The King's Hybrid Slave

Chapter 6

4 Months Later,

Keyara's POV:

I ran through the castle with a bucket of water in my hands. I could hear Tiberius shouting and the crying of Akeniah through the corridors. I ran as hard as I could to the room and entered without knocking.

"You said you knew of a way!" Akeniah shouted at Tiberius as she sat on the bed, leaning against the back of the bed with a cloth on her head.

Tiberius sat on the bed next to her, taking another cloth and cleaning the blood from around her mouth from puking up blood...again.

"It is helping as I said but I never once said that it would stop the effects of being with child." He snapped at her as I placed the bucket of water next to him on the bed.

He took the cloth that he had in his hand and dipped it in the water and started to clean the blood off of her again. I stood there and waited for my next order, watching them fight back and forth with each other as he cleaned her up. Once he was done, he placed the bucket of bloody water on the floor so he could lean over her. I watched him as he bit into the side of her neck, injecting her with his chemical.

Akeniah closed her eyes and tried to relax as he pulled away from her. He grabbed her chin and turned her so he could place his lips over hers, kissing her deeply. I watched as their mouths opened and accepted each other's request to enter, deepening the kiss. Akeniah's weak hands which were covered in bruises went around his neck and pulled him into her more.

I couldn't help but feel tears in my eyes as I watched them, not because of what will happen to her because I don't really know her all that well but because of how Tiberius is handling all of this. He's not doing well and I'm getting even more worried than I did before all of this.

"Keyara, can you make sure the bath is warm? I'm going to help Akeniah in the bath to help her feel better." He told me as he smiled down at Akeniah and gave her another small kiss as she smiled back at him.

"Yes, your Majesty," I told him as I bowed before leaving the room.

I headed down to the bath chambers and knelt down next to the edge of the bath to put my hand in it to check the temperature. The water was feeling a little on the cooled side and will probably need some water boiled and dumped in. This is something that is usually done by several of the cold ones because there are several of them and they can move a lot faster than I can to get the water over here. I'm sure they are probably already working on it because this is their only job, to keep the water clean and warm at all times for when our King wants to use it.

I stand up and turn around to go to the room next to the bath chambers, which has a large fireplace for heating the water, to inform them that the temperature needs to be raised and that the King will be down shortly. I stop suddenly when I see one of the cold ones from a different area of the castle standing in the bath chambers with me. He was a little taller than I was but still shorter than Tiberius. I've noticed that Tiberius is taller than all of the cold ones that I've seen but unfortunately, that only means those that work here at the castle. I don't know about any of them outside of the castle.

"Are you really the forbidden fruit?" He asked me as he looked me over.

"Yes, and the punishment for touching me is death after spending a full day tied up to the brick on the outside of the castle," I informed him but that didn't seem to stop the smile on his face.

"I have no intentions of biting you, I just want to take a look at you. I've heard that you are different but I can't smell anything different about you and you look like any other human so whatever the King is hiding has got to be under your gown." He told me as he took a few more steps in my direction.

"The punishment isn't just for biting me. I said touching me at all will reward you with that fate," I informed him a second time.

"The word around the castle is that you're some kind of demon but you don't smell like a demon and I don't see anything that would suggest that you were either." He said again, taking a few more steps closer to me till he was just a few steps away from me.

"I'd stay away from me if I was you," I told him as I clenched my teeth and did what I could to keep my demon side from appearing through the blacks of my eyes.

"And what are you going to do to stop me?" He asked as he lunged at me at great speeds and grabbed me by the throat with his hand faster than I could blink.

"I'm faster than you are, remember? I'm also stronger. That means I can rip you from your cloths before you had a chance to stop me." He told me as he glared into my eyes.

"Just because I don't eat your flesh doesn't mean I won't if that means stopping you from harming me." I threatened him as I glared up at him but he just smiled as he looked down at me.

"Does squeezing your neck stop your breathing too just like it does for a human?" He asked as he started to squeeze, restricting my breathing a little more.

"I imagine breaking your neck will kill you all the same," He said as he placed his other hand on my shoulder and pushed the sleeve off, causing the gown to slip on my body on that side.

I could feel the coolness of his body as it chilled my exposed skin, including the top of my breast which was now open to his eyes. His eyes looked down as he moved his hand to the other side of me and pushed the other sleeve off of my shoulder, sending the gown to the floor. He suddenly squeezed harder, causing me to struggle with my breath. I grabbed ahold of his arm as he held me in place for his eyes to travel over my naked body.

"You look just like every other human." He told me as his eyes continued to travel over my nakedness.

"I'm not a human," I growled in a very low, very demonic sound deep in my throat as my demon started to appear.

The sound caused him to look at me immediately and his eyes turned black the moment he saw my pitch-black eyes. I took my knee and hit him hard between his legs just as his pointy teeth appeared to fight. I took my hand and hit him hard in the face when he released his grip. As he stumbled back I pulled on his cloth over his chest to bring him back to me. I opened my mouth and sunk a mouth full of my now very sharp and very pointy teeth into his neck and ripped off a large chunk and spit it out onto the stone floor. He screamed in pain as I sunk my long claws into the hole in his neck and ripped his head from his body.

