A/N: So very sorry for the freakishly long hiatus. I have no better excuse than life, and how it never seems to go my way. So here's a long one for you to enjoy J.

I stared at the clock on my bedside table, it was exactly eleven o'clock, which means that in exactly one hour, it would be the start of the new year, in my world at least. I sighed, and stared back up the ceiling. After Christmas, things were just like normal around here, meetings here and there, and more of Dimentio and I sneaking about the castle, trying our best to eavesdrop on Count Bleck's conversations, and listening to his bedtime tells to Mimi.

The one thing that's been talked about in the meetings recently is how close the day is to when we began our plan, when we unleash the Chaos Heart. To be perfectly honest, I'm kind of worried for that day, for I don't know what will happen afterwards.

Just than, a knock at my door pulled me away from my thoughts. I got up, and walked to the door to open it. I only opened it just a crack, before I saw Dimentio's familiar silhouette standing on the other side. That struck me as odd, usually Dimentio has that thing of just teleporting into my room. I opened it the rest of the way, and he looked at me, and smiled.

"Good, you're awake, I'd though you'd fallen asleep already," he reached behind his back, and pulled out a blue rose, "For you, Happy New Year."

I smiled, and took the rose from him, "Thanks," I walked away for a second to put the rose on my desk. I turned back around to see Dimentio had already entered my room.

"So what's the plan for tonight Dim?" I asked. For some nights now, Dimentio and I have been coming up with some plans, most of them involving us trying to see if we can get the Dark Pronoctious off of Bleck. We'd figured that all the secrets that we need to know reside in that book. But it's the trouble of getting it off of him, he literally has it on hand everywhere he goes.

"Simple, we're gonna sneak into Bleck's room, and 'borrow' the Dark Pronoctious. I'm pretty sure that's all we'll need." He, nonchalantly put his arm around my shoulder.

I looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "Really? We're really gonna do it? You're making it sound like it's so easy."

He chuckled,' Or course it's easy, why wouldn't it be?"

"Gee, I don't know, maybe cause we're both at risk here if Bleck does so happen to catch us."

He chuckled once again, "Trust me Isabelle, it's near the middle of the night, Bleck is usually asleep by now, besides just let me do all the work."

I thought about it for a moment, "Okay, but if you're gonna do all the work, why do you need me than?"

He slowly floated away from me, "Because, I need someone to be my lookout, and someone to take the wrap if I get caught," I snickered at his obvious attempt to be sarcastic to me.

I rolled my eyes. We than teleported to the Northern Wing of the castle, which I liked to call the "Count's Wing", because I think that Bleck's room is the only bedroom in the entire Northern Wing. We snuck along the hallway, I had t quietly tip-toe, while Dimentio easily floated along.

"Can you try not to be a show-off," I quietly whispered.

"What's there to be showing off? I'm just doing what I do naturally, sorry if you're jealous," he quietly snickered.

I rolled my eyes, "I'm not jealous, jester, it's just I find in unfair that I have to tip-toe as quietly as I can, while you can just float along there."

Dimentio laughed at this, "Yep, you're definitely jealous."

"No I'm not!" I yelled. Dimentio instantly covered my mouth, and listened around, than gave me a glare.

"Well, you're talking isn't making it any better for either of us now, be quiet, we're almost there."

It only took a few more steps to make it to Count Bleck's room. I myself have never been to his room before, but just by standing in from of the door, I was getting a nausea feeling, and my head started to hurt. Dimentio quickly glanced at me, "Are you okay?"

Though my head was still hurting, the nausea feeling went away, "Yeah, I'm find, are you sure you know what you're doing?"

He nodded firmly "Of course, believe if or not, I've actually did this a time or two before."

That caught me off guard, did he really sneak into the Count's room before? He listened in than looked up at me and mouthed, "He's in there."

Great. "Is he sleeping?" I mouthed back.

Dimentio shook his head, "Listen." With that, I listened in beside Dimentio. He was right, by the sound of things, he was talking to himself in there. It didn't surprise me, Dimentio and I always heard Count Bleck talking to himself, but this time, the conversation, was not something Dimentio nor I was expecting.

"The time is nigh, I've waited so long, planned everything perfectly. Soon we'll began, and I'll be rid of everything that has taken her away from me. For everything without her is meaningless."

