Chapter 12 Cupcake

Liliana Roslyn's POV. Commander Lucas in media. #muah.

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"Ana, you are every one's savior, human and benders, whatever creature that may be out there. You are our redeemer. You are far better than us, more pure. You are meant to cure this unbalance, I can sense it." He speak in riddles for the thousandth time. Before he speaks again, I quickly ask.

"Why do you speak in riddles?

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Commander Lucas smile. "To teach you how to not let people understand you."

"Like how I didn't?" He seriously need to change that lie because its not working.

He sigh and suddenly smirk, then stand. "Okay, its the only way to talk to you at least for now."

Commander Lucas walk to a bar and bring out a liquor bottle. Thank goodness! At least he didn't bring out tainted.

"We don't drink only tainted, blood included." What! He seriously didn't just say that!

My eye flare at his words and I struggle out some questioning words. "Fresh blood?"

"Well for only royals. I mean, only us can drink blood that are not mixed with mercury and we can also feed from our race too. It doesn't have to be only human." Oh! I see, it's how he's feeding from king Adrian.

"You are doing great, soon you'd learn all." He say.

Commander Lucas pour the liquor into a bottle and then mix a reddish thick liquid into it which I scrunch my nose at. He shakes the mixture, and walk back to the chair but he doesn't sit. He lean on the chair which he stand from, resting his hand on it.

"If you can cure me, brave one then why can't you do the same for every creature. Just first, we'll need a balance equation. What's a king without a queen and what's a queen without a king?" Questions by the most ridding man I've ever met.

Now something is wrong with commander Lucas. What the fucking hell is he saying?

Liliana Roslyn... A savior... A Redeemer... Cure creatures.

Even the words doesn't rhyme, they even sound sour just hearing them. They are far from each other.

"Andrew Lucas. That's my name. Don't utilize my title during intra-players. And for the fact that they don't rhyme together is just your point of view. Sometimes, father things are the closest."

Why do I get a feeling, he's indirectly talking to me?

Riddles again!!!

Okay.. Okay.. Okay.. Ana cool your head, breath. pull all his brainwashing words outta your mind. Benders are your bitchy enemies, so don't let their shit talk enters into your head. It's time to go and if he likes he can do anything but I'm fucking getting outta this goddamned stupid brainwashing filled room.

Just when I rush over to the cool silver, door handle, ready to dash out Lucas room. Well, I kind of have the right to say his name now. And what's intra-players?

I'm starting to wonder why he didn't stop me, little does my internals know he's got unbeatable plans that's one of my greatest weakness. He has that weapon that always will make me go on my knees and that runs excitement all over me. Its an addiction that even myself doesn't know how it began. Even though we don't eat much of it at the academy. Its still will always and forever have it place in my heart, soul included.

First, it started by the work of diffusion.. A fragrance of an amazing,creamy, sweet chocolate and butter cream, followed by a wonderful warm note of corn syrup. I turn my back to look at that.. Mouth-watering, lips-licking, eye-fluttering creamy colored with a brown chocolate making a helix crown on top of it.

Cupcake!!!

No.... I'd reframe that..

Cupcakes!!!

My mouth gasp as my eye search the plate where lots of them lies, calling my mouth to appreciate their wonderfulness. Ooh! I wouldn't dare disappoint them.

Quickly as humanly possible, I rush over to the table to pick up the plate and suddenly, they are floating on a icing water.

Never in my life have I ever begged a bender, except once which I never wish to remember as it takes me back into a day I almost.. Or probably lost some of my innocence.

But on the contrary, I've never begged a bender before for cupcakes. I always have tried to keep my dignity but that is because I've never seen a cupcake this well made. Its amazing just looking at it cup shaped figure. If this is what our instructors really does, then they shouldn't bother to punish me because I would go to class early, learn stuff just for cupcakes. Jeez!

Isn't this cerulean eyed man full of tricks. He should be called god of cunning.

Without thinking or stressing my brain more. I start to beg.

"Please."

"What?" He tease. "I thought you were leaving." He says, pretending like he's working on some paper work.

"That was just the stupid me, Lucas. I wasn't..." The word Lucas leave my mouth before realization take the bettermost of me.

Suddenly commander Lucas... Or   just Lucas. Turns to look at me.

