Existence
an excerpt

Sliiiip. “Ow.” And that was the sound of the rather solid floor greeting him with a not-so cheerful ‘Good Morning’. Xi gave the flat surface a groggy glare that somehow came out with much more venom than any annoyed look he’d ever manage when fully awake. A sharp puff of air later sent him upwards just enough to land sitting in the chair he’d previously been occupying; being a wielder of air had advantages like that. Being back in the vertical didn’t seem quite as appealing now that he thought about it, so down the silver haired boy’s head slipped onto crossed arms situated on the table in front of him.

“Isn’t Xi just adorable when he indulges instead of rushing off to those tests he’s already late for?” A dark voice laughed, the sound slipping into the dozing boy’s ears like melted chocolate slowly dripping off the stirring spoon. He hummed in agreement, that is until the content of the speech sent him shooting out of his chair in alarm, only to land face first on that same piece of floor he’d already been introduced to earlier.

Another laugh joined the previous one’s, this one much cooler and lacking the heated edge the other so proudly held. “You can be such a bully Zac.” The tone, full of jest, was followed by a hard whack to the back of the aforementioned Zac’s head.

Zac, of course, nearly fell over at such rough treatment. “Says Ril, the one who’s doing the real injuring here.”

“Well naturally.”

Xi, who by this time had managed to raise himself back into the chair yet again, grimaced in their direction. “You two are going to get caught.” Then muttering to himself, “I am not late.”

Hopping from his window sill perch in far too graceful a manner for one who was off balance only a moment before, Zac waved off the very idea of such a thing in far too narcissistic a manner, as a result he soon found himself drenched when Ril landed next to him. This kind of thing was very common between them, considering Zac’s habit of being a bit too boastful and Ril’s water mastery being the perfect thing to simmer down his own fire. That, and as twins they were scarcely ever apart.

The other occupant of the room, who had long since gotten used to such antics, was busy getting the things together for that test he was certainly not the least bit late for. Xi’s only response to them at first was a brief shake of his head, before his verbal communication skills kicked back in. “Yeah, yeah. You’re both far too powerful for them. I know, I know. Now why are you gracing me with your presence this time?” You see, the twins only ever came to see him when they needed to get out of some sort of mischief, or they wanted to torment him. Despite all that, these outlaws were his only real friends.

“Can’t two vampire demons just visit their favorite angel to wish him luck on his qualifying exams without being accused of heresy anymore?” Sometimes it was hard to tell the voices of the two apart if one wasn’t directly looking at them when they spoke, yet by the wording Xi assumed it was Zac speaking.

“Right, because you aren’t up to anything?” An eye roll, followed by a slightly confused blink. “Vampire, demon, angel… those are humans’ words, correct?” Xi turned his head to look back at the two as he spoke.

Zac just gave the most innocent, shiny-eyed look he could managed, some of his hair still dripping from Ril’s earlier onslaught. So it was the blue-tinted of the twins who chose to answer. “You can’t expect us to spend so much time on Aerth without picking up some of the phrases. That’s what they’d call us, demons and angels.”

“We’re the demons, of course.” Zac grinned and pointed to the pointier of his teeth. “They also say we’re vampires. Some of their folklore includes things that drink the blood of other humans. It’s not our fault we feed off their physical life force, and that just happens to be blood.” He shrugged.

“So I would be considered an… angel? Do I get a second classification like you do?”

“Not really, since you already fall under the category of the most common type of our species anyway. Angel refers to your innate goodness.” The word was said with slight disgust. Ril had never really seen the appeal of such a thing.

Zac picked up where she’d left off. “You don’t really do anything special anyway, aside from being slightly faster than most other types, and those wings of yours.” The fire manipulator suddenly had the urge to pet one of them, but just wasn’t close enough. “Buuut, we’re still faster.” A series of ‘I’m better than you’ poses followed, which Ril decided to just ignore instead of punish for.

Xi couldn’t help but sulk a moment, more over not having an extra name than Zac’s goading. The moment was short lived, since the sun-like object in their sky decided to shine directly into his eyes through the window, proving that he was actually getting close to being late this time. “Gah, the tests! I can’t believe I just stayed here talking with—don’t you two dare break anything!” And he was gone out the door.

“Pfft, it’s not like we’re human babies or something.” CRASH. “…oops.”