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Venus de Lovi Chapter 11

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Chapter 11- The Hospital

Antonio POV

I woke up in a hospital bed. It was expected. I didn't feel any pain but that might be because of the drugs or whatever magical Chinese remedy Dr. Wang used. I truly felt like I could run a marathon and climb mountains. The problem, my left arm and my right leg were in cases, my hand was bandaged, and I hand bandages wrapped around my chest.

When I opened my eyes just little bit, I saw and heard my papà reading Don Quijote out loud to me, just like mamà did when I was younger. I smiled listening to his voice read to me. Spanish is such a beautiful and poetic language. Well that's the thing about romantic languages, they sound so romantic. I imagined I was in my cozy bed at my abuelos house in Madrid. My mamà was reading to me while I was cuddling with my blankets. I was smiling and almost jumping on the walls. I couldn't close my eyes as she read to me. She kept telling me, her little Toño, to settle down and just close my eyes. So I did. I closed my eyes with a large smile and would giggle from time to time. I cuddled with my tomato plush. At one point I would always fall sleep. I miss her. I miss her very much.

"Let him rest!" I heard Dr. Wang say.

I heard a bunch of people walking into the room and my papà stopped reading. I opened my eyes again and looked at the people arriving. Dr. Wang looked like his normal self, annoyed at the people in the room. His ponytail was on his shoulder. He was dressed in his uniform. He must have been working. Daciana and Ida walked beside him. Daciana wasn't her normal self. She was too serious looking. Ida on the other hand always looked like a gentlewomen. Matthias was there with his father. Matthias was in a wheelchair. His chest and head were bandaged. Matthias father, Sigurd, was more serious than his son. He was tall and just plain big like Matthias but Matthias always had a goofy grin, Sigurd was not goofy. Sure he would laugh, he wasn't like Gilbert's abuelo, but he was a serious business man and the richest man under a hundred in Nysa.

"So, Tonio! That was some Halloween," Matthias joked. I smiled back. I would never forget it, for many reasons.

"Hola," Papà said.

"When Kirkland arrives, we have too interview Antonio," Daciana explained.

"Of course, of course," Papà said. Papà took my hand and it felt like he did not want to let go.

"Dude, while waiting do you want to race wheel…"

"Matthias," his father said sternly.

Matthias chuckled nervously and he looked at his father like if he was a little angel. We all knew he wasn't.

"He's not getting out of the hospital bed," Dr. Wang explained. "His spine is bruised and half of his arm was almost taken off. He would have bled to death if he was left there for another hour." Ow. Good thing I didn't feel a thing. Gracias Ancient Chinese Dragon magic. "I'll be back to give him some more medicine in an hour."

Papà took my head and started to pet it. He kissed my head. I sighed sadly and looked at him. I didn't understand anything or why I was attacked. There was an assassin after me. Cool. I mean… well it make my life more interesting. But also more dangerous. Maybe it wasn't cool. Though it might be nice to know what I didn't so there would be an assassin after me. And I was having the best time right before. But if I did die, I would have died happy. Lovi loved me back and we kiss! I kissed Lovi! I kissed Lovi! And she let me! I started smiling remembering every moment of the kiss.

"Wanker, get your paws off of me!"

Chief Kirkland was here with Francis. The Chief threw the door open and Francis followed him in. The Chief was angry, very angry. I could tell he was angry, and that is saying something. His blond hair was very messy, though I think it's always a little messy, and his eyes were tired. Francis on the other hand looked amazing, as usual. He wore the latest fashion and had his hair in a ponytail. He even had that seductive smile on his face.

"Bloody hell?" The Chief swore when he saw Matthias and me. His eyes were wide and his jaw had dropped. "You're alive?"

"Antonio?" Francis asked, I think he was surprised.

"Hola!" I said happily. I tried to wave but I couldn't.

"Now you can get out and flirt with some nurse," the Chief said and tried to push Francis out of the hospital room.

