Chapter 8
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7PM≈ THE FALCONS EMPIRE
Mary was holding her stomach as she struggled to walk out of her apartment.
The hunger she's feeling right now is enough to kill her.
Now she regrets not eating the food Aaron brought in the morning.
She expected lunch, but it never came, and now hunger is threatening to kill her.
"My stomach hurts," she muttered, holding her stomach tighter.
She was about to look elsewhere when she sighted an apple tree.
"Wait...apple?" She said hopefully.
She made to walk to the tree, but her nose was suddenly covered from behind.
That was all she remembered.
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THIRTY MINUTES LATER
Mary woke up to find herself in the middle of nowhere.
She was sitting on the ground, and her arms were tied behind her, her legs were tied too.
"Where am I?" She asked herself, looking around.
A hissing sound answered her behind, and she froze.
She turned her neck slowly, and her blood nearly dried up when she saw more than ten snakes crawling towards her.
Not baby snakes, matured giant ones.
"No...no.... don't come to me," she started crying.
When she looked at the front again, she saw snakes coming too.
"No!!!!!!, Someone help me!!!, Someone help!!!, Help!!!!!" She cried loudly as the snakes kept getting closer.
They kept multiplying in number. Mary started peeing on herself as she cried.
"Save my soul, Jesus!!!!, I don't want to die!!!, Aaaahh!!!!!!!" She screamed in tears, closing her eyes as the scary creatures finally got to her.
She felt a sting in her leg immediately, and before she could scream, another one bit her arm.
Agonizing pains shot through her body as the venom started spreading.
Another one bit her shoulder.
"Jesus Christ!!!, Arrggghhhhhh!!!!!
Mary could already feel life slipping out of her when the third sting came.
Her bones and flesh felt like thorns immediately, pricking her heart and other components.
"Christ, please have mercy," she whispered before passing out.
The fourth snake was about to sting her unconscious body when Clyde jumped into the valley.
He threw a knife directly at the mouth of that particular one, and it went down flat immediately.
The others started charging towards him, but he covered his nose and threw down a smoke bomb that's poisonous to their eyes.
They all crawled away quickly.
He rushed to her and his eyes widened when he saw three bites on her body.
"s**t!, she's not going to survive," he said and carried her in his arms.
He ran out of the valley and never stopped running till he got to the empire building.
He made his way to Rosario's mansion, and met Hellcat just by the door.
"What the f**k is this!" she said fast.
"I found her in the snake's valley. She got stung badly," Clyde replied, and her eyes widened.
"Why the hell was she there?" Hellcat asked again.
Clyde entered properly, and he dropped her in the middle of the living room.
Hellcat checked her pulse.
"Her pulse is faint already, survival is impossible, she finally died," she said emotionlessly.
Rosario came out, and immediately he saw her lying in her own pool of blood, he rushed to her
"What the hell happened?" he asked.
"I found her in the valley of snakes," Clyde replied.
"Who the f**k took her there?" Rosario yelled.
"No idea, boss," Clyde replied.
Rosario bent beside her body and felt her heartbeat.
When he felt slow beats, he stood and made to go in.
Hellcat stopped him.
"Are you really going to do what I'm thinking? I won't allow that," she said.
Rosario roughly took his hand from her and rushed in.
"What's he going to do?" Clyde asked.
Hellcat looked at Mary, folding her fists tightly.
Rosario came out with a bottle of blue liquid, a venom accumulator.
Hellcat stormed out of the mansion immediately, not ready to watch him do that for Mary.
Clyde left afterward.
Rosario took off Mary's hoodie, and her nakedness stared at him as he poured the blue liquid on the bitten spots.
Mary moved slightly as it penetrated.
Rosario rinsed his mouth with some of the liquid and didn't wait another minute before covering her bitten shoulder with his mouth.
He sucked out the venom since the liquid had made it accumulate.
Immediately, it filled his mouth, he spat it away.
He proceeded to suck it out of her leg and arm.
He felt weak immediately, and he stood staggeringly.
He walked into his room and rinsed his mouth with alcohol, then he went into the bathroom and rinsed his face.
He looked at his face in the mirror and sighed.
"What the f**k did I just do?" he asked himself, his mother's face appearing in his head.
"I'm definitely crazy, how could I?" He asked himself, walking out of the bathroom.
He picked up a smoke and took a puff after lighting it, but he immediately started coughing.
He threw it down and hit the wall with his fist, the events of that night flooding through his head.
"Curse the day I met you, Mary," he remembered his dad's last words and punched the wall again.
"F****ck!!!!! " He yelled angrily.
"Right, something is f*****g wrong somewhere, I'm mad," he said, hitting the wall once again.
His knuckles bled more, and he left the wall.
He walked back to the living room and looked at Mary's body with disgust.
He didn't bother to wear the hoodie for her again before calling for a guard.
Two guards came in.
"At your service, Lord Rosario," they bowed.
"Take her back, to..... the apartment," he ordered hesitantly.
One of them carried her naked body on his shoulder while the other one took her hoodie, they took her away.
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NIGHTINGALE'S APARTMENT
"She'd be dead by now," Virus smiled, coming in with Bullet.
"You can say that again," Nightingale replied, putting on her gloves.
"Where to?" Bullet asked.
"Night training," she replied, leaving the room.
"Shouldn't we go training too?" Virus said, going after Nightingale.
"I've got nothing to lose, so sure," he smiled, rushing after them.
They got to the training arena and met some multitudes as usual.
In fact, the night trainees are usually more numerous than the daytime trainees.
Virus took off her joggers, leaving her with only her short thighs and singlet. She got gloves and started boxing with Nightingale.
Bullet faced the punching bag, determined to punch it till it bursts.
👥 Heard Mary is dead
👥 Yeah, she was found in the valley of snakes. No one survives the krait snake's venom
👥 Not like she's playing a role here anyway, RIP to her.
"Is she really dead?" Terrius asked Clyde.
They're both lifting the weights.
"Cat said, Lord Rosario was gonna to save her. I'm not sure," Clyde replied simply.
" That's f*****g impossible. The only way to save her from the krait's venom is extraction by sucking, tell me why he'll suck out the venom," Terrius said.
"He seems attracted to her," Clyde replied, and Terrius laughed.
"Stop kidding yourself dude, I heard he can't even f**k, so tell me why he'll be attracted? He hates girls" Terrius said in a whisper.
"You surely have a death wish," Clyde said and Terrius laughed.
"I wonder how Pandora is doing in the USA," he said.
"She's capable, and Rapunzel is not a joke either," Clyde sighed, his mind drifting to Mary's wounds.
"Mary is alive!" Hellcat said, just coming in.
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