Blood Bound

Chapter 2

Have you ever felt so free but caged? That was a very conflicting feeling and it's hard to define any further, but for some reason it is exactly what I am feeling right now.

"I want her to have her own passport and identity. I need to have it asap." I nodded.

"Prime Minister." Eiji's secretary called him. I waved my hand like I'm shooing him. He looked at me sharply. I just looked at him and had my brows wiggle. He sighed, shook his head, defeated, before going out.

He arrived just yesterday and now flying outside the country once more. He is real hands' on ruler. He is very meticulous with details and wants everything go as planned. I was left waiting for the guest. Eiji had no idea I had that fixed while he was away.

Linda went to me with a stern look on her face poles apart from the face she wears when she's in her other job - a stylist - she started talking "You said Eiji shoved his own arm in her mouth and let her drink his blood?" She quoted my statement and made it a question. She sat down next on the sofa, crossing her legs and resting her back. She also had her arms crossed.

"Yes."

I was really confused about that scenario. Why would Eiji do that? Only Linda who has the closest contact with the subject could possibly answer the questions I have.

"Yet she declined the blood and spit it." She paused, maybe to wonder. "Wait a sec. Hello?" She dialed a number and answered right away. "Dr. Shotiro, we'd met before, yes, we need to discuss something."

The call ended by a time and place set. Linda is going to meet Eiji's family doctor.

"You also said she didn't reject yours and having your blood in her actually made her seizure stop. That's quite interesting." She pause one more. "Where did you say she come from?"

I saw the tomb where the wife of the late prime minister took shelter for the longest time. Eiji and I used to play in there but in that specific area, Eiji always reminds me to be careful. He was told by his mom to respect that part of the house.

"The family had been keeping it in there for a long time. I also saw that the late palaces. It has a certain design where some liquid could actually run from the outside to the inside. If my hypothesis isn't wrong, the prime minister's family knows what they were keeping in that tomb and had been feeding it all this time."

"Why do you call her 'it'?" I noticed how she never disclosed her as a vampire. She seems like one.

"I had run a few tests comparing her DNA to the usual vampires'. There is something evidently different in her. Vampires don't seem to fit the context of her composition. She is definitely something else. Probably something much more special."

"Special, huh?"

"RH negative. Someone with vampire origin wouldn't enjoy a blood like yours. They find an angel's blood bitter. Human has that sweet tweak on it. You have an angel bloodline in you which makes it weird that she liked yours more that Eiji's." She's right. Why would a vampire like a blood like mine?

"Anyway, I had to meet Shotiro. Find a way to get Eiji's blood sample. The people in here are quick to fix everything, his blood was completely wiped out, I couldn't get some sample test with. We need to know what she rejected in that blood." That was her last words before leaving.

I was thinking about hose things she asked me. I can't even think correctly. I was distracted. I bit my lower lip as I remembered how warm and delicious her blood gushed inside my mouth. It was a taste you would easily get addicted to it. I couldn't get enough of it.

I tried my most to stop at the right moment.

i couldn't even understand why I suddenly had fangs. I tried growing them back after the event to no avail. I never got to have them lengthening after that.

For some reason, she was blooming after I had her blood. It was weird yet satisfying.

I heard her walking. I looked at the location of the sound but when I turned, she was not yet there. I remained seated while staring at where the sound is coming from. I had waited for a good seven minutes until she finally appeared.

I was confused. How did I hear her from afar? How did I even have the ability to identify that the sound came from her? Astonishing.

Why isn't he looking at me?  I heard her in my head. What the actual f**k? I was too shocked. I had to look at her and had my heart pumped. She was undeniably beautiful. Her eyes pierce to my soul every time we lock stares.

Why am I so attracted to her?

I was exposed to different kinds of beauty and sexy. I am not new to seeing beautiful girls but somehow she get to capture my deepest interest with not so much effort. She's a natural charmer. I have seen vampire's before, which make's Linda's argument reasonable, this lady had a different impact. She's an enchantress in a different level.

