"Now will you tell us, what was that siren?"
Malcolm confronted Kayden as they ran throughout the gradually thinning forest. The noise of sirens were fainting slowly along with the wincing of the mutants.
The bright light began to appear in front of them, as they paced up to get out of the forest as fast as they could. Kayden acknowledged the possible dangers which could simply land them into a big mess.
"That siren belongs to a special squad, they are the cops who handle unusual activities."
Kayden replied as he cast a keen look at Malcolm. Perhaps in an attempt to mock him for brutally dismantling Jack. it was not known to them that the squadron belonged to Coulter and he was there to help.
Malcolm scoffed inwardly upon the unnecessary burden, things were getting worse day by day. As much as they wanted to stay low somehow the situations were going against their will. Whereas they both were bickering and trying to drag each other down verbally. Medusa was occupied with the keen observation of the surroundings.
"Dang! So they know about us, now we have to find another place to hide."
The servant incubus wanted to blame Kayden but low key Malcolm knew it was partially his fault too.
"Not really, they might have had a hunch about you guys. There's a barrier outside and it must have triggered the alarm, when you guys arrived here. Dammit or perhaps Coulter set this trap for us!
Kayden's theory was absolutely correct apart from Coulter's part, which increased Malcolm's concerns. The incubus servant looked back at Medusa, who had slowed down a bit because she was zoned out.
'These mutants are a result of failed experiments, but what are the vampires trying to achieve here?'
Medusa's trail of thoughts were jumping on different hypotheses. Based on the vicious history of the vampires, it was evident how selfish and malicious the race was.
'Are they trying to build new powers or by any chance enhancing the current ones?'
The flashes of recent fights with the mutants replayed in the succubus' mind. She could potentially see how the signature traits were enhanced.
She shook her head in order to focus on running, it was the moment when she focused on their bickering. Malcolm and Kayden were giving each other heated stares.
'Are they both even adults, bruh?'
She slowed down to pluck a few leaves from the bushes, and narrowed their edges. Medusa shot them towards their feet while both of them were focused on the gibberish.
"What the hell, woman!?"
Kayden yelled as he sprinted backwards reflexively, while the leaves hit the ground like a spiky blade. Her spell made them transform but up hitting the aim they turned back to normal.
"Can we please head back silently? Without quarrelling or making it more difficult, because the situation is already worse."
Medusa placed her both palms on her navel, both of the guys stared at each other with a 'humph' expression.
No wonder she was a gorgeous succubus and mischievous by nature. Her all traits added up under one term, desirable! However they exited the forest and abided by her seemingly request.
The new beta in the command had casted a powerful spell which initiated a slightly visible shield around the forest. It was the very moment when Medusa rebuked them with the leaf-blades; the shield was completed.
"Damn! It was a close shave."
Malcolm sighed with relief not because they could not fight the cops. But staying hidden and avoiding them as far as they could was the wise option.
All three of them stared at the slightly shimmering force shield which had covered the forest. And luckily they stood just three feet outside the forest boundary, which saved them from being trapped within.
As soon as they exited the forest and walked towards the city, which was evidently visible due to soaring buildings. Upon reaching the first main junction, a few miles away from the forest they boarded a cab.
Assuming that if Coulter had set a trap for all three of them, then he must have rescued Lydia from that forest. And it was not safe to go back to his home, thus the three of them headed towards Jones' place.
"Are you sure that the cops aren't following us? Is it even safe for us to go inside? Who knows they might have placed their men in your house!"
Malcolm raised the obvious question which he presumed hadn't crossed Kayden's mind.
They stood outside the house which seemed apparently normal from the outside. And as expected Mr Jones knew his son will come back, that's why his late mother's soul had left him a note.
"Of course, if there had been any danger dad would already have sent me some signal not to come back."
Kayden explained his stance and headed inside, whereas both of the blood servants could not deny his words.
They had already seen the working ways of Mr Jones and whatever Kayden said was true. The old vampire had an accurate calculative sense, which inclined towards Kayden's safety.
Medusa and Malcolm followed him inside while cautiously analysing their surroundings. As soon as Kayden entered, a bright light attacked him by charging towards his confused silhouette.
As soon as they entered the house, numerous sprinkles of white which seemed like snow, appeared. The strange small beads joined together in a blob at first, which grew bigger and took the form of a big dragon.
'What the heck is this thing?'
Kayden panicked as he saw the bright light coming towards him. Before he could react to the mysterious beam of white light, something hit him from behind causing Kayden to stumble due to imbalance.
