"Are you ready for tomorrow?"
"For what?"
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"I found him sister"
"You mean that boy?"
"THAT BOY or should I say my prey?"
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I look like you, I dress like you.
I walk like you, I talk like you.
I laugh like you, I cry like you.
BUT
I AM NOT Y...
"At least they will be ALIVE." Divina yelled back and tears started flowing from her eyes.
David felt helpless and said, "as you wish."
She started reading the book and after reading for three full hours she whispered, "D-David" and started crying.
"What happened?" He asked.
"C-can't save them b-both. Only o-one." She said while gasping hard.
"Divina just calm down and say it clearly." He said.
"This ritual can only be performed for one child." She said and started crying hysterically.
"What?" He said.
They both awestruck for a moment before hugging eachother and crying their eyes out.
After going through the entire book for about three hours, both of them came to the conclusion that there's no way they could perform it on both of their children. After knowing this, both of them, with a heavy heart, called Enzo.
"Enzo, baby we need to talk to you." Divina said.
"What mom?" He asked and they started telling him everything. Even though he was only eight years old, he was quite smart and mature. He listened very carefully to everything his parents said and after listening to them he said, "mom you don't have to do anything on us. I can save myself and my sister too." When Divina told him everything about the ritual, he was very scared. This is a ritual in which only two people are permitted, one who will do it and the other on whom it is being performed. So the bottom line is that Divina can only cast this curse on one of her children. The one on whom this ritual is performed will become so powerful that no one will be able to kill him/her except his/her biological family members. Now, talking about the curse, it is that the person on whom it is performed will never be able to touch any member of his/her family because as soon as he/she touches them, he/she will burn to ashes...And that's the real reason Enzo was scared.
"No dear, I have to do this. I'm afraid to lose you both." Divina said.
"But m-mom, that cu-curse..." Enzo said.
"That's why we're asking you, Enzo. Who should we perform this ritual for? you or Aurora?" She asked.
"I-I want you to s-save Aurora." He said and his lips began to tremble and tears began to flow from his eyes.
She hugged him and said, "I am so sorry my child. I am so sorry that both of you have to endure so much at this age."
"It's not your fault, Mom. You're trying to save us and since you can only make one of us do the ritual, I'll choose Aurora. I want her to live. I also want you both to live, please don't leave us. Mom, Dad, please don't." he said.
"We won't." David said while hugging his son and wife. ———————————————————
The next day Divina called her daughter for the ritual and Aurora complied everything like an obedient child as Enzo had already told her everything. Being six years old she was a bit scared at first but when he told her that it was her mother who would do it she accepted. The only thing she didn't know was about the curse. Enzo was afraid that if he told her she wouldn't be ready for it so he didn't tell her anything about the curse.
After the ritual was over, a wave of fire ran through Aurora's body and her body became so strong that no power in the world could now tear her apart. Seeing this, Divina felt very relieved that now she cannot be killed by anything.
"Mom, I feel so strong. I feel like fire. Am I a phoenix?" Aurora asked and looked at her mother innocently.
Divina chuckled at her daughter's cute antics and said, "No dear we are vampires, not phoenixes, but you are the most powerful vampire now. No one can harm you."
"Really!" Aurora said.
Divina nodded and little Aurora was so happy that she started hopping like a rabbit and ran to hug her mother but...
"Aurora waitttt!" Divina shouted and Aurora was scared by her mother's sudden outburst.
Hearing the shouts, Enzo and his father came there and asked, "what happened?"
"She was going to hug me." Divina said timidly and David was confused for a few seconds but then he realized that maybe the ritual is over and now their daughter is cursed.
"Dada, why did mama shout? Did I do something wrong?" Aurora asked.
"No dear, you didn't do anything wrong. Yo-you cannot touch us t-that's all." He said.
"But why?" She asked.
"Aurora baby you just said that there is something like fire running inside you, if you touch any one of us then that fire can harm you... t-that's why you can't touch us from now on." Divina said.
"Mama, dada I can't touch you? Not even you big brother?" Aurora asked with dewy eyes and then Enzo extended his hand and took out a pair of thick black leather gloves and said, "Aurora come here." She ran to him happily and he gave her the gloves to wear and said, "you can touch anyone after wearing this." As soon as he said that, she wore the gloves and hugged her elder brother.
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Seeing this, his parents embraced him and his mother said, "You did a great job son. Why didn't this come to our mind. And where did you get these gloves from?"
"Mom, I made these. Mom, do you remember yesterday when I asked you if Aurora's whole body would be cursed, you said no, the curse would only be on her arms so I thought why not cover her arms and then I sat up all night and made these gloves." He said and everyone was astonished to see this little guy's wisdom.
David picked him up and made him sit on his lap and said, “Do you even know what a great thing you have done? You have literally saved your sister, my son!"
"Thank you big brother. I love you so much." Aurora said happily and they both were embraced by their parents. Enzo's intelligence delighted the entire family and once again there was an atmosphere of happiness throughout the house. But little did they know that this would be the last moment of their happiness. They did not know that this would be the last day of these two innocent children with their parents. They did not know that their entire family was going to collapse like an avalanche.
