Chapter 58: Chapter 58

Marietta P.O.V

"NO!" She shouted. Her pale white face was showing anger and her green eyes were glassy. Her features were as same as Annabella but still, there was something different.

"I'm Isabella." She said.

"Isabella?" I repeat that word with confusion.

"Why would we believe you?" Walter shouted and attacked her with the liquid hard force but I stopped him midway.

"No Walter," I said to him.

"I thought you were my masked savior but...." I broke in mid-sentence. I felt betrayed again. I trusted her more than myself, she was my savior. But.....

"How could you......" She cut me off.

"Listen carefully I'm not Annabella. I am Isabella. We are twins. She is my twin sister, unfortunately." She said with guilty eyes.

She was her...

"WHAT?" I and Walter shouted together.

She came further, grabbed my hand in her cold one. A lone tear escaped her eye and in the core of my heart, I felt as if, she was honest.

"Trust me, please...."

I looked at Walter and he was confused too. Should we trust her or not? What if she was a traitor?

"Let's just believe you for a second. Why would you do that?" I asked, looking at her confused.

She weakly smiled, "Thank you!"

"Thank me when I'll kill you. Now, spill! Why would we believe you?" Walter snapped angrily. He was not trusting her and it was clear.

She snatched a pendant from her neck and gave it to me. It was a snake pendant of black and emerald color. The zig-zag shape of the snake was hypnotizing and its color was intimidating.

"It will help you to reach your goal. I don't know what Annabella's weakness is but I know this is the key to achieve it." She said, pointing at the pendant in my hand. I knitted my brows in confusion.

"Why are you helping me?" I asked.

"There is a Maze in the dark world behind our castle and there must be something regarding the weakness of Annabella." She continued, totally ignoring my question.

"Stop flying around the maze and answer us. Why we trust you?" Walter said.

A maze in the dark world. The maze was known as a never-ending track if you don't know the pathway out. Suddenly my worst fear appeared in front of my eyes, vanishing Walter and Masked savior.

The darkness, the never-ending track with sound, the music to stop her and block her forever by converting her into stone. Her weakness was music according to my nightmare, and it was a special instrument I had to find. The instrument which was somewhere in the dark world or maybe according to my nightmare it was inside the maze.

"Princess?" Walter's voice put me back in the present. I looked at Isabella a.k.a masked savior.

"My question is still the same, why are you helping us? You are her sister instead of helping her why are you helping us? Why are you doing this? Why are you protecting me? Why are you betraying your own sister?" I asked her angrily.

I felt what Annabella would feel when she would know that her sister was betraying her.

Because I knew how it felt.

Although she was my enemy but still... Isabella was silent for a moment. The whole environment felt silent. The wind lightly blew my hair. It was going to be Christmas in a week and the weather was getting colder and colder. I looked at Walter and he was staring at Isabella.

"Because........ I had promised someone to always protect you." She spoke in a defeated voice. A voice that was broken and injured.

Walter and I look at each other before Walter spoke, "Who?"

"The shining sun of the crystal world, Queen Teresa." She said and my heart clutched.

"She was like a real sister to me. Believe it or not but we were close friends." She said and Walter and I again exchanged a look.

"I was the one who informed her about the attack Annabella did at the time of your birth. Because I was the one, watching everything with my eyes at the time when Annabella was killing her." She paused, closing her eyes when tears started to roll down on her pale white cheeks.

My heart clutched even more at the mention of Annabella killing my Mother.

"Because......" She opened her eyes and looked at a tree at some distance, "I was the one who waited behind the tree until that human couple picked you. I'm everywhere but no one knows me. It's not my fault what kind of a queen Annabella is, it's not my fault that I am her twin sister but what kind of a person I am. It's in my hand so I chose to be a good person."

"Not like my sister, harsh and cruel even to her own people. She deserved to be punished. Vampires are not bad they are helpless. She forced each and every vampire to do what she wanted and when someone refused she either kill them or control them. I wanted to give Vampires the freedom they deserve." She said, looking at us. I was shocked to hear everything.

"World has all kinds of creatures and apparently, they all are same but we choose to become what we wanted to be. Everyone dreams about something and it is always hard to get what you desire. The real thing is the way you choose to archive your dreams. Good or bad. The way you choose makes you good or bad. Shortcuts are always available but hard work is the real key to unlock our dreams." She said, wiping her face and for the first time, I saw my masked savior without masks in her personality.

There was pure silence for a while when Walter asked, "You know Mom?"

She nodded. Then she turned towards me with a serious expression.

"We don't have time. Soon, she'll know that I am betraying her and before that, we have to get her weakness." She said.