She had her long curly locks on a regular braid. Some of the strands were sticking out here and there but she carries it with such beauty. She's wearing a bleached purple dress that hugs her figure. Black shadow put perfectly like a wing in her eyes. Eiji knows the right people to talk to.

Human, elf or vampire? You're too beautiful to be just a human. I heard her again. This should be creepy but I find it quite amusing. Does she know I could hear her? It doesn't seem like she could hear my thoughts.

I held in a smile fighting to be set free. She's unbelievably cute. She's no idea she's complementing me silently and I'm hearing every single thing.

Should I use some command? He looks like he has quite physique but I couldn't use my ability to visualize it. I should tell him to remove his clothes. That was the final call. I couldn't help but smile wildly and chuckle. It was just so cute.

"Are you planning to r**e me?" I teased.

Her cheeks turned flushed. How did he know? I was contemplating whether to tell her. I could hear her but I decided to not too. This is too cute.

"You're looking at me too much. I'm melting." I joked trying to contain my smile once more but then again - failed. She's just too cute.

"Did you just read my mind?"

I acted confused and managed to stop my smile this time. She's too shocked. I can't hear his heart's whisper. Why?

This time my smile was really gone. I was really puzzled. Her mind's tone is telling me that this is all new to her - just like how everything is new to me. This is the first time I could hear someone else's thoughts and hear them from a far.

I shook off the thought and handed her an envelope. Inside were her identification card and other essentials to live her life.

She had her eyes tear up.

This time I couldn't hear her anymore. How exactly would this ability work? Is my angelic ability finally showing off its power? My sister's showed pretty early, I thought I was neglected by it. Is it finally awake?

"Why can't I hear you?" She asked me frankly. "What are you?" I don't know too. I have no idea why I could hear her and how is it possible for her not to hear me.

But what I know is I am partly nephilim.

"I am -"

I couldn't finish my answer. There was a ring. I fished out my phone and found out who is calling. The UN government is contacting me during my break, this must be really important.

"Just a sec." I told her before answering the call. "Zheke Travis, head of Special Corps Classified, speaking."

"I know it's your break but there is a report of ghouls in Korea. Their government contacted us to find people who could help. They've been covering up multiple of deaths of the citizens. The number of civilians had been growing. It needs to be stopped." Ghouls are the most problematic creatures I had  ever encountered in this industry.

"I see. Do send me the exact location. I'll have my men in Korea check the situation and head there myself if the situation couldn't be taken care of it themselves."

"Thank you."

The line went off.

I dialed my men in Korea and confirmed how the situation had worsened. I had to massage my temples. "-and you got no plans on telling me? Does the UN government have to tell me what's going on, themselves? Our men are being killed and your pride had been contributing to it." My patience died down. People need to understand that they should throw their pride when people are already dying because of it.

I almost forgotten about the person I was with. I should leave her here right? I got no time to rethink. She should be resting as well.

"I suddenly need to go to work. You should stay here." I smiled at her before turning to go out.

"You didn't answer my question." She said. I stopped on my track. I remembered one question.

"Your composition is different from a vampire's. Are you something else?" That had her silent. She didn't answer. I was about to turn back around but my phone rang again. I had to pick up. "Yes, I'll be there. I'm about to get out."

The helicopter is prepared. All I need is to get out of here and get on it. But I heard her collapsed on the wooden floor.

I turned around around and saw her really on the floor. No seizures but she had her eyes all white. I was so damn lost, I dialed Linda's number telling her to get back as soon as possible. I don't know what is happening.

With pure instinct, I cut my arm and had her drink the blood. The process of pain into pleasure occurred once more. She was sucking my blood with so much gusto it's draining me.

She extended her arm in front of my mouth, an invitation. Are we really biting each other at the same time right now?

With no effort, fangs appeared in my teeth and ready to bite onto her. I was already sucking her off blood when I finally went off my flooding thoughts.

