Chapter 9 Part 1Vampire!
(Creepy Song)
Vampires... They drink human blood, have pale skin, and cannot stand the light... Some people believe that they can only walk around at night. But in Grimmhoth, there is one problem... namely... it is always... night!
(Teeth!)
(Splatter!)
(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!)
(Ffps!)
Grey: "Hey, I wanted to keep watching the movie."
Daisy: "Well... the movie is over..."
Grey: "Hahhhh... Are you still angry? You sound like my ex..."
Daisy: "I am your ex... idiot."
Grey: "But not the only one..."
Grey giggled annoyingly.
Daisy: "Ahhh... Great..."
Grey: "And how is the pretty detective lady doing?"
Daisy: "Fiona?"
Grey: "Exactly."
Daisy: "Don't even try... Unlike me, she wouldn't come up with the stupid idea of talking to you."
Grey: "I don't like her... She's creepy... She never smiles..."
Daisy: "Well... she doesn't have to... But I have to admit one thing... She is creepy, and the title Lady Mystery suits Fiona..."
Grey: "Hmm..."
Daisy: "Exactly as you described her, she really is sad... She never smiles."
Grey: "Do you think she is simply like that... or is it because of those infamous Dark Umbrella projects?"
Daisy: "Hmm... I heard things were terrible for children there."
Grey: "Who knows? Maybe it was even worse than we thought..."
(Fourteen Years Ago)
At the Dark Umbrella headquarters.
(Bzzzzzz!)
(Screams!)
Fiona: "Hahhh... hahhhh..."
Doctor: "Hmm... She reacts too strongly to pain..."
Doctor: "Not good... We need to limit it so that she can barely feel any pain..."
Fiona: "Hahhh..."
(Saber!)
Fiona: "Ghhh..."
(Bzzzz!)
Fiona: "Ghhh... Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
(A Few Days Later)
Doctor: "Hahahaha... Incredible... She did it... She can barely feel any pain now..."
Doctor: "Good..."
Fiona: "(But... I can feel it... I just... don't show it... otherwise... they will... keep doing it... Ghhhhh... This is the best way...)"
Beside her... lay the bodies of the other children...
Doctor: "Hahahahahaha... Finally... some new results..."
Doctor: "What should we do with the others... the ones who are dead?"
Doctor: "The children? Just throw them away... They are dead anyway..."
(A Few Days Later)
Doctor: "The project is working with Parzival, Noelle, and Fiona... However, Fiona is showing fewer and fewer emotions."
Doctor: "She doesn't even smile when she receives presents..."
Doctor: "No wonder... We tortured her more than the others... She probably thinks we are only doing it to test her..."
Doctor: "Hmm..."
The two faced doctor... one half of his face looked different from the other... That was why he was called Two Face... Doctor Stevens Hawgwort...
Doctor: "Hmm..."
(Dong!) (Dong!)
Fiona: "Hmm..."
At the Dark Umbrella Academy.
Student: "Look, that's the new girl..."
Student: "Oh... she's pretty..."
Student: "But she scares me..."
Female Student: "Hmm... Why is she staring like that? Does she have no emotions? Is she stupid?"
Female Student: "Disgusting..."
Student: "That's the girl who killed her parents..."
One of the students looked at her.
Fiona: "Hmm..."
She looked back at him...
Fiona: "Hmm?"
She looked forward again. She stood up, and he shoved her slightly, causing her book to fall.
Fiona: "Hmm... Do you have a problem?"
Student: "Oh... I'm sorry... I feel so terrible about it... Let me help you."
She wanted to pick it up when he touched the book and then stepped on it... right where her hand was, on the English textbook...
Fiona: "Hmm..."
Student: "Does that hu..."
She looked at him.
Fiona: "Hands... off..."
Student: "It's my foot."
Fiona: "Then get your foot off."
Student: "Or what...?"
She took her scissors and stabbed him in the leg.
Student: "Argh... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!"
Fiona: "Hmph..."
She picked up her book.
Fiona: "Tssss... Coward..."
He fell to the floor.
(A Few Days Later)
Headmistress: "You stabbed a student."
Fiona: "I did."
Headmistress: "At least you aren't denying that you hurt someone."
Fiona: "He stepped on my leg... It was necessary... Next time, I'll aim for the throat... That would damage the artery so badly that it couldn't heal... The body would then gasp for air, but it wouldn't be able to breathe with a hole in its throat... and then... the person would die..."
Headmistress: "Hahhh... Damn it... What on earth did they do to you there... at the headquarters...?"
Doctor Stevens Hawkings was eventually arrested for sexual abuse, torturing children, violent offenses, and several other unbelievably forbidden experiments. These included trying to remove people's emotions and make them kill without remorse. He also repeatedly attempted to discuss subjects that children should never be taught about... Of course, when all of this was discovered, he was convicted.