"I don't want to but..." Walter sighed and added, "I think I can trust you. What is the plan?"

"I have a plan," I said.

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Annabella P.O.V

"Your highness! Your highness!" Joseph came running towards me with terror visible on his face but I didn't do anything, why was he so scared?

I was sitting in my heaven and staring at the view of the dark world while planning my next step. Just a few days more and I will become the Queen of the whole crystal world. Once that crown ceremony will happen and Marietta took the place of Queen of guardian town. I will attack her and the throne will all mine.

I was busy admiring my soon emperor status when he appeared and destroyed my good mood.

"What?" I spat in anger.

"Princess Isabella is nowhere. I hear that someone saw her leaving the castle in an uneasy dress." He said.

She never left the castle and she was a kind of introverted person who had always occupied herself with useless books. Why would she go out?

"So?" I raised my voice in anger.

What did he want to say?

"Please forgive my sharp tongue, your highness! But....... She must be up to something. I have a feeling. She is acting strangely for a while." He said and I stood up.

I grabbed his neck and shove him hard on the floor. He groaned in pain.

"Don't spill anything like this again or you'll never have the tongue to even apologize," I roared angrily. My blood boiled to even comprehend what he meant. Was he saying that my sister was betraying me?

"I can prove it to you. She is a traitor." He winced but managed to say that. I glared at him.

"And if you can't....." He dared to cut me as he said, "Then here is my neck, your highness!"

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Marietta P.O.V

"Complete all preparation of the crown ceremony. When I'll come back we'll do it immediately." I said to everyone. We all were sitting in the conference room around the table.

"But this is dangerous. We can't trust any vampire not when she is her twin sister, the same blood." Peter said bothered by my plan.

"I think we can trust her," Walter said.

"Come on you whitehead we are not going to trust a vampire princess, are we?" Olivia declared.

"Maybe we should at once. She is her masked savior after all." Bell reasoned.

They all were discussing while I was thinking about how to tell them that I was planning to go alone in the dark world. I couldn't take anyone with me. It was my responsibility to find her weakness and finished this chapter for once and all. She did kill my mother and because of her, I lost my real identity, I lost my mother, I lost my world, and got sent to another world.

Besides, the Dark world was the territory of Annabella, and even a rat act like a lion in her home. And she was a queen with unbeatable powers. I won't danger anyone's lives because of me.

So, the thing was that I will go alone to fight my own battle.

"Who taught her the blocking spell?" Walter asked and I smiled.

"Why would they tell you?" I asked and everyone laughed while Walter groaned angrily.

"So, now we have to enter the dark world in which Isabelle is going to help us. Then we have to enter the maze to find that instrument which is according to your visions is her weakness." Mona repeated the plan to which I nodded and stood up. They all looked at me confused.

"Well, the thing is...there is a slight change in plan. I'll go to the dark world on my own. Alone." I said and their expressions changed into serious ones.

"Princess, you are not going anywhere. Alone!" Peter said dismissively.

"But Isabelle can't make us all enter in the dark world." I reasoned.

"Then I'll come with you. That is final." Walter said, standing up from his seat. I sighed.

"Come on guys don't you all trust me?" I asked emotionally.

"It's not like that," Lilly said.

"We are worried about you because we care for you. You're our only hope." Bell added to which they all nodded in response. I smiled.

"Then let me fulfill your hope," I said and stepped towards the door.

As I expected, Walter marched over me and before I know he was standing in front of me. I glared at him but he glared back.

"You are not going alone and that's an order." He said with gritted teeth. Anger and concern both were visible on his face.

"You can't order me," I said.

"Of course I can." He said. I heaved a loud exhaled. You didn't leave any other option, my brother.

"I'm sorry," I said.

"Huh?" He looked at me confused when I motioned my right hand in front of his eyes and using a spell I unconscious him. In a second, he fell on the floor.

"Walter!" Everyone shouted and came forwards towards us.

Peter looked at me with disappointment filled eyes.

"Wait for me. I won't disappoint you all." I said before disappearing.

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"Are you ready? We don't have much time." Isabelle asked when I appeared in front of her at the entrance of the dark world.

'Am I ready? Can I do this? Will I succeed?'

I asked myself. This was the only and last chance. My heart skipped several beats and my stomach clenched at the mere thought of what if I won't get succeed. I looked at the hell aka dark world in front of me.

What would happen if I failed? No! I couldn't fail. I had to do this for the crystal world, for the people of guardian town, for my mother, and myself.

I closed my eyes, take a sharp breath in, and said,

"Yes. I'm ready to end this."