I woke up to someone prodding me in the side at about three o'clock that night. At first I thought that it was Aria coming to get me because, as soon as we arrived home the day before Luck smiled as he said, "Girls, I want you to come up and visit me again tonight."
"But we just beat up some girl from school." I said rather stupidly, "Isn't that enough for one day?"
Luck grabbed my arms and squeezed me tight, until I couldn't breathe. "It's never enough." He replied before he let me fall to the ground.
But, it wasn't Aria who was trying to wake me this time. It was Dagi. "Dagi?" I yawned.
"Get up and follow me." Dagi instructed in a hushed voice, "And do hurry!"
"Why?" I grumbled as I slid out of bed, "Where are going?"
Dagi's eyes narrowed, "The attic."
I stopped dead in my tracks, "Why attic Dagi?"
Dagi's stare was now burning into my heart and soul, "Because I know what's going on, and it's going to stop tonight."
"Dagi," I stammered guiltily, "nothing's going o-"
"I'm not an idiot Sonata!" She shot back, "And neither are you!"
"But I am an idiot!" I sobbed, "There's no use in lying about it. I'm not a good liar, Aria's the one who's good at lying!" My tears slowly began to dry as I calmed down, "I need Luck."
"His name's not 'Luck'" Dagi growled, "It's really Ahuizotl" She was carrying the little doggy sculpture from my room over her shoulder like a gun.
"But I'm no good and useless with out him." I stared to cry some more as I said this.
"You've got that all wrong Sonata." Dagi said as she engulfed me in a hug. When she released me, I was able to see her face. She had painted crisscrossed lines all over it, she looked so tired, but for some reason her eyes didn't. "You're a good girl." She smiled slowly.
By now I just noticed that someone was missing. "Where's Aria?"
Dagi blinked slowly, "She's not coming with us."
My eyes widened, "What? But, why?"
"Because, she's... She's just not strong enough." Dagi shook her head with sympathy for my sister, who was also her cousin, "Technically, it's not really her fault. You could have been the weak one just as easily."
"But... But I'm the mistake twin." I cried some more, because that's what idiots like me do, "I shouldn't even exist."
"That's right, you shouldn't!" A blood curling voice echoed through the air it was Ahuizotl. The door to the attic flew opened with a crash, Dagi held the statue in front of us as we made our way into the attic. Something started to scream bloody murder. "You again?!" Ahuizotl screeched, "It's you, it's you! Not this again! Get that thing away from me! GET IT AWAY! PUT IT DOWN!"
"No." Dagi said bluntly as she glared at Ahuizotl, "I don't take orders from you." She grabbed the heave box that Aria had dropped, you know the one that Ahuizotl lived in, it was so heavy that Dagi could barely lift the thing. If she used two hands she probably could have, but she couldn't put the sculpture down, because it was the only thing protecting us from Ahuizotl. "Sonata!" Adagio called out, "Help me get it outside!"
I raced to her side and grabbed the opposite end of the box and began to drag it out of the house. There was so much screaming and so much wind. Books, clothes, and boxes were flying all around the attic. The air was dark and thick, I felt like I was breathing water, but me and Dagi shake off all odds and dragged the box outside.
Ahuizotl followed us, he was cooking up quite a storm,causing dirt to fly into our eyes and the ground to shake under our feet. I could tell that he was only using his magic on us, because around us it was a peaceful spring night. It was a good thing that we didn't stay in the attic, because, I'm sure that all the fuss that Ahuizotl was putting up would have torn down the entire house. I think that's why Dagi wanted to bring the box outside.
"How did you know Dagi?" I called over the howling winds, "How did you know what we had done?"
"It happened to me too!" She had yell it, because, Ahuizotl was calling out nasty words so loud that never want to hear them again.
"When?" I asked. I wanted to know how long it has been since Dagi had found him for herself.
"About five hundred years ago!" She replied, "He found me too!"
"You should have gotten rid of him! So me and Aria wouldn't have found him! We found his box with my old toys!"
"That's just it." Dagi said as she turned to look at me, "I DID get rid of him Sonata."
"SONATA DUSK!" Ahuizotl screamed at the top of his lungs, "WHERE WILL YOU BE WITHOUT ME SONATA?"
"Don't listen to him!" Dagi ordered. By now we had reached the end of our back yard. Dagi had the sculpture in one hand and the box in the other, I could see her trying to bring them together, like a couple of magnets that aren't working. There was sweat on her forehead, I could see how strong see really was like I will never be, I just know it.
"YOU'RE RIGHT SONATA!" Ahuizotl screeched. He didn't look like a cat any more. He looked like that same blob that he was the first time I saw him. He was oozing along the ground like a slug, "YOU'LL NEVER BE AS STRONG AS YOUR COUSIN! YOU'RE NOTHING WITH OUT ME! YOUR SISTER COULD PROBABLY DO IT, SHE'S SMART ENOUGH, SHE'S PRETTY ENOUGH, SHE COULD SURVIVE WITHOUT ME!"
"Don't listen to him!" Dagi cried out, beads of sweat were streaming down her face and she could hardly breathe, "It's nothing but tricks and lies! What he's saying isn't real! His luck isn't real, therefore, it won't last."
"DON'T LISTEN TO HER!" Ahuizotl counter acted, "I NEED YOU, AND YOU NEED ME! WITHOUT ME YOU ARE A NOTHING, NOBODY!"
"Tell him who you really are!" Dagi cried, "A sweet, adorable girl with a natural sense of humor, that doesn't need anything more!"
I closed my eyes tightly and said the first thing that came to my mind, "Ahuizotl, you're wrong. You just need me, I don't need you! Period! I might have a rough life, but guess what?" I looked at what I thought was the his eyes, "I DON'T give a care!"
Ahuizotl screamed as he shrunk into a smoking black piece of coal, flew into the tin, and the lid flew back into the box.
It has been about two weeks since all this happened, and things are going back to normal. Aria was very weak for about five days after Ahuizotl left. I honestly thought that she wouldn't make it, until, the third day after he left, when she started wandering around the house again. I'm just thankful that she's okay and I pray every night that Ahuizotl will never, ever, EVER return.