"Watch out, master!"
Medusa yelled and lunged towards Kayden, she pushed him hard in order to make him dodge. The succubus had good intentions and was just being dutiful, Malcolm was right that Medusa had been undergoing changing emotions.
Malcolm on the other hand sensed the attack of the beam. But he wanted Kayden to protect himself and proceed to explore his powers. Hence he clicked his tongue when Medusa plunged to help Kayden with even a possible minor matter.
Her sudden push from behind made the guy hit the floor as Kayden landed over his face. The sight brought a smile over Malcolm's face, however he suppressed it not to pull another round of tension between them.
"What are you doing, Medusa?"
He yelled and lifted himself up by holding his bleeding nose. Kayden was relieved that no other vampire was around to get incited by the smell. It was the moment when his head terribly spun and Kayden slumped on the floor again.
His knees touched hard against the floor as Kayden experienced his vision getting blurry.
'What's happening to me? My head...my head is splitting.'
Kayden could not concentrate on the matter, his head felt like it was being hammered. The sudden headache was unusual and mysterious considering there was no natural cause for it.
[Kayden? Come to me Kayden.]
The mysterious voice in his head made him wonder, as a wave of fright crept into his heart.
'This voice...this sounds familiar…argh!'
Meanwhile Medusa and Malcolm assumed he was just fixing his nose with that head lowered. It never crossed their minds that something like that could possibly occur. Since such spells were long forgotten and new generation was totally unaware.
Another sharp pang circulated in his head, while Kayden stumbled over his steps.
'They both can't hear it? It means...only only can hear this voice.'
His anxiously confused stare landed on both of them, as Kayden kept his mouth shut. Unbeknownst to his blood servants the voice was a message from Kayden's mother. But it got disrupted because of Kayden's dark aura, which resisted 'listening' to the light.
The boy did not want to come out of his egoistic shell, he still owed an apology to Medusa and perhaps was not planning to open up any sooner. Hence he did not voice out his queries to them, instead pretended nothing happened after the headache faded.
'Come on girl, stop being his momma! At one point you wanna fuck him but then you treat him like a child. It's gross! Decide for once what you want, I don't wanna puke with my imagination.'
Whereas Malcolm thought inwardly and groaned over Medusa' behaviour. The anxious gaze of the succubus was darted towards the floating beam of light. Whereas Malcolm stayed quiet in the front door, analysing that the dragon wasn't harmful.
Kayden did not let both of them sense that something was wrong with him. Hence he put up an 'I am expecting a reply' facade over his face, to hide his quizzical thoughts.
"I was just trying to save you from it,Kayden. We don't know what that thing is and right now we are not without enemies around us."
She explained herself but perhaps Kayden found it offensive that she touched him without permission. He glared at her and shifted attention towards the beaming dragon, which floated up in the air without any sound.
'Oh my goodness! Now it will take forever to figure out what this dragon thing is. Dang! I should take my leave, I'm definitely tired now.'
Malcolm shook his head in disappointment that they both had been consuming a lot of time to understand obvious stuff. However he was aware of the whole situation because of a past personal experience.
He closed the door and casually crept towards the kitchen, leaving Kayden and Medusa awestruck by his immoveable nature. Medusa wanted to stop him because due to the shared intimacy between them, the actual effect of the master-servant bond was nullified.
The dragon appeared snarling and made them all wonder what the energy was made up of. Kayden looked around for his father and took one step to sneak away from the floating dragon.
"Dad, where are you dad? Is this some kind of spell you are practising?"
But before he could become successful in leaving, the dragon lunged towards him. Kayden felt a cold shiver as the bright dragon entered his chest, Medusa tried to block it by jumping in the front.
However her attempt was futile as if the succubus was permeable. Kayden fell on the floor over his butt with his eyes open, but his body seemed to be frozen. Medusa panicked and knelt beside him, she kept on calling out to him.
"Kayden? Wake up! Please, wake up, don't do this to me."
Her eyes began to tear up upon finding silence from Kayden as a response. She tried to reach him but an extremely chilly spark refrained her from touching Kayden. The boy's eyes were still open but turned pitch black, perhaps he was zoned out or in some other dimension.
On the other hand across the hall, in the kitchen Malcolm punched the wall as hard as he could. Medusa's constant unconscious refusal to accept that Kayden's affection was not genuine bothered him, as much as her inclination towards Kayden constantly infuriated him.
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