Aragon swallowed, shifting back fearfully.
He was starting to waste time, so Samara made the first move, charging towards him like flash.
The move was fast, and before Aragon could change spots, the sword gave him a cut on the arm.
"Damn!" He groaned, staggering as he held his bleeding arm. The blood fell in drops on the dried leaves on the ground.
He's not a healer, he's an ordinary wizard so the wound stayed, and he groaned painfully again, realizing he has to fight it if he really wants to escape.
Despite the bleeding arm, he grabbed his sword again and stood rigidly.
At once, he ran towards Samara and Samara did the same.
Their swords met, and sparks flew as the metals made a straight sound.
Their eyes met, shinning blue and gold respectively.
Shockingly, the conjoined sword began cutting Aragon's sword, and Orion smiled from the tree he's sitting on. He has been expecting it.
Aragon's eyes widened when he saw what's going on, and he quickly withdrew his sword, stepping back.
Samara jumped into the air and kicked him on the chest.
He flew to a tree, and she clearly heard the splitting of his backbone as his back hit on the tree.
He landed back on the ground unconsciously, and Samara inhaled as she landed back on the ground too.
"That was quick. That prick is too weak, i wanted a longer fight" Orion said, jumping down from the tree.
They walked to Aragon's body together, and Samara inhaled.
"Satisfied? Or should I kill him?" He asked, and she faced him quickly with a glare.
"Fine" he muttered.
"His backbone is broken, it'd be like that for days before you'd help me heal him" she said.
"Why don't you do it yourself?" He asked.
"I told you I can only heal myself" she replied.
"I'm never gonna use my healing energy on this pen cover, and he's not even gonna be alive to get the healing" Orion said, and his expression hardened as he spread his palm sidewards
His sword left Samara's sword, and it landed on his palm.
He grabbed it and was about to sink it into Aragon's tummy when Samara kicked Aragon away from the spot, so the sword entered the ground.
"I told you not to kill him!" She shouted, and he made to grab her neck angrily...
*Don't you dare* the voice in his head said, and his hand went down.
"He gave me pains for hours! He used you! He knowingly approached you!" He shouted.
"That's still not enough reason to kill him" she replied.
"Normally, there's no level to the sins before I kill. I kill the people I have to kill and no one questions me about it! He toyed with me and it's not funny!" He shouted angrily.
"He toyed with me too! I got used the most so please! Just forgive him this once" Samara said.
"I don't want to" Orion started walking towards Aragon, but Samara blocked him again.
"Sam!" He shouted.
"Superior, just this once" she muttered, and he smirked.
Before she knew it, he vanished and reappeared beside Aragon's body.
He brought out the orb and opened his mouth, throwing it in.
Aragon's pains started even in his unconscious state, and he smirked.
"I can do this much, right?" He faced Samara, and then they heard footsteps approaching.
They vanished at once.
Minutes later, Agares and Karazi appeared. They took Aragon away.
*
DELOS CITY*
An old car came to a stop in front of a building, and a middle aged man came out of it, looking so tensed as he walked into the building.
He got in and met more than eight other people waiting. They're the council of Delos, in charge of people's safety.
"Welcome, Lancelot" the only woman with them said, and the man who just entered nodded. He's the leader of the council.
"Thanks, Arya. What's the news going around again?" He asked.
"A vampire was captured with vervain. The plan was to torture her with sunlight till nighttime before staking her, but another vampire came to her rescue, and they killed five men, leaving just two alive" Arya said.
"More than twenty were killed in the city library too, and Honourable Mazi was found dead with a bite mark on his neck. Obviously killed by a vampire too" Lancelot said.
"Exactly the point. Vampires will scatter this city if we fail to make any move" Arya replied.
"There's one thing for sure though. They're from the Institute. Duran's institute" one of the members spoke.
"Then we should probably call Duran himself and speak to him" another member said.
"That'd be useless. Duran only says yes, he never makes changes" Arya replied.
"Then we have no choice" Lancelot said.
"What do you mean?" Arya asked.
"Vampire hunters are needed in this city. I met two in Berlin, I'd just have to send words to them, and they'd be here in two days" Lancelot replied.
*
INSTITUTE, ROOFTOP*
Orion and Samara landed there some minutes ago after they left the woods, and they've been sitting silently since then, not talking to each other.
Samara's eyes are on the ground, but Orion is staring at the moon, getting annoyed just by seeing the light coming from it.
He glared at it, and the moon disappeared into the dark clouds. Total darkness took over.
"Stop it" Samara said.
"I don't want to" he replied, and Samara looked up at the sky, calling it back out.
