A while before:
Adrik entered the vampire territory on foot. He
didn't want to bring unwanted attention to him. The date was right, so
he needed to check something about Demyan. He slipped between the guards
in the castle by occasionally jumping the wall with the help of his
wings.
Adrik knew where the bedroom was and in a blind moment, when
nobody was looking, he flew up into the window. Surprised he stepped in.
"Oh look at this! I didn't expect to see this furniture here."
He laughed. "I am glad, it's different this time around." He sensed someone strange coming into the bedroom. "This energy... who is this?" He leaped out of the window to be not seen by anyone else. "I should come later..."
...after a long time of training at the arena, Demyan met with Luka and Mirko. His mind felt at ease after such a long time. He was approaching his room together with them. Luka stopped dead in his tracks. "NO!" He went into a sprint and threw open the door, closely followed by the owner of the bedroom and his friend.
Demyan fell to his knees at that sight.
All
Petrona's furniture and clothes were shredded or torn apart and soiled
with animal blood. Everything was spread across the room. Who could have
done this?! WHY! For Demyan it felt like someone would kill her in
front of his eyes, they destroyed his memories, his fondness, and
sentiment... Luka was at the same level outraged by it.
Mirko just
held his breath and kept his hands in front of his face. Demyan slowly
walked inside dragging his feet behind him. He wished to turn back the
time and guard all these precious trinkets... He lost his cold composure
and tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.
A smug smile
appeared from the darkness of the hall. Livia stepped inside the room.
Luka saw red, he could smell that same animal blood on her, but he got
shoved aside by Demyan grabbing her by her throat and ramming her into
the wall.
Luka had enough of being pushed and ignored. He didn't want to be treated like a stupid servant and screamed out loud. "I had ENOUGH of this!" He wanted to punish them both. Mirko
tried to drag Demyan down from her. Livia struggled with Demyan and
somehow escaped him. She ran away leaving raging men behind.
Adrik,
who observed this from outside of the window jumped inside to stop Luka
from escalating further. He was about to attack Demyan. Adrik pushed him
to the ground ending up sitting on him. "Calm down boy!" Luka in his werewolf form was thrashing around, till he did calm down.
Demyan
didn't even look at him. He called for the guards and ordered them to
put Luka into the silver jail. Mirko protested about it at first, but
Adrik shook his head. The three men stayed there in silence.
Adrik
sensed someone and backed off into the shadow of the room to conceal his
presence. Soon after the King's guards approached Demyan. He walked
away with them. Mirko was left standing in between the door frame and
was soon joined by Adrik, who put his hand on his shoulder.
King
Sava learned of what had conspired in Demyan's bedroom. How could he
attack his fiancee? Livia put up a show of sobbing and being scared of
Demyan. How he attacked her for nothing, just because someone destroyed
some stupid human furniture.
"Human furniture...?!" That peeked Sava's interest. Livia kneeled down next to the King. "My
dear fiance, the Prince, brought some from Lush Lands. From what I
gathered, it was made by a human female and it seemed, the Prince had
some inappropriate involvement with her..." Those words were enough to make Sava furious. He had to snuff out the sentiment, that Demyan was holding towards that human.
Demyan
stood there silent not even looking at the King nor his "fiancee". The
King ordered the rest of the furniture and clothes to be burned to ash.
That order provoked Demyan for a reaction and he got mad. Sava pulled
out his swords and charged at the Prince.
The guards grabbed the
Prince by his arms and pushed him down on his knees in front of the
King. He was raging, something that Sava hadn't seen for many decades.
The last time, was when he was still a kid. He made the other guards
punch him and then he got whipped fifty times personally by the King.
Demyan was thrown into the dungeon next to Luka. He already had calmed
down and didn't understand what was happening.
Adrik appeared from the shadows entering the cell without opening it, like some kind of smoke. Luka was baffled. "How did you do that?" Adrik rolled his eyes. "I am a demon after all. Only special magic can confine me." Luka came closer to the bars. "So what now?" Adrik shushed him. "For the freak's sake, shut up!"
Demyan
broken sat on the floor staring into the ground. He didn't react to any
of what was happening around him. Sava gave the order to keep him there
for a week without any food. Demyan was defeated, but Adrik was coming
every day to bring him and Luka some food. While Luka ate everything,
Demyan didn't touch his blood supplies not even once. He left it to rot
in the glass on the small table.
Adrik finally did explain, why Luka should be thankful to Demyan. "You
should be grateful, that he put you into the cell. If he wouldn't do
that and you would go on a rampage, the King would put you down
immediately like a rabid dog. Demyan also took the punishment for both
of you in a way..." Luka looked at Demyan who didn't move from his original spot and sighed.
After
the week was over the guards dragged Demyan outside into the courtyard,
where his father with the fiancee were waiting for him. All the
furniture and rags of clothes that once belonged to Petrona were piled
up in the center of it. Guards were preventing any of Demyan's movement.
Sava let Livia take over. She took a torch and with a nasty grin lit it
like a bonfire.
Demyan now hurt, was left just staring at how everything was slowly turning into ashes.
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