"Master Hades, where are we really going?" I protested, one time we were presiding to one of the forests outside the castle.
I actually don't know where is he going to take me. We've been walking together for minutes and I can feel the fatigue and numbness my feet are withstanding!
I grimaced while my both hands are on my dress, grasping it since the whole woodland has a lot of limbs scattering throughout the expanse. You know, I'm just being thorough.
"We should go home. Maybe your mom and dad are already looking for you. We've been hiking for minutes from now–"
"You should know by now that I don't relish slaves that are too vociferous and telling me what I should do," he frigidly uttered while his eyes are still on the track.
I bit my lower lip, I could no longer walk and it was draining my energy. Since the day I got here, I haven't drunk nor eaten any food yet. All I could feel was vulnerability descending upon my body while walking.
My lips became white as days goes by, I started getting dizzy and looking for food as Master Hades kept on saying I should drink blood and eat the sustenance he always consumes whenever he's hungry. Nevertheless, whenever I think of drinking and eating any of it, it makes me want to puke and cringe.
I never savored blood nor visualize myself eating human flesh and drinking its blood. Yet, the aroma that lingers in my nose makes me thirsty and hungry lures me, which I didn't know how to circumvent once I get in touch with them for the second time.
"Please, Master–"
I was cut off and horrified when Master Hades raise aloft me in a bridal style way. The instant I felt him fondling my body, all the heat I have gone up to my cheeks causing them to turn red as my clutch on my dress became rigid.
His eyes were just concentrated on the woods we're currently at. It feels like my body got weak and I don't know what to do now that I'm in his arms.
"Now, quiet,"
Our position makes me awkward. Yes, damn it! But I felt at ease while I'm in his arms. I've been striding with him for days, doing his daily skit, and treating me like a real slave!
The moment I've seen a lamp from where we were, a picture of a tiny bungalow is what my eyes caught few meters away from here.
"We're here. Can you walk now?"
I wrapped my hands around his neck, doesn't want to walk. "No," I firmly said.
Master Hades sough. As we got closer, the neat and small cabin became realistic for me. It's not that small nor big actually. It's just... I just chose to describe it as small not to an impartial extent.
He brought me down. Master Hades began walking towards the small house and got the lamp that has lights on it before touching the others and lit it up.
I was about to step forth and follow him inside when my head starts spinning off again. I tried to take a step forward, trying to go inside but all my surroundings went black as I felt my body wants to shut down. All I'm expecting was a cold ground or the branches of wood that would hit my body, especially my face, but then I could recall a masculine figure man already got me before I got to close my eyes.
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I really find the whole ambiance eerie. The way how weapons are exhibited inside, different kinds of things I just first time to see. Slowly, I got up on the bed and starts looking for Master Hades when I saw him outside, constructing a weapon made from woods.
The hunger and thirst are no longer there. It seems like I'm totally fine contradicts what I was for the past few days I'm with him.
"Master Hades..." a soft voice came out from my lips.
He ceased what he was doing and looked at me. His frigid bloodshot eyes went on mine, the level of his coldness is unmeasurable.
"Let's talk," he coldly asserted, he seemed furious like what he always does.
I pursued my lips. The way how he stares at me makes my heart pound in crisis.
"What happened earlier was a result of resistance, Leandra. If you're hungry, f-cking drink!" hint of annoyance was seen in his voice.
My eyebrows shut up. "I won't d-drink that! I told you–"
"How am I going to introduce you to my parents if you're too prideful and weak?" he almost stormed in veneer, causing me to flinch in surprise.
My eyebrows creased. What he just said annoyed me but instead of talking back at him in an inappropriate way, I closed my eyes and soothed myself before speaking.
As much as I want to, I don't want to create an argument with him. Not now that his raw eyes were almost killing me. What more if I'll read his mind and know he'd like to slaughter me?
"Look... I'm not ready for this. I just turned one b-because of you and I can't just d-drink or eat something because it should be the one I must do!"
Gradually, Master Hades ingest the harpoon he was holding. He sighed heavily before speaking like a stoic person in semblance.
"Blood is a must for vampires! How can you live without drinking one?" he then looked at me sarcastically.
"You bit me! I don't wanna be a vampire like you! And hell, you said my friends stabbed me in the back. That's the lamest reason I've ever heard!"
Due to extreme annoyance, I turned my back on him.
"Get back here, Leandra!" I heard his angry voice wailing.
"I'm not staying with you here!" I angrily yelled whilst walking away from him.
The anger I'm feeling was devouring me. Whatever might be Master Hades' rationale was something he doesn't want to share or wants me to know. It's f-cking prominent. He told me it was my friends who impaled me in the back and deceived me. And after that, I just woke up inside a room I'm not familiar with.
Sounds suspicious to my ears!
Brooke, Lucas, Trevor, and Rose are my friends. I never visualized they would dupe me because of a foreign justification. Up until now, I can't recollect what happened that time.
I haven't taken a few more steps away from Hades when a sudden force shoved me on the wall, causing me to strangle seeing Master Hades looking at me darkly whilst gripping my neck tight.
"You're getting to my nerves, Leandra," he uttered roughly between our close faces.
Catching a glimpse of Master Hades' face makes my entire me quiver in fear while trying to pull his hands that were wrapped around my neck.
"M-Master Hades..." I nearly choked. "P-Please..." I pleaded.
It took him seconds before he successfully pulled his hands off me. I gasped for air, coughing the explanation for how tight his traction was.
Slowly, I hoisted my orifices to him. Panic flashed on my mind as Master Hades walks towards where I was and held my chin.
"If you don't wanna get killed, you must heed all my orders first. Do you understand?" the gruff in his voice didn't vanish.
Tears watered at the edge of my eyes, trying to stop myself from crying. Master Hades sighed when he saw my facial expression. He wielded my hand and guided me to come up which I just pursued to avoid having miscommunication and further inconveniences.
Looking down like a kid, Master Hades got the weapon he was working on earlier and gave it to me.
"Wipe your tears, Leandra. I don't want to see you, or neither of my subjects sob," he then looked away before pointing the stuff to me.
To my terror, I obeyed what Master Hades said. The tears rolled down my cheeks but I immediately washed them out using my bare hands and turned around.
I was biting my inside cheek, I no longer know what should I do. Resentment, fear, and trepidation are getting my way.
"We only have a week to prepare. I should make everything perfect, Leandra," he then tossed me the other weapon he was handling.
To my surprise, I didn't expect he'd do that the reason why it tumbles on my forehead.
"Aww!" I groaned.
Master Hades took off his upper clothes, revealing his six-pack abs and muscles as veins in his neck, hands and arms protrude always.
He looks young, a daddy type. If you're going to compare Hades and his other siblings, his looks are way darker than the others. Aura says it all.
"Stand up. Let me teach you the basics,"
For me to stop crying and focus on what Master Hades' wanted, he made me set a goal that I should finish.
I have no options. I got the thing Master Hades got me and hoist it. The way how his lips formed into a smirk gives something inside my body. More like... horrendous feeling.
"We only have a week to formulate. You're not alert enough and slow. Do you want the both of us to get killed?"