章 10: The Legendary Snake

After the utterance made by the new appointed governess, Dana went quiet and her eyes kept staring at the governess unblinking.

Perhaps did she offend the governess? she questioned herself inwardly.

Miss Florence think she has gotten on the young Lady's nerve judging by how she went still, and patiently waited for an outburst.

However Dana on the other hand seemed to have something else on mind, her mouth twitched and the governess eyes blinked in surprised unsure if what she saw just now was real.

"If I may ask, what's funny my lady?" Miss Florence asked,this is not what she's expecting.

"You are absolutely right about my memories, and there's nothing funny to smile at, I should be mad, isn't it?" Dana asked with a raised brow and Miss Florence only stare at the human girl.

"I understood, that you didn't mean to be rude maybe I was being a little bossy, and you think I could be like those pampered girls of high-class" she elaborated, smiling at Miss Florence, that she understood everything.

'Jessie' didn't know why she said that, her mouth just keep moving talking shit and she's suddenly becoming understanding, like the reasons behind her governess rudeness.

The governess was left confused on how did the young lady understood her, but didn't let it show on her face, and instead retorted,

"If you are aware of that, you shouldn't have acted like you employed me my lady".

Dana nods as if she understood, and revealed, "But as a governess I think you're impatient, I was about to add... my maid will guide us there when you beat me to it, but I'm not offended"

"Thea!" she called her maid to keep the governess from speaking further.

The parlour room door pushed opened, and Thea enter , she bow "yes my lady?"

"Would you mind taking me and my governess to the library" Dana politely asked the maid who happily bobbed her head.

"Yes my lady, after you" Thea stretch her hand to the door, Dana was the first to stood and walk out of the room followed by her governess.

Upon reaching where the library was, the maid pushed the double door opened for the two ladies behind her to step in.

Dana's eyes only went wide with every passing seconds when she stepped inside, her mouth gape at the huge library, the smells of book wafting in the air.

"This is absolutely beautiful" she murmured under her breath,

The books were aligned from the top ceiling inside shelf down to the surface.

Miss Florence gawked at the library she inhaled the scent of the book which she considered sweet. As a governess the love she had for books were unlimited, not only did she love them but also devoted her life being a governess, because she love being an educator.

"The library is absolutely magnificent" Miss Florence voiced out her thoughts and the maid nodded agreeing with the governess.

Thea went to the other side of the library, and stood before the small shelf that contains book, she pointed, "I will suggest you should start reading these, they are old book separated to give away... You will find some interesting historical books here"

Hearing that, Dana lifted her gown and walk to where her maid was, she look at Thea her eyes sparkling in anticipation, "really?" she asked, excitement lacing her voice.

Thea smile and nodded, "yes my lady, I will be outside if you need anything" the maid bowed and left the library, closing the door behind her.

Dana tender hand went to trace the shelf in front of her, she kept smiling feeling a sudden interest in the books here.

"Are you just going to feel them" the voice startled Dana, that had her gasp placing her palm on her chest, when she turned she saw the governess standing behind her. She had forgotten that she wasn't alone in the library.

"I'm sorry if I scared you, pick a book and let's start with it" Miss Florence instructed.

Dana adjusted and leaned on the bookshelf, she crossed her arms while looking at her governess who was now walking to the other side of the library, she inquired, "how old are you, Miss Florence?"

Without turning the governess answered, "as a vampiress I am sure I'm old enough to be a human parent, meanwhile in human age I am twenty seven"

'Jessie' who was Dana, her brain was refreshed that she was still a human too in this world, full of vampires and had forgotten that her governess was a vampiress.

This reminds her of what her Guardian angel told her, he said she died during her eighteenth birthday, does he mean her human age? Then what's her vampiric age before she died? Was her age now the same with her vampiric age or has completely changed too?

Thinking about it had her feel a headache coming. God, she's confused.

"That was quite some years, at your age I assumed you were married with kids probably" Dana expressed her own thoughts.