Another vision flashed before me.

The book that was already opened in my head is turning its pages. It stopped not so far from the last page. A new picture showed. An illustration of the act we are doing right now. I mentally cussed. What is going on with this book? Why are we drawn in this specific page?

The words shook and turned into the alphabet I know today. Blood exchange. I can't help but wonder why.

My vision blurred. I heard someone saying something but I am unable to identify the person and understand the words the person said.

Everything is a swirled mess.

We both collapsed.

| March 30, 2228; 1am | Namsan Seoul Tower, South Korea |

"You are spacing out." A familiar voice told. I was, until this voice grabbed me out of my pool of thoughts.

The usual busy time in the city isn't much anymore. I remember visiting this country before and at this time of the day, people are still in the streets and the lights are all still beaming. Not today. There were still lights but not so much. It is quiet night.

I saw Reddeline landed gracefully on the roof of the N-grill. Her bats assisted her before they scattered away from the place.

The tower is surprisingly empty.

"You really do love grand entrances. Where is Mojarru?" She chuckled at my remark. She's used on my playful comebacks.

"She's with your sisters. It's all on us right now. My daughter is babysitting." I chuckled. My sisters are no baby anymore. But Morraine had to take care of them. Both Linda and Morraine are like their moms.

"They are 22, Red. Don't kid. Hellisha wouldn't take it as a joke."

"I bet she will. She had matured."

I shook my head. Hellisha is a mischievous child, maturity will come a little later than Reddeline thinks. I wouldn't doubt the topic of maturity if the subject is my other sister - Haven. She had always been the mature one, smarter than her years.

Her school record tells most of it. She is an accelerated student. She even graduated before me and even started her own store just by herself at the of 14.

"I hope so." I said smiling. "Can you tell me what really happened here?" I added.

"I guess you've really been here in a rush. I myself was resting somewhere in Busan when news flooded the television." She sat "There was news circulating about missing teenagers at the busiest streets of Seoul. The kids started to go missing around 12am to 4am. The people suspected it to be k********g at first, but bodies started to show at different places, the bodies where all missing some internal organs, some almost had their skeletons showing - it was quite a sight to behold." Reddeline's words were pure facts and are void with any further emotional attachment. She had lived for so long that this issue does not bother her anymore. She is tough one.

I looked at the sky. The clouds moved away to make way for the huge moon. It has a beautiful misty ice blue color. It's quite near.

I have never seen the moon this beautiful at close.

Reddeline had her hands  clasped together as if she was praying. I stared at her weirdly, my mom did tell tales about wishes through the moon but I never thought that a nonhuman, a Comandrus, has the same belief. "It's family tradition to whisper to the moon whenever it exposes itself in full show. My mother usually told me that wishes are granted when the moon hears how pure its was." She looked at me when she finally opened her eyes. She looks like she's in her 30's but in real fact, she's already 300 year older. I don't have the exact numbers but it is somewhere near that.

"Comandrums are like vampires right? How long would you live?"

"We usually live 'til 500 or so. Our food consumption are different though. Comandrums  are vegetarians while vampires crave blood."

"And ghouls are made because they drank and drained their own kind. That's when a series abnormality takes into place in their bodies. Instead of blood, they crave flesh, may it be human's or vampires' - but mostly human's. Correct?" To think it more thoroughly, I saw her consume souls. Vampires do not consume souls. Linda might be right.

"Correct"

"Then what do you call someone who had fangs but eats souls?"

There was complete silence. The only noise is the wind blowing and the leave swaying as it swings through the blow.

The friendly atmosphere we have had disappeared. Everything seems tensed. What is going on?

"Where did you get that information?" It was a question that demands a serious answer. She looked at me with too much intensity.

"I met someone who does-"

I hadn't got the chance to finish my answer Reddline dropped on the roof top, she covered her mouth with both of her hands and had her eyes wide open. She became teary.

She whispered. "She shouldn't be awake."