Chapter 37: Chapter 37

Marietta P.O.V

The aura of this place was as same as ever. The blueish surroundings, a sweet feeling which directly touched your heart. I felt something different here, a very welcoming and sweet feeling I couldn't describe in words. The door pushed open revealing the bowheads of royal guardians. I felt some unknown emotion looking at them.

I entered the room and they lifted their bowheads. We sat in the same room, whom I named the conference room. There was an awkward silence which Peter decided to broke by saying,

"So Princess, is there anything you want to ask first before we start to tell you everything?" Peter asked.

Of course, there were a lot of things I wanted to know but did you noticed he called me princess, not Marietta...

"How do you know I am your Princess?" I asked curiously.

"Hmm... Ok, let's start from the start." Peter nodded his head at me.

"Do humans learn history subjects?" Mike asked, giggling and earned glares from everyone.

"Yes, why?" I asked.

"Stop it you white head! Anyways, Princess, we are going to tell you the history of the Crystal world. As a princess, you should know everything." Olivia said, glaring at Mike. He just shrugged and kept giggling.

"Old master told us about the Mother Queen." Peter started but I interrupted, "Mother Queen?"

"Yeah, the maker of the crystal world," Mona explained.

"What? Do you mean... the crystal world was made by a Queen?" I asked, shocked and surprised.

"Yes," Peter replied.

"How?" I asked.

Olivia said frustratedly, "I told you guys she is so talkative. Princess, we will be able to tell you everything only if you listen to us silently. So please shut your mouth for a moment so we could explain everything. Alright?" She scolded me as heat crawled up on my cheek in embarrassment. I decided to shut my mouth until they could finish explaining.

"Olivia!" Walter glared at Olivia.

"What?" She glared back and shrugged.

God! They fought too much.

While Peter shook his head at everyone and again started,

"No one knows the real name of Mother Queen. Legends explained she was a powerful and kindhearted Queen. Legends also said that she created all the creatures of the crystal world."

'Someone who created the whole world must have so many powers. The whole crystal world... Does it count the dark world too?' I thought but didn't ask.

"Including the dark world," Walter answered as if, he read my mind. I knew he did. I passed him a small smile.

Peter nodded and again continued, "Her powers were different from all of us. After her, no one has those powers. Not yet at least. She knew about the weakness and sources of all the creatures of the crystal world."

When I won't be able to hold it anymore, I opened my mouth and asked, "What kind of powers did Mother Queen have?"

"According to master, she had the power of imagination. She could do whatever she thought. With that power, she created the whole beautiful and mysterious crystal world." Walter explained.

"Is she was from the human world?" I asked.

Because if she created the crystal world that only meant she was a human. She belonged to the human world but humans didn't have these kinds of powers. 'Do they?'

"Maybe... We don't know that," Lilly said. I nodded.

Peter again continued, "She created vampires and guardians and gave some specific and chosen people powers so that they could protect the crystal world and kept maintain its discipline. They both were living their own lives peacefully."

"After thousands of years later, when Queen Teresa crowned and took the responsibility of the throne. She started to rule the guardian town with love, peace, and discipline. On the other hand, Annabella got crowned. She changed everything in bat town. She was a demonic queen who wanted to rule the whole crystal world." Peter explained.

Okay, so Annabella was still the Queen of vampires but what happened to Queen of the guardian town?

"Come on, guys make it short. I'm already feeling too sleepy." Mike said with a bored expression and half sleepy eyes. He placed his head on Snow's shoulder as she was sitting beside him. She shrugged it off and hit his arm, "Keep quiet!" Snow glared at him.

"Ouch!" He rubbed his arm and again placed his head on her shoulder. I smiled at both of them.

Walter started, "Then, time passed, and King William and Queen Teresa announced the news of new coming heir. Meanwhile, Annabella started to attack the guardian town but the royal guardians and our king and queen fought back and made them ran every time they attack. Time passed like that. Annabella didn't show up for so long, she just disappeared somewhere. Time again flew away as only one week left in the coming of our new heir. Everyone started the preparation to welcome a new life but then a disaster happened which change everything."

"What happened?" I asked.

"Annabella attacked in the night and killed our king. She returned with so much power and dark magic spells which were unbeatable. When our Queen knew about it she got shocked but she was the strongest queen ever. She wanted to destroy Annabella but royal guardians refused that and took her to a secret place to protect her." Peter explained and my heart skip a beat.

I didn't know why? Maybe... because I know how it felt when you lost someone.

Walter added, "One week passed, all the royal guardians had died except old master." I didn't know why I felt a shadow of sadness passed his face.

"Old master was a royal guardian?" I asked.

"Yes, he was the only guardian left alive that day. He was the one who told us everything." Peter said and I nodded. There was another question coming into my mind but I chose to shut my mouth.

"Then, Queen Teresa gave birth to a princess, a baby girl. But that time Annabella and her army reached that hidden place. Queen Teresa was powerless at that time but she did something which was never happened before." Walter added, "Something really unexpected."

"What did she do?" I asked. I just want to know what happened next.

"She opened a doorway to the human world, a portal to the mortal world, and sent the baby Princess there in the hope one day she will come back and save the crystal world," Peter said.

I didn't believe his words. It felt like I froze again and lost the ability to manipulate information in my brain. But he continued, "The doorway opening took lots of power that's why she became powerless. Taking advantage, Annabella killed her too. She died but a satisfying death. Before death, she spelled at Annabella so that she could not leave her castle for 20 years."

He stopped talking and my breath stopped as well. I didn't believe my ears.

She died.

She died.

