Are we good or evil

chapter 3

After school, Reiji volunteered to help out the sisters with their problem. Him, Star, and Dark were in his room. They two sisters sat on the couch while Reiji was preparing them a drink. Star played with her toy before she asked, “Will it kill us?”

“No. It’s just going to make the voices in your head go away for a while.” Reiji answered.

“For how long?” Dark asked.

“For at least a month. But if you take this daily, it could make the voices go away permanently.” The sisters nodded while they were handed a vial filled with brown substance. After they drank the entire vial, the two of them gagged.

“It has a funny taste to it!” Star whined.

“My apologies. I should have told you that before I handed it to you.”

“When should it kick in?”

“In a couple of minutes.”

“Reiji, why are you helping us….” Dark frowned at him. “You’re a vampire and you drink blood. So why aren’t you taking our blood? I heard that most vampires can’t control their thirst.”

“Because I am interested in the both of you and determine to find out what other abilities you have in store. And to answer your other question, my brothers and I can control our thirst for a short amount of time. You two don’t have to worry about anything. As Laito promised, we won’t hurt you. In the meantime you should rest. You both had a long night.”

“Right.” The sisters said and nodded their heads in unison and went to their bedroom. Dark tucks in Star before kissing her on the head, telling her goodnight and crawling in the bed with her.

While they sleep, Star woke up. She didn’t want to go to sleep just yet. Star got out of bed and went to one of the brother’s room. Kanato. He was asleep while holding his teddy bear. Star slowly went  to touch his head, but she was stopped by her older sister. “What do you think you are doing?” Dark asked her.

“I wanted to see what he thinks about.” Star smiles. “He won’t wake up. I’m sure.” Dark gave her sister a look, whether or not to let her, but since she was the youngest she said yes anyway.

“Fine. Do what you got to do and it’s back to bed.” Dark instructed while letting go of Star’s hand. Star smiled and touched Kanato’s head. She gasped as her eyes glew white. “Star!?” Dark whispered in fright and held her sister. But because of her loud whisper, Kanato woke up and Dark vanished.

Kanato gently takes away Star’s hand and asks, “What did you do?”

“Sorry for waking you…” Star said while backing away.

“It’s okay, Star. But what did you do?”

“I…..saw your past.. You, Ayato, and Laito killed your mother and I couldn’t sleep.”

“We had every reason to, Star. Please don’t think too much about it. Why are you up anyway? I thought you and your sister were asleep.” Kanato asked her as he sat up from the bed and held his teddy. “You can’t sleep?”

“I can.” Star nodded her head. “Dark is the one who can’t sleep. She has insomnia. Now that I think about it, I don’t think she ever got a night of good night’s rest.”

“Has she tried sleeping with someone?”

“Yes. I sleep with her but she always ends up shaking violently in her sleep and then she whimpers as if someone is torturing her.”

“Have her sleep with me instead. It could help.” With that said, Star nodded her head and went back to her room, getting Dark, and allowing her to sleep with Kanato for the night. Dark didn’t argue nor did she say a word. She did what her little sister has asked and went to bed.

Throughout the night, Dark seemed to sleep peacefully for once in her life. Kanato didn’t move her in her sleep. Instead he kept an eye on her while she slept. Dark woke up with a yawn and sat up from the bed. “Thank you for helping me with my sleep. It seems to help a lot.”

“Your sister told me about it. You poor thing.”

“There you are.” The vampire and the girl looked at the bedroom doorway to reveal Ayato.

“What is it, Ayato?” Dark asked him.

“I’m thirsty as hell right now. I want your blood.”

“No, Ayato. We promised not to hurt them! Go to Reiji and ask him to make you something.” Kanato got in front of Dark.

“No, it’s fine.” Dark got out of bed. “It’s okay, it won’t hurt me.” She walks over to Ayato and gives him her wrist. “Drink as much you want.” Ayato wasted no time to grab her wrist and bit into it. Dark didn’t flinch or wince at the pain.

‘Her blood is so sweet…’ Ayato thought to himself as he pulled away. Dark bandaged up her wrist up.

“Did it hurt?” Kanato asked her.

“No. I’ll be fine.” Dark leaves the room. Ayato and Kanato notice the scars on her wrist before looking at each other.

“She cuts herself?” Kanato questions. “I wonder why.”

“Probably because of being called a Witch. She said it herself, she hates being called that.” Ayato replied. As Dark returned to the bedroom where her sister was, she told her about Cordelia.

“Who’s that?’ Star asked her.

“Assuming it’s her mother. I can feel her lurking around this mansion.” Dark answered her as she looked around the room.

“Now that you mentioned it, I could have swore I saw a door in the basement. I went snooping around the other night and saw a closed door. I think it was the basement. Can we go check it out?”

“Absolutely not.” Ayato called out from the doorway. “You had no right to be going through this house without anyone’s permission.”

“So? I want to see!” Star whined.

“The answer is no!” Ayato barked. Dark got in between the two of them before things got worse.

“Star, Ayato is right. This is his house.” She looked at Ayato. “But I know you are hiding something about Cordelia in that basement of yours. I know she is still in the house. I can feel her. Can you at least let us see behind the locked door.”

“Please? Just one look and we won’t go snooping around.” Star added.

“...Ugh, fine. Just one look and that’s it. Got it?” Ayato glared. The sisters nodded and took them to the basement. It was like a sewage when they reached the basement. When they came face to face with the door, Ayato slowly opened it. All there was were a bloody dress that Cordelia once wore. “That’s all that’s left of her.”

“A bloody dress?” The sisters said unison while walking around the room. Looking up at the dress, Dark tilted her head out of curiosity. Without thinking, Dark touches the dress and her eyes glowed white. She gasped in pain before fainting and falling to the floor.

“Sister!?”