Chapter 51: Chapter 51

Mike P.O.V

"Where there is a will, there is a way." These words were dancing inside my mind. "I have a will but where is the way?" I exhaled loudly.

I had become a real whitehead dumb. Everyone had powers to help the princess and here I was with no powers.

"I should do something to help her. I have too and I will." I determined loudly.

"Are you talking to yourself?" I heard a melodious voice of Snow.

"No!" I lied.

"Of course, you are. I hear you saying something like will or way. What?" She asked angrily by budging her beautiful grey eyes out at me.

I mischievously grinned. "Nothing really," I said. "I was thinking about Annabella's weakness."

"Yeah, time is coming near but we have nothing to protect ourselves from her." She sounded worried.

"Maybe.....we have one way," I said because suddenly something bumped into my mind. She looked at me confused. "I'll meet you later."

I run towards my grandfather's study room. He always used to persuade me by saying 'One day you'll find your powers because where there is a will there is a way.' His words were continuously dancing in my head saying that maybe the time had arrived.

I sat on his chair and opened the book 'The Key' which the princess had given me. That was written by the Mother Queen by her own bare hands. Even the thought of it gave me a cold shiver, after all, she was our creator.

I opened the book and focused on my will; Omniscience, and tried to find my way; read that book without any translation helping book. I closed my eyes and cleared my mind. I touched the first page of The Key and try to felt all words with focus.

First, nothing came as usual but then I felt a sharped pain inside my eye and head and I groaned in pain.

"Mike! What the hell are you doing?" I heard Snow screamed.

I barely gathered myself then hardly opened my eyes and was surprised to saw the magical view of the grandfather's study room. If he was able to see that he would scold me all-day-long! All the books were dancing in the air. I laughed at the view and my thought. But then I looked at angry Snow and all the laugh disappeared. When I looked at her face, she was scared.

"What happened to you?" We both said in unison.

"What happened to me?" We again said in unison.

She came towards the table and started to find something while I just glanced at her confused. She pushed some papers and books here and there when she found a mirror and showed it to me.

I looked at myself and for a moment I froze. "My eyes......." I said and touched them with my hand. My both eyes were shining with white color just like grandpa's eyes used to shine when he used his powers.

"Calm down first." Snow said and I tried to calm my senses. I opened my eyes and looked in the mirror again, they were back to normal. But the books, which were dancing in the air suddenly started to fell. One book landed on Snow's head. She scrunched her nose in disgust and picked the book from the ground and smacked directly on my head.

"Ouch!!! What's that for?" I winced.

"For scaring the hell out of me!" She stated with fake anger.

I looked at The Key whose pages felt like shining with golden sparkles. "The true scary show is about to begin, sweety!" I said and trudged towards the book.

Its pages were shining and golden sparkling particles had gathered around every page. The pages were moving as if, the wind was making them move but there was no chance of any wind, not even a single blow. It looked so magical and powerful.

I touched its pages and it stopped on a certain page, not moving anymore but still shining like it was made of gold, a shining sparkly gold. I looked at the page and there it was. I could read it now. As if, all the words had arranged in a way that I could understand.

"Can you read it now?" Snow asked in a whisper and I nodded.

It said, 'I have created the dark world just to maintain the balance and discipline in white and black. Everything is never white, there is always a black side of light. Everything in this universe has a shadow.

So, I created the dark world, to maintain the discipline of the crystal and dark world. The vampires I have created, I'm sure they'll be good as crystal world people and loveable, but if a time comes, when vampires betrayed. Because everything has a bad side, there is nothing pure and good for forever. Because time changes, people changes, nothing remain the same.

So, if a powerful and harmful vampire became the queen and breaks the rules, there must be a Queen who will be born in the crystal world with as same powers as mine. As I know the weakness of that vampire, she'll know that too.

She just has to listen to the internal voice, not the voice of mind and heart but the soul. Because the soul is pure. She should follow the voice of her soul and the answer is easy as a piece of cake.

