"Erick, I'll go to the cellar, and you go to the kennels. The cellar should be easier to find, especially since I have to rely on scent and hearing now since I'm colorblind." Johnny said
"Wait you're colorblind?" Erick asked
"I'm basically a wolf so...yeah, so just go find whoever is up there." Johnny said
"Uh, okay then, but be careful and remember what that gargoyle said earlier." Erick said and Johnny nodded walking towards the basement.
Erick then walked in the direction that he saw Sei walk and began searching rooms. Luckily most of the rooms didn't contain anything that looked too valuable for Erick's dragon greed to kick in. Eventually however, Erick picked up the scent of Sei and began following his nose. However along the way Erick noticed a drastic change in Sei's scent, and while he expected this it, he couldn't make sense of it. Sei's scent somehow split into two different scents, and neither were human, but the thing that got to Erick was that one scent was male, and the other female. Erick then picked up the pace and eventually he could hear two kid-like voices in sync with each other.
"Hey! Who are you?! Stop doing that! What's your name?! Sei!! No that's me!! Stop being synchronized with me!!" The two voices yelled and Erick could hear growling like if it was from a puppy.
Erick then poked his head around the hall and into a room to see a fox kit with black fur, and a vixen kit with white fur, both within 5 tails, and both eyes locked with each other growling. "You aren't Sei, I am! No I am! Stop that!" Both of them growled at each other in sync, and circling around growling.
"Um....hello?" Erick said, and the vixen kit looked up and yipped,"Oh shit!!" While the fox kit twisted his head around and looked at Erick with terror in his eyes.
"Woah, calm down you two, it's me Erick, remember?" Erick said smiling nervously
"Well, Erick wasn't a dragon either!" The fox kit said growling
"Are you insane?! You seriously don't plan on taking on this thing right? Besides we were human too...and male....I think. Everything has been really messed up." The vixen kit said
"Look it really is me, Johnny and I are trying to gather everyone up and get the hell out of this mansion. Also Johnny's a hellhound, but that's besides the point. I heard you both saying that you were Sei earlier, right?" Erick asked
"Yep that's me." The vixen kit said relieved
"No, that's me!" The fox kit growled
"Look, Johnny and I saw a gargoyle and it exploded a few things, and from what I know is that you're both Sei, but can either of you tell me what happened?" Erick asked
"All I remember is picking up a collar to examine it, and the next thing I know it was like I was looking in a mirror of a kitsune version of myself." The vixen Sei said
"More like an inverted mirror, I remember too that we....I was male and still am male so stop acting like you were me!" The fox Sei said
"Look can you drop it all already, you do realize that the more we fight with each other, the more time we waste." The vixen Sei said
The fox Sei paused for a few moments then dropped its guard and sat down, then sighed,"Fair enough, so is anyone going to acknowledge that we've become younger or what?"
"I don't know any more about this than you do brother." The vixen Sei said
"Who said that we were related?!" The fox Sei growled
"We are literally just a male and female counterpart of the same person. That means we have the exact same DNA, despite our differences, we technically are twins. However we do seem to have a yin and yan thing going on here." The vixen Sei said
"What's with that crown by the way?" The fox Sei asked changing the topic
"Well....lets just say that I have a dragon's greed, so I couldn't help myself." Erick said
"Wait, that's actually a thing?" The vixen Sei asked
"Apparently, but let's not get side tra....aa...achoo!" The fox Sei said then sneezed and a surge of energy lit up his tails and a small ball of energy flew out and struck Erick in the chest.
"Ow! What the heck male Sei?!" Erick growled
"I can't help it, are you sure that you didn't kick up a bunch of dust when you came in? This stuff is really old you know." The fox Sei said
"Holy crap, we have magic?!" The vixen Sei said
"Huh?" The fox Sei said confused
"You shot some weird glowing sphere and hit me in the chest." Erick said
"Cool, wait are you bleeding?" The fox Sei asked
Erick examined his chest to see that his scales were cracked and he did indeed have an open wound. "I am, huh, it doesn't hurt too ba....oh wait, there's the pain!" Erick growled and fell over clutching the wound with his claw.
"I wonder..." the vixen Sei began
"Wonder what?" The fox Sei asked
"Let me see the wound really quick." The vixen Sei said
Erick then lifted his claw and the vixen Sei put one of her paws on Erick's wound and closed her eyes. Moments later the vixen Sei's tails glowed and the wound healed itself off and the area appeared as if nothing happened.
"It worked!" The vixen Sei said cheerfully and wagging her tails.
"I'm healed?" Erick asked and picked up the crown seeing that it fell off of his horn.
"How did you do that?" The fox Sei asked
"Remember what I said about yin and yan? You damage, I heal, the more we figure out about each other the more we can learn about our magic the more we can figure out by doing the opposite. As for how specifically, I just focused is all." The vixen Sei said
"Huh, maybe this wasn't such a bad thing." The fox Sei said
"Yeah, but we should probably find Johnny now." Erick said
"Why?" The two Sei's asked at the same time then glared art each other
"Because he might be in danger if we don't, because he's dealing with a ghost that's trying to basically enslave Ryan." Erick said
"How do you know all of this?" The vixen Sei asked
"The gargoyle told me, so c'mon." Erick said getting up and began walking quite fast down the hallway as the floor creaked below his massive feet.
The kitsune Sei's then ran over to him and the vixen Sei asked,"Why are you going so slow if Johnny's in danger?"
"Because I don't trust the floor to support a dragon in full sprint." Erick said
"You said earlier that Johnny and Ryan are in the cellar, so...." the fox Sei said the looked at the other.
Suddenly both kits bursted into a full sprint and raced down the hall, and left Erick behind before he could say anything. What now?
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