1 WEIRD SWORD

I walked to dining table with the last part of the dinner I'd prepared.

"Xandra" I called, "dinner is ready."

"Alright I'm coming" she answered and almost immediately I heard the sounds her feet made as ran from her room down the stairs to the dinning room.

"Is Mom coming home today"she asked having a hopeful look in her big black eyes as she took her seat.

As usual she was a shirt three times that covered her petty 5.7 feet frame to the knees she must have just showered because I could smell the floral scent of her shampoo she had used on her jet black heir.

l sighed as I also took my seat "No."

She sighed too and her shoulders slumped, " That's two weeks now, she hasn't come home earlier than eleven for two weeks now Xander, the stress is too much for her it could kill her. We should get a job and help her out."

"Then she'll die of depression, remember the last time we got a job we had to quit because she cried every single night, let her work by the time we get to college she would get over her urge to shelter us, come on let's eat."

Xandra nodded, she didn't like it l didn't either but we both knew there was nothing we could do. Ever since our dad had bailed on us to live with another woman mom had been trying to shoulder all the responsibility and give us a normal childhood.

But what she didn't know was our childhood had ended three years ago when our father had left a pair of thirteen years old twins and their mother who had been a housewife to the core to fend for themselves.

I'll always hate the man for what he had done to us, but that was besides the point.

Mom had to realize that we where on longer children and I believed she will after some time to get used to the idea.

After a short prayer Xandra and I had a dinner of of boiled rice and tomato soup then went to bed.

In my room I quickly pulled off all my clothes and went too bed

.....

I don't know how long it took but I do know it must not have been long because I was in some sort of comatose half - asleep half - awake state when a flash of light shone in my window a second later it was gone, but the damage I was fully awake.

I quickly got out of bed and ran to the window, the source of the light I saw earlier was right under my window emitting a golden glow then a clang of metal hitting against metal drew my attention to the sky.

Two figures flew across the sky so fast they were virtually blurs, hitting each other with clangs as they drew away.

Thinking those blurs looked liked humans I shook my head and headed out of my room and after a moment of contemplation I decided not to wake my sister who's room was just opposite mine.

I didn't understand what was going on and didn't want my sister involved moreover all I wanted to do was just to throw that object out of our compound since it seemed the two figures where fighting of it.

l didn't need Xandra's help.

I ran down the stairs and out of the door, the object turned out to be a really big golden sword about five feet long.

Thinking how weird it was that the figures where fighting for a sword - I mean this is the twenty first century a gun is much more effective than a sword, l reached out and took it by the hilt.

I have to be honest with you at the time that was a big mistake.

Heat rushed form the sword into my hand then spread through out my body.

In my head I saw images, images I somehow understood.

'The sun'. It seemed to say. 'The source of all energy. 'The creator of light'. 'The maker of heat'. 'The wheel on which the world runs'. 'The preserver of life'

Coming back to my seances I realized the much brighter the light was, like a beacon and my body glowed with it!

I knew the beacon had probably alated the flying figures fighting for the sword.

Not knowing what to do I willed the light to extinguish and wonder of wonders it did.

Chalking it all to luck I didn't waste any time in taking the sword inside the house straight into my room and hid it under my bed.

Now virtually safe I sat on my bed and watched the window. Sure enough the blurry figures came back a few minutes later still fighting but the moment they discovered the sword was missing one of them left and the other flew down into our lawn.

I walked to the window and sure enough he was searching for the sword.

Having a good look at him I realised he really was a human with wings!

Luckily after a few minutes of fruitless search he got tired and flew away.

I heaved a sigh of relief and got back too bed and with the thoughts of how a person could I fell asleep.

But as I did a though hit me and almost jacked me awake.

'Why the hell didn't I just throw away the sword.'