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Chapter Thirteen

1 Step Closer

Something was wrong. That was the first thought in Aurora's mind. The nervous feeling in the back of her head was what awoke her and as she stared at the ceiling the realization of what was bothering her immediately shoved everything that had happened the night before to the back of her mind. Something was wrong with Reymond and Ramona.

"Vincent!" She cried, jumping from the bed. The man was instantly awake; ready to pounce on whatever it was that was attacking them before he watched her regular clothes appear. "There's something wrong with the children!"

They were dressed in moments and out of the mansion. It was still dark outside, the sun still hiding beneath the ocean, so no one was outside to see them running; they wouldn't have been able to see them anyway due to their speed. It didn't take the two of them long to return to the Drakeford Manor to see that Aurora had been correct.

The front doors were busted in. Windows shattered. The smell of blood drifted to them from all over. Their eyes fell onto the body that they swore was once Patrick as he bled out into the garden. Aurora pulled a face before hurrying inside just to freeze again. A hand flew to her mouth. James and Maria's bodies lay across the floor, slaughtered like cattle.

"What happened?" She asked herself. Something told her that there was more to come and she watched as Vincent made his way to the dining hall. He took one look inside before shutting the door solemnly, a grim look on his face as he turned to her. Aurora gave a curse before hurrying up the stairs. All the pictures that had been hanging on the wall were burnt or ripped. Everything was just in ruins. Vincent knew where she was going and burst into the Twins' bedroom with her on his tail.

Two heads popped up around the room. Only Reymond, Victor, and Alois was there. Alois was in the bed, beaten to hell and passed out as Victor and Reymond seemed to be taking care of him. The two of them were hurt as well, but not as bad as Alois.

"Aurora!" Reymond ran to the woman and threw his arms around her as Victor just stood there in silence. Reymond was normally a strong young man but he was now shaking and crying as he gripped to her. Her heart ached.

"Reymond, what's going on?" She asked, placing a hand on his head. "What happened?"

"We were attacked!" His voice quivered. They came in the middle of the night! James told me to get out of here with Ramona and Alois before- they're dead! They're all dead!"

"Where's your sister?" Vincent asked as he looked over Alois.

"They took her! They took her right from my arms! Please! We have to save her! You have to help me save her!"

"You are doing nothing," Aurora told the child firmly. "You are staying her. Vincent and I will go and retrieve your sister."

"But-"

Aurora silenced the child with a swift pinch to the back of his neck. She caught him as he crumbled and carried him over to his sister's bed and laid him there. Her anger was roaring in her mind as she felt her true form wanting to burst from, but she refused to let it do so in front of the three of them. How dare they come here and do this! How had they known that she and Vincent weren't going be here? There was only one way they had been able to know.

Vincent Phantomhive. So, his family truly had been behind all of this. The child wasn't, he was too young, but his parents…they were a different story. As long as the child didn't get in the way then there was nothing for her to worry about. This had gone on too long and now the Phantomhives had trespassed onto grounds which they would never be allowed to leave.

"Victor, will you be able to watch over them until we return?" Aurora watched as Vincent dropped from the window. He was most likely going to go place a barrier on the house in case the fools tried to return to do more.

The teen nodded his head with a smile at the redhead. She watched him for a moment before turning to the window herself. A voice caught her before she could leave.

"1, 2, The demons are coming for you

3, 4, They won't knock on your door

5, 6, Watch the Clock Tick

7, 8, They won't be late

9, 10, You'll never be seen again."

(XXDD Don't ask me why I did that. It just…kinda popped into my head while writing this. I wanted Victor to say something and so, he did!)

She turned her head back to look at Victor for a moment. He just smiled at her as he repeated the small song over again. She knew what that meant. Victor knew that she and Vincent were demons. And by the way he was acting it told her that he had known since the beginning. But how? He wasn't one himself so there was no way that he could have been able to-

Now was not the time to be worrying about that. She and the teen would talk when all of this was over and so, she took off into the sunrise, Victor's song still playing in her ears.

~I think I'm drowning;
Asphyxiated,
I wanna break this spell
That you've created.
You're something beautiful;
A contradiction,
I wanna play the game,
I want the friction.~

Aurora wanted to wait until Vincent had been sent off out of the house but they didn't have time. The family were peacefully have breakfast outside on their patio as the two demons watched from the flowers.

"Are you all right?" Vincent's hushed voice made her look at him.

"Of course."

"Don't get too upset by this. We'll get the child back, Aurora."

"Her name is Ramona." She hissed.

Vincent gave a small smile. "That is why I don't like dealing with children too much. You get attached to them in the end."

She gave him a glare before turning back to the trio. They were responsible for the death of James and Patrick and Rebecca and Maria. They were the ones that had beaten Alois to near-death and hurt Reymond and Victor. These were the ones that had taken Ramona and only God knows what they were planning on doing with the child. Now was not the time to be worried about someone else. If she had to use Vincent to get Ramona back then she was going to.

