Persephone had returned and the Twins jumped up and down in front of her trying to get a hug. She picked up one at a time, kissed and hugged him. The Merovingian stood to the side and watched.

"Have you two been good?" she said.

The Twins turned to look at the Mero.

"If you count them drawing on the walls, calling the plumbers while playing with the phone, and nearly getting themselves killed by Vlad being good. Yeah I guess you could say they've been." The Mero answered for the Twins.

Perse looked up.

"Vlad? How did they run into him?" she was concerned.

"It's a long story of which I'll tell you later."

Perse turned back to the Twins.

"Look what I have for you." she said while pulling two things from one of the bags she held. She gave one to each child.

"What is it?" One asked.

"It's called a Furby." Perse replied. "Here try it. I've already put batteries in them." Perse took the toy and turned it upside down to wake it up. The small owl looking thing made a noise and opened its eyes then started speaking in another language. One jumped back in fright.

"That thing's alive!" He said while looking over Two's shoulder. Two only stared.

"No it's not. It's just a toy." Perse giggled at One's reaction. "See, you can pet it." Perse ran her hand down the toy's back and it made a purring noise.

The Mero only rolled his eyes. He could have created something that was better than that crazy looking thing. In fact he already had made something better, the Twins. Perse set the Furby on the floor and started to fiddle with it to get the Twins interested. She jarred it, rubbed it, pressed its stomach, and turned it upside down, making it purr, laugh, and make all kinds of strange noises. Two woke his Furby up and got in on the fun. One only stood and stared at the two chattering creatures.

"They're creepy." One softly said while continuing to stare.

For once the Merovingian had to agree with One. They were creepy to him too. He shuddered while watching Perse play with them with Two.

"Now you take them and run along." Perse picked up the Furbies and handed them to the Twins. Both Twins ran off down the hall, the laughing and giggling Furbies could still be heard as they went.

"Why on earth did you get such creepy toys for those two?" The Mero shook his head as Perse approached him.

"They aren't creepy. They're cute." She smiled.

"Cute?! Bah! Such annoying voices too." the Mero continued to grumble.

"Does this mean the Twins can't keep them?"

"They can keep them just so long as they keep them away from me!" The Merovingian stomped away.

A little while later found the Merovingian walking into The Great Hall where two huge staircases came down on both sides of the room. He stopped in front of one of the flights of stairs and rattled the newspaper he held in his hands.

"I can go down faster than you!"

"Uh uh!"

The Mero looked up from his reading and listened. No other sounds. He shrugged and went on reading.

"Look out below!" a voice shouted. The Mero turned and saw one of the twins sliding down the banister towards him. Before he could get away, the twin slammed into him, knocking him to the floor with the twin on top of him.

"Don't you kids ever quit??" The Mero fought to get up. "Go pester Cain and Abel for once!" Mero grabbed the twin on him and set him on the floor before getting up. The Mero brushed off his robe and glanced around the huge room.

"Where's the other one?"

"One's coming down the other banister." Two pointed toward the other flight of stairs. The Mero's eyes widened as he saw a streak of silver come sliding down the banister. Not realizing what he was doing, he ran and caught the twin before he hit the hard floor or slammed into the huge statue at the base of the stairs.

"Let's do that again!" One giggled in the Mero's hands. Just then Perse happened to be walking through the room.

"That's sweet, honey. Nice to see you playing with the Twins for once." She said before disappearing out the door again. The Mero grumbled under his breath and looked down at the twin he held.

"Where are those things Perse gave you? Why aren't you playing with them?"

"We are playing with 'em. Look." One pointed at the stairs where two wobbling balls of fluff were hopping down, one stair at a time.

"We modified them and now they can walk!" Two giggled.

The Mero's eyes widened more at the sight of the Furbies actually walking. Not only did the Twins have a fascination for guns and sharp objects, but the Mero also found out that they had a passion for fiddling with things, especially electronics, and making anything into a destructive weapon. Once the Mero had turned on the DVD player and it had blown up. Turns out that the Twins had played with it, changing it into an explosive device, which was triggered to go off when the power button was pressed.

"What else did you do to those things?" He said while he eyed the horrid fluff balls slowly coming toward him.

"We made them to walk." One said.

"I know, but what else did you do to them?"

"Nothing." Two replied.

"Are you sure?"

The Twins only looked at the Mero. Merovingian finally placed One down and continued to stare at the Furbies. When they reached the bottom of the stairs, they started toward him. He backed up a little. One of the Furbies, a black and white one, came at him and bumped into his foot.

"Dah doo-ay wah!" the creature said as it stopped in front of the Mero. He looked down at it then reached to pick it up. After grabbing hold of the soft object, the Mero yelped in pain and dropped the Furby.

"That thing shocked me!" He exclaimed while shaking the tingling from his hands.

"Oops! Forgot to tell you about that." both Twins snickered.

The Merovingian grumbled while trying to contain his flaring temper that wanted to show. The other Furby, whose color was green and yellow, sat a few feet away and laughed and giggled, its ears moving up and down.

"Merovingian so funny!" it said aloud. The Mero jumped back.

"That thing said my name." He stuttered in shock.

"Yeah, we reprogrammed them too." both Twins said together.

"Mero, Mero, Mero." The Furby said over and over while laughing. The Mero turned pale.

"Mero, Mero, Mero, Mero." The Furby continued to taunt and laugh.

Getting tired of hearing the toy's annoying laughter, the Merovingian walked over and slapped the toy in the face, causing it to fall backwards.

"You shouldn't have done that." Two softly said.

"Why?" The Mero turned to the Twins. They pointed to the toy.

The Furby got up on its own and started growling and snarling.

"Me no like Mero now." It said through its growling. The Mero stepped back, turned and ran out of the room before the creature had a chance to do anything.

"Daddy's going to play hide and seek!" Two shouted while getting up from the floor. "C'mon!"

As the Twins ran off in the direction the Mero had gone, the two Furbies followed behind them.

"Shut the door!" the Mero shouted at Perse coming in. She quickly slammed the door shut behind her.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Lock it! Lock it good!" he said. Perse did as he wished.

"What's going on?"

"Those Twins and those horrid toys you bought for them are what's going on."

"Those harmless toys still bothering you?" she sighed.

"Harmless toys? They aren't harmless anymore. Do you know what those Twins have done to them? They've turned them into walking monsters that know how to say my name! Goodness knows what else they've reprogrammed them to do."

"The Furbies are theirs so they have a right to do whatever they want with them." Perse seated herself on the sofa across from the Mero.

"Yeah, but before I know it those little furry beasts will be throwing razor blades at me or something."

Perse shook her head as if she didn't believe her husband.

"I'm telling you the truth! When I picked one of them up, it shocked me. Then after I hit one of them it got back up and started growling at me."

Before Perse had a chance to speak, a slight knock was heard at the door. She gave the Mero a glance and walked over to open the door. In walked the Twins, carrying the Furbies in their hands. The Merovingian jumped up from his chair and started backing up and away from the two.

"Keep them away!" he stuttered, nearly tripping over an ottoman.

"These things aren't going to hurt you." Perse laughed while taking one of the Furbies from the Twins' hands. She ran her hand down its back and it made a purring sound.

"See? It's harmless."

She handed the Furby back to the twin who had been holding it.

"Now you two go play and leave Mero alone. Ok?" Perse said while running her hand down the twin's dreadlocks.

The Twins nodded and smiled before walking out of the room. The Merovingian sighed and relaxed once the Furbies and the Twins were out of sight.