there waiting. As the merchant turned to help a woman they saw him snatch something quickly from the stand and stash it away in his pocket, they watched as he wondered over to at least two other stands and repeated the process.
"I see that 'someone' must of thought him some bad habits last time he was hear." Tiger glanced over in Hare's direction.
"Hey, don't point the finger at me!" Hare defended. "*You* were the thief Tiger!"
"I did not teach Genki to steal!"
"Well I didn't!"
"Yeah right you didn't...!"
"Guys!" Holly hushed hem.
"You!"
A merchant's scream quieted them quicker then Holly's request. They turned back to their friend to see that the one whom they thought was Genki had been caught and was backing away from the merchant's stand nervously.
"Drop it you little scoundrel!" The merchant, a middle aged man with a belly the displayed an extreme delight for fried chicken and beer jumped towards him brandishing a knife threateningly.
Senki gasped frightened. "Stay away!"
Holly and the other gasped as Senki held his hand up in front of his face as though to protect himself, there was a white blast of light the threw the man back into his stand. Senki stared at the man confused not aware that he had attacked. He hadn't meant to... All the villagers were staring at him fearfully and he gulped.
"Um...oops? Involuntary action....sorry?"
Some villagers began to stalk towards him threateningly. Senki blanched and bowed his head mannerly.
"Um, sorry, gotta go!"
Holly and the others watched as whom they thought had been Genki dashed off away from the angry villagers.
"What was that?' Tiger wondered aloud.
"That power was...amazing." Pixie whispered.
'Genki...?' Holly looked confused.' How did he do that? What was he doing hear?' "Come on." She turned to her friends. "Let's go after him!"
"Right!"
**************************************************************************** ** Senki dashed into an ally, out of breath. He had to find a way back to the wagon and his brother before the villagers got him. Man, as if they couldn't understand two starving children needing food. He leaned against the dark wall of the ally trying to hide himself from the view of passing villagers. He waited till he thought they were gone and began to come out of the ally to go over to his brother when he heard Hare's laughing voice behind him.
"Hey kid, the first rule of stealing is not to get caught!"
"AH!" Senki leapt startled and twisted around to see two human girls, a rabbit like monster, a wolf like monster, a pink monster with a duck bill, a giant made of stone, a woman with wings, a human man, and a eye ball. He stared at them not knowing whom or what they are (remember Senki is not use to monsters quite yet)
"Your really hear." Holly stepped towards him with a gentle smile.
"What happened back there?" Tiger asked, referring to the attack they saw him do on the merchant.
"Chi!" Mocchi rushed forward happily. "Mocchi glad your back chi!"
Senki blinked looking confused. "Ah...who are you?"
Holly and the others exchanged shocked looks.
"What? Are you saying you don't remember us!?" Hare exclaimed in disbelief.
"Wow, don't you have a great memory span." Suzo glared at him insulted.
"Are you trying to say that you forgot about us?" Pixie frowned at him.
"I never met you before...." Senki stared back at them a little nervously. "Who are you guys?"
"Are you serious?" Tiger growled a little, making the poor confused boy scared. "You don't really expect us to believe that you forgot us? Stop playing around."
"I really don't know...wait." Senki paused for a moment thoughtfully as his eyes grew wide in realization. "Oh, you must got me mixed up with my brother...."
"Your brother?" Alan repeated surprised. Mocchi whimpered.
"Your not Genki, chi?"
"No, I'm Senki."
"Senki." Holly repeated not being able to hide the disappointment on her face. "Oh...so your not him..."
"Oh don't worry." Senki caught their sad looks. "Genki is here. I was trying to get back to him before those villagers found him and mistook him for me."
Holly and the others became cheerful again.
"Genki's alive chi!?"
"Yeah." Senki looked confused. "You thought he was dead?" "He fell off of a dragon in the final battle." Pixie exclaimed. "We thought he was crushed."
"He must of fell back into his own world." Tiger realized.
"How is he doing?" Suzo asked, Senki paused for a moment, Genki probably would not like him talking about his illness, so he lied. "He's fine. Can you tell me who you are?"
"I'm Holly."
"Suzo."
"Mocchi, chi!"
"Tiger."
"Hare."
"Golem."
"Pixie."
"Alan."
"I'm Colt!" The energetic girl cuddled up to him with a wink. "Your cute!"
"Ah, thanks..." He blushed, before looking over at Tiger and the others. "Genki told me you died..."
