August 2016
The warm middle eastern winds dance around the trees, and the soothing quietness of this town is suddenly broken by the terrifying sound of an ambulance "did something terrible happen?" Think the people who hear the ambulance rush by them.
The Ambulance arrives at the hospital and are ready to take in the injured people. The annoying sound of the bed wheels scraping across the rugged floor of the hallway wake up one of the injured. "Where am I? What is going on?" Said the child who was out of it for a little, he doesn't recall much. All he does remember is an attack. The nurse taking him to the emergency room puts a hand on his forehead and slowly shakes his head. He wonders why such innocent people have to experience living in this cruel world.
The other child lies on the hospital bed, still on the move to an emergency room. The appearance of her radiating green eyes and black hair is interrupted by a line of blood forming like a river across her face, reaching from one ear to the other. She is barely alive, with a machine breathing for her.
The mother of the 2 kids starts blaming herself, thinking that she should've looked after them, instead of letting them get lost and get attacked by those monstrous creatures.
"Thank you so much for looking after Sa-iq and Sara, Normine." Says the mother suddenly. Normine looks to the side to avoid eye contact with the mother, "don't apologize, I should've done better and stopped all of this from happening." Said Normine in a disappointed tone. It wasn't the first time that Normine helped this family, however it has never gotten this bad and being a high-ranking Agent makes Normine get even more dissatisfied with the results of this short attack
2023
A peaceful and quiet day, the skies are so blue you would think it was a canvas that got painted on. On the steep street sits a neighborhood that is more safe than any other neighborhood around the world. A typical middle eastern house, while it doesn't look great on the outside, it is great on the inside. Sa-iq sits on the couch, making his appearance known around the house, he was excited, and he couldn't hide it either. "Why are you excited? This isn't a good thing." Asked Sara curiously. She looked at Sa-iq as he turned towards her, his smile revealing a missing front tooth. "Cuz I can finally use my abilities without having some agent from the Agency nagging me on 24/7." He let out of his mouth. Sara took a closer look at him and said. "You should make your hair longer, buzz doesn't fit you, it never did." Sa-iq looked back at the tv screen. "I couldn't care less about what people think of my hair, so might as well go buzzcut and stay comfortable." Said Sa-iq confidently. Sara decided to leave the living room and walk towards her room after that. "Tsss, just because she cares about how she looks so much doesn't mean she should go after me, but I guess that's natural for someone who has a big scar running across her face." Whispered Sa-iq shortly after Sara left.
The house is almost fully quiet, the only background noise running around in the house coming from the show Sa-iq is watching, and suddenly Sa-iq hears a notification sound from his phone. He immediately checks his phone and sees the thing he has been waiting for all week. "E-rank demon located 3km away from your current location." Read the notification, Sa-iq pressed on the notification to read more. "An E-ranked demon, ability is unknown, get rid of it with another agent to reduce risk." Read out the words on the phone. "Sara!" Yelled Sa-iq across the house. "I saw the notification, im ready." Sara replied, they were ready to go after the demon but shortly before they left Sa-iq looked back one last time, his mom was standing behind them watching them, Sa-iq couldn't tell if she was mad or if that was her old age making her look angry more naturally. She didn't say anything, but its not like Sa-iq cared. She barely talked to him or asked about him. His mom favorited Sara a lot more, and Sa-iq knows if that was Sara standing in his place, she probably would've said something along the lines "Come back home safely!" He closed the door and started running towards the demon.
"I still think it's insane they accepted us and we're only 13." Said Sara suddenly while they were going towards the demon. "Heh, shouldn't be too surprising, they said it themselves we're special!" Said Sa-iq ignorantly.
Demons have existed for a long time, but their existence has only been confirmed by the world governments around 80 years ago. However, in old recordings demonic-like creatures have been explained all the way back to 800 years. The same goes for the special race of humans called Dermines. A Dermine is someone who posses a special gene called the "DER-Gene." People of this race have superpower-like abilities as they are able to produce Dark Energy (DER). People, plants animals and all other life beings are only able to produce Light Energy (LER). On its own, both DER and LER are unable to do anything unusual, life goes on as usual as LER is simply nothing more than a type of life-energy, however combining DER with LER is what makes someone powerful. Not only does this combination give one superpower, but it also makes it so that one cannot get hurt by 1 type of Energy, a knife that only has LER on it cannot pierce someone who is combining DER and LER to protect themselves, the knife must also have DER and LER to do so. Due to humans already being able to produce LER, a DER-Gene is needed to produce DER, and you get superhumans. Demons and Dermines are almost alike, with only 4 big differences.
They are completely white, as white as snow, while Dermines look normal.
All Demons have the DER-Gene.
