"Sit down!" the Merovingian sternly and angrily said as he pointed to the dining room chairs. The Twins slowly walked up to the chairs, Two crawling up into his.
"Well?" the Mero looked at One.
"I'd rather stand if you don't mind." One mumbled softly, looking down at the floor.
"Very well." The Mero sighed.
The room went silent with everyone looking at each other. Persephone quietly sat down at the table and waited to see what was going to happen next. One softly walked over to Perse, where she picked him up and placed him on her lap. She gently brushed his dreadlocks back and kissed his cheek. While waiting for the Mero to say something, Perse started to tickle One. The little twin giggled and playfully pushed her hand away from him. The Mero sighed and looked at Perse with a daring look.
"Please." He said to Perse, sighing again and looking at Two. "I want both of you to know that I have just about had enough of everything that has been going on around here."
Two and One lowered their heads.
"No more exploding cakes, no more writing on zee walls, no more tearing up everything! Got it?"
Two slumped down in his chair and nodded. The Mero shifted his gaze to One, who nodded as well.
"As punishment, I'm going to, again, take your ghosting ability away."
The Twins started to whine and protest, but a stern look from the Mero made them stay quiet.
"You made us to tear up stuff." Two sniffed back a tear. "Why do you keep getting after us?"
"I don't mind you tearing up stuff. I love it when you destroy, but there comes a time when you've got to learn to control your tearing up instincts! And that means no tearing up my chateau. It's a wonder that this place is still all in one piece after the last few days."
The Mero got up from the chair he had been sitting in and started toward the door.
"And furthermore, I want the both of you to stay out of zee attic and away from Vlad before he ends up mopping the floor with you. He's not the person young children like yourselves should be messing with. He's dangerous."
"But," both Twins began together.
"No buts! You know what Vlad just gave you?" the Mero looked at One. One nodded silently and slowly, remembering his sore backside. "Well if I catch either one of you with Vlad again, I'll be the one doing that to you!"
Both twins swallowed and cowered. The Mero shook his head before walking out of the room and slamming the door, leaving Perse alone with the Twins. Two slowly turned his head to look at Perse and One seated across from him.
"Well, I've got some work I need to do, sweetie." Said Perse, lifting One off of her knee where he had been sitting. She placed him on the floor and kissed him before walking toward the door.
"You two be good boys now. You hear?"
The Twins smiled.
Once Perse had left the room, Two jumped down from his chair and walked over to One.
"You ok?" he asked.
"What do you mean?"
"What Vlad did."
One made a pouting face and placed his hands behind him.
"Doesn't hurt much now." He finally answered. "Stupid Vlad."
"Phase." Said Two.
"I can't! You heard what Daddy said. He took our phasing ability away."
Two looked around the room then back at One.
"So what do we do now?"
One got a wicked look on his face, then punched Two in the arm.
"I noticed earlier that Mummy left her special guns on her night table. Wanna go check 'em out?"
"Just so long as we don't get into trouble over it." Two hesitated.
"Why should we get in trouble? Daddy gave us our own guns so why should looking at Mummy's guns get us in trouble?"
"I dunno,"
"Aw, c'mon." One grabbed Two's arm and pulled him along to their parents' bedroom where they slowly and carefully made their way over to the night table beside the bed. One grabbed onto the rich looking silk bedspread, climbed up on top of the bed, crawled over, and picked up one of the revolvers.
"Catch!" he shouted before tossing it down to Two. He reached over and grabbed another one before jumping down onto the floor again.
"Mummy only keeps one in her purse." One said. Two looked his gun over several times before holding it up and aiming it.
"You think they have bullets in them?"
"Dunno. Want to try them?" One smiled and aimed his gun at a framed painting on the wall. He pulled the trigger and fired it. The bullet made the painting fly off of the wall, sending splinters in all directions.
"Whoa! Cool!" Two giggled and grinned, looking at the smoking bullet hole where the picture used to be.
"Hey, what goes on in here?"
The Twins spun around and looked toward the door where the voice had come from. At first they thought they were dead from being caught with the guns, but they were both relieved to find that it was only Cain.
"What do you two have?" He asked, coming into the room and walking closer to the Twins. Abel stopped in the doorway. Cain looked up at the wall and back at the Twins. Two and One quickly placed the guns behind their backs and backed up against the bed. "Let me see." Cain grabbed onto One's gun and forced it out of the child's hand.
Abel jumped and backed up out into the hall. Cain could only stand and stare. The brothers knew what kind of gun it was. They had seen Perse use it on other werewolves before.
"I want my gun back!" One sniveled, reaching his small arms up to Cain. Cain gently pushed the child back and held the gun farther out of his reach.
"I don't think you should have this. This thing is dangerous, especially to me and my brother."
"I still want it! Give it to me!" One shouted in frustration, then gave Cain a swift kick in the shins, which sent the werewolf yelping in pain. Forgetting the gun, Cain grabbed his throbbing leg. One snatched up his gun and ran toward the door, Two close behind him.
"You little runts!" Cain gasped in pain while making his way over to the door to catch the Twins. "Give me back that gun!"
