The air was tense with heavy silence that seemed to hover above them in melancholy as The black warrior locked his silvery steel gaze with Azure.
"Xuanming, you've arrived. I'm glad you're alright." Azure's pitched voice broke the unnerving silence.
Xuanming(The Black Warrior) threw a lethal glance at Zhulong before averting it back to her.
Unlike Azure's graceful movement and serene nature, he was like a rough edge filled with poisonous spikes that it's strike couldn't be extrapolated.
He wondered if he was the only one who perceived him to be that way as it was obvious The Black Warrior hated him.
"You were worried? You didn't think of me to be so helpless for those creatures to be able to get rid of, did you?" He drawled teasingly but somehow Zhulong found an underlying tone to it, or maybe it was because he was the deadliest of the four clans.
He heard her mellifluous laughter ring into his ears, abruptly interrupting his observation.
"Of course not, I told the vampire lords it won't be easy to get rid of the clans, but now we have to track down who or what is behind this when we're all complete."
Xuanming nodded his head softly in agreement before his eyes caught Zhulong staring at him, his brows creased in puzzlement before a crooked smile played on his lips, a smile with a dreary tone underneath it.
"It's been a few years Zhulong, though time means nothing to creatures like us, it seems as though only days have passed us by."
Zhulong found the Xuanming to be quite enigmatic enough, one minute he was shooting him death stares with steely ice silver eyes, then now a charming smile played on his lips, it was eerie.
He already came to a conclusion, Xuanming was creepy as fuck, good thing he wasn't the weak boy he once was, he was a powerful vampire and he wouldn't bat an eyelid in decapitating the fucker if he tried to rattle him.
"Yes, it feels as though we're only floating in the space of time, that's our normalcy, even though it's not normal." Zhulong remarked, although he felt like something stupid would roll off his lips, he was quite surprised with the body's formation of words, it was suitable for the time they were in.
Xuanming nodded his head in agreement, his white hair moving behind him to dance with the wind as he nodded, a few strands came undone to spray in front of his face and he tucked them swiftly behind his ear.
Zhulong felt a bit jealous of his long white hair even though it was quite a childish thing to be envious. His unnatural white hair made him look ethereal and outlying from this world.
Zhulong was the epitome of perfection sculpted by a god, with the ethereal features of masculinity assorted with a touch of femininity, but still, envy grew in his heart, not only because he had white hair but that Azure might find him attractive which was an obvious characteristic to observe in Xuanming.
"It's been years since we've all been together, it should be fun especially with the hunt for the culprit responsible for releasing the monsters into the mortal realm."
Xuanming said with a tinge of thrill in his voice as a sly smile curved on his lips. Everyone felt at unease for the arising crisis with the monsters but he felt a bit too excited about it, probably because he was powerful and didn't think his extermination would be that effortless to carry out.
"Not everyone has an ability like you who can easily heal by acquiring the anima of others and don't be too laid back about the attacks, I sense a grander motive behind all this."
Azure retorted with a rather worried expression.
Zhulong realised he was nonchalant about the release of monsters with the aim to eradicate the four clans, only because he could easily heal by acquiring anima from others, he was as proximate to being immortal with his remarkable ability.
A dark chuckle reverberated from beneath his breath with no plans of hiding the murkiness coating his laughter.
"You underestimate me yet again Azure, they're mere monsters who are being mind controlled to eradicate us without an approach or process, we have what they don't have, a rational strategy." Xuanming stated the facts with a dark gleam of excitement in his eyes, and a smile which gave off a creepy and charming tone to it as though they were clashing into each other like the wave.
"Well, we should be careful still, mindless creatures are the most deadliest, they fight relentlessly and with nothing in their manipulated minds other than accomplishing their aims and now their aim is to obliterate us from the face of the earth." Azure retorted with a serious expression buy Xuanming didn't seem to take her words into heart, even though he listened attentively, though when Zhulong observed him, it felt like he wasn't listening but instead staring at her intently, like an obsessive psychopathic creep.
He loved her? It was conspicuous even with those hard icy silvery eyes of his which felt cold and empty, he could see the ice around it dissolve for a split moment whenever he looked at her but in an obsessive creepy way.
He couldn't call it love if he was obsessed with her then, could he?
He was glad this body could easily observe and figure out even the most mystifying people, though he couldn't figure him out completely the warmth he held in his eyes for her was easily deciphered as he gave him only the deathly look.
Even in this world, some seemed to obsess over people.
"Why are the both of you out here in the middle of the night?" A trace of jealousy lingered in his voice as he spoke and Zhulong almost sighed in relief that they weren't in any sort of relationship yet, it was obvious with the tone he used, he would have been possessive if she was his but though he was slightly possessive.
"A bit of fresh air and a small talk." Zhulong said before anyone could utter another word and he saw Xuanming lift his brows as he nodded softly, and he could see the rigidity of the hard ice forming around the rings of his silver eyes to slowly encompass into the pupil.
"Well, a bit of fresh air won't hurt before I freshen up, besides I have a lot to catch you up on." Xuanming said in a tone of thrill before smoothly averting his softened gaze to Azure who moved with slight unease.
He wondered how he easily switched his looks. The ice forming around it and melting varying from whom he looked at was a sight that intrigued him.
His lips curved up in a sarcastic smirk as his icy silver eyes narrowed darkly at him.
"I was planning to ask Azure's parents for her hand in marriage, so I'll appreciate it if I didn't see you with her in the middle of the night." Xuanming announced with a sly but charming smile that seemed to plaster endlessly on his face.
Zhulong looked at her face as he examined it for an answer.
"I'm afraid there won't be a proposal, my parents are dead and it's not exactly the perfect time for a proposal or a wedding." Azure made her remark almost immediately, her voice slightly wavering from the overwhelming grief of her parents death but she managed to make her statement without stuttering.
Zhulong saw her jade eyes filled with unshed tears at the brim of her eyes, the garden fell silent with only the blowing of the wind across the garden heard.
Zhulong barely took a step toward her, ready to offer her comfort in his embrace, buy before he could occupy the space between them, Xuanming occupied the space and took her into his embrace, her head buried in his chest as she sobbed and let the tears fall freely.
Zhulong's jaws ticked in anger as his fists clenched into a tight ball, his fingers elongated and it dug into his palms enough to draw blood.
The mere sight of her in Xuanming's hold made his blood burn in his veins like poison slowly eating him up, she triggered a dangerous side of him, a side even he couldn't keep tamed.
He walked away from the sight with a scowl on his face.
Whatever rivalry transpired between him and Xuanming it wouldn't end anytime soon and it would only end with one of them dead with the other's hands drenched in their blood.