Later that night, Riku sat in his room, surfing the internet. He was bored. But at least he was relieved to learn that his best friend was going to be okay. He was awake and starting to heal already.
Riku was in the middle of looking up images from his favorite TV shows of the past when his cell phone rang. He picked it up from next to the computer mouse and read the screen to see who it was from. It was an unknown number.
"Hello?" asked Riku, after flipping the cell phone open.
"Is this Riku Thompson?" asked a woman's voice.
"Yeah, uh may I ask who this is?" asked Riku, feeling confused.
"I can't exactly tell you who I am over the phone," replied the woman. "But I have some information about your past."
"My past?" asked Riku.
"Have you ever wondered why you and your twin are so different?" asked the woman. "He's the evil one and you're the good one."
"So?" asked Riku.
"So, I have the reason why you two are like this." said the woman.
This made Riku stop and think. Evil? He sat there, silent for a minute, holding his phone to his ear.
"Are you still there?" asked the woman.
"I am." replied Riku, snapping out of his long silence.
"Good. Meet me at the secret place in thirty minutes. And come alone." said the woman and then she hung up.
Riku pressed the end button on his phone, flipped it closed, and put it down. Without another word, he got his sweatshirt from his bed, put it on, grabbed his car keys, and ran out the door.
Half an hour later, Riku parked his car in front of the secret place and went in. He found a cloaked figure, standing in front of a drawing that Riku had scrawled on the walls that had a picture of himself, standing on the islands, wearing a crown, saying, "RIKU THOMPSON IS KING OF THE ISLANDS! BOW DOWN TO ME! BWA HA HA HA HA HA!"
The cloaked figure laughed to herself at the drawing.
"Uh, hello?" asked Riku.
The figure turned and found Riku, standing in the entrance, with his hands on his hips. He began to walk up to the cloaked figure. "What is this about me and my brother? Who are you?"
The cloaked figure put down her hood to reveal a blonde haired woman.
"Larxene?" asked Riku, puzzled.
"No, I'm her mother, Marxene." she said. "I have been a member of the Organization since before my daughter was born. I also worked at the hospital for five years, as a nurse. I started working there on New Year's Eve, in 1988."
"But...that was the day Rep was born, just before midnight." said Riku.
"Yes, I know." said Marxene. "Me and a few other nurses were there when you and Rep were born. But I have a confession to make.
The stood there in silence while Riku crossed his arms and tapped his foot.
"Well?" he asked. "I'm waiting."
Marxene sighed. "I was told to feed you, but I didn't feed you no ordinary formula." she explained. "The Organization had put me up to get a nursing job at the hospital to carry out Vexen's plan. His plan was to have a pair of twins become evil geniuses to take over the worlds. I fed you and Rep a special potion to make you smart and evil in the future. Only half of the plan was successful. Rep drank the entire potion, but you...you were fussy and you basically had a wrestling match with the bottle. When I was feeding it to you, you knocked the bottle out of my hands, and it fell to the floor, causing it to break. You only ended up only drinking less than half of the potion, therefore making you become evil for a short time when you were about fifteen."
Riku stood there, feeling angry. "WHAT?" he cried. "You're the one who messed me and my brother up?"
Marxene hung her head and looked at her shoes. "Yes." she said. "And I feel terrible for doing it."
"Yeah, you should be." said Riku. "I can't believe this! Rep could have been normal! I could have had a twin who would hang out with me, play video games with me, like my friends and also become their friend, and even share my pain. But no. He's an evil genius who insults my friends and causes me pain. How could you do this to us?"
"It wasn't my fault, it was-" said Marxene until Riku took out his Soul Eater and pinned her to the wall with it.
"It was your fault. Believe me." growled Riku. "You fed us the potion, and you could have prevented it from happening. But you let it happen."
He let go of Marxene and walked out of the secret place.
Riku got in his car and drove home. He pulled into the driveway and parked his car next to his brother's car. They were the only two cars in the driveway. Riku's parents both weren't home. As Riku got out and locked his car up, he turned to Rep's car and noticed something on it. It was a stain. A dark colored stain. Riku pressed the button to turn on the car alarm and walked over to Rep's car to get a closer look at the stain. He studied it and saw that it was dark red.
"Could it have been...?" Riku asked himself.
He would have tried to investigate a little more, but then it started to rain. Riku put up his hood and ran into his house. He decided to check out the stain some other time...