Chapter 1
Winter. Not much to say about it. Its cold, clam, and always quite. Tonight was no different. Well, if you ignored the sizeable explosion at the militaries newly repaired central library, ignoring that, it was quite. The gunshots echoed out, and the burning crackling almost mixed into a strange melody, but it was far from pleasant. Newly recruited MP's stormed the building shouting things incoherent due to the gunfire. All this mess and commotion, for two people, just two people.
Naturally, these two trespassers were cloaked and unrecognizable. Give us more credit then that, were not entirely insane. My brother's plains were always extreme. I think he's more of a pyro then he lets on. The explosions were always his idea; I thought we were supposed to keep our cover. I guess as long as bombs were involved, our cover didn't matter. Why were we at the library? To recover a book, written in code of course, that my father had written about his theory on chimeras, and how to separate them. Hey, it was worth looking for.
So now, here we were. Standing before an army of newbies, most of which looked as if they would piss themselves at any moment. Now that I think about it, were probably were really scary looking. The flames behind us, my wings spread, the glow our red eyes always had, and if I didn't know any better I'd probably wet myself too. My brother held the book up in one clawed hand, and smirked. God damn it, he was going to gloat. Leon always was a cocky little shit.
" I was hoping for a little more of a challenge. I was kinda wishing they'd send an alchemist, how about you Terra?" I said nothing. He knew I didn't want any confrontation, especially not that of another alchemist. He just grinned as I glared at him, teasing me as always. I really didn't want to kill any of them, but leaving my sword at home, and only bringing my guns, that may not be possible. When I shot, it was to kill, I waste no ammo. Leon sighed and turned back at the shivering MP's, they weren't cold.
" We got no choice huh Terra? Knock um' out and move on." If I wanted to protest, or even comment it didn't matter. He charged at them as if it was nothing, well to us it really was nothing but that's not the point. The poor things didn't stand a chance. Thankfully we were able to leave the area without any casualties.
" Did you have to do that?" I asked annoyed. I mean sure fire was great and all, but did he really have to destroy half the damned wing? Of course he didn't have to, he wanted to, that's the only reason Leon ever needed. His grin was his only reply; words couldn't express his happiness right now. I gave up. He wouldn't talk to me till we got back home. Currently, we lived in and old hosing complex that was condemned. We took a top room and fixed to perfection. Heat, cooling, water and electricity all perfectly functional.
So, we ran from the area and proceeded home to report back to Ricca. She was basically our tech support. She's the one who hacked into the security system so we could actually get into the place. Voted the best with anything hi-tech, she stays at our 'lair' and gives us the heads up and what's what when were on our missions. Reaching the complex, Leon raced up the stairs as if a prize were involved. I knew the truth though, he missed Ricca. Easy as that.
" Oh good." Ricca said as she saw us walk through the door. " I saw the fire alarms deploy, I got worried." She sighed, weather from relief, or knowing Leon's pyro tendencies got the better from him, I'm not so sure. Leon tackled Ricca grinning like an idiot; he gets frighteningly giddy around her. I rolled my eyes at the scene; public displays of affection were never pretty to look at. Well, not in my opinion anyway.
" You were right to worry." I said " Your lovers hobby got in the way once more." Ricca, being as shy as she was, blushed and shoved my brother off her. Oh was she gonna tear him a new one. Now Ricca may not be the strongest one of us, but damnit you did not piss her off. For the sake of my brother's dignity, I left the room. His little sister shouldn't be present when he gets his what for from his girlfriend. I was however, going to listen, even if it was only for blackmail purposes.
I grabbed the book we worked oh so hard for and began to study. I say study because our father was a master of code. Naturally. The gods hate us I'm sure of it. The problem with my father's codes was they were never the same style. Allow me to elaborate a little better. For one report, we wrote it as a children's book. Another was an atlas, the most confusing one had to be the mineral composition book. Two months of my life were wasted on that one. This one appeared a bit simpler, The Book of Forgotten Fairies. This as apposed to the book of fairies that everyone remembers. Ok, I was being a little cynical but hey, my father turned me into a monster. I felt I had a right to mock him a little.
As much as I hate to admit it, I liked the first chapter. I chose to read it as anyone who didn't know better would, just for a laugh. He put this code together very well; again, I hate to admit that. Before I got too involved in whatever story plot there was in this book, I figured out the main code plot. There were three fairies that seemed to come up a lot. Accir, a timid Earth sprite who tampered with anything electrical to upset humans. I rolled my eyes at how easy that was to figure out, it was Ricca of course. Accir was her name spelled backwards even; dad hadn't been to creative on that one.
Next was a fairy whose love for the flame got him into one to many troubles. I sighed, losing his touch obviously. But what did astound me was not only was the book about us, but what my label was. ' Sabel, a master of all elements and summon mistress. Her ability to raise Draco's, makes her a force to be reckoned with.' That was it, sure my alchemy with the elements was good but…and what was this summon stuff? Draco's, like dragons? That wasn't important right now.
This book was about Leon, Ricca, and myself. Maybe father had a theory on how to separate the legendary D.N.A. from our systems. That was what this book was supposed to be about anyway. So I studied till Leon practically dragged me from the room kicking and screaming. But it wasn't until the next day that things went from bad to worse.
End Chapter 1