Chapter 72

TVS 43: Heartache
F I R E
"Where are they? Where did you hide them?" I asked Alas, I can't see Elenor's shadow! I grabbed his collars, "Don't you dare mess with me!" I gritted my teeth. I have to find them, I hope they are okay! I can't be complacent like this!
Alas raised his arms as if he is surrendering. Has it even been able to fool me ?! I was about to kick him on the knee but he stopped it immediately.
"Relax, they are in the forest where we came from. They will only be released if ... You do what I say."
"Are you stupid? I've been submissive before! Tell me what you need. If you don't keep our word, you'll release them right away ... I'll kill you myself!" I removed my grip on his collar and started to listen.
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"This is ridiculous!" There's no freaking way that I would do that! I saw him chuckled, and seemed even more excited about what was happening to me. He's making me choose between Xavierre and my friends! How am I supposed to do that?
If I chose Xavierre, he will kill my friends. If I chose my friends, he will kill Xavierre! That is so ridiculous! I can't lose both of them! But he might end up killing Xavierre even if I choose it. Alas is after the throne too. I know he's trying to build their broken Clan, will I let him use it?
"This is not fair! You said when I come, you will release them! Why are you doing this ?!"
"There's nothing fair in this world in the first place? If the world is fair, shouldn't it be equal? ??If only vampires were created, only vampires should be. If humans are only human! Eh no! Where's fairness there? Vampires are more superior than humans! So stop with that fair fair thing! "
"What else can I do? For you to let me go ?!" I saw his face crumpled. We're inside the Crinamortes' hideout and Xavierre is just around the corner.
"Are you shouting so they can hear what we're talking about? I'm sorry to disappoint you but I'm never letting my guards down. See? I controlled the sound waves here! No vibrations and sounds can come out in this hideout because I control them! Your shouting? It's useless. " He depicted me right away. He's great ah. Actually that is true that I'm trying to get their attention but I failed.
"Ahhh ... There's one thing."
X A V I E R R E
"Just stand by there. We don't know what time Fire will come out." I ordered Vish. Yes. We managed to take down those vampires, but Alas held Fire. I will not leave here without him.
I told her to inform me when there was a problem, but she didn't. I was wrong to be flattered that he would trust me. Now, I failed to protect her.
Fire went out of Alas' cave. Our eyes met. Her gaze is cold, and I can feel it. Did something bad happen to her?
I smiled when she approached me but it faded right away because of what she have said. "Let's end this ridiculous plays. I don't want to be yours, let alone be your queen. I want a quiet life. Far from you, far from here. The same as before, before you came into my life. You ruined everything "I would be happy today if it weren't for you."
"W-Why are you saying this?" I felt a pain in my chest hearing those words. N-No, Fire is just joking.
"I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't have met you. Maybe now I'm still a slayer, and someday I'll kill you." She chuckled. Her eyes were cold, as if she was dead.
"By saying that, you already killed me, Fire. B-Why? Do you like someone?" So this is how a heartache felt like. I died. My emotions are all mixed up.
"Yes." Earlier I was holding back the tears that were about to drip. This is cracking my head! Tears won't stop from falling. This feeling of being rejected is really painful!
"Why did you just say that now? You should have made it early p-so it wouldn't hurt so much, Fire." She's not even crying. Didn t I really become important?
"I'm setting you free, first of all you're not mine anymore. Go and live your life, I won't bother you ever again."
Lies. Do you think I'll just give up Fire? I will win you back, wait. But watching her walk away from me is the most regretful scene of my life. This is the first and the last time that I will let go of you.
As I turned my back at her, I heard running footsteps. Fire hugged me from behind. It was like I was alive again, feeling her small body embracing me. I confronted him--
--And saw an arrow directly pierced in her heart.
"Noooooooo!" I immediately searched for the source of the arrow, when I located him, I turned him into stone. Why didn't I notice that man?
Alas rushed out and went to whoever shot Fire. It was his father whom I turned into stone.
"Fire, please don't let go. Don't leave me. I haven't had the chance to propose to you yet, so don't!" I held her hand, she's coughing with blood and the blood is slowly coming out of her wound.
She chuckled, "When n-you propose, s-then l-just p-can m-die?" He even managed to joke.
"Fiiiiiiiiire!" It's Vishnyr, hurried to where we were after linking my mind to him. His tears were falling down just like mine.
"S-See this? T-This is t-the arro-*cough*" Fire paused, he coughed up blood again.
"Don't talk p-please. I'm bringing you to the hospital. Hold on." She shook her head, she doesn't want to.
"T-This arrow, g-I did t-to to p-kill you. B-Good a-and me i-it hit. I would r-rather die, than to l-lose you."
"N-No, don't say that. You won't die! Trust me!"
"I-I love y--" Fire's eyes are slowly closing-"No! Don't do this to me!"
"Xavierre! Do something! A-I don't want to lose my brother!" Vishnyr is shaking me. Fire still have her pulse. I must do it.
I know Fire doesn t want to be a vampire. But I don't want her to die. I will do this even if she hates me. I'm turning her into a vampire.
"I'm sorry love, I have to do this." I whispered to her ear. But before I got to bite her neck, she reopened her eyes a bit. She s leaning on me, and I serve as her support as she lies down. She took out the arrow piercing her chest. I saw her face crumpled in pain and it kills me.
He injured the wrist which surprised us. She drank her own blood. "S-Wait Fire! What are you doing ?!"
"G-Goodbye." A tear scaped from her eye.
"N-No!"
"Wake up!" I can't believe this! This is all a dream! Fire is not moving, his pulse is no longer beating!
"Noooooo!" We heard a man shouted. It was Dmitri. He approached us and took Fire from my arm. He patted her on the face, but Fire isn't responding.
He darted his deadly gaze on me, "What kind of King are you ?! You failed to protect your queen!"
"I-I'm sorry! I should be in that place! S-She protected me! I'm sorry." Sorry is all I could say. I've lost her twice now. And she's not going back. In the end she refused to be a vampire to the point that in the last moments she took her own life.
"WHO DID THIS TO MY DAUGHTER ?!" His tone reflected that of a father who had lost a child. The scene of a grieving father is truly heartbreaking. He gently gave Fire to me. I hold Fire's body in my arm again.
"I will help Dad. We will that son of a b*tch!"
To be continued...