Chapter 181 - The Flame

"You...You aren't in your right senses, Eva...You got me left with no other damn choice!!" Shrieking with an immense splurge of frustration swooning his core, he screamed out loud at her, trying hard to hold himself from wrecking down. Eva didn't even budge to stop marching towards him holding a small bereaved smile on her face. 

All of a sudden with his furry inhuman legs, Zeus stomped his right feet hard on the earth causing a turbulent vibration all over the ground. The intensity of the vibration was so strong that Eva was forcibly shoved several metres away from him, falling down on the ground. But, as a result of using his superhuman strength in such a critically injured state, the incised scar near his abdomen started to bleed profusely again, causing a stinging parching sensation all over his body. 

Eva seemed a bit startled with the sudden attack from him which was absolutely beyond her conscience. But, it was evident that all he had to act that way helplessly, just to prohibit her from getting close to him, for her safety. Raising her head up from the ground, she slowly tried to stand up again even after hitting her elbow hard. 

"If...If you don't stop there right now...I am gonna harm you even bad... I...I am warning...you, Eva..." Clenching his trembling blood-smeared palm over the scar, huffing intensely, he mumbled those words towards her. 

She distinctly observed his deep wound had rip opened again after he stomped his feet hard, causing him to bleed abnormally. Gulping her saliva and straightening her posture after standing up, she again started to walk upright towards him. "I don't care even if you take away my life, but I won't leave you." She declared.

"EVA!" Rumbling his voice intensely with a teary gaze towards her, he clenched his fist quickly retreating several staggering steps back from her. His head was feeling extremely dizzy, his whole body was burning with tremendous fever making it difficult for him to stand still.

"Fuck! If she keeps getting close to me like this, I might infect her too! No...I have to chase her away... I must..." Wondering inside while fanning himself hard, his vision was becoming completely blurred. Slowly as he opened his clenched fist, a reddish warm flame appeared over his palm as if he was intending to use his strength again. 

But as soon as the flame appeared on his arm, after a few seconds of flash, it disappeared on its own! Zeus understood, his wolf energy was too low to even permit him for using another supernatural strength which indicated that he was already at his limit.

Lifting his chin up, he tried to peek a glance with his blurred gaze at her who was still persistently marching towards him. Walking a few steps back while wobbling, he took a deep sigh out thinking inside, "I can't use my energy anymore...Got no choice, I gotta run away..." 

Abruptly, he turned behind to rush backwards deep into the woods to avoid her at any stake. But the burning fever had reached the threshold limit and slowly, his lower part of the body had already begun to paralyze forbidding him from fleeing. 

"Damn! I have to run! I have to..." His voice trailed off as he took a few trembling steps to escape from her anyhow. 

"NOOOO!"

All of a sudden, Eva hastened fast and hugged him from back, locking his blood-smeared chest in her frail arms. With the sudden embrace from her, Zeus was horrified in dread and tried to unlock her grip over his body.

"EVA! What are...you doing--"

"Please don't leave me!! I...I can't let you go! I won't let you...hic..." Burying her face over his scar incised bareback broad shoulder, she broke down into bitter tears, holding him tighter in her embrace. 

"YOU FOOL! YOU MIGHT DIE IF YOU STAY WITH ME!! GO... PLEASE! EVA!!" Unable to suppress his inner turmoil anymore, Zeus started sobbing hard while desperately trying to unleash her grip over his chest.

"I don't care about this shitty life anymore--"

"Don't touch me, damnit! Go away, please...I beg you...(COUGH) (COUGH)" Before he could interpret his words, thick blackish blood started to spurt out again while he started coughing invincibly. A few spits of that lethal blood also spattered on Eva's hands while she was grabbing onto him from behind.

"THEN LET'S END IT TOGETHER!!" 

All of a sudden, her sharp shrilling teary voice reverberated aloud inside the dark woods strongly. Hearing her sorrowful scream, for a moment he stopped resisting hard in her arms and stood numb, silently. 

"What's the point of living my life without you? I...I don't want such a life! Let's...Let's end everything together, Zeus...hic... I...I will pray to the divinity to...bless us with an afterlife again... I will pray to the Lord to make you a human like me next time! We...We will definitely be happier together... This time...let me...stay with you till the end... Let me get infected! Let me die with you, Zeus!!" As she screamed miserably in a broken sonorous pitch, he could perceive her warm tears shedding on his shoulder. 

He was trying hard to unknot her grasp from his body but hearing her painful verdict, he couldn't bring himself to shove her away from him. She was bereaved, helpless just like him which moved him into tears. The arm grip he was deliberately trying to push away, he held it tenderly, lowering his grimace down while warm tears rolled down. 

"I love you... And...I will only love you...till my end, Zeus... I know...you feel the same... So...I am...I am willing to leave everything for you...but not you! I can't do it..." She whispered, placing a soft kiss of promise on his broad shoulder soaked in tears of anguish, holding him tight. 

But...it was already beyond his limit to endure the torture. A sudden blackout prevailed before his eyes. His knees arched on their own and unable to hold his stature, he was about to collapse on the ground. Immediately, Eva shuddered in fear to watch him wrecking down before him. She gripped her arm around his shoulder kneeling down along with him, placing his head over her chest and mourning grievously. 

"Zeus!!! Wh-What's happening!! What's going on?" Tapping his chin a few times, she cried out aloud glancing at his half-closed eyes which were still fixed on Eva. His canines had disappeared and his eyes were gradually attaining their dark human form. A drop of tear rolled down the corner of his eyes as his blood-smeared lips quivered softly.

"You...You are a fool... Why...didn't you...leave..." His husky voice trailed off while he was breathing intensely. His dark murky eyes were filled with a void of emptiness which indicated he was hallucinating already.

"Nooo...Nooo... I...I won't let you go alone! I...I won't allow you to leave me! You promised!! You promised me that you would stay! Don't...Don't leave me behind!!" Clenching her grip around his shoulder, she tapped his jowls a few times desperately trying to revive his senses.

"I...I wanted...to...die in your arms...Finally... I...will...get my peace..." A sad smirk escaped his lips as he closed his eyes with a thin line of blood dripping down the side of his chapped lips.

"NO!! NOOO! PLEASE! ZEUS!! DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES!! PLEASE!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME! YOU WERE ALL I HAD!! PLEASE NOO!! I CAN'T LET YOU GO!! NOOO!!" Shattered in disbelief, she leaned her head over his face as her warm teardrops swirled down over his grimace. His breathing was slowing down and holding him tighter in her embrace she was wailing helplessly, trying hard to defy their destiny. 

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All of a sudden, while she was sobbing hard closing her eyes while tugging him closer, she could sense a strange warm sensation arousing inside her chest. For a moment, she was startled and seemed as if she was hallucinating too but with every passing second, the warmth was intensely prominent to feel. Covered in sweat and tears, she tried to peep her eyes open and as soon as she sneaked a glance, her jaw dropped in surprise. 

Indeed a greenish-blue flame was visible arising from the center of her chest as if someone had set her body on fire! For a moment, it seemed as if it was the effect of the curse Zeus was talking about...but...it wasn't painful at all! A peculiar solace feeling was thriving with the strange flame inside her body!

Before she could even react, a wave of the exact same greenish flame appeared and surrounded both of them all over. Zeus was lying unconscious on her lap, completely numb. The flame over her chest area was igniting brightly surrounding them all over and she was trembling, sitting in the middle. 

"What...What's happening now? What's this?" She murmured, gulping her saliva and gripping him tighter.