Chapter 10: Revelation
Have you heard…have you heard? There's something in the castle…there's something in the--
I followed as everyone cleared out of the dining hall. I had a small frown on my usual emotional face after what that vampire...Brooklyn, had done to Kao-ri. I wasn't pleased. Just because someone has supernatural powers doesn't mean he can practically 'claim' another person.
"When Brook has an obsession...don't get in his way..."
I remembered what Kai had said. So the vampire was obsessed with Kao-ri. That thought made me sick...he made her drink blood…
As I continued to rant to myself, we made it back to our castle. I looked over to see Brooklyn, with Kao-ri still slung over her shoulder, wave and go up to his room. I glared at his retreating form. I felt a hand place onto my shoulder and I turned to see Kyo with an equally irritated expression.
"I already don't like him." I stated almost in a cold hard tone.
"Me neither..." Closing her eyes she let out a sigh. "We might as well get some rest. I got a feeling it's gonna get even more tiring being here." She sent an annoyed look at Takao, who was waiting for her to follow him to their room with his trade mark grin. "I'll see you tomorrow. G'night."
"Night..." I replied quietly as her hand slipped off my shoulder and she ran over to Takao, and they left up the stairs.
Looking around I noticed everyone had left for their rooms. Shaking my head with a sigh, I went up a staircase leading to my room for the night, and for the rest of the year.
When we first got here, I had randomly chosen a room, and ended up with Kai Hiwatari, I guess it really isn't that bad...it's not like he's annoying or perverted...or obsessive...thankfully.
I walked into my new quarters quietly, but as I passed by the unlit fireplace, it suddenly burst into flame. Jumping, I turned to look at Kai who had a short smirk on his face. I shot a small glare at the crimson-eyed guy then let out a breath as I reached my bed that was sideways to the fireplace and under the window.
I'm really starting to hate anything paranormal.
Taking my duffel bag I enter the nearby door to the bathroom to change. Once dressed in dark gray flannel pants and a white tank top I leaned over the sink, both hands gripping either side of the white porcelain. Looking into the mirror at my reflection, thoughts began to cloud my mind.
Why exactly was I doing here? And now strange things seem to be happening...almost every five seconds.
Letting out a frustrated sigh I continue to think back. And to think, it wasn't too long ago that me, Kyo and Kao-ri were getting ready to leave our homes in Japan to go off to college. Though what we hadn't planned was going to a random school that we each got a personalized invitation from...and then get sucked into a dark hole and ending up in this creepy castle.
"This is all just..." I couldn't think of the best word to explain it all. Giving up I walk out of the bathroom and head over to my bed.
I'm actually thankful that Kai lit up that fire...however he did it. It's damn freezing!
I slipped into my bed on the other side of the room and watched as Kai walked into the bathroom to change, the last thing I heard was the crackling of the wood in the fireplace burning.
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Lightning crashed, thunder roared and rained pounded on the castle windows.
This monster storm started right in the middle of the night and woke me up somewhat. I lay in bed, half awake trying to get back to sleep. The fireplace had burned out as the room fell into complete darkness, which wasn't that much of a problem once my eyes adjusted to the darkness.
Suddenly with another crash of lightning the window flew open as howling wind bursts into the room with rainwater.
I shot up screaming. Holy shit! O.o
I could feel my heart pounding in my chest as I noticed I was breathing heavily. Kai walked over to my bed, leaning over he shut the window giving me a look.
"Calm down." He told me sternly.
Slowing my breathing I watched as he walked back to his bed, though before he could reach for the covers, they were thrown over to the fireplace as it lit up on fire in an instant.
"What the...?!" I stared.
Kai simply shook his head with a sigh. He was about to say something, but before he could we heard a scream from one of the nearby rooms. My eyes widened as we stayed silent, only the sounds of snarling and crashing could be heard from a close dorm.
I could see Kai narrow his eyes. "Come on." He stepped into his slippers and walked towards the door. His hand now alit with fire, as he waited for me to get up.
As I stood up to put on my slippers another streak of lightning crashed followed by the loud thundering. The lights flickered on for a second and then off again. As I quickly sprinted over to Kai one of the ornaments over the fireplace had shot from the wall, zooming right in front of my face and crashing to the wall and shattering into a million pieces. My eyes widened as it felt as if that was meant to hit me.
All I could hear screaming and crashing. Kai turned around quickly and practically ran down the stairs, I quickly followed closely. As we got closer to the bottom of the stairs I could hear talking as I felt the hair get cold and again, I could feel the atmosphere turn to one of those creepy horror movies, and Kai's urgency by his fast pace.
Reaching down the stairs we found pretty much everyone in our castle there, the girls panicking and the guys remained pretty calm.
I eyed the crowd to finally spot my two friends, Kao-ri and Kyo. They both seemed scared as well, and Kao seemed to be holding her finger...jogging over to them they looked up at me.
