Luciana POV
Biting my fingers was all I could do after I got rejected by Slade. He never loved me but her. All those times we spent together, I thought we met something but everything we had was all a lie. He never loved me. “I told you already Lucy. Are you still going to back him up after he confessed that he loves that human girl?” My father didn’t know when to ask a question. It’s was out of concern but I was still mad at the rejection.
“Father,” I closed my eyes and bites my tongue as I had no idea of what to say.
“Go loosen up a bit lucy. You need to take him off your mind.” My father advised.
That’s what I needed but it’s wasn’t enough. “Sure, I’ll do that,” I assured my father and walked out of the King’s office. Walking out of the castle and heading to where I had no idea of, I thought of how I had always wished Slade was mine but I realized how big of a fool I was.
How could I have spent centuries loving someone who could never love me back? I felt tears welling up in my eyes but I was too strong to cry for anyone. I gave him the chance to love me but now that I got rejected, I just had to let him go but before I do, I was going to ruin everything for him. The Gabriella he wanted so much was going to disappear just like Bianca did centuries ago.
I caught an of whiff someone’s blood. It’s was smelling so nice that I didn’t realize it when I arrived at the castle garden. A slave had pricked her finger on a thorn of a rose. It was a small cut but the blood smelled so good that I wanted it.
“Hey you,” I called the slave.
He was a little human boy who didn’t seem to be older than 20 years old. The boy was the only human in the garden which gave me the chance that I wanted. Moving closer to the boy, I grabbed the finger he had pricked and licked the blood off. My hunger increased and I bared my fangs at him.
“What are you doing…..” The boy cried out.
“What do you think I am doing?” I smirked and grabbed the boy’s throat. “You blood smell so good that it’ll be a total waste if I don’t have a taste.”
“I…..” I gripped the boy’s throat
and buried my fangs into his neck. The boy let out a deafening scream but I didn’t care. The boy’s blood was the sweetest thing I had ever had. With every taste, I felt pure bliss and joy. The boy went limped in my hand and I dropped him to the ground.
I heaved a sigh of relief and wiped my mouth clean. I stared at the boy on the ground and surprisingly he was still alive. His chest rise and fall but he was losing a lot of blood. Seeing how the boy was groaning out in pain, it’s bought a smile to my face. I laughed like a Maniac. “You’ll be my first toy,” I grabbed the boy’s arm and dragged him out of the garden not caring if anyone saw me.
This was the only way to get back at Slade for rejecting. “Just so you wait slade, I’ll make sure you regret leaving me,” I laughed again as more ideas popped into my head.
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Gabriella Monet POV
It happened again. The dreams came differently. A way I never expected. It’s was a dream about me but about what happened in the past, the dreams were so real that I felt it’s was connected to me.
“You can just make the world a better place if you let everyone live freely,” A woman whose back was the only thing I could see in the dream shouted a man who was opposite him.
The man looked exactly like Slade but he was older with beards and a different hairstyle. His hair was curly and he had a birthmark on his forehead. It’s resembled a star but I couldn’t figure out what he was.
“This is my mistake. I shouldn’t have married you and made you mine.” Slade look-alike replied the woman.
“You kidnapped me and killed all my people! What’s was I supposed to do? ” The woman retorted.
What was I doing? I had no idea why I was having a dream about the past I had never been to.
“This is the world of the vampires, Rebecca, you can’t change the rules.”
The woman face palmed herself and turned back and I saw her face. I was beyond shocked when I saw the woman’s face. She was me scratched that, how could I have been in the past and didn’t know. The woman looked like myself and Bianca. “This end here Raylle.”
Raylle? The Slade look-alike was Raylle, Slade’s grandfather and the vampire who started the vampire rule.
I wondered why I was seeing them in my dream. Did Slade know that I looked like his grandmother? Does the king know that I looked like his mother? Was that the reason he hated me so much? I needed answers to my questions. While standing there and watching Raylle and Rebecca, I realized that I had been reincarnated twice before I finally came. Rebecca bought out a wooden stake and struck Raylle in a blink of an eye.
