A CURE THAT KILLS

THE TEST

The alarm clock by the bedside kept beeping and Elena turned over covering her ears with the pillow to stop the annoying sound but it didn't help and she had to grudgingly stand up to turn it off. It's just 3am in the morning and she didn't remember setting an alarm to wake her up.

She looked around her room and saw a dark shadow hopping out of the window and made to scream when she had kyrah's voice. “ Stop making a fuss and go back to sleep.

Elena sighed in her heart and shrugged her shoulder before turning off the bedside lamp and going back to sleep.

Since she shared a room with kyrah, what just happened is no longer a big deal. She just feels that kyrah had changed in the past two years and though she's still that cold girl that always wanted to please her father, her way of going about it had changed completely.

The new kyrah no longer wear colored clothes and would drape herself in black all day. Her long silky hair which Elena had always envied was all cut short till it became a bob. She now had this unapproachable air around her and Elena couldn't wrap her head around why she had changed so much.

Shoving thoughts about kyrah out of her mind, she forced herself to go back to sleep since she has an early class in the morning.

Elena woke up at around 7am in the morning and went about her business of getting ready, as usual, Kyrah had left the room way earlier and would probably be at the training ground already.

Her first class for the day happens to be combat class, the same one kyrah would be having. Elena couldn't help but feel uneasy around the new kyrah who seem to have forgotten how to smile. Although it was quite rare, the Kyrah from two years ago would still occasionally give a faint smile to react to jokes just to be polite.

“ You are here. " The combat master addressed Elena as she walked in. " I would have said you are late but looking at the time, I guess it's us that's early. " He continued, his sentence meant for Kyrah hearing.

Kyrah paused and held out both hands to steady the punching bag. She stretched as she took off her boxing gloves and turned to her audience with a raised brow. “ Is the training still going to hold or should we just quit for the day?

“ Thinking of it, I don't know why you feel that you still need training, especially from me. You should just go spar with the don himself. " The instructor complained. He had been noticing the rapid improvement on kyrah and her new way of training ,it was so alarming that he began to think that she was triggered by someone or something. Three months ago out of the blue, Martin had ordered that he had a faceoff with Kyrah and the unexpected had happened . They had spared three times in a row and she beat him hands down, as though that wasn't bad enough, he didn't last ten minutes in any of the matches and he still found it difficult to wrap his head around that fact.

In the entire place only the don could take him on, now that Kyrah had beat him successfully, she should just go spar with the boss and spare him but here she is, still calling him master and waiting for more training.

Elena sighed in her heart and decided not to interfere. She pulled out her boxing gloves and wore them with countless thoughts in her head.

For ten years, she had been in this mansion mostly spending her time in the underground manor receiving insane trainings and she doesn't even know why. Martins had never permitted them to leave the mansion and in his words, that was his own way of protecting them.

Little Kyrah had it worse as martins had high expectations from her and she always tried to please him every step of the way.

Elena still feel puzzled by the fact that she had no memory from before she started living in the manor. She only remembered herself being introduced as Martin's niece and the little Kyrah then as her cousin. She had never allowed such thought to bug her before and now that it's on her mind, she couldn't shrug it off.

“ Earth to Elena. " The instructor waved yet again trying to get the attention Elena who seemed lost as she remained motionless her eyes staring into the distance.

The instructor sighed and leaned on the wall staring at both girls. One was draped in all black, her short hair sticking to her sweaty face. She had an expression less face and her dark eyes seem like it could bore a hole through people. Next to her is a girl dressed in shorts, her blonde hair till her shoulder. Her eyes seemed listless and unfocused but it still didn't hide the shrewdness in it. If this two ever become enemies in the future.... Just the mere though of it made him have goosebumps.

“ Both of you can leave, training is over. " The instructor announced wanting them to leave him alone, others might not know but the aura surrounding them was just too immense. But then, what else should he expect from killing machines personally trained by the don himself? If the don really plans to send them to the outside world, he really had to dampen that raging fire around them, especially Kyrah.

As she went for her next class for the day Kyrah noticed Elena following behind even though they had a separate class but she chose to stay quite and observe her quietly.

As they pass by countless masters, Kyrah noticed that Elena would duck so she wouldn't be seen with her and she raised her brow in amusement. Wanting to satisfy her curiosity she chose to pass through a deserted part of the manor were martins right hand would usually punish members who commit treachery and as she looked around, a towel laced with chloroform was place over her nose and after struggling for a while, she lost consciousness.