Meliodas, one of the leaders of Dark Umbrella, then took care of the children. He gave them a place at the academy and did his best to help them. But... eighty percent of the children died by suicide because of their pain and trauma, while another ten percent died from their wounds and illnesses. Only ten percent of the test subjects survived...
Fiona was lucky... She had only been tortured for three days before he was captured.
Stevens Hogwarts was executed exactly... four years ago.
Shortly before that, however, Fiona visited him, because she was also one of the few survivors of his experiments.
Fiona: "Hmm..."
Steven: "You've grown, Fiona..."
Fiona: "Hmm..."
Meliodas: "That's enough... You are not allowed to speak to her like that... Not after everything you did to her..."
Fiona: "Hmm..."
Steven: "I don't understand... What do you want from me? Isn't this what you wanted? Ever since you arrived, Meliodas... Dark Umbrella has changed..."
Meliodas: "You don't fight disasters by creating more disasters... I will not allow the children to continue suffering... You sick bastard..."
He gently stroked Fiona's head.
Fiona: "Hmm..."
Meliodas: "You don't have to do this, my little one... Hey... Fiona..."
Fiona began to tremble.
Meliodas: "Hey..."
He knelt down.
Meliodas: "What's wrong?"
Fiona: "Hahhh... hahhhh..."
(Memory)
(Bzzzz!)
(Hahahahahaha!)
Fiona: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhh... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!"
Meliodas: "Fiona!"
Fiona: "Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
It was a memory.
Fiona: "Hahhh... hahhh... hahhh... hahhh... hahhhh..."
She was sweating heavily.
Fiona: "Damn it..."
(Knock!) (Knock!)
Fiona: "Huh?"
She stood up and opened the door.
Fiona: "Ugh... Daisy?"
Daisy: "Fiona... it's important... Hurry."
Fiona: "Hmm?"
(A Few Minutes Later)
Fiona: "Huh?"
Everyone was in the room, including the Frankenstein siblings. Daisy looked at Fiona and nodded... Oliver, Grey, and Jane were there too...
(Patch!) (Patch!)
Elizabeth: "Hello... everyone... I think you've heard about it..."
Fiona: "About what?"
Oliver: "There has been a vampire attack nearby."
Fiona: "What...?"
Elizabeth: "It can only have been a vampire attack..."
Fiona: "But to become a vampire, you need vampire blood... So how could someone have been killed by a vampire if the vampires were sealed away?"
Elizabeth: "There is a problem, Fiona... Do you really think there were vampires only in Sora? It is true that you need vampire blood to become a vampire, but there is another way..."
Fiona: "Hmm?"
Elizabeth: "What if someone already had a vampire's blood... from long ago?"
Fiona: "What do you mean?"
Elizabeth: "Have you ever heard of Dracula's Dagger?"
Fiona: "Yes... I think so... I believe it was once brought to us at the academy... Dracula's Dagger... Dracula stabbed his own hand and collected his blood in five glasses... Ugh..."
Elizabeth: "Hmm."
Fiona: "Are you saying someone found one of those glasses?!"
She shouted loudly.
Fiona: "One of the glasses? It can't be that easy... You need magic for that, and nobody knows where they are..."
Elizabeth: "Rapunzel's Forbidden Library..."
Fiona: "Ugh..."
Elizabeth: "Surely you've heard of it."
Fiona: "You think they are behind this?"
Elizabeth: "It could also be someone else... The family Les mains des damnés might be able to give us some information..."
Fiona: "Who are Les mains des damnés?"
Oliver: "My lady... We may have our disagreements with them, but do you really think they would go that far?"
Elizabeth: "No... They wouldn't go so far as to bring vampires back... But I think you've misunderstood me. I meant that they might be connected to this. That doesn't mean they did it... Perhaps they know something. I know we have disagreements, but our families share one thing... Neither of us wants to drag innocent people into this..."
(Silence)
Elizabeth: "Hmm... You called for me... And, well... I invited one of them..."
The door opened... A woman stood there... She was tall, about 180 centimeters, with long blue hair and a long hat.
Elizabeth: "(Cough!)... Clemence..."
Clemence: "Hello... my dears..."
Fiona: "Hmm?"
Clemence: "My goodness... I'm sorry. I'm Clemence Lacroix... I'm a member of Les mains des damnés. Even though our name sounds brutal, we aren't actually evil..."
Fiona: "Then explain why you are called the Hands of the Damned."
Daisy: "Oh... You know that language?"
Fiona: "You mean the Frankish language? Yes, I do."
Clemence: "How very interesting... So you are the one Elizabeth was talking about... Fiona, right? You possess the Card of Mystery... Hmm... You are right, the name is brutal... But that's because we are necrologists. We work with the dead and gravekeepers..."
Fiona: "Hmm?"
