[o4] *~Moonlight Dreams (A vampire love story)~*

I immediately let go of Adrien and carefully but also quickly pull him out of my lap.

My dad had gotten hit and was now locked up against one of the walls of the hall and that man is pointing a gun at him.

I run up to them and put myself between my dad and that dude.

"Don't!!" I yell out and open my arms.

"Amanda... Get yourself out of here..." My dad softly orders. 'How could he be so calm in this situation?!'

"No! I know this isn't the time, but I need to know what's going on!" I demand, fully turning to my dad. He looks down and I hear the other man chuckling an evil laugh.

I turn around and point at him. "Low your gun and back off!! Who are you anyways!!?" I yell out. I guess I yelled a little too loud, because I saw Matt and Jay looking up to see what was going on.

"Aw, little Amanda, don't you remember Uncle Cyrus?" The man says, smirking evilly.

"What? Uncle?! A guy like you can't be on my family!" I say, glaring at him.

"Amanda..." My dad says but I ignore him.

"Go away! You've done enough damage over here!" I demand. I honestly would like to know where all of this courage came from... This guy looked like a skyscraper and yet I was facing him, risking myself to have a bullet going through my head.

"Didn't you hear it!? Leave!" I order, this time louder. The man I supposed that was named of Cyrus laughs just as loud as I yelled at him.

He puts his gun back into his pocket. "Just because you asked, Princess." He states, and on a blink of an eye, he's gone. I sigh of relief.

When I turn around to face my dad, I'm immediately caught up in a tight hug.

"Amanda, you know what you did was childish and stupid? You could've gotten yourself seriously hurt!" My dad says while embracing me. I rest my head on his chest. "Yes, but I'm tired of being left out of stuff... I wanna know what's going on, I think I have the right to know it, right?" I say, and pull away looking at my dad.

"Yes, but... Not now..." My dad says looking to the floor. "Now would be a perfect time, Mark..." King George's voice echoes through my ear. I look behind me and see King George leaning against a wall trying to avoid collapsing to the floor.

"Yeah dad, I'm sick of waiting!" I state and leave my dad and go help King George. I try to pull him down to make him sit on the ground, and damn... He's heavy... >_< But ah ha! I can do it! I just push his shoulders down and he's falls to the floor, sitting in the Buda position.

My dad grabs Mike and Josh and drags them across the floor (they were unconscious), stopping in his tracks when he's close to us.

Matt, Adrien and Jay crawl close to them and Matt shakes Josh, trying to wake him.

Jay crawls behind me and leans against my backs. "...Are you okay?" I hesitantly ask him, knowing the response.

I feel Jay nodding. "Yeah, I'm fine, thanks..." He replies with his voice cracking a little probably because of lack of strength.

"I don't like lies, buddy." I say and carefully turn around, letting him fall to my lap.

Adrien manages to wake Josh but Mike is still passed out.

I look over to my dad and frown. "What are you waiting for? They don't need to hear it; I just want to know the truth!" I say, scowling a little.

My dad nods and closes his eyes.

"That man; that man is Cyrus. He's my brother so that makes him your uncle." My dad starts. "Thanks a lot dad, tell me something I didn't knew..." I mumble and look to the side.

My dad frowns and sends a small glare at me. "Don't talk to me like that, young-lady! No matter how I look I'm still your father and I demand respect!" My dad states. I sigh and shrug. "Whatever, just keep going..." I reply. "Well, Cyrus and I used to be best friends. Everyone said we looked like the perfect brothers and also the perfect kids when together. When your mum and I met, Cyrus was against the fact of me dating a human woman and in that time, it was forbidden to a vampire date a human, but I didn't care. I actually loved to break the rules..." My dad says, letting out a soft chuckle after pronouncing the last part. I giggle. 'Guess I got that from you...'

"I heard that, young-lady." My dad states, looking at me sideways. I giggle. "Yeah, yeah, just keep talking."

"Say, when your mum and I got into a serious relationship, your uncle- I mean Cyrus started doing everything to break us apart. He went since shape shifting into me to make us break to organizing ambushes to your mum so she could stop seeing me." My dad states looking at the floor. I look sadly at him and he coughs. "In that time your mother had no idea of what we were because of George's help." My dad says. 'George? Who's- Oh, King George, of course, dah...'

