Three days later…
The girl on the enormous princess bed in a wide, exquisite room slowly turned her head, her eyelashes fluttered, and two enthralling green eyes opened.
" Ugh!" Darcy rose from the bed, she held her head, having a throbbing headache.
The maids cleaning the room noticed her awake.
" My lady, you are awake", said her maids as they bowed
Darcy nodded" Hm! What happened to….", as her dried lips cracked open to talk, Queen Odette walked into the room.
" My precious baby, you are awake", Queen Odette rushed into the room with her siblings except Brittany.
Darcy was taken aback by everyone's expression of gratitude and relief, this made her wary.
" M- Mother, why…?" she called as she received the goblet of water from Queen Odette.
" Yes darling", Queen Odette sat on the edge of the bed and slowly caressed Darcy's head.
"What happened to me?" following her question was a round of silence, everyone was stunned.
Darcey was perplexed, seeing their expressions" D-did something happen to….", she asked again, but Queen Odette interrupted.
" Nothing darling, you only slept for three days, but you are fine now, nothing bad happened to you", said Queen Odette, hurriedly.
" What?! Three days", Darcy's eyes widened.
" Yes, little sister. You got into an intense fight with Brittany, but you got beaten up so badly that you couldn't stand….", Rollins took a cunning pause in his summary to examine the princesses faces.
The sour and upset looks on Dora's and Bethany's faces pleased him much. "You became dazed the moment you stared into her eyes, we felt something wrong, and I brought you to mother,"
"You became traumatized and started saying things like, 'I saw it, she is so powerful,' 'I cannot fathom how a weak human like Brittany could yield such powers,' ' mother, Brittany is not a normal human' and other similar things. Mother could not take it any more, so she put you to sleep," Rollins concluded.
Darcy scoffed yet was wondering why she was unable to recall anything after looking into Brittany's eyes. Had she not noticed the relived look on their faces earlier, she would never have believed she was beaten up by that simple human.
The atmosphere in the room turned heavy, Dora and Queen Odette were anything but happy about the situation.
"How about we celebrate now that you are awake?" Bethany, the party girl, clapped.
" Are you crazy! She just woke up", Dora snapped.
Although Dora was the first daughter of King Aaron and would soon be getting married, she still could not accept that she had been defeated by a helpless sixteen-year-old human girl. That stupid girl had just taken a hit to her pride as a vampire and a princess.
" Well, I'm sorry I was only trying to lighten the atmosphere", Bethany apologized.
Dora was still furious, she is five years older than that human girl, and she got defeated this badly?!
She would never admit Brittany is that powerful, never! It is impossible.
" Argh!" Dora groaned in exasperation, fist balled, face flushed as she fumed out of the room.
" I'll go get her", Richard rolled his eyes and ran after her.
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Dora's anger and expression at that moment was akin to a berserk dragon that desires to burn the whole world to ashes.
Her speed multiplied, and she ran insanely across the castle halls when suddenly, someone grabbed her wrist. Dora halted, her chest heaving heavily, she slowly turned around.
When she met with the confused and warm gaze of someone unexpected, she froze.