Chapter 2: Meeting him
The girl's eyes opened immediately when she realizes it wasn't a dream, nearly disappointing when the poor young Josephine thought it was only a filthy dream but it was real. It was real when her parents died and that Fiona was led here.
The girl searched for her glasses but it seems it disappeared, her hand was scrambling the sheets looking for the fake glasses but nothing came. She scowled angrily knowing it's gone but no matter once she finds Fiona and find a way out of this place she can buy a new one for now she must find her sister.
She stood up from the bed and went over the door, a note was hanging on the door then the young Josephine read it quietly, it said:
Miss Josephine….
When you're awake please head to the closet and find some appropriate clothes, meet me in the Music room, and there we shall talk…
Oh and I have disposed of your glasses, why must you hide those beautiful eyes of yours?
After you talk to me you can meet up with your sister…
The Caretaker
The Young Josephine did what he said and went over the closet, it was filled with clothes. Most of them are like lingeries and somehow the other have disgusted the young girl but something catch the young girl's eye, it was a white long sleeve ruffled blouse with a ribbon on the collar, then the bottoms were a three sisters skirt that stops on the mid thighs.
The young Josephine took off her own clothes and replaced them with the ones she picked out from the closet, She didn't want to remove her Doc. Martins since its one of her favorite shoes! She wouldn't trade it to anyone or to any shoe not in a million years, that's what she said before to Fiona when she told her to change it but she never did.
When she exited the room the young girl passed many corridors, she really have no idea where she is but if the girl have a map she could've know where the music room is but it seems the map has been taken by somebody else.
Ignoring the situation she have right now the girl went looking for the music room but it seems she was out of luck, poor child….
The girl sighed deeply…
What can she do now? Where is Fiona? The letter said that when they're done talking he can let her see Fiona but how can the girl find the music room without even knowing where it is?
That man should who wrote the letter should have give her a map! The girl thought when she went inside another room and another and another and another….
She ended up in a kitchen and saw Daniela cooking something, the smell was kind of foul but the young Josephine thought about asking her where the music room is, when she got closer to the cooking maid Daniela suddenly gave her something without saying anything, it was another letter but this time it wasn't from the care taker it said:
Dear Josephine
It's been so many years when I last saw you, you don't remember me but your father was very dear to me when he didn't betrayed me. I would like you to see me in the grave yard there will be a tunnel with many holes please meet me there and we shall talk about something…
And please do not trust my other son Riccardo….
Lorenzo Belli
" Lorenzo….Be…..lli? Belli….Ugo Belli…Riccardo…" The girl said quietly, Daniela turned to her and pulled her arm trying to take her somewhere.
The girl tried to struggle but the young Josephine remained calm, they passed so many halls and ended up on a place looking like a grave yard.
" My master would like to talk to you…." The maid said pushing her to a tunnel with so many boxed holes.
When the girl turned to Daniela she noticed that the maid disappeared, her spine shivered in fear when she felt a powerful aura coming on her way. She walked forward looking for the man named Lorenzo but it made no sense at all, she don't see anyone around this place not even trace or anything.
But then she heard a voice like it was singing a lullaby that sounded familiar to her, she followed the voice that ended up to the middle of the tunnel, it also had 8 holes in it and she went closer to it until a hand went out of the hole trying to reach out on her hand.
When she touched the aging hand it suddenly pulled her but the young girl remained calm and she felt something hard as if that person gave something to her, it was a red godstone, it was like the pendant that Ugo gave her before.
" Why did you give this? Why you Lorenzo Belli?" Asked the curious young Josephine.
" Yes, I am…You are Josephine, the adopted daughter of my son Ugo." He said as I gasped.
" How do you know me? I mean why do you know my na-"
" Dear Josephine, your father gave me letters, he told me about you when you were saved in that burning house… Oh yes I know you ever since in the very beginning, but you…You have something special…You are very special….A special being….Ugo noticed it when his azoth reacted when he saved you…. You are something dear Josephine…. You can save Fiona using that power that is inside you…" He said as the young troubled Josephine didn't understand the word he was saying.