Demons eat people; however, they prefer to eat someone containing a DER-Gene to get more powerful
Demons reside in the Shadow Realm, while humans reside in the Light Realm.
The Shadow Realm is almost identical to the Light Realm. The only 3 differences are that the color scheme of the Shadow Realm is inverted, and the inhabitants of the Shadow Realm are dark, as dark as the night sky can get in fact. And also, the Shadow Realm is full of Dark Energy. DER and LER should not be found in each other's realms as they should stay on their own, which is why the existence of Dermines and Demons confuse researchers. Dermines are also more special because they are, quite literally, ordinary people capable of producing DER. They look exactly like everyone else. The 'Mine' in Dermine refers to cave mines, as Dermines are looked upon as producents of DER.
"Shh, I see it." Sara whispered to Sa-iq; they were hiding behind a wall observing the demon. It stood inside a dark and damp alleyway. They were almost unable to see anything in there other than a shadowy figure. The only reason they knew it was a demon was because of its abnormally long nails which demons use as a sword. Sa-iq and Saras green eyes reflected back, and it almost looked like the demon had discovered them, but it got back to digging through the trash. A terrible smell shook the pair of twins. "Is it digging through a dead body? What is that smell?" managed Sara to whisper, she was barely able to breathe without almost puking. "It looks like some dead animal." Whispered Sa-iq back, the smell didn't bother him as much, but a look of disgust was clear on his face.
"My Dermine is Lightning, I'll try to kill it quickly." Whispered Sa-iq to Sara, Sara was surprised by Sa-iqs wordplay. "Kill? But that-" Sara was quickly cut off. "Those things aren't human, if a human does something wrong, they can always become better, demons will come back to do worse if you give them the chance, don't look at them as humans when killing them, because they aren't, they deserve death." Said Sa-iq, he started getting ready to rush at the demon. Saras hair started rising up, a sign that Sa-iq is charging. He blasted towards it, and the loud sound of lightning followed right after. As he was blasting, he pointed his sword right at it to pierce through it. While gripping tensely on his sword handle, his eyebrows rose up in shock as he saw his sword slide off the demon. He barely managed to stop himself from collapsing into the building at the end of the alleyway, he looked back in confusion and saw the demons face, the pale white skin interrupted by a crimson look around its mouth, he also saw Sara who just saw him completely slide off of it. "What the fuck is your deal." Yelled Sa-iq suddenly while pointing at the demon. "You're so slippery! It is not normal to be that sweaty even for demons." He kept rambling. The demons mouth suddenly rose from ear to ear revealing an eerie smile so terrifying it even made Sa-iqs spine tremble a little. "You can't hit me, that's what my ability is, everything that tried to make contact with me slides off unless I allow it." Said the demon in a raspy voice. In a blink of an eye, it was already right in front of Sa-iq, read to punch him into the wall, Sara luckily got involved just in time to hold it down. Saras ability is Wind, which means she is able to control in a way that she is able to make herself fly or hold down others. However, even when she is able to control air, no matter how strong her grip on the demon is, it will slide off. She held Sa-iq and decided to make him float. "That was too reckless! Next time we strike together!" Said Sara, however, her voice wasn't too clear due to the air rushing by them. "The demon isn't lying; I can't even hold it down with my wind control." She kept talking while looking down at the demon, which was staring right back up. Sara then let loose of Sa-iq control, making him fall back to the ground. A small crater was made in the process, but Sa-iq ultimately came out unharmed. The demon saw the dust coming from the landing and decided to use it for its own use, and while Sa-iq was blind, the demon rushed it and slashed Sa-iqs left waist ripping a piece of his cloth off. It stood right behind Sa-iq ready to kill it; however, it stopped when Sa-iq started laughing a little. "You fell for it!" He said before he made an electric explosion, killing the demon in process. He was able to control the explosion to not hurt Sara as well. Sara then got back down to the ground; the smell of roasted meat mingled in their nose. "Let's get rid of it before it activates self-destruct." Said Sara.
Demons have a weird habit of explosion, 10 minutes after their death they explode and damage anyone in the radius, in the process any proof of their existence is removed from the world. Demons can also activate this on purpose. This has troubled some researchers at the Agency, because of this they are not able to study the demonic body, both dead and alive ones explode if they try to research them. This also means that Dermine Agents have to get rid of the body, so the explosion doesn't hurt anyone.
The sun was starting to set, and the sound of an automated door opening is heard, Sa-iq looks and sees Sara coming out with some medicine. "This should help with your injure, sorry I couldn't prevent it." Said Sara, Sa-iq could hear regret in her voice. "Don't worry its no big deal, the cut wasn't too deep luckily." Said Sa-iq in response