"Is that what the kid thought?" Hare frowned.
"We were revived after the final battle." Tiger explained.
"Oh."
"So, where is Genki anyway?" Alan asked glancing around himself.
"Did he leave you wondering around town by yourself?" Colt wondered.
"Oh no. He's back at the wagon, he's not feeling too well...."
'A wagon.' Holly thought with an uneasiness, but shoved the thought from her mind. There was no way that it was them. Sure they were around thirteen and were twins...but...it couldn't be. She knew beyond doubt that Genki would never commit such atrocities.
"Senki can you take us to him?"
"Um...sure."
Senki lead the group towards the wagon, seeing Senki with the heros whom defeated Moo made them halt in their assault. Holly stared down at the magic stone in confusion, it was glowing red hot. The negative energy was getting stronger.
"Oh my goodness!" Senki suddenly cried out, running over to the wagon. "He's not hear!"
"What?" The monster ran over to the wagon alarmed.
"Genki's not here..."
"Maybe he wandered off looking for you?" Hare suggested but Senki shook his head.
"No, he's not strong enough to go wandering around..."
"Huh?" Holly blinked as the magic stone began to glow differently indicating a piece of the mirror near by.
"A piece of the mirror?" Alan asked seeing her look down at the stone. She nodded.
"It's really close..."
"Mirror?" Senki overheard them. "Are you looking for this?"
They watched as he rummaged around the hay, pulling out the piece of mirror he had on the gold backing. The group gasped surprised.
"Wow! You have a piece of the mirror and it's power plate!" Colt exclaimed. "How did you get it?"
"Deyarteb had the power plate..." Pixie began.
"Genki and I swiped it when we escaped from him." Senki explained but seemed distracted as he looked around himself, looking lost. "Where'd Genki go...? I'm going to go and find him..."
"Hold on." Tiger started, rather harshly. "The hay in your wagon...it has the scent of blood lingering on it..."
"Not surprising..." Senki whispered softly, shuddering. "With that massacre..."
"Massacre? Are you referring too....?"
"The village back there." Senki quietly finished Holly's sentence. "I woke up there after the iron bird we used to escape crashed...everyone was slaughtered. I went down into the village to find my brother, he was chased down there by this boy dressed in white. The boy in white did all the killing, we were lucky to get away. Some men attacked us...maybe they thought we had something to do with it..."
"Oh, that must of been scary!" Colt whimpered.
"Senki, can you hold out your hand?" Alan demanded, it was not a request.
"Oh, ok..." Senki obeyed a little hesitantly. The group blanched as they saw the stone embedded in his hand.
"You were the twin children that the villagers were talking about?" Pixie looked surprised.
FLASH BACK
"It was a little boy whom killed everyone hear. He was laughing in the sea of blood. He escaped us and then—we saw two children whom were most likely his accomplices."
"Woah!" Hare exclaimed. "Back up! Did you say children!?"
Tiger looked around himself at the slaughtered people and the blood the covered everything. "Are you saying that little children are reasonable for this massacre? Unbelievable..."
"Yes, I know." The man sighed. "I find it hard to believe myself. The first boy was transparent, we could not see him good, but he did not seem to be by himself. We saw another boy with him. Later on we thought we saw that same boy walking towards the village, we attacked him but before we could wound him he used the power of a stone that was in his hand to throw us back. It did not harm us much, I think he was just trying to escape."
"What happened to him, chi?"
"Well, we fallowed him back to the village to see him with the boy whom was with the killer. They looked exactly alike the two of them."
"Twins?" Golem asked.
"Yeah. Identical." The man then shuddered. "The one with the killer attacked my friends and I. The only five surviving members of this whole village. He attacked with a stone as well, but it wasn't in his hand. It was in his heart. Unlike his brother he hurt us bad. Two of us died of our injuries. The two of them escaped with a wagon and two horses. We did not see what happened to the transparent boy. "
END FLASH BACK 'If...if Senki was the boy with the stone in his hand then...' Holly realized with increasing horror. 'Then Genki was the boy with the stone in his heart...the boy whom killed two men....'
She saw by the expressions on her friends faces that they too realized this. She shook her head feeling a little numb.
"No...."
"Tell us how you both got those stones." Tiger demanded but Senki did not answer. The boy seemed to be staring at something past them in fright, but when they turned to look they could not see anything.
"Senki what is it?" Holly asked gently seeing the expression of terror of the boy's face.
