BLOOD BOUND [NOVELETTE-COMPLETED]

CHAPTER 12

Agus, Midez and Oza arrived. Midez eyes gazed upward where the blood moon's red hue starts to darken.

"Ciero." It was Agus voice that caught Midez's attention. The two of them looked at where Agus was looking.

"Hello there, brother." Ciero said in a playful response. She was seated on a sofa chair in front of the door in the inside.

"Oza, escort Midez inside and make sure Luna's fine. I'll handle Ciero." Oza nodded his head. Agus' face is as serious as it can be. He rarely put on such face these days. His war face is specifically an announcement of war, itself.

He faced her younger sister. "When would you ever move on? She did not choose you as the guardian of the moon for a reason. You started all of this yourself."

Ciero's playfulness vanished into thin air; she then wore her real expression that screams impatience.

One moment she was sitting on the sofa the next she was in front of Agus waving her two curved katana she held with both hands.

Agus blocked her with his platinum shields he's wearing on both arms.

Ciero attacked her brother with complete grit. No strategies in mind but she was determined to give her brother a lesson.

"I did not!" She shouted.

"You did." Agus mocked. "I know that you wanted the position so bad that when a nobody was born when you're about to be assigned as one, you just lost it. Cause that newborn, even if untrained was chosen to lead every night borns."He said disappointedly.

Ciero jumped back, a few meters away from Agus. "It's not the position I badly wanted."She snorted. "How stupid of you?" She raised her bowed head. Agus saw her eyes misty with tears while looking at him. "I wanted you. And she got you so fast I hadn't prepared myself. That's when I lost it."

She didn't shout. But the intensity of her words dug a hole in Agus' heart.

"But we're—"

"We are not!" Ciero cut him off. "I was adopted, too, but you treated me like a sister!"She shakily chuckled. "Yet you treated her differently." She lowered her stance before disappearing again.

She showed."You—" Then disappeared. "—were mine." She was already at his back, with blades cutting through the first layer of his skin. His blood peaked through and rolled down gently.

It stung but Agus smiled and proudly held the katana cutting through him. "I think you're right with that part. I'm stupid." Agus had been serving Ciero when she was next in line to be the Moon Goddess. Maybe he is indeed blinded by his own feelings that he failed to see Ciero's. "Would like me to pay with my life?"

Ciero disappeared once more. She reappeared on the same spot she was, in front of Agus.

This time her tears are falling continuously. My lips are shaking badly. Her stance collapsed. She fell down on the floor, seated on the Bermuda grass.

"I hate you." She said with more tears.

| Inside the Stadium |

"Oz!"

"I'm trying. Oh God."

It was a harder fight. It's Midez facing Loona. Zallus is just watching from a distance.

Oz is trying to wake the two. He had mixed up his own medicine but it would be more effective with Midez enchantment which brings the whimsical nature of the herbs.

He already injected a strong dosage of waking serum in Luna and Travis' veins using his finger syringe but they are both unresponsive.

Midez is still fighting but she knows her capacity. She's almost out of stamina. She needs Agus' assistance.

She threw a spell, Loona dodged it with just a flip of her fingers.

There was a loud scream. It was Travis who first went out of the fabricated world he was locked in. But unlike before, Travis has no trace of hesitance in him. He looks so confident and stern.

"Finally, I thought you would die there. That would be boring."Zallus chuckled. "Loona, awaken your mom."

With one snap Travis heard a laugh. It was an inner laugh. Luna's voice doubled. It echoed. Her eyes are no longer the blue he adores. It turned black. Her fangs are fully exposed.

Luna laughed louder.

"Now, let's see who would win. Loona?" Zallus said.

Loona went in front of her mother and looked at her, the tears in the corner of her eyes proving how invalid her actions were.

She floated mid air. Her laughing mom did the same.

"I am the Moon Goddess." Loona said before throwing a ball of light towards Luna. "I am the Moon Goddess!" She threw a bigger ball of light.

Everything she threw was just shoved by Luna's motioning hand.

"Now watch how her mother kills her and see how true my words are, kid. We are not the villain here."Zallus provoked.

Luna snapped her fingers. A thread of light went around her daughter and tightly gripped her body. "I am the Moon Goddess." Loona whispered to her mom.

The thread tightened around her. It started slicing through her skin, her blood dripping on the carpeted floor of the stadium.

Loona couldn't breathe anymore. She's loosing contact with reality.

The vision she sees is full of infidelity.

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