Rise of the Malactric Heir

"What's the matter, Adora?" Nina inquired as Alix seated her on the couch, and Olivia poured her a glass of water, which she took and drank, realizing the energy flow with her was getting stronger. She then grabbed the mug from the table and poured another glass of water, which she drank, before taking two more glasses of water while the others stared at her.

"Done," she said with a smile, and Nina took the mug from her before she stood up.

"I was taking care of my powers, I had to take care of something within myself, it was within me for a long time and deserved its freedom now, and as I am now, I am stronger, I had to protect someone as well, and I am pretty sure you will all find out about it soon," she explained.

"I suppose that's only half the story; when will you tell us the whole truth about whatever you had to deal with within you?" Alix inquired.

"Soon, not sure you guys will like it, but I will show you all what I had to take care of, I know keeping secrets is not a good thing, especially from your team even though it might be for the best and constantly asking you all to wait for the right time, I know it's not fair but right now, it's a lot and I hope you guys can just hang on a little longer," she responded.

After hearing what she said, they smiled and looked at each other, knowing Adora could have lied to them, but instead she just told them a piece of it, giving them a reason to wait until she was ready to tell them, even though they were not sure if they would like it, they were willing to give her time because it was her secret to tell and she had never given them a reason not to trust her.

"Fine, if that's all there is to it, then we're fine with it; we'll wait until you're ready to tell us," Alix said, and Adora smiled.

"Are the rest of you okay with this?" she inquired, and they all smiled.

"Of course we are, you didn't lie to us," Kyris replied, and Adora breathed a sigh of relief.

"Adora, I think you should eat something now," Sarah said as she noticed Adora clutching her head and Alix's eyes narrowed while looking at her and she sensed him.

'His gaze is strong,' she thought, turning to face him and smiling.

"Do you have anything to say?" she inquired.

"Nothing to say here," he replied.

"Are you sure?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure," he replied before leaving, and she sighed as the maids brought her food and she began eating while Alix went out to train in the valley beside the castle.

'Why am I on edge?' Alix thought when he felt a familiar presence and when he turned around, he saw the guy Adora was dancing with by the party, the one she said was Vellon's friend.

"Want to die that bad, huh?" Alix asked, his eyes glowing red, and before the guy could respond, Alix was beside him and his sword was by his neck, and the guy's eyes shook.

'I- I was too late to detect him? Was I?' the man wondered, completely surprised.

"Damn, no, I am not sure if she will listen to me again, but I need you to listen too, you two seem a bit close, I can say that after seeing how you were at the party, just hear me out, I didn't even try to attack you, that's a slight reason to listen," he responded, to which Alix scoffed.

"I think I can kill you instead, and I really want to kill you all," Alix said.

"We'll deal with that later; for now, you need to listen to what I'm saying and tell the princess again; I told her this before," he replied, and Alix sighed then moved the sword off of the guy's neck and stepped far away from him, with his guard up.

"You have three minutes, start talking, get on my nerves, and I will destroy you right here," Alix said as the guy stared at him, knowing Alix wasn't joking when he sensed the heavy air around them.

'This guy isn't joking, he's dead serious, I don't know if he can kill me or not, but judging by the look in his eyes, it's better not to try and find out, besides, I have nothing to gain by lying,' the guy thought as he looked at Alix.

"Stop thinking and start talking, or I'm going to lose my patience, which is reaching its limit, at least with you people," Alix said.

"Adora feels something is off about Vellon, and so do I, I might be the enemy too, but Vellon is my friend, I don't know what's going on but part of him is not there, she needs to be careful, if he comes after her, he won't be coming half-assed, he would be coming with full force and he will hurt her if he can, he is a real threat, the masters won't even let me say much to him, we are a lot, but right now my friend is in my best interest, I am only warning you people because he cared about her once," he replied.

"You are not saying this because you don't want the princess to hurt someone she cares about; in fact, I may not be aware of her full power; you are only saying this because you are afraid that if she goes at him with a deadly strike, and that too while being angry, she might severely injure or even kill him, am I correct?" Alix inquired, and the guy smirked.

"You are sharp, you are correct as well, this is my final warning, my last shot, I don't know what Vellon is doing, if he has gone far off the track, I am confused about that, but he is dangerous as well," he responded, and Alix smirked as Adora stood up, sensing the guy then rushed off and the others followed.