“Wait. Where did you say we are going?” Kir asks as she skids to a halt. “The Underworld.” Alex answers casually. “Uh, how are we going to get there? Only demons know where the entrance is.” Kir states matter-of-factly. “Yeah, I know, so come on.” Alex says. Kir looks at Alex for a moment.
Realization pops into her eyes as she shouts, “Oh my gods, you’re a demon!” Alex laughs so hard that he falls back onto his bottom. “Your reaction is priceless. Yes, I’m a demon.” Alex says between fits of laughter. Kir’s face grows slightly pink from embarrassment. “Okay, okay, let’s go then.” Kir says as she holds out a hand towards Alex to help him back up.Alex wipes tears from his eyes as he calms himself and grabs Kir's hand. Kir pulls him up with ease. "So, where do we go from here?" Kir asks while keeping her face turned away from Alex's view. "Down." Alex answers.Kir turns to Alex and tilts her in confusion. "Down?" She asks. "Yes, down. WKir wakes up with a start, screaming and panicking. "Asher! No!" She yells as her body propels itself into a sitting position. She feels a warm embrace and begins to feel herself calming down. "I was so scared.." she whispers and buries her face into the arms that surround her. Kir sniffles and then remembers where she is before jumping out of Alex's arms. "Are you okay?" The man asks with concern as he stares at her. Kir regains her composure and nods. "I'm fine, can I take a shower?" She asks without looking at Alex. "Sure, go ahead. The bathroom is right there." He says as he points to a door at the back of the room. "Do you need clothes? I can go buy some really fast." Alex asks as he continues to stare at Kir. "No need but thank you." Kir says meekly as she rushes into the bathroom to bathe and hide her embarrassment.Alex stares at the closed bathroom door for a moment before getting his phone out to text his sister. 'hey, can you look someone up for me? I'll owe you one… ' He p
Alex and Kir walk along the city streets, stopping at every shop that Kir spots on their way to the café. Kir skids to a halt, once again, when she spots a small casino-like building. "What's that?" She asks, eyes sparkling with excitement and curiosity. Alex looks over to the building and gulps audibly. "That's the Serpent's Lair, a casino owned by my cousin." Alex explains. "Your cousin? So Morphy?" Kir asks, excitement increasing in her voice. Alex coughs, "Morphy? What's with trying to make his name sound all cutesy?" Alex asks, giving Kir a suspicious glance. "I don't know what you're talking about Alex." Kir slyly turns away to avoid Alex's gaze. "Anyway, let's go in there! It looks fun and I've never been to a casino before." Kir doesn't wait for Alex's response before running towards the building's entrance."Kir! Wait!" Alex shouts but is ignored by her as she goes inside. Alex sighs, realizing he has no choice but to follow and make s
Kir and Alex continue making out, both seeming to have lost control of themselves. Alex breaks the connection between their lips as he bites Kir on her shoulder. Kir feels a small trickle of blood dripping from the bite, reflexively she bites Alex back. The moment she tastes his blood on her tongue, Kir's eyes shoot open and she pushes Alex off of her. Without a word she rushes into the bathroom and locks herself in, leaving a very confused Alex sitting on the floor with his back against the wall. Alex sits there, bewildered by everything that took place. He doesn't understand why either of them reacted the way they did or how they ended up making out. And the thing that confuses him the most is why Kir suddenly pushed him away. Alex reaches into his pocket for his phone but can't find it. He decides to stand up and look around the room. He spots his phone on the edge of the bed and unlocks his screen. Alex notices an unread message and clicks to open i
Ari bursts through the door a few moments later. "What do you mean she's gone?! Where is she? How is it even possible for you to mess up this much so quickly?!" Ari shouts as she paces around the room. "Why aren't you saying anything!!" She scolds Alex."You didn't give me a chance to say anything.. " Alex points out, his head down. "True.. Do you have any clue where she could've gone? Wait, no, if you did then you wouldn't have called me… ugh, okay well she couldn't have gone too far, right? I mean she's only been here for one night, there's no way she memorized any paths or anything." Ari reasons with herself. Alex's face turns grim. "Actually, Kir has an amazing sense of direction. She already knows how to get to and from the café from here.." Alex points out. Ari groans, "of course she did, why wouldn't she? She's the princess of the whole supernatural kingdom! Anything else I should know?" Alex thinks for a moment before speaking, "we
Alex takes the chance to look around the room, searching for clues about Kir's connection to Asher. He stops when he spots a picture laid face down. Alex lifts up the photo for a look. He sees a tall man in his teens with hair that looked similar to flames except it was silver instead of yellow. Alex studies the photo for a moment and notices a name in the corner: Asher at age seventeen. Alex puts the photo back where he found it and continues walking around the room. "There's gotta be something.." He whispers to himself. Alex stops at a nightstand near the bed, he reaches towards the drawer but hesitates for a moment. 'You're snooping through a dead man's belongings, just how low have you stooped..' He thinks to himself. Alec shakes his head and opens the drawer. His heart is pounding now as he sees a single envelope inside. Alex opens the envelope slowly, not wanting to risk ripping anything that might be inside. He pulls out two folded pieces of pape
