Down With The Throne

23 - Zemblanity

Zemblanity (Noun) - The inevitable discovery of what we would rather no know.

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Azura's finger follows the lines in the wall as her heels click down the hallway.

It was the next morning and she needed time to clear her head.

There was something in the back of her mind that she was trying to remember. Something important, something she had discovered before her renewal that she just could not remember for the life of her.

The distant cry of Adelphia's voice followed by an unfamiliar man snapped Azura out of her thoughts instantly/

     "Get off me!" She shouts.

For a split second, Azura returned to her normal self, and she decides to follow her friends' cries.

Peaking over the corner, she spots a brunette boy pinning Adelphia to a wall.

     "C'mon sweetheart, y'know you want me" He grinned.

Azura quickly put two and two together, that was Kiren Bellow. Adelphia has only mentioned him briefly, but Azura knew the blonde did not want him there.

Azura could not interfere herself, that would ruin her plan, so she used magic.

     "Non aspectu" She whispered towards the boy.

Within moments, the boy falls to his knees, rubbing his eyes.

     "MY EYES! I CAN'T SEE! HELP ME!" He cried.

Adelphia hesitated, almost as if she was planning to help him, but thankfully she didn't.

     "Invisibilis" Azura muttered quickly before the blonde stormed off past her.

Azura watches as she speeds right past her, down the hall.

As soon as Adelphia was out of sight, Azura lifted her cloaking spell and approached the boy.

     "I think someone needs to teach you some manners," Azura said as she circled him.

     "Wha- who's there!"

     "Oh, right. Aspectum."

The boy removed his hands from his eyes and looked around.

     "You! You did this? Wait until I tell Hicks about this." He panted.

Azura sucked the air through her teeth, "I'm afraid that won't be possible. You see the thing is, you messed with my girl. You mess with her; you mess with me."

The boy chuckled, "You think I'm scared of you? What are you going to do? Paint my room pink?"

Azura's mouth turned upward into a dark smirk and yields her mother's dagger from her blazer and holds it up against the boy's neck.

Shuttering, he clenches his jaw, attempting to hold it high enough from the point.

     "I am more of a man than you will ever be." She sneers before slicing the dagger along the boy's throat.

He hits the floor from his knees, gasping for air. Azura was not fazed. Her face remained in a sadistic state as she watched her victims' blood flow out across the stone floors.

Before his last breath, the brunette uttered one last thing, "Who are you?"

Azura grabbed him by the collar, pulling him inches away from her face. "I am Azura Starling, Belin's deadliest secret. Haven't you read the headlines?" She smiles before dropping him back to the floor.