Memoirs of an Ember
It was probably about 1:30am in the morning when Peyton and I decided to watch Accepted. We were obsessed with this particular movie mainly because of the guy trying to learn how to blow things up with his mind. Of course, I couldn't see the actual film, one of the only things my hearing can't help with, but Peyton has explained it so many times I have a detailed description in my mind. I looked over to said person and asked, "Are you craving ice cream 'cause I am."
Peyton grinned and replied back, "I swear you and ice cream are going to get married one day." I started to laugh and took on an innocent face, "But then I'd end up eating my own husband. What kind of wife would I be then?" She looked over to me, "Touché."
We busted out laughing as we paused the movie to go grab some ice cream. We were still giggling and making fun of eachother as we headed to the kitchen. Of course I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings and ended up tripping over my own feet, grabbing Peyton in the process we both tumbled to the ground. We screamed as we landed face first on the hardwood floors. We looked at each other and burst out laughing again to the point where both of us could barely breathe. Peyton gasped out between laughing, "Nice going… Embri! Tripp…ing….haha….over…..your own….feet!"
I gasped back, "Hey!…I'm…the…blind one….here! Haha!" Before we knew it the lights flicked on and we looked to the end of the hall from the direction we had come from. Genkai was standing there in all her glory with one of here peevish looks on her face.
"What are you two doing?" She asked. Peyton, unlike me who was still rolling on the floor, was able to stop laughing and sat up as she took on a serious face and replied, "Sitting on the floor." Genkai just glared at us harder, "Go to bed, now." Peyton stood up from the floor and walked past Genkai forgetting about the ice cream and that the movie was still on with me at her heels. Once we turned a few corners down the hallway we stopped at our doors, right across from each other, and turned to face each other.
Peyton's dark chocolate, almost a red, eyes glowed in the dark, her short choppy bangs hanging in her eyes. The back of her hair ended at the nap of her neck and got longer in the front. My eyes were a mix of browns, greens, and blues, but now they were frosted over from my blindness. My bangs were also choppy but the were long enough to put into a ponytail. The rest of my hair was down to about my collarbone in choppy, messy layers.
Peyton opened her mouth and quietly said, "Night Ember." I smiled at the nickname she gave me all those years ago when we found out I was a pyro. Once I was about eight, going through a rebellious stage and blew up our lawnmower with gasoline. I gave a small smile as I yawned out, "Night chickadee."
We turned our back to each other and walked into our rooms plopping down onto our respective beds and crashed.
The Next Morning
I woke up in a daze, feeling the warmth of the sun through my window. 'Wait… sun? OH MY GOD! I slept in!' I shot out of bed as I did my usual routine of getting ready. I took a shower, dressed in sweats and a spaghetti-strap as I blow dried my hair and straightened it, I put on a very light amount of cover up and blush, brushed my teeth, and finally put on deodorant.
I stepped out of my room and peaked into Peyton's room and called out her name, not liking to use my power if I know the area well enough. She didn't answer so I guessed that she was in the kitchen. I walked down the hall into the kitchen, hearing Genkai and Peyton turning their bodies I guessed the saw me come in. Genkai spoke first, "About time you got up you bum." I gave a sheepish grin as I put my hand behind my head and said back, "Haha, my bad. Why didn't anyone wake me up?" It was Peyton's turn now, "We tried, but you were like an unmoving rock." All three of us laughed at this as I sat down and a plate of food was set in front of me. It grew quiet for a few minutes until I was finished eating breakfast.
Genkai was the one to break the silence, "Girls, I haven't told you every story." This statement caught Peyton's attention and mine. "What do you mean gran'ma?" Peyton asked at the same time. She sighed as she started to explain, "You two were not the first of spirit world's Spirit Detectives. There were a few groups before you. The last one's leader, Yusuke…was my apprentice. His and his team of four Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei spent a lot of their time here." I interrupted her, "How did they become Spirit Detectives?" She continued, "Yusuke, had died saving a kid from a car wreck and was givin a second chance by Koenma as long as he became a Spirit Detective. Kuwabara, Yusuke's best friend and rival, was a human that had a sixth sense allowing him to feel spiritual pressure."
"Kurama, was a very powerful fox demon sealed away into a human. He was caught along with Hiei, The Forbidden Child, when the stole artifacts from Koenma's vault." I gasped as I learned that my gran'ma knew The Forbidden Child. He was one of the stories so told to us as we were kids, I had always felt so bad for him I often fell asleep crying for him. Peyton piped up, "Wait, what is the point of you telling us this gran'ma?"
She Smiled as she gladly replied, "I Had gotten a call from Kuwabara a few days ago. He said he and the others wanted to come stay here for a while to relax about a month or so. I told him about you two and said that I wanted to make sure you two wouldn't mind first." Both of us ended up giving her funny looks as I said, "Of Course we wouldn't mind. You probably haven't seen them in so long." Peyton nodded her head as I talked. Genkai smiled again, "Thank you, girls. Oh just so you know, Yusuke and Kuwabara's girlfriends will be coming as well."
Peyton raised her hand, for a reason I don't know, and asked another question, "How old are these people?" Genkai leaned back in her chair as she said, "Yusuke, Keiko, his girlfriend, and Kuwabara are about two years older than you two. Then Hiei and his twin sister Yukina, Kuwabara's girlfriend, are about 387 years old, also Hiei does not want Yukina to know they are twins, it's complicated." She added as she saw our faces.
She paused, "And lastly sense I heard Kurama took on his former form of Youko Kurama he-" "WAIT, WAIT, WAIT! As in the Youko Kurama, The King of Thieves?" Peyton screamed. Genkai sighed, "Yes, so he should be around 734 years old now." Peyton and I stayed looking calm, but one look from each other and we knew we were screaming our heads off in our minds. "Sense you two have agreed I'll see to it that the boys will get here from The Makai in a weeks time," said Genkai as she got up from the table to leave.
As soon as she left we turned to each other and said at the same time, "This is going to be wicked." When we did say it though we got into one of our various arguments about not coping one another.
(I hoped you liked this chapter. The moments between Peyton and Embri are inspired by my friends and I. Also I would like to mention that I have forgotten how old the boys are so i decided to guess, hehe, I am to tired to look it up on line. I would like to thank dragonwingedangel and Sabixa-luvs-Axel for reviewing my story.)