░ Chapter 17 ░ (2/2)

She smiled sweetly and pointed to the sky.

"I'm telling you Master it's gonna rain"

"Okay fine if you're right then....I'll kiss you"

"And if I'm wrong?"

"I'm still going to kiss you"

He crossed his arms across his chest with a chesire cat smile on his face and Chrysalis averted her gaze shyly. Mark watched as she got up slowly from her spot and walked by him with her arms behind her back.

She was taking large steps towards the street and her voice broke the curious silence.

"It'll start down pouring in......three......"

"Oh really?"

".....two....."

"No way"

"....one....."

And on que cold raindrops started to fall heavily from the sky leaving Mark stunned. She started laughing happily and she hopped in place with puddles of water splashing at her feet. If there was anything Chrysalis knew, it was about rain. She smelt it clearly, the sky was right, and she just had this feeling.

"I told you........"

She turned around to tease her Master but she gasped as he was already right in front of her, cupping her face in his hands and crashing his lips against hers fervently.

She wobbled back as he pushed her against the brick wall with her hands reaching out behind her. She moaned as he pressed himself flush against her, his hips pushing up into her and he took the opportunity to dart his tongue into her mouth.

Hot and passionate Mark took complete control over her mouth. He grunted subtly as his teeth latched onto her lower lip, sucking and pulling mercilessly. It was so soft and addicting.

The sensation made her light headed causing her to place her hands on his shoulders and as she squeezed gently Mark shuttered from her touch, moaning in pure euphoria.

He pulled back letting her breath and he gazed at her with dark hooded eyes. Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes clouded and her lips parted and swollen. He raised his arms to box her in as if to trap her, to keep her from running,...to protect her.

She lifted her hand and caressed his cheek softly, the rain continuing it's decent but she was too heated to feel the chill. He closed his eyes and groaned as he rubbed into her touch. It was such a small gesture but it made him see stars.

He kissed her thumb as she ran it along his lower lip and as he opened his eyes they were glowing a warm blue and just the sight of it made Chrysalis feel warm all over.

He lowered his head to hers again, grabbing her lips with his but instead of passionate like it was before it was soft and gentle. He kissed her over and over again, sweet and feather like, with the same satisfaction and lazy after glow as if he just finished making love to her and she could feel him smiling.

"I bet Jaebeom and Jinyoung enjoyed that little display"

"Oh my gosh...."

Chrysalis' eyes widened in embarrassed horror as she remembered the Demons up above watching over them and she hid in Mark's chest and to her surprise his heart was racing just as fast as hers.

"Come on let's get back and out of these clothes"

The two walked side by side back to the alley with their heads down and smiles on their faces. Mark's hand brushed hers softly and he linked their pinkies together and she swallowed nervously but didn't move her hand.

In front of the alley Mark froze as he felt something cold and metal held against his head and he heard the clicking of what he knew was a gun ready to be fired.

"Give me everything you got"

The voice was low and raspy and Mark raised his hands and turned around and the dis-shelved man held the gun pressed to his forehead as Chrysalis looked on in terror.

"Sir I don't have anything"

"Like hell! Give me everything you got or I swear to god i'll blow your fucking brains out pretty boy!!"

"Master......"

"Pretty go into your hole"

"SHE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"

The man yelled and glared at Chrysalis to keep her in place and Mark narrowed his eyes.

"She has nothing, just let her go. Pretty go now"

"NO. SHE STAYS!"

"We we have things just let me go go go get them...."

Chrysalis stuttered and backed away slowly, her eyes not leaving the gun pointed at Mark's head and the man nodded.

"Pretty boy trying to protect the girl, you're still a piece of shit give me all you got!"

"Humans are really disgusting creatures"

"The fuck you say to me!?"

Mark smirked and before the man could pull the trigger his body tensed. He brought the gun down and started emptying the cartridge of bullets and dropped it to the floor and the man's eyes were wide in horror.

"What the hell?! I can't control my body?!"

He kicked the gun into the gutter and as if rammed into by some invisible force he flew back onto his bum then jumped up and ran away screaming. Mark scoffed and rolled his eyes. Oh Jaebeom could've just made the guy shoot himself that would've been more interesting, ugh now he's going to expect some sort of thank you.

Mark turned around to tell Chrysalis it was safe but his blood ran cold as he came face to face with the tip of a massive blade pointed right in between his eyes. It felt as though time had stood still.

He didn't even hear the assailant approach and now he was trapped. The blade gleamed in the dim street lights and rain drops washed over the dried up blood on the razor sharp edge.

They couldn't be identified, their body covered in some sort of black shadow but Mark could clearly see glowing silver eyes. It's eyes narrowed and as fast as he could blink the assailant vanished into thin air as Jaebeom and Jinyoung fell to the Earth.

