Previously...

With a strong belief in making things right, Zuber ran hastily to save his sister, Jeanette.

Jeanette started wiggling uncontrollably in Hiram's grasp. She felt that Zuber, her brother, would come to save her.

"My brother," she sighed internally, the feeling of a family so foreign to her.

An idea came into her mind. She tried her best to free herself from Hiram's hold. But it didn't help since she didn't have much energy. So, she started screaming loudly. Her voice echoed throughout, bouncing between the marbled walls of the dim hall and probably deafening her captor's ears.

"Stop this nonsense," Hiram's voice boomed roughly.

"Leave me alone!" Jeanette rebuked, trying her best to steal some time.

"As if I would listen to you after you tried foiling my plans," he sneered, tightening his hold on her forearm.

"What are you going to do to me?"

"Oh, you will see that soon, darling."

"See what?" Zuber's voice cut through from behind. Hiram and Jeanette turned back sharply, the former looked pissed and the latter smiled weakly.

"You and your sister's end." Hiram cackled.

"We'll see about that," Zuber challenged and removed Jeanette's arm from Hiram's death-grip and punched him in the face.

Jeanette rubbed her arm, wincing as she did so. Her eyes were brimmed with tears upon seeing her brother.

"Is that all you have got?" Hiram scoffed, not seeming to be affected a tad bit. He kicked Zuber in the stomach, who fell backward by the blow.

Jeanette came in between in a flash to stop another kick. With a rush of adrenaline, she shifted half way and attacked Hiram in the stomach with her huge black tail. She then wrapped her tail around his waist, squeezing him mercilessly.

Hiram flailed his arms about as he was lifted in mid-air. He couldn't shift as he was held firmly. To shift, they needed space, which he didn't have.

Jeanette's eyes grew further green out of rage, sparkling dangerously without any mercy. She cornered him, making sure his back got hurt by the stone walls as she was reminded the way he had hurled her towards the cell.

"This is for torturing me for all these years." She aimed for his nose, which bled profusely with the impact.

Hiram desperately tried to move. He threw a punch, which she cleverly dodged. But, she made one mistake. She looked behind to see if Zuber was fine. He looked pale and was crouched down due to the pain.

"Emotions will take your life," Hiram sneered. He punched her on the side of the head and her hold loosened. He quickly removed the vial and threw some drops on her. Her tail vanished and she fell down, returning to her human state. She howled as the liquid stung unbearably. She felt as if her whole body was on fire. She felt as if these were her last breaths. 

"I told you before that you cannot do anything until I have this potion. A friend of mine made this for me. Got to say he did a pretty great job," Hiram chuckled, his eyes darting between the vial and Jeanette. "Too bad I didn't let him live long enough to see this."

Zuber limped towards Jeanette and took her head in his lap. She looked so weak and he felt afraid something might happen to her.

Hiram shifted into his half snake form and lunged towards Zuber, clasping him with his tail tightly, rooting him to the spot.

"You shouldn't have defied me, kidnapper." Hiram strangled Zuber in rage.

"I hate betrayal," he added, squeezing the life out of Zuber, who was suffocated and couldn't breathe easily. Jeanette looked at him helplessly as she couldn't even move a muscle. Tears rolled down, wetting her face and her lips moved in silent prayer to the Goddess for help.

Zuber shut his eyes helplessly, his heart aching for Jeanette, whom he couldn't save and for his love, Kyrah, who had asked him to stay safe a while back.

Was this his end?

Images of Kyrah flashed in his mind. The way she laughed, her childlike anger, her horrible cooking skills in the beginning and her jealousy. The way she had kissed him passionately. Though she hadn't yet confessed her love, he felt that she loved him too.

He tried to remove Hiram's hands from his neck. His eyes fell on a knife nearby.

With a new determination, he kicked Hiram's tail repeatedly, while punching his stomach simultaneously. He picked up the knife quickly and ripped Hiram's cloak. The vial fell out of its pocket and shattered into pieces.

"No! No! No!" Hiram shrieked, his eyes widening due to shock. He rushed towards the spilled liquid and shook his head in disbelief.

Zuber rushed towards Jeanette and held her close to him.

"Can you walk?" he asked concernedly. To which, Jeanette just mumbled a no. Her eyes fell on Hiram who was grinning madly and had shifted back into his human state.

"You're such a fool," he jeered, pointing towards Zuber and sprinted away.

Zuber and Jeanette looked at each other confusedly, not understanding what he meant.

Realization dawned on Jeanette when she saw the black liquid slowly making its way towards her. She was the one who was fed with it regularly and now the liquid needed to contain itself. If the liquid touched her, she would die on the spot.

The black liquid's mass doubled and so did its speed. It looked like a huge black wave, rushing towards them at an alarming rate.

"Get away, now!" Jeanette screamed, trying to push Zuber out of the way.

"I won't let anything happen to you. You're my sister," Zuber said calmly.

"Just go!" she screamed in a raspy voice. "That monster was right, this is my end," she sobbed.

"There's no time for this," he spoke softly. He pushed her away quickly to another side just in time. The wave hit him hard, a second later and he fell backward hitting himself against the wall. The wave vanished quickly and not a trace of it was left.

"No!" Jeanette's voice choked. "Why did you do this?"

She limped towards Zuber's side, looking at his peaceful face.

"You can't leave me!" She sobbed loudly. "You're the only family that I have met!"

Her eyes grew fearful, shock and misery evident in them. She shook him, once, twice, thrice, but there was no answer.

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