Rayle coughed out blood and held Rebecca’s hand. “I… Love you. I do.” He fell to the ground as his skin suddenly turned pale and the veins on his face became visible.
Rebecca burst into tears and mourned her dead lover, She raised the wooden stake and stuck herself in the heart. “I am sorry Raylle but I think it’s would be best if we could come back as better people. I wished we could be reborn to love one another. ” Those were Rebecca’s final words as she fell to her death. She placed her hand on Raylle’s and closed her eyes. Just like Raylle, her face turned white.
I wiped a lone tear off my face as I watched the two lovers on the ground. They looked so happy together even in their death. “This is where it all began,” Bianca appeared beside me. “Raylle was Slade’s doppelganger and we were Rebecca’s. The story should have ended with Slade and me but since I died, You had to be reborn. It’s like a curse that can only be broken if you two find love. ”
“What are you saying?” I had no idea what she was ranting about.
“Although Rebecca was Slade’s grandmother. She was the one who started the whole reincarnation. If you and Slade die, it’s won’t end there. The reincarnation would happen again.” Bianca snapped her finger and we disappeared and appeared in front of a school.
“What are we doing here?”
“It’s the year 2030,” Bianca pointed at a banner that was hung at the front of the school. It read out fair will high school dance party 2030.
“So?”
“Let’s find out shall we?” Bianca snapped her finger and the whole disappearing and appearing situation happened. We appeared inside a big hall and there was a party going on. Teenagers filled the hall and they all danced to a song.
“Why are we here?” I demanded. I know I didn’t get the chance to have a proper teenage life because of the Vampire rules, it’s doesn’t mean Bianca had to rub it on my face.
“Why don’t you look at that two singing?” She pointed to the stage.
I turned my head towards the stage and widened my eyes when I saw who was singing. It’s was Slade and me but we were younger. “How….. How is that possible?”
“You’re future if you die. The reincarnation will continue.”
“What?” I couldn’t believe what I saw. The future Slade and I were both singing a song on stage while the student danced to it. “This is amazing!” I exclaimed.
“Yeah, but it’s still a curse.”
“If this happens when we die. What would happen if we didn’t?” I had to know that? As much as I love seeing my doppelganger, I was starting to feel uneasy. One Bianca was a problem and seeing someone who looked like my younger self sounded like more problems.
“Fine,” Bianca snapped her finger and we appeared in front of a skyscraper. “Wow,” I exclaimed when I saw how tall the building was. “This is amazing!”
“Don’t stare at the building but at this,” she pointed to the left side of the building where they engraved four symbols. The symbol of the wolf is red. The symbol of the rose and the symbol are combined.
“What’s are those?”
“The wolf symbol represents the wolves, the red symbol represents the vampires, the rose represents the humans, and the last symbols that had all symbols represent hybrids.”
“So the world will be separated if Slade and I survived?” I questioned.
“Not separated. The world will reunite and it won’t be the vampire world anymore.” Bianca answered and snapped her finger.
We appeared into the dark cell. “All I ever wanted was to make a world a better place. Seeing all those symbols makes me feel like it could come to pass.” I wished.
“It will if you believe in it.”
“But,” I suddenly remembered the future that had no Slade or myself. “What about the future I dreamt about? Slade and I were not there.”
Bianca chuckled. “It’s didn’t end there but I’ll show you later. It seems someone is coming. ”
“Gabriella!” I heard someone shout my name. “It is I, Daphne. I am sorry I didn’t come to meet you.”
“Daphne,” I rushed to the cell door. “You are finally here,” I shouted.
“I am sorry I didn’t come, Gabriella. All the slaves were talking ill about you and I thought you did it but I realized that you couldn’t even hurt a fly. Your sassy attitude doesn’t change
the fact that you couldn’t hurt a fly. I am sorry Gabriella for not trusting you. ” I heard Her crying. “I am sorry. ”
“It’s okay Daphne. I’m happy you believed in me, Daphne. Thank you.”
