Eyes of White

Chapter 1: Introducing The Evil

**The base ideas (Wardens, The Evil, troubletwisters, Gifts) weren't made up by me. All of these bases belong to Garth Nix and Sean Williams. Only the characters Penelope and Persephone were thought up by me. Enjoy!**

Persephone looked up at the one black cloud sliding through the sky and shivered. She hated storms. Hopefully it didn't storm.

She thought this last thought over and over, but to no avail. A single fork of lightning shot down two blocks away from their house. It was followed by the loudest rumble of thunder Persephone had ever heard. She squealed with fright and ran inside.

In doing so, she bumped into Penelope, her twin sister.

"Is it storming?" Penelope asked excitedly. Unlike her sister, she loved rain and despised the sun. Persephone quite enjoyed the sun and hated dark clouds.

"Sort of," Persephone said. "There's lightning and thunder, but no rain."

"Darn it!" Penelope shouted and stomped her foot. Suddenly, the black cloud dispersed. "No! Come back!"

Persephone snickered. "It's okay. I'm sure it'll come back! I mean, you told it to..."

"Oh shut UP!"

"Fine."

Penelope frowned. The sun had disappeared. "What? The clouds... did come back!"

"Crap!" Persephone ran out of the hall to the safety of her own room.

Penelope giggled and rushed outside. As soon as she got outside, a downpour began. She span around and around. A tornado started to swirl around her. She stopped spinning as lightning started stabbing down through the wind, hoping in vain that it would stop.

"Help!" she screamed, hoping someone - her dad, Persephone, her mum - would come. None of these three people came, and yet something heard her. Something with unblinking white eyes that pierced her soul and made her go weak. "Help me!"

++We can help you,++ screamed a voice in her head. ++We can make it all right. Just join us!++

Persephone rushed out. "Sis?"

"Help." Penelope's cry came out as a squeak.

"Wait, Sis, I'm coming." Persephone slipped in through the wind and dust. Then she gasped.

++Ah, the other troubletwister. Welcome! Join us! Hold out your hand and end all fear and pain.++

Persephone shook her head. "No. Just no."

++Penelopeeee. Penelopeeee. Will you join?++

Penelope looked around, like she was waking up from a dream.

++That's right. Good girl. We will teach you everything.++

Penelope hesitated, then, slowly, her arm began to stretch out towards the pure milky eyes.

"No!" shouted a voice, and lightning zapped at Penelope's feet, bringing her to her senses.

The twin's mum rushed in front of them and held up a trident. A golden trident. Lightning zapped down, water splashed up, they mingled and shot through the trident, and onto the eyes.

++Nooo-++ The eyes disappeared and the twins slumped to the ground, Penelope whispering, "Mum..." before becoming unconscious.

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