The End Of The Night

Vajdahunyad Castle Gardens
Aria's world
11:40 PM

The way to the cabin was as long as the first trip, it was almost midnight in this world, according to the crazy clock, the truth is that I think I have more than 12 hours here and at least 26 hours of being awake. I was completely tired, both physically and mentally. Normally in the army, it was not uncommon to be awake for up to five days in a row when things were bad, but even so, I still had access to coffee at least. But I didn't find anything here. I imagine Tamamo and Maria will be tired too.

When we arrived at the cabin, our mother Adelis was waiting for us with several typical dishes of our family, they were served in the dough under the light of several chandeliers. My mother was glad to see us and invited us to the table. When we all sat down Tamamo explained to her what was really happening, she initially took things calmly as if she knew it from the beginning, but the more she thought about it the more she realized what was happening. Then I remembered that she was lying in her house and there was no way we could have reached this castle so fast. Then when we confirmed that she was already really aware of what was happening around her, she asked about her next interest, the dolls. They at all times stayed behind me and did not speak in the slightest. While I was trying to find the easiest way to explain it, Tama decided better to explode the bomb. She told directly that they were our daughters without giving the slightest explanation, my mother now used to the behavior of her daughter-in-law turned to see me waiting for the details of the matter. I explained to him once again why we had ended up in this world, the rescue, and how it was very likely that the ones behind this were the Balkan Empire. When she finished speaking she smiled and started looking at the girls. Realizing that another time she was facing something very different from humans and she simply resigned herself to accept it. She approached them, asked their names, and then she introduced herself, told them that Adelis was her grandmother and that she was happy to meet them, she asked them if they were able to eat and when they stated that if she brought two more chairs to the table and began to distribute the food for two more people.

The following is her list was to take the large metal spoon that she had to serve the food and hit my father with it until it was deformed. In my opinion, it is well deserved. He complained about what he had been doing when he was on the private island of Avesta 7 and began to interrogate him in an exhaustive way to try to find material to accuse him. It was certainly like watching an intelligence agent drawing conclusions from the way my father answered the questions. But seeing that that would take a long time and that the food would get cold, I decide to leave it for this now.

"I already told you I'm fine!"
"Tama has been treating the wound for quite some time."
"Also right now it doesn't even hurt"
"I assure you that I can eat without problems"

"But what are you saying!"
"Just look at the wound you have in your abdomen, if you eat something normal like rice it may be difficult for your body right now"
"Maybe I could even cause another hemorrhage"
"Take this, you better eat this ice cream" My mother was trying to take away my plate of food that I had waited so long for tonight.

"I've eaten a lot more been hurt a lot worse in the past"
"I know what I am capable of eating with the wound that I have"
"Give me my food back!"

"Let him eat"
"I don't think we will have many more opportunities to have a family party like this in the future."
"What if we better take advantage and have a good time with the family?"
"After all we have two new members today"
"We should welcome Charlotte and Kazumi"
"Cheers!"

"Wait a minute since when do you like alcohol dad?"
"I remember how you hated being invited to drink when you visited me in the hospital"
"Is it another of your new hobbies?"

"Who? Your father?"
"He always liked to drink, I even remember that at the wedding party we drank so much that we do not remember what happened for 3 days"
"Then at nine months later, Cesar was born by surprise"

"MOM!"
"We don't need to know that!"

"But it is the truth"
"After that many things changed when you were born"
"Your father had to sell his precious motorcycle in order to buy a car"
"It was my turn to learn to cook, and that's how I discovered my passion for cooking"

"Well, when you were sick you were still very young I'm sure you wouldn't have liked to see me drinking when I visited you"
"Also during that time, I couldn't drink much for work either"
"But that's now a thing of the past"
"Look at yourself now a pretty developed and healthy girl"
"If 10 years ago they had told me how healthy you are now, I would not believe it"
"Hey, now that I think about it, your Cesar is also now a healthy and grown girl in the right places now that I think about it, the problem is your height on the other hand "

"Tamamo the Dutch cheese is waxed to protect the outside, so you have to remove the red layer first before eating it!"

