I do not own Corona and I am not old enough to.

Dante and Kina. A vampire and a light-demon. How they came to be together I will never understand no matter how many times Dante tells me. Kina was the one who kept me sane through the years. With her endless wisdom and wonderful advice... She was like my own personal shrink. There was only one problem with her... All of her clothes were white, so that meant I couldn't raid her closet... Anyway, Dante was a very important part of our lives, though he never really got along with... Not right now. I must handle this first...

It was the night of the lunar eclipse; Risty, Rogue, Kurama, Ryu, Shante, and Kitten were sitting in Kurama's front yard in lawn chairs watching the stars until it began. Kurama would point out a constellation, and Risty would tell them a myth, legend, or story about it. Shiori was baking cookies and their smell was drifting through the open window. They all loved summer. The days spent running around in the woods: training, making movies, playing games among the trees, and the nights spent camped out in the back yard, at the park, or at their abandoned playground. Everyone knew it was too good to last so they enjoyed it as much as possible.

Those were the days, no worries... Except for when Shiori-kaasan would get sicker, she tried to be strong in front of us, but we all knew she was getting worse, and with the coming of our thirteenth birthdays, our care-free days were numbered...

The boy blended perfectly with the darkness brought by the eclipse, the shorter girl next to him though, she stood out like a sore thumb dressed all in white. He shook his head, what could you expect? She was a light-demon and she took it seriously.

They walked in silence; the only sound that of their shoes on the street. Everyone else was asleep, and had been for hours now; it would be easy to sneak through the town to Ikami, once there they'd be safe. Ahead, a pool of light was flowing out of one of the yards accompanied by talking and laughter.

'Great,' he thought, 'a group of drunk morons out partying.'

He looked at the girl walking next to him. Anyone would think she was an easy target, and she couldn't fight them fully if they were out in the open. There was no way to go around and there wasn't enough time to go back and find another route, and by the time the people finally went inside it would be close to dawn.

Suddenly, a burst of fire lit the sky. The boy and his companion sopped in their tracks.

That was called me being stupid. I guess underage drinking will do that to a person.

"That's the last time we let Ryo-chan have a sip of Corona," Kitten announced, watching the sparks fall from the sky.

"What were you thinking?" Ryu scolded. "What if someone was awake and saw it?"

"They'll think some drunk college kids are setting off fireworks," Rogue answered, pulling a signal flare out of Risty's backpack. "BOOM!" she yelled, and set it off.

"Where did you get that?" Kurama asked.

"In Ris's backpack."

"Why do you have signal flares in your backpack?"

"For the same reason I have a grenade launcher in my backpack."

"WHY DO YOU HAVE A GRENADE LAUNCHER IN YOUR BACKPACK?" Kurama yelled.

"Why not?" was the simple answer.

"What's this I hear about grenade launchers in backpacks?" a black haired, black-eyed boy dressed in black asked from the end of the yard.

"I believe the mixed blood has a grenade launcher in her backpack," the shorter, white haired, pale-eyed girl dressed in white next to him answered.

"Who are you calling a mixed-blood?" Risty asked.

"You obviously," the girl answered.

"Well, you two look like a yin-yang." Ryu commented.

"Yeah," Risty's eyes widened. "Black and white, tall and short, male and female, dark and light, moron and smart-person."

"You had me believing you until you reached the moron and smart-person part," the boy growled.

"Dante-kun," the girl said sweetly, "be nice."

Dante looked away.

"You have to forgive Dante-kun, he doesn't have very good manners."

"It's alright," Risty said. "Ours isn't much better."

"Are you talking about me?" Kurama asked, appalled.

"At least yours has a clue. My name's Kina, I'm sorry to intrude."

"Not at all! It's like Kurry-chan once said," she imitated Kurama's voice, "'we demons have to stick together.' Right?"

"Yeah," Kina nodded, "Yeah we do. Except Dante's not a demon."

"I sort of noticed that."

"Dante doesn't feel like a demon, Ris," Rogue whispered.

"You're a little late, Rogue. So what is he?"

"Dante's a vampire," Kina answered. She smiled at Risty and the rest of the group. "And the priests say Nefertiri turns her eyes from us during the eclipse," she whispered.

"What?" Risty asked.

"Nothing, just something from my religion, it's..."

"Kinai," Risty finished.

"...Yeah..."

"Dame io Fraskra?"

"Dai."

"Migama a migamo viv."

"Qen?"(1)

"No one important."

I had finally met another Kinai. It felt so good. So maybe they weren't all 'outsiders', but still... I hated lying to her, but... Well, you'll all find out later. Thus Dante and Kina moved into our apartment building, in different apartments of course. Dante called Kina his 'adopted' sister, he had found her on his way to Ikami and had adopted her. It was very sweet, though as I said before I'm not entirely sure why... Oh well, that's everyone then... Except for the softball team, but they're over-rated anyway. I must now end this volume and begin the next. I must now record the Spirit Detective's involvement, no matter how much I don't want to remember it...

Kina and Risty were speaking a form of ancient elvish that I came up with so I will now translate it:

(1) Have you visited the Forgotten Realm?

Yes.

My grandmother and grandfather live there.

Who are they?