Reflection of a Vampire  #20

 

ROSALIE who saw all what Queen Riza did, had thought to herself about the naughtiness of Queen Riza. If they’re really sisters in Rosalie’s previous life, Rosalie could just imagined how their childhood were.

 

“You are so naughty.” Rosalie said to Queen Riza without noticing that Tony a colleague detective of Daniel was standing at the door of her room. Tony and the other detective was doing surveillance on the house of Rosalie and when they saw three people entered the house, they called back-up from the police.

 

Rosalie was startled when Tony looked at her and asked, “Are you talking to me?”

 

“No,” Rosalie answered.

 

“What happened to them? Why they rushed out your room?” Tony asked Rosalie.

 

“I don’t know. Why not ask them?” Rosalie replied.

 

Tony did not answered and he was to leave the room of Rosalie when he saw Daniel standing in front of him and looking to him sharply.

 

“I have to do it. Three people entered this house but is nowhere to be found. Strange!” Tony said to Daniel.

 

“With this warrant?” Daniel let see the paper of the search warrant to Tony. Daniel know that the search warrant was fake.

 

“I am sorry,” and Tony went away from Daniel. He avoided confrontation.

 

“Is everything okay?” Daniel asked Rosalie.

 

“Everything is okay, don’t you worry. I am just preparing my things for tomorrow. I must stay in the hospital for test and phlebotomy.

 

“I will drive you tomorrow to the hospital.” Daniel said.

 

Rosalie smiled.

 

When everyone was gone, Daniel too, Queen Riza said to Rosalie.

“I like Daniel. I am happy for you to have him.”

 

“First I saw him only as a police neighbor, now I discovered him to be a nice man, I like him also.” Rosalie said.

 

“Eliazora, I hope you know that I love you, you are my big sister.” Queen Riza said to Rosalie.

 

“How many times you said I am Eliazora and I am your sister. As I always answered you, I am not Eliazora.” Rosalie again denied to Queen Riza that she was Eliazora.

 

“I know, you are now Rosalie. But before you are really Eliazora. We are really, sisters, that’s why I must help you.” Queen Riza said.

 

“Help me?” Rosalie could not understand what Queen Riza meant.

 

Queen Riza came near to Rosalie and whispered something to Rosalie’s ear. Rosalie looked at Queen Riza and asked.

 

“Why”

 

“You will know.” Queen Riza answered.

 

THAT night when Rosalie fall asleep, she dreamed. Her dream was that she was wandering at the other side, in her dream she knew was the world of souls that lost their human lives.  

 

She always had this kind of dream. For Rosalie it was always a pleasant dream. She can talk to her mother that was long gone, when she was just a child.

 

Wandering in this world of the souls gave no fear, eerie or macabre feeling to her. It was just so relaxing.

 

This time in her dream, it was Queen Riza she was seeing and approached her.

 

“Eliazora.” Queen Riza looked sad, and Rosalie wondered why?

 

“Don’t tell me you died?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza.

 

“Of course not, I am half-immortal you know that, and so are you, if you are not  murdered by that husband of yours a long time ago. You lost that immortality you had, but I found it good you’d lost it. I liked what you are now. You die then again reborn. Reborn again and again, experiencing human life on different time.”

 

Rosalie just let Queen Riza talked.

“You are here as a soul. You has the ability to separate your soul from your body without dying. Your body was just sleeping and when you wake-up, you think you had just dreamed.”

 

“I think you are trying to tell me something.” Rosalie said to Queen Riza.

 

“Eliazora, I am so worried about you.” Queen Riza said.

 

“Why are you worried about me?” Rosalie asked.

 

“Prince Suryabhan must be stopped from what he’s doing. If not, you will be destroyed.” Queen Riza said to Rosalie that Prince Suryabhan must be destroyed.

 

“And who will destroy him if even you cannot do it?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza.

 

“You, Eliazora, you can stop him.” Queen Riza said to Rosalie that she could stop Prince Suryabhan from what he’s doing.

 

“How?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza how she could stop Prince Suryabhan.

 

“Destroy the mirror! If you destroy the mirror there’s no more way for Prince Suryabhan to come out from where he is.” Queen Riza told Rosalie to destroy the mirror.

 

“How about you? It means you will also be gone!” Rosalie seemed don’t want to loss Queen Riza.

 

“Don’t worry about that. This world would be our meeting place. We always be seeing each other.”

 

Rosalie wake-up through her biorhythm. She must be in the hospital at ten o’clock and it was just too early, so she just stayed lying on her bed.

 

Her dream was so real. Queen Riza wanted that Prince Suryabhan must be stopped from his doings if not it will destroy her.

 

Queen Riza had it about destroying the mirror because the mirror was the doorway for Prince Suryabhan. If there’s no mirror then there’s also no doorway.

 

Daniel as he promised Rosalie, brought her to the hospital. Rosalie must stay in the hospital overnight.

 

After bringing Rosalie to the hospital, Daniel returned to his work. Their team have to talk about the raid that was done in the house of Rosalie. About using a fake search warrant.

“Do you know that what had you done was wrong and very illegal?” Armand the team leader scolded Tony and his partner.

