Hell's Princes

12 Birthday

Riley’s pov.

**3 years later**

Today is Sunday, it also happens to be October 22ed, which is my birthday. Or should I say our birthday cause I'm a twin, not that I’ve ever met him before but who knows maybe that will change tonight? Tonight I get to go to the dream space and train with my supernatural forms. Ever since I showed up in blue valley three years ago, I've been training, learning martial arts, and I've mastered them. I can now take down a full-grown adult male, by myself. The first time I did that everyone was surprised, even me. I’m also ripped. Imagen, Walking down a street seeing a 11, now 12, year-old in a muscle shirt having more muscle than you. Two say it would be shocking, would be an understatement. The looks I get sometimes. Anyways, I'm getting off-topic. Right now I'm heading to the kitchen for breakfast, and it's currently 12:34. I sleep in on Sundays, but the rest of the week I'm up at 06:00 a.m. to start training or to go out and enjoy nature. As I enter the kitchen I see Izzy and Adam eating what I assume is lunch, with a big rectangular box on the table. 

“Good morning Adults,” I say 

“Good morning 12-year-old kid,” Adam says

“Morning Riley,” Izzy says

Which makes me laugh, Adam and I do this thing where I call him an adult and he calls me my age. Don’t try to understand it, I don’t even understand it. As I walk over to them I ask “what's it the box. Is it for me??”  “yes it’s for you. We thought with you already mastering the martial arts we’re teaching you, we think that maybe this could be your next thing to conquer.” Izzy said with a smile, which in return made me smile. “Can I open it now? Please?” I begged. “How about after you eat something for lunch,” Adam said. “Ok” I grab a plate and some bread and Nutella. Put the bread in the toaster, and turn it to toast with Nutella. I eat fast because I want to know what's in the box. When I swallow my last bite I say “ok it's done, can I open it now? Please?” “Ok you can--” Izzy begins, but I cut her off, standing on my feet and grading the box. I sit back down and open it. Under the tissue paper, there is a set of nunchucks, 5 throwing knives and a wip. I look at them and say “really. You got me nunchucks, throwing knives and a wip?” “ya, but if you don’t like it we can return them.” Izzy quickly says. “Izzy relax. I think it's awesome. So no need to return anything.” I say smiling then continue saying “now. Since it's my birthday I think we should go on a hike in the woods, then make a cake, then I can try out my new toys.” “ok, let's go.” Adam says “but I think you should put on a shirt first. “Izzy said. I run upstairs, grab a shirt and run back down while putting it on. We go to the back yard, then walk into the woods, we laugh, and have a good time. When we get back we make a chocolate cake, then eat a slice to taste test. After the cake, Izzy and Adam went to the living room to watch tv, while I tried out my new toys. I pick up the box, go outside, and sit on the grown trying to decide which one I want to try first. After some debating, I picked the nunchucks to try first. I started slowly swinging them and got faster and faster as I got more comfortable with them. After the nunchucks, I started practising with the knives. Then when I was hitting the tree with the knives all in a row, I moved on. I moved on to the one I probably was the most excited for, the wip. I wiped it around a few times, wiped it around a tree trunk and other stuff in the backyard. After a while I went inside, we watched some tv and ate dinner. When it was time for bed I was really excited, cause it’s the first time I get to enter the dream space. As I was putting my PJ pants on, Killen said ‘i'm so excited for you to finally be able to meet us properly, all of us are.’ ‘me too, I can't wait to see what you guys look like.’ ‘well the faster you clear your head you can see.’ Greyson tells me. ‘Ok, I will.’ I lay down in bed, clear all thoughts, and let my mind wander. After a minute, I feel a small breeze send a shiver through me. I open my eyes and see 4 human figures and one animal form that’s at least 6.3ft tall. The animal figure I assume is Killen, the first human one on the right to have dark green eyes, and chocolate brown hair. The second guy had dirty blond hair and these electric blue eyes. The third had white hair and hazel eyes. The last one had grey eyes and silver hair, also they all looked to be 12 too.“Hey, guys” I started. “So… who is who? I'm assuming the fox is Killen.” 

Then a voice in my head says “ya that's me” “why is he talking in my head?” “I'm Greyson'' the guy with the silver hair and grey eyes says, “and he’s talking in our heads because he’s a kitsune.”

“i’ m Eli.” the one with the dark green eyes and chocolate brown hair says.

“Mason,” says the guy with the electric blue eyes and dirty blond hair.

“Last but not least.” the guy with white hair and hazel eyes starts “I’m Aaron”

“It’s nice to put a look to the voice,” I say. They all laugh. “Well. Happy 12 birthday to us.” Eli says. “Wait…..so we’re all 12?.'' I ask. “Well. right now all of us are 12 except for Killen.” Aaron says “the Moon Goddess had him on earth, cause kitsunes unlock all their power when they're 100.” mason continues. “Ya, but it is all arranged so that on your 16th birthday, it will be my hundredth birthday, and will unlock the rest on our birthday in 4 years.” Killen finished. “Cool.” I started “I was also wondering if you know anything about my brother?” “we know how you feel, we want to find him as well. He’s our brother too.” Greyson said. “I just want to know that he’s safe. If I could talk to him it would be better, but I know it won't be able to happen until he gets his necklace, and he probably won’t get it until he's 16,” I say with a hint of sadness lacing my voice. “Well until then we can train, and we can teach you all we know, then when we meet him we can teach him with his spirits, and they can teach us all they know,” Killen says. “Is there a way we could check up on him or contact his spirits.?” I ask. “Well…. There is a pond. Follow me.” Greyson tells me. I follow him, we stop at a pond, with crystal clear waters, and beautiful white water lilies in. we go to the edge and Aaron says “put your hand in it.'' I do and I see a person that looks almost exactly like me except his hair is dark blond and mine is light brown. I can't tell what colour his eyes are because he’s sleeping. I hope he is having good dreams, cause when I sleep I get nightmares about stuff that happened when I was on my own, what could have happened if I didn't know what I knew. What could have happened if Adam and Izzy didn’t take me in, and so much more. I shake those nasty thoughts away, as I watch him sleep. I hear someone clear their throat. I look back and look at the guys.  “Why don’t you go and explore the dream space, and we will come to get you when it's time to wake up,” Eli says. “Ok,” I replied, and stood up. I take one last look at the pond and then start walking around deeper in the woods. After what seems like hours I come across a clearing with a small cottage on it. I walk up to the door and knock three times. After a minute a woman with strawberry blond hair that almost reaches past her knee, and forest green eyes. She stands there with wide eyes, tears in them, and threatening to spill any second. She hugs me, with the tears spilling, as she cries. At first, I was in shock that she hugged me, and I tried not to fight her, or scream, but then I hugged her back. I don't know why, it just felt right. After she composed herself we broke the hug. She was still crying. As we broke the hug a man with black hair and dark blue eyes appeared behind the woman. As soon as he saw me he ran and hugged me, and again I hugged back, still not knowing why. When the hug was broken I looked at them for a minute, then said, “I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude. But who are you?” “I'm your mum, and that's your dad.” She said