The moon came back to the sky, lightening everywhere again.
"So you can control it too" he said.
"Since you taught me the flower and moon technique, I can communicate with the moon now" she replied, and he made to glare at the moon again, but Samara quickly blocked his eyes with her palm,
He smiled before taking her hand sway, and he began caressing her knuckles.
Surprisingly, she didn't try to take the hand from him. She allowed him
"Thanks" she said.
"Why?"
"For not killing Aragon. I know what you can do so... I'm grateful" she said, and he sighed.
"He did something terrible, why do you still want him alive?".
"If everyone who does terrible things should get killed always, then the world will be empty already, and I'm sure you'd be the first one to get killed" she replied, and he let go of her hand immediately.
She folded that hand slowly.
"Yeah I'm a bastard, and it's my choice to be, but I don't do things without reasons" he said seriously.
"Can't you let go of Astrid's death?" She asked.
"When there's Aragon to always remind me about it? Stop" he muttered, and she shifted close to him.
He shifted back, and she came closer again.
"Is it your turn tonight?" He blinked.
"You didn't kill Astrid, so stop hating yourself" she said.
"And who told you I hate myself?" He replied.
"It's obvious , isn't that why you hate light? Lights show you who you really are, and you hate seeing it. Let me guess, you hate looking at yourself in the mirror too right?" She said, and he looked away from her.
"Stop acting like you know everything about me" he said.
"Orion Alaric" she replied, and he looked at her.
"It's rude to call my surname" he said, and she smiled.
"Orion Alaric stony face" she teased.
"Stop it" he said.
"Orion Alaric stubborn head" she teased again.
"Samara Hercules white bra, purple...
"Stop!!!!!" She quickly blocked his mouth, and he started laughing.
"You started it"
"But...can you see what I'm wearing underneath again now?" She asked.
"I can see it whenever I want to" he replied, and she quickly covered her body with her arms.
He faced her, and she shifted back.
"Both your bra and panties are pink" he said, and her eyes widened.
"Stop!"
"Fine" he replied and looked away from her.
"Nutjob" she muttered, and he smiled.
She yawned afterwards, and they went silent again.
"You should stay away from Aragon from now on, till I'll be able to find out what he's hiding" he said, but no answer came from her.
He looked her way, and he smirked when he saw her sleeping already.
Before he could comment, her head landed on his shoulder, and he inhaled, staring at her face.
*She's really pretty, isn't she?* The voice in his head asked.
"I know, and you're mad" Orion replied, and the voice laughed.
Chief Feathers stood beside a pillar in the nearest hallway, staring at the two on the rooftop.
She felt a great surge of jealousy immediately, and she started wishing she's in Samara's place right now.
The jealousy consumed her more and more as she continued watching, and her nails grew long.
She was about to poison the air and send it to Samara when someone held her from behind.
"Water!" She gasped, and Chief Water took her away.
"Let go!" She snapped off her arm when they got a little bit far.
"What did you just try to do? Hurt a disciple? You're a chief here!" He snapped.
"I don't care! You know how bad I've been wanting Orion, and...
"And he'd never see you, can't you just give up already?" Water cut her off.
"You won't be the one to tell me what to do, I can handle myself" she replied and walked away.
Chief Water sighed and faced her backside, watching her till she's out
*
MORNING, CAVE*
Ceres's blood flowed to every part of the cave already, and she's almost lifeless on the chair.
She kept stabbing one spot, and her intestines are almost out.
She was about to stab again when Sheila took the knife from her.
"I think we're done" she smiled and cut her own wrist with the knife.
Her blood trickled out, and she placed the wrist on Ceres's lips.
"Drink, you should live if you wanna hunt me again. I look forward to your next try" she said.
Ceres drank a little of her blood, and Sheila smiled again.
"I know your type, they never give up no matter the torture, but do you know my type? I love people who never give up cos i love torturing them. My blood will be out of your system in three hours, and you'd be healed by then. Get well and come after me again, please" she said and stroked Ceres's hair before speeding out of the cave.
*
DEMONS COVEN*
Aragon woke up just now, and he met the orb of pains beside himself.
He stood and saw Agares.
"The orb came out of you when the sun came out some minutes ago. You were in pains and crying with the big tummy throughout the night" Agares laughed mockingly.
"You're in no place to mock me!" Aragon barked.
"Why not? You're so weak and I don't even know why Duran made you a superior. Your back was broken when we found you and thanks to the great queen's healing water, you're fine now. You'd have been long dead if not for this coven" Agares replied, and Bakasura entered the room.
