Jasdevi's Tale

"We're through playing games! Now we are really going to kill you!" Devitto and Jasdero stood themselves up from the rubble, badly injured. The air was suddenly getting heavier.

"This is exhausting," Krory said, "There's no telling what those two will do next. One minute they're behaving like fools, the next, they're throwing a tantrum. This is why I hate dealing with brats." Teal was standing beside him as she was staring at Devitto and Jasdero. She knew this feeling. It was vague but she knew the feeling.

"There was one baby cradle. The one became two. One baby cradle covered in fog, a single star rocked in a graveyard and disappeared." After they sang this mysterious song, they shot each other.

"Look, their shadows…" Lenalee said. Everyone's attention was at Devitto and Jasdero as their shadows were forming and they were fading. They were bracing themselves for what was going to come out of the shadows. Smoke was starting to form.

"Allen, Teal, Arystar! Get away from there! Look above you!" Lavi shouted.
There was a figure above them. Whatever it was, it threw Alistar to the wall and looked like Alistar was dead.

"That's one…" He said. The person was tall, had one eye showing with black makeup, and he had long blonde hair that was a mix of black at the top of his head. He had a long red uniform and blood red boots to match.

"Who is that?" Lavi asked. Teal's eyes widened. She remembered this figure very clearly now.

"We, that is, Devitto and Jasdero, began as one Noah. We are Jasdevi."
Allen attacked Jasdevi but couldn't even scratch him.

"You killed Count Krory!" He shouted.

Jasdevi picked up Allen with one hand and placed him on a purple star that just appeared out of nowhere and started to electrocute him. "That vampire imposter? That's what he gets for mocking us! He needed to bleed a little. Now, what should we do with you, Allen? Ah, yes, we'll turn you into a bomb. A bomb to blow up the door."

"Allen!" Lenalee shouted.

Teal ran up and made Jasdevi move away from Allen. Jasdevi picked her up by her throat. He threw her against the wall behind the exorcists. She suffered a couple bruises and cuts because some debris fell on her.

"Teal!" Lenalee tried to help her up.

"I'm alright." Teal froze as she was trying to regain her breath.

There was an arm that came from the star that was holding Allen.

"The vampire?"

"I am not a vampire, I am Arystar Krory." Krory stood there. He was very bloody but very much alive.

"Do not call me a vampire!"

"Why should we listen to you? So you can still move after losing all that blood? You're a freak, aren't you?" Krory was falling down and Allen, Lavi and Teal caught him.

"Are you alright? You're pretty banged up."

"Yes, I'm fine." Krory said weakly. Allen lifted his arm. There was blood on his hand.

"How many flasks of blood do you have left?" Lavi asked silently.

"Three. The door is open. We can't stay here much longer."

"You can't escape." Jasdevi said behind them. "You're all going to die here." He used his hands to create a magic force that threw Allen back.

'Fire Stamp' Lavi created a pillar of fire that surrounded Jasdevi. He was resistant to the flames and counterattacked Lavi.

"Lavi!" Teal caught Lavi and he sustained a bad burn on his face. She was able to help him stand up again.

"You're all to slow." He was sitting on Lavi's hammer. "You exorcists should've built your bodies more and not rely so much on your anti-akuma weapons."

"How's this?" Teal shouted as she attacked Jasdevi but she was thrown back. Krory then jumped on his back and tried to hold him down.

"Weakling."

"Allen, Lavi! Get the others out the next door!"

"What?"

"Get off me, you monster!" Jasdevi stabbed Krory again. There was another earthquake. More debris was falling from the ceiling. One was falling toward Lenalee and she didn't notice it.

"Look out!" Teal pushed Lenalee and the rock was about to land on her.

"Teal!" Lenalee shouted. Teal kicked the rock in the air and moved out of the way.

"Go NOW! This room won't last much longer."

"I'll stay behind!" Allen shouted.

"I said go!"

"But you're injured!"

"All the more reason. Someone has to protect Lenalee and Chaoji. Allen, Lavi, Teal, you're the only ones who can do that. I believe in you! Go now!"

