"Alright! It's beach time!" Yelled Mithos as he almost flew out of the hotel. It was sunny, hot, and the water looked wonderful.
"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go! The perfect day waits for no one!" Seles was running after him, leaving her sickly nature in the dust.
A old couple watching them commented.
"Ya don't see enthusiasm like that in young people these days, do ya?" asked the old man.
"You certainly don't. It's very refreshing." said the old woman.
"You hear that, Seles? We're refreshing!"
"I'll be refreshed after that swim!"
Mithos wore a pair a green swimming trunks and a huge white and blue shirt. The shirt was unbuttoned so his chest was in full view.
Seles was wearing a light blue, one-piece swim-suit. Her red hair was tied in a French braid.
Seles was heading for the stairs, but Mithos grabbed her hand and jumped.
They landed, unharmed, but covered in sand.
"Mithos, you idiot! Why the heck did you did do that!?"
"One: it was faster. Two: It was fun to she you reaction."
"You. Are. So. Stupid! Come on, let's just get to the water."
"My pleasure."
They went to the end of the beach. Apparently, not only had the beach gotten bigger, but a pier had been added. Several boats were docked there, but it served another purpose.
"Diving board!"
The pair ran down the pier. When the got to the end, they jumped, hand in hand.
SPLOSH!!
Seles came up first. Then Mithos.
"Again!"
They did that for 25 minutes. They preformed all sorts of dives, including Mithos's favorite, cannonball.
"Hey! You two!" a kid came up to them.
"Us?"
"Yeah, you. Do you want to play with us?"
"Sure. What do you want to play?"
"Marco Polo!"
They played Marco Polo and more. They played tag, water polo, and had a swimming contest.
Finally, one of the kids' parents called them. "Everyone, it's lunch time!"
"Can our new friends come too?"
"Yes, of course."
"Yay!"
Lunch was delicious. It started off with pop-tarts, followed by sandwiches, topped off with strawberry ice-cream, with fruit and chocolate milk in-between.
After lunch was over, Mithos was stuck with inspiration. "Let's play volleyball!"
And so they did. After a while, someone thought it might be a good idea if they used a beach ball instead. Then someone thought a game of Frisbee might be fun. Then it started getting hot again and headed back into the water.
"It's your's, Mithos!"
"Got it!"
A boy came up. "Guys! Someone just started the hose and I brought water-guns!"
They went to the shore, where everyone under 20 was going crazy. People were using water-guns, water balloons, buckets, cups, and everything else they could use. Some people were even using spells.
"Water fight!"
Seles grabbed a pail and ran to the hose. After filling it up, she dumped the water on Mithos.
"Hey, no fair!" Mithos yelled.
"All is fair in love and war!" Seles shouted back, and then went to refill her bucket.
Suddenly, a rather large amount of water fell on her! She turned toward Mithos, who was waving his hands and make water fall on other people.
Seles saw an abandoned water balloon. Taking aim, she tossed it.
She hit Mithos squarely on the back.
Mithos countered by tossing a water balloon of his own at Seles, getting her in the chest.
Seles returned to her pail and filled it. Then she saw more water balloons. She added that to her bucket.
Then she saw that Mithos was surrounded by water guns. She ran up to the big guy and threw her mixture of water and water balloons on him.
"What the crap?"
"Thanks Seles!"
Mithos casted more water spells. Seles found more water balloons and filled her pail a few more times. Then someone came and ordered that they stop. With much moaning and complaining, everyone stopped.
By then, the sun was beginning to set and people started going home. Including the group of kids they met.
"See you later!
"Bye!
"We'll miss you!"
"So long!" Mithos called.
They left.
"Well, I'll pack up our stuff." said Seles.
"Okay. I'll stay here."
But when Seles got a few hundred meters away, Mithos wished he had gone with her. Behind him were four older women. They were gossiping.
"Did you hear that Zelos's younger sister escaped from the abbey?"
"Really? She did?"
"Yeah. And they say took a criminal with her."
"What was his crime?"
"The knights say he blow up a ship with a bomb."
Mithos's blood froze. That wasn't good.
"They're questioning the elf woman, but she refuses to say anything."
Elf woman... Virginia!
"What was her name again?"
"Who? The elf?"
"No! Zelos's little sister!"
"Oh, her. Don't you remember? Her name is Seles."
Seles? No way...
"Well, we'd better be going!"
They left just a Seles came back. "Are we ready- Mithos, what's with that scary look on your face?"
"...You're Zelos's sister?"
"What? When did learn about that!?"
"Just now."
Seles sighed. "Well, now that you know, I guess I better tell you the whole story. You'd better sit down."
They sat down. When they were both comfortable, Seles started her story.
"I guess it started when Myrlene received the order from Cruxis to marry Seton. When they went to meet, Myrlene saw that it was going to the worst marriage of the century. Seton was boastful, full of himself, and had a bit of a alcohol problem. Myrlene was selfish and snobbish. It was a stupid idea from the outset.
"They held out just long enough to have a son, Zelos. Then everything fell apart. Before the age of six, Zelos knew just when staying home would not only get his parents arguing at each other, but sometimes take it out on him.
