Chapter 72
Persephone’s POV
I had always known that fight with supernatural creatures was never going to be fair because they always aimed to kill. And I had never been given the opportunity to practise with anything which was better than me. Human beings were inherently scrappy and sloppy and they fought like mean bitches when cornered but they did nothing like vampires whose basic intention was to incapacitate me. The vampire lunged at me and pinned me to the side as I immediately hit him in the place that would hurt every single man, be it man or vampire and as I hit his balls I felt that I had kicked a block of cement.
The vampire winced and groaned but so did I. I was limping but I knew that I could not give him a chance to move, or recover, so I caught hold of his hand and thrashed him over my head and slammed him on the ground. I did not hear anything break but he snarled at me with his fangs elongated further.
I punched him in the nose and I could feel his nose slam inside his skull and he screamed in pain I shouted at him when he removed his hand from his face. The nose had completely gone inside his face and he looked like…uggghhh…I did not know how I would describe him. Noseless I guess..even walruses looked better than him.
“VHATTTTT???” he shouted at me confused.
Huh? Did I say that out loud or what?
But I did not wait. He could not breathe so I did the only thing I could do when his nose was rapidly healing and the bones were crunching. I kicked him square in the chest again but I was thrown backwards as if I struck a wall. He moved behind me but before he could snap my neck I ducked down and swung another punch to his balls and then caught hold of them and twisted.
He squealed like a otter trapped in a hunter’s snare and it was really a high pitched scream. I had no idea that vampires had such scale of voice.
“Quit screaming like that,” I growled, no idea my voice was so hoarse and then I raised my hand and found that there was that dark blade in my hand again. This time it was a knife. It was really getting easier with this thing. But before I could plunge the blade in his neck or chest or anywhere the vampire bit my arm. And then proceeded to bite out a chunk of flesh from my hand as I screamed in horror.
As soon as he tasted my blood his eyes widened and then vampire whispered to my growing horror,” You are…you are….you taste…”
But I could not do anything as Wilhelm appeared behind him and the next moment his neck was snapped and he dropped down dead.
Wilhelm looked at me as he said,” Burn him. Now.”
Everything happened so fast that I did not even have the time to react or speak or shout as I stared at him open mouthed.
“He is right, Persephone. You need to burn him,” said Bernard.
“And you…you fucking idiot. You paired her up with an actual vampire?” shouted Wilhelm as he came close to me and as I was sitting dazed there and helped me stand up. He tore open his hand with his fangs and dropped a single drop of blood on my arm as it sizzled and burnt a bit but immediately closed up.
“You didn’t need to do that,” I said as I stared at the dead body.
“You need to burn him fast, blood blossom, within a few minutes he will come back to his senses, probably earlier since he has tasted your blood. He is not supposed to…” Wilhelm stopped mid-sentence and then stared at Bernard and hissed. Bernard shrugged and said,” That was the fastest way that I could think of so that she could actually learn how to fight a fledgeling. That bitch called her an opportunist.”
“Is that the reason that you made her fight a fucking vampire warrior? That too who has been fighting people and students for the past eight years?” Wilhelm shouted again as I stared at the vampire. He was still unmoving but I could hear his bones clicking into place. The crack that had snapped his neck was healing quite fast and I said,” I can’t kill him for doing the thing that this idiot asked me to do, Wilhelm. That would be wrong.”
“See…this is what I was scared of. That she will have a fucking conscience. Do you even know how difficult that is to deal with?” asked Bernard as he glared at me and the next moment I slapped him so hard that he was shocked.
“You deserve that to think that you can treat any fucking person as cannon fodder for when it is necessary for your sake or when you think it suits your purpose. You lie and cheat and keep on saying that this is for my good but do you actually know how to do good for anyone? You think that losing life for anyone is that easy? Have you ever thought of the effect it has on their families? Do you even think of the motherfucking consequences?” I shouted so much that I could feel everything around me vibrate.
Wilhelm was holding my hand but suddenly he yelped and let go as I started moving towards Bernard with the singular purpose in mind that he needed to be hurt. He deserved to be punished. A lot had happened where I had seen that he had been given a lot of leeway because he was in a position of power but not any longer.
He had to be held accountable.
“Persephone, don’t do whatever you are thinking of doing,” said Wilhelm as he tried coming close to me but winced and Bernard was standing there immobile as he struggled against invisible bonds and trying to be free but could not. I was going to punish him but suddenly something else happened.
I was almost immediately drenched in ice cold water and I shrieked out so loud that it could burst eardrums if it could.
Tak was standing there and said,” Are you alright, Persephone? Are you feeling a bit better now?”
I was dazed at what just happened and completely soaking wet. I immediately waved a hand on me to dry myself and then said,” I wanted to punish him and you all stopped me again. He is getting too much power because you have never stopped him.”
“You are in a world where monsters are killing monsters at every single moment, dear, you can’t be treating everyone like they are precious,” said Wilhelm slowly as he came closer and I whirled at him.
“Seriously? So you are precious and he isn’t?” I asked him hotly as I pointed at the vampire who was now waking up.