Light and Dark--Yun and Yang--Ch.2

"Mmh, what time is it?" Yun yawned as he sat up and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. He then looked over to his left, and saw that Yang was gone. "Yang, where are you?" There was no answer. "Bro? C'mon, it's too early for this!" Still no answer. So, Yun forced himself to get up.

Yun knew that he was walking around in just his boxers, but he didn't really care right now. He just wanted to find his older brother. Moments later, he heard laughter from behind. He turned and saw Remy, Ken, Alex, Ryu, and Yang. "Not quite fully awake, are you?" Yang said in between laughing. Yun forced a smile and said, "Apparently not."

"I was not expecting this!" Alex said when he'd finally stopped laughing. Pretty much all of them were wiping tears from their eyes because they'd laughed so much.

"Get dressed bro," Yang laughed and put an arm around Yun's neck. "Ok." "Wait," said Alex. "Since when did you have that white dragon tattoo?" He ran his hand down Yun's back. "I've hand it for as long as I can remember," was Yun's reply. "Really?" "Yah. Pretty strange, huh?" "Yah, I'll say." "I have one too, only it's black," said Yang. "And the both Yun and I have yin-yang tattoos on the back of our necks." "Odd." "Yep."

"I smell a mystery," Ryu finally said. "Me too," agreed Ken. "I have a feeling that Yang and I were once one person, but somehow became two," Yun said. "Ok. But, how's that possible?" "Actually, I'm starting to remember something," started Yun. "I think we really were one person…I was the original. I know that I was the original because I had strange dreams about someone else inside me. That other person was, obviously, Yang. So, the next morning, I told Gen first thing about my odd dream that I'd had last night. Gen said that he'd transferred another person's soul into my body. So, yah, I had two souls in me: Mine and Yang's. I asked him why, and he replied that Yang was my long-lost older brother. At the time, I didn't even know that I had any siblings, but I still believed Gen when he told me. He then explained that Yang had gotten in a fight and had been so badly injured that his soul was forced from his own body and thus it began to wander. Luckily, Gen had captured the wanderer and he'd been able to transfer Yang's soul into me. That explains why I had the strange dream."

Alex, Ken, Ryu, and Remy just sat there, staring first at the twins, then at each other. There was utter silence throughout the entire room as everyone stared at each other.

Finally breaking the longheld silence, Ken said, "Wow. Simply amazing. Say, who here has any idea where Yang's original body is?" "What is this, CSI?" asked Remy, raising an eyebrow. "In a way, yes," replied Ken. "We go and find Yang's original body right now. I kinda feel sorry for him." "How long ago was it that you had that dream, Yun?" asked Ryu. "Oh, about three years ago, maybe more." "Ok…No CSI gone Street Fighter 3 then. The body's probably completely decomposed and gone," sighed Ken.

"If Yang's Yun's older brother, yet they shared one body, how is that possible that the new coming soul is older than the inhabiting soul?" Remy wondered. "Simple: When he was in his own body, Yang was already older. So, that's how it's possible," explained Alex. "Oh, ok," Remy said. "Then it's no wonder that they look so alike. Another thing I'm wondering: Why are Yun and Yang called The Twin Dragons, if none of their powers are dragon-related?" "Could it be the identical tattoos that they have on their backs?" suggested Ryu. "Since when has someone been famous for a tattoo that they have?" asked Remy. "You have a point, Frenchy," agreed Ryu.

"Call me crazy or over-imaginative or whatever, but what if both of them had past lives, and in those past lives, they were the dragons of Light and Dark?" offered Alex. "How is THAT possible? How could everyone else but Yun and Yang themselves know? It just doesn't make sense, and yes, I will call you over-imaginative and odd," said Remy. "Actually, I was thinking that we should pay a little visit to Gen," said Ryu. "You got it!" agreed Ken. So, the group left for Hong Kong, China.

Hours later, at Gen's…

"Gen, Yun and I wanted to ask you something," Yang started. "What is it?" Gen asked. "Did, by any sort of chance, Yun and I have past lives, in which we both were dragons of Light and Dark? I know that that must sound strange, but I was just thinking that it might be possible. Could you please tell us?" Yang explained. "Mmm…So, you finally begin to wonder. All these years, I've waited for you two to start wondering about that," Gen sighed. "So then it's true? Yun and I really WERE the dragons of Light and Dark in our past lives?"

"Yes. It's true. You two were what constantly divided people. You two were the forces that corrupted the hearts of man and beast and started every war in history. Basically, you and Yun were total enemies who absolutely hated one another." Gen looked down at the wood floor.

"So, explain then how I got this body," said Yun. "You were born a human when the last war in history stopped. And the same goes for Yang. Yet, before transfer, both your memories were erased, so you wouldn't remember anything of your past lives as dragon gods. This was done on purpose. So, both of your memories which you believe to be real are just replacement ones." At this, Yun's eyes filled with tears, as did Yang's. "Wh-why?" the older of the two brothers asked, his hands curling into fists. "It was for the sake of peace. It was in hopes of there being no more wars and no more hatred among people who deserve to live peacefully together. That is why," was Gen's reply.

"Our own grandfather brainwashed us, Yun. Can you believe that! Honestly, I have to ask myself: What is the world coming to these days? For God's sake, grandfathers' are brainwashing their own grandsons!" Yang was pissed. "I know, seriously!" Yun agreed.

"I feel odd, on another subject." Gen's eyes narrowed. This was it. The moment of the reawakening of the dragon gods had begun.