Darius's POV
"Mom where is Father, I was expecting him today "
"Oh dear!, you know about your father he is too busy nowadays because of the Eastside "
"Mother, he doesn't even know that I'm unwell isn't it "
My mother went silent and her expression changed into guilty, while she couldn't say anything
"Its okay Mother you don't have to say anything, I am going back to my chamber"
"But son, How did you get hurt by Irons even after knowing that Jinns are vulnerable to Irons, as per I know our kingdom doesn't have any kind of Irons, so how did you get hurt"
I got caught, nothing can be hidden from mother, as I was thinking what to say that's when father came to the Chambers and he came and slapped me hard without saying anything, I just fell like my jaw was broken but neverthless I was embarrassed and my blood was boiling when I looked at my father with red eyes
"How dare you set your foot in the human realm, if you have died back then what would have happen did you even imagine, I didn't expect such irresponsibility from you when you are going to be the future ruler" the king yelled at me on top of his voice
"Do you only care about me because I will have to take your place, am I not your son "
"You dare disobey me, this is your last chance, if again I come to know about you going or interacting with humans, I will not tolerate and you will see what happens"
"My King please calm down, Darius go back to your chambers" My mother said in order to stop us from further argument"
I was sitting in Casterly hill the highest slope in Citadel, probably trying to escape the reality because I was upset by the behaviour of my father with me.
"Here I am trying to resist the fact that they tried to kill me, how can I be careless to trust the humans, I just met them and were willing to dine with them" as I was getting all kinds of thought about literally getting killed I got up and sat on my bed looking all gloomy and fierce about how can she do this to me , I was literally getting the thought about how can I trust her when we just met, I was getting the feel that maybe I was just attracted when I first saw her, I was getting all kinds of thoughts when Kaya arrived
"Here, take these medicines"
I was amazed to see her offering me medicines after what she just did so I lashed out at her
"why so you could poison me again"
"seems like the food had some effect on your brain too"
My anger was getting piled up after hearing her response, how can she not accept the fact that she tried to kill me. My eyes started getting red the anger could be seen in my eyes, I held her hand tightly placing on the wall, I grabbed her hand with all of my Jinn strength, I didn't realize that I held her too tightly while my eyes were focused on her eyes, when she mumbled
"Lucas....its hurting" I could see tears in her eyes to which I realized what I just did and I came back to my senses and immediately tried to apologize to her while she was still staring at me with those numb eyes
"you...your....you're ey....eyes"
I realized that I was coming to my actual self when I turned myself to hide my red eyes from her and quickly closed my eyes to calm myself and thankfully I didn't get caught because I was able to calm myself and make myself normal, I was guilty to think about her that way when I realized that the irons were the reason I puked blood
"You don't have to worry it was just the iron utensils that made me sick, I am vulnerable to them, they can kill me "
"if you don't trust us you can leave this place anytime"
I knew that she was terribly mad at me for hurting her and doubting them, she just went out of the room in anger I decided to go after her I was about to go when I saw a raven on my window, I knew what it was but I had to made sure who it was so I went forward and asked
" Why are you here ?"
It didn't reply anything and was just staring at me when the crow turned into a Jinn out of nowhere, it was from Citadel
"My prince how have you been?'
'Why are you here Willson, didn't I say that I will return on my own, who send you here"
"My prince, Decker send me here, he saw you covered in blood in one of the visions by Phoenix Morgan, he has been worried about you so I came to check on you"
"I'm fine I was just poisoned by Irons, I'm all right now"
"My prince I have something else to say, its a royal order from directly the king, his health has been degrading day by day, he wants you at the palace as soon as possible, he wants you to come back and marry Phoenix Sarah and take over the throne as the King has been counting days, he has given you ten days to solve your matters and be back at the palace as soon as possible."