"I might have things to tell you involving Zwingli," Francis explained still with that seductive smile on.

"Things you haven't already told me?" the Chief asked.

"We'll maybe we can negoci…"

"Francis, if you have something useful to say, say it now or get out," Daciana explained irritated. As coven leader, Francis had to listen to her.

"We aren't finish," Francis told the Chief and left the room.

"Can wait," the Chief said slamming the door. Wait if he doesn't like Francis… oh sarcasm. The Chief turned around and looked at Matthias and me. "How the bloody hell are you two still alive?"

"There was a lot of us," Matthias explained.

"Who else fought Sakura?" he asked.

Everyone looked at us intrigued. Shouldn't they know? They should all be in the hospital. Well maybe they didn't have lethal injuries. I don't Lucia would be hurt or Gilbert. Well knowing him, he somehow managed to get hurt. He wanted the battle scars.

"Okay, there was Frigya… I mean Lucia, the Vargas girl, Andries, Gilbert of course, um… I know Toris was there but he wasn't fighting, he was there like a doctor. Um… The Kirkland girls…"

"Allison and Madeline were there!" The Chief said horrified.

"Oh yeah, the short haired one was shooting things from that baseball bat. It was cool. And the other one was another doctor," Matthias explained.

"I can't believe… I'm having a talk with them when I get home," the Chief said irritated.

"Continue," Ida told Matthias calmly.

"Hey, I got there after the fight started. I heard Tonio howler and I gave Emma Emil and just ran for it. Once I got into the forest I turned and the others just followed me," Matthias explained.

"So you mean you were alone when she first attacked?" Daciana asked.

"I was with Lovi at the time but si," I said sadly. "I was the one being attacked. She wanted me. But I don't know why!" My padre looked at me shocked. He tightened his grip on me. "If Matthias and the others did come, I would be dead."

"If Sakura wanted you dead, you would be dead," the Chief said coldly. The silver lining in this case, the assassin wasn't here to kill me. But, she was here to kidnap me and maybe torture me. "Do you know anything about why she picked you? I don't mean to be rude," he probably did, "But you're a fifteen year old, what have you ever done to get her on your trail?"

"Nothing I promise!"

"Yeah, if anybody, it should be me," Matthias joked. "Silve, Lucia and me are the ones who act all vigilante and go kill things."

"I'll pretend I did not just hear that," the Chief said with an annoyed sigh. Matthias' father had the same annoyed sigh.

"You must have done something," Ida explained.

"I did nothing to anger anyone," other than Lovi, but why would she send an assassin on me? "I don't know why… But maybe Lovi does." She was the one who gave me the ring and told me that a seer told her about my endangered life.

"You mean Lovina Vargas?" Ida asked.

"I'll get her," Daciana told everyone. I was going to see Lovi! Wait… Lovi was going to see me like this? But I'm pathetic and in a hospital bed all sick and bandaged. I don't want Lovi to see me like this.

Daciana opened the door and left. The Chief sighed and put his hand on his head like he was getting a headache.

"I wanted to move to a quiet place," he whispered. "If she's here, that means there is a very handsome price on this boy's head." I think he was just thinking out loud. But it still scared me. I had a large price on my head.

Matthias was acting like… himself. He was trying to do tricks on his wheelchair. The wheely didn't work so well and he fell. Sigurd gave Matthias another stern look and Matthias just smiled like an angel. He was going to get another talk about being responsible.

Ida was quiet sitting there looking at her phone. It was funny because she barely knew how to work it. Ida could not figure out technology to save her life.

Papà was worried and would not let go of me. He looked like he had aged twenty years in the last few minutes. Poor Papà.

Daciana came in with a sadden Lovi. She looked like she was trying not to cry and refused to look in my direction. She was looking at the ground. She looked frazzled and red. Her hair was everywhere and she held her arm. I looked at her leg, it didn't look hurt. I hoped it didn't hurt.

