Champions of Balance: Wolfbane

In the Middle Ages, a country called Onotowa (Ana-towa), is protected by the wolf spirits of Yin and Yang. In the town called Masimuwa (Mas-e-moo-wa), young seventeen-year-old Su-Ming Wolfbane awoke up from her sleep. Her messy bleach blonde hair rested on the right side of her shoulder. Still in her pajamas ―a white shirt with gray pants― she got up from her bed and looked around her room.

      It isn’t much, but she still loves it. The floor is made out of wood, her bed on one side of the room, her dresser on the other. It’s pretty cool, for on the top rim of the dresser it has a wooden wolf outline carved on it, the wolf being in a running position. Next to her bed on the wall is a round window rimmed with fake gold, the walls a colorless white. Her desk lay in one corner of the room.

      Su stretched as the sound of a knock entered her range of hearing.

      “Come in,” Su said, trying not to sound tired. Her uncle came in, “Good morning Su-Ming,” he said.

      Now, a little story about her uncle; his real name is Aaron Wolfbane, but Su and her twin brother Kenai call him Sensei Mewa. His hair is black, and he’s in his early forties (though he always claims he’s thirty). His eyes are emerald green, and he has this necklace around his neck: a silver string with a blue, cylinder diamond shaped crystal, and it almost looks like ice. Not once as Kenai and her ever seen him without the necklace around his neck. Su once asked him where he got it, for it looks cool― but he’d always wink at them and say it’s something soon to be revealed. The answer never really revealed itself.

      “Morning Sensei Mewa,” replied Su. Sensei tried hard not to grin at her messy blonde hair, “Good morning Su. Remember to wake your brother up after you clean yourself up, alright?”

      Su nodded. She put on her Yin necklace when Sensei Mewa left the door. Her brother Kenai has a similar necklace, only his is the Yang half. Both necklaces form the Yin and Yang: Light vs. Darkness . . . Good vs. Evil . . .

      Su shook that last thought out of her mind. Just because Kenai controls darkness, doesn’t make him evil.

      She looked at the mirror as she brushed her hair, her blue eyes looking sleepy. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes after she put down the brush.

      Now that she’s done, it’s time for the fun part: waking up Kenai. Grinning, she got a small bucket of water and headed for Kenai’s room.

      Now, a quick warning before you meet Su’s overprotective brother. Ever since their parents’ death a few years back, something inside of him became more and more unstable, and he himself became distant. He still jokes around, but it’s rarely, usually during practice. Yet that is no excuse for Su to have some fun, right?

      As Su slowly opened the door, she can hear him snoring like a wolf. She got out a bucket of water and splashed water at Kenai’s face.

      Big mistake on her part.

      When the water landed, he was jolted awake as he sprung into action. In an instant, a sword gripped on his right hand ― but the left hand?

      Pure black wolf claws on his finger tips; two inches away in front of Su’s face.