"And then Sylvia came into the picture."
"Hold on a minute." said Mithos. "Did you say Sylvia?"
Seles nodded.
"What did she look like?"
"White hair, pale skin, vanilla eyes."
"Grand Cardinal Sylvia."
"Huh?"
"Remember how I was the leader of not just Cruxis, but the desians as well?"
"Kinda hard to forget."
"Sylvia was a desian, and a high ranked one at that. She was the cruelest of them, beside Kvar. And She was almost as good as Pronyma in seducing males."
"That would explain that. Anyway, Sylvia met Seton. Soon, he began meeting her in secret. Then they would do it out in the open. Before long, she had moved in. And before anyone could do anything about it, I was born."
"So, wait. You're the child of Seton and Sylvia?"
"Yep. Not something I'm really that proud of. And then things really got complicated. People began to wonder which child was the real chosen. The church was caught between the strong but disobedient male, and the obedient but sickly female."
"I bet that didn't go well."
"Huge understatement. People got into big arguments over who should be the chosen. Some people sided with Zelos because he wasn't prone to illness. Others sided with me because I was more likely to obey orders. Some people went with Zelos because he was a boy. And some more people went to my side for the opposite reason. It got to the point where people threatened to punch each other.
"Jeez."
"And that compare to what It like at home. Our parents were always in fights. Sometimes it would be Myrlene and Seton, other times it was Sylvia and Seton, still other times it was Myrlene and Sylvia. A couple of times all three of them got into a huge fight.
"And the only person who helped me in that time was Zelos, who was living through hell right along with me. When they fought, we would come each other's rooms. He would take me with him when it got to bad. We would take advantage of our chosen status to do things. In odd hours of the night we would go the church to pray. We would go to the research institute and learn about magic. When we were desperate, we would to the school and study.
"I remember our last day together like it was yesterday."
Flashback Seles PoV
It was a warm, springy day. Unusual, since it was the middle of January.
"It's beautiful, today! Let's go, Seles!" my brother shouted.
I was puffing behind him, "Me no go dat fast, Zelo!"
It was ten years ago. Zelos was twelve and I was four.
"You can keep up! Just try!"
"Big bwother, you gonna twip!"
"No way! I never- Whoa!"
I caught up to him. He was face down to the grass.
"See? I tod you!"
Then Zelos sat up. There was a rather large cut on his leg.
"Seles? It's hurts alot... What should we do?"
Me, being only four, began to panic. As one could guess, this wasn't helping my brother.
Suddenly, he started crying. That just made me cry, too.
Then, out of the blue, a girl showed up. This girl would soon be important in our lives. But, at the time, we didn't know it.
"Are you okay?" she asked. That was a really stupid question. There we were, two kids, sitting on the grass, crying our eyes out.
Then I got a good look at her. She looked about nine. She had muddy brown eyes and ebony hair. She wore some pretty strange clothes. It was a purple tunic over a pink shirt.
"Does it hurt much?"
Finally, Zelos got a hold of his tears. "Yes..."
"And your sister?"
"Me panicked!"
"I see. Nice to meet you both. I'm Sheena!"
"Zelos."
"Me name Seles!"
"Great."
In a few minutes, my brother's leg was bandaged.
"I have a question. Do you know where the research lab is?"
"Yep. Me and Zelo go dere one a week!"
"Can you show me where it is? I need to go there."
"Sure. Right this way."
We went there.
"You're Sheena, right?"
"Yes."
"We have test waiting for you."
Sheena met the test and loved it. The pact was made almost as soon as we got there.
At the end of the day, It was time Sheena to go to Volt's temple and for Zelos and I to get home.
"Sorry you couldn't have gone with me. I would have to have you two with me."
"And I wish that you could have stayed with us."
"We see each oter again! Seles know it!"
"Seles?"
"You know, sis? Your right. We'll see each other again."
"Really? Pinkie Promise?"
"Yep!"
End flashback. End Seles PoV.
"The next day, it snowed. Zelos and I were going out into the winter wonderland. We managed to talk Myrlene into joining us.
"We were building a snowman when it suddenly got very red and very wet. I turned to see Myrlene with a huge piece of ice sticking out her back. Then I looked to see Sylvia with her hand out. Sylvia, my birth mother, just murdered Myrlene!
"I was so mad, It wasn't funny. I don't what happened after that. All I know is that the next day, Myrlene was buried, Sylvia was decapitated, Seton went mad, and I was shipped to the abbey. And that's my story."
It was then that Seles realized that she had been crying. But her heart felt lighter. The burden she had been carrying around all this time had been lifted.
"Thank you." said Mithos.
"For what?"
"Thank you for sharing your pain with me. I know it wasn't easy."
"I should be thanking you taking that pain. I know that I can now face my brother."
The sat on the beach in silence, watching the sun set.
When the sun finally disappeared, they went back to the hotel.
"Mithos?"
"Hmm?"
"How long would it take to from here to Meltokio on broom?"
"About half a day. Why?"
"Then we need to leave first thing in the morning. Zelos and Sheena get married tomorrow."