"Just what I wanted to hear. Fear not.. Never! No harm can dare chase you." He says and my heart executed the marathon race it wanted to run.

He pass the plate filled cupcakes, and I swallow the over saliva in my mouth. No delay, two are stuffed into my mouth already. One after the other, I pick them up and continue to enjoy the amazing sweet taste of cupcakes. My taste bud always all love them. Just when I needed a liquid substance to help me swallow the overloaded cakes in my mouth, sometimes greediness is bad!

Lucas pass me a cappuccino and I hesitantly collect it from him. Okay! He's bribing me. That's i'm sure of. How did he know my best food and favorite drink. Its not like it's his job to search for the food, I love the most.

He looks over at me with a undescribable interest. "She does almost the same thing as you." He compliment. She. Now I'm lost.

"What?"

"Remember. Its all for you not to really understand."

Well, I don't understand anything." I say and he smile.

"What do you want?"

"An open mind." He confess and I almost choke on my food. His way of speaking is really getting me worried. "Can you do that for me, or atleast for the cupcakes?"

Really!

"First, I'm in a really pitched black darkness by your words. Second, if I don't understand you, how can we communicate or understand each other." I say

"We have been communicating for the past thirty minutes and no worries, even though you are still lacking behind but.. We are improving, we are doing great."

I give up and stuff in another cupcake, it should calm me down and as he said I'm doing this for the sake of cupcake and.. Him too. I must have eat at least ten now and there's still more than enough left. He really is bribing me and news flash! Cupcakes don't tire me, I can eat them for centuries.

"I need you to have a open mind, brave one on whatever happens. Please try to call my attention on anything bothering you and try not to fight the affections, just play along." He says. Affections?!

When the cupcakes remains at least seven left, Lucas says, breaking the taciturn filled room. "The bender that broke my rule has been punished." Ehn! Oh! About Anne. I know Anne would want to squeeze out what happened here from me. Oh jeepers creepers! I wish Rita was here. How she'll laugh when I tell her about the pepper thing. I still haven't discussed it with Anne, maybe some other time. I'm still an emit, no matter what commander Lucas say to make me feel better. I'll still be treated like a bastard. But I still have to find Rita and after I'm sure she's alive then may be, I'll go back to the luxury, I very much have been trying to purchase.

"I'll find a way to punish Rogue." He pause and that caught my interest, I drop the three left cupcake on the marble ground carefully. "Rogue is employed by the acies which has earned her some superior position, if not she'd have died." What the f**k. Bitchy Rogue is here. My brain flash back to at the academy.

Your job is to break them not kill them. You shall be punished!"

"Do not tremble, Arden." He says assuringly.

Suddenly he clears his throat. "What game do you enjoy most?" He ask.

Seriously?!

It's the least, I expect from a witty master.

I finally give up, can't just win him. "I don't know, I mean.. I don't have favoritism in games."

"Everyone enjoys one game than the other." He drops the cup. "We are just about to disclose yours." He cheerfully declares.

"Come on, its your first lesson."

"Lesson!" I practically yell.

"A starting lesson to teach you the basis of your rightful place."

"Okay! It's perfectly ununderstood."

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Lucas leads the way to another side of the room where lies multiple games. Casino games, card games, technologically games of the current century.

Commander Lucas points to some games, some that I know of and some that I don't. This arena is basically filled with lots of games.

He soon move to a broad golden frame of a chess board and I immediately reject his intentions. Chess and I never mix just like oil and water never. Viscosity must have simply done the job for them but, I  guess hatred does the reactions for chess and I.

I quickly start to complain gibberishlike. "Since I'm free in this conversation, I can talk freely. Can't we just play some other intellectual games."

"But a crown bearer must know how to move her pawn, definitely chess is the best for that." He unstraightforwardly says and then sigh.

"I  still have have the right to decline." I stand firmly on my words and Lucas suddenly snicker. Isn't he a commander of hide and seek?

He's apparently one of a kind that can't be unpuzzled.

"I see you are starting to show some qualities. Its quite accommodating." He remark.

I nod my head and look more round the room when a familiar dirty blonde, wooden sculpted large frame of a familiar game meet my gaze.

Checkers.

Isn't he the riddle guru but I'll let him know that I'm a checker guru.

Let's play.

The game of checkers...