New life

After a silent dinner of white rice and sweet spam, Abie took a warm shower. Ursa began unpacking all his belongings into place in his official new room. Everything was orderly placed on his desk, bureau, shelves and his closet. He placed his luggage under his bed, hoping he would never have to use them to go away from Death City.

He laid on the bed and picked up his crystal from the nightstand. It was a beautiful stone if Ursa ever let you close enough to it. It was small and was slightly jagged on one side. There were flat sides on the other half of the stone that resembled a diamond. It was a light green; it reflected a brighter color when hit by the light that wound beam of into different directions. Ursa would hide it from sight and take it out only to bask in these rays in the day. He has always wondered when he got it from though.

Ursa was very sensitive when it came it to his past. Not because he doesn't remember most of it, it was that what he did recall was in the form of visions and feelings. This would happen when he runs into familiar scents and sometimes places. They made Ursa feel very uncomfortable.

From what he understood so far from his visions and such, he was like any other shadow demon. He would eat human souls and enjoy it, but now seems like somebody else's life. Ursa would never even think about doing such wrong, he had a different life, one with Abie and, recently, with the DWMA.

Ursa doesn't know how he became with Abie, he could only remember the time he was her shadow. He's never show his true form so he didn't scare her, but he had to when she was in danger. She was being followed be a man when she was walking by herself in the woods. She was only ten years old, so she wasn't as observant as she was now. Ursa, being her shadow under the moon's light, saw him follow her as she strayed further away from her large home. He became nervous, hoping Abie would turn back, the stranger would lose her trail, or he'd keep his distance, but he didn't, when he got close enough to her he jumped out and grabbed her. Abie cried out to far away ears, but weren't heard. Ursa showed himself in the form of a demon.

He grew taller and taller, until he towered above the stranger. He resembled a bear, but with large muscles and arms. His three claws were like daggers, He performed a mixture of a scream and a yell. Abie watched with fear as he looked at her, but felt safe when his gaze was full of warmth. He turned back around to the real predator and raised his arm, then threw them at him. Abie saw Ursa slash him in the chest, and closer her eyes right before his blood splashed on the trees and the dead leaves of October. It turned out this was no man, but another demon. A red soul floated above his dead body before the corpse faded away into a gust of wind.

Ursa faced Abie, with blood on his had and cheek, worried she would be scared of him. But instead she ran to him and hugged his long body that blended into her feet. She whispered, "Hero."

They returned to her home, blood on her back from Ursa's arms in return of her hug. Her parents were too distracted with their own objectives and well being to notice her come in the house, let alone leave it. Without him to be at her side, her soul would have been swallowed. They eventually found out and tried to send him away, but it would hurt both Abie and Ursa the farther they went. They had to just learn to deal with his presence.

Since then, they have, literally, become inseparable. They become great friends, and considered each other to be family. Being with Abie was his new life, and he was glad to have a 'sister' like her. He trained himself to shift forms; it took a long time but mastered it over time. The day he changed to a human form was when he had found the stone in his pocket.

Whatever it was, that day he shifted to a boy signified change in both his and Abie's life. They could see each other eye to eye. Plus their parents weren't disturbed by his appearance, but that never mattered to them anyways.

Ghost

The sound of water stopped as Abie got dressed into comfortable night clothes. She stepped out and walked into Ursa's room. He was still looking into the rock, but looked up at her in a second.

"Ahem." Abie begun with.

"What's up?" Ursa glanced at her. She kept her 'I'm waiting' face.

"Let's go out now!" She said happily.

"Oh, that's right. The bet!" He set the crystal down on the stand. He fixed his vest, flattened out his jeans and shook his hair, "I'm ready."

He looked at Abie's clothes, long sleeve shirt and shorts. And almost like she read his mind she added, "Yes I'm going out like this." He folded his arms and walked past her to the living room, "Can you make sure my sandals are by the sofa?" She grabbed the keys from the kitchen counter and started to put her hair up in a low ponytail.

Ursa pulled out her sandals, which were under the sofa, "Come on already; I want to leave to get back earlier, I'm tired."

Abie rolled her eyes, "Then stay here."

"A promise is a promise," Abie walked to him and put her sandals on. Ursa went to the door and opened it. They exited their house knowing no trickery was needed for it to open again.

The air was warm and the breeze was warm. The moon glowed in the sky, its gaze always mischievous, and the stars flickered far out above the desert around Death City. Once again, the streets were empty and quiet. To Abie, the sensation of being watched over was gone. The footsteps weren't heard so far.

"Glad you came uh?" Abie snickered.

Ursa shrugged, "I can agree. It's such a nice city, big too. I wonder why nobodies outside on our streets, its nice out."

"Maybe their still spooked by the madness from the Kishin." She guessed. The thought of what would have happened if Asura wasn't stopped gave her chills. Even more ran down her spine when the steps begun again. "Ursa, you hear that right?" Abie muttered.

He nodded, "What about it? Just because you don't see anyone out doesn't mean you can hear them walking. In fact…" He started to trail off to the source of the echoes.

Abie grabbed his arm, "Where are you going?"

"If this is what's keeping me from a good nine hours, I'm going to show you who it is so you know it's not a ghost or anything," He gripped her hand and pulled her in his direction and lead her to the steps. "Where ever they are." Ursa looked left and right, but there was nobody to be seen.

"No, no, no! Stop, what if it's something~" She wined.

"Shh!" He stopped walking and looked off into an ally off to the side. It was his best guess where someone would be walking around. "Hello?" He said when he almost got to the mouth of the ally. Whoever this was they ran off. "See, a person!" He folded his arms.

"Wha? What makes you so sure it's was a person?" She protested.

"Ghosts spook, not "get" spooked. Probably he's shy." He laughed, feeding off her getting startled.

"You happy now? Lets just get back to the house, we wandered far enough" Not waiting for an answer, she turned around towards their house.

"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to act like a jerk or anything. I was stressed all day, we were. I think what we really need is a good rest." Ursa apologized before shifting back into a shadow.

"Its cool and I agree. We should do this on another night, when we don't have too much to thing about the next day." Abie replied.

They walked off together, unaware to the shy, blue eyes from the "ghost" that looked at them from the ally. His footsteps were silent when he came to the mouth; he saw similarities between each other.

Something dark had burst out the ghost's back and begun hitting him on the head saying, "FOOL!"

Abie heard something from behind, she stared at the ally. Not seeing anything or anyone, and knowing nobody was there, she brushed it off as wind brushing a window. Ursa and Abie continued to walk home.