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Chapter 22 - Nile is Hurt

All the things that were revealed to her today were so overwhelming that Elsa felt her head starting to ache. She heard buzzing sounds and her stomach felt like turning upside down. The stress was too much and her body was reacting to it negatively.

She felt her knees trembling and she felt dizzy causing her legs to wobble. Chris caught her on time before she hit the ground.

"Hey, hey, are you ok?" Chris brushed away her hair that went to her face, "You look pale."

"I'm ok. Just feeling a bit dizzy and overwhelmed. It will pass," Elsa's vision was swirling and she didn't know why.

"Stay with me, I'll bring you to the clinic." Chris put his arms under Elsa's back and legs preparing to carry her but Gaia came through the door.

[Your Highness! Your Highness! Something happened!]

'What is it? Speak up, Elsa does not feel good,' Chris said through their mind-link as he looked straight into Gaia's eyes.

[Nuri and Nile attack the stinky woman. Ciel and I stop them, but Niel is hurt. Dr. Chauhary is tending to the stinky woman now.] Gaia said.

"What!? Oh no," Chris responded verbally to Gaia as he had completely forgotten that Elsa didn't know he could talk with her dogs. 

Elsa frowned wondering who Chris was speaking to but she was too dizzy to ask.

'Yakobo, I am still a little weak from the poison some of my senses are off. I need your help,' Chris said to his wolf and his eyes immediately turned red.

[You've got my strength, my Prince.] Yakobo replied.

"Let's head back, your dog is hurt," Chris quickly lifted Elsa and ran back to the house without sweating at all.

Elsa was confused, she didn't know if she misheard Chris because of her dizziness, so she tried to confirm, "You said my dog is hurt?"

"Yes… Nile is hurt." Chris uttered without looking at Elsa as he ran fast.

"What!? How did you–" Elsa was surprised that they were already on the porch of her house.

"Can you walk? Or should I carry you inside?" 

"Put me down I can walk." Elsa briskly ran inside as soon as her feet touched the ground.

The first thing she saw was Nadel and Jai in the living room and noticed some blood stains on Nadel's shirt.

"Oh my gosh! What happened?"

"Your dogs attacked me. I was going to look for you in your room but they attacked me in the hallway," Nadel narrated while sobbing.

"Oh God… Nile!" Elsa quickly climbed up the stairs to look for her dog. She saw blood in the hallway. Her heart pounded faster she followed the blood and it led her to her room.

When she entered, she saw Chris feeding his blood to Nile as blood dripped from his hand. Elsa slumped to the floor seeing Nile unconscious and not moving.

"Nadel stabbed him in his shoulder. I think she was aiming for his neck but missed." Chris then looked at Elsa with his eyes still red and smiled, "But don't worry, he will be fine. Give him a day or so he will be back to his normal self."

Elsa crawled toward Nile and Chris, "What did you do?"

"I fed him my blood, so he can heal faster. He is safe, just sleeping." Chris holds Elsa's hand, "Are you feeling better now?"

"I-I think so. Oh, Nile…" It was only now that Elsa got a grasp of the situation and hugged Nile as she cried. She was so shocked earlier that she didn't know how would she react.

'What happened?' Chris stared at Nuri.

[The stinky woman was searching Elsa's things looking for something. Then she put something under her mattress so I attacked her and Nile helped. She kicked me and I was thrown to the wall. She's strong! That's when she stabbed Nile with Elsa's scissors.] Nuri explained.

Chris quickly lifted the mattress and saw an organza pouch with dried flowers and leaves in it.

"Witchcraft…" he said before storming off the room.

Elsa heard it and quickly followed him, "Wait!"

However, Chris was too fast for her to catch up and it was too late to stop him. She then heard Chris and Nadel shouting as she descended the stairs.

"How dare you accuse me! The dog attacked me for no reason. I am the victim here!" Nadel screamed back at Chris.

"And you know why they attacked you. What do you want from Elsa?!" 

"Man, calm down–" Jai tried to intervene but Chris was too angry for him to be able to stop.

"You are using witchcraft on Elsa!" Chris yelled.

"What? Witchcraft? Do you hear yourself? There's no such thing!" Nadel yelled back.

Chris threw the organza bag straight at Nadel's face, making Jai drop his jaw.

Jai put himself between Nadel and Chris as he raised his hands to stop Chris from moving any closer to Nadel, "Chris, please calm down, can't you see Nadel is hurt? You don't have to be aggressive–" Jai was interrupted again but this time it was by Nadel's laugh.

Everyone looked at Nadel for she was laughing like a crazy woman, "This?" Nadel raised her hand as she held the organza bag, "You call this witchcraft? This is just potpourri that I bought from the mall." 

Nadel then continued her laugh but abruptly stopped.

*SLAP*

"Get out… FUCKING GET OUT!" 

Nadel held her cheek, Elsa's slap surely stings and burns.

"E-Elsa… I-I'm sorry… I-I didn't mean to hurt your dog," she said before grasping Elsa's arm, "I was just defending myself–"

*SLAP*

Elsa slapped Nadel one more time on the other side of her face. "I said get out! Nile wouldn't attack you for no reason. Nuri already attacked you earlier and now Nile it just means one thing. My dogs wouldn't do that if you didn't do anything. And now Nile is lying in my room because you stabbed him. How dare you hurt my dog!"

"B-But Elsa, I just put this in your room as a gift–"

"LIAR! You said they attacked you while you were looking for me. Get out before I call the police and charge you with trespassing and animal abuse!"