She first notices the black-and-white queen-size bed in the wide room, then the modern three squares of decreasing sizes LED chandelier with its aluminum tiers laying flat; when the height of the squares suddenly changes as they tilt to different sides, "What is this witchcraft?"
"Future Vampire Empress, it's light, we don't use candle lamps anymore," Dionne who just arrives stands at the doorway and smiles a little. He teaches Milla how to operate the chandelier with the four-way switches, "Here, you can open or close the lights with this or three others like this placed around the room."
Milla looks intently at the switch and what it does with the chandelier. Seeing this side of Milla, Dionne finds this deadly woman, 'adorable and cute'. His sister, Dianne, notices him and pulls him outside, "Get out, let her change."
"Lady Milla, if you could follow me to your bathroom," Dianne opens the full sliding frosted glass door to an all-white bathroom with a touch of gold everywhere. 'This looks bigger than my house,' Milla recollects her small house without a bathroom with no piped water.
She only heard about the wooden bathtubs of the rich families but with the height of a sink, there's a large rectangular bathtub where you need to take a single step to get inside the bathtub. It has a wide space to put your things around while you're inside the bathtub. There's also a square hole on the wall where there's a white basin that you can light a fire while you bathe.
"Lady Milla, this is your shower room beside the bathtub, it produces water when you turn one of those 6 circular gold knobs," the transparent glass divider and door of the shower room are beside the bathtub. Inside the shower room, is a rectangular shower hanging on the ceiling with multiple holes, and on the wall is another little shower handle, "I'll leave your clothes here and we'll take our leave."
With Milla all alone, she takes off her clothes and enters the shower room. She tries one of the knobs and water drops from the shower like a rainfall, "What?" To her surprise, she tries to turn it off but ends up turning another knob, which is the feature for the waterfall shower. She turns another knob that causes the colorful LED lights on the shower.
"Why isn't this working?" Milla grumbles and turns another knob that produces mist. After some tries, she finally turns off all the knobs and turns on the rainfall feature. Milla doesn't know about shampoos and soaps, so she ends up washing her whole body with the water only.
She walks in the bathroom, dripping with water, and dries herself with the towel beside the clothes. The clothing that they give her is a vintage flower print with a collar and buttons on top, high waist, elbow-length sleeves, A-line black maxi dress. Milla doesn't choose to wear the black heels, instead, she wears the indoor white hotel-like slippers.
It is almost morning so Milla walks downstairs and all of them are still in the living room waiting for her. They all look at Milla and everyone is speechless at her alluring, fresh, and breathtaking appearance. Milla unintentionally breaks the silence, "I'm gut-foundered, when will we eat breakfast?"
"Oh! Breakfast, yes, they're already preparing it, Lady Milla," the vampire king responds quickly.
Compared to the peaceful but a little nerve-breaking atmosphere they have with Milla, the cold and deathly atmosphere at a larger but lonesome mansion in Prospect Creek, Alaska is enough to make someone wish they're dead rather than having to deal with the so-called Vampire Emperor.
"Shadow, report," a chilling voice comes from the vampire emperor's thin lips after he drinks from his glass filled with fresh blood. "Who dares to challenge me and kill all those people?"
"She's in the mansion of the Vampire Royalties."
"Lead the way," Shadow nods and runs at his full vampire speed. He does this so he can keep up with the vampire emperor's speed. The vampire emperor easily catches up with him, using half of his speed.
All the way to where Milla is staying, the vampire emperor has a deadly grin on his face while thinking, 'You're dead, whoever you are.'
Thirty minutes later, all of them are about to head into the dining area, when Milla casually says, "Someone's coming, fast. There's two of them."
The vampires suddenly stay still and some of them sit, while Milla shrugs and goes to where the foods are. The dining area can accommodate fifty people with its large space and long rectangular walnut glass table where the middle of the table is made of thick transparent glass. In front of all the seats, there's a bowl on top of a small plate on top of a large plate; there are also different sizes of utensils and a wine glass on the sides.
