Chapter 9

❤️ The Duel (Part 2)❤️

"I said you are beautiful," the Vampire Prince said, his lips stretching a bit. "I mean have you ever looked at the mirror before? You'd understand what I am saying by now. You're beautiful" he added, not bothered about her angry expression. It didn't faze him, instead it made her look more stunning. And let him not start by talking about her alluring.

With a fast reflex, Raziah held his neck tightly in her hold and hit his back against one of the pillars around, breaking the pillar into two halves.

"Don't you dare call me that again or else..." Raziah told him with clenched teeth, adding more pressure to mark her words as she left it hanging.

Smiling even though he was held. He did not want to fight with her. His red eyes shine brightly and he licks his sharp canine teeth. 'Your blood is enticing me.' he thought smelling the hand that held his neck, provoking Raziah the more.

By now they have attracted the attention of every single Vampire in the palace.

"But you-" he started saying but was cut short by Jold.

Interrupting his son abruptly.

"I am so sorry about my son behavior Raziah. Please let him go." Jold begged on his son's behalf. He and his council of elders heard the noise and had to hurry out to know what caused it only to find his son dangling in the air by Raziah. Good thing that Vampires are undead if not she could have choked him to death with the hard grip.

"It's KING to you!" Raziah shouted and fling the Vampire Prince to his father in rage.

The Vampire Prince did a backflip in the air and landed on his feet beside his father.

"Anger," the Vampire Prince said in a singing tone which annoys the hell out of Raziah and her claws started emerging. "You have anger issues, but I will manag-"

King Jold quickly covered the mouth of his son. His son doesn't know when to stop and angering Raziah further, well…

"I am sorry my King, we are so sorry my King." Jold apologized to Raziah, forcing the word 'King' out.

Still glaring at the Vampire Prince and pointed one of her index fingers at him.

"Tell him to mind his words or else, you are going to bury him soon." She told Jold and left the Palace, breaking one of the walls of the Palace on her way out.

The Vampire Prince was smiling as his fangs reneged back.

"What are you staring at! Get back to work and clean up this mess right now!" Jold yelled at his servants and guards that was still watching and haven't moved from where they stood. They all went back to what they were doing while some began cleaning and packing the broken pieces of the pillar and wall.

"This meeting is adjourned. I will call for the next meeting soon," King Jold said to his council of elders, removing his hand from his son's mouth. "You may all leave now," he added.

One by one the council of elders left the palace to their various homes.

"Aragorn, in my chamber right now." King Jold didn't need to repeat himself twice to his son before he did as told. "Send some guards to clean up the mess she made outside our gate and put guards there, the stronger ones." he told one of the guards.

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She should have killed him and used him as an example for the others.

'He is not worthy.' the voice of her wolf was heard in her mind.

'You are right.' She replied to her wolf at the same tone.

Arriving at the gate, her horse was still there, without much of a thought she climbed it and rode home.

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Entering her palace, she noticed the aura around the palace was dark and that everyone, every single one, was on their knees with their heads bowed. Their hands touching the ground.

What's happening? Did they know she was coming and knelt down for her?

She thought and looked around her once more. Coming down from her horse. Her eyes narrowed when no guards came to take the horse from her.

"Am I now invisible to you all that none of you would notice my presence!" Raziah yelled out in anger but instead of them getting up to their feet, they began shaking in fear which didn't escape Raziah sharp eyes. Her eyes narrowed at them.

Taking a deep breath to avoid strangling all of them to death. She became aware of one thing.

She noted they were not scared of her shouting but of something else. And that something is in the Palace. Facing the entrance of the Palace, she growls loudly.

"Who came here and why are you all kneeling down? Get up right now."  She bellowed in anger and started looking around. But when none of the servants or guards obeyed her, the anger in her was nearly reaching the boiling side. "Are you all now deaf? I said get up or you all are dead." she added with clenched teeth.

"We can't do that, my King." one of the guards said, shocking Raziah who bent down to grab hold of the guard's hair to stare into his brown eyes.

"And why is that?" She demanded, her teeth clenched and wasn't moving.

"Because they can't get up unless I ask them to." A strange familiar voice that made her shiver, not out of fear, said behind her.

That voice. She knows that voice. She could recognize it anywhere, anytime and any day even with her eyes closed.

Her hand that was holding the golden spear clenched tightly at it as she let go of the guard's hair and turned around to face the man she wanted to kill. The man she has grown to hate. The man that is...

Blinking her eyes at the sight before her.

The man that is... Drop-dead gorgeous.

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Vampire Kingdom: Jold Chamber:

King Jold was seen pacing around his chamber and his son who sat down on his bed kept rolling his eyes as he stared at his father moving from one head of the room to the other.

"You won't keep walking forever father so out with whatever you want to say." Prince Aragorn told his father.

King Jold halts and faces his son in anger. "Do you know what she would have done to you if I hadn't step in?"

"What could she have done to me, father? I told her the truth. She is beautiful and I want her." He said the last part darkly.

Shaking his head at what his son was saying. "You don't know Raziah, she will kill you son. Did you not hear what she did to the other two kingdoms? Besides she is a hundred year old wolf and you are just a fifty year old Vampire. You don't want to mess with her so please stay away, far away from her." King Jold warned his son.

"Father you don't seem to understan-" Aragorn started saying but got interrupted by his father.

"I don't have to understand Aragorn but you are my only child and son and that is the only thing I understand. I don't want to lose you due to your carelessness even though I know what you can do," King Jold said. "Just stay away from and let's lie low."

"I like her and with time she will like me back." Prince Aragorn told his father.

"Son, she is evil, cold-hearted and her heart is made of stone."

"And yet she let me live. She is not cold stone hearted like you said father. She just has a lot of anger in her and I am going to find out why, because I like her."

"Why do you want to kill yourself Aragorn. Now let's forget about this and talk about the Kingdom and the reason why she came here in the first place. Raziah came here to tell me that she wants to take over this kingdom and rule over us. I will still be the King and you the Prince but we will be under her command and if we fail to do that. We will be at war which I don't want." King Jold told him worriedly.

Aragorn started laughing as if what his father was saying was a joke.

Picking an offence which didn't fail to show on his face King Jold growl slowly. "You think this is funny, huh?"

Shaking his head as he stopped laughing and smiled widely at his father. "Can't you see that the Creator's hand is in this, he made it possible for us to meet."

"I don't understand." King Jold anger was replaced by confusion.

Why was his son smiling like that? Did Raziah hit his head harder or on something?

King Jold thought to himself.

"We are perfectly made for each other, father. My powe-" he didn't complete his words 'power' when his father Interrupted him once again.

"Shhhh, keep your voice down, no one should know about your dark power," King Jold said in a hush tone.

"Oh father, you still don't get it." Prince Aragorn said, getting up from the bed, his face getting serious.

"Get what, son?" King Jold, furrowed his brows.

"Raziah is my Blood Singer."