Chapter 29: Infiltration

Alea's POV

I walked further into the room, the cold wind kissing my skin. But suddenly, I heard a crack and when I turned, the doors had closed making me realize I had just been locked inside.

I didn't try to call for help, or panic, but just walked further into the room, taking slow strides in the hallway that seemed endless.

The whole place was empty and the only thing that cut through the silence was my existence.

My presence.

The sound of my boot clicking to the ground.

The wind blew, more cold crawling up my skin like they were sent to freeze me, but I didn't stop walking. I kept walking until I saw a caved place, with a stone in front of it, the stone just like the one I saw out there. The key to the entrance of the cave.

I touched it, just like I had done earlier and like I had expected, the doors creaked open once again. Brightness seeped in out of nowhere, bright enough to blind my sight that I had my hands covering my eyes for a moment. Slowly, my hands went from my eyes to my sides, leaving me to stare at the beautiful yet surely dangerous sight in front of me.

I hesitated for a while, but ended up entering the room. Everything was sparkling, I knew what they were, but still was amused.

Relics.

I haven't seen any around for what seems like eternity. They were dangerous to human existence, to the human world, but to people like us who possess extraordinary powers, for people who could practice dark magic without getting killed by it, these relics are important to us, so important that we think it can save lives, or maybe the world.

I walked, making sure to thread carefully. Then I came across a mirror, and I stared into it, my reflection staring back at me. The moment made me recall the time Kairo had thought I had gone crazy, those times when I'd look into my mirror and my reflection would speak to me, trying to control me. The Phantom Queen.

I tilted my head to the left, wondering if it was still the same, but no, my body moved the exact way I wanted it to. A smile crept up my face but it disappeared within a millisecond when my thoughts went to Alucard. She has him.

The thought made me dig my fingers into my palm, my hands curling into fists as my angry gaze stood fixed on the mirror. Just then I heard a voice, but I was sure that I was the only one here.

“You aren't supposed to be here, Alea” The voice said and I turned, my face which had been cladded in terror scanning the whole place for signs of anyone, but there was no one.

No one.

The voice even knew my name, but I couldn't see anyone. Just echoes, ominous and sinister sounds of things I couldn't see moving. My heart had started to race faster, fear creeping inside of me.

“Who….are you?” I stuttered, even though I tried to sound tough.

“Look beside you, Alea. Your right side” The voice said, and slowly I turned to my right side like it had instructed. I was expecting to see a human, or maybe an extraordinary being, but there was nothing at all. Just relics everywhere.

The voice laughed, and I felt like I had been fooled. My gaze burned red, as I fisted my hands so hard.

“What prank are you playing now? Come out at the count of three else I burn this place down!” I threatened, hoping the only threat I had used back in the forest then would work on whoever this is.

“One”

“Two”

And then “Three”. No one came out, and then I summoned my powers to form a fire, but nothing came. I squinted my gaze, trying it over and over again, but it didn't work. Then I got terrified, realizing that I can't even use my powers here even if the person wants to harm me.

Then the voice laughed again, and I could swear, it took everything in me not to tear everything in here down. Not like I could, I couldn't.

I was powerless.

“This is the relics room. No matter what powers you have, it can't work here unless we approve of it” The voice said, and that got me widening my eyes in surprise.

“We?”

“Your right side Alea. What do you see?” The voice said again and my gaze darted to the right side once more. There were a lot of relics in there, but amongst all, one caught my eyes, the one that looks different, like it's currently in operation.

“That's me” The voice said, and I walked closer, stealthily and calculatingly.

“You talk?” I stood in front of the relics, asking like I would ask a human.

I stretched my hands forward and tried touching it when a voice stopped me, this time, not the voice of the relics, but that of a real human.

“DON'T!” A masculine voice yelled and I immediately turned, my heart beating so fast.

Raven and Sage stood before me, Raven’s eyes laced with terror.

“Don't touch anything in here. They could harm you” He said, his words lined with dark edges. A Warning.

“How did you end up here? Not many people can find the entrance” He said, looking at me suspiciously, like I must have been a spy sent to release these dangerous relics to the world.

“I somehow found my way here, how did you find me here?” I asked, knowing the doors surely closed behind me when I came in.

“The relics alerted me that someone was in here” he said and that made me glance at the relics again, amazed at the massive power they all hold.

“I don't think we have time to be roaming around here, Alea,” Sage said, like he was mad at me for trailing off and ending up in a place I wasn't supposed to.

A deep sigh escaped my lips. “I know we have a lot to do. And I have to go back to Alucard's fortress. A lot of people are still in there” I announced.

Dangerous. Yet I would be risking everything for it.