Several corpse were scattered within the castle grounds, the rumours about a monster that invaded the castle were all over, the servants were ordered to stay at their compounds and never dare to roam around the castle unless they had a death wish. What was more frightening was that Levy dissappear after killing someone, so it was hard to trace him and know where he was.
The sunlight striked down the bloody castle grounds, it was so eerie as the wind howls, the birds nibbling at the bodies looking an early breakfast, the rumours spread faster to the nearby villages of Ximpton, some of the servants were able to witness the monster and were still lucky enough to escape death.
The people of Ximpton started to badmouth the Crown Prince, the Prince who kills but is nowhere to be seen, Hillary's mind was about ot burst, how was he going to deal with this if the Prince himself became invisible? For God sake where the hell is he? he gritted his teeth, it's been a while night search with no possible achievements.
Shortly a soldier came to report "General! the Crown Prince was spotted at the Queen's Royal garden!" he let out a sigh of relief and stroded "Let's go!" he was walking ahead of everyone else.
They could head growls that instilled fear and brought shivers to their spines, their feet halted by the royal garden's gates.
Hillary stepped forward turning back to face the guards behind him with a blank face. "Do not enter no matter what! am I clear?" he commanded , the guards nodded in response . He braced himself looking down at a small bottle thatbhad purple liquid in it, he exhaled and walked to the garden, where the growls and groans were coming from.
He could see him, he was sitting on his knees fighting whatever it is that was controlling him lately, he body stiffened to see his golden eyes glaring at him.
Hillary halted gulping, not moving from where he was, the Prince no the bloody Prince was too scary, his face and robe was painted with the blood , his teeth had no white on then and are all red, his hairs ! Oh my God! How could his short black hairs turn into white long hairs overnight? he questioned himself, covering his mouth with his palm his eyes widening. "Crown Prince... what is happening to you" he said in a sad tone , he felt so miserable for him, it was adouble pain situation for him .... the Queen is no more and his future King is now out of this world, fighting for his cause. Levyndrion pushed his head back growling in pain "Aaaaah! it hurts!!" his nails digging on his won skin, he ripped his robe off and threw it away do now he only had his pants on.
Hillary gasped to see hiw red bus back and chest has become, so much like a meat getting cooked, he kept groaning even more, shortly some marks were drawing itself on his body, they started from his back and traced around until to his chest, and then on either sides of his ribs until to his upper waist, so much like tattoos, what was even more surprising was that the markings were of lava, smoke erupted as it burned his skin , engraving the markings. He hissed and groaned, Hillary couldn't watch him suffer in so much pain anymore, would go and help him even if it means to risk his own life, his grip tightened around the bottle and his feet started to move heading to him what will happen to him wasn't important like what would happen to the Crown Prince if he isn't saved from becoming a monster right now.
"Fu**k!!" cursed Hillary feeling the extreme heat that was emitting around Levyndrion, he was about five meters away from him but he could feel the heat like he was in a volcano, he frowned but he was determined to reach him no matter what! his steps becoming heavy and sweats raining down his whole body, even his skin would peel out at this rate.
But before he could take another step he felt a hand holding his wrist stopping from going any further, he stared at yhe hand that was stopping him, to his surprise the hand belonged to a lady given how soft the touch was, the lady took the bottle in from him making him glare at her with confusion "What the hell do you think your doing?" he yelled at her and attempted to take back the bottle bit she dodged and took a step back, "Hand it over! who the hell are you!" he was so angered at her rudeness but there was no much time to mess around with her, he had something more important to do.
"I'm the one who can save him trust me, I got this" her voice oozed with confidence and power varying with her looks. Hillary shook his head in denial "Listen lady ..... I don't know where you are coming from but he would kill you before you reach him, hand it over and leave right this instant!!" he ordered with his thundering voice, as uf she didn't hear what he just warned her about .... she walked past him heading to the King who was still in pain "Hey! You must have a death wish! get back over here lady!!" his shouts and attempts to stop her were futile for he was too late already, surprisingly unlike him she was affected by the heat he was emitting, she stood infront of the Crown Prince.
Hillary was confused, he wasn't aware of who she was but what she was about to do was too deadly, Is she fu**** dimwit?" he cursed displeased with what was going on.
Levyndrion lifted his head and stared at the figure standing beside him until he met with her blue eyes, he stared right through her eyes for a while, suddenly he felt cold hand touching his shoulder soothing the heat in his body, it was so relieving because he was burning like hell. "Who are you? aaaaah!" he asked but was followed by a shocking pain on his throat, "You are safe now, trust me" said the lady with a smile on, he was surprised at how bold she was, she must be blind too, why the hell wasn't she bothered about his appearance? he knew how scary he looked at the moment and like everybody called him since last night he is a monster ..... so why? .
She opened the bottle and placed it near his bloody lips "Drink it and the pain would go away" she coaxed him to open his mouth, her voice was like a sweet melody .....he voluntarily parted his lips and gulped down the liquid in it, she then stroked his back gently, his monster self vanished as if he never existed, he was back to normal, he lifted his hand and touched her cheek "Who are .... are ...." he fainted before he could finish his sentence, "My Prince!!" she shouted. That's it! that's when Hillary broke free from his daze, he was watching the impossible becoming possible right before his eyes, Who was this lady? .
He moved to the unconscious Cronw Prince , he body was heating up "My Crown Prince! wake up!" lady sobbed making Hillary speechless to the core, just who the hell is she? he looked down at her attentively just incase he knows her and seen her somewhere but no matter how much he think .... there was no way he knows her.
"What are you doing standing there? move him from here" she said in a worried tone and terrified look. Hillary carried the Crown Prince on his back and took hum to his quarters, the stranger lady ordered for a basin of water and a piece of cloth, once the servants brought the things, she snatched them from the servants who were about to do their duty and did it instead, they were speechless, Hillary ushered them outside.
The stranger lady was weirdly possessive of the Crown Prince when this would possibly be the first time they meet. 'What is wrong with her?' he thought and held her as she began to wipe the blood on his face, she stared right back at him "You know you've been crossing your limits lately and you seemed not to care about it at all as if you belongs here ..... just cut the crap and tell me what are your intentions " his voice horsed enough to make her close her eyes, a smile formed on his lips afterwards making Hillary ran out if patience and speechless for nth time now, she is the first unbelievable lady to ever meet in his entire life, u like her some other ladies wouldn't even dare to look back at his eyes, but this one ..... she was too intriguing.
"I am .... no .... I came to sooth and get rid of his pain, you can say I am his destiny " she opened her eyes smiling widely. Hillary felt numb and let go of her hand so she could continue with what she was doing, thus lady was too much for him to deal with right now, his concern lies with the Prince, he would deal with her later, he took some steps and leaned back on the wall studying the lady from head to toe, and if it wasn't enough he we t and sat infront of her so he could see whatever she was going to do.
The lady kept smiling as she soaked the towel on the water and and dry it before wiping him again and again, until his face became clear in the view 'He is more handsome than I thought ' she said within her looking at his clean face, he was breathtaking.