"He's here...." He whispered in a shaky, quite voice. "Rion..."
"Who's Rion?" Golem questioned.
Before Senki could answer the sky grew dark, and a insane laughter echoed throughout the village.
Genki smiled at Senki whom was humming a song as he skated along beside the wagon that he drove. He wished that he had his old energy back again so he could join him, but with his sickness skating for as little as five minutes would take too much energy. Genki glanced over at the horses which trudged slowly along. He had to wash some blood stains off of them this morning, before Senki noticed and freaked out. He was glad to see though that the horrific events of last night did not take as big a toll on his twin's mind as he thought it would. Senki was always so very sensitive. It was strange seeing him in the monster world, being hear with him. Senki had been the only thing he had missed about his home world, if he had been hear back then, then it would of been perfect hear. But now, now even with Senki hear he had no desire to stay in the monster world. The world that had used him.
"Hey Genki, I'm kinda hungry. Do you think we can get something to eat when we come to a village?" Senki smiled, rubbing his flat belly.
"Hm. We don't have any gold, that's money hear, we might be able to put up a good enough pity case though and get something for free."
"Or we can offer to do some work to get some money."
"I don't think we'll have time for a job." Genki turned back to the road, using his hand to shield his eyes from the afternoon sun. "We have to gather the mirror pieces."
"Hm, what will we do with them when they are all gathered?" Senki asked as he skated along.
"I don't know."
"Maybe we should find away back home instead. You do want to go back home, right?"
"Right. I don't want to stay hear."
Senki frowned at the sudden bitterness in his brother's voice. "I don't mind staying hear if you want to. As long as we're together...."
"We will be together, but not in this world. We'll find away home together as soon as we can. Don't worry." An angry look dawned Genki's expression. "I'm sure this world will get rid of us when we're not needed anymore."
"Genki...." Senki whispered, the angry expression on his twin's face made him uncomfortable. Genki must of sensed his discomfort and apologized.
"I'm sorry, I did not mean to upset you Sen-chan." "It's ok, Gen-chan." Senki smiled up at his younger twin. "Do you think the next village will be more friendlier then the last one? Those men were mean..."
"Hm." Genki shrugged. "We took care of them. Still, I hope that we do not run across another massacre."
"Me too. I'm going to have nightmares about that."
"Hm."
"Do you think we'll run into anybody you know?"
"I hope not." Genki whispered with a deep bitterness.
"Why not?"
"Never mind."
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"Ah." Colt drew back, her eyes wide as Alan, Pixie and her arrived in the village to see the blood coating everything. Holly and her friends had gotten half of the villagers buried by now. Pixie still looked the same as she did after she had combined with Big Blue. Colt had grown up rather pretty, but had a tom boyish air to her. Her hair went down to her shoulders and her bangs was pushed back by a pink hat. She wore a dusty pink skirt that went far above the knees, a long sleeved white shirt with a pink tank top over it. She wore white stockings and brown work boots along with a pair of brown work gloves. Alan had grown handsome, tall and muscular. His blue hair went straight past his shoulders, and he wore a silver loop piecing on one ear. He wore a pair of form fitting black pants, a red tunic with a yellow belt. His worms, like Colt's bird had been killed by Deyarteb's baddies. He was on a mission of revenge while Colt was on one of discovery–wanting to find out about the mirror which was written about on some old ancient scrolls that the girl found in some old ghost town and had yet to fully translate.
"Such a gruesome slaughter..." Alan breathed.
"My god, what happened hear?" Pixie questioned (Despite her combining, she refused to be called Granity)
Holly got up, dusting some dirt off of her clothing. The whole ordeal was hard on her spirits, it reminded her so much of when she had to burry the people of her own village. "A massacre."
"Was it done by Deyarteb's baddies?" "Three children." Holly told grievingly. "The survivors says that three children no older then thirteen years old were behind the killings."
"Kids!?" Colt squawked. "Kids did this!?"
"Were you hear when it happened?" Alan asked Holly, looking concerned.
"No. I am sad that we were not hear to help, but at the same time I am glad that I did not bare witness to such a slaughter."
"Holly." Alan embraced her. "It's ok if you want to cry."
Holy gave in a little to her tears but refused to cry as much as she wanted to. She had better things to do then cry. She removed herself after a few moments from Alan's gentle hold and smile at him weakly.
"Alan, can you please help us finish burring them?"
"Of course." He caressed her face, wiping away on of her tears. "Your very brave Holly."
