The Legend of the Eclipse Twins

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It was a hard ride between two different riders. One could ride great accuracy in the night, but the other moved with greater accuracy during the day. The twins flew their griffins for a full week. Due to their different powers, both had their own disadvantages during the day and night. Tereus was the nightly warrior, and his powers were best during the night, and Teriel was the lightly warrior and her power was the best during the day.

During the opposite of day and night, Teriel and Tereus were at par with their powers. One power was stronger than the other. Teriel's eyes saw better during the day, and Tereus's eyes saw better during the night. Both were opposite of each other and both of different genders. There's was no guarantee who was the stronger than the other when it came to their power. And for five hard days of winged travel, they kept swapping between griffins because of their disadvantage of different parts of the day and night.

Teriel would ride her brother's griffin during the night, and she took the advantage to sleep when riding under the cover of the night sky. Then Tereus would tide on his sister's griffin during the day, and he would sleep during the day when stayed awake during the night.

But during their travels together back, they often would joke with each other and try to keep each other awake during the night and day. The days they spent with their father and mother in the city to look at all the agricultures of statues, bath houses, theaters, aqueducts all made of marble stone and brick.

Many walks in the marketplace in a town square where people did business, even at the foot of a large temple of worship to the gods of Sun and Moon. All dressed in the finest of togas made of the expensive, top-quality silks.

The marketplace crowded with the richest people with the poorest slaves forced to wear ripped, torn tunics. Exquisite jewelry and shining necklaces hung around every woman, and every many a wristband to show how wealthy a person was and what money could bring a person.

Even as kids, the Twins didn't act spoiled that much. All they needed to do was point and whatever their fingers pointed at, they got to them. Food, their own jewelry, and weapons. The sister always chose the bow with arrow but without an arrowhead to poke at somebody's head, and the brother would choose the wooden sword with a pointed top to poke someone's head.

The Twins' childhood always compressed of friendly, rival competition to see which twin was the superior twin. Competitions always ended up with broken bones, shattered skulls, and bloody knuckles and feet. A few minor causes of damages done to the marketplaces, blood of sacrificial animals splattered over temple walls, and gobbling of a hundred-foot-statue of a god for worship upon a temple and a high priest's villa were also causes of strong competition from the twins' recklessness, carelessness, and self-egos.

The parents, being the protective caretakers they need to be, encouraged their children to be competitive, and strongly overlooked the damages they do throughout the city.

The father was a military styled person who had no loyalty to the city's king and its kingdom, but he was someone of equal importance when it came to its magical facilities. The head honcho of the academies to oversee the training of young magicians showing potential to be trained as fully fledge mages.

The mother was just a solder-for-hire, a mercenary. She was an inheritor of the old house belonging to the twins the night they escaped from the city. Her life spent in the military not to train but to fight for money. She was rather a selfish person with no attention of joining any organization unless it's regards a few coins added to her purse.

It is not known how two different people came into marriage that created the Twins, and the parents never told their children how the parents met. The parents only taught them how to fight, use magic, and survive in the wilderness with only bow and arrow, which was the sister's field of expertise.