The three turned around to face the assailant who was still hiding in the shadows with only their blade visible and their eyes glowing.

"The fucker can actually teleport?! Are you fucking kidding me?!"

Jinyoung growled menacingly with his eyes flashing a dangerous shade of gold. He could clearly see the glowing silver aura, the one from the murders, the one from the Ball, this was their killer.

Mark crouched, his fangs elongating and his eyes blazing and he was ready to charge forward when he heard Chrysalis gasp. The killer held their blade towards the Demons and looked over it's shoulder at the girl who had just stabbed it with a pocket knife.

With two shaking hands Chrysalis held the impaled blade in the assailant's shoulder with all the color draining from her face. The silver eyes narrowed at her and as the Demons roared to attack the Killer teleported away.

In a flash Chrysalis' seal came to life, bright, blue, and hot and she flew into the air as Jinyoung and Jaebeom came charging but just missed the teleporting being by a split second.

If she hadn't acted quickly she would've gotten trampled by them and as fast as they were going there was no way her human body would've survived the impact.

Mark leaped into the air and caught Chrysalis as she was fluttering down and held her tightly in his arms. His heart was thrashing against her back and his breathing was loud and shallow against her ear.

"Are you alright?! Are you hurt?!"

His voice was a growl laced with concern and she shook her head and lifted her hand that held the army knife covered in blood.

"I think I hurt them though"

Jinyoung and Jaebeom blurred in front of her with blazing eyes, snarling fangs and the rage radiating off the two of them was almost nuclear.

"WE MISSED OUR FUCKING CHANCE!"

Jaebeom roared and slammed his fist into the brick building causing a crack to travel up the side like a fissure. Jinyoung took in a calming breath and when he noticed the knife in Chrys' hand his gold eyes faded back to dark and his giant magnifying glass like glasses appeared on his face.

He took a closer look at it and his mouth dropped and his face lit up.

"OH MY GOD CHRYS YOU'RE A GENIUS!"

She yelped as he wrapped his arms around her waist and picked her up to jump joyously but his boastful laughter was silenced by a deep growl and he smirked.

Mark was glaring at him with warning eyes and his fists were clenched so tightly his knuckles were turning white. Jinyoung sat Chrys back down in front of her Master and dusted her off in a comical fashion.

"Is that what I think it is?"

"Why yes, yes it is Jaebeom. That monster's blood courteous of a very brave Doll. We may have failed to apprehend them but this time we have their blood. We can run tests, figure out who it belongs to, track them and destroy them! They'll stand no chance! Holy shit this whole thing wasn't in vain!"

After processing Jinyoung's words Chrysalis' eyes lit up and she gasped.

"That means we can go home?"

"Yes we can all go home!"

Jinyoung held out an orb of magic in his palm and Chrysalis placed the small blade inside and it vanished.

"Good job Dear Chrysalis you made us proud"

Jaebeom finally composing himself ran his fingers through his hair and held his hand out to her and she shook it firmly. After the two Demons bided them a farewell and disappeared into their black car Mark and Chrysalis were left waiting for their ride.

He stood behind her and wrapped his arms tightly around her waist while burying his head into her shoulder so she wouldn't see the fear left on his face. Not the fear of coming close to death but the fear that Chrysalis was almost taken away from him by the same force that almost took away Rea.

"I was so worried about you"

His body tensed as she spoke. He was supposed to be the one saying that.

"It happened so fast. I saw them hold the blade to your head and....oh gosh.....my vision blurred and by the time I knew it I was stabbing them...."

Her body erupted into full on sobs and Mark held her tighter without a word. She brought her sleeves to her eyes and wiped the tears that were being mixed with the still falling rain.

"I almost lost you! I...almost lost you Master....."

Her hoarse voice cracked and Mark's stomach churned painfully and his chest ached. Their black car pulled up and before the Driver could exit Mona threw the backdoor open and flew out without an umbrella and enveloped the two in her arms.

"I'm so happy you're both safe. Oh God are you alright? Why are you crying? Are you hurt? Master are you alright?"

Chrysalis latched onto Miss Mona and cried into her shoulder and Mark looked at Mona and shook his head with his eyes glistening. He was chewing his lower lip so hard it was close to bleeding and she looked down at Chrysalis then back to her Master and gave him a small reassuring smile and a nod.

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Author Note: Dun dun dun plot twist Mark almost got killed xD I know it wasn't that big of a twist but whatevs lol To be quite honest I'm in a very Playhouse mood, I want to keep writing so I can get to my absolute favorite part of the whole story (which is soon but IT IS NOT THE END! NOT EVEN CLOSE!) but too much of a good thing can be bad so we must all wait :)♥ See you all next week for another Playhouse m( _ _)m Do you still want to play?

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