Chapter 6:

A Count, a Prince and a Shadow Walker

An: My beta reader was just on vacation. She's back now. Thank you Kitala anyway. ^_^

Sym began to wake up from his unconscious state. The Forgotten Prince looked around, he was expecting to find himself in a dungeon. Instead he was in a room that was indeed fit for a prince. The floor was made of marble, silken sheet covered the bed. A bejeweled mirror was in the far right of the corner of the room. Sym tried to escape but found himself chained by his right ankle to a wall with an enchanted shackle. All though the chain gave him enough room to more around the room with out discomfort it did prevent him from going out the door or window.

"Guess I'm the bird in the gilded cage." he thought to himself.

Sym then raised his hand to his face to find that he still had his sunglasses. He let out a sigh of relief.

"Might as well make the best of it." He said to himself as he tried out the bed.

Just then the door to Sym's "cell" open and Count Bombay stepped in. Sym growled at the man.

" Let see if Jiro got the right twin? Hmmm." he said as he approached Sym. who found that he couldn't move. Count Bombay raised his hand up and took off the prince sunglasses. The Count was met with Sym close eyes shut tight. Count Bombay growled at Sym's smirking face his eyes still shut tight. The count then waved his hand in front of Sym's face causing his eyes to open up. The count smiled at the prince's shocked face. "It' seems that Jiro did get the right twin." Green eyes stared in to pure black one. No irises no pupils just blackness. As well as sadness.

"I will see you later, my prince." Count Bombay said as he left the room with the forgotten prince sunglasses.

Tears escaped Sym's eyes, he felt terrible. His sunglasses were gone; he was left vulnerable. The Forgotten Prince hated his eyes that why was he always kept them hidden .He remember the first time D and him split. Everyone was after of him because of his eyes.

(Else where)

Count Bombay was trying to grasp the situation he was in. His life long dream was coming true. He was going to be human, as well as most of his sevenths. He licked his fangs; soon they would be gone. He could go out in the sun, talk to people. He would be normal.

" You know you'll never be normal Anthony." Jiro voice said.

Count Bombay quickly turned around to see Jiro emerging from a wall that had a shadow case on it. He narrowed his eyes at Jiro. "Why do you say that?"

Jiro crossed his arms. "You will be a human that was once a vampire. Do you really think that you'll be normal?"

"Do you think you will be normal as well?" Count Bombay asked.

Jiro smirked at the count a glint in his strange eyes. " No not in the least Bombay." He began to dizole back into the " Not in the lest Bombay. Not in the least."

He said as he finally disappeared.

The Count was left in the hallway with his thoughts.

Jiro emerged from one of the shadowed walls of the captured prince's room. He saw that the forgotten prince head was down cast, but snapped up as soon as he sensed the intruder.

"What do you want?" He snapped at Jiro, who noticed that his eyes were closed.

" Nothing and you can open your eyes I all ready know about them," Jiro said.

Sym opened up his eyes. "I still want to know what you want?"

" Just to talk."

"You're doing that right now."

Jiro laughed. " A sense of humor and after all you been threw."

"Ya I'm a bundle of laughs."

Jiro face grew stern." What I want to know is if you can turn creatures in the night in to humans?"

Sym's eyes grew wide. "IS THAT WHAT THIS ALL ABOUT!!!! ' Sym yelled at him.

Jiro blinked for a bit. "Um.. Yes."

"I hate that myth!" Sym growled out. The dampier sighed then and rubbed his temples. "No I can't"

" Here." He said handing Sym his sunglasses.

"Thanks." Sym told him.

" I'm Jiro. Always thought those myths were weren't real." He said but something in his eyes betrayed him.

Sym placed his sunglasses on." You wanted to believe them thou and I'm Sym."

" Found me out huh! Sym hmm, I thought The Forgotten Prince didn't have a name?"

Sym gave a halfhearted laugh. " You guys really do your homework. The name I just got. So you want to be human?" Sym asked.

Jiro shrugged one shoulder. " Yes and no."

"O?" Sym said arching one eyebrow.

You're a dampier right?" Jiro asked

Sym shook he head wondering what he was getting at.

" You only have to worry about two side of your heritage. I have to worry about three. So I guess I wanted to be fully human at one time but now after thinking about it I'm happy the way I am." Jiro told him.

"Ah, so why don't you let me go." Sym told him.

"I can't do that." Jiro said

"Why not?" Sym asked.

"It's Bombay who want you not me."

Sym face grew dark as the prospect of escape eluded him.

"But I will talk to Bombay he'll let you go. You can't turn him into a human and that's what he really wants."

"Thanks"

A woman's scream ripped throw the castle.

"What was that?" Sym asked.

"Jacinta." the name escaped Jiro his lips as he disappeared into a nearby shadow.

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