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Chapter One: Hello Sister

Raven hair fell around the face of an eight-year-old girl as she and her companion continued to walk down a dusty road that seemed to go on forever. Her companion was her younger half sister who she really didn't know anything about. Infact she hadn't know that she even had a sister until four days ago. Her violet eyes shifted to her little sister trying to find any features that said that they were related. Surprisingly she found a lot. She and her sister shared the same shade of hair color, though when her own hair reflected purple her sister's hair reflected brown. They had the same mouth, nose, and eye shapes though her eyes were violet and her sister's eyes were gray. The only thing else that she could find different about them was the fact that they had different skin color. Her skin was snow white while her sister's was a light brown.

"Aki?" She said her sister's name slowly, starting to like the fact that she had a sister.

"Yes?" Her sister had stopped so that now they were standing in the middle of the rode.

The girl blinked before she realized that her sister must not know her name. After all Aki hadn't once said her name in the four days that they had been travelling together.

"You can call me Rei. And I was wondering, just where are we going?" Rei asked.

"Um… Papa said that we would have the best chance in Badger Town." Aki mumbled.

"Badger Town? The best chance for what in Badger Town?" Rei pressed.

"Survival."

Rei frowned at this. How would they be better off at Badger Town? When Badger Town was known for being overrun with thieves and killers? For a moment she stood there in the middle of the road thinking about what they were going to do until she felt Aki tug on her sleeve. Rei looked at the girl whose gray eyes looked calm yet slightly scared.

"Could we not be out in the middle of nowhere when night comes?" Aki asked.

Rei, although surprised at the fact that Aki looked slightly peeved, nodded and started to walk again. Nobody wanted to be out at night.

After about an hour she could begin to see the outline of Badger Town, though she was afraid that they might not make it to the town since they only had about fifteen minutes left before night cam crashing down on them. After a moment Rei could no longer feel the sun shining on her back and a nearby inhuman howl told her that the Dead had risen.

"Can you fight, Rei?"

Rei turned to find her sister with a sword in each hand. She wondered where Aki's weapons had been hiding when the wind suddenly whipped Aki's black cloak out of the way showing Rei that her sister had weapons everywhere. There were various knife holders on her sister's sliver pants. A huge gray belt, which had a skull on it, tipped to the side on Aki's waist heavied by two sword scoreboards that were clipped on to it. Aki's black shirt with a sliver moon on it had at least two hidden pockets on it that Rei could make out and probably more that she couldn't see.

"Aki, what's your trade?" Rei asked. She suddenly had an idea why her mother had never told her about her sister.

"My father was a assassin." Aki answered.

Rei nodded slowly, understanding why she and her sister had been separate. Their mother had been a priestess and for her to have a child with an assassin was unacceptable according to the Temple. So her mother left Aki with her father and Aki's father was an assassin, so naturally he would teach Aki the ways of an assassin just like their mother had taught Rei how to be a priestess. Rei sighed. An assassin and a priestess, she and her sister couldn't be farther apart in how they were raised.

"Yes I can fight. Though I'm sure that it's not how you're use to fighting." Rei said.

"It doesn't matter. It's the Dead that we'll be fighting, so I'm sure that your type of fighting will be fine." Aki stated as she gave Rei a friendly smile.

Rei nodded and smiled back at her sister as she took out her bow and set up her arrows on the ground beside her. The wind came back; it's mighty breath lifting her white cloak to reveal her clothing. Her white top with the red phoenix in the center, her red pants, orange belt with angel wings in the center, and two white wrist guards that hid two knives. Slowly Rei stood up, the wind whipping her hair around. Her violet eyes scan the surround field until her eyes spotted the first Dead creature. Pulling an arrow from her quiver she waited until the creature came a little closer and when it did she notched the arrow then let go. Her and Aki watched as the arrow cut through the creature's neck.

"I don't know what you were talking about earlier. Your fighting is excellent! Or at least your aim is!" Aki exclaimed gleefully. Rei smiled since it was the first time that Aki had actually acted like a seven-year-old girl.

Her smile was cut short however when a sudden screech alerted them that the rest of the Dead was headed their way. She turned around and was about to notch another arrow when she felt her sister tug on her sleeve again.

