Cordelia couldn't sleep at all that night. She was too full with the thought of Dante there in the school with her. She couldn't stand the guy. A couples days went by and that's when the nightmares started again...

The fire scourging the mansion she lived in. The moving skeletons with weapons going about the inside destroying the place. She could hear the ruskus from the cellar. Mystearic had left her there, said not to leave until she came for her. But after awhile she disobeyed her orders. She left the cellar's safety and went to find her teacher. Everywhere until she reached her office. He was there on the floor...dead... And standing in front of her dead body was him. With that sword she recognized very well. It was the one she thought she loved. Not anymore though. Not ever again...

"Ah!" Cordelia stood up in cold sweat from her sit.

"Miss Hughes would you mind controlling your valet?" the teacher called to them as the class busrt laughing. Cordelia sat down and tried to at least remain awake.

"What's up with you?" Victoria whispered as the teacher kept on the lecture. "You alright?"

She shook her head. "Nightmares. Bad ones of what happened that day flashback every time I try to sleep. Ever since I saw him three days ago."

"You haven't slept? You're human here, sleep depravation is serious. You could die," Victoria said concerned.

"I'm gonna be alright," Cordelia called putting her head down again. But she didn't. She woke up again not with such a ruckus but still was kicked out of class to the doctor's office. By then it was already lunch.

"I can take you there if you want," Victoria said concerned.

Cordelia smiled and waved her hand at her. "I'll be fine. I'll find my way there alright." She went off.

~°X°~

She's too scared of him. That was the thought in Victoria's mind at once. When it was Nevaeh after the incident, she was completely petrified of the occurred. It wasn't up to when she grew up that that fear lessened more. Now that she's forced to live amongst the killer of the woman who was pratically their mother was unbearable for Cordelia. Victoria wasn't as frightened of the bastard. Not her. Moreso she wanted to kill the bastard herself but with no powers and that guy having the Shadow Blade is bad enough. She couldn't be reckless. All that mattered now was to get Cordelia better and to get her to sleep peacefully.

"Victoria-san?" she turned to find Leo and the Nightray boy she disliked. The reason? He was spending way too much time with her precious friend.

"Leo-kun. Nightray. Good afternoon." She said with a fake smile.

"Why am I the one being pushed around like that?" Elliot asked trying to find out why he was being treated differently.

"Unsual to see you alone without Cordelia-san." Leo chuckled, "Seeing how all the students have been saying stuff about the Hughes Pair."

"Rumors." Victoria scroned. "Those people are repugnant. Cordelia's been sick lately that's all."

"Sick?" Elliot called.

"Hasn't been sleeping ever since that bastard-!" she gritted her teeth to evade pronouncing his name. "The point is she can't sleep well. Been sleeping in class and got in trouble today too."

"Oh my," Leo said tilting his head. "Did she go to Yomi-sensei?" Victoria nodded.

~°X°~

"You'll be just fine with this," Yominato said after giving her some medicine. "Go on and sleep on the bed here. It'll be best for you to rest for the remaining of the day."

Cordelia nodded, a lot more tired than she thought she had been. But she knew if she slept she would relive all of that. "Thanks."

"Now go on, to sleep you go," Yominato said going on towards the door. "I'll tell Hughes-kun about you staying here awhile. I'll lock the door too from the inside alright?"

She nodded again and went on to lay on the bed.

Yominato exited the room leaving the inside locked. For classes had already renewed, the hallways were empty, except for the girl that was walking his way. The girl no older than Victoria or Cordelia. Her hair a bright red, wavy and hung up in one high ponytail. Her eyes were a black coal color. The moment the two passed by each other the girl grinned.

"Found it yet?" she asked the sleeves of her overcoat too long and covering her maniacal smirk.

"I found the rodent you said was infesting this place," Yominato answered her question raising his glasses to avoid the sight of the girl.

She chuckled mischievously. She clapped her sleeve-covered hands together in pleasure, "Great! Great! With that book out of the Otherworld I can finally propose a pact of war upon everything. This earth should purge in the fires of Hell." She turned kept walking raising her arms above her head then down then up again. "My daddy will be happy to know that I'll send so many humans down home to suffer!"

~°X°~

"AH!" Cordelia awoke again not much but three hours of sleep. Her body full with the cold sweat again. She sighed, she noticed her body was trembling now. "Why am I still scared?" She tried calming down putting her head on her knees. Closing her eyes she began by hearing the silence. Then, out of nowhere, she heard a faint melody. "A piano?" She stood up staggering at first but exited the room and followed the sound as it began growing louder and louder.

She stopped just paces away from the door where the sound was originating from. She's heard this before. She was with her and that man. She opened the doors slowly just as the piano was finishing the song. Her eyes a bit blurry she just asked what was on her mind. "Lacie?"

"Huh?" Elliot looked up from his place. Leo and Victoria did as well.

