Rigas' Rising Siblings: Vasilis and Katina's Stand Against Zorviaz.

It was a dark and stormy night.

No, it wasn’t. But that was how many people described the night of which my brother and I found our superpowers. It was just a typical Wednesday for us, the kind where we did something boring, like watch TV or play video games; same old stuff like that. Nothing special.

We were sitting on the couch, watching some show about ancient Egypt and drinking hot chocolate. Hot chocolate was our favorite drink at the time, although we had quite different tastes in everything else (or so I thought). I preferred bitter foods while he preferred sweet ones. He liked violent movies while I enjoyed romantic ones. He preferred loud music while I preferred soft sounds. We were two sides of a coin, if you will.

And yet we were the closest siblings anyone had ever seen. We were inseparable, even if our interests clashed with one another. I swear it was like we could read each other’s minds sometimes; there were times when we finished each other’s sentences, and there were times when neither of us could understand what the other wanted to say because they used such random words.

It was just one of those days where we sat there, bored out of our minds but unwilling to move anywhere because it felt too good to be doing nothing. So we stayed there for hours on end, sitting in complete silence as we watched our show and drank our hot chocolate spoons after spoons until finally running out of it and moving onto tea instead.

But then…something happened. The atmosphere in the room changed suddenly somehow; it became empty somehow. It was like someone left a void in the room with themselves gone. Or maybe…it was more like a presence had suddenly appeared in the room despite nobody else being there? It was eerie, but interesting enough to catch my attention nonetheless so I turned around to see what had caused this change only to stop dead in my tracks at what I saw next:

My brother was floating above his seat, his eyes closed tight as he seemed to be concentrating very hard on something while his body swayed gently back and forth as if caught in an invisible breeze.

What…was he doing? Was he okay? Was he sick? Was he possessed by some sort of ghost? What was going on!? Oh God oh God what do I do?! My mind raced frantically for answers as I watched him float around for a few moments before finally opening his eyes suddenly only to stop dead in his tracks himself when he saw me staring at him with wide eyes from across the couch.

“I-is…is this happening right now?” he asked me slowly, his voice trembling slightly as if he wasn’t sure himself whether or not this was real or not. His question snapped me out of my stupor though as I immediately jumped up from my seat and rushed over to him, grabbing his hands tightly as I shook him frantically while tears ran down my face uncontrollably now that I knew something terrible had happened after all…

“Are you okay?! What happened?! Did you get hurt somehow?! Do you feel pain?! Did you hit your head or something?! Are you dying?! Please tell me you’re not dying! You can’t die! You can’t leave me alone!! Why are you doing this to me?! What did I ever do to deserve this!? Answer me! Please answer me! Please don”t leave me alone!! Don’t go! DONT GO!!!!" He stared at me blankly for a moment before smiling widely at seeing how terrified I looked before pulling me into his arms tightly, rocking me back and forth gently as if trying to comfort me now that he knew everything would be fine again after all….

“Calm down Katina! Calm down! Relax! Everything is gonna be alright again! Just relax…you know what? Close your eyes and hold your breath for five minutes and then open them again afterwards if that doesn’t work then try closing them again for ten minutes…that always works for me whenever things start getting bad somehow…so just try it ok Katina? Try it please? Ok?” Tears still streaming down my face, I nodded weakly before closing my eyes tightly shut and holding my breath for five minutes, following his instructions blindly even though part of me still doubted whether any of this would actually work or not….but deep down inside, a small voice screamed loudly enough inside my head to make sure that I stayed strong until exactly five minutes later when he told me that it would be safe again now so why didn’t I open my eyes yet huh? So shouldn’t I open them already now? Because it wouldn’t be much fun if he couldn’t enjoy whatever crazy thing just happened now would it now huh? And then suddenly…the world seemed different somehow….different than how it used to be before….but only slightly…..almost unnoticeably so……but still….different nonetheless…..as if….as if….nothing happened at all……and yet……..everything had changed somehow……..and yet……later on……..it would all seem normal again…..yet……unforgettable…..in another sense…..of course….because who could forget something like this anyway huh? And then suddenly…..I opened my eyes slowly a few moments later after deciding that it really had been five minutes later on only to see that everything really had changed after all….and yet also hadn’t changed at all either.....at least not outwardly anyway but clearly……deep down inside……the world really had changed somehow……..after all……...even though nobody could really tell except for myself.....and my brother…..who still looked exactly the same like nothing had happened in the first place......except…..except for the fact that now……he truly did look different than before too.......That said....we didn't have much time to talk about any of these things though because soon enough…..we heard our parents call us downstairs urgently downstairs saying that they needed us right away right now no matter what as soon as possible because they needed our help with something urgent immediately right away no questions asked no matter what so why didn't we hurry downstairs already so they could tell us more details about their problem already already already already!? And so we ran downstairs still trying to figure out what exactly happened upstairs earlier today together with them only to stop dead in our tracks once more once we got downstairs only seconds later when we saw them staring at us with wide eyes from across their dinner table instead.....their faces full of worry.....only this time.....they weren't looking at me but rather at Vasilis instead instead instead instead.......who was upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside down from his chair upside down from being tied up upside*cough cough*......sorry......I got dizzy there...anyway moving on......so basically they were staring at him with wide eyes while he floated around standing next to them......as if they couldn't believe their own eyes........while Vasilis continued spinning around happily while humming happily while saying repeatedly "Did someone say help?"?"Did someone say help?"?"Did someone say help?"?"Did someone say help?"."Like right now right now right now right now right now right now?""Did someone need help right now because here's some help right now!""Help!""Help!"". Like seriously guys here's some help!".........while winking repeatedly wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink.....like seriously....I've never seen such an immature adult before....not even on TV....because seriously.....he's like worse than those children shows on Nicklol....or whatever....like seriously........I don't even know how this guy is older than me........by more than one year too.......how does that even make sense...........anyway moving on........... *cough cough*

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