Chapter 47: Serpent's Anger!!

**Nora’s POV**

I saw Ronin waiting impatiently for me in the rover. His eyes are waiting for an explanation.

“What happened to your elbow? Are you hurt?” he grazed through my body with his eyes halting at my elbow.

“Yeah, it’s just a minor cut. Bleeding has stopped. It will heal soon!” I shrugged it off casually.

“You didn’t tell me, and instead just ran away here”, He snapped back angrily.

“It’s nothing. Stop obsessing over it!” I don’t know why but his talks and incessant questioning were frustrating. His face dropped at my outburst, and then he was quiet throughout the way to the palace, and I thanked God for it as I didn’t want to be rude to him again.

After reaching the palace, he asked one of the maids for a first-aid box on the way to his chamber.

“How did you get hurt?” he asked, bandaging my wound. His eyes were fixated on my wound, and his hand precisely cleaned it. He is trained for this. Of course, on battle-field, they may need to do that.

I took out my phone and called Rorik, “Rorik, can you please come to Ronin’s chamber.”

Ronin lifted his head in my direction, quite amused as to why I called Rorik but preferred not to say anything.

When Rorik came, Ronin was already done bandaging my wound.

“You still didn’t answer my question. How did you get hurt?” Ronin was losing patience singling out every word in a sentence. I sighed. Rorik and I glanced at each other for some time. His eyes were telling me not to say anything.

“We went to the old palace library today!” I broke the silence as I couldn’t stop myself. Ronin narrowed his eyes, frowning his eyebrows, still amused as to why did I go to Old Palace and how I got hurt. Rorik and I again looked at each other.

“If you both are done gawking at each other, can I know what the fuck you were doing there at the old palace library and how the fuck you got hurt?” he shouted, losing patience. Anger screeching from his eyes.

I knew that its the time to say everything to Ronin. I am not sure of the repercussions, nor do I care, but the truth needs to be out. I am always blissful when I am with Ronin; maybe sharing this with Ronin will help me deal with the crisis I face.

“Uh… Since the last few years, I have been getting weird nightmares,” I spoke, glancing at Ronin as his eyes started turning black and his muscles constricted.

I continued, “I was hanging on the cliff of a crater, filled with neon serpents, presumably Isle of death.”

“Even before you came to Crixus?” Ronin asked, eyeing me warily as if something was going in his mind.

“Yeah, on Earth also. Then somebody saved me.”

“Who?” Ronin’s voice beamed with caution.

“A person with a tattoo of a three-headed serpent sitting on a crescent moon!” I responded. I don’t know why, but I couldn’t make myself speak Ornith’s name in front of Ronin. I can’t deny the sexual feelings I was having with Ornith. With Ronin’s senses already alert, what if he catches them.

“Who?” Ronin frowned, his eyebrows as if already knowing the answer but still waited for me to respond.

“Ornith”, Rorik spoke, and I thanked God for this.

“What? How can you be so sure? How can this be possible?” Ronin turned his head towards Rorik.

“We confirmed it by Ornith’s portrait,” Rorik replied.

Ronin was quite confused, still unsure to believe it or not.

“Nora had a vision in the library, and through it, we found the Book of Ozarius”, Rorik continued to make Ronin believe.

“The gateway to Azra?” Ronin questioned bemusedly, turning on his side to face Rorik. Rorik nodded.

“What the hell? How are you getting visions of Ornith? How did you find out the damn book? I don’t understand,” Ronin muttered, his eyes swarming with hundreds of different emotions.

“Yeah, it’s unbelievable”, Rorik retorted.

“There is more to it. You don’t know everything—something which I hid from everyone. I have not been completely honest with you both,” I spoke, still unsure of how to start saying. But, finally, I chose to break my silence.

“What?” Ronin asked as his frown intensified. He was dead serious now.

“Since my first visit to the old palace, I am getting these weird dreams of Ornith-” I stopped mid-sentence with my eyes filled with tears.

“Nora! Stop crying! Please say,” Rorik spoke, and Ronin was still looking intentively at me, curiosity filling his dark eyes.

“I am having these weird dreams of uh…intimacy, sexual relations with Ornith!” I was crying with shame and fear. Ronin was silently unable to digest what I had just muttered.

“But why?”, Rorik’s expressions were all baffled before he continued, “You didn’t tell me this!”

Ronin’s features turned obscured. I knew very well that he was angry as I chose to tell everything to Rorik instead of him.

“I wanted to, but I was so scared. I don’t understand why these things are happening to me. As if fucking a serpent is not enough, I am also fucking a damn three-hundred old serpent in my dreams. I see myself with him indulged in sexual activity. A different me as if I was there with him in some another time. I couldn’t help the feelings, desires and urges going through me. I am not in control of myself; I feel like a wingless caged bird, acting on the whims of a dark force, which betrays my body and actions. I feel this unquenchable thirst and forbidden cravings for Ornith as if I am blood-bound to him. I am fighting too hard to resist his charms, I always remind myself that Ornith is just a dream, but this is not true; there is something more to it. I feel that he was a part of my life, a part of my past. Other personality often takes over my mind, and I do weird things. Remember the day I threatened you?” I reminded Ronin.

Ronin was looking bemused; his eyes in darker shades of black were penetrating outside the window, focusing on mighty Serous. Rorik came to me, wiped my tears and nuzzled me in his warm hug.

“It’s okay; it’s not your fault. Your dreams, your visions are not in your control. There are few things unexplained, unbelievable and too true to be coincidences. We will find the answers soon,” Rorik said.

“But my actions are!” I looked intentively at him, hinting about today’s event at the old palace. His eyes were still silently telling me it was not a good idea.

I sighed, taking a deep breath, “Today also, I had a vision of Ornith in an old palace. As soon as I entered the room, its whole ambience changed. I mean everything from its atmosphere, mood, vibrations, and aura. I felt like I was in another time; it was me but different. I saw myself but in a different avatar, the opposite of me and then I saw him-Ornith. I can never forget his dominant, seductive and territorial grin. We both were in the midst of -” I slowed down as I spoke, conscious of the provocative glares of both the Gemini princes on me. Their expressions beyond shock would be an understatement. It was far behind that part of the shock. It was an unprecedented and unparallel feeling for them. And many questions were running through their already amused minds.

“He came near me, very close. I felt his breathing on my face. I heard his heart-beats as if they were my own. He leaned onto kissing me. I held him by his nape and my other hand touching him down there his shack, and then Ornith just disappeared, and again I travelled back through the sands of time in this world. And the one I was about to kiss was Rorik.”

The tears were overflooding my eyes, and guilt surrounded my mind. My eyes were too wet and feeble to focus on Ronin’s expression. However, still, I know that he must be reeking of a formidable, gruelling and fearsome monster ready to clench on its prey and delete its existence from the universe. He was trying too hard to control his serpentine instincts.

“Ronin, it’s not her mistake. The dreams and visions made her do this!” Rorik tried to reason with Ronin, but it was useless.

“Stop it! What do you think of me? A crazy, thick-headed serpent who will just be fooled around your fucking stories. You want me to turn a blind eye towards her, her actions?” he pointed at me with sneering expressions.

“Ronin, please, I didn’t mean to” I tried to speak, but he didn’t let me finish my sentence.

“What you didn’t mean to? To fuck my already dead ancestor or kiss my brother? I admit I had been an idiot all this time to believe your sweet talks but not anymore,” he started to leave the room.

“Where are you going?” Rorik asked.

“To hell so that you both can complete what you started at old-palace- fucking each other and laughing on me, a dull-witted and imbecile monster.”

Ronin left!!