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And finally, I continue…

Lucia went to her home slowly. She felt week as she was losing more and more blood. Her right arm was seriously injured, her heart was broken, her dreams and wishes were lost in eternal darkness… She didn't feel sad or pain, she felt hatred and a strange cold feeling. It's like she didn't care anymore, like she was dead.

"Should I care anymore? Should I fight? Or just let myself go…" she thought. She was holding tight her right arm and she was slowing down. Lucia felt very weak. "If my destiny is to be alone, so be it… If… If Kaito isn't the right guy for me, so be it… If I have to die… so be it… I just don't want to suffer anymore…" suddenly she stopped walking. Lucia looked at her house. The rain stopped falling but Lucia noticed a black cloud over her home. And as seconds passed, Lucia could only see darkness. Everything was black. She looked behind herself as she heard someone calling her.

"Lucia! I was so worried! Where have you been? And what did you do to yourself? Did you cut your arm? Lucia? Hey, Lucia, can you hear me?" Hanon shouted. She wave front of Lucia's eyes. Lucia didn't blink. She slowly closed her eyes and fell. Hanon grabbed her quickly. She was really worried. "Lucia…" she said barely. The worst thoughts were in her head right now.

"Lucia… Lucia, wake up…" a girl voice said. Lucia put her left hand on her right arm. She had bandage there. She felt really weak. She couldn't even say a word. Lucia just looked over to that girl who was sitting next to her bed. She saw Gari and felt a huge fear.

"Get out of my room…" Lucia barely whispered to her. She pressed her pink shell necklace. Gari stood up and started walking around. She finally stood in front of the lamp light and took something from her pocket. Lucia opened her eyes widely. Gari looked at her serious.

"It's ok… I'm not going to hurt you. This is my… black pearl…" Gari was holding a necklace with black shell on it. It was slightly shining with a strange black glow. Lucia was confused. Was Gari a mermaid princess? But she can't be… There are only seven mermaid princesses. She shouted:

"Who the hell are you?" her face was serious, angry, and turning red. Gari looked at the floor.

"I am… your sister…"

Lucia's heart stopped. She opened her mouth from a surprise.

"You can't be… I don't have a sister!"

Gari's tear fell down her face quickly. She felt anger and sadness.

"You do! I am your sister! I'm a mermaid princess too. And I have the black pearl…"

"That can't be!" Lucia yelled with confidence. She didn't believe a word of Gari's saying. "There are no such mermaids like black mermaids! There are only seven kinds of them! You are just a big liar!"

"I was the pink mermaid once…" Gari looked at Lucia's necklace.

"So what happened?" Lucia ironically asked. She really didn't believe Gari. Gari sat next to her as her tear glided down her face.

"I'll tell you what happened… But you just have to know one thing, little sister… I love you no matter what… And I hope you'll understand why I am doing this…" Gari looked into Lucia's eyes. Their eyes were identical. Lucia felt warmth around Gari. She wanted to listen what Gari has to say. She felt like she can believe her now.

In front of Lucia's room, Hanon was peeking through the keyhole. Rina stood behind her.

"What are you doing?" she asked Hanon. Hanon quickly looked at her.

"Who? Me? Well, nothing! I…"

"Hanon…"

"Ok! You have to hear this! Gari, that girl with black hair, is Lucia's sister!" Hanon said scared.

"What?" Rina pushed Hanon so she could see too. They were both really suspicious, but most of all very curious.

Gari clenched her fist.

"You see…" she started "I am your twin sister… I too had that pink tail, that pink dress and cute pink tiara… But one day, that was all gone…"

"How?" Lucia asked.

"I… I can't remember everything… I can only remember a demon… going inside me… It was… It was horrible, Lucia! I'll never forget that pain, that amount of hatred and darkness!"

Lucia shivered. "A demon?"

"Yes…" Gari said quietly tearful "its name is… Kura. It needs a human sacrifice to go away… to return to dark… It chose me…" Gari wiped her tears. She felt really vulnerable. She quietly continued: "It killed our mother… And it entered my body. It's living inside me, feeding with my positive energy, turning all of the positive energy into negative… It's slowly killing me…"

Lucia felt how her eyes started filling with her silver tears. "What are you going to do?" she barely asked. Her tears were choking her. She sympathized with Gari.

"The only way for demon to let go of my body is… to kill a person with the same blood like mine. And that's you, Lucia. I have to kill you… I hope you understand…"

Lucia lowered her head. She didn't feel fear or something like that. She felt confidence; she felt she will win this fight. Although Gari was really her sister, she wanted just to win; she didn't want to give up just like that.

"No. I don't understand. And you are not going to kill me! I will win this! I am sorry, Gari… I am sorry, my sister…" she said to her. Gari smiled.

"It's ok, Lucia… I know why you are acting this way. You just don't want to die and to end all of this…" then she left with a black smoke surrounding her. Lucia sighed. She knew this battle is far from ending. This was war. Hanon and Rina entered her room. Lucia looked at them as her tears shined.

"We heard everything, Lucia…" Hanon whispered.

"Yeah… And we'll do everything to protect you. We won't let anyone hurt you! Even your sister!" Rina said with confidence. She put her hand around Lucia's shoulders. Lucia looked first at Hanon then at Rina and smiled.

"Thank you… guys… But it's ok… Everything will be just fine…" she said and once again wiped her tears. Lucia looked at the spot where Gari was several seconds ago. "So that's… Kuragari…" she said to herself…

Kaito looked at the sky. It was gray… not a star on it.

"Lucia…" he whispered. He knew something was wrong, he could sense it. Kaito clenched his fist and head to Lucia's home. He just wanted to protect her; nothing else mattered in his life. Her smile and her look were everything he needed in his life. Kaito just didn't want to lose that…

*~ The end of chapter four …

A little sneak peek into the next chapter:

-Gari VS Lucia, who'll win?

-Is this the end of Lucia's life, will Kaito protect her before everything's over?

Read and find out! ;D