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⟨ BACK IN THE PALACE ⟩
“I see you haven’t left the palace yet” Waylon said with a smile as he entered the room.
“I’m about to leave anyways” Cheng said trying to leave, but Waylon held his hand.
“Don’t leave just yet Cheng. Stay here in the palace still you have fully recovered”.
“Do you know how many injuries I sustain while living in the cottage alone? It was a lot, and I was able to take care of myself at a young age, so what makes you think I can’t do it now?” Cheng asked.
“Now you are making me feel guilty for being a bad brother”
“You were a bad brother, if you don’t know” Cheng said, and Waylon takes in his lips.
“Yes I was. But I want to make it up to you, stay here in the palace, so I can take care of you still you have finally recovered”
“I don’t want to” Cheng said.
“C’mon Cheng, stop playing hard to get, you’re not a woman” Waylon said with a smile placing his hand on Cheng’s shoulder and Cheng sees the injury in his forearm.
“What happened to you?” Cheng asked.
“I got a little injury while practicing archery” Waylon said.
Cheng takes his hand and just a little move of his eyes, Waylon’s wound disappeared.
“Wow, how did you do that?” Waylon asked looking surprised.
“There’s a lot more I can do if I am not being controlled”.
“Really? Then why can’t you heal yourself?” He asked, Cheng looked at Waylon and scoffs.
“I’m not a vampire”.
“I never said you were a vampire. If you can heal others why can’t you do the same for yourself?”
“That’s what I can’t do. I can do all kinds of dark magic, except healing myself with it” Cheng said, while Waylon looked at him.
“So do you still want me to stay here? If I am being controlled, I won’t hesitated to ki|| you”.
“I still stand on my ground that you should live in the palace with us Cheng. The king already unrestricted his orders. Stay here in the palace and let’s find a way to look for the person controlling you”.
“You finally believed I am being controlled and not acting up”.
“Yes I have. Back then I thought you were indeed a curse child, but after you saved Tatiana from dying, and also stabbing yourself so you won’t hurt her, I believe you are not a curse child, that someone is controlling you”.
Cheng only sighs.
“What the voice you always hear anytime you start acting up?” Waylon asked.
Cheng closed his eyes and said “Is the voice of a woman”.
“A woman?” Waylon asked.
“Yeah, and I think she is a witch” Cheng said.
“A witch?”
“Because anytime she controls me, she always speaks in incantations”
“What kind of incantation?” Waylon asked.
“Incantations like Alakazam Hocus pocus or Sim Sala bin – mojo” Cheng said.
“Does she often say calamari miertic grimoire?” Waylon asked.
“How did you know that?” Cheng asked looking surprised.
“It’s also one of the magic spell used by witches with great power. Maelstrom consist of two kinds of witches. The white witches are the ones who got their powers from the heavens, they are also know as angels, while the dark witches are those who used their powers to do evil” Waylon said.
“How come you know so much about it?” Cheng asked, and Waylon smiles.
“I have been reading lots of books. I’ll try to find a way to discover who possessed you with the power of the demon”.
“You are going to do that?” Cheng asked.
“Yes I will, to make up from the times your big brother neglected you, and I am going to start asking around from the brothel since hearsays is best discovered there, and I will let you know if I get any information about the dark witch that possess you”
“Thanks Waylon”
“In exchange for wanting to help you find the dark witch that possess you, you should come back to the palace”.
“I’ll think about it” Cheng said dryly, and Waylon smiles.
“What about Tatiana? Don’t you remember anything about her?” Waylon asked, and Cheng looked at him
“I don’t know her, Can we stopped talking about her?” He asked and Waylon sighs.
Someone who have been listening to their conversation, frowns and walked away.
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“I am glad you are finally back in the palace” Zelda said smiling, but Tatiana didn’t say anything to him.
“Are you still mad at me?”
“I will be going now, I need to attend to Princess Narmada” Tatiana said, and tried to leave but Zelda held her by the wrist.
“I’m sorry if I sounded mean, I was just worried about you”.
“I’m not mad at you Zelda, I just want a moment alone” Tatiana said.
“Is it because of Cheng? I heard he can’t remember you” Zelda said.
Tatiana fights back her tears and tries to take her hand from Zelda’s grip, but he held her tightly.
“What do you think you are doing Zelda? Let me go!”
“Why do you choose to be with a man like Cheng who will always hurt you and make you cry?” He asked holding her tightly.
“I love him no matter what he does to me, so let me go” Tatiana said struggling to break free from his grip.
“But I love you Tatiana. I love you so much and I will never hurt you or make you cry, choose me instead Tatiana, I love you so much” Zelda said trying to kiss her, but she resisted.
Zelda pined her to the wall, hanging her hands above her head, trying to kiss her again, but Tatiana kepts resisting.
“I don’t want to kiss you Zelda, let me go!!” Tatiana screams trying to break free from him, and at the same time struggling so hard, so that her lips won’t collide with Zelda’s lips, but Zelda kept pushing, trying his best to kiss her.
He was still trying to kiss her when breeze from no where blew him away from Tatiana. He flew and landed his back on a tree and he lost consciousness immediately.
Tatiana was almost landing to the ground, but Cheng quickly caught her, wrapping his arms around her waist, and Tatiana looked at him.
“Are you all right miss?”
Tatiana pushed him away when he called her miss, and began walking away.
“Hey, where are you going?” He asked going after her.
“You said you don’t know me, so stay away from me” She said with a crying voice, still walking.
“I just want to know if you are hurt”
“Is none of your business if I get hurt, so leave me alone”.
“Tiana!”
Tatiana stopped on her track when he called her Tiana, and she turned to look at him.
“Did you just call me Tiana?”
Cheng sighs scratching his hair slightly.
“Answer me Cheng! Did you just call me Tiana!!”
“Fine I did. I never forgot about you Tiana, after I almost ki||ed you, I wanted to push you away by saying I don’t remember anything about you”
“What”
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TBC