 

“I am sorry, Boss, it will never happen again.” Tony apologized and said that it will never happen again.

 

 “What will happen then if Rosalie complain?” Armand continued.

 

“Daniel maybe could do some talking to her.” Tony suggested that Daniel will talk to Rosalie.

 

“You wanted me to ditch your mistake?” Daniel was still disappointed of Tony.

 

“She is your girlfriend, why not?” Tony had a grin in his face that made Daniel angry and he looked Tony sharply.

 

“Stop squabbling to each other. Tony, apologized to Rosalie and I hope she will forgive you, if not, you both will have a problem.” Armand said to Tony and his partner.

 

“Within a month, more than fifteen young women were reported missing. We have to work double.”

 

ROSALIE that night in the hospital dreamed again the World of the Souls. She met their Queen Riza.

 

“Eliazora, you must destroy the mirror and fast or something terrible will happen to you.”  Queen Riza was warning Rosalie.

 

“What do you mean that something terrible will happen to me? What will happen to me?” Rosalie asked Queen Riza.

 

“Please ask no questions, just do what I told you to do. Destroy the mirror and quick!” Queen Riza answered Rosalie.

 

That night in the hospital, Rosalie did not sleep well. She could not understand why Queen Riza was so worried and that wanted her to destroy the mirror and quick.

 

Daniel used his lunch break to take Rosalie from the hospital and bring her home.

 

“How was your treatment in the hospital?” Daniel asked Rosalie who was just silent and almost don’t talk.

 

“They tapped blood from me, about half a liter, then examined again everything from me. They also fully examined my liver.” Rosalie answered Daniel.

 

“This Phlebotomy thing, how long they will do it to you?”

 

“They doctor said it must be done five times, so four times more to go. Once a week, it’s not necessary to stay in  the hospital, only on the last time, they will thoroughly examined me again.” Rosalie answered Daniel.

 

“Five hundred millimeter each time and for five times that’s two and a half liters of blood. You will have no blood anymore.” Roger, the partner of Daniel who was with them in the car, could not resist to comment about the Phlebotomy therapy of Rosalie.

 

“I think the doctors knew what they were doing.” Daniel was the one who answered Roger.

 

“Today is Wednesday, isn’t it?” Rosalie asked.

 

“Yes,” Daniel answered.

 

“Maybe, you and Roger could help me.” Rosalie was asking for the help of Daniel and Roger. “At around three o’clock the garbage truck comes along, I want to throw something heavy.” 

 

“Could we do it for even, Roger?” Daniel asked Roger.

 

“No problem.” Roger answered.

 

When Daniel stopped his car in front of Rosalie’s house, they saw the garbage truck approaching.

 

“They are early today.” Rosalie said.

 

“I will try to ask them if they could wait,” Daniel said and went to the garbage truck to ask if they could wait a little. They agreed.

 

Quickly Rosalie opened the front door of her huis and told Daniel and Roger that the thing she wanted to throw away was in her bedroom.

 

“This mirror? Why?” Daniel was surprised why Rosalie wanted to throw away the mirror.

 

“Because I thought I got my sickness from that mirror.” Rosalie gave a reason that puzzled the two men but they don’t argued her.

 

Daniel and Roger take the mirror from the wall and carried it out to the house to be thrown away.

 

“What a heavy mirror is this.” Roger said.

 

“Looks very old.” Daniel also said.

 

“I don’t like old things.” Roger said. He did not saw a lose tiles on the road and he fall down, lucky for him and for Daniel too, they were not wounded when the mirror also fall on the ground and broke into 4 pieces,

 

Roger when it happened heard something unusual, a sound of people screaming.

 

“Did you heard it?” Roger asked Daniel, at the same time picking the piece of broken mirror and gave it to the garbage man.

 

“Heard what?” Daniel answered Roger with a question.

 

“Screaming people,” Roger said.

 

“I heard nothing.”

 

The pieces of the broken mirror were all in the garbage truck, and when the grinding machine of the truck raked in the mirror with other garbage, Daniel, Roger and the garbage man looked at each other. It was clear that they heard people screaming, screams of pains, and they don’t know where it came from because there’s no people around.

 

“Did you both hear also what I heard?” the garbage man asked Daniel and Roger.

“Screaming of people!” Roger said.

“But there’s no people here.” Daniel said.

 

“Ah, maybe it was just the wind and also the cracking of the glasses,” the garbage man said.

 

As the garbage truck went away, Daniel and Roger returned inside the house of Rosalie. Rosalie had already two glasses of lemonade and sandwiches for them. 

 

“The mirror was gone.” Daniel said to Rosalie.

 

“Thank you to both of you.” Rosalie thanked the two detectives.

 

“Why did you dispose that mirror? It looks antique.” Daniel asked.

 

“I don’t know, but that mirror smells moth and I think this skin disorders, I now have came from that mirror, that’s why I decided to throw it away.”

 

“Maybe you are right. Me, I do not like antique, you don’t know what history antique things had.” Roger was voicing his disliked of old things.

 

“Let us forget the mirror, I am glad it was already gone.” Rosalie did not want anymore to talk about the mirror, but in her mind, she asked herself, if everything will become okay now that the mirror was gone. *to be continued* Remy Dorio