? The
Heartless
immortal ?
{Cold as ice and dark hearted…}
Written by Ibrahim Gift
Chapter twenty-two
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Harley thought of her plan very well, she knew that it was dangerous but she has no choice.
She will just have to be more careful.
Just as she has planned, age told Alex that she felt a bit uncomfortable with Cyrus and hearing all the terrible things he has done.
“Lord Cyrus isn’t a bad person, please just give him a chance.”, He said.
“No matter whatever happens later in the future, please don’t leave his side, don’t listen to the enemy.”, He said and it only made confused.
“Why do you want me to be with him badly?”
“It doesn’t matter right now, please just stay with him and don’t leave him.”, He said.
“You sound like you are going somewhere, are you going somewhere?”, She asked.
“I just don’t know what his enemy might be planning right now, anything can happen.”, He said and she nodded.
She tried reading his mind but her effort was futile, it was just as if she doesn’t have any power in her.
“This is more confusing! If he truly care about Cyrus so much, he wouldn’t betray him right?”, she thought.
***
“Have you done what I asked you to do?”, Magnus asked Alex.
“What you asked me to do is not that easy, I need to look for the right time.”, He replied and Magnus gripped his ne-ck.
“Don’t you dare betray me or else … You think you can fool me, you can easily poison Cyrus if you want to but you don’t want to do it right? I see that you don’t value the life of your parents and lover.”, Magnus threatened.
“Please let me do something else, let’s not poison him. You can look for other ways to bring him down.”, Alex suggested and he was slapped ha-rd across the face.
“I think i need to kill one if your family to show how serious I am, I will go with your sister first.”, He said and Alex went on his knees immediately.
“Please I can’t do it, my conscience will hunt me, please don’t make me do it.”, He pleaded in tears.
“Kill his sister.”, Magnus ordered his guards.
“Please i will do it, I will do it.”, He said and Magnus ordered them to come back.
“I only give you three hours, if Cyrus doesn’t take the drink, then forget that your family and lover ever existed.”, Magnus said.
***
As Harley closed her eyes to sleep, she started seeing the future.
She hasn’t seen the future ever since her parents died and she was doing so now.
She always sees bad things, it either someone is in danger or someone is about to die.
She saw someone vomit blood on the floor and lay on the bed helplessly but she couldn’t see the face.
She tried to see the face but it wasn’t clear but it was clear that the person was a male.
“That must either be Alex or Cyrus.“, she thought and ran out of her room.
She needs to see the both of them.
***
“I have been wanting to talk to you about something important.”, Cyrus said as alex served the wine.
“What is it lord Cyrus?”, Alex asked feeling uncomfortable.
He wouldn’t be surprised if Cyrus suspects him as the soy betraying him but he just hope that he un-derstands.
“Sit!”, He ordered and Alex did so without looking at lord Cyrus.
He gaze was just on the floor, he couldn’t dare look into his eyes.
He tried as much as possible to stop his hands from shivering but he couldn’t.
Cyrus just stared at him wondering if he was truly betraying him.
“I want you to find out something.”, He said and Alex nodded.
“There is a spy in this academy, I want you to find out of the person is.”, He said and Alex gulped.
Cyrus took the drink in his mouth about to drink it but then he stopped again.
“Are you betraying me Alex?”, He asked and Alex gulped again in fear.
“I know you can’t, I just wanted to confirm.”, Cyrus said and gulped down the wine.
All of it.
Alex couldn’t stop the tears rolling down his cheek.
“I’m sorry lord Cyrus, I am really sorry.”, He said as he went on his knees.
“I am sorry for everything, I don’t deserve to be your right hand man. I deserve to die.”, He said and Cyrus wondered what he was talking about.
Cyrus began to feel a bit uncomfortable, he was burning inside him… He was feeling hot.
He tou-ched his che-st, it was aching him so much that it became unbearable for him.
He felt a liquid drop from his nose and he looked at it and it was blood.
His eyes wide-ned immediately he realized what was going on.
“You — poisoned my wine?”, He said like a question.
“Please forgive me lord Cyrus.”, He said still on his knees as he placed his head to touch the ground.
“Why?”
“Why do you have to be the spy? Why wasn’t it another person? Was I that terrible to you for you to betray me?”, He asked as tears gathered in his eyes.
“I am sorry, I was for-ced to do it. Magnus threatened to kill my family and Emily, he also threatened to exp-ose me to you. I didn’t want to do it.”, Alex said in tears.
“Did Magnus send you to this academy?”, He asked, his hand still on his che-st.
“Answer me!!!”, He shouted and alex nodded.
Harley finally got to Cyrus room, she had ran all the way from the girls dorm.
“Cyrus something bad wants to happen.”, She said but Cyrus Didn’t even turn to look at her.
His eyes were glue to alex and his own were glued to the ground.
“Answer my question! You know how much I hate repeating myself.”
“Yes.”, He replied and Cyrus clenched his fist in anger.
“Cyrus your mark is …!”
“Both of you should get out, I don’t want to see anyone especially you, Alex. You just get out of this academy and my life — if I ever set my eyes on you, you won’t live to the next day…!”, He said and Harley wondered what happened.
“Cyrus hear me out, something…”
“I won’t repeat myself, I don’t want to see anyone right now.”, He said and entered one of his room.
“The academy is in danger and it is my fault, I am not doing this anymore, I can’t do this anymore. I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to be an immortal. I’m tired of this punishment, I just want to die.”
“How long am I going to get punished for killing my family? I can’t protect anyone anymore, I just want to be a normal person, why does it have to be me?”
“Grandpa if you are looking for anyone to take of this academy, then look for someone else, I will prefer to die than go throu-ghall of this.”, He said as he started throwing things.
The mark changed colour and the torture began.
