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Chapter Twelve~Pureblood Princess and Human Cat
In the underground mausoleum in Sakurakoji manor, there lies two stone coffins. The ancestor of Sakurakoji and the other was Lord Sakurakoji, the husband of Tsubaki Kuran and father of Bloom Roselie. He lies there in his frozen stone death, waiting for to be reawakened again, but it will never happen because the evil pureblood who curse him and his daughter, shall be brought down in a merciless death.
Bloom was looking down at her father's stoned body. She was shocked that her father was killed by a vampire, who wanted her mother, Tsubaki, but was it the same vampire who attacked the mansion. She felt her eyes started to water, as she was touching her father stone cold cheek.
Kuro-chan wanted to comfort her, but he was in his small cat like body. He couldn't. Somehow he remembered something from the past about the the large mirror facing the stone coffins.
Kuro-chan ran into the end of the hallway with a match in his mouth, as he lit up the candlesticks, making the whole hallway smell like cherry blossom. As it revealed the stairs down to the hidden underground mausoleum, he reached the bottom of the stairs to see doors, where Sora Sakurakoji and the ancestor of the Sakurakoji clan, lies.
"Kuro-chan?" Tsubaki called out for the black cat, he turned around to see her reaching the bottom of the stairs.
"Kuro-chan, stay away from that." Tsubaki picked up the small cat, as he was staring at the closed doors of the mansion.
It was so long after that, he walked up to the large mirror as he stared at his reflection. He felt a strong presence as the looked into the mirror, as he closed his eyes, somehow it answer his wish. Bloom looked up to see Kuro-chan as a black cat, until the mirror change him into a human with cat ears and a long black tail.
Bloom immediately looked away when she saw something more than his behind. Kuro-chan was examining himself, he was no longer a vampire cat anymore. He had shoulder length wavy black hair and blizzard blue eyes. He turned around to face Bloom, who wasn't looking at him. "Bloom, I have my old body back!" Kuro-chan cheered.
Bloom walked up to him to touched his soft cheek that's no longer black and furry, it was soft and cold. "How did turned into a human…" she noticed his long black tail waving around, happily and cat ears sticking out of his hair. She giggled when she noticed the cat like features. "You're still a cat, Kuro-chan, but how?"
"This mirror can answer your wishes and questions." He pointed to it and Bloom walked up to it, as she examined herself.
"There are so many questions that I want to ask, but the main question is who am I." Bloom asked herself, until the mirror answer her question. She heard scraping of glass shards on the ground, as it floated into her hands. The glass shards transform into a diamond tiara encrusted with pink ovals and blue sapphires on it. Bloom saw the memory in this tiara.
Sora was placing the oversized tiara over the small baby head on Bloom. Her eyes were dazzled by the pretty gems on it. She was babbling while she was grabbing it over her head to look at it and drool over it.
"Now you look like a pretty princess, Bloomie." Sora told her.
Bloom cooed in agreement.
Sora picked up and cradle his daughter and kissed her nose. "Everyone in the vampire society are going to be jealous of us, because I have the most beautiful baby girl, who is also a princess of the Sakurakoji clan." Bloom looked up at her father with her big blue eyes, as she let go of the oversized tiara, until Sora catches it.
"You're such a beautiful princess, Bloomie. I will never let anyone hurt you."
Bloom places the tiara over her head, as she looked at herself in the mirror. "I...I was a princess?" She asked herself.
"Bloom," Kuro-chan called her, as she turned around to face him. "You are a princess. A pureblood princess of the Kuran and Sakurakoji royal family."
The mirror started to shine in front of Bloom, as she was blinded the light and she was immediately pulled into the other side of the mirror.
The flower princess was on the other side of the mirror. It was such a bright world, she was alone on this side without Kuro-chan next to her, but why she was pulled onto this side?
She heard footsteps coming closer. She turned around to see her father walking in front of her. He looked different from the huge hallway picture. He had long white hair ponytail, holding up by a blue ribbon. He was dressed in the same outfit he wore on the night he died. A white button up shirt and black slacks. There was a long blue scarf wrapped around his neck. Was he hiding something from her?
Bloom's eyes began to water. "Father."
"Bloomie," he touched her left cheek, as Bloom felt his soft touch. When the flower princess tried to hug him, suddenly she went through him. He was a ghost. A spirit without a body.
"Bloom, it's been so long since I've seen you grown into a beautiful young lady." He moved his head closer to her long hair, to smell something strange. "You're finally back to your original self, again, but how?"
"Kaname-itoko-sama turned me-"
"Kaname, I should have known." He crossed his arms. "He always care about you from the beginning. Your mother explain to me that he never left you, but he always watches you from a distance for ten years now."
Bloom was confused at her father's response to her. How was Kaname watching over her, even though she wasn't a vampire for ten years?
"Anyway, Bloom I'm glad that you've followed my voice." Sora stated. "I was Sky. I was the person who called you the other night. I called you here to tell you that I'm still alive, I'm no longer dead."
