A new life of a foretold future
Chapter Three
Date: 5-10
Year: 2169
Time: 9:10pm
Deep down in the basement, the ones under the spell that had held them asleep for centuries, have now fully awaken and where looking around with confused looks. When a bright blue light lit up the room and a soft whisper was heard on an invisible wind. The voice said;
"My dears, I have awoken you cause it is time to fulfill your right full duties and save the world from another Human- Vampire world and take the Ruthless Lord down once and for all. Above you as you may hear is a party. A masquerade ball held for my future selves coming of age birthday. Tonight will be the night when you will meet the chosen ones, become their friends and protect them till the day comes for you to train them in defeating the Ruthless Lord. Tonight you are not the only ones awaken. The Ruthless Lord will awaken at the last stroke of midnight, the same time my future self turns eighteen and her gifts are awaken. You seven are to go up to the party dressed as one of the guest and by the time Midnight comes be sure to protect them. I am not certain if the Ruthless Lord will send his minions out right away or not but be on full alert. Also No one must know what or who you are till the war comes, not even the chosen are allowed to know till the right time come, less that be tonight or some other day. You do not tell them till it is shown as to what is going on. My future self will open my book tonight and will learn to what is going on, weather she tells the chosen or not is her choice and you must not force her tell them. She will hopefully give you all a place to stay and will keep your secret when she learns of it.
"You all know what you must do from here out. Take care my dears and protect my future self and the chosen at all costs." The wind had then died down but the light had stayed.
"How are we supposed to fit in up there looking like this?" A female voice said from the back of the room. "Our clothing is nothing but shreds."
"There has to be something. Let's look around and see what we can find." A deep male voice said as a shadow figure began walking around in the dimly light room.
"I found a box!" Another male voice said from a dark corner of the room. "And there is clothing inside of it."
"Let me see." The deep voice from before said as the shadow like figure, crossed the room over to the dark corner. "Yes, this will do. Everyone come and get ready we have a ball to go to."
A few minutes later seven shadow like figures, moving at speeds so fast they where nothing more than a blur to the ones they passed as they made their way up to the second floor of the house. Once they made it to the second floor they all moved gracefully into the room and looked around. The leader of the group froze in his spot as he looked to the stage. There sitting on the stage in a huge chair that looked like a throne was a girl, a young girl that looked exactly like Naomi Yuki, their mistress, but in a younger version of herself. "I have found Lady Yuki." The leader said in a soft whisper that only his kind could hear.
"What are we to do?" One of the men behind him asked.
"We dance, have fun, fit in and wait for the right time to ask the chosen to dance." The leader grinned. This was going to be fun and easy, or so he hoped.
oOo
Time: 10:45pm
The party continued on throughout the night, into the late hours. People danced to the music, each where dressed in elegant dresses and in masks so people had trouble telling who was who. About ten minutes after Yuki had fainted she was back on her feet and feeling perfectly fine. No one knew what had happened to her or why but they shrugged it off and headed down to the party below. Everyone was in the dining hall. The dining hall had two parts to it, on its far wall it opened up into a grand dance hall, how her friends knew of it, Yuki did not know but the place look beautiful. Flowers of all colors lined the walls along with older antiques they must have found or brought with them, making the room feel like Yuki was walking onto the cast of Phantom of the Opera. Some of the guys wore the mask that matched the Phantom making Yuki giggle. 'I wonder if my Phantom is here.' She joked with herself as Marie, Sarah and Zeke lead her throughout the room to see everyone and have them complement her on her dress and wish her a happy birthday.
Now she sat at the end of the room in a giant chair covered with golden flowers and golden strands making her feel like she was a queen. Beside her sat Marie as they watched everyone before them dance.
"I still can't tell who is who." Yuki Smiled as she watched her friends dance before her.
"Neither can I, and I can't believe how many people are here!" Marie said with excitement and watched as her brother ran up to them. He was wearing a pair of black tux pants, a dark red shirt and a black cape. His mask covered only his eyes and was black with a red strip going down the sides.
"I think there are more people here then we invited!" Jon said over the sound of the music behind him. On the other side of the room was small musical group that played all the ball room music and from time to time a singer would show up and sing.
"I have to agree with you, Jon. There are more here than on the list we sent out." Marie said with a thoughtful expression.
