The Caravan of Hope

Chapter 43: The efficacious and inseperable twins

Btw, efficacious means "capable of having the desired result or effect".

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Where should I start?

Well... the video looks like it's starting when I was four, so let's go there. But I really don't understand why you need a video, since I'll be basically narrowing details for you.

Xan and I are identical twins, in case you haven't noticed. I'm the oldest by two minutes! We never really knew what happened to our parents. They were either killed by natural reasons or by the bosses.

The bosses belonged to an organization like Ur's. They planned to use children that they found that had magic for an army of the country Delorias. Xan and I were two out of the hundred children that were being used.

Rules went like this: if you can't figure out what magic you had by your thirteenth birthday, you were disposed of. Xan and I were little, so we didn't know what they meant, but we had no worries about that, since we figured out our magic by the time we were four.

It had all started with the birds. There were two different kinds of birds: white and black. We figured out that we could command anything of these birds, but I could only command the white and Xan could only command the black. By anything, I mean just about anything we could think of. (A/N for those of you who read RED eyed Master, these are the same birds Zane saw)

We figured out that these birds were life sources, so we could them Rook, which meant life in an ancient language. Since they used to be living, they gave us advice. I got good advice, but I was scared to think what advice Xan got.

Anyways, we proved that we had magic to the bosses by Xan turning day into night, and I turning night into day. They were quite impressed, and figured that we could be best if we were together, so we were always put on missions together.

We were always close; nothing much has changed. I was always energetic, and Xan was the calm one. We were inseparable, and probably the most powerful kids of the group.

We were always there for each other, since we were the only family each other had. Xan would do anything for me, and I would do anything for him. There was nothing that could ever separate us.

One day, another person joined our group. She said to us, "My name is Amber Fistian, and I have the power of knowing everything."

Of course, the bosses put her into our group and sent us on a mission to kill the hated demon that was roaming around here.

I remember that day clearly. It was winter, and Xan wasn't going to wear a jacket nor a scarf, and he refused to do it no matter how many times I told him to.

By the time we caught up to the demon, Xan's teeth were chattering from how cold it was.

The demon swiped at us, and Xan and I barely dodged it. I decided to put Amber to good use. "What is it going to do next?" I had asked her.

But she was on the ground, shaking and not telling us anything. So I defeated the monster in one blue and said, "You really don't have magic, do you?"

She shook her head, then asked how we knew. "Because you would have not been that afraid, for you'd know that Xan or I could defeat that monster in one snap of a finger. How did you get past the bosses anyways?"

She mumbled something about her good at figuring stuff out, and the questions were easy, basic stuff to her.

Now, I had the problem of what to do with her, but Xan said with a chatter in his teeth, "Brother, we shouldn't turn her in."

I stared at him like he just said that we're the weakest people on Rawk. He continued, "I will guess that she will die for not telling the truth, and she would've died anyway because she doesn't have magic. Do you really want her to become one with the Rook?"

I had to admit, Xan was right. She was just trying to survive like us, and she was pretty cute.

On the way back to the camp, Xan hugged me, mumbling something about me being warm. "This is why you should bring a coat," I had said to him, and we walked very uncomfortably back.

When the bosses had asked how the mission went, I smiled and said to them, "Perfect! Amber really helped us dodge the attacks made by the demon!"

They didn't even doubt me. See how good of a liar I am?

But Amber did help us make battle plans after that day, since she knew a lot about whoever we were up against.

After that day, I had a change of heart. With the Rook telling me which kids had no magic, I helped kids without magic stay alive, whether it was giving them magic or pretending that one of their talents is magical.

That went on for five or six years without the bosses knowing. I hardly paid attention to Xan, and that was my mistake.

One day, when I was eighteen, Amber and I were called up to the bosses. They looked at us disgusted, saying that one of us was doing something that could mean a revolution. Amber looked at me, since she knew what I was doing with the children.

The bosses ranted about an evil person who was born evil and will always be evil no matter what. And that they were going to use this person to do evil things for them forever. I kept thinking that it was me.

I cleared my throat and asked them how they knew.

"Because he tried to assassinate us this morning," they had said. They kicked a lumpen figure into our view.

It was Xan.

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I fought to mention. Next two chapters are flashbacks. ;-)