When Vishious appeared in his room from the black, smoke -shadows, he had a pleased look on his beautiful face. For now, he definitely was interested in the white Kamaira, Malice.
He better understood now why Slayer had tried to hide and not mention the details concerning the Kamaira.
Slayer probably figured he would possibly try to take or convince Malice to leave with him, and he couldn't deny that he was now wondering how far he would take the matter. Would he allow the hybrid Kamaira to make his own decision or would he be making it for him, he wondered.
Yes, Vishious did agree with what Beast had initially thought when he discovered the hybrid pup and vicious knew that if the pup would have been born in the demon city, sprague, the pup wouldn't have lived long after its birth. But with how things turned out, seeing malice as an adult and witnessing his ability to force a bow and arrow using his power core, vicious couldn't help but be intrigued and possessive of him.
It was a rare ability that not many demons were capable of when it came to using their power core in any way and the fact that he had done it so easily and efficiently was impressive. It wasn't something everyone could learn either, you had to be born with the ability. And if Malice had that kind of power Vishious wondered what else he could be capable of.
His thoughts were suddenly interrupted with someone who materialized out from the shadows in a long black cloak. "Well, well are you just getting back from following the white, hybrid Kamaira? I figured it wouldn't have taken you that long to just follow him. It's not like you interacted with him?" Vicious said in a very uplifting tone.
Sinyster stepped forward, pulling the hood back to reveal her face and this also made it that Vishious instantly noticed the few leaves and little twigs that she had forgotten to finish getting out of her hair earlier.
"So how did following Malice go?" Vishious asked. walking right up to where Sinyster was standing. "Were you able to find anything out? I actually found out what I suspected of Malice and he is quite interesting indeed, but I'm curious to hear if you were of any use today?" Vishious asked, his voice washed over her, low and cold.
Sinister let out a shaky breath,"It went well, the Kamaira almost caught my presence following him so I had to give up on following him for now. I didn't think it would be good if he did catch me." Sinyster said not showing any kind of emotion on her beautiful face.
"Very good, Little Sister." Vishious said. With a mischievous smile on his face, as he disappeared into the black smoky shadows that engulfed him once again.
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Malice just entered into the front entrance of the Palace and figured he better find where His Majesty was, so he went to Slayer's study room. He instantly caught the scent of Beast who was also in the study. Malice knocked lightly before opening the door and entering the room.
Once he entered the room and close the door behind him he greeted them by bowing his head saying,"You're Majesty, Commander." His voice and tone was very respectful as he spoke and when he lifted his head he looked at them both feeling the tension in the room.
"What took you?" Beast asked in a teasing girl as he spoke. In an attempt to lighten the atmosphere now that Malice entered the room he continued to say, "you can't put up much of a fight today and now it seems like even getting back to the Palace is a struggle for you, pup?" He chuckled lightly. His snout scrunching up to reveal his razor sharp teeth.
"Now don't get too ahead of yourself, I decided to take a nice walk back to the Palace. I didn't find it necessary to be in a hurry and have to sit around with you old demons and still was trying to clear my mind about some things." Malice answered back smiling and bringing his arms to cross in front of his chest as he looked at Beast.
"Hmmm. Old demons huh?" Be snarled. His black serpent tongue slithering in and out, before licking his lips. He turned his head from side to side, popping his neck before bringing his clawed hands up and popping his knuckles. "Come closer to this old demon, pup. Let's see if your elder can teach you a thing or two, shall we?" Beast slightly narrows his eyes at Malice.
Malice's mouth snapped shut. He then quickly turned his head towards Slayer he said, "I apologize for taking my time getting back to the palace. I just thought I'd try looking for a nice stick that would be good to carve into a future walking stick for this old dog here." Malice said this and within a split second he felt a sudden, violent shift in the air. A heavy weight slammed into him from the side, knocking the breath from his lungs, dropping him to his knees making him bring his arms to hug around his stomach curled over, gasping to catch his breath.
Beast growl dangerously as he looked down at malice.
Their little scuffle was suddenly interrupted by the sound of Slayer letting out a dark chuckle," well, it would appear that you just got taught by your elder." Slayer said as he looked where malice was still on the floor holding his stomach and gasping for air. He then continued to say, "you're lucky that Beast was easy on giving you your lesson."
He then shook his head and walked over to his desk to take a seat behind it before he exhaled and leaned back in his chair. His jaw, already tight, seem to clench even harder.
Beast turned his body halfway to look at Slayer, "What do you think Vishious plans on doing now, Sire?" Beast asked. Malice got to his feet slowly groaning a little in pain as he did so. He then asked, "what happened with vishious? I've seem to have missed whatever it is that Beast is talking about. Did something happen?" He then looked up at Beast and growled, "that was a little uncalled for, just so you know. I didn't think you'd be so sensitive and could handle taking a little joke?" He wasn't about to hide his anger at getting hit that hard by Beast, even though he knew that he had asked for it by the joke he made about the Commander. Beast didn't take well having anyone make jokes about him and he was as lethal and deadly as they came.
