Forbidden Mate: Awakening

~NARRATOR’S POV~

In the dark cave, Adrian lay still on the cold floor, unconscious. Inside his mind, memories and dreams swirled. But in the darkness, Lily’s image appeared. His consciousness had left him for about a month but suddenly seeing Lily call out to him after so long being trapped in nothingness, gave him all the power he needed to fight through.

He needed to fight through the darkness. He needed to break through the nothingness. She had been so loyal to him. She had sacrificed so much for him. He needed to be by her side.

As he lay there, his inner hybrid power started to awaken. Half of his body slowly transformed, showing the vigour within him coming back to life.Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

The upper part of his body was fully hybrid while his abdomen to his toe remained as they were.

His chest bore a pattern of iridescent scales that shimmered, reminiscent of a dragon’s hide. These scales extended from his broad shoulders, down his powerful arms, and across his well-defined pectoral muscles. His arms appeared more sinewy and elongated than a human’s, with elongated, claw-tipped fingers that ended in razor-sharp talons. His skin took on a brown-hide hue, with a subtle luminescence that pulsed like a heartbeat.

His face retained a human resemblance, but his eyes were strikingly different. They had vertical, cat-like pupils, and their emerald green irises seemed to hold a deep tint. Framing his face, a wild mane of silvery hair cascaded down to his shoulders, each strand appearing to move with a life of its own.

A surge of energy flowed through him, making him feel alive again. Slowly, his eyes opened. He was awake, and felt better than even. It was as if his body had been charging all this while and he was finally fully charged. All his wounds had healed and he felt reborn. Only his scars remained but they too faded away slowly before his eyes.

Without knowing how, Adrian felt compelled to find Leo and he knew exactly where he would find him. He stood up, feeling stronger, and knew he had to end the man who had tormented him and Lily for so long and kept her away from him.

On foot, he broke through the wall leaving a huge whole in it, and started sprinting. The vampires who witnessed it got agitated and thought of how to inform their leader their prisoner was now awake, had escaped and would most likely be looking for him.

As Adrian got closer to where Leo was, his anger increased as he sensed Ethan’s presence too. Leo was the one who had planned his capture, and Ethan had helped. The same Ethan he once called a friend. Adrian was determined to find out the truth as to why they did what they did and he would make them pay.

In no time, his feet touched the mosh floor. He looked around and realised he was in a strange looking forest. He didn’t care about the place. He had one goal and one goal alone.

Adrian’s steps sounded aloud and made the ground near him shake with every step. Leo and Ethan who were in the cave walked outside to see what was making such noise and the look on their faces when they saw Adrian was gold.

Ethan’s jaw hit the ground and for the first time, fear showed on Leo’s face.

The atmosphere felt tense as Adrian walked closer to Leo, who continued to step back. They both looked at each other intensely, their emotions ready to explode in a heated confrontation.

Adrian smirked, “I never thought I’d see the day the great Leo would be afraid of the big bad wolf.”

Leo gulped, “A.. Adrian? Is that you?”

Adrian cut a branch from a nearby tree and threw it sharply at him. Leo and Ethan both dodged it and looked back… it was pierced into the stone wall. They looked back at him.

“Who the fuck does it look like to you?!” He shouted back at them and stepped closer, “Why did you do this to me?” Adrian’s voice was low and filled with anger, his eyes ablaze with fury.

Leo sneered, attempting to maintain his composure despite the fear that flickered in his eyes. “It was for the better for our kind,” he replied.

“The better of which kind?” Adrian scoffed, his anger escalating. “You’ve taken everything from me. My freedom, my life. For what?”

Leo’s smirk faded, replaced by a look of unease. “You don’t understand the bigger picture,” he said.

“I understand that you used me as a pawn in your twisted games,” Adrian shot back, his fists clenched at his sides. “You betrayed me, just like you betrayed our kind. Your cult doesn’t represent our kind!”

“Without that cult you’d be nothing!”

“No! You made me nothing! You!” His voice rose, “But then you fucked up and brought Lily into all this…”

“She’s very integral in everything and very interesting…”

“Shut that mouth of yours or I swear I’ll rip it off your face. And as for you Ethan, I’m so ashamed to have ever called you a friend. You’re not the same guy I knew ten years ago.. I don’t know what this bastard has turned you into…but it’s certainly not the Ethan I knew to be a friend.”

“When you’re done with your chit chat, can you kill me already?” Leo scoffed.

“Oh, I didn’t come here to kill you, Leo. I didn’t also come here to ask you any question because I already know why you devised this messed up plan of yours, but I did come here to warn you. Stay away from Lily or I promise I’ll not think twice to rip your heart out your chest with my bare hands.” As he laid those threats, his eyes glowed red.

“I’d like to see you try.” Ethan looked at Leo, confused and annoyed at the man’s sheer arrogance even at the face of death.

Adrian knew he had to show that he wasn’t joking. His eyes glowed strangely as he sprung at Leo and pinned him to the ground.

Leo gasped for breath, his eyes wide with fear as he realized the danger he had put himself in. “Don’t kill me,” his voice shook as he pleaded. “Don’t kill me.”