There was a flash in between Allen and Krory.

"Arystar!" Lenalee and Teal screamed.

"Lord Exorcist!"

First Kanda told them to go on. Now Krory. How much more do they have to be separated? Now the exorcists understood what was necessary to survive. All they could do was believe in each other. Everyone ran through the door. When Krory was thrown off of Jasdevi's back, everyone was gone.

"I can't accept that I let them get away. I'll go after them." Jasdevi started walking through the door.

'I can't tell the Earl about the debts, we're going to be toast if he finds out. And if Tyki hurts her, I'll make sure he pays for it.' Krory threw a flask at Jasdevi as he was going out the door.

"You're not going anywhere, brat."

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"We have to go back! He's hurt!" Lenalee tried to struggle through Allen's grip. She was going back to help Arystar.

"Lenalee," Allen started.

"Let me go! We can't lose anymore of our people!" Allen put her hands on Lenalee's cheeks.

"Lenalee, he'll be alright."

"We'll all go home together." Teal added.
"Where there's a will there's a way." She laughed and she gave a hug to try to reassure Lenalee.

"Kanda and Alistar knew what they were doing." Allen continued. "I haven't given up on them. This isn't like you." He released her. "You're supposed to be the big sister here, remember?"

"And your other older siblings haven't given up either." Lavi said. "Anyway, he still has those three flasks left. So I wouldn't count him out yet." He smiled confidently.

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"What did you just drink? Don't tell me its human blood." Jasdevi said. He picked up the flask and licked it. It tasted like a dead body. He gagged and threw it away.

"You must be insane to drink this stuff! Don't you realize the kind of monster you are? You must have been rejected by your own people. I bet that's why your comrades were so happy to get rid of you. Because you were a monster." Jasdevi taunted. Krory sat himself up.

"I bet that's what humans used to call you." He replied.

-
'Monster…Monster…'

'You two are nothing but monsters.' Ever since we were little, we had strange powers and were rejected by everyone. Even our own parents rejected us. We had to power to make imaginary things come to life. We couldn't make friends because we changed into something accidentally and we hurt them. There were rumors about us all over and everyone started calling us monsters.

"Don't expect to belong in a world that isn't meant for monsters." Our father told us when he was hitting us. "The world is going to be HELL for you two brats. It is nothing more than a dark, cold place." One day, our mother took her life. That day our father lost it. After she died, he took us somewhere and left us there.

We weren't on the streets for long. An orphanage took us in and we refused to make any friends. They were just more people to hate us. Even when we kept to ourselves, they still hated us because they heard about us somehow. It's infuriating. People giving us sympathetic looks that hide hate. What good does that do? All we have is each other. And that is how it is going to stay.

"Ah great. Another room inspection." Jasdero moaned as he and Devitto just came back from dinner.

"Who cares? They're not gonna do anything anyway. The director's not gonna get mad at us." Devitto was sitting on his bed. There were light and rapid footsteps coming towards their room.

"Can't they just leave us alone? I'll deal with it." Devitto shot up and swung the door open.

"Get lost!" A girl was standing in front of me and she didn't even flinch. She looked curiously at me then went into our room and looked curiously at Jasdero. She was wearing a blue and green dress and had fairly long brown hair.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Devitto snapped. 'This girl was probably sent by the other kids to get something from us.' She didn't respond. She continued to look at everything curiously.

"Hey, are you new here? I don't think we've seen you around here." Jasdero stood up and confronted her. She touched his sleeve and tried to lift his arm to get a better look.

"You're weird." Jasdero smiled.

"Sorry, boys." The director was standing in our doorway out of breath. "This girl arrived a few hours ago and apparently, she's extremely curious about… well everything. Dear, this is Devitto and Jasdero." She pointed at us 'respectively'. "And I'm afraid I don't know who she is." She smiled. The girl went up to Devitto and observed him carefully.

"What is it, Shorty? Out with it."