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? The
Heartless
immortal ?
{Cold as ice and dark hearted…}
Written by Ibrahim Gift
Chapter twenty-three
★★★
“What happened to him Alex? What did you do to him?”, Harley asked him but Alex just couldn’t stop crying.
“What did you do?”, She asked angrily holding by the collar.
“I — Magnus for-ced me to poison his wine, I am sorry.”, He said and Harley gasped.
“How could you do that? How could you poison him? You are no different from Magnus.”, She said and walked towards Cyrus’ room.
Harley tried to open his door but it was locked, she went to his window and it was locked too.
“Cyrus please open the door.”, She said but there was no reply.
“Please I am begging you.”, She pleaded and waited but there was still no response.
She didn’t know what to do, she then decided to go to the superiors to inform them.
They rushed to his room immediately and they met him on a chair staring into air.
“I am not died yet.”, He said and the superiors breath a sigh of relief, Harley just stood there crying.
“Harley excuse us.”, He said and she went out.
“Magnus will attack this academy very soon, I can only protect it for a while, I am getting weak. You guys should leave with everyone, he is only after me, if you choose to stay then he will kill all of you and if you guys die because of me — I will never be forgiven.”, He said.
“Is there not any cure? We can’t just leave this place like cowards, this is our home.”, They said.
“You guys try to un-derstand, the students life are in danger, Magnus will surely attack.”, He said.
“Explain everything to everyone and if they still don’t want to leave, for-ce them.”, He added.
“What about you?”, They asked.
“I will be fine.”, He simply said.
“You can leave now and call the lady outside .”, He said and few moments later, Harley entered.
“Cyrus …!”, She called as she hug-ged him in tears.
“Am not dying.”, He said but she still didn’t release him.
“Please don’t die, I will look for a solution. It surely has an antidote.”, She said.
“You know that I am being punished right? I can’t die and that is my punishment.”
“Cyrus this isn’t the right ….!”
“I just want to share this with you, I feel so frustrated and it is killing me.”, He said.
“You are sounding like you are going to die Cyrus.”, She said as she cried profusely.
“I killed my parents and brother all because I couldn’t control my anger, since my grandpa was an immortal and wasn’t a normal being, I inherited that from him.”
“I was the only different one, even my parents were normal and my brother too. People called me a monster and I just couldn’t control myself, I killed every single person that called me a monster including my parents. Only my brother treated me well but I killed him by mistake, he was trying to bring my back to my senses but I just — I regret what I did till this moment, it is only his death that pains me the most and maybe that’s I treat Alex like my brother, I just wanted to make up for my mistake.”
“Just the pain that I feel because Alex betrayed me Makes me imagine the pain my brother must have felt.”
“Ariel — she was the only one I wanted to protect in this world, I just wanted her to love me and I could do anything for that but it turns out that she was just working for Magnus, I had to kill her if not she will surely be the end of me.”
“I have killed a lot of people and I am bound to suffer forever, I can’t die but I will continue to feel pain. So do you still love me?”
“Cyrus…”
“I won’t be surprised if you betray me also, what I just want right now is to experience death. I want to know how it feels to escape pain and torture.”, He said.
“Cyrus please…”
“I knew from the beginning that I was just wasting my time hoping that we would be together in the end, I just wanted to still have some hope but it seems like I will spend my whole life getting punished, my whole life is in his academy.”
Harley was about saying something when the guards knocked.
“Magnus is causing trouble in the hall.”, The guards said.
“Cyrus you are weak, you are getting weaker, you can’t afford for Magnus to see you this way, I will go and face him.”, She said stopping him.
“This is my fight Harley.”, He said as he teleported to the hell.
“Oh I see that you have managed to still stand on your feet after being poisoned, I see that you are really a strong person but not for long.”, Magnus said.
“What do you think you are doing? Don’t test my patience Magnus, leave them out of this and just face me or are you scared?”
“You know that I am not scared after all I have your life into my hands, I wonder how you feel after finding out that Alex works for me.”, He said and Cyrus clenched his fist.
Alex just bowed down I’m shame, everyone just stared at him in annoyance and disappointment.
Emily couldn’t control her tears, she couldn’t believe that Alex could do something like that.
“I can finally have your lover after I get you out of the way.”, Magnus said and laughed and Cyrus lost it.
He attacked Magnus and since it was unexpected, Magnus lost his balance and he ti-ghtened his grip on Magnus ne-ck.
He didn’t care, he just wanted to kill him right there..
Then the mark changed colour and he immediately left Magnus and Magnus grabbed the chance and stabbed him with a poisonous sword making him fall to the ground.
“If that poison wasn’t strong enough, let’s see how you escape this.”, He said as he stabbed him again and this time around blood gushed out and Harley gasped.
This must be the scene that she had seen earlier.
“This wasn’t what we agreed on.”, Alex yelled clenching his fist.
“You said you weren’t going to kill him, you promised to only bring him down.”, Ember shouted.
“Shut it! I know what I am doing.”, He said shutting them up.
Magnus walked towards Cyrus who was trying to get a hold of himself, he certainly wasn’t satisfied yet.
He still wanted to stab Cyrus more. He might not die but he will loose he power and become very useless and he might even die if luck isn’t in his side.
“You will have to kill me first before you get to him.”, Harley said standing in his front.
“I see you want to join him.”, He said as he raised his sword to Stab her.
“You will also have to get throu-ghme, we didn’t agree on this.”, Alex said trying to control his anger.
He knew if he doesn’t, he would just end up messing things up.
“You will have to get throu-ghus also.”, Everyone said one after the other and Magnus just ruffled his hair pissed.
“I see you all are ready to die for that monster, let’s see how you all survive once he is dead.”, He said and left.
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Tbc