"Yes?"

Aki wordlessly held up a sword to Rei, silently telling her that they were too close to the Dead now for her arrows to do any good. Rei nodded as she put up her bow and took her sister's sword. She watched as her sister gave her a wink and went o stand beside her though she was facing north while Rei was facing south.

Badger Town (Northern Gate)

"We should help them."

A boy of about ten ignored his friend as his crystal blue eyes watched the battle that was going on about a mile away. His messy brown hair was blown every now and then into his eyes causing him to impatiently swat it out of his way. He really didn't want to help the two girls up o the hill, especially when his group had their own problems. Turning around he faced his two friends.

"Those paladins are still after us. They're not going to let those thieves block their way for long. We need to keep moving while the sun is down." He stated.

Another boy to his left rolled his forest green eyes. "Heero it's two little girls. How much trouble could they be?" He asked.

Heero looked into the boy's eye wishing that the boy's brown hair didn't cover one of the boy's eyes. Sighing he gave up trying to read the boy and instead turned to his other friend.

"And you Duo?" He asked.

The Duo's violet eyes looked into his own. "Why not?"

Heero nodded as he looked back into the city to see the white magic of the paladins coming closer. Wincing he turned to face the gate and watched the battle for a moment longer before he bagman to move towards it.

Back on the hill

Aki felt the wind shift to the south, which meant that something, was coming from the north. Wordlessly she hacked and slashed her way through the Dead, moving steadily towards whatever was coming closer to her and her sister. She had moved about three feet when she could make out three shadow figures coming towards them. She frowned as she watched the figures stop outside the circle of the Dead that was trying to make a meal out of her and Rei. Her frown deepened even more as the shadows began to kill the outer circle of the Dead. It wasn't the fact that they were helping her and Rei that made her uneasy, instead it was the fact that the Dead wasn't fighting back. Realizing just what the shadows were Aki turned around and ran towards the red and white figure of her sister.

"Rei!"

She watched as her sister turned around to look at her. Aki opened her mouth to speak though her mouth quickly closed in fear as a dark shadow loomed over her sister. A blow from a dead creature made her snap out of her moment of fear. She ignored the dead creature as she hurriedly pulled out an ofuda hoping that it would work. Jumping on top of the dead creature's head she aimed and threw the ofuda at one of the five Dead Lords that had snuck up on them. As the ofuda sailed threw the air Aki hurriedly made the signs for the six elements that every living being was tied to, though she made sure to sign her element, wind, twice.

She opened her eyes and watched as her ofuda hit the Demon Lord in the head causing the creature to be ripped apart by ferocious winds. She exhaled in relief as she saw her sister give her a sign of thanks. Absentmindedly she cut off the head of the dead creature that had been trying to kill her for the past five minutes.

"Not bad for an assassin, huh?" She called out to Rei.

She saw her smile as she continued to fight through the Dead. "Not bad at all Aki. When get out of this I'll teach you some more wind based spells, as long as you teach me how to fight with two swords."

"Alright." Aki shouted.

She would have said more if another Dead Lord hadn't snuck up and encircled her throat with its hand. Aki didn't scream or make a sound when the Dead Lord turned her around to face it. Though she had to admit that the 'face' was really frightening. The Dead's eyes were red slits, it's shadow colored skin smelled of sulfur, and its mouth stretched ear to ear. She whimpered when he thing brought her closer to its hellish body. Deep inside of her a part of her that was still pure, the part of her that was a priestess, was struggling in attempt to get away from the hellish creature that it was supposed to kill.

"You might want to put her down."

Aki whipped her eyes around to the spot that the voice had spoken from. She was surprised to see a boy who looked three years older than her casually walking towards the Dead Lord. From the way the boy twirled a mean looking blade she could tell that he meant business. A sound off to her right alerted her to another ten-year-old boy walking towards them, she watched as his braid swayed right and left as he moved toward the Dead Lord and her. When she noticed the fangs that each boy was sporting she vaguely wondered if she even wanted to be rescued.

There were only three things that were stronger than Dead Lords were. Those things were paladins, priests, and vampires; and the first two did not have fangs.