The Legend of the Eclipse Twins

THE TRUTH DISCOVERED

Teriel watched as the sun's rays of light peered over the western horizon. She witnessed the true enemy with her very eyes: a Devil! It was the Commander who plotted everything and saw it was he who had the King and the Soothsayer under his control. Now she needed to get word back to her brother and the others as to what she had seen and battled.

Before she could, she only screamed, "ARGGH!"

Blood dripped from her shoulder, and it was the same shoulder that the Devil stabbed a red finger into. It was a deep thick cut three inches wide enough to see the bone with its ligaments and the muscle finger.

Teriel knelt to her legs to cease the stress of her tightened muscles crossing from her legs, spine, and her shoulders. She ripped off a long fragment of her white uniform to cover the stab wound. Since it was rather slightly wide like a hole in the ground, Teriel ripped apart a long and wide piece of cloth from her cape to wrap around her wound to keep the human blood inside.

"Tereus battled the Soothsayer only to get a wound where it healed when he changed from dragon to human," she complained. "Why can't my wound feel the same way?"

"Because the Soothsayer was only a mortal form, Teriel," said a man's familiar voice.

Carvilius walked over to the girl Eclipse Twin and knelt beside her. He held out a white cloth in hand and moved it across Teriel's tied band on her shoulder. It was soft, damp, and a stingy cloth.

"Er," Teriel grunted as she felt a soft moisture with small spikes like thorns of a rose stem crawl on the cloth covering her wound. "Is that a cleaning wipe used for babies when they are shitty messy, Carvilius?"

"I thought you thought I was a bitchy soldier," said Carvilius.

"Don't change the subject, bitchy soldier, and answer the damn, fucking question.

"No, the wipe is not, it is a purified wipe of a pool found in my ancestors' house," he said smiling.

"Thank you for proper answer. Why do boys always change the subject when asked a simple question when they answer an improper answer when it's not related to a girl's question being asked?

"Because we maybe too retarded and stupid to even stay on the task at hand."

"Like serving your king who is the puppet of the real enemy: a Devil. Or from what the dark elf said, a Devil Necromancer!"

Carvilius stopped brushing with the wet wipe and flung it over his shoulder. He only remained silent, showing he knows full well what the Commander really was all along and never told anyone about it.

Teriel could look Carvilius's eyes and see there was no conflict between choosing which side is the correct side to choose.

He is allowing himself to become a real puppet and toss away his humanity, which is something that needs to die with the Devil Necromancer, she thought.

"What are you going to do now, soldier?" asked Teriel. Her voice was the tone of an adult, and her thoughts were set crystal clear on the matter at hand.

"Do what a loyal soldier must do: report of his superiors of the pressing events unfolding," answered Carvilius, if he was a brainwashed soldier. He stood back without even trying to help a lady in distress to her own feet. "With the Soothsayer gone and the Commander's human form head, the King isn't now going to know what to do since he was a slave of the two peoples. I must do what I must do: a soldier to fight and kill his enemies!"

Then Carvilius marched like a soldier away from the Twin as she got up on her own. The feeling of her wound was healing, but not quite so like the elf's healing magic to seal up the wound quickly.

In minutes after Carvilius left, Teriel was finally joined by the dark elf who was unharmed and unfazed as to how she managed to survive the Devil's Tower's collapsing state.

And they were joined minutes after with Gloribrog and Naeryndam on their land animals. Then a minute later with General Khon on his wyvern, which was heavily scared during the heavy battle with harpies astride by gnomes. There was no sign of the centaurs as they may have gone back to their caves to avoid the fight of the big creatures.

Regrouped, Teriel told them everything she had seen and with the Commander being what Arelzi called a Devil Necromancer, and it meant the Devil Necromancer were earlier incarnations of previous Yin-Yang Warriors tried to fight and failed to achieve from past lifetimes of people who hold Tereus's and Teriel's powers.

Now to was up to the Eclipse Twins to stop their final enemy at the time when the moon would overlap against the sun.

They looked toward the Moon, which was close to edging toward the Sun. The next solar eclipse was at hand, and the day of which the Twins were born would have their power at the ultimate level, powerful enough to destroy the world and half the stars with one swift stroke.