Chapter ten: Hello Dracula, and hidden secrets within the royal family.
It has been a week since that incident, and I've been training more on how to control my abilities, learning how to act like a royal person, which I fail at each time, and to find out more information about my abilities. My abilities were: telekinesis, telepathy, to control darkness and pure flames, and to heal people with the pure flames. I didn't mind of having these abilities because it made me aware of how powerful I was, and part the reason of why Afrim was after me. But I still needed to know about my past, and the other reasons that he's after me. School had finished for me and Ayanami, which I was glad for. Why? It's because I won't have to see Afrim or any Ayanami's fan girls. Ayanami moved in the household, and next to my room. He luckily understood that I need some space to find out about my past, how to control my abilities, and the reason of why he still going after me for all these years.
"Now, Afërdita," I looked at Labrador as he said this, "please make the darkness swallow the dummy." I gave nod at what he said, and start to concentrate on the darkness swallowing it. I succeeded of doing so, but it was going slow, which made me want to train with this ability more because I knew that someone might take use this to their advantage. "Okay, that's good. Do you want to do it again?" I another nod at him as the maid start to put up another one of the dummies in front of me. Are you having fun? I sighed at this because I knew that Ayanami was in my mind now. Yeah, he has telepathy, and other thing that I can't even pronounce. Yeah, if you call 'trying to gain control of your abilities' fun. I heard laughter breaking through my thought, which made me blush slightly. You'll get used to it, but at least you're training them, right? I stayed quiet for a couple of seconds. Yeah, but it's hard to get myself to concentrate on them when you're-
"Afërdita," I broke away from my conversation from Ayanami, and looked at Labrador. "We've already done with setting the dummy up." I continued to nod, looked at the dummy, and start to train again for about an hour.
After an hour, Labrador called off the training for the day. "You're thirsty?" I shook my head at this and smiled at him. "No, I'm good, and thanks for the training!" I pulled off my ponytail holder, and started to walk inside of the house. "Afërdita," I stopped when I heard him again, and looked at him. I noticed that he had a worried expression on his face, which made me confused. "Be careful of what you're searching for, and watch your steps." This caused me to be more confused because it sounded similar of what mom said in the dream. I shook it off, and continue to walk inside of the mansion.
"Afërdita," I looked up again to see Blume calling me over to her side, which I did. "What is it, Blume? Is there something wrong?" She smiled, and gave me a book as I gave her a confused look on my face. "Your mother told me to give this to you when the time is right. So, I think it's about time to give this to you." I looked at the cover of the book, and noticed that it had a picture of a person with black, wavy, hair, and blue eyes. "Who is this person on the cover?" She chuckled at this and said, "he's your family member." This made me more confused.
I went to the study room, and started to look through the book. I tried my best to read it and understand it, but it was in a different language, which made it even harder on my part. "Okay; how am I supposed to read this when I don't even know how to read or even understand this language?" I sighed at this and continued to try to look through it. I knew that they were similar to me, but not at the same time because I never seen this before.
You seem to be having problems with understanding my language, Princess. I widened my eyes as I heard this thought because I knew that this wasn't my thought. Plus, I knew that it wasn't Ayanami's, and it sent a chill down my spine. W-Who are you, and how did you enter in my mind?! A deep chuckle erupted through my thoughts as I asked this. My name is Vlad, but most of you know me as Dracula. I was frozen in fear as he stated this. Why? For one thing, if you don't know the story by Bam Stoker then you are a sad person. Don't worry; I'm not here to harm you. After all, you're a part of my family. I blinked my eyes a couple of times to make sense of it in my head. Wait, if you're talking to me; then that means…! His laughter filled throughout my thoughts again. Yes, you're not imagining this. I'm alive and well, but you seem to not understand my language even though you're speaking it fluently. I widened my eyes at this. I shook my head at this and continued to look through the pages because I was trying to pretend that this didn't happen, but then he talked again. I'm here to help you, Afërdita, and I'll be arriving at your home in a few days. Till then, I'll be talking to you in person, real soon.