Miss Florence pulled out a book from the shelf, she nodded after hearing what Dana have said, opening the book, she remarked, "that's an amazing thought we have there, too bad I have no intentions of marriage or having kids"

Before Dana could say anything more, Miss Florence beat her to it, "it was a still mystery to people that the poison you are fed with had you turned into a human from a vampire, this had me realized why you are running your mouth" her head turned to look at the daughter of a vampire and vampiress who was now a human, with a slight smile Miss Florence added,

"Enough about me, why don't we begin our first lesson of the day and please be kind enough to pick any book there" she closed the book in her hand with a thud and placed it back to it's former place.

Dana smacked her lips when the governess dismissed their conversation, she turned and randomly picked a book, "you must be surprised, a grown lady like me was assigned a governess, why?" Dana whispered, with demand in her tone.

The governess shrugged, "who knows, might be because your parent think while your memories are gone, likewise your knowledge, and if I may add, they might think you've forgotten about etiquettes on how a lady should act" .

Dana realized her governess was the straightforward person, uncared if the other person feelings was hurt, she was blunt but honest, Dana happened to love this attitude of her, "and what do you think?" she asked locking eyes with her governess.

"You do really need a governess because you are so unladylike, the first one here you asked too much questions and you didn't know when to stop, Dana" Miss Florence used her name for the first time that had Dana smiled,

"I received a letter this early morning and was surprised who's in need of governess, however, curiosity got the better of me and here I am with you, Dana. Let's begin our lesson".

Dana dusted the dirt formed on the old book cover with her hand, blowing the dirt away again with her mouth,

When she read the tittle out "The Legendary Snake" the governess hummed in contentment, and confessed, "that's a great book you picked, it's one of my best historical story book" .

"Really? What's about it?" Dana inquired, and the governess hand pointed to a chair behind the large table, emphasizing for the young lady to take a seat,

Dana understanding the language she carefully walk to the chair and sit with the book held in her hand, Miss Florence nodded in satisfaction, she started, " it's a story about a cursed vampire and a white human snake"

Dana's eyes widened in surprise and look at the book which cover's has faded as if not believing that this was what the book is about , the governess ignored her reaction and continued, "as it was said this happened in Peaceton town, Louisa was a human born from a poor family and live alone with her brother in an old shack left for them by their late parent, somehow she managed to get a job in a vampires house where Damian Warren was the eldest son of the Duke, Louisa is s beautiful lady and Damian's heart fell in love with her at first sight. However, Louisa heart betrayed her that made her forget people from lower class and higher class cannot mingle, human and vampire cannot be the same. She deeply fell in love with Damian. When his family finds out they were against it but Damian wasn't ready to follow their wishes and protected his beautiful maiden who was pregnant with his child"

Dana who was listening all this while interrupted her vampiress governess, "were all vampires like this? Despising human and looking down on peasants?"

Miss Florence pursed her lips and nodded, "exactly, but you should know this happened a thousand years ago, now changes are forming, even though there are still cruel, wicked vampires and humans. Nobody is pure. I will continue" she gave Dana a pointed look, as if warning her to not interrupt her again, the governess continues, walking away from the shelf, standing in front of the table which Dana sat,

"They back away a little when he didn't complied with them, nevertheless, the second son Adrian was more than happy for this turn of events, he hated the way his family partially show love to the eldest son than him, and even his father was going far as to make him the next duke. These ignited more hatred towards Damian. And this was the opportunity he was looking for when his family became disappointed with his brother, so he orchestrate with the rest family to get rid of the maiden child, and after the poor unborn child gone Louisa was more heartbroken than Damian. Adrian who was the mastermind of the evil things happening, somehow convinced the maiden that Damian planned with his family to get rid of her and the baby but she got lucky and her child gone instead, because Damian was just using her not that he really loves her. Thanks to Adrian he made Louisa believed that, and her love for Damian started changing into hatred.

"Unfortunately, when Damian learned the truth he tried to make Louisa understand the situation, but it was too late and Louisa thought Damian was just saying those words because he knew she already know the truth. Along the way, her younger brother died, and she saw Damian unconscious beside her dead brother with blood smeared his mouth, while Adrian was standing with a huge stick in his hand, he told her when he hit the stick on Damian her brother has already been sucked dry. The scenario before her was enough to believe Adrian words more, she cried her eyes out in pain and agony, the only family she had left now was killed by Damian, while before giving them shelter in the house he gave her his word that no one will harmed them, however it turns out, to be bunch of lies. The maiden ran out of the house sobbing, in the late dark night, where the cloud was lightning, and the wind was blowing as if it wouldn't take long for rain to start falling. She went inside the forest, going deeper and deeper, upon reaching a certain place she started digging with both hand until she dug out a small dirty sculpture of a monkey with an angry ugly face. It was a gift from her grandmother, that whenever someone betrayed her, she should talk to the angry monkey, and that it will avenge her.

