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ahem. Well, yeah, I'm free. And so that also means I can also write stories and do so many things now, for example, being a tution teacher for, kindergarten kids.
Well, enjoy the story!!!
Tale 12: The Bride...
Her own reflection in the mirror was looking back at her in her splendid red dress gown, roses sewn at the hem of her dress and glittering crystals hanging loose on her slender looking corset which generously exposed her collarbone, neck decorated with a diamond-encrusted choker. Her beauty shines radiantly even if she was only an image of her future in a mirror, the one and only 'future' person she was able to see as a dream seer who sees the past.
Wake up...
A voice whispered and echoes loudly in the darkness. The voice was that of a man, deep and gentle at the same time.
Stop searching for the flower...
This time, the voice turned a bit louder. There's a mixed feeling in that voice, a sense of urgency and pleading to it, and not to mention the sad feeling heavily clouded in it.
Help us...
Don't go there...
It kept whispering loudly in her ear, images of people drenched in blood appearing in her memories...
You're hopeless!
Don't listen to them!
Flashes of flaming red fire consuming her house, and now the voice becomes more distant and the cries and moaning of the dead people becomes louder...
Save us...
The voice whispered so loud in her ear till the point that she can no longer take it anymore, dead people with brains displayed on their head, mangled bodies, mutated corpse all came marching into her direction with each a throbbing heart in their hand, bloodied....
Please, end our sufferings...
"Stop..." pleaded Leia in a soft voice.
Wake up...You need to wake up...
"Stop. Please!"
SAVE US!
The image of a corpse without a jaw and eyes of that a maggot, crawling out from its socket where the eyeball should have been, blood pouring out of its eyes instead of tears and raised a hand with three fingers only and it was all burned up. Black and red spots where the blood suppose to ooze out, but instead of blood, it is yellow pus, not blood. And holding up her hand, she notices that her hand was all covered in blood. And on the ground, was the mutilated hands and heads and bodies of corpse that had been dissected into parts, holding onto her leg.
Leia wakes up screaming at the top of her lungs, still thinking that she is dreaming in that horrific place with words of hope that the corpses had placed upon her like a curse, ringing loudly in her ear.
Kamui, who was dozing off, woke up with a start and turned his head just in time to see Leia fell down onto the floor when her legs kicked the end of Kamui's bed. Still screaming from fear, she gets up onto her feet and ran into the bathroom, turning on the shower full blast and accidentally glanced to the mirror, which reflected her face all coated with blood, and around her was fire and the mutilated faces of corpses in her dream, marching up at her.
Screaming at her image in the mirror, Leia backed away until her back hit the wall of the bathroom and began to scrub away all the blood that had started to ooze out from her wound when she falls down earlier using her fingernails. What she thought is a patch of blood is actually the wound, and she scratched it hard, earning her more blood oozing out from her now shredded wound.
Kamui came just in time to stop her from destroying the mirror with her fist, but not without receiving a bleeding mouth from a stray slap first.
"Stop it! Leia, stop shouting! Wake up!"
Accidentally, Leia stepped on a patch of wet tile and slipped into the freezing cold water that filled the bathtub behind her. Kamui tried his best to catch her, but he ended up splashing into the bathtub along with Leia.
He pulled Leia up from the water and hold onto her face with both of his hand, calming and waking her up immediately. He saw that there was real fear in her eyes, which surprised him greatly. Did she have a nightmare or something?
"Kamui..."said Leia in her tear filled voice. Kamui just stare at her, unable and don't know what he is suppose to do. Before he knew, a warm feeling surrounded his chest. Leia had leaned onto him for support, not because she was weak, but because of fear of the things she sees in her dream. She was shaking as she tried hard not to cry in front of Kamui. Not in front of him, not him, thought Leia.
Eyes softened at the sight of the scared and broken Leia, Kamui envelop her in a warm hug he didn't remember possessing. And slowly, he could hear Leia mumble in his shoulder.
