♥︎『Fanged Rebels』♥︎

♡Ⲥhⲁⲣⲧⲉⲅ 9

When I opened my eyes some time later, it was still dark outside. Thanks to my enhanced sight I could clearly see the clock hanging on the wall in my room. The both hands indicated, that it's a midnight hour. Only? I expected much later hours, but I also did not complain, as this meant a proper, long rest for me. Even though, I felt my mouth becoming completely dry and sadly, I had no more water in my glass, so I carefully got up, put my shoes on and headed through the corridor down the stairs to get to the kitchen, where I could refill my glass with the water. As I got to the lower floor, however, I had to pause right at the kitchen door, for I noticed a slight gap in the bathroom door. The gap was emitting a dim light, which meant, that someone is in the bathroom. At such hour? I entered the kitchen and just carefully placed the glass on the counter before coming back out to the corridor and approaching the opposite door I carefully peeked through the gap to see, who could be in there and why. I did not have to be the only intruder getting into the bathroom through the window back then. The sight I witnessed afterwards rather shocked me and fully awakened me. Not in the way, where I would see some complete stranger in the bathroom. But the exact opposite, my eyes landed on the one and only vampire king himself. He was currently shirtless and standing in front of the mirror he had his back turned towards it, whilst his head faced it and he seemed to be trying to reach his shoulder blade with his hand. Once he got there, he made a circular motion with his fingers there and I wondered, what exactly he was doing. A massage? But for that he would not need a mirror, would he?

I carefully watched the vampire from the safety of the darkness surrounding me in the corridor, which should help me stay hidden and undetected by the king. At one point, I was able to see his back a little better and just then I finally saw, what this was about exactly. He had a big two, vertically positioned scars on his back, each on his shoulder blades right between his backspins. I did not need to be the smartest being in the universe to guess, what these scars are most likely caused by. Wings. Of course! Royal vampires were often rumored to have an ability to grow wings. Here I could see a proof, that the theories and legends are true. He eventually turned to fully face the mirror and I had a side view of his chest fur, which was much bigger than I thought, since I always saw it just in the shirts he wore. It was a little odd feature of his body, honestly, because the rest of his fur was obsidian black with scarlet streaks on some of his body parts. Now, that he was also gloveless, I could see his arms scarlet streaks leading to his ring and middle fingers, whilst the other fingers remained black. I did not need to see his legs and feet to be sure, that the streaks there are the same like on his arms. Another additional scarlet stripe was located on his waist line, the two sharp ends of it nearly met in the front of his belly. Overall, this vampire was mesmerizing and surely full of surprises.

He seemingly did some skin care routine, too, as he took some kind of cream and gently massaged it deep to the skin and fur on his face and ears. Huh? I thought, that vampires do not need those, as these little rituals were mostly the mortals' issue, because their skin ages and changes throughout the years. Vampires do not change at all, physically, at least. I kept curiously watching him, wanting to see, what more he will do there, but then I could hear a distant noise of something being shattered, which also alarmed the vampire himself and I saw him quickly shoot his glare towards the door. I hastily backed away and pressed myself against the wall, whilst my heart threatened to burst out of my chest. I widened my eyes, when I saw Terios peeking out of the bathroom and noticing me here he frowned, as he grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and dragged me into the bathroom. Closing the door shut he then pressed me against it and still kept tightly gripping my collar.
"What the heck do you think you're doing?!" he hissed at me, his eyes turned the same scarlet like his streaks.
"I-I-I didn't m-mean-"
"Ugh, silence!" he sharply cut me off and bared his sharp fangs at me while burning my soul with that bloody death glare.
"I should have known, that you will be this nosy!" he growled, obviously mad about the sudden discovery in the form of me.
"L-Look, your majesty, it wasn't really my intention, okay?" I tried to reason with him while gripping his arms and attempting to pull them away from my shirt. He held it still so tightly and it was slowly ticking me off, so I made a sudden move and pushed his arms away in a rather harsh fashion while frowning at him in return.