A  few meters away from where Zero just crossed the forbidden hedge, a small young girl is sitting under a tree in a orphanage, watching as the other children play and have fun...

I can't take it any more... even amongst people like me I still don't belong any where.... I look down at the ground and start pulling out bits of grass, breaking them into little pieces as I isolated myself and complimented my pitiful existence. I was just about to get up and maybe go back inside when a small, not to mention hard, red ball came out of no where and hit me in the face. "Damn it! where the hell did that come from?!" I looked up to see myself surrounded by the other children, most of which were laughing and making fun of me as usual. "Oh did we do that? We're are so sorry Avira, we thought we saw something on your face and where only trying to help you by getting it of." Everyone laughed like the mindless sheep that they were, one kid shouting at the back. "But Zack! That is her face!" Zack smirked and looking me coldly right in the eyes replied with "Like I said, we were only trying to help. It can't be easy looking like that. Not even a demon would go anywhere near you, you would probably scare him so much he'd probably never come back! Hahaha!"

I glared at Zack and his stupid group of clones, practically growled "I think your confusing me with you Zack, you'd be so lucky as to even find a demon that would like you." The crowd went silent as they all watched zack, waiting to see how'd he react. Much to my disappointment, he only continued to smirk and said "Yea your right, you could get a demon..." I looked at him with surprise and superstition, what was he up to? Why the sudden niceness?... I fall on my side as he suddenly gave me a swift kicking, the others soon joining in and laughing as they did. "Your so pathetic that only a demon could love you! Your nothing!" I made myself into a little ball as they continued to kick me, willing myself not to cry, I refused to give them the satisfaction. Zack laughed and laughed and laughed, singing:

"Avira can't do nothing right!

Don't look at her she'll give you a fright!

Hide your mothers, hide your brothers!

Avira will eat them up and have them for supper! 

So watch out when she passes!

Ugly face, tattered clothes!

Hair like mud, eyes that will turn you to stone!

Avira can't do nothing right!

No she doesn't belong!

So kick her out and make her gone!"

Eventually they stopped and left, laughing all the way back to the orphanage. I stayed there long after they had gone, silently letting my tears fall now that it was safe. It started to rain, the see through droplets shining like small diamonds as they hit the ground, it seemed to matched my mood perfectly. All I wanted was to lie here forever and forget about this lousy life... I closed my eyes... giving in to the depression and despair, letting it slowly engulf me with it's dark clammy hands that seemed to tug at my very soul.  

Suddenly A shiver went through my body, and I felt cold outside as well as inside. I frowned in confusion... slowly opening my eyes and sitting up with a wince, I looked around. No one was out any more, the rain was still falling, everything seemed completely normal... I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched though, I decided to skim the play ground once more just to see if I was being crazy or not, when to the left in the shadow of the tree's my eyes caught something. I stared at it for awhile trying to figure out what it was, when it suddenly moved out of the shadows. I couldn't believe my eyes, it was a snow leopard! it's eyes a deep emerald colour and full of curiosity that seemed to human to belong to such a creature. I knew that I should probably be scared right now, any normal person would be running for their life. Then again, I most certainly wasn't any normal person. I stared back at the beautiful animal, its white coat glistened, covered with deep rich black spots. it slowly made it's way towards me cautiously, I slowly raised my hand unconscionably memorized by the creature and lost in it's now pink eyes.... hold up? Weren't it's eyes emerald a moment ago?... I covered my eyes with my hand as the leopard started to glow so bright suddenly that if I hadn't I probably would have been blinded, I moved my hand afterwards to find a guy now in it's place. My head was full of so many questions. Like, Where had the beautiful leopard gone? Who was this guy? What is he doing here? Did he want to finish what Zack and the others had started? He was probably just here to laugh at me... just like the others had. 

