TruDivination: Does anyone here know how hard it is to type up a story when your younger sister is watching season one of Hetalia in the same room?
MasteroftheMidnightYard: Oh, don't mind me. I just need to see Italy do stuff right now before I suffer withdrawal so MAN UP OR I'LL BEAT YOU WITH MY PEACE PRIZE!
TruDivination: *sigh* Why all of the distractions?
MasteroftheMidnightYard: PAAAAAAAAAAAASSTTTAAAAAAAA!
TruDivination: Would you stop it already OMG IT'S CHIBITALIA!
MasteroftheMidnightYard: Surrender to the cuteness!
TruDivination: Ok, I really have to get back to work. Chibitalia is technically in this chapter though. YAAAAY! Oh, and it is supposed to be spelled "TwiRight".
MasteroftheMidnightYard: *singing to Marukaite Chikyuu*
The Hetallious Chronicles
Chapter 8
TwiRight Prank
Year 491
I'll be the day/
I'll be the night/
Together we make a beautiful orange sky
Two young children walked down the beach, hand in hand. They were twins, a boy and a girl, both the age of five.
The reflection of the setting sun bathed the two with a soft orange glow, causing their dark hair to appear more crimson, and their light eyes to seem darker. Both had a stray curl on their hair, the girl's on the right and the boy's on the left. Such curls were very common now in the Kingdom of Lucifenia, where these two resided.
The male twin, Feliciano, glanced behind him. His auburn hair blew in front of his face as his caramel eyes came to rest on the footprints on the sand behind him. He and his sister Chiara had really gone a long way from their home when they had snuck away from their caretakers that afternoon. They had wanted to go and see the ocean by themselves, but they had never been allowed to. Finally, Chiara decided they weren't going to listen to the stupid adults. Each of them taking a snack, they waited until their nanny's back was turned, and then ran towards the beach.
Suddenly, something caught Feliciano's eye. A figure was rising from the horizon. This looked interesting! He looked up, and immediately screamed.
The demon that Feliciano had noticed smirked.
Panicking, Feliciano turned back around and ran as fast as his five-year-old legs could carry him, his hand still firmly clasped around his sister's. And almost immediately, he tripped over a rock and started crying.
"What are you doing, stupid?"
Feliciano looked up to the plainly annoyed, but slightly concerned, face of his sister. She picked up Feliciano, who was now hysterically blubbering on about the "scary demon who wanted to eat him". She brushed her dark chocolate hair out of her golden eyes as she looked back to where her twin saw the "demon". But saw nothing. Her face was laced with worry as she slowly set her brother down, telling him there was nothing back there.
"This stupid twilight is just playing pranks on us! You're being an idiot and freaking out. Let's just get home already. It's almost dark, and I don't want to be lost out here."
The two set out again. Feliciano kept checking behind him every few seconds to see if the demon was back. After ten minutes of looking back, he was reassured that there was no demon, and he finally stopped checking.
Immediately, a cry came across the waters of the ocean, stopping the twins in their tracks.
"Let me swallow you into my stomach so that we can play together!"
The demonic figure was back, and it was slowly moving across the ocean, headed for Feliciano and Chiara!
The twins looked at each other with terror on their faces. And they ran, hands still firmly clasped together, away from the small chest they had buried in the sand earlier that day, the reason they had gone to the beach in the first place.
Soon though, the twins had to stop running and rest. They climbed up on top of a tall rock and sat down, breathing heavily. The demon came to the base of the rock, but strangely did not attempt to climb up. Instead, it looked at the children with hunger in its eyes.
The two children remained shaking at the top of the rock. They tried to find a way to escape, but couldn't. They were trapped. All the two could do was wait until the demon made it's way up and devoured them both.
Feliciano's voice suddenly broke through the tense silence.
"Nanny told me of a way to keep safe during twilight."
Chiara looked at her twin, confused.
"If you make yourself the twilight, you'll stay safe. I don't know what she meant though…"
Chiara thought about this, then nodded, quite glad to have her mind off the demon,
"Okay then. Twilight is made of two parts, day and night. I'll be the day."
Feliciano smiled.
"I'll be the night then."
Chiara looked down at the demon.
"You stupid demon! Now you can't hurt us. I'm the day, my brother is the night! And since we're together, we're twilight! And you can't do anything!"
The demon looked mournfully at the two, and then at the snack Chiara was holding in the hand that was not clasped around her brother's hand. Chiara followed its gaze.
"And I'm not sharing my snack with you either, you big jerk!"
The demon turned its gaze to Feliciano, and put a wretched look on its face.
"Even if I swallow half the world, I will always be hungry."
Feliciano looked at the demon. He could see that the demon was miserable. All it wanted was something to eat! He began to feel really sorry for it. It must be horrible to always be hungry!
But Feliciano didn't want to be eaten. He glanced at his own snack, then held it out.
"I'll give my snack to you then. If I do that, will you leave us alone?"
The demon nodded.
Feliciano let go of his sister's hand and climbed down the rock, completely ignoring Chiara's screams of protest. He handed the snack to the demon, and it was immediately swallowed whole.
Then it turned to the young boy, smiling. Feliciano cautiously started to back away, but then the demon spoke again.
"You amuse me, noble prince. For your generosity, I think I'll give you a little secret about the ocean."
The demon held out its hand, and a scrap of paper materialized above it. The paper floated into Feliciano's hands, and he looked at it with curiosity. After reading it, he looked up confused, but the demon had vanished.
Chiara clambered down the rock and ran to her brother, screaming about how he was so stupid and the demon could have eaten him, and then she would be left alone.
After a while, she stopped hurling insults at Feliciano. No one knew where the five year old had picked up those words, but no one really wanted to know, either. She stared intently at the piece of paper in his hand, plainly interested.
"So what does the paper say anyway?"
Feliciano smiled at his twin and grabbed her hand again. They set off for home again, with Chiara still begging to know what the secret of the ocean was all the way.
"Don't worry Chiara, I'll share the secret with you someday."
They took off again, running for the palace that they called home.
TruDivination: Normally, I'd go monologue-ing about something incredibly stupid with the rest of my siblings. But today, I am not. So here's the cast list, and enjoy the cruel irony!
Chiara: South Italy (remember what I said earlier about characters playing more than one role?)
Feliciano: North Italy (see above comment)
TruDivination: And next we have Daughter of Evil, one of my FAVORITES! Guess who Chiara is in that song!
MasteroftheMidnightYard: Hey! Why can you say spoilers and I can't?
FlyingElephants: Obviously, it's because you don't find favor with the Vocaloid pens.
MasteroftheMidnightYard: What?
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FlyingElephants: The Vocaloid pens really want you to press that review button. It helps with their ability to do my homework.
MasteroftheMidnightYard: Seriously, WTF?