บท 29: THE DISTRACTION

Gasping out loud she snapped open her closed eyes and thought what she felt was a very strange dream, but unexpectedly saw a frightening monster figure or it looked more like an alien which made her scream out louder.

"AGHHHH!!!" The loud scream echoed in the lonely Mansion.

She could not move as if glued to the bed. Sweeping her eyeballs around the room in search of help, her eyes went wider than it was earlier. If possible it could have popped out of her eye-lid. The creature wasn't one but was a lot more surrounding her bed. She felt like fainting anytime soon.

"H... he... lp... HELP" screamed Vilian hardly making out some words. She felt her neck stinging in pain. The creature in front of her garbled something and tightened the grip around her neck more than it was. She could not understand anything that was happening but could only shed silent tears. Trying to reach out for something to get rid of whatever the creature was and to escape from the place, she moved her free hand, but could only take hold of the pillow which was beside her. Gripping the pillow tighter she hit the pillow as much harder than possible on the creature's head which made a small distraction and lose the grip on her neck a little.

"Help... He..." before she could scream once more, someone barged into her room. Vilian freaked out.

"Astin Na Fygeil Katastréfo" Astrel spelled out louder, his left hand raised towards the strange hideous creatures. His eyes turned to the colors of blue flares, which went unnoticed to the girl who was too frightened to move an inch, fear of what might happen next, fear of not knowing what was exactly happening.

Suddenly due to the constant spells, the creatures screamed in an ear-splitting high-pitched sound as if they were in great pain and vanished just like that in the thin air. There was grey dust fallen on the white floor where the creatures were earlier. The scream of those creatures felt so hard to bear that Vilian felt like she'd lose her eardrums anytime soon even after the creatures were destroyed.

Walking into the dimly lit room Astrel sat on the edge of the bed. Vilian flinched and moved away to stand up, but tripped by her blanket which was wrapped around her lower body to her foot. Instead of falling flat on the floor, strangely she felt no pain on her forehead or scraped her hand due to the falling. Snapping her eyes open, it gave another shock to her that she neither was standing on her foot nor did she hit the floor but she was floating in the air. Rubbing her eyes with the back of her palm she checked herself.

"H–h–how?" She turned her head to look at Astrel as if asking "Do you see what I see?" unbelievably, with her eyebrows frowning and eyes widened. Astrel smirked with a nod lazily. "W–why am I floating?" She asked half-whispered.

"Would you rather want yourself to hit on the floor, clumsy kitten?" He asked, not replying to her question direct.

"You– W- why– How? What are you? Just put me down!" She blabbered in a low voice all at once and winced in pain as she felt her throat dry.

He simply said, "Ok" and just as he snapped his fingers, the magic spell went off. Vilian fell on the floor harder than she would have fallen earlier.

"Ouch! Why did you do that?" She winced in pain kissing the floor.

"You asked for it, didn't you?" Said Astrel as if he was innocent and knew nothing of it.

"You... Devil!" She cursed out louder.

"Now, now, shouldn't you be grateful for the one who saved you from those creatures? Such an ungrateful kitty, you are." He said as if he was worried.

Thinking of those creatures made a shiver run down her spine. Sputtering, she said without meeting his eyes, "T-thank Y-you!"

Astrel saw the girl walking towards the bed. She sat on the bed in a trance, terrified from head to toe. She was all sweating. Moving forward Astrel touched the girl's shoulder blade. In a sudden spare second, Vilian moved forward and took hold of his wrist with one hand while her other hand gripped his neck as if in an attempt to choke him. The sudden move was unexpected by Astrel. He was quite bewildered by her quick reflex rather than alerted.

"Fierce kitty," was what came out of his mouth with a smirk and an amusement. He saw the spark in the girl's eyes, which faded quickly as soon as it lit which made him frown.

"What... was that" *Cough* *Cough* She spoke but could not continue what she was about to say as she felt her throat go sore and coughed. The grip was loosened on Astrel's neck. He turned to his right to look for water and saw a jug filled with water and an empty glass next to it, on the bedside table. With a snap of his fingers, the water glass was filled with water. He took it onto his hand and gave it to Vilian. Her eyes widened, not believing what was happening today. She felt like she had suddenly fallen into a fantasy world filled with mythical creatures and magical beings. She wasn't willing to take the glass from Astrel's hand. Fear and suspicion stirred up in herself. Astrel tilted his head with a smirk and raised her chin angling it aside with his cold fingers, which made a shiver run down her spine.

"So desperate to be fed, aren't you?" Vilian shook her head vigorously as a small kid would do. Astrel chuckled and shushed her with his index finger on her lips which made the girl immediately turn obedient.

"Open your mouth or would you want me to do that too?" Vilian was fighting in her mind trying to speak out, but could not as if she have turned dumb all of a sudden. "If you don't..." before he could make out the sentence Vilian opened her mouth immediately, fear of what might he do. He neared the glass to her mouth and fed her the water. Droplets of water slipped out from her mouth and trailed down to her neck which made Astrel distracted and drop the glass from his hand. Water splashed out all on their dresses. Vilian gasped due to the sudden event. Both Vilian and Astrel were soaked wet in water.

Vilian looked down to see, but then, realized herself seated on his lap. She once again gasped and backed to only fall on the bed. She cursed herself in her mind not knowing what more was there to be embarrassed by in front of him. She could not believe that all this while she was seated on a stranger's lap, much less of the opposite gender. Covering her crimson red face with her hands she got up this time with much steady and ran to the bathroom not giving a glance to the man who was in his room. She shut the door harder out of shame and heard the loud teasing chuckle of Astrel which came from her room.

"You... stupid... Idiot... Fool... What were you thinking Vili? Where on Earth were you?" she scolded her with no end looking at her reflection in the mirror.

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