Gingerbread Phoenix

Once upon a time there were two best friends named Pheo and Nix. They were orphans, but they were taken in by an assassin and her husband. Their names were Gwenafar and Gregory. Gwenny was a good assassin, she was, but she wasn't really making much in the way of money soo…there wasn't much in the way of food.

One night the adults were discussing finances while Pheo and Nix were upstairs listening in.

"Why the hell did we even take in two kids if we couldn't afford them?" asked Gwenafar.

"It was either them or a dog, andthey don't shed." answered Greg.

"Oh yeah…but at least they don't frown on you shooting a dog when you can't afford THEM."

"Well what are we going to do?" asked the angry woman's hubby.

"How bout I take them with me on the job and leave them there?"

"I don't know…don't you think that'd be a little wrong?" asked Gregory.

"Do you not want sex for a week?" and that was the end of THAT discussion.

Besides the feeling of wanting to puke at the things they had just learned about their foster-parents, they didn't really feel good about being without a home. "What a Bitch!" Pheo said.

"Yeah. I think we should just leave." said her friend.

"No friggin way. They took us in, they're gonna care for us! How about we mark our path by something so we can find our way back."

"Okay Grettle…I mean Pheo"

The next morning they were each given a bag of popcorn and were taken to the woods, where a general and army were waiting to be murdered in their beds. Pheo dropped popcorn on the road to mark the path while Nix fed his popcorn to the crows. Nix is a little strange and he has a LITTLE obsession with crows. This made the crows think eating Pheo's popcorn was okay. Needless to say when their foster mother left them they got totally lost.

"Nix you dolt! Your crows ate all my popcorn!"

"DON'T BLAME THE CROWS" he yelled. "Hey. Something smells good." he said.

"It does." said Pheo. They followed their noses and were led to a house made of Lasagna popcorn and Raman! "RAMAN!" They ran to the house and started munching.

A voice came from the house. "Nibble nibble like a mouse, who is nibbling on my house?" Out stepped none other than- SETSUNA! Betcha didn't see that one coming. "Hello children. Would you like to come in side? I was just fixing dinner."

Pheo and Nix, being trusting children even though the LAST people who gave them a place to live tried to kill them went into the building. On the kitchen table was mounds and mounds of food! YUM! So they ate like good little children and quickly fell to sleep because of the sleeping pills put in the food by the evil witch Setsuna.

When they woke up they were in cages above fire pits. Setsuna stood before them. "Now I have you! You won't be able to get away and I will roast you and feed you to my friends. It's my 2000th birthday today and I'm trying out this new recipe and it calls for two children…anyway. Point is, be afraid, be very very afraid."

"Your stupid." said Pheo.

"What?"

"You're stupid. I'm a friggin fire demon you idiot." it is at that point Pheo reaches out to the flames below her and fry her would be killer. Just like last time Setsuna's body disappeared. Pheo also fried the cages so they got out. In a rage the small fire demon burned down the whole forest.

On the horizon they saw their old house. They went up to it and murdered their adoptive parents. Whenever they got hungry they just went to the food house and ate. The food magically did not ever spoil. And they lived foreverly ever after in their old house.

Author: FYI Pheo has silver-blue long hair and red eyes with wing-shaped pupils, similar looking to Bunny. Nix has Black gravity defying hair with red tips and red eyes with black stripes, he looks like a mini-Hiei

Setsuna: i didnt know they came any shorter.