"They kept calling for my help...I didn't know how to help them...but...they just won't stop coming back...I'm...I-I'm...I'm ashamed of myself, ashamed that I won't help those who needed my help, instead I seek to cover and hid the thought in my mind, but...I just kept hearing them..."
"You don't have to feel shame. You're just scared, that's all. It's all right to feel scared, because that is what makes you human, and not just an unemotional Blood Princess like what they've said about you..." Comforted Kamui, who was, by now, stroking Leia's black tresses gently, which feels surprisingly smooth despite the face that it's wet.
"I hate to kill...because I hate blood...-sob-...but I cannot stop killing others if they tried to kill me...I just...want to survive...to protect my own consciousness and my sister...I...don't want to kill...and yet...they won't let me stop killing them..." sobbed Leia in Kamui's embrace. His hands tightened around her body instinctively, as if he was afraid that she might broke if he let her go. Leia's tears continue to flow freely from her jewel red eyes.
Some time later, after Leia had calmed down, they change their cloth back into dried ones. Leia had gone back to sleep with Kamui beside her bed, unable to leave or lie down. Apparently, Leia had a habit of holding onto someone's sleeve when she's scared, and now she's holding onto Kamui's one.
She didn't transform into a vampire, thought Kamui. Usually when one had drank the blood of a pureblood vampire, one will transform into a vampire after sleeping for a few hours. And right after transformed, that person will automatically accepted the one who gave them blood as their master. Instead, Leia dreamed of horror and holding onto his sleeve without Kamui's permission. She is definitely not changing, but why?
Then something struck him. The characteristics of a Hanayame, or in English, a Bride. When pureblood vampires reach a certain age, they would go out in search for a Bride. Common vampires can have a human as its bride, but the child they produce will be pure human, not vampire. But it was a total upside down for a Pureblood Vampire.
Pureblood Vampires would have to search for a Bride with special traits in their blood, which means they are more special and different from normal human beings. Until they found a Bride, a Vampire is considered immature. Brides have certain powers of their own, the most common ones are healing powers, while the rarest of them all will be the most special ones. They are still human, but they are different from human. The children that they bear for humans will not live long, for the child need to have Yin energy, or in other word, a negative energy to survive, and they get it from their vampire father or mother. The Brides have Yang energy, or positive energy, and without a negative energy to balance it, the child they produce will never survive for long.
Brides are extremely rare, for they're considered the outcast of humans, or mutated human beings. They are not easy to die, and somehow, even suffering from enormous pain and blood lost, they, still, are able to stand up. Normal humans are afraid of them, younger humans called them a freak, children's are forbidden to talk, look, or even walk by them, giving some weird excuses like those that you'll be cursed if you do. Therefore, suffering from emotional torture, and unable to comprehend the sufferings, they end their lives.
Pureblood Vampires do age, but only if they're left without a Bride. Once they found one and marked the Bride as theirs, the Bride and the Pureblood Vampire will gain eternal life. Once given, there will be no turning back. The gift of eternal life will last forever until one is killed, and it will not wane off whatsoever from curses or sickness.
Just as he was thinking, Leia stirred in her sleep. He remembered what Leia had told him not to do when she was asleep. She had requested that he does not kiss her forehead when she was sleeping. When she said this, her eyes was looking straight into his, which he felt the gaze that was set upon him was looking right through into his soul.
For one thing, she was very beautiful, and there was something mysterious about her that made her even more attractive. For some unknown reason, whenever Kamui looked at her and she looked back at him, he couldn't help but be honest and truthful to himself. She sure was something to be able to make him oblige her till this stage. I've gotten the main dish already, thought Kamui. And the dessert is coming on my way soon...
She looks totally different when she sleeps, and Kamui just can't help but to stare at her. Kamui notices there's a tear in her eyelashes. Instinctively, his fingers reach out to brush it off delicately, and hear her mumble in her sleep,
"Subaru...run...wake up..."
Date Written: 20 of October