I glared at him fiercely. "Who are you? What do you want? I bet you think this is really funny don't you?... well, If you think that I'm just going to lay down and take it this time, you have another thing coming!" I do my best to get to my feet, I can't help swaying a little but I manage it in the end. "Well what you waiting for?! Give me your best shot!" I prepare myself for whatever this odd stranger has planed, a slow smirk forms on his lips and he laughs an oddly enchanting laugh that sounded vaguely like tinkering Christmas bells. He takes a set towards me still smirking and says "fear me not little human girl, my names is Zero. I am a demon from over the forbidden hedge, a poltergeist demon to be exact, haha." I watch this strange boy closely.... he's....a demon?..... I watch as his eyes once again change colour from pink to a bright glowing red, I nod slowly and reply "ok.... but if your really a demon, what are you doing here? If your really a poltergeist, shouldn't you be some kind of ghost rattling chains and breaking things? Your not going to eat me or any thing are you?" I smile a little only half joking, he once again moves a little closer to me and I stumble back a bit. His eyes full of some strange emotion that I couldn't seem to place...

"Ha! I have no interest in eating you so don't worry. No, I have something even better planned for you and I my new little fragile friend.... believe it or not but that's just a myth about poltergeists, A poltergeist is a mischievous German demon. my farther was a spirit and my mother was a vampire, like my farther I have the abilities of a ghost along with a few of a vampire from my mother. I am young still though and can not yet tap into all of my power rights.... much to the disappointment of my family and kind before me... I am a outcast now and I wish to explore and stay in this world of humans. You my young friend, are my only hope.... you see, as a poltergeist I can't stay here in the human world alone..." I frown and lean ageist the tree, I look at my feet for a moment and then say "So your a poltergeist demon and you need my help?..." he nods with a charming smile, I look down at my feet with a sad expression.

"I'm sorry... Zero... but I don't think I can help you.... I'm nothing special, why don't you just find another human? Why me?..." I slump to the ground and put my head in my hands, Zero stands there for a moment thinking and then suddenly he's by my side. his hand on my shoulder. I glance into haunting sliver eyes... "What is your name little human?..." Lost in his eyes I answer without thinking "my name?... oh, it's Avira." He smiles a gleaming smile full of thousands of spiked teeth. "Avira.... but you are special, I saw what happened with you and those other humans, no normal person would have gone through that and out again ok like you did. So what you say Avira, will you help me?.."  I think over what the demon has said carefully, when a thought comes to me. "What do you mean, when you said only I could help you?.... what are you planning on doing with me?" The white haired demon pulls me to my feet so that we're now standing facing one other. "I need to connect myself to your soul of course, it's the only way.... though I may be only a simple demon, I am nothing if not fair. Demons can't tell lie you see, we are always truthful. I am not a man without compromise Avira... So I shall make you a deal." My eyes narrow suspiciously. "What kind of deal?" 

Zero takes my hand and pulls me close, his ever changing eyes staring deeply in my own. "Bond with me my dear Avira, stay with me forever... You'll never again be alone, no one will hurt you when I am near and together we shall show all who ever doubted us how wrong they were.... Once bonded a poltergeist can bond with no other you know, I will be part of you forever and of course you will be part of me as well. My powers will be your powers... your strength will be my strength... we will be whole and one and no one will ever hurt us or betray us again. So what say you Avira?... Will you join me?" His eyes seemed to be full of shining stars, my surroundings blended into one and faded around me as I looked deep into them, he was all I could see... I had often wondered about all those books and fairy tales where boy and girl met, how they would get lost in one other and couldn't think about anything else but the one before them. I found that it was only half true, he was all I could see but I could still think, my mind was my own. He offered his pale hand with a smile and emotion in his eye that I now understood, it was love. Coming to my decision, I smiled back and took his offered hand, a small blush touching my cheeks. "Zero... I don't want to be alone any more." 

And so it was that demon and the human became one that day in the play ground of the old orphanage, a deadly vow made and a promise sealed with a tender kiss. To anyone who had bothered to look, they would have seen them as they went of into the distance hand in hand, almost has if the dusk was welcoming them home at last.