(A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry it's been a while since I've updated, but my friend EmiieRoxs wanted me to write more of this story we're writing together, so I've been busy with that, and honestly, it's been hard to find the time to write… well I hope you enjoy this chapter! Thanks to all the reviewers! Swn)
"Here goes nothing." Arianna gulped. Ebony and Arianna walked into the sitting room. Yuki, Kyo, Tohru and Shigure were drinking tea at the table. Ebony had her hand behind her back and was looking at the ground. 'Being the sun, I should be confident, brave.' She thought with a sigh.
"We have something we need to tell you." Arianna said with a serious look on her face. She wiped some of the silvery-blonde hair out of her face. Ebony just let her black locks fall in her face.
Yuki looked up while the teacup was still near his lips. Shigure had a cigarette in his mouth, puffs of smoke rising from his mouth. Tohru had her eyes on the girls and an expecting smile on her face. Kyo looked like he could careless, but Arianna continued anyway.
She took a deep breath. "We have-"
"Athlete's foot!" Ebony blurted. 'There goes the confidence…'
Kyo and Shigure looked at them with an eyebrow cocked. Yuki looked at them like they had three heads for saying such a thing, and Tohru's smile faded and she looked generally confused.
Arianna glared at her sister. Ebony just looked at the floor. "Yeeaaaaah. Athletes foot, could you ask Hatori-san if he has anything for that!" Arianna said through grit teeth.
"Um, sure thing Arianna-san." Shigure said.
"Please, call me Ari." Arianna said with a smile on her face. "Excuse me, Ebony and I need to talk." She said as her eye twitched. She grabbed Ebony by the arm and yanked her out of the house.
Once they were out of the house, they ran to the little clearing they found earlier.
"EBBIE!" Arianna exploded. "I thought we were going to tell them!" She shrieked in English.
"Sorry." Ebony muttered. "I-I don't know if I'm ready yet." Ebony said and fiddled with her fingers.
Arianna sighed and her shoulders, which were previously up to her ears in anger, relaxed. "Ebony, I don't know what to do."
"I don't either." Ebony said and sat down on the dirt. She sighed and her sister followed suit.
The two twin seven year olds laughed and skipped down the path to their grandmother's house. "Come on Ari!" one of the sisters said as they neared their grandmother's house. The little Ari had her brown hair up in two pigtails plastered on the top of her head. The little Ebony had two little buns near her neck.
Their mother's mother, an old Japanese woman, stood in the doorway of her house. "Girls!" She smiled happily to see them; the young girls embraced the old woman.
"Grandma!" The girls cried happily. "Whaddidya want Grandma Hana?" Little Arianna said.
"Girls, girls, what did I tell you? Call me Obaa-san!" She said happily.
"Obaa-san!" Ebony said happily. "I love you Obaa-san!"
"I love you too." Their grandmother said happily. "Oh, girls, I have something I need to give you." Their grandmother said and ushered the young girls into her house.
She went deep into her house, back into the old woman's room. Ebony felt hesitant she didn't know exactly why though… "Obaa-san?" She asked.
"Quiet Ebony!" The old woman barked. Ebony cringed at her grandmother's sudden change of attitude. The two little girls gave each other looks, but continued on.
Their grandmother told them to sit down on the bed. So the two girls hopped up on their grandmother's bed, as they sat, their legs dangled off the side. Their grandmother went into her closet. They heard rustling but ignored it. Their grandmother came out with a grim looking box, decorated with gothic designs and a demon looking dragon on the top.
Arianna looked at it unassumingly. "Grandma?" Arianna started.
"Don't call me that!" The old woman wailed. The girls were taken aback.
"Obaa-san?" Ebony questioned, she was scared. "We're scared."
The old woman knelt in front of them. "Remember girls. I love you." She said and took two gold heart lockets out of her pocket. She placed the box on the floor and unlatched the one necklace and placed it around Ebony's neck, she did the same to Arianna.
She picked the box up again. "Girls, you are about to get two wonderful gifts." Ebony could tell her grandmother was lying, her eyes narrowed. But it was too late, her grandmother unlatched the small lock on the box, a firey red light engulfed Ebony, she screamed, terrified of what was happening.
"GRANDMA!" Ebony screamed as the red lights danced around her as Ebony floated in mid-air. Ebony's eyes turned from brown to a forest green. Arianna's eyes were wide. A blue light soared out of the box and engulfed Arianna.
She screamed as her eyes turned from brown to an icy blue. Their grandmother wouldn't look at them. Suddenly, the red light vanished and a dark green light replaced it, and Ebony's brown hair turned jet black. Arianna's blue light changed to a silver and her hair turned a white-blonde-silver.
