Nocturnal I: Silver and Blood

Chapter 6: The Ball

Aphrodite Hotel/ London, England 1895

I.

Adele crawls on the wall climbing up to her room up in the Aphrodite Hotel with her sharp-edged nails stabbed to the concrete walls. After crawling up eight stories without any witnesses below her, she opens the window to her room and climbs over to get inside. She begins to smile gleefully over returning home better than the times she usually comes with criminals to kill at night, her mind was full of positivity ever since she briefly had a reunion with Frederick. She then hears a small bark of her pet nearby, the puppy hid behind the leather seat near her fireplace but when the pup revealed itself it wasn't a puppy dog, it was werewolf puppy. The puppy werewolf's young high pitched bark began to give Adele a welcoming home and the pup begins to reveal itself out of the open. The werewolf pup had black fur like the night sky all over it, his pointy ears were shaped like a German Shepherd's and it's Iris's were colored turquoise and its black pupils were massive, it's tongue hung out of its big open smile and rushed to her.

When the puppy reached her it jumped in the air and hopped into both of Adele's hands continuing to smile while letting out a small bark. Adele with a huge smile on her face which revealed her fangs under it and spun around with her puppy as she giggled in joy. Her day was both joyful and her puppy made it better as it's adoring eyes stared into her golden eyes.

"Oh it's so good to see you Guts!" she laughed in joy as she called out the puppy's name.

"Oh my God, I need a bath," she said talking to herself that moment still smiling as she entered the bathroom and saw her ceramic tub with steel material knobs that could turn on the hot water.

II.

After a long nice bath, Adele wore a scarlet robe which matches the color of her scarlet hair, with a white towel covering her hair as she stared at a mirror that couldn't show her own reflection. However, when she couldn't see herself in the mirror it reminded her of the time she first became one fateful night. It brought her joyful emotions down, the only thing she could remember seeing in the mirror was a cute little orphan girl that lived in a cathedral that was burnt down by her father who abducted her from a normal style of living. She could never see her own beauty as she looked into that empty mirror, she could never know how true of a beauty she is. If one wish could come true in this world it would be that she could see herself from the reflection of a mirror. She thought of Frederick as she looked into the empty mirror and thought of the way he looked at her.

How did he even look at me? Was I a monster? Was I beautiful? Am I already fond of him? Wait why am I thinking of that? she thought to herself while her internal dormant heart began to beat and warm her cold body. As she began to feel herself flutter with warmth, she drops down her bathrobes including her towel which was wrapped around her short long scarelt hair. She looks back into the empty mirror and steam flowed through all around her like mist. She was naked and looking down at her albino feet wanting to let a tear out over the inner flame that was igniting her. She felt like she was going to pass out but she didn't. When she looked back at the mirror  a shadow appeared which revealed her body shape. What was this a vision? Some form of sorcery or magic? No, it was some sort of reflection of herself. The cure to having her humanity back was somehow deep within her thoughts it was none other than -Frederick.

"No, this is all an illusion I must change," she stated as everything around the bathroom became normal as it was before the environment of the area changed.

III.

Adele finally exits the bathroom with her robes on it was both a relief to be outside of the steamy aftermath of her bath. She took off the towel wrapped around her hair and placed it on top of her bed on the other end of the room. She goes behind a Japanese dressing wall panel to change and takes off her robes. She put on a less of a tight corset along with her short-sleeved white buttoned shirt over it, which came with a red ribbon around the collar of the shirt, then she pulled up below her feet khaki trousers that fitted her almost fitted her tightly, then she puts on some heeled boots that were colored black and smiles at was she was wearing. Adele always hated having to wear dresses they were always uncomfortable and sometimes the corsets would be so unbearable that she would almost suffocate. The fire within the wood of the fireplace begins to exhaust and fade so quickly the whole room went pitch black except for the windows shining with moonlight. Her puppy Guts began to growl through the darkness and noticed someone or something was in the room. Adele grabbed a dagger which was inside a drawer next to her with a curved edge and a wooden handle. She exits behind her dress panel to fight through the darkness, instead, her mind was at ease when someone she knew was sitting near her empty fireplace. The fire ignites again into bursting flames revealing the friendly face she knew from two years ago.