"I have to be. We're the only ones whom can stop Deyarteb. Everyone is depending on us. It hurts me to know that we failed them." Holly mournfully glanced at all the buried and yet to be buried. "But as the heros whom defeated Moo, we will avenged their deaths."
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"Wow, they look just like the monsters from that game of yours." Senki looked around in awe as he sat in the back of the wagon peering shyly out at all the different kinds of monsters when they arrived in the village. It was the village where they had first met Hare, Genki glanced over the monster arena. He was sure his brother would get a kick of seeing a battle, it was just too bad that they had no monsters with them so they could not win any prize money. They were both staving.
"Try not to say game so loudly." Genki whispered to him. "You'll get weird looks."
"Oh...sorry."
Genki halted the horses and carefully got out of the wagon, his weak limbs made it difficult since steering the horses and driving all night long had made him very tired. The nagging hunger was not helping much either.
"We need to get something to eat." He concluded. "Hopefully we'll find someone who is feeling charitable. If not...we can sell the horses and wagon."
"Hey." Senki frowned. "Genki, you need that. Your not strong enough to walk...."
"I know. But we'll both suffer if we stay hungry."
"Your not sacrificing yourself for me. You've done that far too much for me in the past."
Genki met his brother's serous gaze. "........."
"We'll find food even if we have to steal it. I'm not going to have you leave me..."
Genki smiled and gave his twin a hug. "Don't worry. I wont leave you."
"Gen-chan...."
"Let's try and find something to eat, ok, Sen-chan?"
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Deyarteb's five Pixie baddies were in their room, that was near the top of his tower which towered over a forgotten village. They were setting in the room chatting away, but were mostly teasing the Silhouette, Lain about losing sight of the twins.
"Dammit, shut up!" Lain snarled at them. "That brat's blast really hurt, give me a break!"
"I think he already gave you one!" the mia, Mio giggled as she pointed to the bandaged around Lain's abdomen, where she had received a few broken ribs.
"F.U.C.K. Y.O.U."
"Now, now." The futurity, Norika tsked looking up from her hand computer. "There is no need for profanity Lain."
The allure Shigeko laughed, pausing in putting on a pair of ear rings she had swiped from the corpse of a woman from the last slaughter she had participated in. "You could not stop two injured little boys! How sad!"
"Well." Lain began angrily. "At least I did not get defeated by the girl and her friends because I was having too much fun molesting that blue haired jerk, unlike a certain other girl in this room."
Shigeko blushed. "But he was so handsome!"
The mint, Mayu shuffled her feet on the floor. "Lord Deyarteb is acting weird lately. I wonder why he ordered us not to kill the twins..."
"Dunno."Mio shrugged. "Don't really care. As long as we get to do a little slicing and dicing, I'm happy." "I wonder what the mirror is for?" Norika wondered. "It's suppose to be the only thing that can destroy the lord, I don't see why he wants us to gather the pieces when all we need to do is destroy one piece of it to render it harmless."
"He wants it whole." Shigeko fell back on some cushions. "It *is* rather pretty."
"I'm board." Mio whined. "I want to go out and kill something!"
"The lord did not order any slaughters."
"It's been three days!!" The mia whimpered. "My hands ache with blood lust! The lord is such a meanie to deny me my fun!!"
"I like the quite days." Mayu whispered. "I hate the smell of blood."
"Are you joking!?" Mio gave her a shocked look. "The smell of blood is the best! They should make a perfume that smelt like it! I'd swipe that in a heart beat!"
"Oh, here we go again." Norika sighed. "Mio's psychopathic rant of the day."
The young cute girl began to bounce around the room excitedly as she spoke. "The smell of blood is what makes a battle field what it is. Death without blood is like a Sunday without a cherry, or a lemon pie without the meringue!"
"Someone has got to get me some pretty ear plugs for when she goes into these rants." Shigeko covered her ears annoyed.
"The smell of blood is needed! A necessity! A kill would not be a kill without it! A death would not be a death! To spill blood is to spill the essence of a person's life! To see that crimson liquid slowly spill out of their cooling bodies that is one of the greatest pleasures in killing...no! One of the greatest pleasures in life!"
"Blah, blah, blah. Can someone shut her up?" Lain asked exasperatingly.
"Stopping Mio in the middle of one of her rants is a death wish." Mayu sighed.
"So, as I'm saying, if a person does not bleed when they die then...the death is meaningless. There is no pleasure to be found in it....and furthermore...."
