I jumped down two stairs at a time and barged into her room, only to find it empty.
Bile rose from my stomach. Guilt and pain was making me want to throw up.
It's not the time to repent or play guilty, rubbing the sweat from my forehead , I frantically began searching for her in our so called mansion.
I started checking the other rooms, porch, verandah, corridor, pool, kitchen, dinning, common area, washroom but she is nowhere to be found. It was as if she just vanished into thin air.
I was just about to inform the others , when suddenly I remembered, I didn't check one particular room. Though chances of her being there was close to zero but still decided to take my chance.
Below our mansion is the basement, which is our equipment and training room. It's like our secret dungeon where we hide our hunting equipments, train ourselves and also wield and make our hunting weapons.
Logic said there is no chance she might be there but my intuition told something else.
I took the elevator down the dungeon and opened the door after scanning my left hand. There she is, but what I saw before my eyes shook me to the core.
Florida was burning a dagger in the burner and compressing the red hot metal in her wounds and trying to close it. Tears rolled down her eyes and she had pushed a cloth in her mouth to avoid screaming.She was literally cauterizing her wounds and stopping the blood with the dagger.
"Trouble!" I shouted.
And in the next moment, I flew towards her and snatched the dagger and threw it in the air, and grabbed her tightly. My eyes were red shot with anger and shock, my nose was flaired and I screamed in a hoarse voice, " what the hell is this? Wha...t a..r.e yo..u doin..g?"
I was fuming.
"Are you out of your mind?"
I started shaking her violently.
"Hoong please, let me have it this is the only way out", she replied in a soft voice, barely audible.
I got up and slammed my fist in the wall.
"Why? Have you gone nuts? Why are you causing trouble one after the other?"
"I don't want to, I cannot cause any more trouble, I cannot let Ruby get hurt because of me."
"What?"
"I have seen her getting burned out yesterday night after she exhausted her powers to cure me, again I cannot ask jer consecutively to work her powers on me again. I am not that selfish."
As she is speaking, I faced her to see that she was shaking and tears kept running down her eyes.
"But you're hurting yourself and this is absolutely crazy. I am not letting you do this to yourself, Trouble."
"But I have to."
Florida tried to get up to grab the dagger which was now lying at a far corner.
I went to stop her but suddenly she fell in my arms.
"I like my new new name", she whispered and collapsed in arms.
"Trouble ", I shouted, my voice echoed through the den.
I picked her up in my arms and dashed into her room and shouted for Ruby once I reached upstairs.
As I laid Trouble in her bed, Ruby came in and watched my in awe.
"What's going on?", she shrieked.
"Nothing, just give me the medicines and one wet towel and warm water in a tub, I need to sterilize her wounds and close it. Her healing process is slow, but still fast considering her to be a half Vamp, but still her wounds needs to be dressed."
"Why in God's name you need to do it, that's my job, so get the hell out and also I want answers to all these..."
" Ruby, I won't repeat get me the med supplies."
"Wha.."
"Do as I say will you. I am not a mood to explain and we can't definitely argue over this now can we."
Ruby glared at me and walked out without uttering a single word. She returned carrying a huge tub with Hoong and her toes carrying the medicines.
"What's going on? What did I just hear from Ruby, care to explain?", Hoong demanded in a cold voice.
"I am not abided to", I challenged. "Now everyone out."
Jung patted Ruby. She smiled at him and nodded but threw me a glare and walked out after closing the door behind her.
"Brother?"
"What?"
"I said, I will dress her wounds, you can go rest."
"Shut up!", he said in a loud voice. "And watch your tone infront of Ruby. I don't know what you're upto and why were you carrying Florida to her room, is what I am more interested in knowing."
"It's nothing"
"Enough", he said and kept the med supplies in the divan table and sat in her bed.
Jung started rolling her sleeves and washed his hands with sanitizer. By now I knew, it would be no point arguing with him, so I let him be. Ruby must have explained him the medicine uses on their way here, as he clearly knew what he is doing.
I leaned in the window pane and said, "I saw her using a dagger".
"I know", he replied indifferently.