Thankfully though, it looked like she wasn't going to have to take that route. One of the butlers came outside and led the young boy to a carriage that was waiting for him out front. Aurora gave an inward sigh of relief before turning back to the parents and making her move. Vincent followed after her.

The table broke as Vincent slammed Edward onto it, scattering and breaking everything on top of it as Aurora's hand pinned his wife to the wall a few feet off the ground. Their shouts brought out the servants and the others that heard them but they were easily take care of as the two demons still held the Phantomhives.

"Mistress Aurora!" Edward recognized them. "Vincent! What is the meaning of this?"

"Don't play stupid with us," Vincent's voice was dark. "We're not in the mood."

"What have you done with Ramona?" Aurora's voice was like ice as she felt her nails turning into claws. She was trying to control herself but she was losing.

"I…I don't know what you're talking about." The woman gasped as she tried to pull Aurora's hand off her throat.

"Liar!" She hissed.

"You and the Dolsen family have playing with something behind out backs for years now, haven't you?" Vincent asked the man he had pinned to the ground. You didn't think that you would be able to hide it for too much longer, did you? That's why you murdered the Drakefords. They found out all about your little slave ring and were going to reveal all of it, weren't they?"

"I don't-"

"You don't want to test me, Phantomhive," Aurora began. "Not while I have your wife here, just hanging here like a puppet." She glared at the crying woman. "That goes for you as well.

"Yes! Yes! It's all true! The woman instantly cried out. "The Drakefords had found out what we were doing and so we were ordered by the Dolsens to take care of them, but we couldn't! So, the Dolsens took them out themselves!"

"And you didn't think about telling this to the authorities?" Aurora demanded.

"Dolsen is crazy," Edward replied sadly. "And by the time we realized this, it was too late. I wanted to break out of all of this but he threatened our son! Even if he was in jail, he would have found a way to do something to my family!"

"And so, you attacked the Drakeford estate last night, did you not?" Vincent asked. "Under his orders?"

"Y-yes!"

Aurora gave a roar as she pulled the wife away from the wall and slammed her to the ground instead. Edward began to struggle as his wife cried out but Vincent held him down. "You killed them! James! Patrick! Maria! Rebecca! You killed them and hurt the others!"

"Where is Ramona?" Vincent demanded.

"We didn't hurt her, I swear!" Edward replied. "And we don't have her! Not here!"

"Where is she? Where did you take her?" Aurora glared into the wife's eyes.

"She's-she's with the Dolsen family!" The woman cried out as the tears dribbled down her face. "They were behind all of this! The Drakefords deaths, the slavery! All of it!"

"And you just went along with it?" the demon growled. Vincent placed a hand on her shoulder but Aurora ignored him. "You took a child and gave them to him? Did you not think about what he would do to her? How he would treat her? What is wrong with you? She's going to be slung into the slavery just like the other poor souls you have taken ahold of! How would you like it if we threw Vincent in there to them? They'd devour him like a pack of wolves!"

The woman cried out, begging her not to do anything to their son as she struggled to try and get away from her. Aurora wanted to beat the hell out of both of them but she struggled against her anger for a moment before letting the woman go, running and screaming into her house. Edward gave a sigh of relief but he still had Vincent to worry about. Aurora watched as Vincent made the man see something in his head and his cries and screams made her smirk.

"If I ever see one of you near the Drakeford's again I will return to finish the job." Edward nodded his head shakily at the man above him before hurrying after his wife. "The Dolsens, hmm?" Vincent stood up as the two of the walked out of the grounds as if nothing had happened. "So, where too now?" Vincent asked. They had to wait for nightfall to attack the Dolsen house with it being so close to the castle.

"We're going to go pay a visit to my sister again." She answered him. Aurora didn't like the thought of it, but Snake…Melony, would prove to be useful here.

"The Undertakers?" Vincent wondered aloud. "What can they prove helpful to?"

"My sister is as sneaky as I am and her little friend was a Shinigami. One of the best, or so she's told me."

"And what makes you think that they'll want to help us?" Vincent asked them. "We can do this without the two of them, you know."

"I know that!" She growled but then she paused, pinching the bridge of her nose to calm herself down. "I know that we can, but what if there are more than just Ramona down there? Who's going to save them from the Dolsens while we're busying fighting them? I just…I just need someone there to make sure that everyone stays safe…they're lives are…"

Vincent smiled at her, wrapping an arm around her for a moment and kissing the top of her head. "You don't need to explain anything to me. Let's go get your sister and the Undertaker and form a plan."

Aurora nodded at him, glad that he agreed to go with her. She was going to get Ramona back, without any hesitation even if that meant killing the entire house. Melony would be the only one that would be able to keep her from doing so.

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