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"Lord Deyarteb." An Angel whispered as she listened to the group of Pixie's talk. "Why do you keep those useless girls around, anyway?"
Deyarteb chuckled. "Their good dupes for the time being." "But what good are they? All they can do is kill people and you already have a plan for that, my lord."
"You'll see in dew time, my dear Tailm."
"I'm sure I will, my lord." The angel laughed as she gleefully hugged him. "Tell me, why did you let the twins go?"
"I need them in the outside world. Don't worry. It'll be an easy task to get them back. They are playing right into the palm of my hand."
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Senki took a worried glance at his brother as he stumbled for the tenth time. He looked ready to pass out at any moment. No one helped them. Some people gave them weird looks, some people walked away from them, but not one looked to give them a helping hand.
"Genki, hang on. I'm sure someone will give us something to eat..."
His brother laughed bitterly. "I doubt it...cruel people....for a cruel world...."
"Gen-chan...." Senki whispered but got no response. His eyes widened worriedly. "Gen-chan! Gen-chan!"
He shook his brother trying to wake him up as the younger twin fell onto his knees in a faint. Panicked he drug him back to the wagon and laid him in the hay gently. "Don't worry, I'll be right back with some food for us!"
Genki did not answer and worriedly Senki scurried off, trying to find something. He'd steal the food if he had to.
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"Ah, doesn't this place bring back memories." Hare smiled as they arrived in the village where he had first met the group, trying to lighten the mood from that mornings burial.
"This is where your swindled us." Tiger recalled.
"Aw, come on, I changed since then!"
"Yeah right. Your still a money grubbing fur ball."
"Well your still a—"
"Enough!" Holly scowled. "I'm not in the mood for this." "That's right!" Colt piped up. "We've had a hard morning!"
"Sorry..." Hare apologized while Tiger just grunted.
"These villagers seem upset." Pixie observed.
"What's wrong chi?"
"I don't know." Alan frowned. "We did see wagon tracks on the way hear. Do you think....?"
Suzo shuddered. "I don't even want to think about running into the demented kids who did that."
"It hard to believe that children did such a thing." Golem spoke up.
"Well according to those villagers, children did do such a thing, and all the graves in the village is proof of it."
Holly shivered as Alan spoke, at the memory of all the blood and death. No one had been spared not even the children. Her eyes widened as she felt the magic stone grow hot against her skin.
"Holly what's wrong?" Alan asked as he caught the look on her face.
"The stone..." She pulled it out. "It's glowing."
"Could it be reacting to a mirror piece?" Pixie asked, but Holly shook her head.
"No. I do sense there is a mirror piece hear but...there is something different about the energy from the stone. I don't think it glowing because of the mirror. It's a negative glow...responding to a negative energy."
"Oh!" Colt shivered. "Scary!"
"It's getting stronger with each step we take into the village...."
"Then let's fallow it source." Alan lead them deeper into the village, the glow of the magic stone got brighter with each step. They stepped through a narrow ally into the plaza where lots of merchants were selling food and other goods.
"It somewhere close to hear." Holly whispered. "Down a little more to the north."
The group began to fallow her when Mocchi halted in his steps as he spotted a figure out of the corner of his eye. He stopped in his steps and turned to look at the figure, his eyes widening in shock. "Chi!!"
The group turned towards the little monster at it's startled cry. "What is it Mocchi?" Golem asked.
"Chi! It's...!"
The group turned towards where Mocchi was pointing, all having different reactions. Pixie's eyes widened.
"What is he doing hear?"
"Is it really him?" Colt asked, looking confused.
"Could it be...?" Alan began with uncertainty.
"How can he be hear?" Golem wondered.
"Unbelievable!" Hare exclaimed.
"Woah, of all things I was expecting this was at the bottom of my list." Suzo gaped.
"I thought that he..." Tiger trailed off. "He's alive...he's really alive..."
Holly did not know what to think, she just stared ahead of herself feeling tears well up in her eyes as a smile spread across her face. "Genki...your hear, your really hear..."
They watched in shocked silence as whom they thought was Genki strolled around a merchants stand causally. It was however Senki, but they didn't know that. They watched as their 'friend' paused in front of a stand selling fruit, and stood there waiting. As the merchant turned to help a woman they saw him snatch something quickly from the stand and stash it away in his pocket, they watched as he wondered over to at least two other stands and repeated the process.
