His Mate: Prince Asher

Chapter twenty four

"Naomi," Asher called and sighed in relief when she finally looked at him, "are you okay?"

"Asher," she whispered, "who..." she wanted to ask but her question was interrupted when Asher quickly pulled her into arms and she crashed on his chest. She looked up at him in shook but he was looking somewhere and then she heard it from deep within his throat, a growl. She was shocked as she kept staring at his chin —he was that taller than her— and she saw his Adam apple bobble as he growled again, it was like his chest was vibrating and then that fear striking sound was coming out. If she wasn't held close to him, she would have never believed that he was the one making the sound but the vibration from his chest was all the proof that she needs.

She tried to move away but he held her tightly with such a strong grip that she feared he might break her if he exerts more force. She was still wondering what was going on when she saw it, just like in her vision, the shadow figure. It stood on the lawn watching them and then a sound diverted her attention, it was Asher's growling. It had gotten deeper and scarier, however, it reminded her of something, the night in the woods with the silver wolf, it was the same growl, so deep and so terrifying.

She was still linking it to her second vision just now when Asher turned his back on her, protecting her behind him as he stared and growl at the shadow figure. Naomi couldn't believe that she was actually looking at it. She had started seeing it in her dreams after that night of partying in the woods, the first time she had seen the silver wolf and it has plagued her mind since then and now, she could finally see it and it was just like in her dreams. It was the figure of a man but it was covered in black smokes and the face could not be seen.

¬'Stay here,' she heard in her mind in Asher's voice. She was so shocked that she was frozen in spot and only woke up when she saw him going to meet the creature. "Asher, no," she called but he didn't listen. The creature snarled seeing Asher come to it and then it attacked. Asher quickly avoided the attack and Naomi watched as he landed one at the creature but like the smoke it was, Asher's hand went through it, creating a hole. When he pulled his hand back, the hole gradually filled up again.

Naomi gasped at that sight as her heart started beating loud in her chest, how can they win the fight if the creature was indestructible? However, Asher was not fazed like she was as he kept attacking. The creature was attacking as well and soon, they carried the fight close to the woods. Naomi wanted to stay at a spot like Asher had told her but she couldn't, she was worried about him and so she ran after them. The creature delivered a blow at Asher and he was sent flying that he fell on his car, ruining the beautiful monster immediately. Naomi screamed as she stared at the completely destroyed car, believing that since the car was ruined, Asher was probably dead but before she could get to the car, Asher was on his feet, his eyes were glowing bright blue just like in her vision and he sprinted at the creature at such speed that her hair was blown up. What is happening? She wondered as she watched the two fighting.

Asher growled as he attacked the creature in front of him, he doesn't know what he was fighting but he knew one thing for a fact, the thing came for Naomi. The scent was unrecognizable to him, it was as if it doesn't even have a scent and he knew it was the same creature that had stumbled on him and Naomi that night in the woods. However, what he doesn't understand is what it could want with Naomi and why it is without a scent, thereby making it hard to find it. He knew if he doesn't deal with it today then Naomi will never be safe without him and he cannot always be with her. And so with that thought in mind, he attacked like his life depended on it. He couldn't hurt the creature's body but something in him is feeling that if he could attack the head, he can hurt it and so all his attacks was directed at the head.

The creature snarled at him and with its long claws clawed at Asher's chest. Blood dripped from the claw marks but if Asher felt the pain, he didn't show it, he jumped in the sky and attacked, his claws elongating and at that moment, he felt an energy burst out of him. His eyes turned black and black lines appeared on his arms. This time, the power didn't make him weak or in pain but gave him strength and when his claws clawed at the creature's body, it screamed in pain and Asher watched as the hole on its body remained open. Now able to hurt him, he didn't waste time and attacked the head and within a matter of second, it had the creature at the mercy of his hands with long black nails and lines. He gripped the head in between his two hands and squeezed tightly, his eyes black and hollow.

"Naomi," the creature called then and Noami's shocked eyes went from Asher's bloodshot eyes to the creature only to gasp because now, the creature has a face and it was that of Jeremy, the boy who was killed by a lorry two weeks ago. "You made me like this," he accused, "you could have saved me but you didn't, you could have told me not to leave the school but you didn't. You saw my death and yet you left me to die, you watched me die, it is your fault Naomi, your fault." And then his head exploded and the smokey body dispersed.

Naomi covered her mouth as she couldn't believe what just happened. The shadow figure has been Jeremy all along and it was because she didn't stop his death and that was why it came after her? She woke up from her shock when she saw the boy coming up to her, his eyes were black and hollow and his body was covered in black lines and his fingernails were long and sharp and black. "Stay back," she whimpered, "stay back."

Asher stopped moving, he watched her, looking like the corpse of himself and not like he was fully in control.

Naomi watched him, not believing what she was seeing. "What are you?" she asked.

"You called to me," Asher answered in a distorted voice, "you bring me peace. This is the first time I am coming out without causing pain for my host, this is the first time I could freely control him without being forced back in by him. There is something in you that I want, something in you that keeps me calm."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Naomi questioned.

"I am saying that something in you brings me peace, it is because my host has been close to you this evening, breathing in your scent that I could come out without hurting him. As long as you are with him, I can always make appearance without hurting the both of us because if he is hurting, then so will I. And also, his other identities don't want me around, if I want to dominate them, then I have to be making appearances. They will be fighting for Dominance soon and I need to emerge as the winner to fulfill my purpose."

"What purpose?"

"To find my master and rule the world."

"What?" Naomi was stunned to hear that. "Isn't he your master?"

"He is only my host, you are only a master when you control. As a matter of fact, I control him, so I am his master. But if he can control me, then he will be my master, but he is too scared, he is afraid of me coming out, so how can he be my master?"

Naomi buried her fingers in her head as she said, "I don't know what you are talking about, like I can't even understand a thing. What does this have to do with me?"

"Like I said, there is something in you that is bringing me calm and giving me energy to be stronger than the witches spell. The more I stay with you, the more I can make emergence. Look, I am stronger than all he is, look how I killed that ghoul for you and I will kill many more for you. You just have to stay with me by all means."

"Ghoul?" Naomi asked, she shook her head, "a ghoul? That's what Jeremy has become?"

"But he is already dead, his soul has dispersed, never to be reborn again."

"Oh my God," she covered her mouth with her hands, "this is all too much to take in. I mean, what the hell are you?"

"My host is many things but me, I am Darkness."