IX LAMIA

CH. VI

I pushed myself through Tzuyu and just ran for it. As I was running down the stairs, the rest of the girls in the kitchen looked at me with confused looks. Next thing I knew, I felt a huge force on my body as I fell to the floor with my arms put in a tied position behind my back.

I felt fast footsteps come towards me.

"Tzuyu! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" yelled Chaeyoung who was already fighting with Tzuyu to come off of me.

"She saw the painting!" she yelled back which made Chaeyoung stop pushing her off of me.

She then got me to stand up where I met up the faces of the others looking concerned. I was absolutely terrified at this point. I had so many questions circulating around my head.

"Mina I need you to calm down," Jihyo said as she tried to get closer to me

"Stay away from me!" I shouted aggressively.

"Jihyo just change her emotions," Jeongyeon said

"I am! I'm trying and it's not changing!" Jihyo replied back in frustration

"Look, I don't know why you guys have a painting of yourselves that seems like it was made in the 18th century! But why the hell am I in that?!" I said

"Tzuyu erase her memory," said Jeongyeon

"What?!" I yelled

"I'm not doing that" Tzuyu said sternly

"Jihyo!" yelled Jeongyeon.

"Tzuyu you have to. This wasn't how we planned to reveal it" Jihyo said

After some hesitation, Tzuyu replies, "Fine"

Chaeyoung came towards me and gave me an apologetic look before she took over Tzuyu's position. I have to note that both of their grips were very strong which was giving me pain. What is up with these people?!

Tzuyu stood in front of me. Her face showed an apologetic look as well. She then raises her hand and placed it on my head. She held it there for a few minutes before taking her hand off and looked at me with confusion.

"I can't erase it," she said in disbelief

"What do you mean you can't erase it?!" yelled Jeongyeon in frustration

"She's immune to our powers," Tzuyu said with a hint of disbelief.

"Luna was never immune to our powers," Jihyo said nonchalantly as her eyes looked at mine.

"She's different" Tzuyu says in an almost whisper-like way. She looked at me with complete disbelief

"Ok, Mina we need to talk to you. Now that it's basically revealed, we will tell you everything. And by everything, who we really are. But we need you to calm down. We don't have the intention to hurt you"

Hurt me? How could they possibly hurt me?

"Fine," I said after some hesitation. Even though I was scared by everything that was happening, I figured I won't be able to get away from these girls even if I ran away.

We all went to living room once again. I sat across from all of them. Tzuyu was standing, refusing to sit down.

"Why do you guys have an old painting with me in it?" I asked right away, not wanting to prolong anything

"That painting you saw was painted around the late 1800s," said Jihyo

"How?" I said in disbelief.

"We're... not exactly human" Jihyo continued. "We are... what you call... vampires"

As soon as she dropped that word, I thought she was making fun of me about what I said earlier