Chapter 3 Rusty Mirror

As I started moving towards the source, my head turned fuzzy. I seem to see parts of memory that don't belong to me...

A lady with long black hair like mine, with 2 women, and the other 3 men trying to fight some strange beasts that I have never seen. They are protecting each other's backs and growing stronger together...

The scene changed to the black-haired woman drinking wine and having a party with her friends...

Then again, a golden-haired woman appeared out of nowhere and accused the black-haired woman killed her friends, and she threw a mirror toward the woman...

These aren't my memory... I gotta wake up before this memory consumes me fully... I started to try my best to find an exit... and saw a black-haired woman smiling at me... the illusion broke and I saw that exact black-haired woman with ruby eyes like my dad and aunt looking at me mischievously.

"Hey, it's your memory why you are showing this to me?" I asked.

"You are me, I am you, and we are the same being now... My specialty is predicting the future what you are seeing now is your future... but it would depend on your choice, but what are you seeing is the most probable one... that is why everyone wants me but I only want you..."The mirror said in a hazy voice.

"But why you want me? What will you get from me? I know nothing is free in this world, well, in no world..."I asked the mirror cautiously.

"Well, kiddo, not bad, your soul is much more mature than your body... You must have experience in another world... yeah, nothing is free you gotta find my missing gem that was in the center of the handle of the mirror only then you can fully use my power and you will know the reason for your existence. Now, brat, you just have to cut a bit of your hand and put 6 drops of blood on the six shiny gems, you will know more later about everything slowly on your own..." the mirror said slyly.

Humph, I won't sign a contract with you. My intuition says you are dangerous, you know so much even before our contract, then you will know everything after our contact... It is kinda spooky..."I replied with an uninterested voice.

"Well, I am the best mirror here, you know once I was a queen... Oops, it's not your time to know yet... even if you don't choose me, other mirrors won't choose you too, you will die here... and if you die here, we have to wait thousands more years... brat it is not up to you anymore..."A flying mirror said decisively.

Then my surroundings become chaotic and a black hexagonal mirror starts to shine brightly. It flew towards me. I tried to dodge, but that damn mirror generated 6 anchors like needles from nowhere, and prick me in my hand...

It started to take away my blood greedily, and I winced in pain. It seems after thousands of years my pain is gone.

Within this moment I saw a baby's soul was sent to another world through some rune... the baby grows up slowly but surely not in a sunny environment... a pretty girl group bullied me for her mismatched eyes, slandering her of thrift, and so on... But the girl still was positive about life. Her only friend became book... also she feed stray cats and dogs whenever she got the opportunity, although her life was hard... she becomes a high school student... same pretty girl became campus belle also bullying doesn't stop... everyone said she is a jinx so she was avoided... only cats and dogs were not afraid of her, so without books, she got other friends... One day, while doing a daily reading session in the library, she found a book called "My Otherworldly lover" which was like a fairy tale...

The story was about a girl who died suddenly but transmigrated with a system to save the world of Archion. On the way to save the world, she made friends, had adventures also found love... yeah the novel heroine is the good girl, Flora, whose smile was like a fully blooming flower that could captivate anyone's mind.

But I don't know if it is a coincidence or not the final boss had the same name as me, Lyra Aurelia Da Vamp, Her heart got corrupted by darkness as she was jealous of Lily, who got everyone's attention without doing anything while she got shadowed. She made a deal with the devil king to get the man she loved, but that man died to protect her loved rival and she got sealed in a mirror...

The vision ends here and when I woke up, I saw I am in a big room decorated with black and red, also I am lying on a canopy bed... I tried to sit and while doing so, I saw I got a brand new tattoo on my right wrist that wasn't before. The tattoo is so pretty. It is like that hexagonal mirror in which 6multicolored gem is inlaid in six corners of the mirror. Also, it has a handle that is wrapped by the thorn of the rose vine. On the top of the rose vine there is a rose, and on top of that rose the mirror lays... when I touch it materializes instantly. It is a bit rusty black hexagonal mirror only 6 multi-color gems are shining dimly, and the handle is the same as a tattoo, but in the middle of the rose is empty, it seems there was something... it is such a pretty hand mirror, but pity it is not it's the best state now... I started to daydream about how pretty this mirror would be if it were in its best state... but then I heard a voice, when I look around there was no one except me. Still, when I look at the mirror, I become astonished... the mirror is talking, being sure I asked the mirror if it was the one making a sound...

