Bloodlust
Bloodlust
And immediately on cue, those two guards ran out of the room. The other four guards who were still standing also followed the suit and ran outside, leaving Theodore.
Adeline's heart dropped when she heard Reginald shout that order. She felt weak in her knees imagining the corpses of her family members.
Theodore was confused for a fraction of a second as to stay inside and protect Adeline and Dragomir, or to chase after those vampires who were already grabbing a human each, ready to bite their head off. Some were already sinking their fangs on the guards and panic was ensuing all around the King's Court.
In the end, Theodore thought of knocking out those six vampires at first.
Theodore trusted Rebekah to stop her brother if he was to do anything bad to the humans inside.
As they were standing still, Theodore teleported from one vampire to another and poked them on the right nerves of their neck so as to make them all unconscious. To make sure that they wouldn't wake up any time soon, he went around and broke one of their legs each.
He was making it look like he was snapping some twig, and the human guards were watching him in action while being stunned.
"That is Princess Adeline's fiancé… no wonder she chose him," one of the guards who recognized Theodore from the last visit thought to himself as he pressed the puncture wound that he got from the vampire bite. He was so awestruck while watching Theodore that he didn't even feel his blood dripping down his neck.
Without wasting a second, Theodore teleported inside the meeting room… only to see all of the guards lying wounded or knocked out on the floor.
Rebekah was lying in one corner and her head was bleeding. Still, she was dragging herself towards her brother to stop him from committing the greatest mistake of his life.
Adeline was sweating and running towards the sofa to get the sword that she had hidden earlier.
And on another corner of the room, Reginald had pinned down Dragomir to the floor and was already sucking his blood from the neck. Dragomir already looked pale as if all of his blood was about to be drained from his body.
That was the last straw that Reginald could pull for Theodore to snap.
Almost in an instant, Theodore's massive wings spread in the room. His large and sharp horns came into view. And his razor-sharp claws protruded from the tip of all of his fingers, ready to slay that bastard.
He flapped his wings and grabbed Reginald by his hair. "Leave him!" he growled like a true monster.
Reginald had yet to see Theodore's massive and dangerous version so he refused to let go of Dragomir's neck.
Dragomir on the other hand was directly seeing Theodore in that terrifying form. Those red eyes of Theodore sent cold and sharp pain in his heart. And he was confused about who he was more scared of, Reginald or Theodore.
Theodore then pierced all of his claws on Reginald's shoulder so that he would scream in pain and open his mouth, freeing Dragomir from him.
And Reginald did just that. He shouted because he could feel burning pain as though his shoulder blade had been sliced through. His golden robe was now laced with his dark red blood.
The moment Reginald removed his fangs from Dragomir's neck, Theodore grabbed Reginald by his red hair again and slammed him against the floor with such a great force that a huge crater was formed. A few of the bones in Reginald's body cracked that instant.
If the room had not been on the ground floor then they would have fallen down to the floor below.
Rebekah, Adeline, and Dragomir, who were on three different corners of the room, were all holding their breath because of what they were seeing. They all knew that Theodore was going to kill Reginald at any instant.
And just like what they had thought, Theodore grabbed Reginald by his collar and floated midair. And his voice resounded everywhere as he furiously screamed at Reginald, "You just invited your own death, kid! You should have quietly left when I had given you the chance."
Reginald finally saw Theodore's devilish form clearly. His eyes, his horns, his wings, everything screamed danger. And it finally dawned upon Reginald that this man could have been the Devil Prince that Horace warned him about.
However, it was already too late. He had already awoken the devil and he was going to pay for it.
Dragomir was about to faint because of the extreme blood loss. But he knew that if Theodore was to kill Reginald, then the two Kingdoms could enter into a great war. So with his feeble breath, he shouted, "Theodore…"
Theodore turned around to look at Dragomir but all Dragomir managed to say was, "Don't…" and he fainted.
And it just made the bloodlust that was burning inside of Theodore to erupt like a volcano.
Theodore screamed and grabbed Reginald's neck with one hand and with his other hand, he slowly dug his claws inside Reginald's chest with the intention of clawing out his dead heart.
Reginald was struggling in pain but couldn't even scream because he was being choked.
From where Rebekah was lying, it seemed as though Theodore had already killed Reginald.
"Noooooooooooooo…" she gut-wrenchingly screamed and wailed to mourn the 'death' of her brother.
And in the heat of that moment, she pushed herself up from the cold floor and ran to where Adeline was.
One of the knocked-out vampires had been woken up by Rebekah's scream and Adeline was bending down to grab her sword, just in case.
But right at that moment, Rebekah pushed her down on the ground and turned her up to claw her heart out as an act of revenge.
Rebekah managed to do all that within a matter of two seconds.
Rebekah looked dead into Adeline's stunned eyes and whispered as a drop of her tear fell on Adeline's chest, "I'm sorry!"