Dripping Blood

▪Prologue▪

The atmosphere was gloomy.

However, two newborn male's tears filled the room with happiness. Their squeaky whines lit up the faces of their parents, Xanthos and Bella with amusement.

Xanthos and Bella were now the King and Queen of Inferis. Their realm of the underworld.

Happy tears dampened Bella's cheeks as she cuddled her boys in her arms. She narrowed her eyes and observed her kids with a frown. "Both of them have the same hair colour as yours, you backstabber!" She whisper-yelled.

Xanthos wiped the tears that escaped his eyes and stared at his kids. A smile lit up when he saw they were identical to one another. But, one had ocean-blue eyes while the other had chocolate-brown eyes.

He snickered as he heard his mate calling him to be a 'backstabber'.

"Still angry with me for not buying dark chocolates during delivery, sweetheart?"

Bella huffed and flushed under Xanthos's stare. "You promised me..."

Vlaxin, the demon part of Xanthos was watching his mate and his children happily. He recognized his gene to be dominant in the child with brown eyes.

Luciano, the wolf part of Xanthos, was howling inside Xanthos's head in joyfulness. He realized his gene was dominant in the child having his mate's eyes, his Bella's eyes.

Xanthos shook his head and blocked his inner souls before gazing at Bella's flushed face. "Come on, sweetheart. You're twenty-five years now."

"Age doesn't matter for craving chocolates!" A squeaky girl's voice reached their ears causing them to turn their head towards the hospital room's door.

Their children were now silent and were weirdly staring at the woman who was entering the room.

Clara, the vamp-witch hybrid entered the room with a grin followed by Onyx, the Alpha of 'La Unité' Clan. Onyx snacked his arm around his mate and rolled his eyes.

Bella silently gazed at them and smiled. She recollected the days when they used to bicker about not being each other's mate but finally recognized their smell after they created feelings for one another.

Clara stood beside the bed where Bella was sitting and gazed at the babies. "Twins, huh? Congratulations!" Bella chuckled when Clara kissed the babies noses. "So? What are the names you have kept for them?"

The babies snorted at the same time as if they were trying to tell, 'they were only staring at us.'

Clara's eyes shone brightly. "They can understand it seems! Wow, they are going to be smart." She glared at Bella. "Why haven't you kept a name for them? No problem, let's name them now."

Xanthos had an inner turmoil with his other two souls.

'The brown-eyed boy will be Mateo and the blue-eyed boy will be Tyler!' Luciano yelled.

'No! The brown-eyed boy will be Travis and the blue-eyed boy will be Parker!' Vlaxin yelled back.

Xanthos blocked them again and said, "Travis." He lifted the brown-eyed baby in one arm. "Tyler." He lifted the blue-eyed baby in another arm.

Bella smiled happily and the other two presents in the room clapped.

All of a sudden, a loud roar echoed outside. Xanthos grew stiff as he felt many creature's bonds of his realm being torn away from him. Bella screamed in agony as she felt the unbearable pain too.

Vlaxin and Luciano growled in pain. They felt many creature's dying because of their connection breaking with their people in the realm.

He handed his children to Onyx and wrapped his hands around Bella. "W-what's happening, Xanthos?" She weakly asked.

"Someone is attacking the kingdom."

The room around them glowed brightly. It was being emitted by Clara.

"The pain may go but the darkness won't.
Get ripe as the evils are crawling to the surface again.
The heirs are two yet one,
They would end everything to gain."

Clara closed her mouth with her hands. "I didn't mean to--"

"It was the Moon Goddess warning us." Xanthos voiced out. "Onyx and Clara, take my children away from here!" The window of the hospital room broke with a shattering noise. "Go away!" He yelled.

He glanced at his and his mate's children for the last time before shifting into his wolf to protect Bella who tried to get up from the bed.

Onyx and Clara stared at each other and nodded. "We'll go to the human world," Clara whispered. Onyx tried to swift into his wolf but Clara shook her head. "We need to take these baby boys away from here." With that, she started chanting a spell making them transition from their present position to the place where humans lived.

Xanthos bit the vampires that entered from the shattered window. Bella got up and fought against all of them with all her might. Sadly, she was still a human but with heightened senses.

Bella screamed as one of the vampires sank his fangs into her neck. Xanthos felt her pain and ran towards her as fast as he could. But he fell as a syringe of wolf bane was thrown at him.

Bella limply fell to the ground with her eyes blankly wide open. Xanthos shifted into human and tried to get up from the crouched position, but he was numb. He gritted his teeth as he felt weak.

Tears welled his vision as he saw Bella lying there as pale as a sheet. Vlaxin and Luciano clawed at the back of his mind but wolf bane stopped them.

"Nice to meet you again, King Xanthos." The voice was feminine.

Xanthos looked up and glared at the person. The person who his mate used to be close with was standing there with a sickening grin. The person he began to trust.

It was Natasha.

His body was burning as the wolfbane entered his system. "Why did you?"

Natasha smirked. "Why? Ha! I can't just simply sit and watch you two rule and gain supports, now can I?" She crouched before him. "And not only for that... I wanted revenge."

"Revenge?" 

"You killed him. You killed my mate! You killed my Draco!"

Xanthos eyes widened. "What?"

Before he could listen to her explanation, he hollered in anguish as each part of his body was on fire because of Wolfbane.

He screamed not because he was dying but because he couldn't fulfil his desires. He didn't get a chance to make a family, he didn't get a chance to spend with them for eternity. He couldn't grow old with Bella.

And he couldn't secure his kingdom from darkness.

His children were now in great trouble and he hoped nothing would happen to them.

He glared at Natasha who was grinning while showing her pearly teeth.

The darkness was yet to be destroyed.

Dripping blood begins now.

A/N

Lmao, me sowy fow killing Xanthos and Bella...again? *runs away*