Chapter 24: The Elite Explain it All

Princess Sango

It was late when Kyo-san, Tohru, and Yuki came home and saw the kids sprawled out on the kitchen table, haven fallen asleep after the day's transformation. Kyo-san stopped though noticing the kid's new look, "Are you sure these are our kids Tohru?"

Tohru looked slightly uncomfortable, "What do you mean?"

"They look different, their hair color is white and black," Kyo-san answered back, still skeptical.

Hope opened her eyes and looked at her father and smiled, "Hi dad, I know you don't think it's me, but well, I'm an Elite."

"An Elite is what exactly?" Kyo asked, looking at Hope and cocked his head in confusion.

Hope smiled at him and stood up, stretching her wings slightly, "Despair should wake up soon."

"Despair?" Kyo-san asked, looking at Hope again.

Tohru walked up to Hope, "Are you okay Hope, you guys didn't try, did you?"

Hope looked at Tohru and shook her head, "I could never do that, you know we aren't allowed to until that day…"

Tohru nodded, hugging her daughter close, "It's glad to know that you're not going to try yet."

Hope nodded, a slight glaze of tears going over her white eyes, but blinked them away, "I know mom, I know."

Despair woke up then, looking up and saw Tohru and Kyo-san looking at Hope. Despair stood up and stretched his wings while looking at everyone else, "Hi mom, dad."

Tohru let go of Hope and hugged Despair, and when she let go, "I think it's time we explained this to your father."

Despair looked up at his father and nodded, "I think it is time. Dad have you ever heard of the Elite Zodiac?"

"No."

"Why don't we sit down and discuss this?" Hope asked pointing to the table, and sitting back down where she was sitting previously.

Kyo-san and Tohru both sat down and Tohru was actually the one to begin, "Kyo, our kids have a destiny, that I think is beneficial to everyone except them and us."

Hope took control, "I'm called Hope because if I win, the curse is broken, but Hope has never won. Despair, has always won, and that keeps the curse. You see, we both know the secret to break the curse but only Hope can in the end. Mom was worried about us because later on we're supposed to battle it out, battle out destiny. Mom is Destiny, and she has to watch the whole thing."

Tohru sighed, "Can you give me a second?"

Hope looked up at her mother, "Go ahead mom, I understand."

Tohru stood up and walked out of the room, only to return a couple minutes later in a multi-colored robe and her eyes and hair were multi-colored as well, a pair of multi-colored wings to match her robes. Tohru, now Destiny, sat down, "I'm the referee if you will have anything to say about it."

Despair piped up, "Our conditions, the Elite, are that only twins both in the zodiac are considered an Elite, and twins are rare, in every way. Both twins and their mother will become an Elite, as for the father, he's supposed to be fate, but I don't know what to think, Fate hasn't shown on you yet."

Kyo-san sighed, "Is there a certain transformation time for Fate?"

"No, Fate comes last, and Fate only come to that day," Destiny answers, "Fate plays a role, but it's only granted to the winner."

"What day?" asked Kyo-san.

"To be exact, on the twins tenth birthday, to the very day," Destiny answered, looking at the twins.

Hope and Despair looked at each other, "We're going to bed mother, see you tomorrow."

Destiny hugged her children, and then let them go to their rooms. "So how long are you…they going to be playing these roles?"

"Just a day, for me it's night. You can go on to bed Kyo; I usually stay up during my time."

Kyo-san shook his head, "No Tohru-chan, I'll stay with you."

Destiny looked up at him, her eyes glazed with tears, her soft features on her face showed hurt, sadness, anger, confusion, almost every emotion was being expressed. Destiny stood up and walked over to the other side of the kitchen table, and collapsed into Kyo-san's arms, "Thank-you, thank-you."

Kyo-san looked down at her, she was probably the strongest of all of them, and now they had yet another problem.

They were doomed all over again, just over the stupid curse.

TBC…

The elite is a made up part of the zodiac.