Yuki was listening to Marie and Jon next to her but her attention was drawn to the dancing before her. She watched as the people danced in what looked like a practiced dance. How everyone knew how to dance like they did, she did not know, but it kept her interest like she was watching the Phantom of the Opera movie. But then her gaze was drawn to a certain group of dancers she did not recognize or knew.
They wore the most elegant of all the dresses around them. It looked like they knew the dance and had practiced or done it thousand times over and their pale skin and over all beauty out matched everyone there, and they seemed to draw her complete attention. "Do you know who they are?" Yuki leaned over and whispered to Marie without taking her eyes off of the small group. As she watched them she noticed there were seven of them. Three girls and four guys, all dancing with each other, all with masks, all perfect, all familiar yet not at the same time.
"Who?" Marie asked as she searched the crowed till she found the small group Yuki was talking about. She then forgot all about Jon beside her and yet her attention was drawn to them. "I don't know who they are…. They must have just showed up…. But I do have to admit they fit right in, like they were born for parties like this."
Since she was so drawn into watching the group she did not realize that Sarah had join them as did Zeke. Shortly after they were watching the group too; trying to figure who they were. Around fifteen after eleven, three other friends had join Yuki, Sarah, Zeke and Marie in watching the group. Yuki was only aware of who had joined them. Her other friends from her class, Hillary was only a year younger then Yuki and had amazing hazel almost red eyes, Kian was the same age as Yuki, his birthday was two weeks ago, and his eyes where a dazzling deep brown that it almost looked black, and last was Ray. He is a year older then everyone else and had started a year later then supposed to so he ended up in the same grade as Yuki and the rest, his eyes where such a light blue they were almost white. They all watched the group with growing interest.
It was about fifteen to midnight when Yuki was brought out of her trance at the strike of the grandfather clock in the next room. The clock was always fifteen minutes off but it always brought her out of her trance. Blinking a few times she cleared her head and looked around the party was in full swing still and it looked like it had increase in people. "Wow, how long is this party supposed to last?" Yuki asked looking over at her friends. At the sound of her voice all six of them shook their heads and cleared their thoughts. "Um, what time is it?" Marie asked.
"Fifteen of midnight…." Yuki said covering a yawn with the back of her hand.
"Well this is your birthday party and tomorrow is your official birthday so…. About one we can call it night, after the cake and presents." Marie smiled and stood; she looked around then smiled over at Ray, Hillary, and Kian. "Let's all go dance!" She smiled grabbing Kian and Hillary's arm. Hillary smiled and grabbed Ray's, Ray grabbed Sarah's arm and Sarah grabbed Zeke's arm. Zeke was about to grab Yuki's but stopped in his track and blinked as she shook her head no. Zeke just shrugged and let himself get dragged onto the dance floor where they all began to try and dance one of the traditional dances and laughed every time one of them messed up. Yuki smiled and watched her friends having a good time. She was so distracted in them she didn't notice that the end of the song came near and was nearly jumped out of her seat at the sound of a soothing deep voice from beside her.
"I did not mean to scare you, Miss." The voice said until Yuki turned and looked over at the person standing next to her. Her hands flew up to her mouth to cover the soft gasp that escaped her lips. Right next to her stood one of the ones from the group she was watching earlier. His hair was a bright golden blonde that came down to his chin. He wore one of the masks that covered only the right side of his face, and a plain tux outfit with one of the black caps. All Yuki could think was; 'So I do have a Phantom.' She thought referring to the Phantom of the Opera movie again.
"It's quite alright." Yuki said softly, she was still too shocked to speak too much louder, afraid her voice might betray her.
"I was wondering if I could have a dance with the head of the house." The guy said with a bow and held out his hand. He looked up at her from his bow, his eyes a bright golden. Yuki was so lost looking into his eyes that all she could do was nod and take his hand.
The guy smiled and stood and helped Yuki stood, and then led her down off the stage her chair was on and onto the dance floor. Yuki was unsure on how to the dance and was nervous she would make a fool of herself that she looked over to Marie and ask her with help with her eyes but then she was yet again shocked as Marie was dancing with another one from the strange group, and as Yuki looked around her small group of friends was paired up with one of the ones from that strange group. Each one of her friends had the same look she did, shock, surprise and nervousness as what to do.
