Ichor : Blood & Secrets

Chapter 28

Tension rise across the blood written Villa as Klaus bent down the will of the Queens to his will while they stand down helplessly with nothing to give. "Klaus, please.. don't do this." said Queen Jaina.

"I already said what needed to say, rest of the decision is onto your remaining queen, what will it be?" asked Klaus, standing in edge while the decision of bending down to kings once again rests on Queen Hope as Malika as already pledged her allegiance.

"Fifteen centuries had passed, still feels like yesterday, the day I.... let myself get enslaved by the so called baron.. as did I have no choice (tears falls from her eyes).. Back then.. when you and Mikeala joined forces with the rebels and freed us.. I felt like you were our saviours.. our gods.. our key, and the visionary sent down to lead us to glory.. and Mikeala did prove that right.. for sometime... but now, you're asking me to go back to the exact way I was, when I lived under the thumb of one ruthless king." said Queen Hope to which Klaus starts to grow displeased by her response but remains silent as Malika interrupts.

"Hope, please.. don't do anything stupid, if you reject his offer, he will kill us all." said Queen Malika. "Don't worry sister, I will not let it come to that.. I will not let him harm you.. not until I get what he needs." said Queen Hope.

"You have what I need?" asked Klaus.

"Yes.. the bastard who took your sister hostage, I know him.. he resides, safely in your very family.. let my sisters go, and I will provide you the location of your sister, as well as him." said Queen Hope to which others find themselves shocked by her comment, as the other queens had no knowledge of what she was saying.

"You're expecting me to believe a bluff like that? I know you don't have Mikeala." said Klaus as Hope interrupts.

"Again, we don't have Mikeala, I only know someone who does.. take a bite from my neck if you wish, but let them go, otherwise, I'll kill myself before you even touch me." said Queen Hope to which Klaus remains idle, thinking upon her comment for a period of time while Queen Malika continues weeping for her sister, knowing that no matter what decision Klaus takes, he will not leave her alive in the aftermath.

"How do I know you're telling the truth? all this time you kept quiet about this.. mysterious person you seem to now briefly mention of." said Klaus.

"I didn't need to tell you before, and now I do, if you're willing to put that to test, then by all means, go ahead, you will never find your sister, not in this lifetime." said Queen Hope to which Klaus remains suspicious of her intentions. Regardless, after quite a bit of amount he put on thinking, he realizes the life of his own sister means more to him than anything, and since he does not wish to take any chances, he allows her to live this time.

"Fine, so be it, I'll let them live.. (unchains Queen Jaina) and as for you.. (looks towards to Queen Malika) you are relieved from your swearing.. you can rule and rile on whatever type you want.. now where is my sister?" asked Klaus.

"Go, all three of you, now." said Queen Hope.

"But.. sister, I.." said Princess Luna before getting interrupted by Queen Hope. "Take your sisters and head away from here Luna, I will find you, I promise." said Queen Hope to which Princess Luna takes a minute to observe, then takes both of them in her arms and sprints away from the place, leaving Hope and Klaus alone in the bloody villa.

"Now, where were we?" asked Klaus, reminding her of what she promised to say.

"Deep within the underforge, under the abandoned cathedral, you can access it through the basement, that's all I know." said Queen Hope. "You still haven't told me who he is.." said Klaus. "Why would I need to tell you, if I can show you." said Queen Hope, relieving a part of her dress as her neck comes close to being visible.

"Go ahead.. take all what you want, then... ugh..." said Queen Hope as she gasps when Klaus sprints off towards her bites off on her neck deeply, relinquishing on her blood as he lives through her memories while Queen Hope gasps and attempts to breathe through it despite the pain.

As he goes through each of her memories, soon, brick by brick, Klaus starts to process on what she said and focused on that in which he finally finds his answers as he visualises a memory of Hope residing in her chambers while confronting a unwanted visitor who appears to be masked and in hood, but with mystic armour.