"I see that 'someone' must of thought him some bad habits last time he was hear." Tiger glanced over in Hare's direction.
"Hey, don't point the finger at me!" Hare defended. "*You* were the thief Tiger!"
"I did not teach Genki to steal!"
"Well I didn't!"
"Yeah right you didn't...!"
"Guys!" Holly hushed hem.
"You!"
A merchant's scream quieted them quicker then Holly's request. They turned back to their friend to see that the one whom they thought was Genki had been caught and was backing away from the merchant's stand nervously.
"Drop it you little scoundrel!" The merchant, a middle aged man with a belly the displayed an extreme delight for fried chicken and beer jumped towards him brandishing a knife threateningly.
Senki gasped frightened. "Stay away!"
Holly and the other gasped as Senki held his hand up in front of his face as though to protect himself, there was a white blast of light the threw the man back into his stand. Senki stared at the man confused not aware that he had attacked. He hadn't meant to... All the villagers were staring at him fearfully and he gulped.
"Um...oops? Involuntary action....sorry?"
Some villagers began to stalk towards him threateningly. Senki blanched and bowed his head mannerly.
"Um, sorry, gotta go!"
Holly and the others watched as whom they thought had been Genki dashed off away from the angry villagers.
"What was that?' Tiger wondered aloud.
"That power was...amazing." Pixie whispered.
'Genki...?' Holly looked confused.' How did he do that? What was he doing hear?' "Come on." She turned to her friends. "Let's go after him!"
"Right!"
**************************************************************************** ** Senki dashed into an ally, out of breath. He had to find a way back to the wagon and his brother before the villagers got him. Man, as if they couldn't understand two starving children needing food. He leaned against the dark wall of the ally trying to hide himself from the view of passing villagers. He waited till he thought they were gone and began to come out of the ally to go over to his brother when he heard Hare's laughing voice behind him.
"Hey kid, the first rule of stealing is not to get caught!"
"AH!" Senki leapt startled and twisted around to see two human girls, a rabbit like monster, a wolf like monster, a pink monster with a duck bill, a giant made of stone, a woman with wings, a human man, and a eye ball. He stared at them not knowing whom or what they are (remember Senki is not use to monsters quite yet)
"Your really hear." Holly stepped towards him with a gentle smile.
"What happened back there?" Tiger asked, referring to the attack they saw him do on the merchant.
"Chi!" Mocchi rushed forward happily. "Mocchi glad your back chi!"
Senki blinked looking confused. "Ah...who are you?"
Holly and the others exchanged shocked looks.
"What? Are you saying you don't remember us!?" Hare exclaimed in disbelief.
"Wow, don't you have a great memory span." Suzo glared at him insulted.
"Are you trying to say that you forgot about us?" Pixie frowned at him.
"I never met you before...." Senki stared back at them a little nervously. "Who are you guys?"
"Are you serious?" Tiger growled a little, making the poor confused boy scared. "You don't really expect us to believe that you forgot us? Stop playing around."
"I really don't know...wait." Senki paused for a moment thoughtfully as his eyes grew wide in realization. "Oh, you must got me mixed up with my brother...."
"Your brother?" Alan repeated surprised. Mocchi whimpered.
"Your not Genki, chi?"
"No, I'm Senki."
"Senki." Holly repeated not being able to hide the disappointment on her face. "Oh...so your not him..."
"Oh don't worry." Senki caught their sad looks. "Genki is here. I was trying to get back to him before those villagers found him and mistook him for me."
Holly and the others became cheerful again.
"Genki's alive chi!?"
"Yeah." Senki looked confused. "You thought he was dead?" "He fell off of a dragon in the final battle." Pixie exclaimed. "We thought he was crushed."
"He must of fell back into his own world." Tiger realized.
"How is he doing?" Suzo asked, Senki paused for a moment, Genki probably would not like him talking about his illness, so he lied. "He's fine. Can you tell me who you are?"
"I'm Holly."
"Suzo."
"Mocchi, chi!"
"Tiger."
"Hare."
"Golem."
"Pixie."
"Alan."
"I'm Colt!" The energetic girl cuddled up to him with a wink. "Your cute!"
"Ah, thanks..." He blushed, before looking over at Tiger and the others. "Genki told me you died..."
"Is that what the kid thought?" Hare frowned.
"We were revived after the final battle." Tiger explained.
"Oh."
"So, where is Genki anyway?" Alan asked glancing around himself.
