We're Monsters[[DISCONTINUED]]

New Twists & Turns

   Edd and Alex stand in the living room, as Alex requested Edd would tech him to better in magic. "You seem to have levitation down pretty well, but try opening the closet door." Edd smiles pointing to the door.
   "Okay." Alex flicks his wrists as the door opens, him looking at lost to what to do next. "Hey Edd! Have you seen my bass stings?" Tom runs down the stairs. "I think their in the study, I'm not sure"
   "Okay, thanks" Tom mutters, heading off the study. "Can I try that void stuff you do?" Alex turns around quickly to face Edd. "It's not a void. You are transporting it somewhere, such as your room or the dump. It's a more difficult spell, and the most recent one I've learned. I'm not sure if you'll be able to do it."
   "Well, what else can we do?" Alex scratched his head, messing up his already messy black hair. "Apples to oranges? Or vice versa." Edd uses his magic to open the fridge and get an apple out, closing it, catching it in his hands. "Let me get my spell book for this one." Edd turns to the book self grabbing the  book opening up to the page. "Here, try this."
   Alex mutter the spell, lifting the apple, nothing happening. "Oh, I couldn't do it." Alex scratches the back of his head. "Don't worry, it took me a year to get that one right. Wanna take a break?"
   "Yeah, do you have any board games?" Alex chuckles. "No, but we can mess around with everyone." Edd smiles. "What do you mean?"
   "I'm not sure, let's just go hang out with Tord." Edd smiles as they head upstairs, Tord's door open, watching something on his tablet, anime. "Hey Tord." Alex waves his hand. "Oh! Hey, what's up? You two done practicing?" He takes his headphones off and pauses the video. "Yeah, want to do something?"
   "Umm we can just talk?" Tord goes to sit down on the floor, him wearing the tank top brings more attention to the red prosthetic. "Okay." Alex nervously sits down, he's always been quite a nervous kid. "Okay, so school, what did I miss in the rehab?"
    "There was a fight, a dance off more or less, one guy got pommeled to shreds." Edd messes around with magic in between his fingers. "Yeah, it was actually kinda funny." Alex's eyes start to wander. "Um Tord, if you don't mind me asking-"
   "Car crash. I had to have my arm amputated after the car crash." Tord scratches behind his head. "Sorry for asking." Alex seems a bit nervous, more than normal. "It's fine! I don't really care about sharing. It's a part of me now, or more a part of me gone? I'm not sure about the exact wording. Why are you so nervous? You can tell us."
   "My brother doesn't want me hanging around you, and he said it was because your arm and that your sick or something." Alex looks at the floor, twiddling with his thumbs. "What did you tell him?" Edd seems like he's trying to keep his cool, which is understandable. "I didn't, I said nothing." He scratches his arm.
   "Oh, well that's fine. Your mother seems just fine with it." Tord gives off a half smile. "I'm sorry, my brother just isn't the nicest of people. And I kinda lied about my family."
   "In what aspect?" Tord turns his head to face Alex. "My brother is a sorcerer."
   "Wait, and you're blood sibling?" Edd looks worried, Tord a bit confused. "Half brothers." Alex replies quickly. "Uh, Edd? Why does that matter?"
   "From my small knowledge, scorchers are basically the evil versions of wizards, they are gaining power from around them while wizards gain their power within themselves." Edd twirls his thumbs in a circle, not making eye contact at Tord. "And they hate demons."
    Tord seems a little at loss of what to say, Edd still doesn't make eye contact. "I'm not quite sure the specifics, but something happened. Most hate your kind, I just-"
   "My brother really expresses the history of the sorcerers, always teasing me, and saying the second he meets a demon, he's going to destroy them." Alex looks off to the side. "Well, uh. That's not quite what I was expecting are you sure? I mean, if we have to-"
   "Yes Tord I'm sure. Look, Alex let's just get back to the training shall we?" Edd stands up. "O-Okay." They both head downstairs, Tord seeming quite distant, only staring if into space.