Alex looks over to Kir and sighs to himself, 'there's no way that I can just straight up ask her something like that.' Kir's ears twitch, causing Alex to hold his breath while fearing that she heard him. Kir shoots up from the bed with a wicked smile on her face. "Oh no.. Whatever you're thinking right now, it's not happening." Alex says quickly. Kir frowns, "I didn't even say anything yet.' Alex laughs, "you don't need to. I've learned what that smile means already." Kir pouts at his words. Kir walks over to Alex and pokes his cheek repeatedly. Alex becomes annoyed and nips at Kir's finger. "Fine, what do you want?" He asks with an exasperated sigh. Kir smiles victoriously, "let's go to school tomorrow!" Alex's heart stops as he stares in bewilderment at the blue haired female. "You're joking, right?" He asks in hopes that she's messing with him. "Nope! I'm one thousand percent serious, Alex. Let's go to school tomorrow!" She shouts with excitement. Alex shakes his head in disbelie
Kir wakes up feeling excited, ready to enact her master plan. Unbeknownst to Alex, she had also invited a few guests to help them out today. After last night's confession, Kir felt that Alex might be too distracted to act his designated part so she decided that it would be wise to have backup.Kir took a quick shower and brushed her hair and teeth. Seeing that she had plenty of time to spare, she decided to do a mermaid braid hairstyle today. After finishing her hair, Kir adds some light foundation to her face before placing forest green eyeshadow and crimson lip gloss. She looks in the mirror with satisfaction as she walks out of the bathroom to pick out her outfit for the day. In order for her plan to be executed with perfection, she had to look like trouble. She changes into a black tank top and a purple plaid mini skirt. She laces up her black combat boots and slips on a black leather jacket. With her preparations complete, Kir walks out of her room and over to the room that Alex
A young man with black hair and seafoam green eyes walks into the academy courtyard with confidence. He looks around, seemingly searching for something. He hears the men in front of him speaking and can't help but listen in on their conversation.“So you never ended up finding her again after that? Where do you think she went then?” Kilo asked his friend while they continued to walk towards the courtyard. “Honestly, I have no clue. We checked all of her usual hiding places and even asked around about a blue-haired girl, but nobody had seen her. I’m getting really worried too.” Inuharu responded back.The young male looks up and comments to himself, "Well, then. I didn’t realize this school was so lenient.” He chuckles to himself as he spots a blue haired female feeding on a young male in the distance. Kilo heard the man behind them speaking and couldn’t help but look in his direction. “What are you talking about?” Kilo asked the man with confusion, thinking th
When the brown haired male enters the house, he's met with a fist to his face. "Okay.. I deserve that." He says as he holds his now bleeding nose. "Who the hell are you?" Inuharu growls as he goes in for another punch. Valentine grabs Inuharu's arm to prevent him from hitting the man again. "I wouldn't do that, Roo. Look at your sister." Valentine points towards Kir. Kir's nose trickles blood, causing Roo to look between her and the man he just punched in the face. "What the hell.. " He says, completely confused by this string of events. "Well Kotar, you have some explaining to do." Valentine says with a grunt. Kotar looks at Kir's unconscious body and ignores everyone else. "Is she okay? I know the bond connects the pair but I didn't know it could do something like this." Kotar says as he takes a step closer. Alex gives Kotar a warning growl, making him step back. "And who are you? Last I checked, even royals are subjected to the demon exile." Kotar sneers. Alex huffs as he turns
"Oh yeah.. I forgot about that part." Alex says as he scratches his head with embarrassment. "So what are we going to do then? Is he going to send me back? Or do you think he'll kill me for this?" Alex asks as he tries to read Kir's expressionless face. "Well if he was able to kill you then he would've already done it. My guess is that this mark thing prevents him from doing that but that's just a theory so we shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves yet." Kir concludes as she looks away from Alex's gaze. "One more thing." Alex starts. "Why are you avoiding eye contact with me?" He asks as he steps closer to Kir. Kir seems to panic a bit as her voice wavers, "I-i.. I'm not avoiding anything, Alex." Alex takes another step near her, only a few centimeters apart now. "Kir." He whispers in her ear. Kir's eyes shoot over to Alex's, a deep blue that flickers to black every few seconds. "Well that's new. What does black mean?" He asks as he gen
Alex doesn't have much time to watch Kir and Luca's match as he is pushed from behind. He turns around and sees Kilo glaring at him. Alex sighs, realizing that he has a lot of explaining to do. But he's not given much chance to speak before Kilo lunges at him. "Wait.. Can we just talk for a second?" Alex says while barely dodging Kilo's flurry of punches. "No talking! You sat with us while we were all worried about Kir! And you didn't say a word about knowing where she was or that you had been with her!" Kilo growls as he throws more punches.Alex snarls at the accusations but tries to remain calm as he continues to dodge. "If you would just listen to me.. " Alex starts but Kilo's fist makes contact with his ribs. Alex stumbles backward and coughs. "Damn it! Just listen!" Alex shouts as he rushes Kilo. Landing a kick to Kilo's ribs and watching him fly backwards, Alex feels a wave of satisfaction. His moment is cut short as Kilo shifts to his wolf and launches himself at Alex. Alex