Varieties of food are laid on the table such as turkeys, roasted meats, and lots of seafood in different dishes. Milla sits on the head seat as a servant pours some crab-corn soup in her bowl and blood on her glass. First, she gulps the blood in one drink, "This isn't fresh blood."
"Our apologies, Lady Milla. The blood comes from the hospitals' blood donations," the servants all bow to her while the head servant talks. The servants are all respectful to her because the vampires inform them of her status in the Vampires' hierarchy.
Blood is still blood, so Milla lets them refill her glass. When it comes to her soup, she doesn't consider using a spoon, rather, she chugs the soup like it's a drink, directly from the bowl. A servant removes her empty bowl, then the other servants quickly serve her varieties of food; giving her plenty of plates filled with food, in front of her, instead of just one.
Milla hears the arrival of the two vampires from outside as she continues gobbling up the scrumptious foods. Meanwhile, the vampires in the living room stand straight when they hear the doors open. "Good morning, Vampire Emperor," they bow to him and the elite vampire guards kneel like before.
"Where is she?" The Shadow wearing an all-black outfit with a black veil on the lower part of his face asks them. Without waiting for their answer, the vampire emperor disappears to the direction of the dining area, 'How disrespectful, that person dares to eat without even greeting me. Let me see you beg for your life.'
The vampire emperor sees only the back of the chair where that person sits and attacks Milla. Even though she's eating, Milla is still aware of everything that is happening inside the mansion. She easily turns to her left side and leaves her seat, as the vampire emperor crushes her seat to the table with one punch.
Milla feels like this man is different from the weak vampires on this island. With their close distance, Milla lands a palm punch on the vampire emperor's chest, making him slide back a little, "How do you fare, rude fellow?"
'She's a woman? So, what? Now, I'm the rude fellow, unbelievable.' The vampire emperor interrogates Milla with his grim expression and cold voice, "How dare you kill those people? Are you challenging me?"
Milla scoffs, "It's their fault for waking me up. But, who are you to attack me like that? I don't even know you, arse-worm."
The vampire emperor attacks her again, targeting her neck, limbs, and heart. But, she evades them all and tries to land an attack on him. They pause while restraining each other's arm, as the vampire emperor warns her, "I'll kill you."
"You read my mind. And, before that, tell me where are the vampires from the 1700s? Where's Lucinda and her family?" Milla starts to get some answers from this mad man.
The vampire emperor chuckles in a chilling and dark way, "You have a death wish, do you? I prohibited everyone from mentioning that."
They are still tugging at each other's hold when Milla speaks, "Why is that? Let me ask you, do you know Milla Valentiana?"
"How did you know that name?" The vampire emperor unconsciously loosens his hold, then Milla takes the chance to knee him in the middle.
"I'm Milla, arse-worm!"
The vampire emperor growls at her, "D*mn you, woman!"
"Next time, don't disturb me while I'm eating," Milla sits in another chair and continues to eat, while the vampire emperor stays and waits for the pain to be gone.
After some time, the vampire emperor sits in front of her, "You're THE Milla Valentiana? The one who wreaked havoc and killed so many humans in the 17th century?"
"And you are? Should I call you arse-worm?" Milla squints her eyes at him and talks in an aloof voice.
'I'm either your worst nightmare or your beautiful nightmare, choose wisely.' The vampire emperor suddenly smirks, "Lionel Spencer, no surname like you. THE Vampire Emperor."
Milla is still indifferent to Lionel and has her full attention to her food, thereafter Milla infuriates him. He leaps to where Milla is and grabs her by the collar, "You'll be my Vampire Empress."
"I'll be THE Vampire Empress, not yours, then I'll kill you. Or I can kill you now." She tries to land a punch in his face but Lionel catches her fist, "Ballsy, huh?"
But, Milla does not stop as she successfully lands a hard punch in his stomach, "Too slow, Lionel." Milla wants to kill him immediately, but he's not some weak vampire and he's the only vampire who might know everything.