Tom's POV

   I sit on my bed, practicing my bass, tuning it every so often hearing a knock on the door, "It's open." I stop playing to look up, Tord standing there, so I place the bass on the bed and look at him. "Um, what do ya need?"
    "I just want someone to talk to." He closes the door, left hand over the prosthetic, like he's hugging himself. "Tord are you okay? You seem a bit off." I try and say clearly as possible, despite mumbly voice. "Alex just told me his brother doesn't want him hanging around me, think I lost my arm to a sickness. And that his brother, well uncle half brother, is a sorcerer, they're supposed to kill demons and I-"
   "Tord calm down take a deep breath, slow down. One thing at a time. Alex's brother said what about your arm?" I interrupt him, he's talking a bit too fast. "His brother said he doesn't want Alex hanging around me because he thinks that I'm sick and that's why I lost my arm." Tord sighs, trying not to talk so fast. "That's stupid! We're just- okay, continue?" I try and act more like dad and pop when they are talking to us, calm. "His brother, who's actually just his half brother, is a sorcerer, and they don't like demons, they kill them." Tord mumbles, I've never seen him like this, so worried. "You okay? I mean, it's a pretty-"
   "I don't know. I think k I'm fine, I just wanted to talk to someone. Edd is busy with Alex, there's no way I'm talking to Matt, you're kinda the only one I trust." Tord smiles, sitting in the checkered bean bag chair in my room. "What about?"
   "Well, I keep thinking about the car accident, don't think I didn't hear you when you said it was your fault, you know it isn't. If anything it would me mine. I'm not going to blame anyone though." Tord quickly puts his hands in the air. "Look, I've, I haven't gotten over all of that, but I think, I think I've gotten better." I respond, gently touching the scars on my wrists. "Tord, do you think-" the doorbell cut me off, ringing throughout the entire house, I quickly move out and look over the railing. "Who is it?!" I shout, looking at Edd, he walks back out to the living room. "It's Alex's brother, um, he wants to meet us."
   "Okay, I um, Tord stay here, I'm coming!" I quickly move down the stairs, seeing Alex and his brother. His brother looks almost identical to him, the same black hair, but his brother has blue eyes. "This is my brother Joshua, that's Edward, Thomas and Matthew." Alex laughs nervously.
   "I thought you said there was another one? What's his name?" Josh raises his eyebrow. "Just call me Edd, um, it's just-"
   "Alexander. What is that?" He quickly turns to Alex. "What's what?" Alex tries to cover up, I know what it is. It's Tord. "That feeling. Two wizards, a vampire, some type of monster, and then, a demon."
   "I promise you there are no demons in this house." I say, scratching the back of my neck. "Well, let me clean out the unsettling feeling, if there aren't any in this house-"
   "What do you want?" Tord's voice echoes throughout the house, Josh seeming angered. "Ah the one with the fake arm. Come down here."
   "Look bud, I don't know what you think your going to do but, I know how sorcerers are. I suggest you get out before you do anything." I say, trying to stay calm. "What he said." Matt follows up. "Oh what. Is he your brother? Alex let's go."
   "No." Alex looks straight up at Josh. "I don't want you to do anything. They're my friends!"
   "They can't be, wizards and sorcerers don't mix with demons! I take care of you until mom gets home. You need to understand that!"
   "Seems you aren't doing a very good job." Matt smiles, surprising me.
   "Guys, calm down it's just a-" Tor walks down the stairs getting cut of my a low growl coming from Josh. "Can we all just calm down please?!" Edd puts his hands out before getting grabbed by a grasp of magic, not a wizards. "You'll thank me later." Josh smirks, walking up to Tord, I'm standing right by him. "What do you think you're doing?" I can feel the horns grow out of my head as I push Josh away from Tord.

Story inspired by: AB6731
Back to the random spree of chapters! Lol what is Josh doing? I don't even know.