"You stupid!" Victoria called going to the staggering figure of her friend and sat her down where she had been. "Yomi-sensei said you needed sleep."

"I couldn't rest." Was her simple answer. "Those memories keep coming back. I want..." she looked down to her hands. "I want to see Mystearic-sama again. She knows how to cure me."

Victoria shook her head at the confused looks the guys were giving her. She knelt in front of her and lifted her face. "Dear, I can't take you to Evangelice. She's dead, remember."

"I know," Cordelia said shaking her own head. "But I can't stop thinking that I should've done something about him. I should've killed him when I saw what he did."

"Shh," Victoria said soothing the girl.

"How did you know the name of the song?" Elliot asked out loud. Cordelia a little bit more out of it blinked and took a breath before answering.

"I...thought about someone and her name came up to me that's all," she answered simply. "You two were playing that?"

"Yeah," Elliot answered sitting back down. Leo stood up and went to the two. He took his glove off and pressed his hand on her forehead.

"You don't seem to have any fever or anything," he said not bothering to put his glove back on but instead taking the other off. "As a matter of a fact your cold as ice."

"It's normal." Was her answer to the comment. "I've been like that for awhile now. Below normal temperature on the surface."

"I see. It's still strange though," Leo added.

"You mind me being here while you play?" she asked not really bothering to move. "I kind of liked it."

"Sure," Elliot said as Leo sat down on the other bench. Leo took out a sheet of the 'Moonlight Sonata' and they both started playing a four hand piece.

"It's beautiful," Victoria mumbled to her. "I'm impressed humans can convey such emotions on music."

"Yeah," Cordelia agreed. But her mind was half with her. After they were done Elliot decided to play something else.

"Not joining him?" Victoria asked.

Leo shook his head. "He practices songs to see if inspiration comes to him."

Elliot didn't get anything else out but simply went by ear. Both girl's didn't know what he was playing but it sounded sad yet beautifully pure at the same time.

"I've heard that song before." Victoria noticed. "Isn't that the one that..."

Cordelia shook her head. "It sounds like it but it isn't."

"What are you two talking about?" Elliot asked briefly stopping.

"Leo," Cordelia asked. "Do you have a violin here I could borrow?"

"Um..." Minutes later Leo found the smallest violin there was for her. "Will this do?"

"Yeah. I think so." She stood up best she could and took the violin and bow. She went over to Elliot's side placing the violin under her chin. "Try harmonizing with me alright?"

"Why the-"

"Oh shut up and listen to her, Nightray!" Victoria bickered back.

"Whatever," he mumbled and placed his hands on the keys.

She passed the bow once through the strings and started playing. (Ehe, for now let's go with Tsukiyo no Violinist.) Her fingers moving perfesctly in cord. She opened her eyes to cue him in. He did what he could to follow under her part. And as if planned both the piano and the strings flew in the air as if their sound made the air move about. Her eyes were half open as she looked at his hands. His hands traveled swiftly along the ivory pieces as if dancing the most complex of waltz. His playing was superb and for some reason the sound of the keys sounded like a far away voice. As if she were here with her once again. The bow slid peacefully at the end with the ivory key being slowly kept on by his indez finger. Victoria and Leo clapped as they finished.

"Yeah they sound different alright. That's the original one," Victoria agreed with her.

"Original?" Leo asked.

"My master, sorry. My teacher and I used to do this all the time. She played the piano like a goddess and I joined with the violin. I'm not very good for arts wasn't always my forte." Cordelia explained putting the things down. "That song was the one my teacher composed for me one day and taught it to me. Victoria confused the one Elliot was just playing with this one."

"Your teacher seemed to know a lot, if you ask me," Elliot interupted a bit pissed.

"Besides your not as bad as you think." Leo said raising his glasses. "That was the most beautiful thing I've heard. Even a piano duet doesn't sound as beautiful as a piano and violin together."

"Would you play something else?" Victoria said perkily.

"I couldn't," Cordelia said holding her head as the room swang a bit. "I'm really dizzy for some reason."

"You shouldn't be playing around with your health," Elliot added as she sat down on the piano's bench.

"I think I-" she yawned. "I can sleep now..." But it was too late, she'd fainted of exhaustion already and fallen to the side landing on Elliot.

"H-Hey!" Elliot called outraged and shocked.

"Cordelia!" Victoria went over exasperated pushing Elliot off her, making him fall off the seat, and getting Cordelia.

"What the hell?" Elliot shouted.

"Shut up!" she hissed at him. "She's finally sleeping soundly." She sighed in relief. "I'm glad."

"No thanks. No nothing." Elliot called.

"Let's get them back to their room, Elliot. It's what a gentleman would do." Leo said smiling.

"Not happening." Elliot argued.

"Don't need your help," Victoria said picking her up and placing her arm over her own shoulder and moving a sleeping Cordelia. "We went by without you, we'll be find without you now." She walked a few steps before falling a bit by the ovewieght. "A-Ah!"