"Did he leave you wondering around town by yourself?" Colt wondered.
"Oh no. He's back at the wagon, he's not feeling too well...."
'A wagon.' Holly thought with an uneasiness, but shoved the thought from her mind. There was no way that it was them. Sure they were around thirteen and were twins...but...it couldn't be. She knew beyond doubt that Genki would never commit such atrocities.
"Senki can you take us to him?"
"Um...sure."
Senki lead the group towards the wagon, seeing Senki with the heros whom defeated Moo made them halt in their assault. Holly stared down at the magic stone in confusion, it was glowing red hot. The negative energy was getting stronger.
"Oh my goodness!" Senki suddenly cried out, running over to the wagon. "He's not hear!"
"What?" The monster ran over to the wagon alarmed.
"Genki's not here..."
"Maybe he wandered off looking for you?" Hare suggested but Senki shook his head.
"No, he's not strong enough to go wandering around..."
"Huh?" Holly blinked as the magic stone began to glow differently indicating a piece of the mirror near by.
"A piece of the mirror?" Alan asked seeing her look down at the stone. She nodded.
"It's really close..."
"Mirror?" Senki overheard them. "Are you looking for this?"
They watched as he rummaged around the hay, pulling out the piece of mirror he had on the gold backing. The group gasped surprised.
"Wow! You have a piece of the mirror and it's power plate!" Colt exclaimed. "How did you get it?"
"Deyarteb had the power plate..." Pixie began.
"Genki and I swiped it when we escaped from him." Senki explained but seemed distracted as he looked around himself, looking lost. "Where'd Genki go...? I'm going to go and find him..."
"Hold on." Tiger started, rather harshly. "The hay in your wagon...it has the scent of blood lingering on it..."
"Not surprising..." Senki whispered softly, shuddering. "With that massacre..."
"Massacre? Are you referring too....?"
"The village back there." Senki quietly finished Holly's sentence. "I woke up there after the iron bird we used to escape crashed...everyone was slaughtered. I went down into the village to find my brother, he was chased down there by this boy dressed in white. The boy in white did all the killing, we were lucky to get away. Some men attacked us...maybe they thought we had something to do with it..."
"Oh, that must of been scary!" Colt whimpered.
"Senki, can you hold out your hand?" Alan demanded, it was not a request.
"Oh, ok..." Senki obeyed a little hesitantly. The group blanched as they saw the stone embedded in his hand.
"You were the twin children that the villagers were talking about?" Pixie looked surprised.
FLASH BACK
"It was a little boy whom killed everyone hear. He was laughing in the sea of blood. He escaped us and then—we saw two children whom were most likely his accomplices."
"Woah!" Hare exclaimed. "Back up! Did you say children!?"
Tiger looked around himself at the slaughtered people and the blood the covered everything. "Are you saying that little children are reasonable for this massacre? Unbelievable..."
"Yes, I know." The man sighed. "I find it hard to believe myself. The first boy was transparent, we could not see him good, but he did not seem to be by himself. We saw another boy with him. Later on we thought we saw that same boy walking towards the village, we attacked him but before we could wound him he used the power of a stone that was in his hand to throw us back. It did not harm us much, I think he was just trying to escape."
"What happened to him, chi?"
"Well, we fallowed him back to the village to see him with the boy whom was with the killer. They looked exactly alike the two of them."
"Twins?" Golem asked.
"Yeah. Identical." The man then shuddered. "The one with the killer attacked my friends and I. The only five surviving members of this whole village. He attacked with a stone as well, but it wasn't in his hand. It was in his heart. Unlike his brother he hurt us bad. Two of us died of our injuries. The two of them escaped with a wagon and two horses. We did not see what happened to the transparent boy. "
END FLASH BACK 'If...if Senki was the boy with the stone in his hand then...' Holly realized with increasing horror. 'Then Genki was the boy with the stone in his heart...the boy whom killed two men....'
She saw by the expressions on her friends faces that they too realized this. She shook her head feeling a little numb.
"No...."
"Tell us how you both got those stones." Tiger demanded but Senki did not answer. The boy seemed to be staring at something past them in fright, but when they turned to look they could not see anything.
"Senki what is it?" Holly asked gently seeing the expression of terror of the boy's face.
"He's here...." He whispered in a shaky, quite voice. "Rion..."
"Who's Rion?" Golem questioned.
Before Senki could answer the sky grew dark, and a insane laughter echoed throughout the village.