The Storyteller's Challenge n. 2 - Town of the Beginning and the End

I really enjoyed wrting this story, and it's a pity it had to be so short. Anyway, meet Tonino and Josè as they explore the Town of the Beginning and the End (and no, it's not Loguetown)

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"Are we there yet?"

"Almost."
"I'm tired, my feet hurt..."

"There! It's over there!" Tonino pointed at a rocky cliff, and started running towards the precipice, followed by a stumbling Josè. 

"Wait, Tonino! Wa- Woah..."
The five-year-old kid widened his dark eyes at the sight before him. 

"This is Asura! Town of the Beginning and the End!"

"Look at this, Tonino! It's so pretty! It's all red and blue and yellow!" Josè screamed excitedly showing a parrot at his brother.

Tonino raised his eyes from the chalk drawing he was making on the floor. 

"He says hi!" The older brother dropped the chalk in his hands.

"You understand him?" 

"Yeah! He says his name's Kali! Hi! I'm Josè and this is my big brother, Tonino!!" Kali squawked loudly and opened his wings at Tonino, who waved, still bewildered. He grabbed his brother's wrist and started dragging him towards a high building, no different than the other sand-colored ones, except for its entrance, which was closed by a heavy double door.
"Open it!" The younger brother looked hesitantly at the solid stone, then pushed it with all his strength, but the heavy door didn't move an inch. Tonino frowned as he softly pushed it with his fingertips. The door slid aside, revealing a shadowed, desert hall. He nodded and waved at the empty room. 

"Tonino, who is it?"

"It's the spirits." The older boy explained as if it was the most natural thing in the world. 

"Ooh! I can't see them, though!"

"I know you can't. Only I can see them." he frowned again. "But I can't speak to Kali."
Said bird squawked outside the hall. 

"He says only I can. Why can't you?"

"They say I shouldn't ask it."

Josè shrugged. Let's play outside! I saw a triangle building, we can climb it! Let's see if we're faster than Kali!" The bird squawked again. "Oh, you are? Then help us up!" Another squawk, followed by an amused laugh and Josè running away, followed by his brother. 

"Josè, Tonino! Where were you? Have you got any idea of how was I worried!"

"Sorry, mom." Tonino muttered. 

"Josè, don't tell it to mommy, okay?"

"Aww, but why not? I want her to see Kali and Luni!" Josè pointed at a white snake, his new friend. 

"Just don't!"

"Mommy, we were in Asura!" The younger boy grabbed his mother's skirt and pulled it. Tonino stopped breathing. Why didn't he never listen? His mother didn't seem angry, though.

"Oh, yes? What is it?"

"It's the Town of the Beginning and the End! There are lots of pretty things, and there was this bird named Kali and a snake called Luni and they were friends, and we played tag all day, then hide-and-seek, but I never found them because they cheated! Kali flied and Luni hided in small holes! Then we climbed a giant triangle and I played with Kali and Luni some more, while Tonino talked with spirits! I can't talk with them, but he can! But he can't understand Kali and Luni." 

Tonino held his breath, but released it when their mother laughed and gently patted him on the head. 

"Is that so? Sounds like you had a lot of fun. But tell me before playing outside next time, okay?" Josè smiled and promised running off in his room to draw Asura at his best. 

"Tonino, where do you play? It isn't anywhere dangerous, is it?"

"No, mom! And I take care of Josè!"

"Of course you do, you're such a good big brother. But be careful yourself, alright?"

Tonino rolled his eyes: "Mom, I'm eight! I'm not a child anymore." The only thing he received in response was another delighted laughter and a pat, then he ran off to their room, exactly like his younger brother. 

"Josè! Josè, wake up!"

The younger brother rubbed his eyes, sleepy. 

"Mmh, I'm tired, it's still dark."

"Just come! I have to show you a thing!" The brother replied with another "mmmhhh", and the older one sighed. 

"It's Asura! We have to go there!" Josè instantly threw aside his covers, fully awake. 

"Really! Now?!" He shouted. 

"Shhh, you'll wake mom!" Tonino put a finger to his lips, while putting on a small jacket with the other hand. 

"Mom said to tell her first." Josè protested, but kept his voice low. 

"Mom wouldn't let us go out now! But I have to show you something, it's important!"

Josè didn't say anything, and hesitantly followed his older brother as he jumped out of the low window.

They quickly made their way through the desert terrain until they arrived at the cliff. 

Tonino stopped and sitted on the edge, and Josè imitated him. 

"What is there? I can't even see Asura from here, aren't we going in?"

Tonino was looking at the sky absent-mindedly. "You would find nothing there."

"What?" Josè was about to cry. "There are Kali and Luni!"

"No, they aren't. It has ended."

"What?" Tonino just motioned at the sky. For a while nothing happened. 

Then Josè let out a scream of excitement, pointing at a beam of light coming from a cloud. 

"It's so pretty! It's a big moon!" 

Pretty indeed, thought Tonino. The sky itself was a giant rainbow, blue clouds over their heads contrasting with the ones below, that had assumed the same orange shade of the sandy terrain. An abnormally large moon was peeking from above the city's ruins. A storm of birds flew over their heads, and Tonino's smile faded.

The ground shook violently. Josè almost fell over, but the older brother grabbed him by his shirt. 

He watched with a solemn expression as the city was enveloped in the ground, slowly. 

"No! Kali, Luni! What's happening, Tonino? Why is Asura going away?"

Tonino didn't answer, instead nervously biting his lip. Josè jumped down the cliff, followed by his older brother. 

"What happened, Tonino?"

"It ended. The Town of Beginning and the End, remember?"

"Wha- but!"

"It's somewhere else, now. In another part of the world." 

Josè's face lighted up, unexpectedly. 

"Really, is that so? Then it's okay!"

Tonino watched curiously his younger brother, who picked a fallen tree branch and waved it as a sword. 

"I'll grow up and travel the whole world! Then I'll find Asura again and play with Kali and Luni! They'll wait for me, right?"

Tonino laughed. "Then I'll come with you! Asura always begins somewhere else! We'll find it everytime!" 

That didn't end as expected. Well, I knew Asura would disappear, but not that Tonino and Josè would decide to follow it. And I thought Kali was going to die (being it the City of the End), but then be reborn the next day (the Beginning), but I ended up cutting that scene, becuase it's supposed to be a short story! Anyway, tell me what you think of it (and point out typos)! :)