Christine, haha I LIKE that name! It was originally Cynthia, after a friend, but since I saw PHANTOM OF THE OPERA a week ago I decided on Christine.
Chapter Ten
"I don't know Christine," the Grandmother replied, "But I have a guess, there are so many rumors of how it ca-"
"But which one do you think is true?" Christine interrupted shifting impatiently in her Grandmother's lap. Something bright red and blue caught her attention, "The memory stone!" Miyako shouted in surprise quickly covering her mouth, but neither of the other two people in the room noticed. It dawned on Miyako that because she was in somebody else's memory, this had already happened, and whatever she did or said would not be noticed, and so could not affect the future.
Christine's Grandmother frowned, "I've heard so many that I don't know which one to believe, but the one that I think is most believable are the ones that say that she breaks the curse with a lot of help. Now I'm not saying that she's dumb or anything," she said eyes twinkling at the look of defiance that sprang into the girl's eyes, "But I don't think that it would be solvable by oneself."
By now Christine's eyes were wide with wonder, "What are some of the rumors, Grandma?" she asked. "One of them says that a dragon will help her, one claims that the answer will fall from the sky in the form of a fallen angel, another insists that the shadow vampire will help her."
"Oh, I like that one!" Christine interrupted, "It sounds romantic! On a dark night he comes to her, and taking her hand, leads her to a faraway place, in an enchanted forest. With his help her curse is broken, and then they fall deeply in love! In the end they get married and live happily ever after. The End!" Her Grandmother laughed, and so did Miyako.
"Christine, you have a wonderful imagination!" her Grandmother sighed, wiping tears of laughed from her eyes, "Has you mother been reading you romance fairytales as bedtime stories again?" Christine nodded enthusiastically, "Yes!" she said happily, "Two nights we finished 'Cinderella' and last night we started 'Sleeping Beauty' it's really good so far!"
"It's time you got to bed." Christine's Grandma said, looking fondly at her, "I'll say good night in a minute!"
Christine raced a flight of stairs to her room and flopped down on her bed, hugging a giant teddy bear, "Brownie," she said affectionately patting the bear's head, "I was so confused and frustrated when I started thinking about my curse, but Grandma made me feel all better!"
The edges of the room began to fade away turning into pale gold mist until only Christine and her teddy bear were left.
Kage's pencil was, once again, flying across a piece of paper, tracing the final lines on the picture of Miyako that he has started earlier. He had been working on it since Miyako had left about twenty minutes ago. Something directly below crashed to the floor, and he immediately jumped up, wondering if his brother had sent another assassin.
"Miyako!" he yelled bursting through the door, "Are you allrig- Omph!" a fluffy pink pillow hit him on the head. "Sorry!!" Miyako stuttered, "I thought that maybe your brother sent another assassin, but I guess that was just me being paranoid. Again." she added as an afterthought.
"That's okay." Kage said, relieved, "I was thinking the same thing you were. What fell?" he looked around expecting to see a turned over chair, or a heavy book, but saw nothing, he turned his midnight gaze to Miyako.
"I had my first experience with the memory stone." Miyako said nervously, "I was really confused about my curse, and frustrated, and before I knew it I was falling. When I woke up I was in a room with a girl named Christine and her Grandmother…" She continued to explain to Kage exactly what happened; when she finished he looked confused. "You really should get to sleep," he said slowly, "I'll think about it tonight, tomorrow we really do have to start searching for the person who started Midnight's Curse." He walked out of the room, pausing long enough at the door to warn Miyako; "Lock the door tonight, and if anybody tried to force their way in, don't hesitate to fight."
Here's the other chapter! w00t! Two updates one day. It's due in a couple weeks. Yikes. So I probably won't have the time to update though...but after it's done I'll try to update every week or two...or three. Sorry! I'm lazy.
