A.N. Okay so no Dorene for this chapter and I have Mia and Victoria than back to Mia to finish the chapter up so now you know the game plan and thus here we go. Also I was wondering if there was anything that you wanted to see as a picture because if you have any suggestions I will try my best to draw it and post it on my DA account. So yeah nothing else to say.

Also thanks to Ampire8 for reviewing the last chapter and I truly appreciate the support from all my other readers you guys are what keeps me typing so for that I thank you.

Disclaimer: I NO OWN CDF/DSS

Chapter 30

*Mia's POV *

I slowly came to and when I stared 'down' at the floor I noticed that the long mud brown braid was no longer swinging back and forth like it did before 'it' hacked it off. I closed my eyes and realized that the purple beast was nowhere to be seen which was a first.

"Mia you come to yet?" Came a weak question from my right I wanted to shake my head to joke around with Evra but in the situation that we are in I vote against it and just open my eyes then nodded my head.

"Good because I thought that you weren't going to wake up that time." Evra stated, I simply looked back to the ground trying not to remember the pain that caused me to pass out in the first place. But the stinging of the new cuts demanded that I remember.

Murlough decided that since I would only talk when in pain he would make a game out of it. It was a simple enough game for a psycho blood sucker, he decide to call it 'Talking Mousey' and he would try to find new ways in causing me pain like now he was cutting along the dried blood colored marks that wrapped around my body.

Before I passed out he just finished with my leg and started on my back and the first time he tried I made sure to whip him with my tail which he then tied tightly to my leg making sure that I couldn't pull it loose.

"Mia, can you try to say something, anything at all." Evra nearly pleaded. I Tried shifting in the ropes to look at him but only managed to reopen the cuts on my legs and could feel the blood once again flowing down them staining my loose fitting pants legs.

I opened my mouth and tried to force out some sort of word anything but all that came out was a strained squeal type sound. I shook my head and then let it fall as I once again looked at the ground, as I was about to close my eyes and relax for as long as I could my ears caught the sound of footsteps coming closer.

At this point in time I would just want to die, I shook my head at the thought, why would I want that I would be leaving Victoria alone and the rest of the Cirque all of whom that resided there more like a family than my father.

I shake my head trying to get rid of the thought but all I accomplish was giving myself a headache. I watched the opening of the tunnel waiting for the large purple beast to walk through.

I didn't have to wait long and at that point I released the breathe that I didn't realize I was holding and I realized that even thought I knew for a fact it was going to be Murlough coming through the tunnel I was deeply hoping inside that it was going to be Darren or Mr. Crepsley.

I felt like this was the end that I would never see Darren, Victoria, Mr. Crepsley, or the Cirque again. I felt a tear begin rolling down my forehead and I turned away From Murlough not wanting him to see the tears.

"Well why is little Mousey crying? Murlough has some news that will just brighten your day." Murlough said as he walked in front of Evra and me.

I tried to turn away but couldn't do much without opening the cuts other than turn my head to one side but that could only help me with not having to look at the beast it didn't help with the fact that I didn't really want to listen to him.

Murlough obviously did not get the hint because he soon continued on the same train of thought.

"Murloug has met your young Vampire friend and red headed Girl." At the mention of Darren and Victoria I turned to face the beast and wanted to demand that he tell me what he did to them, but he saw my expression and laughed.

"Now why does Mousey look like that, Murlough did nothing just had a chat with your friends that's all.

I wouldn't simply take that as an answer so I glared at Murlough demanding he told me more in the silent way that I could.

*Victoria's POV*

After the beast in the sewer left in a huff Darren gathered the items that it had removed from our friends and climbed out of the sewer. I grabbed Mia's braid and clung to it hoping that she would be able to feel how much I was worried for her through it.

"Victoria, let's go back to the hotel." Darren said as he began making his way through the alley. I followed in silence clinging to the only thing of Mia that I had as proof that she was somewhere in the sewer and next thing I knew tears began streaming down my face and soaking partially soaking the braid.

"Darren, are we going to be able to save them?" I asked in between gasps. Darren remained silent as he led the way out of the alleyways avoiding as many people as he could. I looked down to his hand and found that his hand was tightly clutching the scales that once belonged to Evra.

As the hotel got within sight Darren began quickening his pace, and in the end I had to run faster than I have ever had to run before to keep up. When we finally got back to the room I ran to the bed and collapsed crying into the thick mud brown braid that I couldn't help but notice had some specks of blood and quite a bit of sewer water and filth.

Darren on the other hand went into the separate room that Mr. Crepsley had and woke him up saying it was urgent and in this case it was. Once the curtains were closed and Mr. Crepsley was sitting in the chair located in the corner Darren began retelling what happened.

While Darren was retelling what happened and what the beast said something that Darren said or in this case did not say.

