Angels with Vices

001

"What do you mean I can't eat the cookies? MOM!"

The mother of the two rowdy boys sighed and picked up both of the boys and sat them on her hip. 

"Gabriel, Angelo made these cookies for his teacher. You can't eat them just because you're hungry."

"But that's not-"

Angelo interrupted him, "I'll make more, just pwease don't eat those!"

Gabriel looked at the side of his mother's hip, his brother peaking out with a very stern pout.

"Fiiiine. I'll wait for more cookies." Gabriel groaned, unlatching himself from his mother's hip and waddling to the small living room that played a calm cartoon. 

Gabriel and Angelo's mother sighed and pulled out more ingredients for another batch of cookies. She was happy to cook for the twins, but spending hours on end just so both of them were happy obviously tired her out. 

"I'm soory momma..." Angelo drawled out, standing beside the mother mixing the dry ingredients on the counter. 

"Hmm, why?"  She hummed cracking three eggs in a seperate, medium bowl. 

Angelo looked down at his feet, shuffling them around a bit. "Well... You seem a bit sweepy. I just don't wan' Gabwiel to eat the cookies I made. I worked hard." He spoke with a bit of a lisp, they were young, so their mother didn't stress.

Their mother shook her head. "I am sleepy, but I'll be sleepy all the time if that makes you and Bri-Bri happy." She smiled.

THE NEXT DAY

"Momma, will Mr. Taylor like the cookies... should I have put wess sugar? Maybe I was too excited..." Angelo was extremely jittery because he loved Mr. Taylor as a teacher... he didn't want the man to dislike him if he didn't like the cookies. 

"Honey, of course he will." The mother chuckled at her son's nervousness.

"Yeah! If he doesn't like them, he's a poopyhead!" Gabriel exclaimed, he may or may not have snuck one cookie from the first batch because he wanted to taste the work of Angelo's baking.

The mom flicked the boy's head, "we do not call anyone a poopyhead, Bri-Bri."

"Sowwy..."

The trio continued on their walk to school. The building was in clear sight, and there were many other parent pulling up with cars and buses to structure. 

Entering the class, Mr. Taylors had just finished a talk with some parents who had dropped of their kids, he turned to see the three going towards them and a huge smile appeared on his face. 

"How are my favorite buds doing?" He asked.

Angelo pushed out the bag of cookies in forwards. Mr. Taylor's face brightened up even more as he took the baked sweets. "These are for me? Thank you so much!"

The boys smiled as he took one out of the bag and took a bite, "these are delicious."

Gabriel and Angelo had angelic smiles on their faces and went to go sit down at the back of the class. Their mom waved the two off and left, as she approached the way back to their home, she sighed. "Please, Hiroyuki and Minori, stay safe."

The mom, actual name Chizu, walked back to their small rented house with eyes on her back.

She wasn't ignorant to the attention. "I know you're here."

A figure popped from the bushes, trying to scare the woman. She didn't even flinch.

"What do you want?" She asked, no room for joking around.

The being smirked. "You know exactly what I want."

Chizu stood calmly with the thing circling her body. "And what makes you think I'll give them to a monster like you?"

Red eyes stared her dead in the face as they cackled at her. It pulled out a picture, a familiar pale man who was even paler than normal. Blood coming out of multiple parts of his body. His eyes wide open, but the pupils held no life. His mouth wide open, although, it did have some substance coming out of it as well. Overall, a horribly murdered body of a man Chizu used to know...

"Watch your back, we'll be watching Hiro and Mino's." And with a gust of mahogany wind, the being wa gone.

Chizu lost her composure, light tears streaming down her face as she wobbled to go back to the school. I can't let them...

She knew school ended hours from now, but now she's paranoid.

"It's okay... your babies are okay. They wouldn't go after them in school... they wouldn't." She tried to assure herself.

The mother quickly walked into her home and took a shower to think over some things.

AFTER SCHOOL - PICKUP

"Hi mom!" Chizu's lovely sons cheered as she stepped into Mr. Taylor's class. They were the last ones their since everyone had already left for their buses and car rider rooms. Mr. Taylor sat at his desk with one last cookie in the bag, he waved over at the woman who had just hugged her children.

"You and your children are angels, right?" He asked.

The mother quickly froze up and got protective of her offspring, how does he know???

"Calm down, I'm not here to hurt, in fact. I want to help."

Chizu squinted her eyes at the wavy haired man sitting at the desk. She beckoned her children to go play with a toy she bought near the back of the class. "How so?"

"I," he smirked, "am a witch."

"Don't you mean a wizard, or warlock?" Chizu questioned.

Mr. Taylor shook his head, "nope, a witch of some sort. I have quite an infatuation with your sons, but they reek of angelic presence. Any natural could notice it from miles away."

The mother sighed, she didn't know why they developed an Aura so young with no powers, but she didn't quite know how to fix it so it wasn't noticable.

"That demon went looking for Hiroyuki and Minori today, luckily they were unexperienced and I could sense them right when they attacked you." How did he- "I put up a barrier around this school so no demons could get in. The demon couldn't sense it and walked straight into it. I have to rid of it's corpse soon, I wouldn't want the janitors having to do more."

Chizu stared at the man. "You...Thank you. How can I repay-"

"No need, you're not in debt." His smile calmed the woman down. "Actually... my only condition is that you let me take care of them time to time, they're so adorable!" He squealed.

Huh.... he just wants to play with my kids.

"Oh! And if you allow me to I can put a barrier in this classroom specifically. There are a few more naturals in my class and I want to make sure they're safe. No demon, warlock, or anything would be able to know there are any naturals in here without any previous knowledge."

Chizu nodded, "of course, of course. And... if I am late because of work, I guess I can leave them here. You promise me nothing will hurt my babies, because I'll-"

"Skin me? Murder me? Yeah yeah. I just wanna have fun with them, maybe teach them a trick or two." Mr. Taylor looked towards the window in his class and closed the curtains without even lifting a finger.

"Woah! How'd you do that Mr. Tay-wor!?" Gabriel, aka Minori gasped from where they were playing with dolls.

Mr. Taylor chuckled. "Magic hun."

"Momma, can we learn magic?" An excited Angelo (Hiroyuki) asked while looking at her with eyes so full of life.

"Of course." This wasn't just conformation for the twins, this was conformation for everyone in the room.

??? - ???

"Hmm, and so it begins."