Far away from the drowning men and the nymph that was about to save them, deep inside a ship that had set sails to Men's Island, Amalthea sat down on the floor.
From the looks of the tiles that spread over the entire area, the men had transformed a corner in the kitchen to form a small prison, the cook left as soon as he locked her behind the iron bars while two men wearing black suits stood by the door on guard duty, they never once looked her way, would she have noticed them if they did?
The heiress's mind was filled with her pair, leaving very little room for anything else. Her normally sharp senses were dull, she did not want to waste even one percent of her energy in the wrong place right now.
'I doubt they will let me harvest the sunset today'
Beyond Amalthea's control, a little of her life-force slipped out of her fingers after what her pair had done to her, when he pressed his forehead to hers emitting nothing but hostility, her energy exploded willing her to change into her spirit form and have her way with him right then and there. To avoid this disastrous action that would only confirm his accusations against her kind, and cause her to lose his respect, forever, she had to give away some of her energy to him instead.
'What will happen to him now?'
Worried sick about her pair, she felt her life-force indicator taking a deep dive down again, she knew that hibernation was closing in on her, and it was the last suitable time for that to happen, she needed to study him some more, no, she was, in fact, desperate to.
Her pair was a new era in her lifetime, she will never be the same nymph she was a day before, all the answers she had to every question a nymph or a woman might think of were history, this new chapter that nature started writing for her was full of mysteries.
She refused to hibernate when she wished for nothing more than to color her black eyes with his sight, even while the very life was being pulled out of her, all her attention was on his arousal and the fact that their proximity was the reason behind it, a proof that he had the right instinct that would eventually win over him and guide his path right back to where he truly belonged, right next to her.
But would he take too long to come to his senses?
She closed her human form's eyes and gave the control to her energy to guide him to where she was, the message was very simple.
'I miss you so come to me, my beloved.'
After she had made her call, her eyes snapped wide open, her gaze got fixed on the kitchen door, her inner energy dancing in celebration of the fact that her fated pair was approaching.
'Could it possibly be that he is answering my call?'
That was of little importance right now, her call was being answered by him willingly or not, she had to learn to enjoy the little positive things the rough beginning of their chapter together will bring.
He nodded once at the guards by the kitchen door before he spoke.
"My good men, I will take it from here, you should go and enjoy the feast with the rest of our loyal supporters."
"Yes sir."
"As the president wishes."
They left their stations instantly, and the fated pair were finally alone in the room. Joy filled her spirit as she detected her energy inside of him.
'He will never be the same man again'
Even though she changed the quality of his soul, his surface remained the same, he was all big midnight-colored eyes that loathed the very idea of being inside the same room with her.
'There will be no way for me not to hibernate the night away.'
He smiled widely like a predator and showed her all his teeth, her human form was so pulled to him that she found herself right by the bars, clutching them and sitting up on her knees. While she was busy listening to the now familiar melody that played inside her in his presence, the cook came back carrying a barrel over his shoulder.
Amalthea immediately recoiled away from the stench that reeked from the dreadful thing.
"Finally! A reaction worth my men's effort."
The cook placed the barrel on the floor and then left the room in a hurry, and for the first time since she had met her pair, she was preoccupied with other ideas.
'How come they managed to trap death in a barrel like this?'
"Haha you lowly scout, I am so damn lucky to have captured you! If it were any of the stronger witches to be in your place right now, they would not bear to sit a second still."
'My beloved is happy to have met me, he desires for me to be weak.'
Remembering the qualities of women when they are at their weakest state, she found a water pitcher on the nearby table and whispered for a few drops to form on her lower eyelids, her idea was an immediate success, and the results were completely satisfactory.
"Hahaha yes! Cry me a river...no, no... cry me a sea!"
She whispered for the drops to keep on coming, delighted to have made him happy, her happiness was interrupted by her inner energy dancing along the line that her pair's eyes were drawing, his enticing eyes brushed over her body, then he spat right next to his feet.
He moved to the barrel lifting it over his shoulder, then grabbed the key and opened the bars to her cell, it was pure torture, her energy that recoiled badly from the barrel was pulled right back to where it was to welcome her pair.
"I knew the books of the fathers were not accurate, if they were, you would have been screaming by now."
Her smart pair made perfect sense, any other nymph would have been badly depleted by the death in the barrel, but she was not any other nymph, and his magnetic field was too intriguing for her to be completely affected by the other awful thing in the narrow room.
The president laid down the barrel cramping the already small cell, cornering her with his bear-like posture, he stood tall and glared at her half-naked body that limped over the white floor.
"Take off your shirt right now."
