Wow, I can't believe that THREE weeks passed and that I was supposed to update two weeks ago. I'm not going to give any excuses, last week I was really busy but the week before I could have put it up. I'm really sorry :(. So, I'm putting up more than one chapter!

Chapter Nine

"What?" Kage demanded, "Did my brother send you?"

"Yes" Katil squeaked out, "I was supposed to kill Miyako, your brother is determined to keep the prophesy from coming true." the assassin clearly didn't want to die. Kage frowned, "I'll let you go," he said hesitantly, "But you can not go back to my brother."

"How will you make sure?" he asked nervously.

"A simple spell." Kage replied coolly, "I'm going to unbind your hands but that's all, and if you try to get away I will kill you." Katil nodded nervously and was shaking so bad that he was nearly vibrating.

Miyako watched with interest as Kage held Katil's hands tightly between his own and muttered, "Obtempero pepulli." he said quietly concentrating hard. After a few minutes passed he released his grip on Katil's hands, "There," he said, "Because of that spell if you ever return to my brother, try to find him, or attempt to contact him in any way, or cross his path you'll die. But I've made a few changes to the spell to keep him from ever locating you. Stay where you are." Katil at began creeping towards the window, "Though I haven't listed everything you aren't allowed to do there are no loopholes," Kage continued, "I just didn't bother listing them all."

Katil nodded quickly and ran off, Miyako heard the faint slamming of the door and saw a dark figure sprinting away from the house. Kage sighed, running his fingers through his dark blue hair.

"Why didn't you kill him?"

"What?"

"Why didn't you kill him?" Miyako repeated, "Why did you let him go?"

"It would have been pointless," Kage replied, "Killing him would have gained us nothing, and if I did we wouldn't have the chance to interrogate him further." he smiled, "I didn't tell him everything I changed. Now I have the ability to track him, by thinking about him clearly I will be able to find his exact location, in case we have any questions for him later."

Miyako yawed, "Okay, I see your point, but can we please start searching for the person who started Midnight's Curse?"

"Sure," Kage replied he looked at a clock in the corner, "But it's really late and we'll be really busy tomorrow, so I think that you should get to bed."

Miyako nodded standing up. As she closed the door of Kage's room behind her, she paused, "Kage?" she asked tentatively, and "I know that this is a weird question but why should I trust you? You are a vampire after all"

Kage looked up at her, surprised, "Well," he said slowly, "You shouldn't, and if your trust is that easy to gain, I would rather you mistrust everybody, including me."

"Okay," Miyako responded closing the door completely.

After a few minutes, when he was sure that he was alone Kage spoke again, "Complete trust is a rare gift." he laughed softly to himself, "A single thread of silk, so delicate, so easily broken."

Back in her room Miyako collapsed onto the bed. The day had been so chaotic. She had woken up in a strange room with and a vampire immediately had started explaining everything. There had been an attempt at her life, and learned something interesting about her curse.

She sighed into her pillow, as a wave of confusion and frustration washed over her as she wondered how to break her curse. As it did the memory stone started glowing a blinding gold.

Suddenly she was falling into darkness, 'What's happening?' she wondered, 'Oh! This a memory stone, I must be re-living somebody else's experiences!'

"Omph!" she fell hard onto the ground and looked around her, she was in a small house, and there was a young girl sitting on a chair with her Grandmother. The girl looked at her Grandmother, "But how can I break my curse?" she asked in a small voice.

Miyako stared at the two as everything clicked into place; Kage had said that whenever somebody felt a strong emotion whatever happened at the time would be forever recorded, and she was re-living the memories of a young girl, confused and frustrated at having Midnight's Curse.

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