"Great queen!" Agares bowed.
"What happened to you? A whole Superior wounded in the woods? Are you that weak now?" She faced Aragon.
"I'm so sorry great queen. The combination of their swords made me so weak that I didn't even know when I passed out" he said.
"They're combining swords now? How did they get that close? Wasn't he supposed to hate whiteheads?" Bakasura's eyes widened.
"Why do you seem so tensed about it great queen? Are we supposed to care about that too?" Agares asked.
"You're really clueless, aren't you? The one might be his weakness but they're also each other's strength. The more time they spent with each other, the more powerful they become, don't you get it?" Bakasura snapped.
"I'll work on breaking them apart from now on" Aragon said.
"And I have my hold on a student too, the princess" Agares said.
"Agatha? She's obsessed with me" Aragon replied.
"She'd replace Mali" Bakasura said.
*
INSTITUTE*
Krishna bumped into Raven immediately he came out of his room, and he scoffed.
"You're scarce to see these days"
"You're the scarce one" Krishna replied, and Raven suddenly took his hand when he noticed something.
There's a tattoo of a crown on the third finger of his right hand.
"Wait I've seen this before!" Raven gasped, and Krishna quickly took the hand from him, covering it with his shirt.
"Agatha! Agatha has this same tattoo on her the same finger, heard it's the royal tattoo of Sullivan, her kingdom. Why do you have it too?" Raven said curiously.
"I only got it for fun" Krishna replied.
"For fun? You could get killed! Royal tattoos aren't for fun!" Raven said.
"Whatever" Krishna said when he saw Ruthie.
He left Raven standing and went after her.
"Ok honestly, I know nothing about Krishna. He's just my best friend" Raven muttered.
"Raven!" Peony's voice woke him, and he turned to see his girl.
He walked to her with a big smile, and they hugged.
"Eaten?" He asked, kissing her hair too.
"No. It's not breakfast time yet" she replied.
"Then let's go steal from the kitchen" he pulled her, and she followed with a loud squeal.
*
"Ruthie!" Krishna pulled her back, and she faced him with a scowl.
"What again?"
"Whatever I did to you, I'm sorry but...
"You did nothing wrong" she said.
"Then why...
"Can you just forget about it?" She interrupted.
"No. You're the first girl I got used to in here and i can't just let it go" he replied.
"It'd only make me like you more and I'm trying to get over my feelings for you!" She shouted, and his eyes widened.
"What!"
"Now that you know, can you go? Please" she said and walked away the other way.
Krishna was about to follow her when the assembly bell rang, and disciples started rushing out.
Some old disciples came to take Agatha out of her room, and his eyes widened when he saw them.
He wanted to go ask what's going on, but he stopped himself.
*
CERES'S ROOM*
Ceres got back just a while ago, healed with Sheila's blood.
She's smirking as she came out of the bathroom, still wet with the bathwater.
She stood in the middle of the room and smiled eventually.
Maybe it's a good thing that Zara is coming soon.
"I'll have to go close to her by all means. She has to turn me. If i become a vampire, tackling Sheila should be easy" she muttered bitterly.
*
ORION'S ROOM*
Samara smiled when she woke up to find herself in the arms of someone.
They're obviously cuddling, and it feels so good and different.
"Ruthie? Is it Peony? What's the time?" She muttered, her eyes still closed.
"Uh? The time... Ruthie" she pressed the body of the person, and she squinted.
This is not a female body!
Her eyes widened, and she spranged up only to see Orion! And they're in his room too!
"How did this happen! How did... Onion!!!" She screamed, and he opened his eyes slowly.
"You're being noisy" he muttered.
"What did you do to me at night and why am I even in your room! Explain!!" She shouted.
"Damn, I hate noises" he muttered, sitting up.
"What did you do!" She shouted.
"You kept cuddling with me throughout the night and you didn't wanna let me go, you don't remember?" He replied.
"What!" She hugged herself securely.
"And don't tell me you're thinking weird things, there's no way I'd try that with you. Your b**bs can't even fill my mouth, I'm talking about the two at once" he replied.
"What!" She grabbed her b**bs.
"Yeah, so get rid of every thought like that. I love big things and you're not part of it" he replied freely and stood.
"I'll kill you" Samara muttered, and before he could move, she jumped on him and they went back to the bed together with her on top.
She grabbed the pillow and started hitting it on her face .
"Pervert!!! How did you know the size of my b**bs! Bastard!!!" She dropped the pillow and began pulling his hair so hard.
"Stop!! Sam! Argghhhhh!!! Sam!!!!!!"