Chapter 9:
The Decision
(Aria's POV)
After I broke connection with Soma I open my eyes and I was lay down in a comfortable bed. I knew where I was and with who. Then someone was beside me, she have reddish hair and was holding my hand.
-Mom? Mom, wake up.- I whisper to her and she start to rise her head. Her beautiful dark brown eyes were crying.
- Aria. I thought you'll never woke up.- say mom.
- You know that I will communicate with someone. There is no need to cry went I fall asleep.- I say to her and I give her a smile.
- I know, but… we almost lost you once. I don't want to lose you again.- say Mom.
- Sky. Let your daughter relax for a bit. You know that her wound has a curse and she needs to break it no matter what.- say a woman with dark hair and green eyes.
- Evelyn.- say Mom.
- Grandmother.- I say to her. She smile at me and walk beside me. I was wearing a long blue dress. I sit up on the bed and my grandmother sit beside me. She took my left sleeve off and expose my scar. That's right, the wound that I make myself last year… the sacrifice that I made back then… was still there. But by doing that. The cost for me to return was giving me a curse. I will never live if I don't break it this year.
- Your scar hasn't even fait away.- say grandmother. My grandmother is Evelyn Fernandez, a High Powerful Sorceress. The most powerful of her kind. She's my grandfather's wife.
- Wasn't the scar suppose to fait away from a long time ago?- ask my mother. My mother is Sky Aulin, a High Powerful Priestess. The most powerful of her kind. As you can see she's my father's wife.
- Is everything alright?- ask a man with dark brown hair and green eyes.
- John.- say my grandmother and my mother at the same time.
- Dad.- I say. That's right. That man is my father.
- How are you, dear?- ask my father.
- I'm fine.- I answer and with that he smile at me.
- Did you contact someone?- ask father.
- Yes…- I say but then I feel depress again.
- Aria? What's wrong?- ask mother.
- It's… it's nothing.- I say finally. Then I was sure that my decision was clear now. – Went are we going to return?
- In an hour.- say father. And that make me be relief.
(Evelyn's POV)
I know that Aria was hurt and that she was in danger, but what she saw and hear went she was contacting someone make her be sad now.
Last year, at the same day from the eclipse. That Dracula was about to be reborn… I was preparing for the great evil until… it was over and a great light descend from the sky to my temple and in the floor a girl with dark hair was there. And I found her clothes with blood, I was very worry until… I feel her strong aura and touch her, and I scan her previous moments. Then I realize and I was shock. It was my granddaughter. I was shock to see her very different from before and I notice that by consuming the dark powers… her appearance change and that she have to make the sacrifice to let everyone out. Almond them was… the reincarnation of Dracula and… Julius? He's alive, he's alive! I start to cry and I call the other sorceress to help me with my granddaughter. I notice that her wound was the source of the sacrifice and for some reason, God have giving her another chance, but with a curse. The scar was the meaning of the curse because no matter what we did… the scar will never fait away. Later I call her parents and they came as soon as possible, they were also shock to see her different. It almost took half a year so that she would wake up. By the time she did… she told us to never tell the others that she was alive because that will make them more pain than what they saw back at Dracula's Castle. She was still weak and we notice that her life force was becoming weaker as well. The curse was killing her very slowly unless she find a way to break it. She told us that Julius, my husband and John's father… was alive. That he have amnesia all this time after he defeat Dracula. John and Sky were shock to learn that her childhood friend, Soma Cruz, was the reincarnation of Dracula. Not only that… she was in love with him. They were about to tell her that she should be away from him, but by learning that he refuse to be the dark lord himself… they start to believe that… the boy was not the dark side of Dracula. Instead he was the good side of Dracula that was reborn. Only that the dark side wanted to be unleash. We were worry that her scar was about to consume her life very soon and that until a year she have to break it. By the moment she open her eyes the time was beginning to take its place. The time was against her and we have to return to Japan. We were in Cairo, Egypt. We have little time and we must take this opportunity because from the very start she told us that the answer and way to break the curse was in Japan. We were all going to return to Hakuba Shrine, Japan. And I will finally see Julius once again.
(Aria's POV)
The only reason why I was able to contact only Soma was because of his necklace. The only thing that he gave me back at Dracula's Castle. And I gave him mine. I was ready to face my destiny once and for all, the only think that is standing in my way is… Soma. Time to return to the place that started all this. Soma… I'm going back.