Creatures of the Light

Thirteenth Light

Thirteenth Light

Creatures of the Light

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##### Thirteenth Light #####

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An eye for an eye

Shall make the whole world blind.

No death, no fun

The right kind of danger.

Electricity runs through my body in a flash. There is no real current, but I can still feel it when the warm water is being suddenly replaced by the icy one when the creature yanks me into the portal.

Cold as sin.

I feel helpless, drifting in the depth of ocean. Disoriented, having no idea where I am except for the salty taste on my lips. Sinking in the caliginous, with no choice but to watch the scenery around me moving up and further.

Gravity is devouring me, until I can feel a pair of arms around me, circling around my waist and bringing me up for air.

I inhale deeply once I get out of the water. Holding my breath for so long has been making my head slightly dizzy. I am back again into my bathtub, with Valline securely still placing his arms around me. He pats my back as I cough, each stroke showing his concern. I mutter my gratitude to him as I look up, but his eyes are not looking at mine when I do. He is staring at my body, which is still bare.

There is no blush or hesitation, but there is something different about the way he is watching me. Dark, those blue eyes are clouded with. Hunger, those crystal spheres are glimmering with. Something is injected in me when I glance at him.

I do not make any move in trying to cover myself. Instead, I grab one of his hands and bring it up to the side of my face, before guiding it down, letting him know that I do not mind.

Those blue orbs of his become darker, if it is still possible. He never breaks the stare ─ not even for blinking.

When he grabs me, I am blessed with excitement and almost entire forget about what just happened previously. The thought of the sea creature almost got me killed is even already out of my mind. All I want is for Valline to never stop, to keep touching me, until all I can see is him.

Lusting is something I have never felt for anyone ─ no one other than him. The emotion that is running through me is just too much that it almost becomes unbearable that it evolutes pain itself. I do not wish for him to stop, and he does not seem to want it too. Our bodies tangled together in an unbreakable bond before our minds can ever register it first.

Before I know it, sunshine is peeking through the curtains of our bedroom windows. I just lay on the bed for the longest time, staring at nothing in particular as I enjoy the feeling of Valline’s body against mine. My back is being pressed against his chest, which is moving up and down. A steady rhythm is playing, and I close my eyes again to let it be my only feeling until I can feel him tugging.

I turn to him before opening my eyes. His crystal blue eyes are mesmerizingly boring into me, his white hair falling down to frame his flawless face. The modus of the sunlight falls upon him unimpaired, making me want to capture this moment for as long as I can. He then leans in for a kiss, and I circle my arms around his neck.

After a few minutes, he eventually pulls away.

“You know, kissing you always reminds me of the first time we kissed,” he mumbles, a happy smile plastered on his pink lips.

My reaction is not as delightful as his, though. I crook my eyebrows instead, remembering the time when we finally got our first kiss. I was held captive in an underwater prison, away from the surface and light. I could not move, only speak. Valline was the only one who came for me back then. He stayed by my side all night until the time when the guard announced that he would take me out for my punishment. Valline could not do anything to help me by then, and the only thing he could give me was that kiss ─ the first, thinking it would be the last.

There were tears mixed in that kiss. I did not have any romantic feelings for him before. The situation was very dreadful back then. Death seemed like the only way out of that place at the time. So how could he remember that event every time he has kissed me so far?

“Why are you making that face?”

“Because I can’t believe you have been recalling that horrible incident every time you kissed me.”

“What’s wrong with that? Does that mean you didn’t like the kiss? Was I such a bad kisser?”

“No, that is not what I mean. You were not a bad kisser for a child, and you are definitely not one as an adult. But I can not believe that you forgot about how horrible it was being in that prison.”

“Well, the prison was kind of dirty and dark, but you were not the type of girl that can easily complain or scared about that kind of situation. And you are absolutely not even right now.”

“Correct, if you missed the part when I was about to be beheaded back then. Not to mention that I could not even move for a single muscle back then. You can not always expect a girl to just stay still when she knows what she will have to expect.”

“So it was because of the beheading part? But it happened just after the kiss, and you were not even really dead. Your black blood healed you. And this is beside the point. Plus, you still have not answered my question yet.”

