Chapter 12: Sweet Nightmares

They promised to give her answers, but they locked her up instead. Days turned to weeks.

"How long are you going to lock me up?"

"Until you accept your fate"

She looked around, but she sees no one. Only the books that are scattered everywhere and an old piano is visible.

The only source of light she has are those holes on the walls, which lets a little amount of light to enter the room. It's impossible to see, but her eyes are almost accustomed to the darkness.

"Until you accept what you are"

"How can I accept something I don't know?" she crossed her arms "That's impossible"

"How can you accept something you deny, Eve" he replied "As long as you continue on playing dumb, it's impossible"

"I deny?"

"The answers are right infront of you, but you tend to look away"

"Wha-"

"Look at it" he hissed "Accept it! The reality-the world you live in?!"

Silence reigned.

Carla is always calm, contrary to this man who's hotheaded and egocentric, they couldn't talk without him shouting at her. That reminds her of the Sakamaki brothers.

Shin Tsukinami, just like Subaru he easily snaps, and you need to choose your words wisely when talking to him (albeit she never does), just like Ayato he's self-centered, and just like Kanato he's demanding.

Carla Tsukinami, is more like Shu he's quite and he doesn't care of what you think, just like Laito he never listens as to what you say, and just like Reiji you can't read what's on his mind.

"Why are you still awake?" suddenly his voice changed into a soft and gentle one, it almost sounded like he's worried which she knew is Impossible.

"Who could possibly sleep in a place like this?" she complained "It's cold and dark"

"I'm not telling you to sleep"

"Then why the hell are you asking?"

"I don't need a reason to be concerned" he answered meekly

"Y-you are?"

Her eyes lit up, with hope that he's truly concerned. For a second she almost believe his lie.

"I'm not" he laughed, a laugh that only a devil could make "Pathetic"

"You're rud-"

"There are three known race in our world: The founders bloodline, the vampires, and the vibora"

Her brows furrowed "Huh?"

"Once upon a time, there was a king of despair. He ruled his kingdom ruthlessly, and forbade love until he married a princess from the founders bloodline, namely Marta. She is my aunt.

After a few years, the princess gave birth to the king's daughter. The poisonous fruit of their love caused death for the princess, and the king once again despised love.

His ruthless ways are back, and love died together with Marta. The child lived, and she inherited her mother's beauty and was called Athena. She is my cousin.

The king saw his wife in her daughter, and he shamelessly forced himself to her. She bore the king's daughter. It was a mistake, and so the king forced his daughter to marry a noble vampire to mask the child's true identity. The noble vampire accepted Athena, albeit she's carrying the king's daughter.

When the child was born, Athena had a mental breakdown. She became unstable. The once happy and lively Athena, became anxious and weak.

It was said that the child is the key to obtain great power. The king with his greedy and dreadful nature wanted to keep the power for himself, and so he selfishly locked the child away in a tall tower. The child grew in isolation. She was told to read and read and read and read a thousands of books in the tower, forever. I only met her once by sheer accident, and it was an unpleasant meeting.

Years had passed Athena died without meeting her daughter, and the king was killed by a vampire who married my cousin Cordelia"

"Cordelia" Yui repeated, her eyes widened in realization "She's the triplets mother" she cupped her cheeks "So, the vampire who defeated the king, and married the king's daughter from Athena was Karlheinz?"

"No" he answerd "Karlheinz didn't marry the king's daughter from Athena, she was still a child at that time" he corrected "Athena's daughter was called Evette. Cordelia is the daughter of Manae and Burai. Manae is my Aunt and so as Athena's. Burai is the demon lord, the brother of Evette's supposed to be grandfather"

"This is giving me a headache" she sighed, rubbing her nape "I don't understand" she mumbled "Athena and Cordelia's mother is your mother's sister, and Cordelia's father is Athena's uncle?"

"I don't expect that small brain of yours to understand" his insults never bothered her, but it hurts because some of it is true "It's complicated since Evette is the daughter of her mother and grandfather"

She nodded in anticipation "T-then what happened next?"

"Karlheinz learned that Evette is not a key, but a gate to Eden"

"E-Eden?"

She raised a brow. Eden is her hometown, he could be referring to something else. That's what she thought, that's the truth she knows.

"Eden, the birthplace of sin. The place where Adam and Eve, committed sin. That's what your Bible says, right?" he mocked "Eden is a garden abandoned by God. It was said that the grimoire and the pandora box lies there, the Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian, and some gates that leads to: Yomi, Xibalba, Irkalla, heimr, Diya, Pandaæmonium (they all refer to hell) are found in Eden. Eden is the place where God hides the things he thinks man shouldn't lay a hand on.

Knowing this, Karlheinz decided to let her live with his seven sons and his three crazy wives, in hope that she will be useful in the near future. Evette slowly opened her heart to them"

As the human tried to register this in her mind, a strong wind blew (heck, she's in a closed room, that's impossible), completely shocked, she struggle to keep herself intact.

"Shin, what are you doing in here?" Carla reprimanded "Didn't I told you to stay away from her?"

"She says she can't sleep" Shin replied casually "She wants me to tell her a story"

The human was about to protest, but was cut off by Shin "Shouldn't you appreciate my generosity, and besides I'm doing you a favor"

"Shin" his brother hissed

"I can't stop now, can I?" Shin said, a hint of annoyance is present in his voice "You want to know what happened next, right?"

Still hesitating, she managed to answer "Yes"

"As Evette lived in peace with the Sakamakis, the founders bloodline crowned its new king, Carla Tsukimori.

Karlheinz was conducting an experiment, it was at that time when something called Endzeit almost killed half of the population of the first-race, our bloodline. Luckily my brother and I survived. We sought help from Karlheinz, but he betrayed us and locked us away to broaden his studies about the first-race.

Once in a bluemoon Karlheinz's powers weakens, and we managed to escape. As we return home, we found out that our race was annihilated by the Endzeit, we're too late. We blame Karlheinz.

In order for us to restore our race, we went on a journey in search for a survivor. We heared that Cordelia was in the hands of Karlheinz, and so was Evette.

Things got complicated, we ended up killing Beatrix and Christa. Evette who blamed herself for the death of her mothers' friends, used her powers unconsciously causing for us to retreat.

Karlheinz who witnessed Evette's capability was blinded by greed. Evette was locked up in a tower once again, and..."

"And?"

"And years later, just like her mother she grew into a beautiful young lady. Now, she's known as Yui Komori, the daughter of a vampire hunter, Seiji Komori. She was reunited with her friends, but this time, we successfully got her"

"That-"

"See, you'll deny this again" Shin said cutting her off "There's no point on telling you the truth"

"What ar-"

"The end" Carla intervened "Sweet nightmares"

A/N: R&R :D

('Bibliotheca Mystica de Dantalian' is from the anime known as Dantalian no Shoka)