The magical girls/boys squeezed their eyes tightly shut, with their small hands gripping their cute, ribbon-wrapped staffs until the delicate crystals at the tips glowed with an ominous, pulsing light.
Their tiny bodies trembled, but not from fear; it was from the strain of holding back something far larger and darker than them.
"Ahhhhh, how I despise fairies..."
A deeper, double-layered sound resounded from both boys' mouths at the exact same instant.
It was audibly feminine, though; with that rich and mature tone, laced with venomous disdain and centuries of accumulated bitterness.
The voices overlapped perfectly, one echoing inside the other like a curse spoken in stereo.
They raised their heads in perfect unison, the once-sparkling green eyes now clouded over with a dull, malevolent crimson glow that bled into the whites.