"When Cyrus pretended to be me he said I was drunk and when those ambushes were settled to her he said that thieves liked defenseless people; and she always believed him, maybe because she was so naïve..." Dad says. I smile.

"After a year of dating your mum I proposed to her and a couple of months later we got married. Since that day, Cyrus and I cut relationships and I didn't saw him or talked to him since that day." My dad states looking at the floor.

I tilt my head to the side. "Well, if you two stopped talking to each other, how did mum find out about what you are?" I ask, curious to know his answer.

"She saw me. And Cyrus showed up, saying I went on and killed people, which was a lie. He was blaming me for something he was the culprit of!" My dad exclaims ands I shiver because of his voice tone.

"When we became Kings, George ruled the Underworld and arrested Cyrus. He locked him a special place... It's a paradise for someone who sees it but a living hell for someone who's in there." My dad says. King George laughs slightly but coughs right after the little laugh. "Let me explain it like this... Imagine a garden full of trees with fruits growing in it, pretty flowers, animals, a cascade, cereals plantation and stuff like this. Cyrus is trapped on a true paradise, right? But, that's how we see it. The way Cyrus sees it is way different. When he wants to go grab a fruit from a tree, he simply can't because in the moment he tries to reach the fruit the trees grow bigger. When he tries to go grab some of the cereals, the distance between him and the plantation grows larger and he's running through a never-ending place.

If he wants to drink water, he can't because the water becomes solid. It's like torture and being trapped in there leads you to madness and there's no way out. It's a trip with no return." Adrien's father explains. I shiver. "That's awful..." I say, and sigh.

"Yes, and after the day he got locked in there, we created a rule: Vampires wouldn't come out to my world as long Humans wouldn't go in his world." My father states. "But someone broke that rule. And somehow, Cyrus escaped the day he came here 12 years ago." He says right after his last statement.

I blink. "So, he was the one who..." I start and look down sadly. My dad nods.

"Ho-How could he?! She was a part of his family, whether he wanted to or not! She never did anything to him that could harm him and yet, he had no mercy on finishing her off!" I yell out with tears on my eyes.

My dad nods. "Yes sweetie, I totally agree with you, bu-"

"She took your father away from him." King George states. I look at him. "It was his fault! Not my mother's!" I point out. "Yes, and you're telling me that why? Do you think I don't know it? Do you think that yelling that Holly didn't deserve to die is gonna bring her back?!" King George starts raising his voice.

"No, I don't expect that to happen, but I do hope that we make justice!" I yell in reply to his statement. "And how do you expect me to do that? Or, how are you thinking on doing that? You're no match to him and if he finds you he'll probably kill you just like he did to your mum, only because he enjoys seeing your dad suffering!" King George says. I groan. "Well I wanna put an end to all that suffering! Or do you think he's the only one who got affected? I'm suffering too! She was my mum and she didn't even have the chance to watch me grow up!" I reply.

"It's enough!!" Adrien blurts out. "I'm sick of watching people die in front of me because of that psycho! He took my mum away from me, he will NOT take my dad away from me too!" I yell out, crying.

"Amanda..."Jay says and touches my cheek. One of my tears falls down and lands on his cheek.

"Sweetie..." My dad says and slowly approaches me. Before he could even get close to me I stand up and unintentionally make Jay bang his head against the floor.

"No, I don't care about how sorry you are, or how you're touched by what I said. I just want you to leave me alone!" I yell out, and run towards my room, dodging some bodies in the way.

When I open the door to my room, I hear a squeak and someone hides under the bed. I carefully close the door.

"It's okay, Maria... It's only me." I say and Maria's head pops out from under the bed and Esme sprints towards me, jumping to my arms.

"Hey, kitty how's you?" I ask and start petting his head. Maria emerges from under the bed and sits in the bed.

"Amanda, are you alright?" She asks me with a concerned look on her face. "Yeah, I'm fine, thanks for asking." I reply.

I had some scratches on my face and my face and my eyes were shiny because of the tears.

"Something happened. Something more than the appearance of that guy with the monsters." Maria states smiling softly.

I hated that in her! She was able to read me like an open book.