"Umm.. Well.. Uhh.. " Kotar struggles to find the right answer. Kir giggles as she sits up and climbs onto his lap, face-to-face with Kotar while her hands are draped over his shoulders. Kotar inhales sharply as he tries to look away. The sly female wraps her legs around her companion's waist as she makes him face her. "What's wrong? Cat got your tongue?" She teases. The male visibly gulps as his pulse rises. "K-Kir… what are y-you doing.. " He asks shakily. Kir uses her nail to trace along Kotar's neck as she stares into his brown eyes. "I'd like to ask you the same thing, why have you been exuding those pheromones ever since we entered the room?" She whispers into his ear, causing Kotar to shiver. It takes Kotar a moment to realize what she had said as he snaps out of his daze and looks around the room. Sure enough the entire room was filled with pink clouds of smoke. He looks between the pink clouds and the woman on his lap, unsure of what to do at this moment and feeling very e
Kir continues to run around until reaching the parking lot of a strange looking club. She enters the club with her head held high, loving the glances she receives while walking around. She walks up to the bar and takes a seat. "What can I get ya?" The bartender asks without looking at her. "I'll take a club soda for now." Kir responds as she keeps her eyes on the crowd at the dance floor. "Got it." He replies back and pours her drink.The bartender turns to give Kir her drink but upon seeing her, he freezes and drops her drink. Before the drink can hit the ground and shatter, Kir quickly hops over the bar and grabs it. "Thanks." He says while continuing to gawk at the girl. Kir looks at the man and smiles sweetly, "you should be more careful next time. And you might wanna close your mouth Kilo, wouldn't want a bug to fly in there." Kilo blinks several times before speaking, "what are you doing here? You're supposed to be at home with your parents, Roo is going to freak out when he f
After Kir agrees, Linaria brings her out to her real house. Kir stares in awe at all of the gadgets and weapons that are on display throughout the cabin. "This is where Asher and I have been staying. That other house is owned by my parents. This one, however, was bought by Asher as a way to hide from our parents whenever we wanted to get away or needed to focus. It's also where we spent the majority of our time. There are three bedrooms here, you can either take his room or the guest room while you're here." Linaria explains excitedly.Kir continues to look around while speaking, "so you guys really were assassins? Does that mean you two trained a lot? I can't imagine being an assassin is an easy job.." Linaria chuckles, "we did do a lot of training. Speaking of which, I heard that you really like combat and sparring. If that's true then I suppose I could show you to the gym portion of the house."Kir's eyes immediately light up at the mention of a gym. "Really? Can I use it? Do you ha
-3rd person-Kir looks between the unknown woman and the exit, trying to decide what to do. "Alright, calm down. We don't have to talk right now but at least stay after the party is over so I can give you something. Then you can decide what you want to do." The girl offers. Kir's eyes change from blue to red and back to blue while she stares at the other female, obviously struggling to figure out how to respond. Kir inhales and speaks calmly, "alright, I'll stay. What's your name? I don't remember that person ever mentioning a sister." "Linaria Romanov, but you can call me Lina. Thank you for agreeing to stay, I hope you enjoy yourself for the remainder of the party." Lina says with sincerity. "Trust me, I will." Kir responds in a menacing tone as she walks back to the dance floor. Linaria watches Kir, curious as to why her tone had sounded so strange. "Hey Lina, have you seen Benny?" Milo asks from behind her. "Hmm? No, why?" She asks wit
-Kir's POV-After getting dragged home by my father, I was met with a frantic Renay pacing around our living room. "I'm home." I said in a monotone voice. I wish they hadn't spoiled my fun. It's not like I killed anyone…yet. "What is the matter with you?! I spent sixteen years training you how to act in public and the moment I'm gone you decide to go ballistic?! How am I supposed to trust you to rule this kingdom that I built if you act like this?" Valentine scolds me the moment the front door is shut. I stay silent as my parents rant about my bad behavior. "Valentine, there lies the problem right there! You TRAINED her, you didn't raise her. Obviously you pushed her too hard while I was gone and that's why she's acting like this now." My mother scolds him. "All the blame goes on me? You're the one who abandoned our children and left me to take care of them on my own! It's no wonder she's acting out, she obviously takes after her mother!"
A young man with black hair and seafoam green eyes walks into the academy courtyard with confidence. He looks around, seemingly searching for something. He hears the men in front of him speaking and can't help but listen in on their conversation.“So you never ended up finding her again after that? Where do you think she went then?” Kilo asked his friend while they continued to walk towards the courtyard. “Honestly, I have no clue. We checked all of her usual hiding places and even asked around about a blue-haired girl, but nobody had seen her. I’m getting really worried too.” Inuharu responded back.The young male looks up and comments to himself, "Well, then. I didn’t realize this school was so lenient.” He chuckles to himself as he spots a blue haired female feeding on a young male in the distance. Kilo heard the man behind them speaking and couldn’t help but look in his direction. “What are you talking about?” Kilo asked the man with confusion, thinking th