“Which question?”

“The part when I asked you whether or not that you liked the kiss.”

I bite my bottom lip before releasing it. “I was not really sure back then, but I think it was the first time that I started to really like you. I mean, you were there when I was about to lose my head, even when I was only losing it temporarily.”

Valline looks at me with those big, round widen eyes, before he leans his lips against mine. There is a new passion in this kiss. His hands are roaming on my skin, pushing me harder to his body and causing our skins to make direct contact with each other. It is a while later that I begin to respond to his kisses.

His eyes are almost teary when he pulls away far enough to speak, his lips are still inches from mine.

“Those are the most beautiful words you have ever said to me. I love you, Arsene.”

“I love you too,” I say, before leaning in to his chest to kiss the tattoo that I had put on him on our wedding night. The moment my lips brush his skin, he groans lustfully. I take my sweet moment in giving a peck on his chest slowly, before brushing my lips again for the second time and plant a longer kiss.

Once I pull away, Valline copies my previous movement by leaning between my breasts and kiss my tattoo ─ his white symbol. His lips are tingling my skin when he does, and I can not help but let a giggle escapes. He plants small kisses all over the tattoo before finishing it with a lick. He runs his tongue across his symbol on my skin, causing me to gasp in amazement.

He has never failed to impress me.

Messing with me is such a wrong move to make ─ every creature, living or dead, should have known better than to make such a mistake, moreover ever since that incident in Sorcier that got my own friends killed. My powers are so dark and limitless that I could not even stop myself at the point when I wanted the most. If something thinks that I will have mercy upon silly pranks, which something is surely in for a bad end.

After spending the rest of the evening devoted to my husband, I seize the night for one single purpose only ─ to find out why that sea creature went so far as to pull me through the portal, which probably leads to an open ocean.

“I know you are here,” I say to the sea as I stand on the red sand of the beach once again. “Show yourself.”

It only takes seconds before that dark blue wisp appears from the water, going through the portal as I meet its emerald spheres of eyes. The creature is glaring at my direction like always, as if it has some grudge against me.

“What do you want?” I eye it conscientiously.

The creature does not speak, instead extending its hand towards me once again, waiting for me to take it.

I crook one of my eyebrows. “Surely you are not expecting me to just go there and receive your invitation, aren’t you?” I cross my arms under my breasts. “But then again, I do need an explanation. Why would you risk your own life to come so close to me? Aren’t you afraid of what I am capable of?”

Something unexpected happens when the sea creatures finally replies to me.

“Oh, I knOw ExactlY wHat yoU aRe CapaBle ofF. I wAs tHere in a saFe disTancE whEn yoU duMp thAt blUe wereCat iNto the oCeAn, far aWay from any pOsSiBle of her surVivAl.”

Its voice is dry and raspy, as if it has not been drinking for a while. I am not sure whether the creature is a male or female, since the voice is so heavy that I can not categorize it.

Werecat? But it was so long ago, back when I recently started to rejoin Sorcier again after taking a break from it for two long years. And I was prying information of Minny’s real killer from that blue werecat as well.

“So for what exactly are you gambling your life for?”

It does not talk anymore, yet still having its long, scaly hand extended towards me.

“You are planning to take me to the bottom of the ocean, and then forget about it. I am not stupid enough to walk into an obvious trap such as that.”

It only stares at me before its scales begin to glow in a greenly light. So it can glow. But so what? It can control when it will give me light and when it will not. I am still not taking any chances.

“You better state your purpose quickly, because I know that you must be desperate enough for help that you are even brave enough to come to me. And if not, I will leave this place immediately and stay away from water as far as possible after this evening. So what do you want?”

“No oNe sHall belIevE, unTil oNe sEes it for hErSelF.”

I am about to turn on my heels when he desperately yells out for me.

“WaiT!”

I glance at the sea creature, which is now already half-crawling from the portal. What surprises me from the sight is when I realize just how badly injured it is. Something has causes long and deep scars to emerge from the surface of its skin, crisscrossing it with dark brown color of dried merblood. A bit of its tail has also swam out of the portal, and I can see a chunk of bitten meat is actually glaring so taintedly.

Am I really leaving that creature like that?