"Ah?" She started to reach for me but she stopped and screamed. She covered her mouth and fell to the ground.

"Oh dear. Please don't take it personally, boys. You didn't do anything wrong." The director took her away shortly after that. Lies. All lies. She blames us.

"That look…" Jasdero started. "It was like she saw what we are."

"Who knows? Best to keep to ourselves, like we always do." Over the next few days, we've noticed that the new girl was watching us almost constantly. She kept her distance, but she was always watching us.

"All right everyone! Time to pick teams."

"Gym sucks. We never get to do anything fun." Devitto moaned.

"I know. We're playing stupid Chinese baseball. Maybe we can be on the same team for once, Devi! Y'know since that girl showed up."

"Hm. You're right. Since we're always picked last, we might actually be on the same team."

After all the kids were in positions, Jasdero was the first kicker and he kicked the ball really far. It didn't go very high and it hit that girl in the head and knocked her down.

'Crap! If she starts crying, I'm dead.' "Hey, are you okay?" Jasdero ran over to her. She managed to sat herself up and she started to poke the ball.

"Please don't tell the director." He whispered.

"Eh…" She looked up at Jasdero and Devitto ran up to his brother.

"Jasdero, what's going on? Did you find the ball yet? You kicked it pretty far." Devitto panted. "Oh. You hit her? Damn. We're screwed."

"Screwed…" The girl whispered. She pointed at Jasdero and said his name. "Ja- Jasdero."

"Hey! You-you just talked!" She pointed at Devitto. "Screwed." Devitto froze in shock.

"What did you just call me?" He twitched. "This would hilarious if she called somebody else that."

"No, that's Devitto." Jasdero smiled. The girl tilted her head a bit.

"De- Devitto?" She smiled. "Screwed."

"Are you trying to be funny or something?"

After that, she followed us everywhere. At first, we were uneasy about it. She easily could've hated us but somehow, we had a feeling she was different.

"So what's your name, Shorty?" Devitto asked her while they were having lunch one day.

"Shorty?" She pointed at herself.

"Uh, Devi, why'd you give her a nickname already?"

"Why? Because she's shorter than us. And I think the director said something about her being a year younger than us."

"Name… Teal." She smiled and pointed at herself.

"Your name is Teal?" Jasdero asked. Devitto snorted and laughed.

"I'm Teal?" She had a confused look on her face.

"Yes. I guess. I'll be right back." Jasdero headed to the supervisor's table and was talking to the director.

"You know something? You're kind of funny." Devitto said after he stopped laughing. "I find it funny that you give people weird names. I've got a feeling you've got a lot to learn. And I could teach you what to call other people like… Stupid head." Devitto pointed behind him unintentionally. Teal turned around and one of the teachers was walking behind them.

"Stup-" Devitto covered her mouth before she got them both in trouble. "On second thought, let's work on common sense."

"Mmph." She pointed beside him.

"Oh, hey Jasdero." He let go of Teal.

"Jasdero!" Teal smiled and gave him a hug.

"Hi Teal." He returned the hug. Whenever either of them had left, whenever they came back, she always greeted them with a hug.

"Where'd you go?" Devitto asked.

"I went to ask the director if Teal was a real name. She said that she didn't think so but then another teacher said it was. Although it's the name of a duck." Devitto started to laugh again.

"Sorry. Sorry. So Teal it is."

"Screwed."

"Okay, that is getting old!" He head locked her and gave her a noogie.

Teal was an odd girl in a way. We did come to really like her. She knew that we were different, but she still accepted us. And no one really depended on us before and that made us happy. But who knows how long that would last? Our powers could just… occur at any time. And it will ruin everything. We may just end up killing her. For at least 2 years, we were able to restrain our powers. We remember that day when she saw our true form.

"Hey, Devitto, Jasdero, let's go explore the bush today!" Teal was talking about a small wood not far from our orphanage. It was beyond our park area and not many of the kids go there because it's said to be haunted. It was haunted by us. The wood wasn't that big and there weren't many large animals around so it was perfect for us. For a few nights now, we managed to slip to the woods to become THAT. Then we would be back by dawn. No one knows about us. Yet.

