The Prince's Secret

Episode II

Cloud continued laughing for a few more minutes and finally stopped when the student at the back muttered again.

He muttered something again and made the same gesture of putting his right hand on his chest and said, “Please introduce yourself.”

The blonde student stands up and began to introduce himself.

“Hi, my name is Henri. I may not be as old as Cloud.. Mr. Cloud, but I am a pureblood vampire.” He said with a dignified voice.

Sayaka upon hearing this chuckled a little.

“Henri, if you are a pureblood vampire, then why is it-“

“Chad,” Cloud cut his student from finishing his sentence. “Henri, is a pureblood vampire. Everyone he is the real deal. The reason why you cannot feel his aura is because Henri is a very kind and sweet vampire.”

Henri looked straight to Cloud’s eyes and sat down.

Cloud chuckled a little and continued, “I am not joking. I swear in my life that what I am saying is true. Henri is controlling his aura so as not to affect anyone of you. I am actually amazed on how good he is with it. I should say, I am very proud. I am very proud.” He smiled.

The students looked back at Henri and now they have all anticipating eyes because he still haven’t answered Erin’s question.

“The eyes.” He said. “You can tell that a vampire is a pureblood because their eyes are red at all times.”

This time, the students have noticed that their teacher have blue eyes and are turning them red at will but Henri’s, they were red the entire time.

“Henri, do you want to add on something on what Sayaka have mentioned earlier? Please give more insights on how vampires fought during the war.” Cloud said as he fixed his suit.

“In the war, numbers is one of the decisive factor. As compared to humans and other races, we vampires are small in numbers but as mentioned earlier, we can turn humans into vampires. But there are different kinds of turning. Nobles like Cloud, Mr. Cloud, can turn humans into vampires but they are all inferiors, only a handful of them are reborn with special powers. Also, when a non-pureblood vampire bite a human, it doesn’t immediately mean that, that human will become a vampire. That human needs to drink a vampire’s blood before his or her heart stops beating in order to become a vampire if not, he or she will still remain human that is if he or she was not sucked dry.”

The students became noisy again after hearing this, the excitement they felt earlier that their teacher can turn them into vampire began to change into fear.

Henri chuckled, “If you think that is scary, then please don’t get bitten by me. We purebloods, when we bite humans they immediately become infected and needs to drink that pureblood's blood to turn into a vampire. If they don’t they will die and will rise from the dead as zombies. This is how we fought with humans during the war. Humans grew in number multiple times than we do, they train young man and woman to become soldiers. While we the purebloods make our soldiers from the humans who are raiding or hunting us.”

The students are frightened of what Henri has told them but they continued to listen intently.

“However, if the general vampire race are bound by a set of rules, we the pureblood vampires are bounded by even a stricter set of rules. We cannot bite humans, unless we take them as our mate.”

The female students began to squeal and are blushing. They are looking intensely at Henri. Now that he is talking the females have taken noticed that not only their teacher Cloud is a dashing male, but their classmate is even more of a catch.

Henri is slightly shorter than Cloud, but they have the same slender built. His blonde hair is wavy, his lips are thin and pinkish and he’s got a paler skin than Cloud. His eyes are bigger than Cloud’s but they are sharper.

Sayaka is laughing softly when she felt that Henri is looking at her. She can feel those crimson eyes behind her looking at her intently. “I’m sorry Henri, this is just too cute.”

Cloud interrupted by clapping his hands to get the attention of everyone and continued his lecture on history.

***

Finally, Cloud’s class is over. I feel so beat up.

Sayaka is walking in the hallway heading downstairs when Cloud suddenly appeared on the stairway.

She just blinked and did not even mutter any word of surprise as this has been a usual occurrence since she was in middle school.

“Yes teacher?”

Cloud chuckled, “Sayaka, we are no longer in the classroom.”

“But we are still in school.”

Cloud smiled and tried to reach for her face but she backed off instinctively.

“Are you going to the dorms now?” he asked as he gestured for Sayaka to go on downstairs.

“Yes. I only have your class in the morning.”

“Oh yes, this is your final year in the academy so you no longer have electives. The major course subjects you chose and my subject was the only ones mandatory left.”

Sayaka nodded and smiled.

“You should always smile like that.” He said as he touched the tip of her long hair that was blown by a sudden wind.

Before Sayaka can even react, like the wind that came out of nowhere Cloud disappeared.

Sayaka touched her hair and tucked it behind her ears. She is flustered and she hated it.

She walked towards the dormitory and stopped beneath the big pine tree, her usual spot. She lie down and looked at the sky and remarked again of the clouds.

“Looking at the clouds again?” Henri suddenly appeared on her sight.

She rose and sat down then Henri joined her.

“Didn’t you had enough of watching Clouds even in class?”

“Why? Are you jealous?”

Henri’s eyes grew big for a while then he frowned.

Sayaka laughed and looked at him. “I am just kidding.” She rested her back to the tree and continued “You were great earlier. Cloud was very proud of you.”

“He is as always.”

“He even said it twice.” She said laughing.

Henri looked at her with a small grin on his face.

“How I wish I will hear it from you.” He said with his crimson eyes looking directly at Sayaka’s brown eyes.

“Hear what?”

“Nothing.”

“Uhuh.” She grinned at him. “I cannot tell you praises. You know that. I have learned my lessons from before.”

Henri laughed shyly. This proud pureblood vampire is blushing and his eyes are looking at Sayaka intensely.

Sayaka took out her notebook from her bag and started writing. As soon as she finished writing, she took off the page from her notebook and folded it and handed the paper to Henri.

“Take this and please disappear.” She said laughing.

Henri took the paper looking somewhat puzzled but obliged; he disappeared from Sayaka’s sight.

***

Henri, in his private chambers sat on his bed. He took out the paper that he received from Sayaka and is pondering whether to open it or not. He was like a little boy grinning, he is excited but also somewhat scared that he might just be expecting too much. He unfolded the paper and it read, “Henri, you unexpectedly did great earlier in our class. Our classmates did not feel anything from your aura. If only they knew how your aura can be deadly they won’t be squealing like fangirls earlier because they will have fainted even just from a trace of it. You did very well unlike Cloud who even made fun of Isabelle. I am so proud of you.”

Henri’s hands are shaking from holding the paper. He looked up to the ceiling of his room. His eyes are turning bright red, they are rounder and are moving fast. His tongue are wetting his lips and he began to bare his fangs. He is imagining Sayaka saying all those words in front of him his only complain was, “You don’t have to mention Cloud everytime Sayaka.”  He is turned on. He is sweating and is thinking of going to Sayaka to ravage her and indulge himself to a frenzy. Funny how simple things like this can make his urges go uncontrolled. But he needs to take control. The reason why Sayaka wrote it instead of saying it directly to him was because of his own fault. He almost bite Sayaka before. Something that have been haunting him since then.