The Wild Revolver (Under Editing)

Chapter 16| The evil twin

There was noise when I was slowly awakening. People cheering and screaming, as though it was a kind of football game... no! People yell weirdly when they support their teams, "Ooh-we-owe-owe-owe! Owe! Owe!" That's something that doesn't make sense. Where was it even derived?

     These people were shouting and screaming, a mishmash of those two.

     As my eyes slowly opened to the redness before me, my nose picked up the smell of evil. I looked up and saw what I had been told all along.

     "Hello, twin sister," the girl before me smiled. "Looks like I am looking at my own mirror."

     I frowned, "You're the evil me."

     "Well of course I am," she smiled. "Crimes are classic. Or should I say- classics?"

     She giggled as she looked away. It was a pun that hadn't made any sense. She then added, "You see, I know more about books in your world than you do."

     "So?" I shot an eye at her as I tried moving my hands. Some kind of magnetic property was holding me back.

     "So, if you answer this question right, I'll let you live," she said, turning to me.

     "Ask."

     "Why did you come to this world?"

     "To kill you, obviously," I said briefly. I didn't want to reveal too much.

     "To kill me," she retorted lightly. "To kill me?" Her lips stretched into a smile and then she burst into a laughter for about two second. "And how will you kill me when you're held back by a super magnet, super cooled by noble gases and made and enhanced to attract any kind of ferrous or non-ferrous metal, charged or chargeable, controlled by our ultra computer, huh?

     I gasped.

      "How did you get to know about it?"

       "About what? The fact that your blood isn't pure? Is that the secret you are trying to hide? I have my ways."

     She then drew closer to me, saying, "I have tried to extract the blood from you but I've failed. All subjects exposed to your blood die, mainly because your blood is impure and partly because you belong to a parallel universe. But... perhaps you and I though opposite in nature, have some common properties."

     "I am not like you, thank you very much," I spat.

     "But you are, my twin sister, Rose. Together, if we join forces, we can cause destruction-"

     "I am not going to become your tool of destruction!"

       She stood up and stared at me. "Don't get me wrong, my dear twin sister. You are not going to become my tool. Not an instrument, I assure you. Because... you are my twin sister, and consider us joining our hands in helping one another. Ruling both worlds by order and by decree."

      I looked at her cunning face and shook my head. "You are lying to me. I decline. I cannot-"

     "Consider this," she cut me short, "you wanted a sister as badly as I do. You hated your father and are completed subdued by his power. But I rule my father. So together, we can live the normal life you badly deserve to have-"

     "You'll keep dreaming about that, but you won't achieve it in a donkey's years," I spat. She grinned slyly.

     "Hm... I see that you've adapted some slang from our world," she said. "I can feel that somebody taught you, yet you were found in the woods."

     Worry drew in me.

     "There are still people in that forest, aren't there?" she asked. I gulped.

     "No, I was all alone," I quickly said.

     "I can read your eyes," she said. "And I can already tell that you aren't a pretty little liar."

     "No, I am telling you the truth," I said, tears dripping from my eyes.

     "Join me or else, they'll get to die."

     "They'll not die because there's no one in the woods!" I exclaimed.

      "So you don't mind me dropping a nuclear device in the forest?"

     What?

       "I'm telling you- there's no one in the forest."

       "Not even a soul?"

        "Not even one."

      "So you are okay with me grounding the forest with everything in it, aren't you?"

      I stared at her, my throat die. A word would cause the death toll to rise from zero to four, three of whom I cared about.