Trapped by Abel and Cain, the Twins stopped and looked at both men that stood on either side of them.
"Give me the gun. Pretty please? Give your old Uncle Abel the gun." Abel held his hand out to One.
"Don't entice them, Abel!" Cain motioned with his hand for Abel to shut up. "Besides we aren't their uncles!"
The Twins suddenly pointed their guns at Abel. The werewolf nervously backed up and then took off running down the hall, screaming as he went. Amused by Abel's reaction, they turned toward Cain and pointed their guns at him too.
"N-now wait a minute." Cain's legs started to buckle under him. "M-maybe we can talk this over."
"Bang, bang!" both Twins said together before taking off giggling down the hall after Abel.
The Merovingian looked up from the papers he was busy with and wondered what all the commotion was about down the hall. People screamed and trampled about like a herd of wild buffalo. Cringing at the thought of what might be going on 'this time'; he threw his pen down and got up. Looking out into the hall, he was met with Cain and Abel rushing by him at speeds not normal for anyone. When they saw the Mero they quickly darted into his office.
"Close the door!" Cain stuttered in fear while trying to pry the Mero's hands away from the door. The Mero stared at the man then let go of the door.
"What's the matter with you two?" He finally got up the nerve to ask.
"It's those Twins!" Abel gasped.
"What about them?"
"They somehow got hold of guns." Cain stuttered.
"So? That's not unusual. They have guns of their own. I gave them to them."
"No, no you don't understand." Abel's face was pale.
Before the two guys could continue, the door burst open and in walked the Twins, both of them holding the revolvers. Cain and Abel nearly jumped out of their skins as they scrambled to hide behind what little furniture was in the Mero's office.
"Take those guns away from them!" Abel shouted, peeking out from behind the settee.
The Mero looked at the Twins, who were trying to hide the guns behind their backs so the Mero couldn't see them. At that moment, Persephone came running up behind the two little albino twins and stopped in the doorway.
"Persephone, what's going on here?" The Mero looked at his wife.
"The Twins found my special revolvers."
The Mero's eyebrows perked a little then he glanced at the Twins.
"Your special revolvers?" The Mero repeated slowly. Perse walked by the Twins and up to the Mero.
"Yes, the ones that have," Before Perse could finish, a deafening shot was heard. Both Perse and Mero jumped and jerked their heads toward the Twins. One was smiling and had his gun aimed. Perse and Mero turned to where he had fired and saw Cain standing as still as he could, his shades half hanging from his face, and his eyes bugging. Above his head, not more than a few inches away, was a smoking bullet hole. Persephone, seeing what had almost happened, fainted into the Mero's arms. The Mero eased his passed out wife to the floor then jumped back up.
"I demand to know what is going on!" He roared. "Give me that gun!" He shouted before snatching the gun from One's hands.
"Master! Those guns have silver bullets in them!" Abel gasped.
"Yes I know. Perse put them in there herself." The Mero looked at the gun then at the Twins.
"Do you have any idea of what they can do to us?" Cain stuttered, after getting his sense back.
"Yes."
"Then take those guns away from those kids! They've been chasing us around the chateau with them!"
"Bang, bang!" shouted Two, pointing his gun at Cain. The poor man screamed and dove behind the desk. Two giggled with delight at Cain's reaction. The Mero glared at Two in an evil way, making the poor little twin cower and hand his revolver over. The Mero angrily snatched it out of his hand.
"Someone give her some air!" Abel said, crawling on hands and knees from behind the settee to Persephone's side. The Mero turned from the Twins and knelt beside his wife, fanning her face with a piece of paper he had picked up from a nearby table. Soon Persephone started coming to.
"Wha-what happened?" She asked in a low voice, the Mero helping her up.
"You fainted, my dear." The Mero replied, while he made sure Perse could stand on her own before letting go. By this time, the commotion had attracted a crowd of butlers, servants, and maids outside in the hall. The Mero walked over to the study room door and closed it.
"Now." The Mero said, turning back to everyone in the room. "I want to know what in the Matrix is going on here, as if I didn't already know."
Two started to inch away from where he was standing, but the Mero firmly grabbed onto his arm and pulled him back.
"Well we were walking down the hall, past your bedroom, and we heard a gunshot. So we stopped to check it out. When we came into the room the Twins had Mistress' guns. After that they started to chase us with them." Abel finally got out.
"Is that true?" The Mero growled at Two.
Two, getting ready to cry, nodded his head.
"Get out of here! Everyone! Go!" The Mero shouted hysterically. "Leave me alone!"
Cain and Abel hurried toward the door and scrambled out of the room before the Mero really lost his temper.
"I have had all I can stand for one day!" The Mero grumbled aloud.
In a fit of frustration, the Mero turned and slapped Two firmly on his backside once before letting go of him. The little twin quickly ran out of the study and disappeared down the hall. The Merovingian grabbed hold of One and did the same to him, before the twin ran out and joined his brother.
"Don't say anything!" The Mero said to Persephone before she could open her mouth.