Lovi sat in a seat beside Ida. She was shaking but still refused to look at anything but the ground. Even when Arthur started to ask her questions. Lovi sighed and thought.

"There was this crazy seer, Isis I think…" Lovi explained.

"She talked through cats," Daciana asked. Talks through cats? That's weird. Oh, chasing cats would have made me feel better. That were the drugs talking, maybe. "She's still alive? She was alive back when I was alive."

"Are you all fucking idiots! Isis tells you that he's in danger and none of you takes action!" the Chief yelled angrily. "Tell me everything that happened."

"I told some people but the only people that believed me were my brothers," she said trying not to cry but it was getting harder and harder.

"You should have told me," the Chief explained.

"Everyone thought I was insane!" she snapped.

"It's okay Lovina," Ida said giving her a hug. "You didn't know."

"Well, now we know there is something terribly wrong going on here. The last time I saw that bitch," Daciana didn't like this seer very much, "Her cats told me that I was going to die."

"She never told me that Antonio was going to get killed," Lovi quickly explained. "The Greek just warned me that that Japanese ninja assassin vampire bitch would die if she does kill …" she fell into tears. I got up, half way and then the weight of my body was too much. I fell back down. I tried to give Matthias little hints to hug Lovi. He just looked at me like a confused puppy.

"You are not spending one second alone," the Chief pointed at me. "Daciana, I need to get back to work but get Vargas, we need to make a few protection spells. Then try to find Isis. Ida, you will go talk to the blond kid with the broken legs. I need more people than just the stupid frog spying on Zwingli. This is not happening again. If they had an adult present, Sakura would have been killed. Densen, get the therianthropes ready for a battle at any moment. Little Densen, your girlfriend is outside. Okay, everyone has their jobs, now scatter!"

The Chief left the room. We heard him yelling at Francis. I never heard twit, frog or bloody some many times in my life. Everyone left. Matthias was the only one happy to leave. He raced out of there to see Lucia. That left me with Lovi and my papà. A still crying Lovi and sadden papà. I tried to get up to comfort Lovi but in the end I just looked at my padre with hopeful eyes.

"You must me hungry. I'll get you something to eat," my padre explained.

He got up and whispered something to Lovi. She looked up at me. Her hazel eyes were puffy and red. Her face was watery and like a sad tomato. When my padre closed the door, she shot up from her seat and ran to me. She didn't waste any time to hug me… hug me. You read right, she hugged me. Miracles! I was happy again. Lovina Vargas hugged me.

The hugged didn't last long because Francis and Gilbert walked in. Gilbert was his noisy self and had a bandaged head. See, somehow Gilbert got hurt. How was that possible? Francis had a red hand print on his face. It looked like he was slapped.

"I need to see the school shrink more often. She was hot," Gilbert said.

"And about six hundred years your senior," Francis replied.

"I always thought older women were hotter."

"Ida will never go out with you," Francis explained.

"If Mister Sergej can get Daciana, I can I get the school shrink."

Lovi still hadn't let me go. I thought that when people came in, she would have closed her heart again.

"Which is illegal," Francis replied.

"And trying to rape the new Chief isn't?"

"It's not rape, he must consent to love me and he will. I'm just going at this the wrong way."

"Please never leave me." Lovi spoke to me in tears. She could barely speak.

"I promise," I told her.

She lifted her head again and I tried to lift my hand to her face. I might have not been able to feel pain, but I could not do much but sit there and talk. She instead put her hand on my face and kissed me. We kissed and kissed and kissed until we could not breathe and then we would kiss again. I don't know how long that lasted but it lasted forever for me. This kiss was different from our first one, it was more desperate, like I was going to leave for the military and she didn't want me to leave.

We stopped, not because we didn't want to, if we could, I believe that we would be there for hours, but Gilbert and Francis started coughing.

"Awesome, you found love and all but not while I'm around," Gilbert explained.