"Are you two alright?" I ask.
"That vampire bit my hand when the lights decided to go haywire!" Kao-ri yelled.
I growled at the back of my throat. I really hate that guy. Looking over to him I watched him lick his lips and then send Kao-ri devilish smirk.
"Here." Ripping off a bit of my shirt, I wrapped the white cloth over her index finger. "I don't see why you didn't wrap it up right away instead of leaving it to bleed."
Kao-ri smiled lightly. "Thanks."
At that moment another ground shaking roar of thunder crashed. Few of the girls let out short screams and grabbed onto each other.
More windows flew open and closed, lights flickered on and off constantly as lightning crashed lighting up the dark clouded sky for a split second and thunder roared making the very ground shake.
As the girls continued to panic and say how this is too much like a horror movie. Suddenly Shura let out a gasp.
"Guys...where's Loretta and Bryan?!" Shura shouted.
As if on queue everyone had ran up the staircase leading to the two missing people's room. Tala quickly swung the door open, the ebony blue-haired girl was passed out, backed up against the wall and Bryan was found unconscious on the ground beside the opposite wall.
"W-what happened to them?!" Kao-ri asked running over to Loretta with the other girls.
The boys went to check on Bryan as Rei spoke up.
"No poltergeist could have done this, guys..." Rei said as he examined the lilac eyed Russian, showing the four claw marks on the boy's right arm.
This is getting way too freaky...
The guys pulled Bryan back up onto his bed, bandaging his arm up as the girls got the fainted Loretta onto hers.
"What was that about poltergeists, Rei? "Naoko asked. I wondered too.
"Lately we've been having poltergeists in our castles, though they've never really attacked anyone, just the occasional opening and closing windows, flicking the lights on and off and just plain throwing things around." The neko-jin explained.
"So what did that do Bryan?" I spoke up, walking over to him, blood had already seeped through the white bandages the boys put on his arm.
"We don't know." Tala answered.
There was a moment of silence; I could feel everyone's anxiety, and then there was sound. I couldn't recognize it at first...and I tried to convince myself that it was just the wind playing tricks on me. But the look of horror on the guys' face was all I needed to see to know that I was right. There was a wolf among us...
Takao's face looked the grimmest of all. And it only darkened even more as another howl rang throughout the castle's walls.
"Dammit..." I heard him curse. There was a sharp spiral of wind and I brought my arm up to break the wind that reached my eyes. There were a few shouts of protest from some of the girls. The wind soon died down and I watched a Navy Blue and Silver blur rush out of the room. Was that Takao?
I heard more crashes only this time not from the storm, but from downstairs in the common room.
Soon the scenery became a blur as I registered the fact that we were all running downstairs to see what happened.
And there it was...standing in the moonlight that shone through the windows of the common room. A magestical creature, with silver fur and piecing crimson eyes. A werewolf...
Close to him was a dragon with sparkling blue scales and a mane that the werewolf's fur could only pale in comparison to.
Suddenly the room's temperature seemed to drop 20 degrees and I turned to the source of the cold. The Ice Prince's rage was making the room start to freeze over.
"You..." Tala hissed at the wolf "you're the one that hurt Bryan...I'll kill you..."
He rushed towards the wolf in an angry rage; a crystal-like blade drawn out of nowhere was at his side. The wolf bore its fangs and growled angrily at Tala. There was another gust of win and suddenly Takao stood between Tala and his quarry.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY KINOMIYA!!!"
"I WON'T LET YOU HURT MY BROTHER!!!!" screamed Takao.
Tala's sword fell to the ground with a loud clanging noise that echoed throughout the room. That...that was Hitoshi? Kinomiya-sensei?
"Well that explains a lot..." Xylia spoke up nodding.
"That potion! Oh no I forgot to give it to Kinomiya-sensei like Mika-sensei asked me to!" Naoko slapped a hand to her forehead.
"Is he still dangerous? I mean...is he still a threat to us?" asked Max who was staring down at his pocket.
"Yeah...he is..." Takao laughed lightly "but...I'll stay down here tonight and make sure he doesn't move..."
Some of us sighed in relief; others looked even more in panic. Kyo...on the other hand...burst out hysterically laughing. "Whatever you say Takao...if you think you can take on a werewolf...then go ahead...I'm going back to bed...I happen to know for a fact that we have classes tomorrow..." With that said she returned upstairs to the room she had chosen earlier.
Some of the others groaned and trudged upstairs as well. That group also included Kai and myself.
Takao waved us all away before flopping down onto the couch in a position where he could watch his brother.
I stared ahead of me again where Kai was waiting for me at the top of the stairs.
"Don't get used to me waiting for you, human...now get your ass to bed...so I can finally get some rest Nikita..."