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Chapter 11
The next day Rena walked into the kitchen and saw Chiyuu and Tomochin sitting at the table eating together. They were happy as usual and when Rena came in they giggled and quickly ran away. Rena thought they were just being childish and continued to look for something to eat seeing how she was hungry. She grabbed an apple and then got ready to go up and wake up Jurina. However suddenly Yuki came out of nowhere and told her that she couldn't go to see Jurina. Seeing how it was strange, Rena had no choice but to comply and go with it. Instead, Rena went with Atsuko down to the infirmary where she claimed she needed help. Rena went down and in the room Rena saw a huge pile of papers. Atsuko said that she needed Rena to reorganize all the files in order because they were knocked over earlier. Rena sighed but was happy to help so she began to file the papers.
After two hours Rena had finally finished the papers and put them neatly in a nice little stack. After that Rena thought it was ok to go see how Jurina was doing so she got up and started to head to Jurina's room. However Mayu suddenly came out of nowhere and said she needed help cleaning up the mess from her last experiment. Before Rena could say anything she was pushed down to the dungeon and into a room full of blood and guts. Mayu handed her a mask and a bucket and told her to start cleaning. Rena took the broom and started to scrub off the wall guts and blood. It was very gross and smelly as well. Not even the mask could help her seeing how the stench was so horrid. That was another two hours before she finally finished.
Rena left before Mayu could say anything and she was determined to get to Jurina no matter what. However suddenly Tomochin and Chiyuu came out and directed her towards their room where they had her model for their new clothing. They had her try on all kinds of outfits and accessories that she really didn't care about. It seemed endless with all the clothes they were making her try on. Some of them she liked and some of them she thought were really stupid. She also thought some were very revealing and quite embarrassing. Rena thought she was going to die of embarrassment but then finally Tomochin and Chiyuu had run out of clothes. Rena quickly stripped and ran out of the room before they could grab her.
She thought she was free but then Yuki needed something from her and after that Mayu needed her. After Mayu Atsuko needed her and then Tomochin and Chiyuu needed her. Rena was racing all around the palace to get to them and help them. Some of the needs were very serious and some were extremely stupid. No matter what though Rena kept moving and helping others as she was told. However she wondered why everyone needed her so suddenly all at once. When she finished her last thing for Mayu she ran up to her room and plopped onto her bed. She was dead tired and didn't want to move anymore then she had to. All she wanted to do was sleep and that was exactly what she did a couple seconds later.
"Rena-chan~ Rena-chan smile~"
Rena opened her eyes and saw her grandmother standing in front of her holding a camera. She felt herself being picked up and felt a woman holding her. She felt the woman kiss her on the forehead while the man stroked her short hair. They all faced her grandmother and then there was a bright flash. Rena wasn't sure what was going on but when she looked over she saw the man and woman and at first didn't know who they were. Then after looking at the woman, she realized that the woman was her mother and the man was her father. The people holding her were her parents and this was the picture that she had when she left home. Rena was so happy to see them and wanted to say something to them desperately. Sadly there was no voice that would come out so she only cried sad she couldn't tell her parents how much she missed them.
"Mah mah don't cry Rena-chan." the father said.
"Look look here comes mama~" the mother said.
The mother picked Rena up and held her close comforting her crying child. The father walked beside the mother and said,
"She's beautiful.."
"And she's ours."
"I love you so much honey.."
"I love you too."
Rena could only watch as the two relished in their own love. Meanwhile Rena looked over at her grandmother who was smiling happily and watching them. She looked a lot younger back then and Rena couldn't believe how different she looked. Her hair wasn't even that gray yet where there was still some black in it. Rena's thought that her parents must have been very young when they had her. Suddenly the scene changed and Rena found herself in the kitchen. She was sitting on the floor holding a doll and she heard shouting coming from her mother.
"Mom we need to leave this place! They found us and they're going to kill us!" she said.
"We're fine dear they haven't found us. There's no way they could have." the father said.
"No they found us. I saw one and I think he followed me here."
"Will you relax! We're safe up here as long as we don't go outside."
"You should listen to my daughter! I saw them as well." the grandmother said.
"You're both over reacting. Everything is fine we're going to be safe and-"
CRASH
Everything went black and the next thing she knew, her mother and father were on the ground dead. Her mother's blue blood was splattered across the wall while her father's red blood was forming a pool around him. When Rena saw the blood she knew who she got the red blood from but now the question was why were they dead? She could say anything all she could do was cry. She cried and cried and then suddenly she felt something grab her and pull her in. She looked over and saw her grandmother with tears in her eyes and a scratch on her face. She held Rena close to her and said,
"Don't cry little one. I'll take care of you and make sure no one ever hurts you.."
