Morning time eventually came and I was still in a gloomy mood; I faked a smile when I saw Alois and the others. My entire body was shaking when Trancy started talking about the contract again. He told me that tonight we would get it done and so it meant I couldn't see Ivy tonight either. Today was already a stick in the mud.

Alois didn't go out today either but stayed near me, trying to console me and tell me that it would be alright and nothing would go wrong. I was affronted beyond belief and also incredibly questionable about the contract. How could I do it? What would happen? What would be the terms was the question I was more uncomfortable about. I didn't know what he wanted and it was killing me.

We played chess for about half the day, not really saying much to each other. He knew I was upset about what he wanted but he knew I would do it. I vowed to and I would get it done. Drinking tea didn't seem as amusing as usual either. The warm liquid that slid down my throat gracefully didn't have the same effect of relaxation and peacefulness as it normally did. I felt like it wasn't doing anything for me. I didn't want tea anymore.

After chess I vented out most of my anger with Claude in the battling arena. I beat him up pretty badly with various moves that I didn't even know I could do. He was just as surprised as I was but I continued on doing it and ended up destroying all four walls by making large holes, barely being touched or hit by the Trancy butler. I blocked almost every attack he gave me and counterattacked him each time, always landing a blow anywhere on his body. For the first time since I started living here, I had beaten Claude in battle and I liked it.

The twins patted my back in reassurance and told me the same thing that Alois told me. It wouldn't be alright! That pep talk was getting extremely old really fast! I thanked them anyway but still felt so nervous and aggravated to the point where I wanted to pick a fight with someone…anyone. It gave me the perfect opportunity to when I saw Hannah turn the corner. I smirked to myself wanting a better challenge then the demon in black.

She stopped in mid step and stared at me like she always did but…I saw no hatred in her eyes or anything that would want me to pick a fight with her. My anger blew to the top and dashed at her with full speed, crashing her into the farthest wall in the corridor. She coughed viciously, blood trickling down her mouth. I growled at her fiercely; I saw fear shining in her eyes. Good.

She was breathing heavy but she didn't hit back. It surprised me greatly but I was even more upset that she wasn't responding to way I wanted her to. Hopeful in finally starting something, I gripped her neck and squeezed roughly. I licked up the blood from the bottom of her chin to her mouth. Her blood was bitter but I liked it. She gasped for air and flew her hands at mine. I was finally getting something out of her! I smirked and waited until she held my hands. She didn't do anything! My clutch loosened and my hands fell from her throat.

"Why aren't you doing anything?" I asked her; she didn't smile. "You hate me."

"No." I took an unsteady step back. She moved around me and stopped. "Good luck." She said and walked down the walkway. It didn't sound like sarcasm, hatred or even in the sense where she knew what was going to happen to me after I contracted with him. It sounded like…pity. I fell to my knees and sobbed while holding myself. The time of peace and tranquility was over. In my own sense, this was real as much as I didn't want it to be. I forced myself up and wiped my cheeks; I was losing my sanity with this and I knew it was time.

I met with Alois and Claude in the dining hall. I could see Alois's contemplating look but he erased it instantly when he saw me.

"Let's go." He motioned towards the grand hall and we headed behind the giant staircase. Claude opened a hidden brown door and thankfully he had a lantern with him for Alois but with my vision being so much better and all, I could see through the dark perfectly. I wish this wasn't happening.

We headed down the long spiral staircase that led deeper into the ground. All of that led into an open grey area that had a thick smell of wet cement and nothing else in the room. I was starting to freak out about this but I had to be strong.

I felt that I knew what to do and stride over to the middle of the room. My eyes analyzed the room and then I thought about Sebastian and Dimitri. My eyes closed and my brows slumped in sadness and sweaty from the massive heat in the room. They both wouldn't be happy to see me like this. I could even imagine the look on Dimitri's face. He definitely wouldn't be happy.

"Are you ready?" Claude asked me and I nodded with butterflies in my stomach. I wanted to puke from the shaky feeling.

My subject stood right across from me, a few feet away. I took a deep breath and looked at him. He stood there with a smile and waited for me. I took another deep breath and slowly exhaled; feeling my heart beat like it was on fire. I couldn't find the mordacity to calm down.

I bit my wrist and let the blood flow smoothly onto my skin and drip into the middle of the floor. It was a gorgeous crimson red and it fell in big drops. My subject watched attentively as my blood strangely started stretching and neatly formed into a star then into a circle, surrounding the star itself. My blood traced each design until it created an entire image in that dark red color. The design that we were now standing in the middle of was a pentagon with a star inside of that, splitting the pentagon into 5 parts. The outer design was a circle around the strange shape with crisscrossed designs. It was all painted red with my own blood until it started glowing white. I stopped pouring the blood and lick my cut clean with my tongue. I stared at the design, shocked and anxious, wanting to know how it would work out. Slowly I felt a rush of energy from the bright light that surrounded us.

"Say the words." My partner said with a smile and I nodded trying to think of what to say. Then it hit me like a bucket of ice cold water. The words rolled smoothly off my tongue as I whispered them to my subject.

"Ma." The word formed from my blood and glowed white inside one of the parts of the pentagon. "Ton." Same as the pervious but in a different spot; each word I said formed into a new spot of the shape. "Te." I continued on. "Tra." It glowed; I swallowed hard and saw that with each word that was said after presenting itself, there was a line that connected the words to the each other; it also formed a smaller pentagon. I took a deep breath and I felt my heart thumping loudly. "Gram." The last word created the last thin line in the last space in the pentagon. Everything we were standing in shined bright and formed a barrier in the shape of the outer circle. I felt my whole body lift but I actually wasn't being carried up. The contract was forming.

I closed my eyes and let the light shower over me and the person in front of me. When I opened my eyes, a copy of the contract was lifting, two to be exact, becoming smaller and smaller until it flew into my eye, making its mark. My subject got the mark on his eye as well. A minute had gone by and my contract was implanted into me and my partner. The design faded on the floor, leaving my blood in the image of the contract. I sighed deeply and smiled. I was successful. I had contracted with Claude.