Hey everyone! Sorry this is extremely late, life got hectic because school started. Then I got my driving permit and blah blah blah. Yeah… life is fun. xD Oh well. Here's chapter five, hope ya enjoy. Read and review!
Chapter Five
New Questions.
Who are the Daniel Twins?
Maka POV
The sizzling pop of dinner cooking was a small comfort, a semblance of normality in a world I was positive was slowly going crazy. The two girls that had joined school were making new questions constantly pop up for me, and it was confusing to say the least. I had gone shopping with them and the other girls to get dresses for the upcoming anniversary party. I had done even more extensive research on the matter of an unstable soul, even going to the point of asking my good-for-nothing papa to borrow his ID to get another book that I wanted on it.
With a sigh I turned my mind from the twins and focused on not burning the fish I was making for Blair and Soul. My dinner – I had opted out of fish tonight – was a salad that was already done and just waiting for me to take it to the table with the other two's dinner. Thinking back on the party… that was tomorrow wasn't it? Yesterday had been Wednesday, making today Thursday, and the party was on Friday… so yes, the party was tomorrow.
"Oh Soul, the party is tomorrow night, remember?" I asked, turning slightly to catch a look at the albino on the couch watching TV. I think it was some cops show on, I'm not sure; I didn't usually pay attention to the shows that Soul watched.
"Whatever, it's not like I'm excited about going or anything," he scoffed, waving a hand above his head as if to dismiss the subject.
I twitched; grasp tightening on the spatula in my hand before I tossed it. I smirked in satisfaction when I heard a startled yelp and Soul whining about how "getting kitchen utensils tossed on me is so uncool Maka". Oh yes, the target was hit. With a smile, I turned back to the dinner. Picking up the pan, I scooted the fish onto the two separate plates that already had steaming rice on them. I picked them up, and walked over to the table, setting them down before going back to get my salad and then putting it in my place.
"Soul! Blair! Dinner's done!" I called, sitting down in my seat.
"Cool, food," I heard Soul, along with Blair's "Nyaa~ I smell fish~". I could only smile as they took their seats and then we just started eating. This was common for us, eating in silence with only the occasional conversation brought up. Usually this involved Soul insulting me and me hitting him in retaliation. Surprisingly though, tonight was uneventful in that manner. I didn't have to hit Soul once, and he appeared lost in thought.
"Hey, what's on your mind, Soul?" I asked, curiosity getting the better of me.
"It's nothing you need to bother yourself with Tiny Tits," he said.
Instantly I grabbed the nearest book to me and slammed it into his skull.
"Owwww! Damn it Maka, stop being so damn violent!" he growled at me, both hands over his head as if he was trying to protect it and will the pain away.
"Sorry I was just trying to be nice; you don't have to insult me and my body!" I snapped before taking my plate to the sink. I then retrieved my book and went to my room. I flipped on the desk lamp and took a seat, settling the book in front of me and starting to read.
Unstable souls are the result of either traumatizing experimentation or an internal conflict that cannot be settled with a simple decision or professional help. In very few cases it has been recorded that both options have caused a soul to become unstable.
An unstable soul generally cannot make up their minds easily. It can take hours to decide something simple that would take a stable soul only a few minutes. With an unstable soul, it is also much easier to slip into becoming a prekishin. The temptation is heavier weighed when there is no stability…
I skimmed further down the page, brows furrowed. If Victoria's soul was unstable… what had caused it? Did it have something to do with the past the twins didn't want to discuss? Thinking about that only brought around more questions. What had they done that would cause a soul to become unstable?
With a sigh I closed the book and set it to the side, pushing up from my desk into a standing position. I had to do research on them, and I couldn't do that here. Walking out of my room, I glanced over at Soul. "Hey, I'm going to the library at school before it closes. I'll be back later," I said, and I got a vague response in return by him waving his hand. With a shake of my head, I was out the door and on the way to the school.
I was walking at a fast pace so that I could get there faster, but I didn't expect to run into Tsubaki. I stopped and smiled at her, lifting a hand in a wave. She smiled back at me and came to a stop in front of me. She had shopping bags in her hands; she must have just come back from the store.
"Hey Tsubaki!" I chirped, happy as ever to see my friend.
"Hello Maka. What are you doing out?" she asked, a slight tilt to her head.
"I'm heading out to the library to do some research actually," I replied, "I thought I could use their computers before it closed for the night."
"Are you researching something to do with the twins?" she asked.
I almost felt someone guilty for a moment before nodding slowly. "Yeah, I am. I was looking up some stuff and then it made some other questions come up."
She nodded slightly. "Alright Maka, but shouldn't you just ask them?"
"Probably, but you saw how Victoria clams up. I need some answers, and I really don't think she's going to give them to me," I said.
Tsubaki only nodded before telling me that she had to go, bidding me a good night, and I did the same. With that, I continued on my way to the school. I got there thirty minutes before closing time for the library, so I hurried in to use one of the computers. I logged in quickly with my student ID and opened up a web search.
/ Search: Daniel Twins
/ 105 matches to your search request.
I blinked at the sight of how many entries there were and started to scan them. It looked like they all had something to do with the twins I knew…
/ Daniel Twins strike again, scaring out more than 20 kishin eggs.
/ Daniel Twins off the map. Dead or working silently?
/ Twins found working with –
I clicked on the third link, curiosity making me wonder about the link title. Who were they working with and why did the title cut off like that? I waited patiently for it to load, but the sight that met me when it did was not one I wanted to see.
/ Sorry, this website is no longer available
I paged back and clicked on the other links, getting the same response. What was going on? Obviously someone did want people researching the twins, why else would suddenly all of the links not work anymore? I decided to try one last link and almost cheered when it went through without the page being canceled. Quickly I started to read.
/ Daniel Twins have made the news, speaking with the top police in London. It seems that they have struck up a deal. They would keep the kishin eggs off the streets in return for pay…
… The twins have also made it publically aware that they are hit men, for a price they will take out whoever you need.
Click here to see a video recently taken of them meeting with a potential customer.
I blinked slowly; there was a lot of information on this page. So Miranda was telling the truth, they were hit men. But this article still didn't give me any information on what sort of jobs they had done. All of the pages with that information had been deleted… This really only made more questions pop up and that was starting to annoy me.
Just for the sake of saying I did, I clicked on the video link. I fervently wished that it would load; this might fill in some questions.
/ Sorry, this video cannot be found at the moment
"Damn it!" I hissed, fists hitting against the desk. The moment of being pissed off was replaced almost instantly with the dull beat of pain from my hands. With a sigh, I simply logged off the computer. I wasn't going to get any answers this way.
I stood from the desk and pushed in the chair, then headed out of the library towards home while nursing my hands. Guess I really was going to have to talk to twins about their pasts…