Written by **EYRAM**
Elaine abruptly stopped, bringing shock and many other dominant emotions to the audience, especially Serena, and she spoke up, ending the silence.
"Do you care to finish your sentence?"
"I know what you did, you did that thing with your hand, but some secrets are just buried too deep, and coming from someone who experienced sexual harassment for many years, and everyone in the room knows about it, I believe that should be considered seriously. I hold this secret so much so, even rewriting fate, in no other parallel dimension would I let it out."
"What do you mean?" Then Anne interrupted, laughing loudly, and said,
"You yourself do not know how your powers work or the limitations involved," and that was when it dawned upon her, a power that seemed this overpowered needed to have some drawbacks, or overlooked consequence, for the consequence she already knew about it, but to the drawback she was completely ignorant.
"It's late and I need to get on to training," Elaine said,
"What training, I hope your plans to get revenge are buried in the deepest darkest part of your brain."
"I want to let you know something, just because you are far stronger than me now does not warrant me giving up, we are only one evolution away from being equal, and when I was just a special elite, too weak bodied to even exert my special power, I took an oath to go against a whole Vampire settlement, with only one Great Lord at the time"
"Well, I want to let you know that I evolved from the start, or whatever you call it, to a Grand Lord, the first one in less than a year."
"Ha, who told you that's the name of the evolution?"
"Oh, what if I told you it was the goddess of Fate?"
"And we both know that god's and female ones alike do not interfere with worldly matters,"
"Like I said, I died, I have seen it all, or do you need a demonstration of what exactly I can do? I do not have your time. What I am going to do right now is something worthwhile, but I'll end the conversation on this note, do not start another war."
Elaine looked at her with a look that depicted hate in its rawest, hottest form. Serena, who could clearly feel her gaze, walked away this time instead of the treasury; she made her way towards Lance's quarters.
But strangely, that place was also well guarded. Many males who were dressed like butlers came forward and said in unison,
"I am sorry, mademoiselle, this wing of the Mansion is the male's quarters, and it was illicitly explained by the commander that you and no other female are allowed into these quarters."
She smiled and let out a sigh of relief. The fact that this place was guarded added to the doubt of her and Lance having some relationship, but she did not have to deal with another unpredictable encounter.
Soon she found herself in the room dedicated to herself, the walls and halls were black and red, and bad things about her were embodied in tapestries on the wall, and that was when she remembered the tapestry on the mirror, and decided to see what was hidden underneath.
"Ouch" she screamed after landing butt first into the hard tiles, the rough surface punching into her gut, the pain felt unbearable and it was constantly getting worse moreover her arms began to melt, the center of the attention from the tapestry, that was when she realized, her mom, possibly responsible for the weaving of that tapestry in the mirror has had another half of her life to get better at it, and now she knew how Jack felt that day, just that she felt worse.
Luckily, her hands healed quickly, but she decided to leave the tapestries be after that encounter. However, considering the impact of learning that skill in the first place, bringing her attention back to the old woman's words that stated her mother was to be her teacher, well then, she would never learn.
That was when she saw someone who looked exactly like her slide in through the window and she gracefully relaxed inside a chair, the way this girl looked was similar to Seraphina and her as well, but there were key differences, first her hair did not have slightly curled edges and she carried herself like she was observing her immediate environment something she could do subconsciously after making her way out of that mirror.
It was the mirror image, the very one who trapped her in the mirror, underestimating her, but that situation forced her to improve in several areas, so right now she knew not how to react. For a time, they silently eyed each other, then the mirror image started talking, in the voice she used before evolution,
BTW: Her voice hair look became more delicate after evolving.
"I don't think we both have enough time to spare to do this all day, so I'll go over it straight to the point. I am on to what you are doing, and I seek to aid you."
"I am sorry, but I won't take you up on that offer. I would have to politely decline."
"Unless I tell another about it, maybe Anne? Oh, but Elaine seems to be a better option."
"Just who are you?"
"Me? I am your aunt, yes and I do not know why your mother never told you girls any stories about me, for your twin I deduced it to their limited interaction, but for you it just goes on to prove just how much she never loved you, and to be fair most teenage mothers do not give their children the best of love due to them being needy so do not blame her"
"And if you do not stop rambling, I will just lose it."
"Elaine would never notice the difference between both of us, so you can go and talk to the Dhampirs, which I know was your original goal the whole time, and I'll lead her to believe I am going to the treasury, while she is putting up measures for the whole Lance thing."
"And what is in it for you?"
"The loot in the treasury, I know you want it too, but this way we both have a chance to get something."
"Unless out of nowhere, some anonymous reporter reports my location and Elaine comes to me while you carefully, slowly, gracefully loot the treasure."
"Wow, I guess you were not born yesterday, but it does not take a genius to figure that out. We both know you want to take a gamble, just do it!"
"No, you've made it clear I was hesitant to make a deal with someone who locked me up for no good reason."
"We would not have many opportunities like what you see here today, and I am not going to ruin your chances."
"I know if I sit here, you might tell them my plan, but I would also be at risk to carry out yours, and going according to your plan puts me at risk, allowing you to freely carry out yours." Then Serena raised her hand, making the star illuminate, and the mirror image, Diane said,
"You think that will even phase me? Remember that I was once in the mirror." Then she raised her hand, bringing forth a four-pointed star that looked very different from the one she used to have. It was clear she had been fumbling with it, had already manipulated each line at least once, she said,
"Okay, I'll go with your plan, but the last thing we both need right now is a fight; it will do nothing but call attention, and that is the opposite of what we need right now."
"Stop drilling me and let's get on with it, we both know the time this is taking out is way out of our budget." Soon, they both made their way out and settled upon the path to achieve their shared directive, hoping the other would not double-cross them.
And Serena soon found herself in the most heavily guarded wing of the mansion the part that she kept her Dhampir army, she had twice the amounts of lords the Vampire settlement had, but was there was only one Great Lord, her so none of them were even able to intercept her crawling around let alone stop her or aim to prevent her from moving ahead.
With all these conditions she effortlessly arrived at the lab where they kept records of their procedure to turn dhampirs, and when she realized the details, she was totally disgusted, she knew they were not human but why do something so inhumane? the process involved removing body parts of Vampires, removing arteries and veins and extracting all the blood of a Vampire and taking out it's source a blood crystal, as if that was not enough they went ahead to dissect their bodies and condense every bit of DNA in their body into a single shot, once injected, a human would never be human again.
Then she stole all the records and came across something, a procedure to rewire minds, they had lots of research all weaponized with science that were so invasive and went against everything science stood for, she did not stop and took hold of everything, then not aiming on letting anything else greedy from getting their hands on it she lit it, on fire, but she knew what she had was far from everything it was just what was at her present location so she quickly made it to the place they stored research, which was the most heavily guarded part.
On the other wing of the mansion, Diane had made it to the glorious dual gate that held behind what was deemed to be a secret, she slowly opened it anticipating something worth a lot, but then blinding lights were lit all across the mansion, oh no, they were caught, she had to quickly pick what she needed, and that was when she saw, alone a single person, and wondered, why protect that so much.