“Are you okay in there?” She inquired.
I smiled when I remembered that Bianca had been with me ever since I was locked in the cell. “I am doing just fine,” I answered.
“Oh, okay. I can’t be in here for too long because I was given a few minutes to talk to you. I’ll come back, Gabriella.” Daphne promised.
“Thank you so much,” I smiled but I knew she couldn’t see my face. At last, she came and she believed in me.
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Slade Donovan POV
I paced around my room thinking of how I could save Gabriella from dying. It’s been days since she was locked and I still haven’t come up with any ideas.
“History is repeating itself, Slade,” Teale’s word resounded in my head.
He was right about that. If I don’t save Gabriella then it’s meant that I was a coward like Teale always said.
A knock sounded on my door. “Who is there?” I inquired.
“Your highness, it is I, Anabella.”
Anabella? I rushed towards the door and opened it wide. “Your highness,” Anabella bowed. “May I enter your highness?”
I eyed her suspiciously. “What do you want?”
“Let her in Slade. I think she has something to say to us.” Teale appeared behind her and pointed inside the house.
I stepped away from the entrance and let them enter. “Start talking,” I ordered.
“I will. ” She answered. “I came here to tell you about the Queen’s death.”
I winced in pain at the mention of my mother. Teale squeezed my shoulder gently and patted my shoulder. “It’s will be found,” he muttered.
“Gabriella didn’t kill the Queen,” Anabella bites her lips and wiped a tear off her eyes. “It’s was all Luciana’s idea. She did it to frame Gabriella. ”
Teale and I exchanged looks and nodded our heads in response. “We already know that?”
“Wait…. how did you find out?”
“Because Gabriella told me,” I answered her question. “I know Luciana killed my mother and I knew you betrayed your sister because of your selfish gain.” I threw the accusation carelessly at her. “She trusted you and believed in you but you sold her out!” I shouted at her letting my emotions get the best of me.
“Calm down Slade,” Teale rubbed my shoulder to calm me down but I was mad. “Let’s her talk.” He said. “Why is Luciana doing all of this? She must have a reason.”
Anabella heaved a sigh and looked at both of us. It seemed as though we were forcing her to talk. “Say something will ya,” I yelled.
“They are planning a revolt against the king. Zepeda, Luciana, and even Xavier are all planning a revolt!”
“What?” I didn’t believe what I heard. They were planning something that big and my father was too clueless to find out. “Why? ”
“I don’t know!” She retorted. “All I know is that they are planning a revolt and ifs happening on the blood moon.”
“Why are you telling us all of this? Shouldn’t you be loyal to them since you are a part of their scheme?”
“Because I don’t care about them. I love my sister. I regret what I did to her.”
“You should. You are not but a liar, conceited bitch who made her sister suffer when she knows the truth.” I accused her.
“They use my mother as leverage. What was I supposed to do? ” Anabella cried out and placed a hand on my stomach. “I know you might not believe everything that I had said but it’s the truth. I want to save Gabriella too.”
“Why should I trust a backstabbing bitch like yourself. You betrayed your sister and just now, you spilled all the secret about the revolt. Why should we trust you?” I moved closer to her and grabbed the collar of her clothing.
“Slade!” Teale shouted my name. “What are you doing?”
I ignored him. “Listen to you….” I paused not knowing what to say. “If all you are saying is a lie then you’ll die by my hand. ”
“I am not lying I swear.”
” That’s enough Slade,” Teale came in between us and yanked my hand off Anabella’s clothe. “That’s is enough!”
” if you want to save your sister, will you do anything at all?” I smirked at her knowing fully that she might reject the offer. ” will you or are you scared?”
Anabella closed her as if she was thinking and when she opened them, I saw fire in her eyes. “I’ll lay down my life if I have to. ”
“Very well then, here is the plan..”