"All right"
"That explains why it tasted so strange"

We had a good time as a family, eating and talking about everything a little, from how our experiences were at school, at work and how my mother created the coffee shop, the mythical New Year's Eve party that Dad made, the tragedy that Tamamo lived on earth, telling once again how I ended up as a girl and how, thanks to my Maria, I overcame her illness. The twins did not talk much but they were paying attention the whole time, they were quite entertained with our stories, in addition to that they were eating everything they had on the plate with enthusiasm. It seemed a lie that only a couple of hours ago they were locked in that horrible place living those horrible experiments.

There was still much that I did not know about them, not what they were capable of doing and to what extent, but if I want to raise them we will have to find out together, listen to their past and find a way to overcome the problems that may arise over time. Will they be able to see themselves as human or will they continue to behave like computers? that is something that only she will have to decide. But one thing is certain now, that with this little party they are officially part of our family.

When we finished eating, It was already midnight, Mom and Dad wanted to have the rest of the time they were alone, so they left the cabin and sat on a bench in the garden to talk. They had their backs turned but we could see how mom was smiling when she returned to see dad talk about something, then she supported her head on her shoulder and he responded by putting her arm behind the bench to hug her.

We on the other hand turned the cabin upside down looking for the damn book everywhere. Well, there were so many decorations in the place that there were many sites to review, plus there were several shelves full of other books in Hungarian. After reviewing the place for the fourth time we managed to find it. Then we tried to decide how to destroy it because Maria thought that we could inadvertently activate other spells without wanting to, but Tamamo told her that she would take care of this in a delicate and calculated way. So she threw a fireball without even warning us towards the book. The book began to burn slightly slowly in a purple-colored flame, very different from the natural color of the fire, or the azure flame Tamamo originally launched.

Tamamo and Maria sat to watch the book burn slowly in a metal bucket, the twins were standing close to them. On my side, I looked out the window towards the garden while the book burned and I could see how my parents were still hugging each other. After that, I started to get sleepy, so I went to the sofa to settle down. But while I was doing it I could hear a voice that said: "At last I found it!". From what I looked through the other window that looked into the forest and managed to see a silhouette among the trees, it was a girl of a similar height to Maria's, but she had more characteristic features than that because you could notice how it clearly had wings and horns on its head. But what undoubtedly most caught my attention was a long reptilian tail with a rather characteristic tip that was a weapon, I could recognize it wherever they were, but when he opened the window to say her name I fell unconscious from sleep.

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Family Home, Sumida City, Tokyo
February 15
2:15 AM

I immediately opened my eyes right after and looked around me trying to discover where I was now. But despite the darkness that there was I could see that it was clearly the living room of our house. But I would not have time to rejoice because I quickly noticed something that deserved much more attention. I was lying on the sofa and watched as 4 armed men in full combat gear were entering through the front door of the house. With no time to think about it much, I summoned Avalon and held him like a shield, and charged towards them with all my force. When I hit them, I knocked two down on the ground and the others lost their balance a bit. Despite the sudden pain in his abdomen, he ran, removed the pistol from the belt that one of the soldiers had, and shot him in the head immediately. Then I got back behind Avalon and listened as the other three began to shoot me with their rifles, I charged again with my giant sword, but this time I only knocked one down, who taking advantage of the occasion I shot while trying to get up. There are only two left, from what you see, trying to surprise them with a different tactic, I grabbed the giant sword with my two hands and threw it at one of the bastards, and emptied the entire magazine of the pistol to the other. his feet where he had no shielding and then as he wriggled in pain the rest hit him on the upper chest and head. The last of the gunmen were still trying to get rid of Avalon but he could not move him in the slightest, I picked up his rifle and tried to shoot, but he had no bullets left, so he used it as a bat and started to hit him in the head until it stops moving.

What the hell just happened, it had been only a couple of seconds since I woke up from that nightmare and now I was in the middle of the street with four dead people at my feet, with my abdomen bandaged and without a shirt. The neighbors' houses began to turn on the lights when they heard what had happened outside and I understood how bad it was that they saw me, I disappeared again to Avalon and ran inside the house. I was still running when I started hearing the police sirens. But how the hell did they get here so fast! Were they chasing those guys from before?

Knowing the enormous mess that I just got into so suddenly and without any way of solving it on my own, I ran to do what anyone would do, go ask my mother for help to get out of the problem.