The grandmother started to hum a small lullaby that soothed the crying Rena somewhat. The humming echoed in Rena's heart as she suddenly found herself starting to wake up. Rena woke up to the sound of soft humming. The tune was very childish almost like a lullaby that a child would sing. Rena opened her eyes and was surprised to see Jurina sitting there on her bed stroking her hair and humming. Slowly realizing how close Jurina was, Rena started to blush a deep red. Jurina saw Rena was awake and said,
"Good morning~"
"G-Good morning.."
"I came down to wake up you. Did you sleep well?"
"Yes I did and-"
Rena just replayed what Jurina had said and then realized that Jurina had come down to her room on her own which could only mean one thing.
"Mistress you can walk!"
"About time you noticed."
Rena grabbed Jurina and hugged her tightly overly excited with such good news. Jurina could finally walk now which meant Rena no longer had to feed her blood. She now realized why the others had kept her from seeing Jurina. Jurina was going to surprise her by showing Rena the results and Rena was very happy. Now that Jurina could walk, the two could do whatever they wanted now. Rena was really happy about it all and seeing how her mood was, Jurina decided to have some fun time since Rena worked so hard to help her recover. To thank Rena for all her hard work, Jurina decided to take her somewhere very special that she had talked about for sometime. Putting on their best clothes, the two headed off to a place Rena thought was going to be really fancy. In reality though, Jurina took Rena to the garden of the palace. She took her all the way to the back where there was a stone wall. Jurina pressed a certain stone into the wall and suddenly a piece of the ground moved to the side revealing a hidden stair case. Rena and Jurina went down the stair case and walked through a long hall all the way to what Rena thought was a secret garden. There was a pool of water and wines all over the walls. Flowers were sprouting from the side and there was the base of a tree that stuck through the roof up to the top. Beams of sunlight broke through the cracks in the ceiling lighting up the room in a golden light.
Up ahead was a single stone path that Jurina and Rena followed to a stage in the middle. There Rena saw what looked like an old head stone. There on the head stone was a name of someone. It was hard to read because there were a couple vines covering some of the name. Jurina walked over and moved them out of the way so Rena could read it clearly. When she read it she gasped and said,
"Mistress is this?"
"Yes Rena.. This is my mother's grave."
There was a moment of silence between the two until Rena asked,
"Is this where you buried her?"
"Yes. We didn't want anyone coming to disturb her grave so we dug deep underground and then built this sanctuary for her." Jurina said.
"It's beautiful.."
"Un.. I wanted to bring you here to show you this because it's a very special place to me. I come here a lot and talk to mother as if she was still here when I'm upset."
"I see.. Thank you for showing me this. It's beautiful."
"Un let's come by again and we can bring flowers."
After she said that there was an explosion and the sound of shouting could be heard. Jurina and Rena quickly came out and saw there was fighting going on. Mayu and Yuki were fighting Sae and Sayaka while Atsuko was fighting Takamina and Tomochin was fighting Mariko. It was a surprise attack and no one knew what was going on. All they knew was to fight and not let anyone into the palace. Jurina looked over and saw Yuko standing in the distance glaring at Jurina. She pointed her sword straight at Jurina and said,
"I told you I'd be back for her!"
"You said two days!"
"I lied! Give me Haruna back!"
Yuko charged towards Jurina and tried to slice her head off. However Jurina pushed Rena out of the way and then pulled out her own sword. The two clashed and began to fight in what Rena thought was a battle between two Gods. Both of them were equal in strength and skill. She didn't know who would win and wondered who would win. The suddenly she felt something pull on her and when she looked over she saw Kasai.
"It's not safe for you here! Come with me!"
Kasai led Rena to the other side of the palace where there was a carriage waiting for someone. Rena wondered why it was there and then suddenly she felt something hard hit her in the head. Blackness surrounded Rena and the next thing she knew she was knocked out.
(Over with Jurina...)
Jurina was swinging her sword left and right trying to block Yuko's attack. Yuko was a little better than her in terms of sword fighting because she was the oldest. Everything Jurina learned she learned she learned from Yuko so she had a slight disadvantage. However she was still able to keep up with Yuko and managed to block all her attacks. Then when the window was open, she managed to strike and actually hit Yuko. She made a small slash on her leg and that was enough for Jurina because soon after Yuko suddenly backed away along with the others.
"We'll be back but be careful with the things around you. You never know something is missing until it's gone."
After that Yuko and her gang left while everyone else started to assess the damage done by them. As that were doing that Jurina started to call for Rena. She called her over and over but there was no answer. At that moment Jurina started to panic so she called everyone over and asked them where she was. No one knew however Kasai mentioned that she might have seen her over on the other side of the palace. Jurina walked over and found a piece of Rena's skirt. She also saw wheel marks on the ground leading away from the palace. Jurina realized that the worst thing had just happened to her. Rena had been taken away and Jurina knew exactly who took her.
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What's going to happen to Rena? Find out next update!