"Absolutely not.. I am not helping you.. you kidn*pped my own queen." said Queen Hope as the masked man interrupts. "She isn't your queen." replied the masked man in quite a rough voice.

"Yes, she is! she always will be! I don't know what personal issues you have on her, but this has to end.. you can't send people ought to hunt her, she is already going suspicious about these attacks." said Queen Hope.

"Oh, but I am not going to, I will do it myself." said the masked man. "By yourself? what do you mean?" asked Queen Hope. "I found a way to succumb an original to sleep, in a more permanent way.. it is in customary design, won't kill her, but it will do enough to drag her all the way across her, to the one place where they will never hope to find." said the masked man.

"Have you gone mad? this will be the first place they look for? look, I don't know what kind of work you're planning on doing, but I can tell you this.. Victoria needs Mikeala, without her, entire kingdom will fall apart." said Queen Hope.

"It is already falling apart, that prince Drucen and his men have breached their way into their kingdom, and soon they will take your crown, not unless you do what I say." said the masked man.

"Do what?" asked Queen Hole.

"Help me escort Mikeala once she is down, to where, I will not say, but should the need arise, tell them to find me at the abandoned cathedral in underforge." said the masked man. "What about the originals? what if they come finding for their sister?" asked Queen Hope. "Leave a trail, blame it on.. someone close to you, they will know it's a false trail and leave." said the masked man.

"Fine.. I'll do it.. Kane." said Queen Hope at last while the masked man shifts away without saying a single reply at all, descending into the shadows while the Queen goes off to depart on her work.

Once relieving through her memories for a period of time, the last name she mentioned managed to gasp a huge shock on Klaus as he relieves from the bite immediately and takes a moment to process it while holding Queen Hope by his hands.

"Kane? he.. did this? I.. I can't believe it.. he's... alive.. how?" asked Klaus once he returns to earth. "I.. did not know, I was as shocked as you were." said Queen Hope. "Nevertheless, he should have never touched my sister, his battle is with me." said Klaus. "Oh, I see... there, I've given what you ask, now let me go." said Queen Hope.

"Not so easily, I said I will let your sisters go, not you." said Klaus holding her by the face while looking her down eye to eye in a attempt to compel her while she struggles.

"No, no, don't.." said Queen Hope until she silences as Klaus begins the process. "From this day onward, you are to pledge your life, your body and your love, only to me, and no one else, should the thought arises, it must disgust you upon the person making you feel it.." said Klaus while Queen Hope continusly cries to let her go.

"Please.. please, don't do this, I did everything you asked.." said Queen Hope before getting interrupted by Klaus.

"Lastly, but not least, you will forget about everything that occured in this night, except for your love towards me, your sisters, the ones you love the most in your life, will be the ones you hate, you will not go after them, and the very thought of loving them again will bring you disgust." said Klaus, finishing his compulsion as he lets her go, then slams her head down to a pillar as she becomes unconscious to which Klaus drops her out peacefully in the floor and sprints off to face his ancient foe and blood once again.

Meanwhile, within underforge itself, as Ayame reaches the house after having looked across each stations for the person she was looking for all this time, once who is responsible for making almost thousands of people struggle to survive. Once she reaches the house, soon she comes across almost three to four towns of residents have already beaten her there, inciting mobs and riots across the place as they throw stones and whatever pile of rubble they could find while the house remains guarded by heavy force who continue guarding the house from outside despite the riot getting violent and harder to control by every minute.

"Guess these people have a voice to speak up.. maybe they don't.." said Ayame as she silences herself upon hearing a words of a soldier being requested by superior officials. "Sir, just received orders from above, they're asking us to use lethal force." said the soldier.

"Lethal force? but they're people.." replied another voice.

"Command was strict on this, Mr. Milo's son is arriving towards the house with his friends, within the next two hours, the crowd must be dissolved before that, or that's what he requested." said the soldier.