The soul is pure and never betrays. If you listen to my words carefully. You'll get the answer. The key to saving the world.'

It ended with shivers all over my body. I released my breath which I was holding for so long. I didn't read it all loud but Snow understood my expressions and asked, "Should I call princess?" I just barely managed to nod.

I got my powers and more importantly a way to find the weakness of Annabelle. Now, I could help the princess too. I was no more useless.

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Marietta P.O.V

Darkness had enveloped the sky and stars were shining without the moon, making that sky looked more luminous. We were about to drove towards home when Walter got a message to suddenly come to the crystal world. So, we were now rushing towards the mansion at some fast speed. Walter did not know how to drive, so I was driving as he sat on the passenger seat.

As I made my grip strong on the steering wheel and increased the speed of the car. My phone started to ring. Walter turned his loudspeaker on and I heard a familiar voice, "Hello! Princess!"

"Yes," I replied, trying to not divert focus from the road.

"Where are you? Are you free?" Veward asked. I looked at Walter for a moment, he shrugged and I glanced back at the road.

"No," I said and felt sad. Because I want to meet him I did not know why? Just maybe.......... Walter whispered, "Missing him?"

"Why?" He sounded angry.

"I have some urgent work to deal with," I said because there must be something fishy in the crystal world. I could felt it.

"More than me?" He asked and my heart skipped a beat.

"Veward it's important, please......" I said to persuade him.

"Yeah, I got it. See you tomorrow." He said and without my replied cut the call. "Veward??" I tried to lie with myself but he had cut the call already.

"We can go to him first if you want. Maybe he has something imp......" I interrupted Walter, "No need." I said and there was a hard rock that pressed my heart.

Soon, we reached the mansion. After parking our car in the parking area. We directly teleported from the car to the crystal world in that same conference room. Well, that was their discussion and meeting room.

As we looked around, suddenly, something hard hit me with full force and I fell on the ground with a loud painful moan. Walter yelled confused by their actions, "What are you doing?"

Peter attacked again and Walter blocked it easily.

"Mike has something to tell us and until that time, we are going to teach princess how to defend and protect yourself with the use of combat skills," Peter said.

"By attacking!" Walter asked angrily.

"Move aside," Olivia said and came towards me with full force. Getting that I had no more choice but to attack. I made up my mind and stood up.

I focused on her move, suddenly everything slowed down. Voices became whispered, she was still moving towards me but slowly, very slowly. She threw her arrow towards me, aiming at my head which I caught. I caught that arrow just one inch away from my head. Everything came back to normal.

They were stunned by my action including me.

Olivia smirked, "Look this is not difficult for you. Just focus and everything is a piece of rock."

She was right. The use of power was not a difficult thing, the real thing was the focus. I could use my powers and could do focus too but I had to be brave. That was a weak point of mine. I was not that brave enough.

"No not piece of rock, it's a piece of paper." Mike appeared with Snow and they both were smiling.

"I got it!" Mike said with a bright smile. We looked at him confused. What did he get?

"He got his powers guys. I'm so happy!" Snow said with a wide small on her face. It was clear from her face, how happy was she. I smiled.

"Not only the powers. I have read... The Key also," Mike said with a winning smiled.

"Really! What is written in it?" Well, that was me who asked curiously.

He looked at me. "You have the same powers as Mother Queen. She knew the weakness and so you."

"What? Is this written in it?" I asked, my shoulders slumped as I lost my all excitement. I did not know any kind of weakness.

"Well, yes. You need to listen to the voice of your soul. That's it." Mike said and there was a pin drop silence.

'The voice of my soul. How I am supposed to hear it?'

"It's up to you princess," Peter said and turned towards Mike. "You come over here!" He said like ordered.

Mike passed a looked at Walter. A look which was saying something. I didn't know why but it felt something fishy to me.

He stepped towards poker face Peter then asked, "Yeah!" He pulled him in a hug and smiled widely.

"I admit, you are no more a whitehead dumboo," Olivia said and we all burst into laughter.