That's when my thoughts became quiet, which made me sigh in relief. I turned to the next page, and I was frozen in shock. Why? It's because there was a family photo with the same man from the cover, another man from my dreams, my mom, another woman, Teito, and I. "Wh-What the…?" I looked under the photo to see that it had all of our names, including Teito's mom's name. I didn't know how to react to this because of the fact that I don't remember taking this picture. To make it even worse, the photo date says that this was taken during the end of World War II.
"Found anything about us?" I jumped, and looked up to see Teito. "Y-Yeah, we were born during the end of the World War II." He had a confused look on his face, which caused me to show the photo to him. "Whoa, that's… Weird." I nodded at him as I understood the feeling of this information. "The weirder part is that we look like we're five, well for you it's seven, but it has been like seventy years since then." I scratched my head at this information. This was confusing me because of the fact that this was too much information that I can handle. Luckily, Teito switched onto another subject to make me stop thinking about this.
"Oh yeah, I found out some information about why my eyes go red when I'm not hungry." I looked at him in confused because I thought it was because it meant that he was just pissed off. Then he took off his glove, showed the other side of his palm, and some circle thingy start to glow. "Our father game me this. It's called 'The Eye of Mikhal.' It's pretty helpful when it comes to fighting." I tilt my head to the side as he said this. "So, it's like a steroid?" He sighed at this. "No, it's more like a guardian angel." I laughed at this. "More like someone is possessing you while fighting." He chuckled at this, and nod. "Yeah, but it's still helpful." I nod at this and continued to look through the book. "At least you don't have this book to look through." He looked at it and made a face, but soon smiled at me. "True, but think of it this way. It might show you more about your past." I nod at this and closed at this book. "I need a break from this." I closed the book, went to my bedroom, put it under my bed, and went to Miroku's office. But before I entered his office, I knocked on the door.
Come in." I did, and stood in front of him. "Is there something that you need?" I nod at this and said, "I need to know more about my past, and is there a man that's coming in?" He looked at me in shock, but it soon fade away with his normal face expression. "I see, but how do you know about that someone is coming in?" I laughed, nervously, at this as I tried to stay calm. "L-Let's just say that he sort of talked to me through my mind." He looked at his desk, for a few seconds, and nod. "Yes, he's your grandfather. He's coming over here to teach you how to control most of your abilities more efficiently." I gave a nod at this as I understood what he was saying.
"As for your past, the book that Blume gave you will show you parts of your past, but be careful." I tilt my head at this. "Why? Is there something that I shouldn't know?" Miroku shook his head at this. "That's not it," that's when he stood up, walked to the window, and looked through it. "That book harbors a secret that has been passed down by generations. You can't handle this secret at this point of your life." I was confused at this. "Why?" He didn't answer this. "Why can't I handle the secret? Does it have to do with me of not remembering from past my ninth birthday?" Still no answer. "Answer me!"
"Afërdita," I jumped at this as I widened my eyes. His voice was strict, which meant that he wanted me to stop asking these questions. Miroku sighed at this, and looked at me. "You'll know the secret in due time. For now, you must train so that you can be ready for the battle with Afrim." I slowly nod at this, and left in a fast pace. I knew it was best to do this because Miroku rarely used this tone of voice with me.
I went to the study room, pulled out my drawing journal, a pencil, an eraser, and start to draw random things. I've always like to draw, especially of what has been going on. It helps me to clear my mind of my surrounds, and from what was going on too. Plus, it makes me think of questions, strategies for battles, and was going on with me and Ayanami. I blushed at the thoughts of Ayanami and I, shook it out of my head, and continued to draw. I kept wondering of what was the family secret because I knew that I should know everything about my family. So, why don't I know about this secret, and why is Miroku saying that I can't handle it? I sighed at these thoughts and finished my drawing, which I found out that I was drawing an Inuyasha character. I smiled at this.
I left and was heading to Ayanami's room, but I stopped midway when I realized of where I was heading to Ayanami's room. I blushed a bit, and went to my room again. What possessed me to go to his room? I mean sure, he and I are mates, but why was I going to his room out of all places? I sighed at this and continued my search within the book that Blume gave me.