"You! Lilbrat, you know nothing about great me... I can not only talk but also I can see the future. We are now connected through our souls, now you are me, I am you. To a Vampire, a mirror is forbidden except their life, mirror, you can only see your real reflection through me, other mirrors are nothing to vampires as they are cursed to be a being between living and dead... Vampires are called creatures of darkness, but they are the only ones that can fight the devil king head-on as others are affected by devil aurora... but if a vampire's heart is corrupted, they become more powerful devil spawn... So Lyra if you don't want to be like your dream, NEVER FALL IN LOVE."The mirror replied very seriously as our life depends on it.

"Ahem, I just woke up; I don't know much about me and the world around me except aunty Eco and my dad, So I am a vampire? Then the thing I drank earlier was blood? But why did no one tell me about this important thing? Why that dad of mine was gone after giving me a name? You know so much the greatest mirror in the world, then answer me..." I asked that grumpy mirror.

"Well, I am not that great I am just another part of your soul that has psychic power and your real body contains magic power... And the thing you drank was the holy blood of angel that's very rare... the father of your is very good to you... without the holy blood, you may turn into a mindless devil spawn as you are not of pure bloodline... Vampires are good at dark magic by birth but if they are pure breed, they may have more elements of magic power within them, but it is a pity for you!", The mirror replied. But it seems something is fishy here.

So from this grumpy mirror, I know I am not a pure vampire. Either my father or mother of mine is from another race. I guess my mother of mine is from another race. but where is she, why didn't come to see me when my aunt and dad came... there are so many questions that can be only answered when my dad or aunty will come... but I woke up for a long time why there is no one coming for me? Should I explore outside on my own, but before that I wanna see myself in the mirror...

"Hey, My dear great mirror, you said I can only see me only in you, but you are so tiny how I can see my full body with you. Why I am so unlucky aha... there were so many pretty mirrors there but you, the ugly mirror forced me to sign with you, humph."I said it with disdain.

The mirror started to shake nonstop, as if it was too angry... and flew to another side of the room...

So I had to leave my comfy bed, as I wanted to see the real me...

"Hey, I won't say you are ugly anymore. Please let me see my face, at least... my dad and my aunt are so pretty so I should be pretty too, right" I asked the grumpy mirror, hopefully.

Then the grumpy mirror flew to another corner of the room, so I had to play tag with it... but as I started running, my body felt so light like a feather, and I covered the whole big room within a second. But I started to feel tired after our nth play tag session, so I started to think something with my brain about how to keep in check this unruly mirror and an evil grin appeared on my face.

"Hey, my dear great mirror, you have a name asked the mirror gleefully.

"NOPE, I don't need a name, only my master can name me.", the mirror replied angrily.

"As you bound yourself to me and said you are part of me, I am your master, so I name you Bao, the great mirror, "I said in a cheerful voice.

As I said this, the mirror started to glow and I started to feel a burning pain in the tattoo on my wrist. After some time, the rusty mirror, I mean my Bao, turned into a pretty silver mirror, although the gems are still shining dimly. Also, I seem to know my mirror has a gem missing that should be at the core of the rose on the handle of the mirror. But how I felt like that, I don't know... Anyway, there is a lot of mystery to solve one more won't make any more difference... But the problem is, after the naming incident my mirror go back inside my tattoo without saying anything, and as much as I tried to rub my tattoo, to no avail, my Bao didn't come outside for once... But my wrist turned red -__- Also, I am hungry too...

But after calling a few more times, a dazzling hexagonal mirror manifested in front of me, and the mirror started to increase its size but still hovering in the air, it feels like a giant hand mirror. I am fully astonished by what I can see in the mirror...