A beast awakening in a cold dark room, lying on the floor, his hands were tied with a rope. His appearance is just like a human, but still, his body projecting some particular forms of a beast as his horns on the head, sharp-tipped ears, and signs on the body.
'Darkness'
The first thought appeared in his mind after waking up.
'What happened to my eyes? Why can't I see anything?
He tried to move his hands to touch eyes, but his hands were tied behind his back.
'What's happening with me? Where am I? Who did this to me, and where is Xin?'
More and more questions pop-up in his mind. While thinking, he tried to break the rope and free himself. But his body is very weak to compete with a strong rope.
Suddenly, he senses the smell coming next to him. He deliberately turns his body towards the direction of the smell coming. While sensing, his tongue starts to salivate.
'Human---' His knowledge helps him to find the answer.
The presence of humans near a beast is an unbelievable thing. For the beast, What's happening is a question mark, and now a human presence near him. These all make him confused and pathetic. Still, he tries to solve the mystery with the help of his brain, not acting rashly.
"Who's there?!?" The first thing he wants to know is the person staying with him. Who knows if the one may become a savior or not.
"If you don't want to die, say who you are?" His voice was sharp and frightening.
"Xia---" A frightened voice appeared from the corner.
The owner of the voice is a woman, from her looks it's difficult to say her age maybe 20,21. Her eyes were large and pretty, her brown hairs were untidy but beautiful, her light red lips were trembling, and her long black gown is slightly torn, on the shoulders.
'A Female voice, What exactly happening here? Is it any kind of trap, I need to be careful.'
The common question, every victim asks a kidnapper. Here the beast also asks Xia, as he thought she from one of them, "Why you take me here, and What you want from me?"
"I'm not the one who brings you here, and I don't want anything from you. The guards drag me here, I'm also a prisoner like you--- not exactly like you but almost." Xia is scared of the beast but she doesn't express her fear and reply to him.
'A prisoner, that means I'm on someone's custody. But whose? Then Xin is also somewhere here.' The beast also mentioning the same name Xin, as his mind thinking Xin is someone he cared.
The beast slowly approaches to Xia. He stretched, his face to smell her. 'Wow, her smell is alluring. If the smell is this much attractive, then her blood and flesh be much more delicious.' From his expression, Xia understood that he is going to eat her, so she directly asked him to confirm her assumption.
"Are you going to eat me." This time her voice isn't that steady, a small feeling of scariness appeared.
"Why should I eat you?" An unexpected answer she gets from the beast, but it's a satisfying one too.
"I know, the beasts like you always eat animals or humans as their food, and you are salivating." As she talking, it looks like she is digging her own grave.
"you are correct, I just want to eat you, and your smell is alluring too. But still, I will let you go.--- You also heard about one thing, anything isn't free in this world. So what will you give in return."
'Should I believe this crafty beast. As per knowledge, a beast never leaves a human alive. Then why he decide to not eat me when he starts to salivating by my smell. What he wants from me?' Xia thinks for a second and said.
"I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life." Xia gives her answer quite trickly. But What he wants is not her thanks but something else.
"Who needs your thanks here---" Xia calmly waited for his demand. "Untie me, That's what I want." It's a genuine one he asks for return, but untieing a beast is like welcomes a known danger.
"How should I believe you, after untieing the rope, who knows you will not kill me." Xia gets suspicious of his intension.
"You have to believe me, there are no other options in front of you. If you don't do it, I can take back my words too.--- Helping me is also a beneficial matter to you, think about it." The beast pointed out some untold benefits from freeing him. But the task is also risky, trusting a beast is not a game.
Suddenly a boots sound heard near to their cell. A guard walking outside the cell, he observing the inside activities of Beasts through the vintage door on every cell. On his left hand, the guard holding a sharp sword, and he wearing a uniform with body armor.
Before the guard reaches their cell, the beast acted as unconscious and lay on the floor. Xia just hides in the dark corner of the room and gazed at the guard while he walks in front of the cell. The guard's boots sound slowly disappeared, from that they understand he is far away from their cell.
'What a condition is this? One side, the soldiers drag me here as this beast food. And on the other side, the beast just salivating but telling, he will not kill me. Being here and trusting him both are dangerous. Why should I just take a risk, If anything bad happens then it's my fate.' Xia decides to untie the beast. Staying there is also worthless if the beast didn't eat her, they put her in another cell of beasts.
Xia slowly comes towards the beast and untie the rope in his hands. Without seeing anything, escaping from a prison is a difficult thing. He just rubbed his eyes still darkness is the only thing he sees.
"You can't see anything right." From his expressions and body language, she just figures it out. "Stay still and stop rubbing."
Xia takes a small bottle she hides in her clothes and puts one drop to his eyes. And order him to close his eyes for some seconds.
'Is she helping me or she had other intentions behind it? Whatever, I need to wait for the result, if it's something poison, I will not spare her.' The beast somehow calm down himself.
"Try to open your eyes." After a few seconds, she said. His first view isn't that clear, so he repeatedly opens and closes his eyes to make his view clear.
The first view after regaining the sight, he saw Xia. His view firstly goes to her eyes, and then to the lips. He just paused and continue staring without looking in any other direction.
Suddenly an arm appears in front of his eyes, and it starts waving.
"Can you see it." Xia moves her hands to and forth. She checks the effectiveness of the medicine.
"What are you doing?" He holds her hand and pulls towards him. Still, his eyes were locked on her face.
'Should I push him back, if I did so, who knows if he gets furious, and just kills me. Why is he coming so close, these fastly he just take off from his words.' On that second, she assumes these things.
Xia tried to take back her hand, but he held her hands tightly. All of a sudden, he pushes her to the floor and turns his face opposite her.
'Control Wang,control--The fragrance, I need to diminish it, before I lost control. How will I stop this smell coming out from her?' The beast names were Wang and he trying to control his beasty character from coming out.
"Aaa---" Wang's pushing is quite stronger, Xia's hand struck on the floor.
'What a heartless fellow, I just helped him and what he did--- It hurts. What he wants now? Why coming towards again---.' Wang slowly coming towards Xia. From his looks, it's clear that his intension isn't good.
Xia slowly stood up, step backward, and Wang comes towards her. Xia's breathing rate rises, her eyes were locked on him. Suddenly her legs hit on the wall, no more step can be taken.
Wang comes closer, and closer to her, there is no more distance at all. His hands grasp her hip and pull her near to his chest. Wang's lips were getting closer, and her heart decided to skip a beat, the smell of him hypnotic beyond reason. His lips met her, for a second she closed her eyes and forget that he is a beast.
'Wait, whom I'm kissing with---" A sense of realization suddenly knocked on her head. Xia opens her eyes and pushes him backward.
"How can you---" Xia quickly wipe her lips with fingers.
"Don't be mad, It's for your sake." Xia confusingly looked towards him. Wang continues, "Now your fragrance will turn-out to my smell. So the thought of eating you will start to minimize. So for now, you are safe from me." A wild smile appears on his face.
'But that was my first kiss.'