"I'm not quite sure how to do these kinds of dances." Yuki said softly and glanced up at the face of the guy who led her out to the center of the dance floor, then turned and faced her.
"What kind of dancing do you know how to do then?" The guy asked rising on perfect golden eye brow with a small smirk, that made Yuki blush slightly.
"Slow dance?" Yuki said with a blush and looked at the floor. It was true it was the only kind of dancing she had ever learned or been good at since it was the easiest. She was only blushing because she hardly knew the guy and that kind of dancing required close contact something so only did with her close friends. So when he took her right hand in his and put her left hand on his hip and steeped closer to her so they where nearly centimeters apart, Yuki let out a soft gasp and looked up at him her cheeks a deep red. She was about to say something when a new type of music began to play. A slow relaxing song began to echo throughout the mansion and everyone, everywhere paired up and began to slow dance with each other.
The guy smiled and began to lead Yuki as the song started up. After a few steps, Yuki remembered what she was doing and matched the guy she was dancing with step for step.
"What is your name?" Yuki asked. She dared not look up into his face afraid she would lose her thought when she looked into his eyes; she stared straight ahead at what happened to be his chest. "I've never seen you before."
"My name is Seth." He said looking down at her, he stood a few inches taller than her, even with her hair up and heals on she only came up to his chin. "Seth Hereto. At your services ma'am." He said steeping back a few inches, never taking his hand out of hers or off her hip to give her a small bow. Yuki couldn't help but giggle slightly which made him stand up straight and smile widely.
"And you are Naomi Yuki, am I mistaken?" Seth asked as he stepped back closer to her so that they were nearly touching.
"Close. My name is Yuki Sauna. Naomi is my middle name." Yuki said and looked up at him. "How did you know anyway?" She asked with a questionable look.
"Why would I come to a party if I did not know the name of the hostess, let alone the birthday girl?" Seth smiled, his teeth a dazzling white.
"True, but how did you know of my party when I have never meet you before?" Yuki asked yet another question.
"You love to ask questions don't you?" Seth grinned.
"I'm only curious." She admitted. She was curious as to who this mysterious hot guy she was dancing with was.
"Well, I was on town about to come here and visit and old friend, when I saw a flyer on the ground in the town, and was surprised to see it was at the same house I came to visit." Seth said. He made everything up on the spot and was surprised when the confused look on her face fell into one of sadness. "Something wrong, Miss Yuki?"
"You came to see Lady Yakima?" She said her voice soft.
"Yes I did." Seth said as he tried to pick the name out of his head, where had heard it before. Then it hit him, it had to be the original owner of the house, the girl he saved from the thugs years ago, the first time he was awaken before fallen back into his slumber. "Did something happen to her?' He asked feeling the sadness radiate off of her.
"Yeah…." Yuki said and looked down at the floor. "She passed away little more than six months ago….. She left the place to me when she passed. I'm sorry you where told so late, it would have saved you the journey."
"That is quite sad to hear." Seth said a bit of sadness filling his own voice, then as the music came to an end he came to a stop in his dancing and placed his one hand under Yuki's chin making her look up at him. "It is quite alright." He said quoting the same thing she had first said to him earlier. "I am happy I have come. I remember Lady Yakima putting something in her letters about a young girl she had taken in a few years back. And I'm glad I came and finally be able to meet you, even though she never told me your name." Seth smiled making her smile slightly to. He whipped a way a small tear away from her cheek. "Now no crying it is your birthday party and young ladies do not cry." He said taking his arm in his and led her away from the dance floor. "Let's go outside and get you some air, you look like you could use some."
Yuki nodded to shocked again at his kindness to talk. She noticed as she walked out that her friends where still dancing with the others like Seth and having a good time. 'I have this weird feeling that something is about to happen.' She thought then shook the thought out of her head. 'Maybe all I need is some fresh air to clear my head' she thought to herself as they walked out of the dining hall and then right out the front door.
Seth led her towards the back of the house where a small garden and pond was and sat her on bench next to it. The fresh air did clear her head and she was feeling a lot better than she did before. As they sat there in silence the village bell was heard striking the midnight hour.
'….I'm officially eighteen now…..'
'And so it begins