Shadows Of The Dark

Chapter seven: Shadows Of The Dark

Malachai holds Aiden in the air with dark power. Aldrich roar, shifting partially, he tries to jump to grab Malachai but gets easily hit midair.

Fiona shoots arrows towards Malachai but misses, Grants attempt to strike him but he is shield by black energy.

Aiden crescent continues to glow as he fights, he vision flashes,he sees the woman from his dream but still couldn't see her face.

“You keep failing, Aldrich. You can't just protect them”, he laughed loudly.

In Aiden vision, he sees this woman reaching out to him, then gets gets pull away just like he previously dreamed.

Something snapped within him. Golden power breaking the dark force.

Aiden body glows gold, he breaks free, falling to the ground. He runs over to Aldrich.

“Impossible”, Malachai yelled looking shocked.

Grants makes a wall of earth hitting Malachai to the ground.

Fiona fights off shadow creatures, her eyes suddenly turns black, her movement becomes weird then she turns back to normal.

Aldrich despite his wounds, grabs Aiden close kissing him deeply.

Aldrich shifts to his beast form, breaking through the wall. Aiden climbs on his back as they rode out of the castle that was beginning to crumble.

Grants keeps throwing spikes to block pursing dark figures after them. The assassins chases them through the forest.

Aiden feels Aldrich getting weaker. They get to a clearing, Grant has prepared a temporary shield in case anything went wrong.

Fiona suddenly turns to Aldrich, her eyes now fully black. She grabs a knife and drove it into Aldrich side.

“Fiona, what are you doing?”, Aiden yells.

“I'm sorry”, she whispered as her eyes kept flickering looking clearly under a dark spell.

She drew out the knife and tries to stab him again but Grants tackle her, bidding her with magical suppressant cuff, making her unconscious

Aldrich drops to the ground, laying in the pool of blood forming under him.

Aiden holds his face. “Hey, stay with me…Aldrich, please. Can you hear me?”

His eyes were beginning to slowly shut.

“You are safe that's all that matters to me the most”. His eyes closes.

“Help him, someone do something please”, Aiden yelled.

Grants steps in to stabilize Aldrich, “we have to make sure he gets treated as soon as possible. The knife was poisoned”.

Merrick shifts, Aldrich is tossed on his back..Grants opens a portal teleporting them back to the mansion.

Aldrich is rushed to his bedroom, Aiden's mind spins as he holds Aldrich's hands all the way, never letting go even when blood smears his hands.

Merrick takes unconscious Fiona to a secure room, she is still bound by the cuff.

Grants checks Aldrich’s wound. “This is gonna hurt but you have to endure”

Grants places his hands over the stab wound casting a spell. Aldrich begins to groan, clutching to Aiden's hand harder. It was visible he was trying so hard to hold back his pain.

Grants was managing to get the poison out but every passing minute, the pain was becoming unbearable for Aldrich.

Aiden closes his eyes.

“Got it”, Grants stops.

Aldrich took a deep breath then passed out.

“Is he going to be fine?”Aiden finally opens his eyes, asking with tears in his eyes.

“Yes, Aldrich is strong. I don't think anything can ever take him down. He had always lived”

“I should leave you both alone.” He turns to leave and stops.

“Your friend, Prince. You should give him a call, he has been worried about you”

Aiden shot him a look wondering how Grants knew Prince.

Aiden nods.

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Aiden stayed by Aldrich's bedside through the night. Grants mentioned his presence helps Aldrich with his fever and restlessness.

Aldrich's eyes slowly opened, his sharp eyes softened as he laid his eyes on Aiden.

“Aiden. Are you okay?”

“I'm supposed to be asking you that, you are the one on the injured one here”

“I'm okay so far you are fine. You are all the matters to me”

“You are annoying, you know that”, he hits him. Aldrich flinches from pain instead.

“Oh, I'm so sorry”, Aiden panics.

“I thought I was going to lose you”, he whispered.

“Stop saying weird stuff, such an old man”

Aldrich smiles, he looked when Aiden was like this.

Aiden brushes his hair from his forehead, then brings his lips against those of Aldrich

Aldrich grabs his neck, kissing him deeply.

“Hmm”, Aiden moans into the kiss.

“Stop. You are clearly injured”, he broke the kiss.

“Sleep by my side. Let me make space for you”, Aldrich shifts to the side a little tapping the bed.

Aiden scoffed but obeys.

Aiden's body craved Aldrich. They kissed each other till they fell asleep.

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Aiden wakes up, the sun isn't totally up yet. He turned to his side but Aldrich wasn't lying there.

He could smell him so Aldrich was definitely around. He follows the scent to the balcony.

Aldrich stood there, shirtless,with scars from ancient history of war and battle.

Aiden was definitely ogling his body, wondering what it would be like to wrap his arm around his back.

“Suspend those dirty thoughts”, he whispered to himself.

Aldrich turns around. “You are awake, Aiden. How was your rest?”

“Why do you always ask questions I ought to ask you? It's annoying”

Aldrich smiles.

“Why are you up so early? When you ought to be resting”

“I was thinking, there is more to come, Aiden”, he frowned, looking extremely sad.

“Aiden, there are some things you should know about who you truly are”