"Non, let them do whatever they want," Francis explained.

Lovi looked at both of them with a shocked disgust. Her face was red. I laughed but I was saddened that I couldn't kiss Lovi anymore.

"How's your back," Francis asked.

"Great!" I yelled happily. "Never better!"

"Just wait until the medicine wears off," Gilbert laughed. I didn't find that funny. I didn't want to feel pain.

"And the bastard Doctor will give you more," Lovi told me holding my hand. She's holding my hand! Awe. Does this mean we're dating? We must be right? Lovi wouldn't just kiss me like that.

"Honhonhon," Francis laughed looking at Lovi, my Lovi. She's my Lovi! Wow, so it took a near death experience for her to become my Lovi. She was my Lovi right? We had a make-out session, she was my Lovi.

"Well awesome, you two now have a date for Felicja's party," Gilbert said pissed off. "Speaking of the bitch," still bitter about the break up, "She says she'll something special for you at the party. Yeah, she feels bad or whatever for not being there."

"Honhonhon."

"It's not that!" Gilbert yelled.

"How did you get hurt?" I said changing the subject.

"I started to hit on Maddy and Allison cut me," Gilbert explained. Never ever hit on one of the Kirkland sisters. But I would also have Lovi and Sandro and most likely Romulus that would kill me.

"Would she do that to me?" Francis asked worried.

"Nay, just if you hit on her sister. There's a difference between Maddy and Arthur is different," Gilbert explained.

Francis started to have that evil and seductive look on his face. Lovi sighed annoyed. She laid her head on me.

The rest of the time was spent talking and helping Gilbert plan revenge against Allison. Nothing we told him worked. The moment magic was involved in a prank she was five steps ahead of us. That made Gilbert hate her more. But he got her with the help of Gilbird. Gilbird sat at her window all night and chirped and chirped. Allison was not in a good mood the next day.

The hospital was getting boring. The only people I had to keep me company throughout the whole time were Matthias, Andries and whomever the Chief decided would be my bodyguard. I liked Matthias, he was fun. Andries was not. He complained that he couldn't smoke or anything. I thought it was a good thing. Sure, we do heal faster than most creatures but they had to stay in the hospital for four days and I had to stay for a week. We healed quickly enough. I was perfectly fine by November 3rd, but Dr. Wang told us to stay a little longer so the humans wouldn't get too suspicious. So, I was bored. During visiting hours people came to visit me. Lovi was always the first one at my bed and the last one to leave. Papà was there every second he could, but he had to work. Everyone else came from time to time. The Chief was there a lot questioning me. I kept telling him the same thing, 'I did not know anything'. Even when he used truth spells on me, I said the same thing.

"Nothing, I've done nothing. I have no idea why someone would be after me," I told Allison.

Allison has been questioning me every day since the attack, also. I wasn't sure if the Chief told her too or she was doing it because she was bored and wanted to help her uncle. Sadly for my poor eyes, when she decided to start her investigation, the lights would be turned off and she would have a light pointing in my face. She was dressed like some 50s detective, trench coat and all. She even had a fake cigarette. She would walk around and for dramatic effect she would point the lamb and scream at me. Lovi might have hit her a few times.

Lovi was beside me holding my hand, like she did every day since she became my girlfriend. We haven't said anything to each other but it was mutually understood. Lovina Vargas was my girlfriend and I was on top of the world. Well, I would be if there wasn't an assassin trying to kidnap me.

Others were in my room, like Matthias (who was still playing with his wheelchair, not that he needed it.) Lucia was beside him brushing her brother's hair and trying to ignore her boyfriend. Silvia was doing her nails. Gilbert was standing up practicing fire spells and Elizaveta practicing water spells to make sure Gilbert didn't burn down the hospital. That would be bad. Andries was in the room, with nothing else better to do, texting Em and sitting beside Allison's sister, who I keep forgetting her name. He liked her and gave her tulips whenever she came by. I knew there was a reason he liked to spend his time in the flower shop on the main floor.

