YiMin     Created on Saturday, 26 March 2011 15:17  
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                         The Twins

         Min Yi and Ze Yi were the closest of sisters.
  They had no choice but to hold on to the most simplest
  of bonds. When they were about the age of fifteen, their
  mother had decided that she no longer wished to take
  care of them. A harlot, their mother was shamed by her
  village because of the fact that she had an affair with
  a married man. Their mother was forced to take care of
  them for her foolish ways. Perhaps if it was just one
  child, their mother could have come to her senses. But
  two just seemed to be too much for her. It did not help
  that Min Yi looked so much like her father.

   
         It was on a dark and stormy night that their
  mother decided to get rid of her burden. Seeing that she
  gave birth to this constant weight on her shoulders at
  the age of fifteen, you could say that her knowledge of
  child bearing was quite minimal. She hated how she had
  to raise these two children. Every second they grew,
  she despised them even more. They were now at the age
  when she gave birth to them. Something inside of her
  wanted them gone even more than ever. She waited all
  day to start her evil deed.

         She prepared them dinner as usual. Afterwards,
  she told them she had a treat for them. Some tea. It was
  quite unusual for the twins to have any sort of luxury,
  and tea was on that list. But rather then to question
  their mother, they drank their tea as their mother had
  asked them to. They thought it strange how she gleered at
  them as they drank slowly. They suddenly knew why as they
  quickly became woozy, and found themselves passed out
  at the dinner table. Their mother made her way outside,
  where she had set up everything. She grabbed the wooden
  wheel barrel and pushed it closer to the back door.
  Carrying each twin outside, she threw them in the wheel
  barrel with a loud thud. When she was done, the sudden
  thought of her being loud crept into her mind. But then
  she remembered there was no one around for miles. She made
  her way into the forrest.. and kept walking. She walked for
  what seemed an eternity, but was  in fact mere minutes. The
  noises of the forrest did not seem to bother her. Her eyes
  were glazed over; Her mission was so present in her mind,
  that nothing else seemed to matter.

         After a short while, she came across a small
  clearing. It was a strange sight: No trees graced the
  ground, and it seemed to be a perfect circle. When
  looking around, one could easily be lost and confused
  as to where they were. The surrounding forrest was so
  dense, that when you peered into it, you instantly
  became bewildered. If you looked long enough, it seemed
  like a large creature staring back at you. The noises of
  the forrest seemed to echo there so perfectly, it was
  hard to tell where they were coming from. It seemed as
  if they all were right on top of you. Despite (or
  perhaps it was because of) the eerie setting, she
  pushed the wheel barrel harder. Once she found the center
  of the clearing, using all her might, she flipped the
  wheel barrel to it's side, knocking out it's contents
  with a loud thud. The sound of soft flesh hitting the
  hard floor echoed so loudly, you'd expect neighboring
  villages to hear the noise. But, there was no response.
  No quick rustling of any trees. No sign of the rest of
  the world noticing what was going on in this small
  circle.

        She made her way to the very center of this
  circle. Reaching into a large satchel, she removed two
  similar sized rocks. If one were to peer closely, they
  would notice the strange symbols carved upon these rocks.
  Moving to the circle, she acted as if she knew exactly
  where to go. As she placed the two rocks upon the north
  western area of the circle, she smiled with a sort of
  demented delight.

       Reaching into the large satchel yet again, she began
  to pull out items one by one, placing them around the
  circle in a sort of planned manner. Once the items were
  set in place, she made her way to the center. Pulling a
  few tree limbs from the large satchel, she began to
  create a fire pit. She removed two silvery branches out,
  as the darkness begun to consume the surrounding forrest,
  and with a glittery echo of a bell-like noise emitting
  from those silvery branches, she set them atop the pile.
  With the fast strike of two small pebbles, she lit the
  fire pit ablaze. A strange music began to flow from it, as
  if the fire caused the forrest to sing. A smile more
  demented than before grew across her face yet again, and
  would not fade away from here on out. She made her way
  over to the unconscious bodies of her daughters, and
  placed each one on either side of the fire pit. She pulled
  the last remaining item from the dark purple satchel: A
  small vial of some sort of sand-like substance. With that
  menacing grin, she stood at the bottom of the fire pit,
  and poured the contents upon the now blazing fire.
  Looking to the starless sky, she began to shout:

  "I llac ot eht erutaerc fo eht krad,
   Ot eht eno ohw sgnirb raef ot lla,
   Morf eht tsepeed shtped fo eht dlrowrednu,
   I llac ot eeth!
   Emoc ot em!

   Tuo fo eht krad tserof,
   Htaeneb eseht sselrats seiks,
   Gnirb flesruoy ot em!
   Dir em fo ym thgilp!"

       A strange, eerie, silence surrounded the forest.
  As her laughter became louder and louder, the fire grew
  bigger and bigger. A shadow darker than the night sky
  began to fill up behind the fire. Before the woman
  noticed what was going on, the shadow had become a form
  of a man. The smell alone was horrifying, but she was too
  caught up in her own madness, she did not notice as the
  creature began to take shape. The creature was taller
  than the woman, his power could easily take her over. It
  did not have any noticable features, except for those
  eyes. The color of the burning fire, they felt as if they
  could burn into your very soul. As she screamed in a
  maddening delight, the creature was soon standing before
  her.

      The scream that came next was so shrill, blood-curdling,
  high-pitched .. that the mere sound of it not only shook
  the entire forest to it's core, but woke the slumbering
  twin sisters. They witnessed as their mother, who had
  summoned this creature herself for unknown reasons, was
  ripped to shreds by the very thing she created. The last
  thing they remember, the last image in their minds, was
  this creature.. now having murdered their mother, turning
  itself on them. The screams echoed throughout the forest.

       The fire soon burned out. The creature had vanished.
  The twin sisters were lost. They had little memory of
  that night; Perhaps it was a side-effect of the tea.  Were
  they still on this mortal plane? All they knew is that
  they had to find out the truth.

       So they wandered.