I was devastated by listening to what he said just now, I didn't want to go back I wanted to stay with Kaya, I couldn't find a way to say the truth to Kaya, this thing was eating me inside the thing which I had for her, it was like a never ending hell for me, I didn't had any more time in my hands and I didn't want to leave Kaya with a lie about me, so I decided to use this ten days to win her over and eventually show my true self' I was having such thoughts when Willson said
"My prince is that your blood in the wall, are you okay" he asked while being concerned
"Willson, you can leave now I'll be there in Citadel after taking care of some matters"
He left on my command and I realized that the blood was from Kaya's hands, I ran opening my door without giving a second thought I went to her bedroom but she was not there I searched her to every possible corner she could be, but I couldn't find her anywhere, I didn't know about the places in this places but still I tried hard to find her inside but she was nowhere to be seen, I went outside to the backyard but she wasn't there, I was willing to come back when a huge tunnel caught my eyes, I went forward curiously to see if someone was there, it was too dark to see anything, I decided to went forward, as I was going further my way was getting more darker passing by when I finally saw a ray of light at a distance to which I decided to follow as I was passing I could hear something, something like someone was moaning, I could hear some crying voices, as passing more further, the voices were getting more dense and it started affecting me, I was unable to tolerate more noises that's when I decided to run following the glim of light, in a moment everything went blank as white and I couldn't see anything but only plain white, I rubbed my eyes again and again when suddenly everything was back to place and I was standing in the middle of place which was so astonishing and eye catching, it felt like I was standing in heaven, the place was covered with chrysanthemum flowers all over and there was an eye catching tree in the middle of the garden to which I didn't get it what it was, it had large wide branches with big roots covering the ground and with purple climbers, as I looked around I couldn't see sunlight anywhere instead the place was bright with the light the tree was emitting, the light goes and hit the surface and bounces back making the whole room bright and beautiful.
I went forward to a fountain filled with water to which I saw my reflection and was shocked to see myself because I was in my original avatar, my true self, I was shocked because I didn't turn myself voluntarily but this place turned my true self, i was amazed to see this place I was wondering what this was because it was my first time seeing something this astonishing and wonderful, I wandered around the huge tree and climbed the tree in a blink of eye using my Jinn powers, to which the tree moved and threw me to the ground, luckily i didn't get hurt, but I knew that instant that this place the whole palace is something with magic and special powers, to which I must find out for sure what it was and who exactly lives here with Kaya and Miss Madison.
A beautiful red chrysanthemum caught my eye and I wanted to pluck that flower for Kaya as an apology and I went near to the flower to pluck it, I touched the stem of the flower when everything became colorless as if everything here was dead without any life in it.
I got up astounded to what happened, when someone came from aback and hit me to which i turned around and my eyes was red filled with rage when I saw a being probably called spirits floating in air covered in a black cloak with a disastrous face and a long claws probably it was an evil spirit. It saw me directly in the eyes and quickly went back looking at me, it went away and the place revived gain with its blooming colors.
I was left astonished to what I just saw, I wanted to know more what this place was, what are the secrets that this place was hiding, I knew that Kaya knew everything about this place and I curiously wanted to know that how I ended up here.
I made my mission to know about this place, I probably knew that I had to tell the truth to Kaya and know about this place more specifically in these ten days.
I came out of the place and changed myself and became Lucas again, I had to apologize to Kaya so I came to the front gate when I saw Kaya coming from the cemetery with someone beside her, I realized it was a spirit,
"What is exactly this girl ? she seems to amaze me whenever I see her" I was having certain thoughts when Kaya looked at me, she completely rolled her eyes over me and went away
"Kaya..listen to me" I ran to her where she stopped
"I don't have anything to talk to you"
"I wanted to apologize about my behaviour about morning I shouldn't have hurt you I'm sorry, show me your hand you were probably bleeding"
when I touched her hand she pushed me away and i could see that she was really mad at me
"Do not touch me, who are you to hurt me that way you should probably leave now as you are alright "
"I'm sorry but I can't leave now, I have some works to handle"
"You must be out of your mind, get out before I throw you away"
"You dare touch me, if i said i won't be going than i won't cooperate with me I don't have much day left "
"When are you planning to leave then"
"When my task is done"
"You want to stay right, will you have a combat with me, then i shall decide if you stay or not"
"Sure if this is what you want, also I have a condition"
"what is it, if its something revolting then i shall break your bones"
"Nothing its just you will have to fulfill my three wishes during my stay here"
"You sure do blabber too much, "while she said this she punched me on my face amd started the game
"I'll take it as a yes Miss lavender" I smiled mischeviously staring at her when she came at me again with a kick on my leg to which i tipped on the ground and she held my arms to which I very smartly avoided and held her leg with my hand made her fall down on the ground to which she quickly got up enthusiastically "I didn't want to hurt her but if this could made me stay with her than I shall do it" she came from back and hit me on my ribs and she got me for while to which i gathered enough strength and held her hands and made her fall laid on the ground and tried to stop her from getting up again by leaning over her and holding her hand tightly so she can't get up again.
As I was busy with the thoughts of winning I totally forgot the position we were in, our eyes met and unfortunately my eyes were turning red but I didn't care because kaya was lost in my eyes and she was staring at me while all I could think was to kiss her, I took my face more closer to her and our lips were just a distance apart.
Kaya turned her face away and said "You won"