" What power? I don't understand!" She said puzzled.
" Haven't you noticed? You're eyes and your special skills? You can track isn't that right? You'll find out soon my dear Josephine…." Lorenzo as the girl called out his name but it appears that he is gone now.
The girl sat on the floor in frustration and held her head down, she just wanted to find Fiona and get out of here but…
" Why must this be so difficult anyway? What was he talking about? My family were good people…My real family were normal and they weren't special like me or anything. My father Carlos said that I'm perfect because my eyes are beautiful and my mother Rita was very loving, there is no way they are like me." The said with pure sadness, she couldn't believe what is really happening right now with her 2nd parents gone.
" But why was the house set on fire 13 years ago? Does it have to do with me or my family?" Again the girl asked herself trying to figure out what really happened but there was no hint or clue in every shattered memory that was replaying on her mind.
Her hands went up her face trying to cover it with sadness, but suddenly a hand went on her shoulder, the girl startled but then a cloth went over her nose trying to drug her. The girl fell unconscious and her body went limp.
The hooded figure carried her in a bridal style taking the girl somewhere…
" Priestess…." The man said while taking to a some sort of a music room, he laid her on a couch and waited for her to wake. He was beside a pregnant statue, his beloved azoth.
An hour later
The young girl's eyes twitched trying to open them, as she did the girl sat up and noticed a hooded figure sitting just across another sofa.
" Who are you?" She asked hazily, it seems that the drug is still affecting her senses and her system. The girl felt dizzy and part of her mind told her to wake up and the other told her to rest but it looks like the poor young Josephine is desperately tryiong to stay awake.
" I am the care taker of this castle, young Josephine." The hooded figure said as the girl tried to regain her strength.
" Where is Fiona?" The girl asked when the hooded figure went over to her side and began to pat her back trying to help her but it was useless.
" Fiona is safe, for now I shall tell you something… You are needed at this castle miss Josephine." The caretaker said with a mysterious grin.
" W-what?!" The girl asked.
" I need your power to continue the race of this family. "
" Why am I involved to this? Where is Fiona? I need to see her…"
" Like I told you Fiona is safe, don't you know what you are child? You are special, there is something about you that made me want to use you. You're a powerful being Josephine…." He said with a mysterious smile written all over his face.
" W-what are you people talking about?! What am I-I?!" The poor young Josephine asked hysterically, she couldn't handle the situation anymore.
" Don't you see, child? You are a priestess…." He said as the girl's eye widened.
The girl's mind began to flood her with many memories she hadn't seen before, her hands went over to her pressing it on each side trying to ease the pain that banging inside her mind.
The man suddenly took out a needle and stuck it on her neck making the young Josephine feel dizzy and her body fell limp again.
" You're too tired young miss, please let me take you to your room." He said as he carried her into a bridal style.
" Y-You promise t-to t-take me to Fiona…" The poor girl said as her consciousness was slipping away.
" Please sleep young priestess…."
' Am I only living out a lie?' the girl thought…
TRIBUTE TO THIS CHAPTER
Lies
By: Evanescence
Bound at every limb by my shackles of fear
Sealed with lies through so many tears
Lost from within, pursuing the end
I fight for the chance to be lied to again
You will never be strong enough
You will never be good enough
You were never conceived in love
You will not rise above
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They'll never see
I'll never be
I'll struggle on and on to feed this hunger
Burning deep inside of me
But through my tears breaks a blinding light
Birthing a dawn to this endless night
Arms outstretched, awaiting me
An open embrace upon a bleeding tree
Rest in me and I'll comfort you
I have lived and I died for you
Abide in me and I vow to you
I will never forsake you
[Chorus]
[Chorus]
Rest in me and I'll comfort you
I have lived and I died for you
Abide in me and I vow to you
I will never forsake you
[Chorus]
