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(THE ANIMAL IN HIM)
Mary could already feel life slipping out of her when the third sting came.
Her bones and flesh felt like thorns immediately, pricking her heart and other components.
“Christ, please have mercy” she whispered before passing out.
The fourth snake was about to sting her unconscious body when Clyde jumped into the valley.
He threw a knife directly at the mouth of that particular one, and it went down flat immediately.
The others started charging towards him, but he covered his nose and threw down a smoke bomb that’s poisonous to their eyes.
They all crawled away fast.
He rushed to her and his eyes widened when he saw three bites on her body.
“$h|t, she’s not gonna survive” he said and carried her in his arms.
He ran out of the valley and never stopped running till he got back to the empire buildings.
He made his way to Rosario’s mansion, and met Hellcat just by the door.
“What the f_ck is this!” She said fast.
“I found her at the snakes valley, she got stung badly” Clyde replied, and her eyes widened.
” Why the hell was she there?”
Clyde entered proper, and he dropped her in the middle of the living room.
Hellcat checked her pulse.
“Her pulse is faint already, survival is impossible, she finally died” she said emotionlessly.
Rosario came out and Immediately he saw her lying in blood, he rushed to her
“What the hell happened?”
“I found her at the valley of snakes” Clyde replied.
” Who the f_ck took her there! ” Rosario yelled.
” No idea boss” Clyde replied.
Rosario bent beside her body and felt her heartbeats.
When he felt slow beats, he stood and made to go in.
Hellcat stopped him.
“Are you really gonna do what I’m thinking?, I won’t allow that” she said.
Rosario roughly took his hand from her and rushed in.
“What’s he gonna do?” Clyde asked.
Hellcat looked at Mary, folding her fists tightly.
Rosario came out with a bottle of blue liquid, venom accumulator.
Hellcat stormed out of the mansion immediately, not ready to watch him do that for Mary.
Clyde left afterwards.
Rosario took off Mary’s hoodie, and her nakedness stared at him as he poured the blue liquid on the bitten spots.
Mary moved slightly as it penetrated.
Rosario rinsed his mouth with some of the liquid and didn’t wait another minute before covering her bitten shoulder with his mouth.
He sucked out the venom since the liquid has made it accumulate.
Immediately it filled his mouth, he spit it away.
He proceeded to sucking it out of her leg and arm.
He felt weak immediately, and he stood staggeringly.
He walked into his room and rinsed his mouth with alcohol, then he went into the bathroom and rinsed his face.
He looked at his face in the mirror and sighed.
“What the f_ck did I just do” he asked himself, his mother’s face appearing in his head.
” I’m surely f_cking crazy, how could I?” He asked himself, walking out of the bathroom.
He picked a smoke and took a puff after lightening it, but he immediately started coughing.
He threw it down and hit the wall with his fist, the events of that night flooding through his head.
“Curse the day I met you, Mary” he remembered his dad’s last words and punched the wall again.
” F****ck!!!!! ” He yelled angrily.
“Right, something is f_cking wrong somewhere, I’m mad” he said, hitting the wall once again.
His knuckles bled more, and he left the wall.
He walked back to the living room and looked at Mary’s body with disgust.
He didn’t bother to wear the hoodie for her again before calling for a guard.
Two guards came in.
“At your service, Lord Rosario” they bowed.
“Take her back, to….. the apartment” he ordered hesitantly.
One of them carried her naked body on his shoulder while the other one took her hoodie, they took her away.
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NIGHTINGALE’S APARTMENT**
“She’d be dead by now” Virus smiled, coming in with Bullet.
” You can say that again” Nightingale replied, putting on his gloves.
“Where to?” Bullet asked.
“Night training” she replied, leaving the room.
“Shouldn’t we go train too?” Virus said, going after Nightingale.
” I’ve got nothing to lose, so sure” he smiled, rushing after them.
They got to the training arena and met multitude as usual.
In fact, the night trainees are usually more numerous than the daytime trainees.
Virus took off her joggers, leaving her in only her short thighs and singlet, she got gloves and started boxing with Nightingale.
Bullet faced the punching bag, determined to punch it till it bursts.
? Heard Mary is dead
? Yeah, she was found in the valley of snakes, no one survives the krait snakes venom
? Not like she’s playing a role here anyways, rip to her.
“Is she really dead?” Terrius asked Clyde.
They’re both lifting the weights.
“Cat said Lord Rosario was gonna save her, I’m not sure” Clyde replied simply.
” That’s f_cking impossible, the only way to save her from the kraits venom is extraction by sucking, tell me why he’ll suck out the venom” Terrius said.
” He seems attracted to her” Clyde replied, and Terrius laughed.
” Stop kidding yourself dude, I heard he can’t even f_ck, so tell me why he’ll be attracted?, He h@ťěs girls” Terrius said in a whisper.
” You surely have a death wish” Clyde said and Terrius laughed.
” I wonder how Pandora is doing in the USA” he said.
” She’s capable, and Rapunzel is not a joke either” Clyde sighed, his mind drifting to Mary’s wounds.
” Mary is alive!” Hellcat said, just coming in.
Nightingale turned back swiftly.
Everyone stopped wh@ťěver they’re doing to face her.
“Yes, she survived” she said again, walking to Nightingale.
” She sur…
She threw a punch at Nightingale’s face as she said the last part
Nightingale returned it immediately, and Hellcat wiped the blood on her lips.
“You threw her in the valley, how dare you!”
“Did you see me do it? , I was with Bullet and Virus all night so tell me what you’re talking about!” Nightingale yelled back.
Hellcat smirked, stepping closer.
“Stay off my lane, branch to the the left if I take the right, I’ll ki|| you if we bump” she said and walked out of the arena.
Nightingale wiped her lips too, then she got a bottle water and drank.
“Ɓîtçh” she breathed.
” They don’t get tired of clashing” Terrius said.
“It’s cute” Clyde replied, and Terrius faced him.
“You’re crazy”