As expected, alvahs body was seen lying on the ground with excessive bleeding and he was going through an excruciating pain. His voice was very hoarse as he groaned breathlessly. The cheetah made few steps and he was closer to Alvah. He laid beside him gently placing his huge paws on him because his healing process had started. The lion watched carefully at the incident.
Minutes had gone by when alvah began showing signs of waking up. He squinted his eyes as he looked around and he was staring at the evening gloomy sky and he knew exactly why.
Alvah quickly stood up. His lion had awoken too in alert. He looked at him and he could tell he knew what was going on. " Lead me to her" Alvah spoke gravely in a tone that hinted he was very upset with his actions and disappointed in himself. By now the cheetah was done healing and had disappeared back into Alvah.
The lion picked up her blood scent immediately and took off. After a few laps, they arrived with the view of a stream, looking forward he saw a curved up figure sitting.
Alvah took a step but felt something liquid on the ground, when he looked down, he saw a little puddle. Using his hands to feel it and his face turned white, " blood " he whispered looking ahead.
He quickly ran towards her and saw her panting for air from crying too much and she looked even paler than before. She was on the Verge of dying.
With her knees tightly close to her chest, with slow movements like she was shivering from fear. Alvah called out to her in a soft tone, "Zillah" and she shivered even more, she was becoming really scared of Alvah.
She hurriedly stood up in pains looking back and she saw him. She was in a delirium. " Why are you here?" she asked him in a shaky voice taking few steps back into the stream
There alvah noticed her brutally clawed injured face. " What happened to my Zillah" he murmured to himself in literally shock of what she looked like. She was hurt and by him.
" Zillah you…" he stuttered in scared voice walking closer to her.
" Don't come any closer " she warned with her finger pointed at him. But he still paced slowly to her.
He began pouring with an ached voice" Zillah I am so…" she cut him off shortly, "don't you dare use that word on me" She almost teared up. He always manipulated her, telling her how deeply he was sorry but keeps on hurting her in the worst way possible.
" I promise I wasn't myself, I was overwhelmed, I would never intentionally hurt you" and he meant every word of it he would never hurt Zillah. He took the blame of his beasts because he owned them and they are one so if it hurt Zillah it was basically him hurting her.
"But you can, unintentionally and you did, didn't you Alvah?" she said pointing at her ridiculously damaged face.
She had soaked the earth with her blood but with the waters from the stream she could only wash off the blood from her body. And her injuries stinged like hell, she had never felt this much exhilarating pain in her life before. Being gripped on the leg, almost crippled and scratched like she was a log of wood.
"Zillah don't say that" He never believed that she would think so low of him. "I only got so angry because…"
"Everything didn't happen the way you wanted it to huhn. Because you're an infernal and you have no idea who you are exactly, because you're still trying to figure out your life everything is going to have to be on pause for you to clarify your dilemma what the fuck!"
she blurted out ever Soo serious and a steady flaring eye contact with him. And Alvah was shocked to his whit. He had never heard her curse before
"Zillah you…"
"Don't you dare say my name" she lost her control and yelled loudly at him and strictly.
Alvah was quick to retaliate tho "why are you saying bad things about me?" He asked frantically losing his sanity
"Isn't that who you are in the first place" what she said had crossed his limits. "Zillah!" he shouted her name
"Alvah!" she screamed back at him "You are the most selfish, self centered person I have ever met. You only care about yourself, EVERYTHING has to go the way you want it to go, your decision has to be my decision, it must thrive IN MY LIFE even though it's against my will". She blundered boisterous and angered.
"You left when I needed you the most. I have suffered in your name, I was punished, I was burned, I was frozen up, I have died and returned, and where was Alvah". She took in fast breath but she didn't stop. Even when her clawed face hurts Soo badly she expressed her emotions valiantly despite her grief.
"Why isn't he here, he said he would return soon", she mocked herself mimicking her own voice and how she had felt for the past month when he had promised her. Any one could tell she was traumatized from her experiences.
Alvah was dumbfounded from the words that came out from her mouth but she continued nonetheless.
"This is exactly why no one loves you , no one cares about you, you always abandon the people who loves you most for your selfish desires. Leaving everyone behind to pursue what YOU want"
And the painful thought is that is Zillah wrong she only explained what he did that made her to feel this way. Maybe she is the first and the only one to open up to him about his character.
"Abandoning the one who loves you, leaving them to suffer just like your parents abandoned you in this life too". She had never blinked to see death before her eyes but at that moment she saw a light but it faded quickly.
Alvah had crashed his long nails on her neck piercing it deep into her skin with blood sluggishly drooling from her neck and she held unto his arm like her life depended on it because it did, gasping for air before she saw a tree fall down from a distance from her and she fell to the ground coughing dreadfully
She felt a sudden gush of wind once again close to her, but this time it was stronger.
Ghazan had appeared exchanging hits on Alvah and hard, for the very first time, twice in a row.
Alvah saw red. His eyes were bloody red staring at Zillah while ghazans eyes were white glaring at him and that caught his attention quickly.
Ghazan then looked at Zillah asking in a deep deadly tone, "what did you say?" Like he too was very annoyed by what she had said about Alvahs parents abandoning him like he was a bastard child.
Zillah bit her lip and could only taste blood. Immediately ghazan noticed the blood on her face and neck and leg almost on all part of her body.