"God, Airo, do you plan on setting the entire forest on fire?" Storm whipped around to face his twin sister. His sister didn't look at him. Instead, she raised her hand and the tree next to her burst into flames, joining the hundreds of trees behind her. Already, the air above the siblings were black with smoke.
"I'm careful to not let any of the other trees burn. Just the ones I'm setting on fire," Airo drawled to her brother, rolling her eyes. "And if the rest of the trees catch on fire, what's the harm?"
Storm smirked. Typical Airo. "True...true that. Fine, burn away the forest. I could truly care less."
He turned back around to walk slowly through the forest. He sighed. Life was so boring these days. Master didn't have any quests for him to complete, and he was getting restless.
Storm ran his hand through his golden-brown hair. He sighed again. Where was the enemy....his heart accelerated when he thought about killing.
"Airo!" Storm whipped around to face his twin for the second time.
"What?" Airo snapped, her eyes blazing with annoyance. "Are you going to tell me to stop burning the bugs next? Gosh, stop it!"
"No, no, no. You up for a challenge, little sister?" Storm grinned, taking out his sword.
A challenge?" Airo looked at her brother. "Oh. You know I could beat you in about 10 seconds."
"No, I've practiced. You'll find it harder to defeat me now." Storm pushed his sleeves up. "Are you up for it, little sister? Or are you scared?"
"You wish," Airo sneered, drawing her own sword out. "Bring it, bro."
Storm leaped forward in one bound, his sword flashing in the bright fire and sun beaming down form the sky. With a snarl, Airo blocked her brother's powerful thrust. She dug her heels into the ground, but the impact of Storm's hit sent her flying backwards. She landed about 20 feet away, next to a crumbling black tree.
Storm jumped backwards, landing neatly on his feet. "Ready for round two, Airo?" he taunted, winking.
Airo growled, sprang to her feet, and launched herself across the distance seperating herself with her brother, and attacked him.
"A friendly match!" Storm laughed, parrying the blow.
"In which I will win!" Airo exclaimed, slashing this way and that, her moves a blur.
Storm grinned, but his smile faltered when he missed blocking one of Airo's blows. He gritted his teeth in pain as Airo's sword entered his flesh, sinking deep into his magic bloodstream.
"Still as fast as ever, aren't you, Airo?" Storm clenched his teeth, dropping his sword to kneel before his sister.
"Of course." Airo sniffed, pulling her sword out of her brother's sword arm. She wiped the dark blood on the grass, and sheathed her sword. "Need healing?"
"I'm not useless, dear sister. I can heal myself quite well." Storm snapped, angry he had lost again. He never won against Airo....she was just too fast for him...no matter his great swordsmenship, he had no ability to exceed his own sister. "Damn it." he muttered, putting his right hand over his left arm. "Heal." he murmured. His flesh started to knit itself back together again.
"You're just too weak, Storm. You'll never beat me." Airo smiked, pulling her sleeves back to start burning trees again. "But, nevertheless, I must thank you. You made the blood flow in my body again."
Storm stood up, sulking. What a terrible sister he had. This was definitely not the way he had planned for this to happen.
Meanwhile, miles away, Kiyo sees a black cloud of ash from buring trees drifting in to the sky...
~Alina
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