What is happening?

"I will stay with you while you rest Christian, you look horrible still."

"You don't have to stay if you don't want to." Christian replies laying back down, almost instantly he falls back to sleep; Alex decides to check his phone finding that Chara had called.

He decides to step outside trying to call Chara back, the phone rings several times before picking up.

"Chara, are you okay?" Alex asks, he hears only the sounds of breathing on the other side of the phone, he starts to get chills.

"Chara is busy right now Alex...I need you to come alone if you want Chara to live."

"Dominique…what did you do to Chara?" He whispers trying to keep his voice low.

"Come home and find out Alex…" Dominique cackles hanging the call-up, He slides down against the door looking down at the floor thinking to himself, he decides to stay with Christian the rest of the night.

In the morning he quietly sneaks out of the house when he makes sure Alice couldn't follow him. He breathes out heavily looking around when he sees a man in a cape with a gold mask-like Christian described in the distance.

The costumed person silently calls him over, "You are Alex I assume?"

"Yes…"

"I am here to escort you back."

"Understood…"

Clarence stands far behind observing Alex walk off with some masked man, he watches them sprint up above into the trees, he walks back inside when he steps on a phone.

He picks the phone up with no password to get inside with a text inside, "Don't come please."

Looking down at the phone he places the phone in his pocket swinging back inside to meet Steel face to face looking down at her, "Did he think we are amateurs like him?" Steel argues.

"Is Christian still sleeping?"

"No of course not, I think he suspected from the start."

Steel turns to idly flip through her phone, "What are you doing Steel?"

"I am going to call that asshole!" Steel yells about to dial when Clarence places his hand on her phone, Christian stands outside his room acting alert.

"Oh no…Christian, you should rest more!" Clarence tries to run, but Clarence dashes past him.

Steel barely catches the hem of his clothing pulling him back.

"Christian, is that your name? You are newly-turned and already want to fight is it?"

He stoops down staring at the floor, "I can't stop thinking…, but I know these thoughts are not mine."

"Christian, I know your fate." Alice staggers out of the library. "If we don't do something…"

"I know…right now Master Alex needs us, Alice." Christian states sitting there with a blank expression, Alice feels helpless watching Christian's life transform like this, she recalls memories where he will barely function in the mind.

"You are right Christian, we need to work together," Alice says humbly.

"The problem with Alex is he never had anyone…" Steel states dismally. "Only Chara was there."

"He is going back for Chara then?" Alice asks. "He needs to learn to trust us…"

"You two come with me." Steel demands waving her hands back and forth forcing them up, Clarence trails behind smiling.

They accompany Steel down the hall that had been locked; she takes out the proper key for the room unlocking the double doors, they screech being opened.

It is a large white room filled with torture equipment in the back on the floor dried blood can be seen flaking off the old tiles as if someone had been dragged back there.

Alice and Christian dunk their heads going into the room; the ceiling is high inside despite the size of the door frame, Steel shuts it behind them, "Welcome to the old days."

"Old days?" Alice questions.

"My master was a cruel one before a kind one…as you can see." Steel explains showcasing various olden devices meant to kill, maim or disable you.

A very large iron maiden stained in blood sits in the corner attracting dust, tools for slaying flesh and apparatuses meant to puncture bones or worse could see seen strewn about.

Steel sets on the cucking stool, "My master and Elijah used to test new vampires on this device for longevity to see who would last, me and Alex had to do these as tests."

"You guys have it lucky; Alex will accept you for who you are." Clarence expresses happily.

"Clarence, did you have to do these tests?" Christians inquires politely testing the strength of small gadgets that he sees on the floor.

"I came short of twenty-seven years guys, no way."

"So you aren't that old a vampire then are you?" Alice says with a grin, he reddens.

"He is still a baby like you guys, but he is impressive…" Steel expresses with a tender smile looking into his eyes, Alice nudges her lightly.

They hear a click from outside the door; Christian flies at the door slamming into it, clanking noises could be heard audible in the other room below them. A shriek bellows out banging against the door denting it from inside. "Shush...it shouldn't be awake…"