Clemence: "We can hear the spirits..."
Fiona: "Huh?"
Clemence: "Hmm?"
Fiona: "Fine, then tell me why you are looking at me like that."
Clemence: "Hehehe... I'm looking at you like that because you are looking at me the same way... Your gaze suggests that you have no interest in people... So why do you want to help?"
Fiona: "It's my job... I'm a detective..."
Clemence: "Hehehe... But otherwise, you don't care."
Fiona: "Exactly..."
Daisy: "Hey?"
Grey: "Hmm?"
Fiona: "I am human... but I'm not really interested in people... I don't know how to deal with most people... I was taught to be this way..."
Clemence: "I see..."
She approached Fiona... Suddenly, she looked at her seriously, held her cheeks, and stared into her eyes with an intense gaze... Her pupils suddenly changed from green to purple...
Clemence: "Les Mains des Mortes, les Filles! (Hands of the Dead Girls!)"
Fiona: "Huh!"
Suddenly, Fiona had a terrible feeling... She heard laughter and turned around... A ghostly figure was suddenly standing in front of her... Pale skin, dark eyes, smiling and laughing. Then she held Fiona's face... and Fiona smiled at her...
Fiona: "Hmm..."
Clemence: "I see..."
The figure released Fiona.
Clemence: "You aren't afraid of ghosts..."
Fiona: "I talk to ghosts... This one seems to be a sad, lonely spirit, doesn't she?"
She gently stroked the ghost's hair.
Fiona: "...Ten years old... Murdered... A gunshot wound to the heart... Seeking revenge... Mourning her cruel end... She showed me all of that when she touched me... Ghosts don't hurt people they trust..."
Clemence: "...She wanted to kill you, yet you smiled at her... Interesting... She only attacks people who are afraid of her. You aren't afraid... What... What...?"
Fiona: "What's her name?"
Clemence: "Melari..."
Fiona: "Melari..."
She smiled at her.
Fiona: "I see... That's a beautiful name... Isn't it, Melari?"
Melari: "Mmmmm..."
Fiona: "Hmm?"
Melari: "Mmmm..."
Fiona: "Apparently, she wants me to hold her hand."
She did so.
Melari: "It hurts..."
Fiona: "Huh?"
Melari: "It hurts..."
Fiona: "Ugh!"
(Memory)
(Bang!)
(Splatter!)
Melari: "Mama... It... hurts..."
(End of Memory)
Fiona: "Huh...!"
Melari: "Mmmm..."
Fiona: "Hmm..."
She stroked her head again.
Fiona: "Poor girl..."
Clemence: "Hehe... Did she show you what happened to her? She shows it to people who aren't afraid of her..."
Fiona: "She probably died in a war... It must have been a long time ago... It's been a hundred years since the last war in Grimmhoth..."
Daisy: "I can see her too..."
The ghost looked at her. But Daisy wasn't afraid either. She smiled at the ghost and greeted her.
Clemence: "Hehe... She's been here before."
Jane: "Long time no see, Melari."
She stroked the ghost's head.
Oliver: "Good girl... Good girl..."
Daisy: "Uh... Did I miss something?"
Fiona: "Wait, so you haven't been here for very long?"
Elizabeth: "Well... She's been here for three months..."
Fiona: "I see..."
Clemence: "You can see her when I summon her... Otherwise, she is always inside my box..."
She pointed at the box.
Fiona: "What is that?"
Clemence: "A necrology box, also called a Spirit Box... We make contracts with spirits inside it and bring them here..."
Fiona: "Wait... Is Melari strong?"
Clemence: "Didn't you feel it?"
Fiona: "No."
Clemence: "Oh dear... Oh dear... It seems you don't know quite as much about ghosts as you think... At least not about contracted spirits... Dead spirits that enter into contracts become powerful."
Fiona: "I see... Oh... I didn't know that..."
Clemence: "You're only human... Sometimes people forget things or don't know everything... You're still young and naive."
Fiona: "Aha... I'm definitely naive... for coming here..."
Clemence: "Hmm."
Fiona: "I still don't trust you... Your eyes are the eyes of a... murderer..."
Clemence: "Hmm?"
Fiona: "I touched your hand... That's when I realized you seem to be carrying something powerful... something heavy... And those wounds..."
Clemence: "Hehehe... You think I've killed people?"
Fiona: "I've done it myself... I'm not saying I'm any better..."
Clemence: "Hmm... Hehehe... You're funny..."
Fiona: "And you're a deceiver..."
Elizabeth: "Oh dear... I never thought Fiona sometimes looked at people like that..."
Fiona: "But as long as you don't get in my way or the way of my friends... I don't care..."
Clemence: "And what if I bother you or your friends?"
Fiona: "I'll kill you..."
Clemence: "(Grins.)... Interesting..."
Fiona: "Hmph..."