I took the back of my hand and wiped the disgusting foul tasting black blood from my mouth. I tossed his head to the side to allow myself to scoop up some of the water and rinse out the awful taste from my mouth. I hate the taste of the cold ones. They taste like rotting corpses. Once I was done, I grabbed my gown and slipped it back over my head before carrying his head to the room with the large fireplace.

"The king wants the bath heated," I ordered the six cold ones that were tending to the bath to keep it clean and warm for the King.

"What happened to him?" One of them asked me as I tossed the head of the cold one into the large fire to burn, filling the room with foul-smelling black smoke.

"He touched me," I told them as I glared at each one of them as a warning.

"His body is in the bath chambers and needs to be burned," I instructed them before I walked out of the room.

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"The bath is ready, your Majesty," I told Tiberius when I walked back into the room.

"Thank you, Keyara." He said as he looked over at me.

I saw him sniff the air when he saw me and his eyes turned black for a moment before they returned to their normal grey color. I knew that he could smell the other cold one on me and it angered him. I'm sure he will give out his own punishment for disobeying his orders.

"We will talk later," He told me and I nodded my head.

He reached around Akeniah's back and under her legs as he lifted her thin body from the bed. I followed him out of the room to the bath chambers. I helped him to undress her wraps that I'm sure cost several coins to purchase. Even pregnant she had a very attractive body with large breasts, that is if it didn't have all the bruises and bones sticking out from being so thin and fragile.

He carefully placed her into the bath on the side where the water wasn't very high. Once she was in, he removed his wraps and robe. I stayed off to the side of the bath while he sat in the water with her, holding her and kissing the top of her head. I could hear her breathing and heart from where I stood and knew that she was struggling.

He must have heard it too because he tilted her head to the side and bit her again, releasing his chemical into her body. Just that little bit was enough for her heart to sound stronger. It gave me hope that everything will turn out okay.

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2 Months Later,

"Akeniah! No!" Tiberius shouted in pain when the sound of her bones cracked as she tried to give birth to the baby.

Akeniah was screaming in pain and crying. The sounds of her cries hurt my sensitive ears and the smell of her blood was filling the room as it expelled from her body from all of the areas that blood could expel from. Tiberius jumped up from the end of the bed and over to her so he could bite her again. He has been biting her and releasing his chemical into her as much as he can but I can tell by the smell of it that he isn't getting very much made as he had at the start of the birth. He's trying to give her more too soon and hasn't fully replaced what he has used.

"Get it out of me! Get...it out...of...me!" Akeniah screamed when another bone snapped in her chest, pushing its way through her skin with more blood rushing out of her.

Tiberius had water running down his face as he crawled over the bed that was covered in her blood. I was trying to help her feel better by placing a cold wet cloth on her head. She was burning up with the fever yet her hands and skin were so cold to the touch from the loss of blood and this sickly yellow color was taking over her normal color. I had never seen skin turn a color as of this. I didn't know what was happening for sure and didn't know what to do. Tiberius was too upset and frantic to tell me what he wanted me to do so I just did what I could to try to make her feel better.

"Her heart is stopping!" I shouted when I heard it barely beat one last time before it stopped altogether.

"I have him!" Tiberius shouted as the baby came out in his hands covered in blood.

There was so much blood pooling out of her after he was born.

"Tiberius!" I shouted when I saw that Akeniah was no longer breathing or moving.

"No!" He cried as he crawled over to her and bit down on her neck hard.

The smell that came from his pointy teeth was different from his chemical, it was something else. Something I have never smelled before. He was trembling in pain and crying as he bit her again and again, all over her body. I had water falling from my eyes and my body was trembling in fear.

"Akeniah! Wake up!" He shouted as he bit her again in her arm.

"Please!" He cried as he put his arm around her lifeless body and pulled her into him.

The baby started to cry so I quickly left Akeniah's side. There was blood everywhere and he was covered in it. I pulled out a piece of long fiber and wrapped it around the cord that was still attached to his belly. I tied it as tight as I could before I ripped the cord apart on the other side of the fiber with my hands. I picked him up from the bed and carried him over to the small basket that we had in the room that was filled with several small cloths.

I placed him in the basket and took a few more of the larger cloths and wrapped him up in them to help keep him warm. I looked over at Tiberius and he was crying, holding Akeniah tight against him as he laid his head on her chest. She was looking so pale and I knew that she was dead. She was so close to making it but she just couldn't. Keeping the mother alive just isn't possible.

It broke my heart to see him so broken. I knew this was going to happen. This is why I made sure to keep my distance and not get to know her. I will never get close to the mothers. This is hard enough as it was to watch her die like that and to see him break apart. Such a strong caring man he is and now his heart is breaking, he will never be the same again.

I looked back down at the little baby and he was looking up at me. He almost appeared to know what had just happened but it is probably just in my mind. I took another piece of cloth and wiped it over his face and head, cleaning off some more of the blood. He had a ton of black hair just like his mama and father. So much pain and destruction from such a little thing. How could something so small be so deadly? Is this why so many human mothers die? Is having a baby this deadly? I never want to have a man inside of me and run the risk of having a baby that will just kill me in the end.