Generation after generation, from desperate fathers to lonely sons, there was one conclusion the men as a community had reached about the darkest time of their history, the so-called women's revolution.The current president, Hylas, was not only in agreement with this conclusion but also its biggest supporter and advocator.The manipulative nymphs had used tabooed witchcraft to brainwash their obedient mothers into following the witches out of their island, Men's Island, the women's revolution was a myth, and a lie cannot cover the ultimate truth just as a man's finger cannot cover the sun.The truth that was passed in the Men's Island was that the Women's Island, or Paradise as the deceiving nymphs called it, was just an open-air jail.The wicked nymphs had taken their women hostage, they were held there only to be human shields, they remain obedient to the wicked witches because of the tabooed sorcery that took control over their brains, being the tender weak creatures they were, th
The president gave up on getting an answer out of the rebel, so he unpinned her hand from the bars and then half dragged her back to where she was lying down in the corner of the cell. Her consciousness warned her that she was about to slip away into hibernation so she tried reasoning with him some more."If you do not take me up, I will have to sleep the night away."He turned his attention to the nearby barrel and opened the lid."What a twisted way to say that your strange as* electricity would disconnect otherwise, so what is so bad about that for me?"Right there from where Amalthea limped, her hand reached out to clutch his foot in panic."Now that I have found you, I am just not ready to leave you alone, my beloved."After measuring her pair, she knew he was not weak, far from that actually, he was perhaps the strongest human being she had ever met, he took great care of his body that looked and felt like a man's armor, the quality of his magnetic field was also healthy, she kn
Every living thing had its own life force.Nymphs recognized the different qualities of each energy and took care of the world this way. When the destined day came by, a life force would change its shape to take on the next type that suited it.Whether the creatures were ready for the change or not had little to do with the destined time for that change to happen.Supreme life forces like those that belonged to humans had a difficult time accepting the change once it happened, regardless of when it does, as if no human's life force had ever changed shape before, they lived their lives oblivious to the upcoming event or simply ignoring it altogether.Many humans immediately went into denial whenever that promised moment caught up with them.It was true that Hector and Jason were determined to reach Paradise no matter what, but not once have they seriously considered that a ticket to Paradise would cost them their lives.And so, the two men began going into heavy denial as they started
Far from Paradise, on the president's victorious ship, a barefoot Hylas was running to his room seeking privacy.He hoped that no unlucky man would be off the deck after he ordered them to feast until the next day, that man would surely face all the wrath that he had built up inside of him right now.Hylas had made a grave mistake that led him to this run of shame, he had trusted the witch's deceptiveness when she announced that she was to be out for the entire night.This caused him to lower his guard and prevented him from anticipating how a body of a woman, even a fake one, was so bewitching, that he had gone through an episode of temporary madness.'Madness is what that was and nothing short of it'He was sure that her electricity was no more when he first started pouring the dark thick tar over her, but when madness took over, he failed to recognize when she got plugged in again, he let her seduce him into kissing her not so long after."Thank fu*c I did not go further"He would
The president's bare feet had finally managed to carry him back to the kitchen.'Too fu*king late'He had stopped at the entrance to the kitchen feeling like an ice bucket got emptied right above his hot head when he realized that his prisoner was no longer alone.Instead of assessing the strength of the intruder aboard his victorious ship, the first thing his eyes searched for then saw was her, he could not deny that he was abnormally drawn to her.'Like a tiny piece of metal in front of a gigantic as* magnet'She was back to being the porcelain doll with lush pitch-black satin hair that was completely wet for once, the water was dripping from the locks provocatively, like small beads of sweat, and it gave her hair a shade darker as if that was even possible.Her attention and her dark dark eyes were not all over the president for once, pissing him off to no amends.The alligator tears she shed not too long ago were long gone. It was true that he had just met her, and there was no wa
On the victorious human ship that had managed to re-write history as mankind knew it; there was a commotion in the kitchen. The three species who stood there were oblivious to the fact that this particular event would turn their lives upside down.They could never have predicted how this fateful dusk would be remembered as a time for unmeasurable regrets."…He is my pair."The powerful nymph that had been dominating the battle moments before was nowhere to be found, her confession was a mere whisper, like a secret that was not even hers to tell.'How could I have not seen this coming'The imposter stared incredulously at his betrothed as the nymph squeezed her so-called pair right over her sacred heart, he had only seen her taking a human form twice in all the centuries he had known and loved her, her beautiful human form was not comparable to her spirit form, and he had always wondered how she would look like in the third form she had no idea existed in her cocktail altogether.He wa
"Not while I am near, you do not."The powerful medium approached to comfort her, offering her his own energy, their nature took over them, he held her by the elbow and tugged her closer to him, their connection dulled the pain her pair caused her instantly, but the wound he had opened was so deep that there was no way around her soon to come fall, the sun outside was already setting and her chances to harvest were next to nothing, her pair would not allow her to anyhow.Just as her inner energy cried out for help again, and the second she had enough awareness to read what her ex was about to do, though her pair had already given permission for the kiss, she shrieked at him."PLEASE not in front of my pair!"Hibernation took over her, but the imposter's instincts complied at once, as he lifted the heiress by the waist and had his water wrap her long legs around him, he spun around facing his betrothed's pathetic excuse of a pair.His dark eyes made sure he had a full view of the two o
The queen hated every word that came out of his mouth.What she hated more was her inability to deny it, she knew deep down inside that keeping Amalthea in the dark was the best option for everyone back then, but it was never meant to last this long, her memories were supposed to come back to her slowly, the barrier's intelligence was to decide the pace on its own, according to her willingness to face the truth."What if she is not ready to remember yet? What happens to everyone then?""This is not what worries you, who do you think you are talking to?!""YES!... I AM AFRAID! … I cannot lose her, I cannot lose her forever...""...This was all alright before, this was fine as long as he was not a part of the equation we were trying to solve. Things have drastically changed now.""...Who is her pair?""Other males were calling him president, he must be the current ruler of Men's Island.""This is just…""Cruel? Funny?...""Is he…could he be a descendent?""Does it matter?""It matters t