My Ray of Hope

The Contract

 "Yes. The group that was behind both incidents are members of the Baskerville family," Break answered.

"The Baskerville family?" I repeated unfamiliar with the name.

"Yes, they are the last of the main families, but only people associated with Pandora know of their existence," Break starts to explain.

"How come?" I continue to ask questions.

"Well, mainly because they have strong ties to the Abyss so they don't interfere with society and they are our main enemy," he continued to answer.

"I see, and because of this they continue to interfere with the organization so we can't obtain our goal," I say as I come to understand my position.

"Exactly, and it's starting to become a nuisance," Break said in an irritated tone, but then smiled at the speed of my understanding.

"Wait, did you tell me what your goal is yet?" I ask not able to remember.

"No, I'm afraid we forgot to tell you Mia-sama," Sharon said, "Our goal is to obtain the Will of the Abyss."

"Unfortunately, it is the same as the Baskerville's," Break added.

"That would explain why they interfere," I say.

"Do you know anything about the Will?" Break asked.

"Now that I think of it a lot of the Chains say something similar every time they attack me," I say as I think.

"The Chains?" Break said interested.

"Yeah. They say things like 'She will be happy' and 'I'll be her new favorite' but whatever they say they refer to a girl," I tell them.

"Have you seen 'her'?" he starts to ask questions one after another again.

"I believe so. I'm always visited by a stuffed white rabbit and it has the voice of a girl. There are other times where I would find myself in a room that would belong to a young girl with a table filled with tea and sweets. Most of those times there was a cat like Chain with no eyes, but at one point it started to appear with one red eye," I explain my strange encounters but stopped when I see Break shaking somewhat and Sharon standing beside him.

"Please continue Mia-chan," Break said as he stops shaking.

"Are you sure? You look shaken up," I make sure and all I got was a nod from him so I continued, "But out of all those times, no one else came," I finish.

"I think we should all go get some sleep, it's late and we have some places to go to in the morning," Sharon said as she started to walk towards the door we all entered from, "Break could you please take Mia-sama back to her room," she asked him.

"Yes My Lady," he says as he opens the door, then waits for me after Sharon exited.

I get up and walk towards Break, then we start to walk together. I then looked at him to see a frown on his face so I decided to say something to help, "The cakes were really good. I'm glad you told me to try them," I say with a smile.

"I thought you would," he said as he looks at me with a smile.

"Umm, why did you have such a serious expression the whole time?" I finally voice the one question that was on my mind the entire time the three of us talked and when I did his smile disappeared.

"Now is not the time or place to tell you," he answered in a gentle tone and it caught me off guard. He sees my reaction to his answer and starts to chuckle as a smile reappeared on his face.

For the rest of the way to my room Break and I walked in silence, all that could be heard was the sound of our footsteps echoing in the hall.

When we arrived at the door, I was the one that broke the silence, "Thank you for walking me to my room and for explaining everything to me," I bow as I say it.

"Think nothing of it Mia-chan," he says with a smile, then puts something in front of me.

I stood up straight and looked at what it was. It was a silver necklace with a strange silver pendent on it and I give him a confused look which only made him giggle. When he stopped giggling he started to explain what it was, "It's a special device that Pandora created that allows us to make contracts with Chains and it's the method we made so you won't become an illegal contractor."

"Is this what you meant when you said that people who don't use the method Pandora made for making contracts will be illegal contractors?" I ask to make sure I get it.

All I got was a nod so I asked another question, "Why would I even make a contract with one of them after they all tried to kill me?" I start to sound slightly annoyed.

"Well its's better to have one fight with you than against you," he says almost amused by my change in behavior, "Plus all us members have a contract," he added as he pulled out a necklace similar to the one he gave me, but his had a strange design engraved on his pendent.

"Why doesn't this one have a design on it?" I ask as I switch between looking at mine and his.

Before Break could answer, the lights in my room and the hall started to flicker then went out entirely. When the lights went out the floor started to shake and I started to lose my balance. Before I had the chance to fall Break grabbed me by the arm and pulled me close to his chest. When he did he then went into my room and shut the door behind him. Flustered, I try to move away from Break, but he holds me tighter.

"I think you might be forming a contract a lot quicker than we planned Mia-chan," Break says as he lifts the cane he was holding up in front of him and presses a button to reveal a hidden sword in it.

"Wh-What do you mean by that?!" I ask in a loud voice so I would be heard over the sound of objects in the room falling. I hold onto Break's shirt as I almost fall over from all the shaking.

When the shaking died down I heard Break unsheathe his sword and I turn to face where he was pointing it. In the moonlight stood a black suit of armor that would belong to a woman. In her right hand she held a silver sword and she seemed to stare at me even though I couldn't see her face.

"Go on head before it decides to attack," Break whispers as he lets me go and lowers his sword. I just look at him with a shocked expression, as I do he pushes me closer to the Chain then says, "Don't drink its blood."

Not knowing what to do I just stand in front of the Chain looking at the floor and when I did speak my voice was quiet, "I... I want to form a contract with you," I look up at her.

The female Chain's helmet moves down to meet my gaze saying nothing. After a long Pause the Chain started to take steps towards me and I instinctively move back. The Chain grabbed my arm, preventing me from moving back and I look at her. She then planted her sword into the floor and takes her gauntlet on her free hand off the reveal a porcelain white hand. She then rubbed her now exposed arm against her sword that was stabbed into the floor causing her to start bleeding. Before I could do anything she let go of my arm and grabbed my face instead, then placed her bleeding wrist in my face to the point where the cut was touching my lips. Reluctant to swallow it after Break told me not to so I kept my mouth shut. As I did this the blood fell down my face and started to drip onto the pendant that Break gave me which I was holding close to my chest. When the blood hit the pendant it started to glow a bright white. Because the light was so bright I had to cover my eyes, but when I did, I didn't feel the hand holding my face so I fell back onto my rear. When the light faded the lights turned back on and my eyes adjusted revealing that the Chain was gone.

Several seconds passed in complete silence until I spoke, "What just happened?"

"What happened was that you formed a contract with a Chain," Break said as he walked from the door to me.