Beast just looked at Malice out the side of his eye without turning his head to look at him, lifting his lip up to silently growl at him. Warning him that he was getting close to getting hurt again if he didn't keep his mouth shut. Clearly no longer in the mood to tease, also to show that the subject concerning Vishious was a serious one. Malice knew that he must've just barely missed Vishious because he could still smell Vishious' scent that lingered.
"Oh, yes you just barely missed my dear brother." Slayer answered in a sarcastic and irritated way.
Just then it hit Malice as to why the woman who he caught today, why her name was familiar to him.
"Sinyster." Malice whispered, but Slayer's sharp hearing heard what he said.
Slayer slowly turned to look at Malice. A serious and dangerous expression was now on his face as he looked at Malice.
"Why did you just say my sister's name?" Slayer asked a crease coming to form on his brow.
Malice didn't mean to say her name out loud and he definitely didn't know how to answer the question, but he already knew that he couldn't lie to Slayer. Slayer is who he wholeheartedly served and was loyal to and he would never allow a woman he had just met changed that."Your Majesty, can I have a word alone with You.?" Malice asked. He didn't know if this was something that Slayer would want others to be aware of.
"I was just thinking that I better get back and check things in the village." Beast said not offended at all by what Malice had just said.
"Next time, kid you better come with some more fight in you, than what you had today. I won't go so easy on you next time." Beast said to Malice and grabbed his shoulder in a playful manner, looking at Malice as he stood next to him.
"Next time I won't take it easy on you." Malice said and both of them just stared at each other before nodding. Beast turned to face Slayer one more time, "please let me know if you need anything from me, Sire." Beast growled low as he bowed his head.
Slayer gave him a nod letting him know that he could leave and his words were heard. Beast than walked out of the room, shitting the door behind him. Slayer had a feeling that he was going to hear something bad or something he didn't want to hear from Malice, and couldn't think of anything that would bring his sister's name up.
Malice walked forward to where Slayer sat bowed deeply In front of him, before getting down on one knee without lifting his head.. This surprised Slayer, because he had never had who were close to him Neil without a cause and this was an action usually taken when someone would come to beg for mercy because they were about to be killed by him or because they were the worthless humans that served him. And even though malice chose to serve him like he did, didn't mean that Slayer ever thought of him as one and would ever have him kneeling down to him.
But, before he could ask malice why he was kneeling and taking this kind of approach, malice beat him to it by saying," today when I was sparring with Beast outside of the Howler's village, I felt someone's aura suddenly appear but it was different for only a split second. And that I cannot explain, but then it changed to an aura that I had recognized and it was the aura that belonged to the one that came with Vishious last night. Beast and I decided to stop for the day and both were going to head towards the Palace, Beast flew and I decided that I'd walk through the forest. I had a feeling that for some reason it was spying on me.
Slayer said nothing and just listened while Malice continued to speak, knowing that it must be something crucial to have him kneeling like he was. Malice continued saying, "When I was finally able to get a hold of our guest and who was in fact following and spying on me.." Malice suddenly went quiet and slowly brought his head up to finally look at Slayer, his expression was one of confused anger. Emotions that didn't make sense in this situation to Slayer but he also noticed how Malice refused to lower his gaze and held his eyes locked onto his as he then continued, "when I pulled the hood back so I could get a look at the creature that I had struggling beneath me, it caught me by surprise to see a woman looking up at me." Malice swallowed hard and his brows creasing as he still didn't look away or lower his gaze he said, "she introduced herself as Sinyster I couldn't figure out at the time why that name had sounded familiar to me and decided to just brush it off for the time being, not thinking it that big of a deal and I'm sorry for not handling the situation better." Malice finished and he finally lowered his gaze, his ears drooping a little as he still was kneeling before Slayer.
Slayer was taking it back by this, 'so Sinyster is here? My little sister?' Slayer said to himself in his head the corner of one side of Slayer's lips pulled up slightly to show a small smirk but it didn't reach his eyes and it wasn't a pleasing look he had on his face as he looked at Malice now.
"Why is she here with Vishious?" Slayer knew better than any how much Vishious didn't like Sinyster. Also, why didn't she make her presence known to him and why wasn't he able to sense it was her?
Malice was still down on one knee watching Slayer when his expression changed to show his suspicion that there was more going on that Malice hadn't told him yet. He stared down with a darkened look on his face at Malice. "Why are you kneeling Malice? What else happened?" Slayer asked. He still couldn't think of the reason that any of this would be the cause of Malice kneeling.
"Because I had told her that I wouldn't tell anyone I had caught her or say her name to anybody. I didn't know it at the time and just wanted to see her again, so for my silence I had her agree to meet me again tomorrow." Malice answered Slayer honestly. "I would've kept my mouth shut, Sir." Malice said looking down "Only after she disappeared did I then realize that I could've just let a threat to you escape. I don't know why but I wanted to see her again, the one who came with Vishious."