"GRANDMA!" The young girls screamed. "What's happening?" The girls yelled. The lights disappeared and the girls were planted on the ground now. They looked at their hair.
"Ebony, you control fire, and earth. You are possessed by the spirit of the sun. You are the Sun." Her grandmother said quietly. "Arianna, you are water and air, you are possessed by the moon."
The girls were terrified. "Girls, you're cursed." Hana explained.
The girls cried and Ebony darted out the door, followed by Arianna. "I HATE YOU!" Ebony screamed as they ran back to their house.
Ebony burst through the door. Their mother gasped when she saw her two girls totally changed. "MOM!" Ebony cried.
"Ebony? What- what happened to you?" Her mother said and held her daughter's face.
"Grandma cursed me and Ari!" Tears spilled down the young girls face as her sister came into the house.
"What?" Their mother asked, a look of confusion on the mother's face.
"Obaa-san, cursed me and Ari, she said- she said that I'm the Sun!" Ebony cried harder as she through her arms around her mother's neck.
"What?" Their mother looked at Ari, her brown hair replaced by what looked to be silver.
"Grandma cursed us!" Ebony screamed. "Ari's the Moon!"
"What's going on?" Their father came in.
"They say their cursed, get my mother on the phone, now!" Their mother cried as she hugged Ebony tighter. She turned to her daughters. "What do you mean, you're the Sun?"
"Look." Ebony said. She cupped her little hands in front of her and a flower bloomed from her hands. She screamed and flapped her hands wildly. "MOM!" Ebony yelled.
"Here." Their father handed the phone to his wife.
"Mom! What did you do? You what! YOU CURSED THEM!" Their mother screamed in the phone.
Ebony cringed. She remembered every bit of that day. The day her mother screamed maliciously at her grandmother. The day her father wouldn't stop hugging her. The day they changed forever.
"Ebbie?" Ari asked quietly.
"Someone's coming. I hear them breathing." Ari whispered. Because Ari was air, she could use air currents to pick up sounds. And because Ebony was earth, she could feel people coming from long distances.
"Ebony-san? Arian- Ari-san?" Yuki's voice said as he appeared from out behind a bush.
"Yuki-san! Hi." Ebony said nervously. Arianna stood up.
"I'll let you two talk." Arianna said as she gave Ebony a look that said 'tell'. Ebony nodded as Arianna turned and walked away.
"Ebony-san? Are you and Ari-san alright?" Yuki asked as he sat down next to her.
"We'll make it." She said softly as she fiddled with her hair.
"Ebony-san. I know this may sound rude, but I want to know more about you. I consider you a friend, and friends should know things about each other, shouldn't they?" Yuki said with a small smile.
Ebony gasped quietly. She hadn't had a friend other then Ari for a long time. She nodded. "Well, Ari and I were born in America. We are twins, even though we don't look it. We- we have a secret Yuki." She said softly. "We- we have a- we have a curse."
Yuki's eyes were wide. "You- you do?" He asked nervously.
She nodded. "But Yuki, don't tell anyone, don't tell Shigure-san, or Kyo-kun, or Tohru-chan!" She said with a pleading look in her eyes.
"I won't. I promise." He said softly.
She breathed heavily. "I- well, why don't I just show you?" She chuckled softly as she stood up. She placed her hand in front of her and closed her eyes. Yuki looked up at her, waiting for whatever it was that Ebony was going to do.
She moved her hands up and down, and suddenly, a flower appeared out of the ground. Yuki's eyes widened. Then, she stomped her foot down on the ground, her boot leaving an imprint and a large rock sprung up from the ground and floated in front of her.
She then made a movement with her hand and the rock fell. She inhaled and clapped her hands together, then slowly brought them apart so she looked like a 'T'. Fire danced between her hands and she smiled.
"Yuki-san, I'm the Sun. I control fire and earth, and Ari the moon. She controls water and air." Ebony said slyly. Yuki stared at her with amazement.
"Wow." He said. Suddenly, Ari came bursting through the trees. "yay! Someone knows!" She said and used air to push off the ground and float in the air.
"And he is the only one that knows and let's keep it that way." Ebony growled and stomped her foot on the ground, causing mud to shoot up and fly at Ari. She screamed as the mud made impact with her and fell to the ground.
"So, the first time we met, when Ari-san came back with mud all over her… that was you?" Yuki asked, standing up and pointing at Ebony.
Ebony nodded shyly. "Well then." He said and smiled. "It's nice to meet you, Sun-san." He smiled.
Ebony smiled too and the three walked back to the house together.
(A/N: well there you go! Hope you enjoy, it was kinda short… it was medium lets say… there we go, medium… lol well anyway see ya soon! review plz! swn)