20 years...

"That princess was you! Queen Teresa was your original mother. We are waiting for you to come and save us." Walter said. His voice seemed too heavy to my ears.

"You mean..." I tried to spoke but useless. My throat felt dry. I wet my lips and tried to spoke again still no words came out just a tear scrolled down on my cheek.

I wasn't who I thought I was. I was not the daughter of Aminos. Caro's words echoed in my mind, 'NO! This is not your family! He wasn't your brother! He was my brother! Just mine!!!' Did she know that?

'Do they know about the crystal world?'

"Are you okay?" Bell sat beside me and patted my back to comfort me.

"Crying is not a good option I guess. Let's made them cry. He killed your parents and my parents too. Let's take revenge together and made them pay." Mike said with a warm smile.

I noticed that I was not crying anymore. It was just a single tear. Maybe I became a little strong or maybe I just got used to things like that. I nodded.

"I will. But how?"

They all started to think about something as they looked at each other confused.

"Tell me something about Annabella," I asked.

"There is nothing to tell." Mona said with a defeated sigh.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused.

"We don't know anything about her. We just know that she is so powerful and we can't beat her. It's impossible to take her down." Lilly added.

Walter said with a cold dry chuckle, "She knew it. Master was the only person who knew about her and everything regarding her strengths and weakness. That's why she cleared her path first."

"You guys are immortals, right? Then how could Old master died?" I asked.

They all looked at each other. "That's true we are immortals but we can die. We have weaknesses, using it anyone can kill us. Plus point is we are the only one who knows our weaknesses." Peter said.

Weakness?

"Is that mean Annabella has a weakness too?" I asked and their faces brightened as if they got a bit of hope.

"Yeah! But what it could be?" Mike asked.

"You have to know that," Peter said to me.

"How could I know? I don't even know about my real identity than how could I know about her weakness?" I said.

"Old master told us only the real heir know about the weakness of the Vampire lord." Snow added, looking at me.

"Great! Can someone please tell them that I don't know!" Everyone went silent. Did I say that loud? Shit! I sheepishly grinned.

"Sorry! I mean to say I don't know anything." I said awkwardly. Peter shook his head and sighed.

"Alright, you know everything I guess. Now let's start to find a way to beat Annabella. We don't have enough time." Peter said more like ordered and Walter added, "Since we don't have old master support. We have to do something as soon as possible before it gets too late."

Mona said, looking at me, "We will find a way to beat her but first and foremost we have to awake her powers."

"Right. We don't know yet what kind of powers does she have?" Bell added.

They all were talking and I was thinking something. Vampires! Not every soul was bad, there were some good souls created too but they were just unable to do good things because of some circumstances.

"Is there any vampire who can help us? Someone who knows about her weakness and willing to help us?" I asked.

"Not all vampires are bad. Maybe some are good in them but because of Annabella's fear, they won't do anything. After all, she is their Queen." Peter said. I nodded.

"No one has the guts to go against Annabella. Coward vampires! They want to get rid of her but they all fear death." Olivia gritted angrily. Why was she always so grumpy?

"How did you find me? Why are you so sure about me of being your Princess? And how do you know am I the one who can save you?" I asked, looking at Peter.

'I know I have lots of questions.'

"We found you when you were 10 years old and vampires attacked you for the first time. We were there, we were supposed to protect you but someone else came and saved you. That masked person. He even sent you here the first time when you were not supposed to come." Peter said and without missing a beat he questioned, "Who is he?"

I looked at everyone and they all were excepting an answer - a satisfying one. But should I tell them?

She told me not to trust anyone. But these guys were not strangers besides they needed my help. I didn't know how to finish Annabella. Maybe Masked Saviour could help us.

'What should I do?'

"Well, I don't know him." I said and they all looked at me like I had grown two heads. "That person just appeared, helped, and disappeared. That's it. I don't know who is behind that mask." I added and shrugged.

"Strange..." Peter said and I again shrugged.

I told them half-truth. I really don't know who was behind that mask. But if she wasn't one of them then who was she? Why she always saved me?

"Alright. Enough for today. Tomorrow we will tell you about our powers and then we will try to awake yours." Peter said dismissively.

"We still have to find what kind of powers she has..." Walter added and everyone looked lost in their thoughts until Lilly asked,

"Do you ever felt connected to something? Like water, plants, fire, air, and anything?" I shook my head.

"Wow! Is it possible that you're like me?" Mike said excitingly clapping both hands.

"What?" I asked confused.

"Why? Why whiteheads are so dumb?" Olivia heaved a sigh.

"No dumbo! She is royal blood. She must have some powers and all we need to do is awake them." Bell said.

"How are you going to awake my powers?" I asked worriedly since they were so much talking about my powers. Did I even have any? In return, they passed me a devilish smile, indicating pure trouble. I gulped.

"By the way, whom you called whitehead dumb?" Peter glared at Olivia.

"What do you think?" Olivia being Olivia and glared back.

"Don't you dare!" Peter threatened her.

"Or else??" And she challenged back and they continued to fight.

While I recalled every information they had told me. Mom and Daddy never let me realized that I was not their own daughter. They always treated me like an original daughter except for Caro, and now I could understand her dislike for me.

"Who are those humans who are trying to hurt you back then?" Walter asked and cut the chain of my thoughts.

"I don't know," I shrugged. The flashback of the last moment from the human world appeared in front of eyes, regarding the street fight, Daddy words, and those mysterious blue eyes.

"Is there any problem in the human world?" Mona asked. I looked at her and laughed before saying, "Not a single one but dozens of."