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Chapter 16 - Chapter 16

Sethur moves with speed as he catches the dead weight that is his master's linker. The man has blood everywhere. You can practically smell the iron stench on him. His nose is bleeding and his mouth is oozing this dark red substance which looks suspiciously like blood.

His not a shrink like the man in his arms but he can guess that whatever is affecting him is probably affecting his master too. Or the shrink is getting affected by his master's pain. Either way Sethur understands that if he let anything happen to the man in his arms, he would equally be dead. He picks up the man and makes a beeline for the bedroom where he deposits him and goes to the bathroom and grabs a tile and starts to clean out the blood-soaked man. 

He debates on if he should change the man's cloths entirely when he remembers what happened to the last man who saw this man naked and flinches from the memory.

Yeah, fuck no.

"Zei... Rei..."

"Master" Two men appear on the other side of the room, hands folded behind their backs. It's the two men that work under Sethur, the brothers Zei and Rei. 

"Ward the perimeters and come back" 

The two disappear and Sethur can feel the faint hum of powerful magic in the air. He nods and tucks the man in the blanket and proceeds to ward the room as well. When he is satisfied with the strength of his magic he waits for the two to reappear. 

"Guard him with your lives, I need to go to Enron and try to bring him up. If the two are not reunited before the night ends, we will have a serious problem on our hands." He announces as the two bow and he vanishes. He doesn't need to see what goes on, the two have been with him since he can remember and he trusts them with his life. 

Sethur materializes on the same grounds a few yards away in an empty space of land. He takes to reinforce the wards around the property and slices his palm onto the ground where the border starts. It takes a moment before his blood merges with the current one since its owner is down and sighs then vanishes altogether.

Sethur appears before a closed door, kneeling on the dark obsidian floor. He only needs to wait a moment before a dark voice tells him to enter. He swallows and takes a deep breath before he pushes the door open. The heat and stench of blood of his master have him almost kneeling again but he holds his ground and stares at the floor. 

"Look at me" The command is spoken quietly and without anger. Sethur drags his eyes up and he knows that he wants to see the truth in my eyes. Enron looks as bad as he sounds. His body has lacerations everywhere the wipe reached him. His wounds are open and unhealing. Truthfully speaking I don't understand why he lets his father do that to him. 

But his eyes, on the other hand are as clear as glass. A dark deep empty shiny hole.

He is unsettling. 

Well... okay I understand the ancient is powerful and can discipline he's son however way he wants, and nobody can say shit about it. Well, his other son can and I don't understand why he just doesn't tell his brother what his father does to him.

"How... is he?" The question has me frowning a bit. Not because of how it's phrased but because of the vulnerability behind it. I have been with him for eons of years and have never seen this man... entity look so down. And all for a human. Well not fully, actually... hybrid.

"He is not good. Right now, he's out cold. Had to knock him out to keep him from hurting himself further." My answer receives a response am only too familiar with. The heat goes from one hundred to one thousand degrees, and I smell my own blood in my nose coming up. I hear a thud outside the room, and I know the guards are not so lucky.

"What happened? I don't understand, the most he should be feeling is a headache at the back of his mind so why are you smelling of my mate's blood?" Fuck I forgot that part, of course he would smell his linker's essence on me. Heat intensifies before he thinks better of himself and recalls it back.

"He was bleeding out, through his nose and mouth. His body had gone into shock I had to knock him out to cut off circulation. Am not sure if it's because of you or some other forces"

Honestly if he was entirely human, he would've bled out. Of course, I don't say this part out loud because I value my life despite how long it is.

"You couldn't determine what the problem was?" 

"No... but he did smell like a dog, I mean..."

"Like a werewolf" He finishes. 

Yes, like a werewolf. My kind have never been ones to mess around with supernatural's because we deemed them tainted for lack of a better word. They were an imbalance in the natural order of things. Werewolves were humans who could turn into wolves, vampires were things at the blink of death etcetera. Let's just say we avoided each other for a reason. 

However, it seemed master already knew of this.

"He did mention that he had entered their territory... But how does that have any relation to him..." He seemed to take the thought inwards but snapped out of whatever thoughts he had entertained and looked back up at me. 

"I need to go to him. Find me someone"

"Yes master" I walk out of the room and take the stairs down to the dungeon where a few creatures are locked up. A young girl with pure white hair and crystal blue eyes snaps her eyes at me the moment she feels my presence. Her snarl enchanting in the otherwise dark place. Her light a dim but beautiful blue. 

Feisty little thing.

"That face doesn't suit an angel; I thought you physically can't be that upset" I taunt the half-bred.

" I will rip that grin off your face the moment I am strong enough to get out of here demon" she snarls as she carelessly grips enchanted bars only to be flown back against the wall where she flinches and doubles over. Her beautiful arms smelling like roasted meat only without the aroma of seasonings.

"Bet you forgot that huh"

I chuckle and nod for the guard to open the cell. I grab the halfling and drag her all the way up the stairs with her cursing and snapping like the little spitfire she is. 

let it be known that just because she looks like a teenager does not make her one. She is practically a living grandmother as the humans would term her. She was just unlucky that my master stumbled upon her one time in the human realm.

I drag her to my master where we proceed to force her life force out of her and into him. His condition is not the best, but we will have to do with this. When the essence is successfully in Enron his wounds have healed significantly. At least his linker won't see him bleeding out.

 "We better hurry before he wakes up or your father sends someone down here again" I trail as I hold him up with my arm under his dragging him to his room where we vanish. 

"One of these days I will get so fade up with the old man I will ripe his fucking heart out" He promises in that quiet way of his. A calm Enron I have discovered is more dangerous than a raging one. If he says it in a calm mindset best believe he will do it.

And I would be more than glad to see his father meet his end by his own son. I hated sire. Even for our world his cruelty was out of norm. 

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