The Dragonkin Twins

Ch 2: the twins

No one's POV

A boy watches the lively village from the high branch of a large tree. His figure is hidden by the thickness of the leaves. The people go on about their day, selling things in the market, farming, children playing games in the clearing, and more. The boy stands up on the branch and jumps far onto the branch on another tree. He repeats this multiple times, jumping from tree to tree across the island forest until he reaches a small one story house in the outskirts of the village.

He jumps down the last tree and lands perfectly on the ground, barely breaking a sweat. He heads inside the house and turns the first corner of the hallway where he is met by a painting larger than he. He uses his knuckle to knock on the painting in a specific rhythm, causing the painting to suddenly split down the middle to reveal a passageway made of high tech walls that have glowing stripes heading all the way down the spiral staircase, lighting it up. The boy descends the staircase and reaches the bottom to be met with a black wall and door. He enters a passcode in the keypad next to it and it opens. He steps inside to find himself in a hidden room that is basically a small one room house.

The room has clean hardwood floors and nice windowless white walls. There is one wall with two doors along it that lead into two separate bedrooms. A low black rectangle table sits in the center of the room. On the other side of the room, across from the bedroom doors, is a workshop with all kinds of unfinished technical projects laying on the tables. Fairy lights are strung all around the room making them the only light source that is currently lighting up the room at the moment. He turns around to close the door. The wall that looks like a regular black wall on the outside is actually a window on the inside so you can see who is outside of the room. After closing the door he turns back around and notices a brunette sitting at the table drawing.  She turns her attention to him and smiles. "Hey Lloyd, I take it you're done tree hopping?"

Lloyd POV

"I wasn't just tree hopping I was patrolling." I say to the girl.  She giggles and nods. "Yeah, sure." she teases, knowing I like to take the time of patrolling to practice my speed and balance in the trees.

This girl, is Katelyn, also known as my fraternal twin sister. She has brown hair that is medium length, pale skin, and beautiful heterochromia eyes; One blue, one brown. She is very pretty. I have neck length platinum blonde hair, pale skin, and Heterochromia eyes as well; One emerald green, one brown.  I'm half a head taller than Katelyn, but still a bit short.  Both of our hair is a little wavy.

My sister and I have no parents, no last name, and no origin. We only have guardians.  Our whole village has had some part in taking care for us throughout the years. The only thing we know about our birth family is that our parents threw us into the ocean because they didn't want us; Or at least, that's our theory.  Why would our parents not want us? What could we have done to have been through into the ocean?

But, one thing Katie and I have had for our entire lives, most likely our parents gave it to us, is a pendant each with our names engraved in red onto it. That's how we got our names. The pendants are small wood chips that are cut into two halves in the form of the yin yang. I have the yin pendent and Katie has the yang pendant.

We were washed up onto the shores of the island when we were around 1 years old.  Some villagers who were passing by found us and saved us.  I'm honestly very surprised we survived nearly being drowned as babies.  We were brought into a village that is known for it's secrets.  It looks normal on the surface, but below it are secret basements that hold high tech bunkers and living spaces.  Well, it's high tech for us anyway.  We keep our technology advances a secret because we're afraid of the Overlord taking over our village like he did the others.