The Third

Chapter 4 - The Blood Ceremony

    Before I could even make it two steps into my frantic run through the wilted garden I felt a strong grip tighten around my neck the breath slow and warm against my pulse point.

"p..p..please Anubis I'm sorry about revealing your true face last night please believe me " , I whispered tripping over my own words as his other arm snaked around my petite waist. What was he doing here , was this his plan all along to somehow ruin this ceremony and start a war?

   If that were the case then why did he also look surprised to be here , and why didn't he try and do something to me last night i know i was incorporeal , but the Scorpio clan members were masters at black magic I'm sure he could have done something awful to me or even just to cause chaos he could have at least snitched to the council among countless other awful things , it didn't make sense. What was he doing here.

  "You're not sorry I've seen your fatal curiosity and arrogance enough times while I've watched you from the shadows ,to know you've never regretted learning anything no matter the consequences , and  I've punished people for far less you messy little girl" he said his deep silk voice felt like a caress as he held my small body captive against his larger frame. His olive arms wrapped around me were muscular with purple and blue veins running down his biceps a few black tattoos here and their marking his flawless skin.

His body was unbelievably hot against mine like a gentle fire ,  hot enough to keep a village warm but gentle enough not to set it ablaze , and should him using the word punish invoke fear out of me because a different emotion entirely was creeping up my spine , slithering like a serpent  .

   " Don't presume to know me you've only met me one damn time and fine I'm not sorry now can you let me go ass hat" , I said still trembling , trying to rid myself of any feelings towards the dark stranger be it fear or anything else more sensual , because I really needed to get back to this ceremony right now the entire world was depending on me, and this was the one time i could not disappoint them because the lives of everyone including my sisters were on the line , but his grip only tightened almost cutting off my airway , clearly he didn't care about the entire fucking worlds safety .

" Mmm that's not true you know I actually saw you for the first time years ago sneaking around Clan Geminis lands , while I was there on private business and I overheard a discussion between you and their founding family as I hid in the shadows ,and from listening in I found out you were in fact The Third from the infamous Thirteenth clan , which as you can guess peeked my interest a bit".

" I immediately thought about slitting your soft tan neck with my scythe , but realized that would be premature since unlike all the fanatic's who want to kill you with their barehand , and soak in the blood of your predecessors , I fully understand the consequences of falling out of favor with the Gods so then I decided to kidnap you and force you to do the ceremony on my lands with one of my brothers. That would have tipped the scales in our favor and we would have been the first of the "unworthy" clans to take the throne over Argon , but for some aggravating reason i just couldn't" he whispered his mouth practically against my ear he was leaning in so close.

My face paled to the knowledge that i had been so close to either death or imprisonment and rape and the worst part is I had not even noticed I was so caught up in my thirst for knowledge and travel I hadn't felt a beast watching my every move.

My mother warned me on the day she had been the first person to slap me that i was never truly as smart as i thought i was , and the day would come where i realized that.

I guess today was that day.

  " Over time i realized you were not actually there , but astral projecting you naughty girl knowing you weren't supposed to leave your precious clan home , so I put a black magic spell on your soul and tied it the coin the threw at you the last night so it would always flip to heads whenever you left your body and from there I could easily track and find your soul using my shadows to travel. Shifting between rays of light and different surfaces each time watching the future of the world be carless and Naïve there were even times i had to snap the necks of a few fanatic's that were on to your dumb ass not because i cared but because i couldn't just have my little play thing be killed so early what else was i going to do when i got time off from torturing people , Watch tv? " Anubis chuckled at the idea of a cold bolded killer picking up a tv remote.