Chapter 88

Chapter 88
Persephone’s POV
“Where is Nyra, Mara?” I asked as they all came inside my room and Alizeh was still smiling and dancing and right now she was breaking out into moves like she was dancing to Boombayah….oh dear goddess…what have I done to get such friends? And I could almost hear the music playing somewhere…oh that was Alizeh humming…
“Why are you asking me?” she asked with her eyes widened. The one thing I noticed after looking at her carefully was, Mara wasn’t looking pale any longer. It seemed that she was desperately in need of soul eating and without that she was looking pale and drab but now colour had returned to her cheeks and her hair was shinier as well.
“You really needed to feed, did you not?” I asked her as she didn’t answer me and Anora was getting a soda from the huge fridge in my room. Courtesy of the Headmaster, one of the things that I had negotiated from him.
“I did and thanks for that by the way. How did you know that I needed that? And how did you know that I feed on souls? It is not something that I shared with you or even with anyone else. No one knew what kind of demon I am. I don’t even look like one.”
Mara was speaking too much, rather rambling which could only mean that she was anxious about what had happened.
“I know you think that it was..”
“No, you don’t understand. This is not something that is supposed to come out and now it is out in the open and everyone knows what I am,” she said as she wrung her hand in despair. I went close to her and caught hold of her and said,” I knew it after I opened the grimoire.”
Mara fell silent and so did Alizeh.
“This is a place where the strongest and the meanest and the ones with most power are given credit. Violence and blood is the most primal form of magic and this particular realm is no different from others…so don’t you worry about what others think of you, Mara,” I said as something moved in the room.
I could see a shift in the power in the room as I could suddenly feel that there was someone or something who was staring at me. It was kind of an invasion.
“Who the fuck is there?” I growled as my hackles were raised. The potion I had painted on my eyes were supposed to show me whatever was hidden from my gaze but I still couldn’t when all of a sudden I could see a shadow move behind the mirror.
“It’s in the mirror,” I hissed as I walked towards the mirror in hopes of catching the culprit but it was gone.
“If it can use the mirror to travel that means it has shadow magic. Maybe that is how it is travelling to this room and everywhere else unnoticed,” said Anora with her hands on hips.
“But what is it that dares to come to a room where you are there plus there are other powerful creatures in here? This kind of cockiness can come only when either you are extremely powerful or you are extremely stupid,” said Mara and I nodded. Alizeh was still silent and I was staring at her aura which was shifting and changing colours with the speed of light and it was blinding and I winced in pain as I closed my eyes and placed my hands on them.
And all of a sudden Alizeh shifted.
Both the demonesses yelped and shrieked as she shifted forms and thumped on the ground in the size of a huge rabbit. Not the small kind. The huge kind and it looked exactly like a rabbit should, except the size was freaking huge!!
“She turns into that?” shrieked Anora and I was staring at Alizeh with my mouth open. I had never imagined that I could ever see a rabbit in the size of wait, like about a hundred pounds. Almost like what Alizeh weighed in her human form.
“Why did she turn into that? There must be some reason that she was…” Mara started but then she looked at Alizeh with her eyes squinted and smelled her. Then as soon as she tried getting close to Alizeh she jumped and hopped off from the floor to the bed with full force and all of us shrieked at the same time and the bed groaned.
“Please no…Alizeh…no no no...please don’t do that...we won’t get close to you…I am sorry,” I started saying and suddenly there was a red and golden haze all around her and she shifted back.
The moment she was back in her human form she puked.
And vomited her guts out on the floor and then looked at me and said,” I am so sorry, Persephone…I didn’t mean to do that…I didn’t know what made me do that…”
I shook my head and walked towards her with my hands up in a conciliatory gesture.
“Is it ok for me to come close to you? You aren’t scared of me right now?”
She shook her head so I went near her and pulled her naked and shivering body close. She was scared and so was I but I was more in the range of confused that why did that happen.
“She reacted to the foreign presence, hoping that she would be more able to save herself if she was under attack,” said Mara as she answered the question in my mind and I growled low in my throat.
Living together with predators was making me behave like a predator as well which felt strange, but wasn’t.
I had seen that I had the power to clothe myself and fashion a dress but now all that remained to be seen was whether I could do that for someone else as well. So I wrapped her even harder in my embrace and focused on making something comfortable for her and the next moment my hands touched satin clothes on her back.
Alizeh pulled away from me and looked down at herself and then said,” Did you just clothe me, babe?”
I nodded as I yawned. I had no idea how tired and exhausted I was after the day I had but it seemed that I had dressed Alizeh in a bunny costume which was comfortable and complete with the bunny slippers as well.
“Oh look, she made you a tail as well!” Anora shouted out and laughed out loud and Mara snorted. Alizeh turned her head and so did I to stare at a small cute fluffy tail on her dress.
We both looked at it and laughed and she said,” This is the cutest thing that I have ever worn in my life.”
That was the moment that Nyra walked in and stared at us in confusion.
She was dripping from head to toe, which was abnormal for a siren.