"V-V-Vampire?! You're kidding me, right? This is all one big prank 'cause last I remember vampires shouldn't exist!" The skeptism in Lisa voiced was backed by the ludacris revelation of the three students.
"No... She's right! They're vampires! They do exist! They killed my parents!" Mind stuck in the past, shriveled into a ball like a scared child. Dia foresaw flashes of memories and felt as if she saw them before.
'Wait! I have seen them before! In my dreams!" The dream she could never remembered was now playing before her very eyes. Broadcasting her as a young child, present at the accident that took her parents lives despite the facts she been told most of her life that said otherwise.
'I was involved in my parent's car crash? How come no one ever told me?!' The memories showed Dia sitting in the same car with her parents when something as strong as a truck crashed into their vehicle and knocked them off the empty road.
"Sweetie, stay in the car while mommy and daddy check what's going on." The voice of her mother reassured the child version of herself before jumping out of the car. Dia was young and didn't understand what was going on, vaguely making out her parents fight against a group decked out in black cloaks before moving far from her sight.
Scared and alone, the young Dia helplessly called out to her parents only to scream when a body slammed itself against the back window—revealing a set of hungry crimson eyes and long pointy fangs. A snap could be heard in the far depths of Dia's mind. The chains to the vault that repressed these memories snapped one by one, leaving the poor girl in a distraught state.
The only one tending to her was Lisa, who was still having a hard time wrapping her head around the glowing red eyes and long claw-like nails, flinching when the vampire girl opened her mouth and showed off a set of sharp pointy fangs.
"Vampires? Oh, you have got to be shitting me! What's next, Alice gonna pull out a sword?!" Lisa hysterically yelled, holding Dia tight in her arms.
"Sweet little Alice. A target has been placed on your back, and there's no way to get rid of it. Sara promised a handsome reward for whoever captured you first. Of course, not without roughing you up a bit." The vampire girl with too much goth make-up curled her lips into a cruel smile. A gleam of ruthlessness filled her eyes.
Alice stood her ground, slightly raising the sleeve of her arm, where a silver bracelet adorned her left wrist, a lonely butterfly charm caught the moon's reflection.
"Listen to my prayer and awaken, Titania!" A flash of silvery-yellow light emitted from Alice's hand before vanishing. Basked in the moon's silvery light was a long blade sword with a touch of elegance. The hilt was yellow and purple. The same went for the jeweled butterfly pendant that dangled from it.
Lisa stared at Alice's weapon with disbelief. "I just had to jinx myself! I swear if a werewolf comes running out of nowhere next, I'm gonna lose it!"
"So the little hunter is ready to do battle. Fine! Let's dance!" The three vampires swarmed the short-haired girl. Lisa looked at the sword wielding Alice and did not detect a hint of fear from her.
Alice blocked the claws of a male vampire with the blade of her sword before kicking him in the face, sending him flying. She did the same to another vampire that crept up on her. When she sensed the third flying straight at her from above, she used the blade of her sword to block the attack.
The female vampire didn't backed down, repeatedly using her claws, each strike was fueled with vengance as she tried to ripe Alice heart out. "Little hunter, is that the best you got?! After I've captured you, the reward for my hard work will be a taste of your sweet blood!"
The vampire girl licked her lips as if she could savor Alice blood.
"Never gonna happen!" From underneath her skirt, Alice held a silver device which mimic a grenade but only rounder and smaller, which she threw at the vampire's face.
"Where the hell did she hide that thing?" whispered Lisa, watching when a clear liquid substance that Lisa guess was water, exploded in the female vampire's face, burning her skin, triggering an ear-piercing screech that nearly exploded Lisa's eardrums.
"Holy Water?! You bitch!" The vampire screamed. Using the distracttion given to them, Alice turned to Lisa and Dia.
"Lisa, snap Dia out of whatever is going on wit her! We cannot afford to waste time!" With urgency in her voice, Alice commanded Lisa. Aware of their grave situation, Lisa nodded her head, grabbed Dia's shoulders, and began to shake the shorter girl.
"Dia, you know I love you, but you must wake up!" Lisa yelled to Dia, whose eyes were glossed over. Her words falling upon deaf ears.
"Mommy... Daddy... Don't go..."
Dia was trapped in the nightmarish hell of her repressed memories. A young version of herself was crying as she ran, desperately calling out to her parents, but to no avail as the vampires finally caught up to her. The one leading the charge captured Dia, a large hand wrapped around her throat, and painfully twisting her head to the side so her neck was bared to him.
"I wonder if your blood tastes just as delicious as your parents'!" The monster's jaws unhinged. The blood of her dead parents dripped from his fangs.
A scream tore through Dia's throat, praying for someone to rescue her from this evil devil. Her eyes shut tight, faintly hearing a voice call out her name when she snapped awake by a stinging pain stemming from her left cheek.
Once Dia's came into focus, she saw Lisa's face, which was a mixture of fear, relief, and irritation. "Dia, are you back with us?"
The pigtailed girl dumbly nodded, too overwhelmed by the shocking revelations of those sealed memories that poured inside her head. Awared that her aunt and brother had lied to her about her parents death. A ball of anger, betrayal, and confusion rumbled inside her chest.
"Dia, I honestly don't know what's going on with you and this entire situation, but we gotta run like now!" Lisa urgently pulled the shorter girl to her feet, dragging her along as she ran behind Alice, who led them inside the greenhouse, where nothing but lavender rhododendron flowers bloomed.
'It's just like my dream! We're in danger! I can feel it screaming in my gut!'
"Wait! This is a bad idea!" Dia tried to forewarn them.
"Dia, I love you like a sister, but we're kinda in the middle of running for our lives!" said Lisa.
"I know that, but this is a bad place...!"
Running in the lead, Alice searched for an exit when she sensed something heading her way. A green vine tried to attack her, but the short-haired girl turned her body just in time and sliced it with her sword. A cackle of laughter, followed by a man's voice, echoed in the room.
"Not bad, little huntress." From the glass ceiling, a figure dramatically appeared. Standing on the top of the angel water fountain placed in the middle of the indoor botanical garden. A shower of pink flower petals fell down upon a beautiful boy with short pink hair, whose flamboyant entrance made the three girls cringe.
"Damn it, a noble!" Alice muttered through gritted teeth.
"A noble? What's that supposed to mean?" Lisa couldn't understand why Alice looked so uneasy after calming staring down the three vampires a few minutes ago.
"Nobles are higher ranked vampires. Very powerful and extremely dangerous!" Unlike her human friends, Alice could sense a large waves of ominous power dripping from him.
'He's too strong.' In her heart, Alice knew she was outmatched. A bead of sweat ran down her temple. But as soon as it hit the ground the boy disappeared from her sight.
"You can't honestly believe a hunter-in-training can take out a marquess?" a voice of ridicule asked her. The beautiful vampire reappeared a mere centimeter from Alice face. Running a single finger down the blade of her sword, ignoring the burn it suffered.
"Gotta hand it to the Hunter Association. They do know how to forge dangerous weapons to combat us supernatural beings. Then again, isn't their goal to rid us all from the face of the world? Right, little huntress?" The boy casually asked the female hunter.
Alice couldn't talk due to a thorn piercing straight through her right shoulder. A scream of pain ripped from her lips, mixed with the boy's loud sadistic glee of laughter.