"Louisa cursed Damian, instantly it started raining, with thunder striking the cloud loudly, she cursed him to be a destroyer and a monster, to kill his own family the way he did to her brother, and he should kill himself at the end. Magically, it happened, Damian became a monster, driven by bloodlust and killed all his family by sucking them dry, but the love he had for Louisa didn't allowed him to kill himself, he went into the town looking for his soulmate, he killed innocent souls on his way until a deity appeared before him and took him away, to God know where" Miss Florence pulled a chair and sit across Dana and carry on from where she stopped,

"Few days went by and something terrible happened, Louisa noticed her skin getting paler, her body acts strange and she later found out she cursed herself while cursing Damian, Louisa became the very first human snake, she killed bad,wicked and cruel people with the same pain she experienced, people who saw her in snake form said it was a big white snake with a blue slitted eyes. Suddenly, she went into hidden inside a cold cave when after finding out people were trying to kill her to use her skin and blood, until she disappeared to never be seen again. That's the end of the tragic story of the cursed vampire and the human snake"

Dana breathe out when the governess ended the story, she felt her heart became stuffed as if something heavy was weighing on her not allowing her to take a breath. She pitied the innocent maiden who died in darkness with her lover gone, and said

"Such a misfortune, I wish they could be together"

Miss Florence stare at Dana, composed and supplied, "After the two lovers were gone, It was said that their descendants will exist after some years, it been a thousand now and people had forgotten about them except witches and greedy vampires"

Dana heart skipped on hearing the word witches, and the governess eyes narrowed at her, when she heard the skipping of her heart.

"What's scaring your dear heart, darling?", she inquired.

Dana didn't panicked, when she realized she vampiress heard her heart dancing, she questioned, "I didn't know, but why?"

"Because the descendants present will not only cause chaos but the bad one among us will face wrath and reap what they sow. The skin of the snake was said to make one younger till eternity when eaten, and her blood tasted like heaven, it was rich in flavour and make one became immortal and powerful with superpowers, so many were waiting for the descendants for these reasons, I wish I could come across the descendants and advised them to trust not people"

"Can you tell me what Louisa said to cursed herself, while not aware. I am really curious to know" Dana begged her governess.

"Curiosity killed the cat" Miss Florence advice, she mused, "It wasn't written in the book, the curse I mean. I guess elders were afraid if someone were to uttered those words, it will be like cursing one self, so the book got edited and the original one was burnt by the elders writer"

Dana the curious soul in her couldn't help with such amazing story she was being told. The young naive lady divulged, "it should be like this, 'I wished I could be someone powerful, to avenge for myself & brother what has been done to us, I knew their are lots of people out there suffering from similar pain like me, I wished I could be helpful' I assumed Louisa said it this way, right?" she grinned as if done a great job but Miss Florence eyes continued to bored on her, with her hand placed on the table entwined in each other,

The governess unamused, she sarcastically said, "it was forbidden to say the cursed, but it seemed you're too keen to finds more about it. Goodluck"

The door pushed opened, that had both the human and the vampire to turned their head, it was a maid, who was unknown to Dana.

The maid bowed, and politely declared, "Miss Florence, the Mistress demand for your presence"

As if waiting for the call, the governess stood up from her seat, "I think this marked as the end of our today's lesson, I wished you a nice day" she bowed and left the library with the maid.

Dana sat there alone in the library with the governess away, and started reminiscing her recent lesson,

When a sudden sting on her left arm interrupted her, she hissed in pain her hand went to rub the place, scrunching up her face.

When the pain fades away, Dana removed her hand and settled it on the book in front of her, while becoming oblivious, her left arm which was stung minutes ago, a white scale appeared on her skin, camouflaged with her pale skin.