"Hey Darren, can you repeat that last part?" I asked as Darren paused to get a breath. Both Darren and Mr. Crepsley looked at me but Darren did as I asked.

"Murlough said that we Evra and Mia would both be alive until the 25th and that he wouldn't hurt Evra…." Darren trailed off as he reached the same conclusion that I had. That sewer beast said that it wouldn't hurt Evra but never once mentioned Mia only to tell us that she would be alive till the 25th.

"Darren we have to save them!" I yelled although I knew that I didn't need to Darren looked really grim and I was afraid that he was going to say something that I wouldn't want to hear so instead I just crawled under the blankets and clung to the braid crying.

I could hear from under the covers of plans that Darren and Mr. Crepsley were planning one of which involved using Debbie and her family as bait.

*Mia's POV*

Evra was struggling against is bonds as Murlough once again dug the blade into my skin tracing around the marks on my back. I tried holding back tears that I knew were threatening of coming out and trailing down my forehead.

Soon after Murlough returned to this part of the sewers he revealed what he told Darren and Victoria about both of us being alive till the 25th and that he wouldn't hurt Evra and as a Vampaneze as he called himself he was bound by his word which is why he made sure not to say much about my other than me being alive.

So that brings us to the situation at hand Evra yelling and me trying to hold back tears and the blade continues to cut, until finally everything blurs and fades and I black out.

A red haze obscures my vision as a body that is mine and yet I cannot control where it goes is bound to a wall by chains much larger than the hands and feet that they bind. A man stands in front of my bound form holding up a picture of a male and female with a young red headed child.

The child holds my attention for awhile as I try to remember why the fiery red head looks so familiar, the man in front of me in pointing, practically jabbing a hole in the picture as he points to the adults in the picture.

Suddenly the chains that are binding me to the wall come undone and I hear the man in front of me say.

"Go finish your Task."

The body that is mine yet not mine nods and next thing I know I am racing through an unknown yet familiar city, going about an unknown mission and yet I have a distinct impression that I should know it.

My body stops in an alley and waits, for what I don't know maybe the objective of this task.

It waits for a while and then voices are heard coming towards me I can just make out some of what they are saying.

"Come now … we can't stay out to long otherwise your mother can't make supper." A deep, yet kind male voice said, soon followed by laughter that could only come from a female.

"Oh come now do you truly believe that I can't get supper ready in a few minutes?" The female voice said

Out from the other side of my hiding place came the family from the picture, they seemed so nice and content to have a small family. Suddenly my body jumped from the hiding place and lashed out knocking the father down.

The little girl looked as my and even under the red haze I could tell that her eyes were an unbelievable shade of bright blue, and even though her eyes were filled with fear my body continued to lash at her father till my arms were covered in his blood.

Than my body still ignoring the now crying girl jumps to the mother who was moments ago trying to pull the daughter away and out of the alley. The mother lets go of her daughters hands just as my clawed hand lashed out and swipes it across the mother's stomach instantly drenching it in blood and the girl cried out.

"Mommy, please don't hurt mommy!" my body ignores the child and as it does to the mother what it did to the father I get an odd sense of déjà vu and I begin wondering if I hadn't done this before.

In the mother's last breaths of her life she yells one last time.

"…., run, get… out while y-"

Whatever the mother wanted to say to her daughter was cut off as the body that was mine yet not drove it' claws into the mother's chest driving my hand up to my wrist through her middle. Once again the girl screams out.

"Mommy, Daddy! Please don't leave me alone!"

As the beast turns one last time to the girl I hear and odd voice resound that sounds like it doesn't belong and it resounds throughout my head, freezing time and demanding my attention.

"Mia!"

I look around through the red haze at my surroundings trying to place the voice that sounds even more familiar than this red haze filled world feels.

"Mia, please if you can hear me wake up!"

The sewers come into view as I jolt awake and feel like curling up and crying after I realized that it was just a dream but a jolt of pain reminds me where it is that I am and I get a feeling that I am loosing quite a lot of blood due to the light headed feeling that I have as I look around the dark sewers.

As I look around I lock gazes with Evra and on his face is a look of concern and worry. I tilt my head and hope that he understands my unspoken question.

"You have probably been out for two hours; I truly thought you wouldn't wake up that time." I turned to the floor and thought about that haughtily familiar dream; only maybe it wasn't a dream maybe it was a memory.

A.N. So you people tell me what you think it was at the end was it a dream or a forgotten memory, also if you want to see anything from this fanfic as a picture I would love to hear your suggestions and try my best to get what you were thinking and how I had imagined it. Also while I have you here I want to say... Oh yeah 30 Chapters what do you think of me now Mia!?

Mia: *holds up note pad* Wait when did I become a part of these A.N.?!

Me: Now cause I need some one to talk to here.

Mia: *facepalm*

Until next time Peace, Love, and Virtual Hugs