Natasha's Version---
My eyes couldn't believe what just happened. Mia who was a fragile and shied little girl stood there still as the snack crawled all over her body. There was no fear on her face. She stood there with a strange calmness on her face as if she was being loved and caressed by the serpent who was just a pet to her. After the snack was gone I rushed and pulled her into my arms sobbing as I was scared for her, scared if she was hurt from the fall, if she was hurt by the serpent! After all she is my best friend, a delicate friend whom I have to protect always from this cruel world. I looked at her innocent face when she smiled and said "It's ok Nat. It was just a poor creature". I was surprised.
We walked back together towards the mansion. Mia kept smiling as if she has found some treasure, some secret peace in her mind.
Once we entered the Mansion, I walked towards the kitchen. Mia noticed and said "why are you going to the kitchen at this hour"?
"I need to get some weapons ready, you know this place is full of snakes, secrets, scorpions and god knows what else." I rolled my eyes replying. "I even believe there may be wild bears and panthers in the forest. It is so thick and dense. We should be prepared you know. This place seems lot more than we think. Adventurous" I pressed on the word Adventurous while saying these to Mia all in a rush.
"I am a girl who loves adventures and thrills. Very often I like to kick some ass….bad ass of course. I always dreamed of being in army! I am smart and I know Marshal arts, which I have been taught in School and I was the Champion in my school every year! I have a habit of picking up fights with boys as per Mia, but actually it is them who pick up first, I just finish it." I chuckled thinking.
Mia rolled her eyes clearly understanding that I was again day dreaming or may be talking to myself and left to her room with a sigh! "I will bring you some warm milk later and meanwhile you clean yourself." I said in a soft voice handing over a first aid box to her and smiled broadly before she could leave.
" Yaaaa!" I screamed and posed in the air excited and ran towards the kitchen with full excitement.
As I entered the kitchen I quickly switched on the light and took out all the knives from the drawer. I looked at all of them and picked up a medium length Knife with a sharp and curved blade used to cut meat. I rubbed it on my blue Denim which I was wearing, with a sleeveless Cotton shirt tucked casually inside it. I had a leather bracelet which I always wear.
I started sharpening the knife on the stone slab with water when two arms picked me up from behind and I screamed while floating in the air "Put me down you bustard" and without wasting a second I thrust the knife in one of his arms. Blood started oozing out but still the person held me tightly shouting like a Maniac "Found my mate Marshaaaal…l..Found her"! The man was a psycho or what! He didn't even bother about his arm and was jumping with me in his arms like a child who has found his precious toy.
" PUT ME DOWN!" I snapped enunciating each word and I hit him with my elbow hard and immediately freeing myself, turned and pushed him with a sudden jerk. The man who was much taller than me and muscular and wait did I forget to mention handsome too, was taken aback by my reaction and fell on the ground with his back on the floor confused but then he started laughing.
"What happened Nat?" Mia came running, panting all the way with panick in her eyes and froze at her place confused when she saw a man was sitting on the floor while I stood with a knife raised high in my hand and disgust and anger all over my face.
"Where? Where? Where is she ?" Came another voice when two men joined us rushing down the stairs. I looked at the first man, who was tall and aged but had such a beautiful muscular body structure that seemed to have strength of more than 100 youths. He was wearing a Hunter boot and his clothes seemed like those of some ancient warrior. My eyes travelled to the man next to him with blue eyes and my jaw hit the floor as soon as our eyes met. There was absolute silence and confusion for a few seconds and I was snapped back to reality when Mia screamed "what happened?" I could not utter a word even if I tried and I was glued to my place. I could feel myself already drooling over the man with blue eyes. The knife fell from my hand and my face was all red. I was blushing like a teenager. The man with blue eyes stood there still as well, and wait, was he blushing too? Yes, definitely he was as I could see his cheeks turn red as well. He lowered his gaze slowly and so did I. But his blue eyes enchanted me.