Chapter 5

• Chapter
• 4:
• Miaka’s
• P.O.V
• “Hydrogen Cyanide.” The healer informed me
• when I went to check up on the boy. “A very diluted amount but lethal at such a
• young age. If you hadn’t gotten to him on time, he would have died within an
• hour at most.”
• I sighed, rubbing my hands down my face.
• “How long will he take to recover?”
• “His body has shut down, making him go into
• a temporary coma so he can regain his strength. He should be better in a week
• or even less, but I have something to show you.” Katherine Sanders, the prime healer
• mage and my best friend, took me to the room where the boy was being treated
• and it struck me anew how cruel the humans had been to a child. We came to a
• stand in front of the boy and Kathy lifted up one of his arms and turned it
• towards the light.
• Tiny fang marks dotted his wrist, as if
• someone had tried to drink his blood. “He’s a vampire. Who could have drunk
• from him?” I asked.
• “He did it to himself.” Katherine told me.
• “We matched the marks to his fang length and they are a perfect match. He’d
• been starved before they’d injected cyanide into him. It was mainly the drawing
• out of his blood that was the real cause of his condition, or his blood would
• have neutralized the poison.”
• “Any lasting damages?” I asked her. He was
• no doubt an immortal, but he had to endure a lot of hardships at such a young
• age. His immortality hasn’t set in yet, so there’s a chance there might be
• scars that could become permanent as he grew older. I knew because I spoke from
• experience.
• “None that can be predicted yet. Once the
• cyanide is completely out of his system, we’ll have final results.”  She reassured me.
• “Okay.” I looked down at the boy’s sleeping
• form and couldn’t help but weave my fingers through his soft white blonde hair,
• trying to provide comfort. He looked far better than when I’d first found him
• five hours ago. He had been cleaned up and fitted into the hospital attire and
• had also been given a blood transfusion. Unfortunately, the blood we’d
• recovered had traces of cyanide in them so we couldn’t use it any longer and
• finding the right kind of vampiric blood had taken some time. But the good news
• was, he was in safe hands and would soon recover.
• I bent down to place a soft kiss onto his
• forehead, before turning back to Katherine. “And what about the rest of them?”
• I asked about the other immortals we’d rescued.
• “Some of them a quite severe and might have
• to stay here for a couple months, but most of the captives were only
• undernourished or needed a blood transfusion. Some of them can be discharged as
• early as tomorrow morning.” She said. “I’ll ask Rain to arrange for a place to
• stay.”
• “Kathy!” I stopped her before she could
• leave. “Thank you so much for helping me.”
• “Always.” She smiled back at me. “I know my
• best friend would always risk her life to help others. But, good luck
• explaining that to your uncles.”
• “I’m not explaining anything to anyone. Not
• anymore.” I told her firmly, crossing my arms across my chest. “I’m an adult!”
• “Not until midnight, honey.” Kathy gave me
• a smirk. “I heard the party is going to be grand.”
• “Ugh!” I rubbed my fingers to my temples.
• “I feel like I’ve been an adult for ages even though I’m officially turning
• eighteen tonight! Did you get an invite?”
• “A month ago.” Kathy pointed towards the
• desk at the corner of her room with a shrug of her shoulders. “I’ve already
• selected a dress and everything so don’t you dare bail on me!”
• I rolled my eyes at her dramatics. “And
• where am I supposed to go? It’s my eighteenth. I’m pretty sure the entire
• planet will be in attendance and everyone in my family will have their eyes on
• me.”
• “So…selected a date yet?” Kathy asked with
• a grin as she followed me out of the facility to where my car was waiting for
• me. “Someone hot and sophisticated? One of the nobles, perhaps?”
• Kathy wiggled her eyebrows at me creepily
• while I scrunched up my face in disgust. “Nope. Absolutely not!”
• But even as I got rid of the images of the
• power-hungry nobles out of my mind, another face popped in out of the blue.
• Eyes swirling with blue, grey and amethyst
• and a face that was ruggedly handsome and yet beautiful at the same time. There
• was a sense of age to him even though he looked about twenty years old…like he
• had been forced to grow up way too soon. I’d seen him only once; known him hardly
• a few minutes, and yet it felt like there was a connection between us.
• The piece of paper with his number on it
• felt like a heavy weight inside my pocket and I wanted to call him just to hear
• his voice, but I knew it was an absurd thought. What was I supposed to say to
• him? ‘Hi, this is the Demon King and I called because I found your eyes
• captivating!’
• Hell no!
• If our genders were reversed, it would be a
• total creep move to make. So I’ll wait to call him, at least until my grand
• birthday party was over with.
• “Sooo…has he been invited tonight?” Kathy
• asked a bit hesitantly and I instantly knew who she was referring to.
• “As a member of the Dark Council, we don’t
• have a choice but to invite him.” I sighed. “Honestly, I’m dreading him showing
• up today. I’ve spoken to my uncles about what he told me, but even they were
• speechless.”
• “Obviously,” Kathy threw her hands up in the
• air in exasperation. “The dude’s older than your grandfather and he thinks he
• can marry you! What kind of paedophilia is that?”
• “We don’t perceive age the way humans do,
• Kathy.” I reminded her. “You and I are considered the same age according to
• maturity level but we both know that you’re seventy years older than me.”
• “I guess you’re right.” She sighed and gave
• me a helpless look. “What are you going to do now? There’s a lot at stake here,
• you know that right? No one can know who you really are.”
• “Or maybe…it’s time for people to know
• exactly who I am.”