"Do what?" Jasdero lifted his head up.

"Explore the bush!" She stood on the ladder to the top bunk. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! Get up! I bet were gonna see a black and white kitty with a long tail like in our books!"

"Teal, that's a SKUNK." Devitto moaned while his face was down. "We don't want to run into one."

"Wake up, Devitto! Wake up!" She jumped down and started shaking him. "Please come with me to explore the bush. The director says I have to be with somebody. Everyone else is being a chicken for some reason." She whined. Devitto turned his head and Teal was giving him the puppy dog eyes.

"Uh… N-no." He turned his head away.

"Please?"

"No."

"C'mon, Screwed!" She started to shake him again.

"Okay." He head locked her and gave her a noogie. "Just don't call me that. Why did you start calling me 'screwed' again?"

"Since the 'puppy eyes' don't work."

"And who taught you THAT?" He raised an eyebrow. Teal automatically pointed up.

"Jasdero." Devitto stood on his bed and glared at Jasdero who was laughing hysterically.

"Don't. EVER. Teach. Her. THAT. Or anything like it!" He snarled. Teal joined in Jasdero's laughter.

"You're funny when you're angry Devitto."

"So Teal, why did you want to explore the woods today? Aren't you usually afraid of it?" Jasdero asked.

"Well~ I had this funny dream about the woods then I woke up, thought about the sk-skunk?" She turned to Devitto and he gave her a nod. "Then I was thinking what else we might find. I have a feeling we're gonna find something good! And I'm not afraid of the bush now!" She smiled.

"You're weird." Devitto laughed. "Make up your mind will ya? Are we definitely gonna find something or run into something bad?"

"Um… Yes! Find something good! Eh? Are you two okay?"

"Yeah. Why?" Devitto and Jasdero said at the same time.

"You look… Not good. Should we head back?"

"No. You wanted to come here so we'll stay for a while."

'Come to think of it, we don't feel so good either.' It was getting harder to breathe and both of us hurt all over. We only felt this way when we changed into that.

'Please don't let us change in front of her.' We were begging. We all started to climb trees and gathered some apples and chestnuts. Out of all the things to do at the orphanage, this was our favourite hobby.

"Hey! There's a raspberry bush!" Teal pointed out. We couldn't hold back any more and when she was picking berries to add to our stash, we ran.

"Eh? Devitto? Jasdero?" Before we knew it, she saw us. Her eyes were wide open with fear. Like that night we first met her. In that form, we were bleeding from our head and we hurt all over. To others, they saw us as a monster. That's what we were in her eyes."

"Who- who are you?" We just took off. No point in sticking around if the only person you care about hates you.

'She saw me! She saw me! There's no hope now!' We kept on running to the part of the woods where it lead to a cliff.

"Who am I kidding?" Jasdevi shed a tear. "I'm a monster. So I should live like a monster. And die like a monster. With no one. Alone."

"Wait!" We heard her call behind us. She was panting. "Jasdero? Devitto? Is that you? Why are you running from me?"

It was rather surprising that she could recognize us. Or she has good acting skills. She was still showing signs of fear.

"Don't… Don't come any closer!"

"W-why?" Something blew up beside her and even the blast wasn't able to make her run.

"This is why no one wants us! This is why we were abandoned! This is why no one cares about us!" Jasdevi cried. Teal ran up to him and grabbed on to his arm.

"I care about you. Please don't go!"

"Lies!" He tried to get her off but she wouldn't budge.

"If there's… one person who cares about you, you shouldn't throw your life away. I'm not going to let you die!" She looked at us tearfully and bravely. She was afraid of us. But that didn't stop her from stopping us. Where did this brave little girl come from?

"Teal… Are you… Crying because you're afraid of us?"

"I am afraid of you. But you're my friends. I'm more afraid of losing you." She continued to cry. She let go of us and we hugged her. She was hugging back.

"Thank you, thank you." We said over and over.

