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C6 A vampire

"Ian's missing" Someone announced. She turned and saw it was the queen "We don't know where he is or how to find him so we can only imagine the worst" The queen said and Ivanna was grateful that at least someone explained the situation to her.

Out of the corners of her eyes, she saw the emperor give Tanya a look and she nodded. Ivanna felt something was off but couldn't be bothered to worry about that. Ivanna cleaned up her tears and went to Ian's room. The room where she was in the night before, where he had held her so tenderly and told her to sleep. Ivanna wiped her face and thought to herself that he wasn't dead, but missing, not dead which means they can find him.

She scanned the room with her eyes leaving no details out. The first thing she saw where the drops of blood that were almost dried. She crouched to the floor, sticked her fingers to the blood then brought it to her nose and sniffed. She became confused as she sniffed again.

This blood... It didn't belong to a human but a... A beast, a ferocious one at that. It had this strong stench that can only belong to a powerful beast. She felt her heart starting to beat wildly.

'Was he attacked by a wild animal?'

No, that cannot be it. What wild animal would get in here by passing the security of this palace?

There must be something else that happened.

Ivanna refused to think negatively, she reckoned she should activate her witch powers even though it could only put jer and her family in danger and then she realizes her mother had already seized her power a couple of weeks ago afraid that she'd do something like this and alert someone of the fact that there were still witches that existed in this kingdom and one that was allowed entry into the palace at that.

Realizing this, Ivanna rushed out of the palace and headed home. The first person she saw was Noel who was busy playing with his phone.

"What's wrong? " Noel looked up from his phone and raised a brow wondering why she barged in like that but Ivanna ignored him completely and quickly went inside her mother's chambers.

"Mother" She called as she looked around the room and did not find anyone. Just then the door to the bathroom opened and Elena came out.

Ivanna quickly went to where the crystal ball was hidden and brought it out.

"Mother, here, Ian's missing. We need to know what happened to him"

"Can't you do that yourself?" Elena raised a brow, she clearly didn't look surprise about the news.

"If you hadn't taken my powers, I wouldn't be here" Ivanna sighed "I really do not have the time to argue about this mother" She placed the crystal ball on the table and dragged her mom to sit.

Elena looked at the crystal ball and shook her head "I won't do it" She announced, she had been using this very crystal ball to watch the palace ever since she received that prophecy and had seen all what happened to the prince. It was something she would never agree to show her daughter no matter what. No doubt it will break her heart to see how Ian had suffered under the hands of that beast. Though, at the end even she was surprised at the power Ian possessed. Seeing as he hadn't even transited yet and he was already this powerful. She sighed again as she made her stance firmer "I really won't do it Ivanna, I won't so don't even think of forcing me by playing any emotional tricks"

Ivanna felt angry. This was the first time she had gotten angry at her mom. It was just to recite a few spells why was she refusing? Ian was in danger and she needed to save him. She needed her help to do that and here she was.

"You already know what happened last night right?" Ivanna asked and wondered if her mother also saw them kissing.

"Yes" Elena answered with a straight face "But I can't tell you the details and you don't need to worry too much honey, he'll be back, alive and unharmed"

Ivanna was a bit relieved when she heard that, still, she couldn't stop worrying as she stared at her mother who looked like she was contemplating about telling her something.

"Mom, I know Ian was attacked by a beast last night, I also believe the beast had a tough time with him because... " Ivanna paused and decided to stop there "I can feel like there are many thing you're not telling me but its okay, you can tell me when you think its right" After saying that she went out without another word and headed straight to Noel. She started to drag him outside.

"Hey, stop pulling... Stop... I'll come okay... Wait... Ivanna"

"Shut up" Ivanna glared at him then looked around for anyone.

Noel wondered why she was so secretive, he watched her took out a white cloth that had a stain of blood on it.

"Take a sniff and tel me what kind of animal this blood belongs to" Noel was very good at identifying something just by its smell. He was a sniff master as ivanna like to call him. She would never have expected his service to be of use today.

Noel eyes her warily. Was that the only reason she dragged him out like that?

He thought he had done something wrong to her. Sighs.

He took the cloth and sniffed the blood on it. A confused look entered his eyes for a moment and then he took another sniff. His expression became grave.

"Where did you get this from?" Noel questioned, slightly alarmed.

"It doesn't matter, just tell me"

"It does matter, this blood... " Noel suddenly looked scared, it made Ivanna feel her heart tighten as she so wondered.

"Its the blood of a vampire" She heard her mother's voice behind them and jumped before the words registered in her mind.

A vampire? What vampire?

Geez! Is she kidding her?

Everyone knows vampires only existed thousands of years ago, they ceased to exist after that day of destruction so what was her mother saying right now?

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To be continued.

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