“Oh shit!” Sky said when he realised that it had started already. He had thought he would at least be able to get back to the Abode to inform Michael about what happened and asked about what could be done.Though Sky felt that these people deserve whatever was coming to them for their arrogance and nasty behaviours but he knew that Michael would frown upon any violence started by him, especially in a place like a school.And now this? He deliberately tamped down the anger that was threatening to erupt in him as he vaguely heard Damien ask him something. He had no idea what he said though as he turned aside to look at him.Damien shook his head at him as he must have detected the turmoil going through Sky’s system. Sky nodded briefly as he tried to bring himself under control. He knew what Damien had seen. The New Order clan vampires had been trained to live below the radar for years and they had learnt to curb their hunger and urges in order not to attract attention to themselves. Th
“Why would you do that? Of course not! Why should we run away from those punk heads? I am not a coward and I…” Sky trailed off when he saw the look on Michael’s face and he knew that it had to do with the way he was addressing Damien. He had become so used to the leader in the past weeks that he did indeed forget that it was a privilege for them to even have him with them at all in this world and how it was unacceptable for any of them to speak to the latter the way he was. The anger he was trying so hard to keep on a leash had just got the better of him when he heard what Damien said. He realised his mistake when he saw the stormy look on Michael’s face and he cleared his throat before saying “What I meant was that, leader, you shouldn’t…” “Damien” Damien corrected him immediately even though his back was to the other occupants in the room as he looked out the window. The sky looked briefly at Michael’s face before nodding slightly as he proceeded “Damien, I mean you shouldn’t be
Damien realised that he could have asked for a loan from Michael so he could take one of those small, blue vehicles called a cab on his way back to the Macmillan’s. Since going back would only cause more delay and make him later than he already was. He quickly made himself invisible to the human’s eyes from The Abode’s gate so he could use his full speed.He had not expected to be distracted while passing through the courtyard. He saw a lovely, young lady he had never seen before since he had been given the courtyard of the magnificent palace whose occupants and all the multitude of workers there had no idea of what was beyond it.The young lady sat in a regal chair made of gold just like many things in the palace of King Saldus, the Great. Damien was amazed by the long line of finely dressed men on the other side of the pavilion where she sat. The men were all dressed in fineries and Damien could see that some of them were foreigners with the way they were dressed and even the way th
“What?” Damien thought in surprise as he was sure that no human was supposed to see him in this form.She took a step forward towards his direction. Just as Damien heard one of the men directly on his other side ask hopefully “Are you talking to….”Damien didn’t wait to listen to the rest as he quickly drew on his rarely used power that tends to take much out of his reserve - he vanished from that place in case she had truly seen him!Did she truly see him? The disturbing thought was on his mind on his way back! He set the upsetting thought that his power might truly be waning aside when he got to the Macmillan’s land and he intended to quickly sneak into his allotted room to change his school uniform before he would seek out the head gardener for whatever the man had planned for him because of his late coming.Little did he know that upon entering his almost bare room; which was scruffy, the poor condition was more glaring as a result of the sun penetrating through the small window;
“Why are the two of you looking at me like that?” Andrea said immediately she stopped laughing.“Nothing, Miss Andrea. Can I….”“Get out!” she snapped at HG Salem.The man hurriedly turned to leave then turned back to her “Ehm, Miss Andrea, about telling….”“I will not tell you,” she said with an almost angelic smile before she skipped over to the bed to pick up her textbook, which she flipped through without looking up at the man again.HG Salem shuffled his feet for a while before beating a hasty retreat. His confusion and fear were so palpable that Damien did not even have to try hard to pick up on them. That great was his terror as he left that he believed that day might be his last with the Macmillans.Damien could almost feel sorry for him as he caught his boot against the edge of his door in his hurried state. Almost. Andrea looked up at him the moment HG Salem left and she looked around as if looking for where to sit.The table that HG Salem had his leg on minutes ago was the
An hour agoShe had seen him!Isabella Astrid Kovarick, the princess and only daughter of King Saldus, the Great was sure that she did not see things nor was she going crazy as she had said to herself most times in the past weeks when she started seeing the strange visions.No, he was standing right there in flesh and blood. She could still remember the way his eyes widened a bit when she pointed at him. She was sure that she did not conjure him up or just overthinking as Marilyn would say. No, she had seen him standing there in the courtyard. He was a lot different from the boorish, pretentious men who were pretending and trying so hard to show her that they were ther because of her and not because of what her father had to offer.He was there amidst all that chocking gaudy, peacockish dress and he was just in a dirty-looking uniform? The shock of his appearance had been the main reason why she had pointed her hand at him like that so recklessly.Something she wouldn’t have done on a
The HG didn’t assign any job for Damien the following day.“Just get out of my sight!” was what he snapped at Damien when the latter went to him later for instructions. “Don’t let me see your face tomorrow morning too!”Damien had no idea if this was the worst news or not but he knew that he couldn’t stay for long in the man’s office so he quickly thanked him and was about to leave when the man said fretfully “You had better let your backer know that too. You will be held responsible if I lose my job!” he said in a near-yell.Damien quickly left before the man would change his mind and came up with something else again.“Why is it so hard to communicate with these people?” he thought on his way back to his room as he remembered the session he just had with Andrea which he had luckily came through unscathed and without getting her angry. Also, an important discovery too that he had not dared to confirm from the girl yet.After the panicked moment of how he was going to explain the fact
As it happened, he was unable to ask Andrea about his suspicion anyway.The moment she completed the assignment, she thrust it under Damien’s nose with an imperative “Look at it! I did it myself”Damien had barely had the time to check out the alien equations before she closed her notebook back, tucked the textbook underneath her armpit and skated out of the room. With a shout of “This room is yuck!” she was gone and Damien realised that he truly did not even want the answer to that question. What was the name that her friend always call her? He tried to remember as he could see the girl’s fiery eyes in his mind’s eyes as she was always glaring or scowling at him. Damien couldn’t remember ever seeing her without her customary angry look.He sat on his bed for a while in thought. “She must not know” was the litany that was running through his mind. He was certain that if she know that he worked for them, she would certainly make sure that he lost that job immediately. He imagined tha