Later that night, we did change back into ourselves and we managed to explain what we could to her. At this point, her curiosity overcame her fear.

"So you had these powers since you were born?" Devitto and Jasdero both nodded.

"Do you know what you can do?"

"Not really." Jasdero said.

"Okay. I don't know how to help with that. But no matter what, I promise to be with you. Just like you've been there for me. Oh! And I promise to keep it a secret." Teal put a finger to her lips.

Over the next two years, our occurrences happened more frequently. When we had to hide in the woods for a while, Teal would make sure that the supervisor didn't know and later came to join us to keep us company. In the spring and summer, we'd get the best stash of berries and in winter, we had snow ball fights and made tracks in the snow.

Weeks before our eleventh birthday, a man showed up, claiming to adopt us. When we met him, he was rather large, had grey skin, a big tall hat and weird ears. Oh yeah, and this huge grin that creeped us out.

"Hello, you must be Jasdero and Devitto.~"

"Yeah, what's it to you?" Devitto said.

"I've heard that you two are… special. And I would like you to join my family."

"NO." They said at the same time. Jasdero got a glimpse at the door and noticed that Teal was standing just outside.

"Sorry, but we don't just let anyone adopt us." Devitto said.

"But I'm aware of your situation. And your powers." Their eyes were wide open. How did he know?

"What are you playing at?"

"I can offer a home where you won't be judged because of who you are. There are others like you and I can help you control your powers and put them to good use.~ Without my help it could be very destructive."

"I guess that's good." Jasdero said.

"Yeah sounds nice. But we have a favour to ask." Devitto said. "Can you adopt our friend Teal too? She's been with us and we don't really want to be separated."

"Oh?~ Interesting." The man glanced at the door briefly and was aware of her presence since the crack got bigger. Teal moved away after he saw her. "I'm sorry boys. I'm afraid I can't. I'd really love to but I can only adopt children like you. She's not like you.~"

"Then… Then we're staying!" Devitto said.

"But Devi- What about our powers? If we can't control them, Teal might get hurt." Devitto stayed silent for a while then agreed.

"You got adopted?"

"Yeah. We leave tonight. Apparently, that guy wants to take us as soon as possible."

"Teal… We're sorry, but you can't come with us. We asked him if he could adopt you but he says he can't." Devitto said. "You gonna be alright?"

"Yeah. I'll be okay. It's just… I have a mixed feeling about this. I'm really happy for you. You're gonna go to a new home and get stronger. But we can't be together anymore."

Jasdero gave her a hug to comfort her because she looked like she was about to cry.

"It's okay. It is just gonna be the start of an adventure, right?" Jasdero said. "We'll see each other again."

"Ri-right." Teal nodded.

"Promise us." Devitto said. "We'll meet again. And we'll all become stronger. Alright?"

"Kay! I'll become stronger too! I'll look forward to the day that we meet again."

She went with us to the door and we exchanged our final goodbyes. We gave her a black and gold ribbon as a final present and we left with a person, Tyki and one other man to a carriage that took us to that person's place.

We did like where we were going to live, a lot. We were surprised that we were going to help this man, the Millennium Earl, or Lord Millennium make this world a better place. That means exterminating humans that have poisoned this world. Not all humans would be exterminated. If they sided with Lord Millennium, they would be spared. The others have been poisoning this world and we didn't mind killing them. They were all jerks and hated us so they deserve to die.

One day, we received word that an akuma arrived at our old orphanage and killed many of the children and teachers. There were no survivors. We couldn't bear it. The only person who ever cared for us has died. She might as well have been someone from a dream. Lord Millennium noticed our sorrow and offered to erase our memories to erase the pain. There was nothing left for us from our past so we agreed.

Over the past weeks, the memories were restored. At first it was bothering us then it didn't matter. What matters is that we had each other and that was all we need. Seeing her again for the first time as an exorcist, it makes us want to kill her. She betrayed us. Maybe, somewhere deep down, we feel like we want to see her just one more time. If the girl who cared for a monster was still alive.