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- Let us continue, please Ashley. - says Katherine begging. - Please. - she asks and what I want is to run away, but if I tried to run, it would be of no use, this house should be full of them, certainly those ladies are one of them.

Well, I can try to be quiet and listen. And die soothing.

- We won't do anything to you Ashley! Never! Don't be afraid. - she speaks. - Sit down, please! - she asks to sit down. And I did vaguely what she asked for, trying to maintain my posture.

They may be vampires, but I'm still Ashley.

- For years, there has been a law in the world of vampires, and yes we are real. - she says and my heartbeat is able to pierce my lung. - There is a pyramid, which is considered the pillar of our world, where it is formed simply by extraordinarily powerful vampires, and only these and their descendants have

- At the top of this pyramid, Count Dracula is still today, and it exists since some humans began to threaten the existence of some vampire races here, and welcomed them to Transylvania. - she says, I always enjoyed reading fanciful things, but I look forward to this to be just a nightmare.

- I don't want to know anything about that! If I have nothing to do with it, let me go. - I say trying to get up, but an unknown force prevents me, or maybe it's because they're trembling in my legs.

- Your parents and we are one of the most powerful races in the world, Ashley, and you and Tyler are Dracula's successors. - she says.

More powerful breeds...

But parents? What parents? I'm an orphan, I've been abandoned! Abandoned! Successors of Dracula.

God! My head.

- You are the daughter of Leonardo and Keathen Vandunne, the most powerful race of vampires, compared to the supreme power of Dracula. - she speaks, and honestly this can only be foolish, I'm not vampire.

That's ridiculous! Ridiculous!

- How can you say that I have parents? Don't you feel compassion? - I really hurt question and tears shed through my eyes. I hate to feel vulnerable, still in the midst of these beings. - Even more vampires? I've been abandoned! Do you need me to draw? I didn't even know them and do you come to me with this ridiculous conversation? Do me a favor! - bravejo.

- We were practically brothers, more than friends! - she says emotional. - Since our birth, friendly families, descendants friends. But there was something that united us more, the power we possessed and the successors of an unimaginable power, which are you and the Tyler. - she says and my heart fails some beats, and it must be because of hearing the name of the Tyler.

But he's what interests me least.

- You own unparalleled power and are responsible for generating a little bezinho, who will succeed Dracula. - what? - I had Tyler and three years later, Keathen had you, my dear. And as soon as you were born, even before. You were already Tyler's promise. - WHAT?

Hamn? No, no, no. No, no, no! My head, my heart!

For a few seconds I look at him, who also stared at me, with an indecipherable look.

- His parents. - the Dark continues. - Being successors of the power of the pyramid, just like us and Dracula, we were in the midst of malicious vampires, desirous and coveters of the power we possess. - he says. - We were all happy with all this event, his parents were happier than ever. - he says and

- However, the vampires of the fourth base of the pyramid, the Vlademorfe, ambitious and indignant, because they are not part of our lineage, and knowing that with their birth any plan was over. They wanted to take your life. - he says, and if I was already crazy and with my head about to explode, imagine now, I'll go crazy!

I'm going to go crazy!

How cruel!

- And your parents didn't abandon you Ashley, they loved you more than anything. - But he fought with the Vlademorfes, so they wouldn't get to you. That they lost eternal life with a stake stuck in the chest. - I can't stand it and scream! Scream! That's too much, it's too much...

- We were battling with them, but first we left you in charge of Velásquez. Who kept hiding with you here, so that they couldn't find you, my dear! And your parents gave it to life for loving you a lot. - Katherine says it and I turn it out in tears.

- Ashley! - Katherine calls me, making me open my eyes again and face her expression of pure sadness. - You are our daughter, daughter of our brothers, since the unfortunate event that disrupted the whole world, because we also have a life here, we look for you, we look for nineteen years, without stopping. - she says Directly and not even with his godmother, Velásquez.

- The Dark had to stay in order to structure the army so that they could prevent them from getting close to you. - she explains and now everything is gradually fitting into my head, still confused!

- We love you very much Ashley. - she says. And I can only vaguely assent.

But argh!

- You say that my parents are vampires, that I have a power I know how many, but... - I speak trying to recover and she looks at me intrigued. - I'm not a vampire. - I say and I feel a slight dizziness.

- As I said, our species are suitable for living in this world. And vampires, with such power, only really become vampires, after assuming full power in a ceremony. Otherwise, at the age of twenty, for vampires, they lose their lives if they renounce full power. I went through this, your mother, Amie, all the vampires go through this, even though they are not of this lineage. - she says, and ready. Now I'm going to die.

I can't stand so much information, I'm not! I'm not!

- Come on! - says Katherine opening her arms to me and without a doubt, I went to her to feel she welcoming me with a loving and tender hug a mother's hug that I always wanted to have, I felt the Dark joining us and then Amie...

I never really liked that feeling vulnerable, but I didn't know I needed it so much.

I disgraceed from them and asked for what my mind demanded.

- The... - stuttering. - My parents? Where are they buried? - if you get buried.

- Come on! - Katherine says it and I follow her, along with others and we all follow her, but no matter how surprising we ended up in my room!

- Let's go to your closet! - She says, making me look at her with a question mark on her head, and she smiles. We went in and she pulled out a box that was in the middle of that jewelry table and gave it to me.

- This jewel you'll wear whenever you want, Your mother, told you to do it while you still pregnant, she was a nonsense mother. - she says and inevitably smiles. - I don't judge her, I'm like that too. - she says looking at me tenderly.

- She asked me before she died. - she really says very emotional. - That was the key for you to go against them. - she says and a shiver invades my body.

Go against them in what way, exactly?

My mind wondered, but I opened the box, coming across a fascinating necklace of diamonds and precious stone ornaments.

I removed it from the box, watching the amazed piece.

- Keathen tasted very good. - Katherine says smiling at me and smiled too. She takes the necklace from my hands and puts me. - Now close your eyes, and whisper the first thing that comes into your mind, what your heart is sending, in Latin, and you will see your parents. - she says, and no matter how much it has generated more questions for me, I limit myself to doing what she said.

- Amat Victoria Curam... - I whisper the first thing that appeared to me and out of nowhere I hear a noise. When I open my eyes, I see the white wall dividing in half, slipping to opposite sides. And I'm incredulous. Honestly, I think my mind will go crazy and I'll turn crazy.

- Come in, darling. - Dark says it and I did it. Inside it's too cold, it even leaves smoke.

It was by walking that I looked and saw two huge rectangles of ice, and each contained a corpse.

My heart squeezes, it's squeezing too tight!

At first, there's the corpse of a gentleman. Beautiful, black-haired, closed-eyed, dead, but it seems alive so preserved that his body was. I wore a white suit, his facial features were beautiful, I had some traces of it, for sure. Further down there was a marble stone written by Leonard Vandunne.

And in the other there was another corpse of a woman with bluish black hair, just like mine, her facial features were identical to mine without taking off or putting on, she had a beautiful white dress, and just like another there was a marble stone written Keathen Vandunne.

I couldn't take it and collapsed in tears, they are my parents. My-- I--

My sight is grounded and a strong dizziness is taking over my head. My eyes weighed like stone and out of nowhere I couldn't even stand it anymore with the weight of my own body. I felt my body fall, but first of all darkened I felt that Tyler held me.