I was taken aback by that. Just who was this "her" he was speaking of? And how does "her" have any tie in this? This just got me questioning even more.

As soon as we heard him lie down in his bed, Dimentio whisper to me, "Stay here, I won't take long." With that he teleported away.

I kind of wished he didn't leave me alone, this castle is normally creepy, but when you're alone, when everyone else is asleep, it's even creepier. Plus, like any other house at night, there were weird unexplainable noises. I've grown used to hearing weird noises at night, but that didn't mean I don't get freaked out from time to time. Every five seconds, I kept on looking to see if anyone had caught me. Thankfully, the Count's bedroom was the only one in the Northern Wing, so I assured myself that I wasn't expecting company anytime soon.

Soon, Dimentio came back with the Dark Pronoctious in hand.

"What the?" I exclaimed when I saw that Dimentio actually had the book.

"Shh! See? I told you it was easy," He gave me a wink, and started skimming through the book.

Just like any other time I saw the book, I started feeling sick, and felt my head pounding. I backed away a bit from Dimentio, who looked at me confused, "What's the matter with you?" he asked.

My head was still spinning, but I managed to regain my composure, "Nothing, I'm just…I'm fine, don't worry."

Dimentio kept eyeing me, "Okay, any who, in these pages lies the secrets to the future," he skimmed through the book again, smiling creepily as he did, "Everything that will happen hidden in these pages. All the secrets we need to know."

I looked at the book, I could feel the energy radiating from it, I knew it was evil, I could feel that just by reading it, it would be enough to drive someone to the brink of insanity.

Dimentio opened the book, and read through it, "With the union of these two, hath shall come forth, the Chaos Heart."

While he continued reading a loud, I saw a weird black aura reach around Dimentio's arm, and travel up them, coiling around him like a snake. I didn't know if my eyes were playing tricks on me, or I was really seeing this. I could the aura starting to surround his body, pulsating, taking over him.

"…The Void will grow larger, and destroy everything in its path."

"Dimentio!" I yelled.

He stopped reading, and looked up at me in shock. I felt tears starting to soak my eyes. I was a worried, but confused look on his face, "Isabelle?"

We suddenly looked to the Count's door to hear footsteps coming towards us. I turned to Dimentio, "Dimentio, I'm…" But before I could say another work, Dimentio took a hold of my hand, and we both quickly teleported away, and Dimentio left the Dark Pronoctious behind.

We ended up teleporting back to my room. The sickening feeling from earlier was slowly fading away.

Dimentio looked at me, and I caught lance of him. My head was still pounding, and I felt a few tears running down my cheek. I've never been more frightened by anything in my life. Just seeing the pulsating, black aura traveling, and surrounding Dimentio was enough to send shills up my spine. It was strange though, because I never seen the aura surround Bleck before, but than again, Bleck never read a loud from the book before.

"I'm sorry if that was too much for you to handle," Dimentio said, his voice somewhat filled with regret.

I sighed deeply, "No, don't be, it wasn't your fault," Even though it kind of was his fault, I didn't say it, to spare him any more pain he could have.

But Dimentio sighed, and turned from me, he started to float away, as if he was going to leave. I didn't say anything, I could feel off his aura, that he was somewhat filled with regret, but there was something else there too. Was it…joy? Happiness? Or something else I couldn't feel?

"Once more thing," Dimentio suddenly said, pulling me away from my thoughts. I turned over and looked at him, "We were right all along, Isabelle, the Count is going to destroy everything, and it's all for a personal gain."

I stood up, "What? What is he trying to gain from this?"

"Revenge."

I rose an eyebrow. "Revenge? Against what?" A sudden thought crossed my mind. Could it be revenge for "her?"

He shrugged, "Looks as if we have another mystery to solve."

"Oh great," I whispered quietly to myself.

Dimentio chuckled, "Be sure to get some sleep tonight Iz, you'll be needing it. Ciao." And with that he teleported away.

I walked over ,and laid on my bed. I must've had over a thousand thoughts in my head. Looks like we were right, Bleck is planning on revenge for something, whether it's for "her" or not. But Bleck should know, when going out for revenge, sometimes, people will try to stop you. I didn't know what I was up for tomorrow, but I knew it was going to be something that was bound to happen sooner than later.