My Vampire Wives Want My Blood!-Chapter 58- Progress And Humor

Chapter 58- Progress And Humor

Rushing from under the stream, Elio approached Fiona with his body dripping. He was extremely cold, and the weather was even colder, but he didn’t seem that bothered by sheer excitement. His eyes were wide open, shining bright as ever, and a wide smile was on his face.

"Did you see it? It happened so fast! My body reacted quickly to it! That was amazing!" He said excitedly as he described what he did with his hands.

Fiona stared at him silently with a faint smile. Seeing him this happy warmed her heart for some reason. She didn’t know what it was about his smile that made her feel this way but it happened every single time she saw him smile.

"You did great there, Elio. I knew you were going to figure it out on your own." Fiona said calmly.

"For a second, I felt like a supernatural being! Like, I should never be able to move that fast!" He yelled. The adrenaline rush Elio felt at that moment was like pure euphoria. This was the very first time Elio had done something he could truly consider superhuman. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Everything that he experienced before this could be considered superhuman but the first true demonstration of this newfound power he acquired was that very moment when he deflected a pebble flying at the speed of a bullet toward him.

’If this is the start then how much stronger could I get?! This... This is insane!’ Elio breathed in and out, just imagining the kind of things he could achieve. He had never felt this excited before in his life, it was a completely new experience for him.

"Good. But, you must not think that it is over, Elio. You have succeeded doing it once but you must learn how to do it successfully every single time to the point where your body instinctively creates a defensive system." Fiona said. "This was merely the start."

"Yeah, I understand! Should we continue?"

"That’s the spirit. Yes, we will continue. I want you to deflect the pebbles at least 50 times before we are done for the day."

"Yes!"

With that, Elio returned under the waterfall, and the training continued. For several hours, Elio was put under continious attack.

He deflected, failed, then deflected again, countless times. Each time, he was learning more and more, and his success rate kept increasing slowly. He felt like his body was just being slowly engraved with this information.

However, at the same time, the sheer exhaustion Elio felt during it was unlike anything he ever felt before. This training exhausted him physically and mentally, and because it was for prolonged hours, he found himself far more destroyed than even those first 50 laps.

By the time he deflected the last pebble, his legs couldn’t stand anymore, and his arms were shaking from exhaustion. He was heaving up and down, his body extremely wet and cold.

"Hah... Hah... Hah... Hah..." Coughing up several mouthfuls of saliva, Elio felt the urge to vomit everything he had eaten. He felt so sick that the world around him started spinning.

"We are done."

The moment Fiona said those words, he finally let go as he lay on the ground, unable to even open his eyes.

Fiona approached him and sat down next to him. "Good work."

"Hah... Hah... Hah..."

Elio didn’t reply, or to be more precise, couldn’t reply from sheer exhaustion.

Fiona stared at him for a second before she said. "You don’t look that tired. Do you want to continue instead?"

"H-HUH?!!!" Elio, who was still trying to regulate his breathing, shot his eyes open as he stared at her. His heart almost leaped out of his chest from fear. Those words sounded like a nightmare to him.

"I’m just joking," Fiona said calmly as she turned away.

’J-Joking? She knows how to joke?’ Elio blinked as he rested his head back on the ground. He couldn’t even find the strength to be shocked at the fact that Fiona Vaylor apparently had a sense of humor.

He always thought she didn’t even laugh, let alone know what the word ’funny’ is. But it seems he was wrong.

For a few minutes, the two sat there in silence, staring at the sun setting in the sky. It was a very gorgeous sight. The golden rays peering through the trees at them, illuminating the beautiful lake for the very last time before the night takes over.

The silence between them was far more comfortable than earlier, after their argument. Fiona, however, seemed to be deep in thought for some reason. She couldn’t forget about Elio’s words, no matter how much she tried to forget about them, they came back to talk to her.

Especially that sentence. ’You’re not happy.’

She had long arguments with herself about it, trying to justify herself while finding flaws in each and every point she tried to make. The more that happened, the more she tried to stubbornly refuse to admit it.

She was Fiona Vaylor, not some random person who would make a mistake choosing her path in life. She cannot accept that she would make such a glaring mistake in one of her fundamentals as a person.

She refused to believe that what she dedicated her life to was wrong all that time. She simply can’t allow that to be the case for her own sanity. This was her life being questioned, for God’s sake!

In the end, she sighed and stood up. "Are you ready to go back home, Elio?"

"Yeah..." The boy replied as he finally stood up after recovering a bit. After drying himself, the two finally headed back to the cabin.

Then, they had dinner and both of them returned to their rooms. Elio needed sleep so badly that he immediately passed out the moment he lay his head on the pillow.

Meanwhile, Fiona didn’t sleep and rather sat at her desk, working on some things until late at night before she finally laid down to sleep too.

All the lights were turned off in the cabin, and the darkness swallowed it. Deep in the forest, far away from human connection.

The two were completely alone. Anything that could happen, it would take hours for anyone to reach them. It was simply them, the nature, and whatever was within it.

The two fell deep asleep, unaware of anything outside.

But... All it would take to make that quiet night turn into a nightmare... was one gust of wind coming from nowhere.