Quickly digging in his fangs, she flinched but let him continue to suck and suck. Horace continued to drain the girl and when he felt her body going still, his senses knocked in and he hastily pulled away. He saw her colour change indicating that blood was truly drained from her.
He was about to nudge her to move when he heard a loud growl erupt from his mouth. The demon was back. His demon wasn't satiated. It punched him in the gut, clawed at him, and stabbed within him to take more blood and he tried to combat it. He knew more sips from the girl would result in her death and he would break a law.
Struggling to pull away but the demon wouldn't just let him. It growled again, crawled him harder and he groaned. It was getting out of him. It was almost released, where was Kian?.
His heart was racing and the demon was pushing. Entirely falling at the mercy of his demon, he pushed back his elongated fangs forcefully into the girl and felt her jerk.
He continued to suck whatever blood that remained on the girl. Clutching her tightly, suffocating her as he drank, he heard a knock, another, thrice again and then a bang and then a voice. Kian's voice.
"Horace, open this door, right now. Control it, pull away from her right now". His voice was so loud.
" Goddamit. Horace!!!".
Horace tried again to fight off the inner demon as soon he heard Kian's voice that was pleading to fight it off but still it wouldn't let go.
When the door was forcefully pulled open by Kian and was quickly pushed away by him, Horace's eyes turned to normal and his senses returned. He huffed for air.
"Oh shit!. This is not good, this is not good". Kian cupped his mouth with a hand and the other on his head.
Horace's eyes quickly moved to where the girl lay. She was dead and still and her neck was torn open. He pulled his hair in frustration and anger.
He had broken the law.
" Goddamit, Horace!!!. What the fuck happened here?". This time his teasing smiles were absent.
"I don't know".
"This is bad. This is bad!!!". Kian sprawled on the floor as he tapped his head. " Do you know what this means?. Once the rest gets to hear this, your position would be challenged and your sweet mother would not hesitate to send you away on more training and this time...". He pointed at him. "- this time, I ain't coming with you". He saw the man say nothing but grasp his head like he was in some pain and he sighed in frustration.
Getting up from the floor and saying no more words, Kian moved to the dead girl to have her body covered and then left to make arrangements to have the mess in the room, cleaned.
...
" Yes, get her body out... I would pay. I would pay the manager for the videotapes. Okay?". He said to a young man who collected some bundles of cash and then left to attend to his duties and Kian sighed again.
It was his fault. If he had been faster in getting the girl as the blood bag, perhaps she might have been alive. He felt guilty. He knew Horace might be in the room, wallowing in guilt as well. He truly didn't know the right words to console him with.
He was about to sigh again when he felt his cellphone buzz and he quickly pulled it out of his pocket. He saw the name 'Angry Mistress' and he panicked. It was his aunt.
He wondered if the information of what had happened had suddenly flown to her ears. He wouldn't be surprised if it truly did as she was still the Queen.
"Kian!!!". Petaluma's angry voice roared from the phone and he pulled it some distance away from his ears.
" Why are you always angry, aunt Petaluma?". He managed to attempt, to ease the air, although every nerve of his was jittery.
Do you know what today is?. Do you even know what time it is?". Her angry voice screamed out again.
"Your highness, we_"
"I am giving you less than an hour to get your lazy asses to the castle, we are driving over to the witches' coven. We are moving together Kian".
Kian rolled his eyes. She didn't want to be annoyed, yet she was annoyed. "Noted, ma'am".
"Is Horace there?". Her voice had softened which suddenly surprised Kian, who couldn't help but get suspicious.
" He's uhm... He's in the convenience". He cleared his throat, at the end of his statement.
"I hope you both don't make silly mistakes". Petaluma warned, like a good mother.
Kian could already imagine hell letting loose when the reports would soon fly to her. " Yes, your majesty. I would try my best". They both knew that the words, he had just spouted were untrue.
Humming over the phone, she continued. "Get Horace over here and don't forget the time".
" Yes, ma'am". And just that the line went off.
Exhaling a sigh, he moved into the room to see where Horace had sat, vacant, Horace was no longer in the room. Kian panicked. This was not good, this was not good.
...
Classes had ended and Phoebe patiently waited behind for all the students to leave. It was her daily routine. Soon she would leave, she was just waiting for the last duo, sitting at the far corner of the class. She stole a glance and then another before resuming the taps on the desk.
"Hello". Phoebe's eyes moved up to see one of the duo, she had been glancing on. She must have been lost in thoughts for not hearing the girl's approaching footsteps.
She saw the girl give her a half-smile. She had almost ten piercings on both ears and a large nose ring like a bull on her nose and her hair was tinted green. She had on five gold Grillz teeth. She was reeking of wealth, although she appeared like a law breaker in school.
"Uh... Hello". Phoebe responded as she blushed. She was sure the girl had caught up with her scrutiny.
"I am JM for Jasmine and that...". She pointed at a brown-haired boy, who was ceaselessly tapping on his phone. "... Is Eden, my cousin". Phoebe saw the boy glance back at her and then wave with a smile, as though he was expecting the introduction. The boy quite looked responsible, unlike his weird-looking sister.
"You probably know us right?". Jasmine asked and the sniffed.
Who wouldn't know her?. The girl was all tomboyish and was only seen around boys. "Oh yeah, I do".
She saw the weird-looking girl stare at her for some seconds. Phoebe wondered if she had said something wrong.
The green-haired girl smiled. "Then that's great. You see_".
Jasmine paused on her words. A deep frown appeared on her face. " Did you hear that?".
Phoebe frowned and tried to heighten her hearing but heard nothing. She was bout to speak when she heard something and her eyes widened, along with the weird-looking girl.
A loud shrill scream filled the air.