Blade

Only if I was not the Prince. That is the only thought in my head now that Annalise is trapped in Silas' palace. My life has never been easy but it has gone from better to worse since Annalise Curtin did the honours of defeating me in that dual.

***

"Mom, she is a monster," I told my mother when I saw Annalise kill a bird with just a touch.

I was young and stupid.

"Keep away from her son." My mother told me with panic reflecting in her widened eyes.

She was also scared like I was. Who was Annalise actually? Who was my best friend?

We moved away from the place after that and never talked. And with passing time I realised, she might be a monster and dangerous, I missed my best friend.

I heard all the weird rumours around the palace about her also known as ice princess now. She was feared and was excellent with weapons. But that was not the point of focus now. I knew just like rest of the royal family knew because of Celine that Silas was going to come back.

But we never told anyone since it was never good for a kingdom to spread fear. It happened, though, like everything in Celine's vision did. Silas' followers did help him to make him powerful enough to make him walk out of his lair. And we didn't fight back.

Why? Because we couldn't. His power cannot be matched.

He visited us before the rest of the world knew he was back. And it scared my parents too much. Last time he came my grandparents faced the wrath and my parents still remember that God awful time.

"It is time Einian," Silas said to my father.

"But what about my son." My father asked in a scared voice that didn't even suit his persona.

Silas laughed a dark laugh and everyone around blanched.

"If he can guide my daughter in the right direction, he can rule some portion of the land and I let your family live. That is when he survives through all this." His words hit me with shock.

He had a daughter? He had an heir as powerful and dark as him. I felt utterly hopeless as the next King. I was just a puppet to the evil here.

"Are you up for it Prince?" He asked with his red gleaming eyes that made something curl something painfully inside me.

"If she is pretty?" I tried to act cool and not show the fear I had in me.

"She is, you have met her," Silas said with a sense of pride.

"Have I?"

"Annalise." He said with a sinful smirk and my heart dropped to the pits of hell on his words.

My best friend was the daughter of the evilest of evil.

***

Cold, distant and beautiful. She was everything that rumours said. My task was to challenge her for a round of dual tonight. I didn't expect her to accept or even more, win it.

"Accepted." She said those words like I just messed with the wrong person.

For a moment I had the thought to defeat her and kill her in this dual but the repercussion of doing this made me stop. As soon as she started fighting I realised she was good, even better than me. She was the killer everyone thinks she was. She was ruthless in her moves and hit without hesitation.

No one has ever defeated me in this challenge but she did and this made me hate her even more. But hate was not the only emotion I felt. As she danced in sync with her sword, her intense eyes fixed on me and my loop holes she made me think about how much I missed her, how my heart reacted to her presence or how delectable she looked with that fearless attitude.

I was scared in that moment that my attraction to her was always stronger than my fear.

But she doesn't even seem to recognise me. She used both weapon and magic to defeat me which surprised everyone present except her. She was confident.

And as promised I gave her the blessed sword pretty sure that no one as dark as her could ever yield it. The thought made me proud of myself. She eyes the sword with awe and surprise and in that moment there was something innocent about her.

I bent closer to her and for a second had the crazy impulse to kiss her cheek but I whispered instead, "It was nice meeting you, Lice."

Her eyes widened and my emotions go in a turmoil? She doesn't look evil, she looks beautiful.

But she has Silas' blood in her. And I couldn't tell her that yet. For her, she was simply cursed. How many had she killed with her fatal touch?

"Blade?" She used my nickname and the battle in my head intensified.

You are supposed to make her darker and eviler. That is the job Silas assigned me.

And for that, I needed to find everything about her and how much her power has developed. So I decided to stay around the girl not knowing this was my only excuse to stay close to the girl I both hated and loved in that moment.

***

I could not let her even when I had the chance. She was dying or I thought she was when the Death Sword hit her. But I couldn't when I saw the relief and smile on her face she was lying on her death bed.

Her coldness, her abrupt behaviour, her closed nature, her flinching and holding her breath every time someone came closer told me that she was nowhere close to being evil But her desire to die was what made my heart ache painfully. She didn't think her curse as power as Silas' daughter should have, she considered it as a curse.

And that helped me decided that I couldn't let her die. It was a split second decision as I allowed myself to heal her. Disappointment and pain filled her eyes when she realised she still lived. How painful was her life that she wanted to die? Did she actually want to take the throne?

My feelings of love for her grew stronger as hate started diminishing with time.

***

I was the one that did it, made her defences weak so that even through the protected school walls Silas could infiltrate her mind. But that doesn't mean I didn't feel sorry. She had no one real in her life. Her parents were not her parents, her instructor was a spy for Silas, she had no friends except the all feared, straight out of Hell Kasper who obviously had reasons to be here. As far as I know she was the reason his parents died.

I pitied her.

And she was not even the killer everyone made her out to be. Whenever she walked out in the class tired and with those sick eyes and dark circles I knew, she had nightmares and I knew I was the cause for them.

I was the one that did it. Left the mark of evil at the market so that she knows that she was the target now. That doesn't mean it was not killing me from within.

Because my dad asked me to do it. My heart told me to stop but my mind knew better. Annalise might be nice now but we never know. I was told that her curse will darken till she turned nineteen and after that, she will be stronger than her father was. This thought and the blurred memories of Barca Plague scared me.

Solution: True Love. Who was here true love? Frankly, I wished and imagined it to be me.

***

I alerted her how Serpent King didn't want to kill her but was looking for and heir to see how she reacts. She didn't give a shit about the throne and that made me both happy and sad.

But the worst thing in this scenario was Jayden Wallace. That guy was a mystery that seems to evolve around Annalise. Did he even know who she was and what she could do? His presence around her was unsettling to me.

I would not go as far as calling it being jealous....

Yes, it was me who took her to Silas' lair so she could kill a few creatures and gain power. Silas wanted that before he killed my mother. He said the process was growing slow and I was not helping him at all. I prevented myself from telling him that I was in love with his daughter and didn't want to harm her anymore.

But I couldn't because he was Silas.

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Celine came running to me with a vision that had me in a conflict, more than I was.

She saw Annalise using the blessed sword. Sword didn't allow someone so evil to lift the sword. So I tried training her and see what happens. She couldn't lift the sword but Celine's visions are never wrong.

I waited for her to lift it but before that my intentions were seen by my blessed sword. I didn't, couldn't tell anyone that blessed sword became heavy for me.

When did this happen?

Right after I dragged naive, innocent Annalise to kill the vampire bats. The darkest of the creatures that will worsen his condition. Silas had Celine hostage, I had no option. But then again, I allowed myself to become this weak and a puppet.

That day the hate in her eyes for me was heart-wrenching.

Was I not her true love? I dared to think that even though I betrayed her like the rest of the people around her. And yet...

She showed up when Celine called for help. Why did she have to be so loving? She was supposed to be evil, she was supposed to be the monster I feared when I was the kid. But I knew well enough deep in my heart that she was not evil. The world was forcing her to be. And I was one of them.

Not anymore, though, I don't want the throne now. I don't want to be Silas' slave and Silas knew that when he called Annalise to submit on my account. He knew I will die of guilt this way before I get a chance to tell my friend that I love her. He knew he could kill my parents and others in my care my list. But I didn't care because I have hurt an already broken girl. And I was not afraid if I die today.

She was kind enough to save my already dead grandmother and it was my turn to help her now. Help her earn her true love before she dies or worse becomes what she hates.

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In case you didn't catch it, this was Blade's POV :)

Next up will be Kasper's POV and then Jayden's. You will get to know what these three have been thinking all along :)

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