Nothing has the ability to rise to greatness unless it also has the ability to fall.

The history of the world has many examples of such greatness being torn down and lost forever, but one not so greatly unknown as the fall of demon society. Of course, one can’t really call them fallen so much as… hidden. Thousands of years ago, demons walked the earth, protecting humans from supernatural forces that threatened their way of life (vampires, fae, you name it.) Humans saw demons more as divine than the hell spawn many make them out to be now. They don’t have horns, flesh fallen skin, or grotesquely misshapen forms. They appear in every sense of the word human. They just have a little extra something, that’s all. They are capable of things no human could ever do; they have greater strength, speed, and a prolonged life. Each Demon also happens to posses a power.

The humans started to fear the demons, afraid they would wipe out those they deemed unworthy instead of protecting them as they always have. The demons decided it was no longer safe to stay out in the open. They made sure they disappeared from human’s minds. All history of them is gone without a trace. It was better to protect them from the shadows. Demons formed their own cities and towns, never to be seen by human’s eyes, curtesy of the demons who have such cloaking powers. A council rules over the demons. Each continent a demon city lies on has their own representative, making the council total six. Those six collectively rule together. It wasn’t always that way, however. Not after the council stopped allowing The Nocte ac Die Prophecy to continue it’s cycle.

The Nocte ac Die Prophecy stated that every 150 years, a set of half human, half demon twins would be born into the world— one twin born during the light of the moon, the other during the light of the sun. It's said that the twins have every capability a demon has, yet are stronger. They would be faster. The powers they posses would be on a much more powerful and possibly deadlier scale than those that regular demons possess. Their increased powers are brought upon by their souls intertwining with other demons. This allows their excess energy to travel through others so it does not overwhelm them. These are their bond mates, born on the exact day the twins are brought into the world. These bond mates also possess much more powerful skills. Each twin has between two to three bond mates. Anything higher has never been seen. There is nothing other than their shared birth date that signifies their bond to one another, but fate has never kept them apart from their bond mates for long. They always find one another. After all, they can’t access their greater powers until they do. The sun and moon twins cannot gain access to their demon powers until they have contact with each of their bond mates. Their bond mates cannot access theirs until they have contact with their respective twin. These bond mates are born to protect their twin.

These twins are born to be the head of the council. They are born to rule.

600 years ago, the council decided they’d had enough. They were power-hungry and decided it a wise decision to go against fate. They slaughtered the twins and their bond mates, proclaiming to the demon society that the Sun and Moon twins had gone power crazy, planning on destroying them all, starting with the council. People had no other choice than to believe them. Since then, every 150 years the council seeks out these half-demon children to kill them on the spot, leaving their bond mates to lead a life powerless and unfulfilled. Demons believe it’s for the best. Well, most of them do. Some have passed down the truth of the power-hungry council. Some still believe in the power of the prophecy.

It’s been seventeen years since the last cycle of The Prophecy has occurred. The council promptly stated as they have every 150 years that the twins had been killed. That their society was safe. What no one knows is they lied about it. When the time came for them to find the half-demon twins, it was like any record of their birth had vanished. They’ve spent years trying to find them, but it seemed they’d disappeared into the deep abyss of the human world, slipping through the cracks.

Maybe now fate has a chance.