"Yeah, no help alright," Elliot said taking Cordelia's sleeping body from her.

"Don't misjudge," Leo said as they left the room. "It's best if you let us help you."

"Both of you are weird." Victoria looked over at Cordelia who was sound asleep with no apparent disturbance. "Well, I don't care about myself as long as she's happy and well."

"She's your valet and you care for her much more than yourself," Leo said noticing the closeness. "I haven't seen that in any kid here at school. Besides Elliot that is."

"I owe her," Victoria simply said. "She went through hell and back because of me. I could at least repay my debt by keeping her away from harm's way as much as I can."

"You're a good person to her. She's happy alright." Elliot's comment made her think.

"Not as much as she should be," Victoria sighed.

Soon they arrived at their room and Elliot placed her where Victoria had said. Yuya jumped on the bed and snuggled along with Cordelia.

"A cat?" Elliot said.

"Yuya!" Victoria hissed and grabbed the cat by the skin. The cat screeched and hissed back. "You get away from her. I swear you wake her up and I'll be having cat sushi for dinner." The cat scared off went under Cordelia's bed.

"You don't like cats?" Leo asked noticing the hostility to the pet. Elliot was speechless at the deadly threat done to an innocent animal.

"Oh no, I love animals. I just hate that cat." Victoria finished pointing at Yuya who hissed. Victoria pointed at Yuya once and then with her thumb made a motion across her throat. Yuya simply hid more in. They exited the room and the two were leaving when just outside the door they heard.

"Is the Sleeping Beauty here already?" Dante's voice called.

"You again?" Elliot said angry at the guy who harrased an indefense girl.

"Get the fuck away from here Blackheart," Victoria called in anger. "Get away and never show your face in front of Cordelia again."

He raised hia hands defensesively. "Whoa, no need to be hostile. In fact I came here with a message from the House of Black."

"House of Black?" Leo asked confused.

"You two should leave now," Victoria said paying more attention to him than the two.

"And leave you with this creep?" Elliot said.

"Not your problem," she said with teeth gritted. "Now leave."

"Elliot," Leo said pulling his master away. Feeling a threatening vibe from the boy more than from Victoria.

"No. I won't," he argued snatching away his arm.

"You're pretty stupid, Nightray boy." Dante's comment made Elliot even more angry. "This is a matter between King, Hughes, and me. Scum who don't know the circumstances of our problems should leave or better yet die."

"You bastard-" Elliot was ready to draw his sword out but Dante won him and had drawn a pure white sword out.

"You were saying?" Dante taunted.

"That's enough!" Victoria called angry. "Put that thing away before I reprt you to the hellhounds." Elliot and Leo took that as turning him in to the super intendent but she meant it. The hellhounds would get him to the Hunters and he'd be sent back to Alcatraz.

"Now you wouldn't do that, cause you're not that stupid Bact," Dante explained putting the thing away. "After all if I go down, I'll take you two with me." Victoria gritted her teeth, her bluff was useless. "Anyways all I came here for was to say that the hellhounds and their masters are on the lookout. The book resides somwhere in this place. And when I find it, you two will be in for it." he left with no further ado.

"Hellhounds and their masters?" Elliot asked confused. Victoria simply shook her head, smiled and closed the door.

"What the hell's her problem?" Elliot called enraged.

"Leave them be." Leo said really not getting them.

Inside Victoria pulled Yuya out from under the bed. "Spit it out."

"What?" Yuya asked perplexed.

"Dante, the Hellhounds, and the Hunters. Not to mention the creepy feeling that I've been getting in this castle like school all this time." Victoria spat out quickly. "Who's here? Who's here besides Dante, Cordelia, and I?"

"I-I don't know," Yuya gulped.

"That's it," Victoria called pulling out a knife and ready to disect the animal.

"I'm not sure!" Yuya yelled as the knife appraoched. "B-But I feel a strong essence alike to Lucifer-sama's!"

"Alike Lucy's?" Victoria stopped her movement.

~°X°~

"This will be fun. Don't you think so too, Yomi?" the red head girl said as she stood on the doctor's bed. Yominato sitting on his chair. "Bactorule's here, Dante Blackheart is here. You're here too. But most importantly Miss King is here and with her I can find the rodent that's plaging me."

"You're looking for a soul that has already passed on to Heaven," Yominato answered.

"Na~a~a," she mocked pointing her finger. "Reincarnation, my friend. I will find the reicarnation of the girl in black and kill it for good." She jumped off the bed and exited the room.

"Stuck with the devil's daughter herself." Yominato shivered, "Diana Mastema or should I say... Mastema Diabolus."

Next time: Her laughter sounded diobalical to him. It was as if the world had stopped and the hottest fire were purging his insides. Then she stopped; everything did...

..."You're weak, friend of mine. Far weaker than I had first thought you could be...Lacie..."

Mastema's Target

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