Cursed Blood | Chaelisa

Chapter 29.

I found my way back to the hotel. But as I rushed towards the entrance of the masquerade hall, I almost knocked someone over. My feet skipped to a stop.

"Whoa...!" Joy yelped.

"Joy!" I cried out.

"Chaeng!" She said, "Oh my gosh, it's you. I saw nothing but a shadow flying towards me, but where have you been?"

"No time to tell," I said. "We have to go."

"What's wrong? Did you see Lisa?" Joy asked.

"I will tell you everything," I said. "Now we gotta go."

And when she saw the look on my face, she finally nodded. We hurried down the quiet hallway, but then I felt a strange chill creep over my back, making the hair on my arms stand on ends, but it was still a little late for the warning because two men stood blocking our way.

"Your Highness," I heard a man's deep voice come from behind us. The guys wore long black coats and sunglasses. They looked like those actors in Matrix movie. Their skin was extremely pale, almost seemed powdery. They weren't like any other bodyguards I recognized, and worse of all, they smelled like rotten eggs, as if something was rotten inside them, like the mummies or something. Not that I had seen mummies before, but they just reminded me of those corpses.

I wrinkled my nose, trying not to gag in disgust.

The previous vampires didn't smell this bad, they just smelled different. The human part of me whispered something was wrong, and the vampire part of me started stretching the fangs out. They took off their sunglasses, lifting their faces to stare at us, and I noticed their eyes had faint rings of red around the pupils. If they stood in the dark, I'm sure their freaky red eyes would glow like burning charcoals.

"The turned ones," I gasped in alarm.

"Huh?" Joy said.

"They are the undead vampires," I told her. "They have no fangs like the true-bloods, but their teeth are so venomous, a single bite can kill you."

"Wow, undead much?" She gawked at them.

"My honor that you recognized us," one of the undead guys said. "We wish you no harm if you kindly follow us..."

"Who are you?" I asked, carefully keeping my fangs from extracting out, but my gum was already throbbing.

"You don't need to know, but we know about you. Now, I understand why it was so hard to track down a half-blood. You just hide in your human shell, but thanks to that old vampire lord."

"Are you Dimitri's bodyguards?"

"No," he said. "We work for someone more powerful than that wimp. Master was right, one day you would show up to him."

"Go away," Joy said.

"Too much talking," the other undead guy said impatiently and gestured to his partners. "Just get her."

Then they advanced towards me, but Joy blocked their path.

"No one can touch my friend," she said. I know Joy was a Karate champion, but she was no match for these undead guys.

"Joy!" I hissed at her. "What are you doing? Get out of here!"

I grabbed my best friend's hand and turned to run, but the one behind us blazed his white teeth and flashed forward. I quickly turned around and kicked him in the stomach, but at the same time, another guy came at Joy. For that split second, my heart got stuck in my throat. But to my surprise, Joy held off his oversized bite with a blow, making the undead stumble backwards.