The flower princess was shocked that her father is still alive, but how? Her mother told her that she was dead from an illness, then once she had her memories back, her father was killed by a evil vampire, who wanted Tsubaki and now he claims that he's still alive. "Father, you're a ghost, staying in a underground grave-"
"That's true, but one thing, but the vampire who taken my life and wanted my blue flames." Sora stated. "Bloom, you've inherited my powers, ever since I was in my frozen death, because this locket," he pointed and touched her locket. "Is my locket, which Tsubaki and the other vampire didn't know."
Bloom held her father's locket in her hand. "Father, what are your powers?"
"My powers are stronger than what you think." He places his hand on her shoulder. "When you use my sword, while wearing my locket you will be invincible, but there's more to than my powers. I want you to get stronger and become the lady of the Sakurakoji clan, since you're our only child."
Bloom smiled at her father, which made him smile as well. She clutched onto her father's locket necklace. "I promise father. I will be stronger and become a princess in your eyes." She promised him and she felt her father's ghostly form hugging her small body.
"You are a princess, Bloomie." Sora whispered in her ear. "A beautiful and magnificent princess of the Sakurakoji family." He stopped hugging her, until he looked at her only blue eye. "I must go now, Bloom, but for now on...I will always be right here, since you've found me." He pointed his fore finger to the locket necklace, the necklace started to open, and takes his ghostly form into the necklace, as he disappeared into it. The necklace was closed shut, until Bloom clutched onto it.
"I will always be with you, Bloomie." She heard her father's voice.
Bloom was back in the underground mausoleum. Kuro-chan was sitting on the top of Sora's stone coffin, until he noticed her. He was dressed instead of being such a human cat, wearing a black button up shirt and black slacks.
"Bloom, what happened?" He walked towards her, as she was still staring at herself in the mirror, until she looked at locket necklace.
"I...I saw father and he told me…" Kuro-chan moved closer to her, so he can listen what she was going to reveal to him. "That I was a princess. A real princess of the royal family. Kuran and Sakurakoji. And he's not dead. He's alive, but as a ghost." She confessed to the human cat.
"Oh, I see." Kuro-chan backed away from her, since he was disappointed of what she discovered. There was something more than that what Bloom needs to discover, but instead she will let her find more secrets of the Kuran and Sakurakoji royal family in the future.
Bloom and Kuro-chan were walking outside the mansion, as the flower princess had her mansion key to lock the manor, before they left on Hoshi. Kuro-chan had Bloom's duffle bag hanging over his left shoulder, since he wanted to be a gentleman to his caregiver/friend. "So, now that you're a human now." Bloom said. "We need to give you a name."
"Why you say that?" The human cat asked.
"Because, what if you see someone and they asked for your name." Bloom told him. "What are you going to say, 'Kuro-chan the human cat'?"
Kuro-chan thought about for a moment. "You may have a point there, Bloom. So for now on, call me Kuro Nekomura."
"Kuro Nekomura," Bloom sounded it out, as it rolled against her tongue. "I really like that name, but-" Bloom was going to finish the rest of her sentence, until she felt the afternoon wind passing through her long pink hair. The wind was telling her to do something, as she closed her eyes and listen.
"Bloom," The human cat walked closer to his caregiver. "Are you-" she ran away to follow what the wind was telling her to do. Kuro immediately follow her, until he dropped into his four legs leaving the duffle bag in front of the mansion doors. He finally caught up to the vampire princess who was staring at a old oak tree, covered in vines. "Bloom, what's wrong?" He asked her. She was wide-eyed until the human cat looked at the oak tree to find the familiar face from the Sakurakoji manor. "Oh, no... Akira." He muttered.
Akira was inside the tree. Her face was carved and half of her body was showing on the tree. On the tree limb was her black ribbon tied to the tree. The maid's facial expression was shocked and her eyes were closed. She looked like she was screaming for help.
"Akira-chan!" Bloom cried walking closer to the tree and touched her carved face. "Who did this to you?" Once again, Bloom felt the wind blowing through her hair, as she heard the tree telling her what happened. "They say that Akira was attack by a evil noble."
"Who said that?" Kuro asked, confused.
"The trees. There telling me that mother was too weak to fight back, when the evil vampire taken her blood to manipulate her nature power and he use it against her." Bloom explained.
"Well, all we have to do is uproot the tree and-" Kuro was interrupted when Bloom spread her arms out around the tree.
"No. We can't uproot the tree. If we do that Akira will die!"
"How is that?"
"This tree was grown around Akira and it's making her live. She's still alive, but I can't even communicate with her. The only way is find a way to reverse the spell around her."
Bloom reached to Akira's carved face and touched it. "Maybe we'll find a way to save her, Bloom." Kuro said.
Bloom wanted to save the people she cared about. One day when she gets stronger, she will be able to save everyone from danger, since she claims to be the only Sakurakoji in the royal family who's still alive.
Sora means Sky. I decided to use a cover name so Bloom wouldn't recognize who is calling her.
Kuro-chan name is for now on Kuro Nekomura, as in Black Cat Village.
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