"Lies!" She yelled doing the lamp thing.

"Allie, he's hurt," her sister explained. They were doing a stupid Good Cop, Bad Cop routine. I was happy that there was a good cop.

"I'm a good boy, I've never killed anyone or any creature, on purpose," I explained. Which was true.

"Interesting," she said dramatically. "On purpose?"

"Flies, bees, a bunny, nothing that would send an assassin on me," I explained truthfully.

"There was that succubus but Silve already killed her when you ripped her head off," Matthias explained. There was her.

"Succubus?" Allison asked herself. She paced around the room. "Ah ha! What if this succubus had a family and that family wanted revenge on you because you helped killed her."

"But they would be after us too if that was the case," Lucia explained.

"Maybe they are after you too but we just don't know it!"

"Her brother came after me two weeks ago," Silvia explained. "I killed him."

"Allison," her sister sighed. "If she had more family, succubae or incubi don't send assassins. They come to you and charm you."

"Maybe they are sending Sakura because they don't want to get caught."

"And the Seer said that his life was in danger not Matthias, Silvia and Lucia," Elizaveta explained.

"They might be idiots," Andries huffed.

"Or it's too obvious, so it's something different," Allison said pacing around. "The Shadow People? Or Centaurs? Sea People!" Shadow People and Centaur and Sea People! How have I made so many enemies?

"And why would they be sending an assassin on Tonio?" Gilbert asked still playing with fire.

"Because they can't go out in public to kill him themselves," Allison explained like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Everyone looked at her confusedly.

"Shadow People could kill by Shadows," her sister explained. Andries huffed agreeing with her. So Shadow People weren't after me. I sighed in relief.

"And Centaurs live in Europe, Asia and Africa," Lucia sighed putting the brush down and now was fixing Emil's shirt. I sighed again. They were not after me. But that didn't mean…

"And I've never seen Sea Creatures! I didn't even know they existed!" I said startled.

Lovi pet my hair and whispered, "Everything will be okay."

"What about mummies or manticores or a unicorn! Wouldn't that be brilliant! Unicorns can't legally hurt a person but they can send an assassin to kill him!" Allison said like she was having an epiphany.

"Have you ever hurt a unicorn?" Matthias asked. Me killing a unicorn? Unicorns were the most innocent of all creatures and only a virgin girl of pure heart could see them. How could I kill a unicorn?

"No and…"

"They live in Europe," Elizaveta explained finishing my sentence. I was going to say and I've never seen a unicorn but she technically finished my sentence. Lovi glared at Elizaveta.

"What creatures live in Canadia?" Allison complained.

"Canada, and Sea People do live here," her sister explained. So they could still have Sea People after me? But I don't like the water, I know what's in the ocean and it's scary. I also know what's hiding in lakes. I don't swim in anything but a pool.

Lucia started, "Wendigos, hogas, baykoks, various demons, skin-walkers, kisihohkews…" Carnivorous moose are after me!

"We need to do research on Native American folklore?" Allison asked. Everyone nodded. "But I'm an expert in European folklore. Do you have any idea how much stuff I had to remember to be an expert in European folklore! You have Greco-Roman Myths, Norse Myths, Celtic Myths, Slavic Myths, Baltic Myths, Gaelic Myths, Christian Myths, Hebrew Myths, Arthurian Legends…" A thirteen year old expert, wow.

"And she's only a D student," her sister huffed.

"I want to know why I had to fight for this idiot," Andries huffed.

"Awesome, research it is," Gilbert yelled jumping out of his seat. Since when did Gilbert like to do research?

"Something Arthur is doing," Francis explained. Francis had just walked in, well that is obvious since he wasn't here before and now he's here. He looked tired. His hair was not its perfect self and his eyelids were falling. I thought vampires did not sleep, how is Francis tired.

"We can always do more research," Elizaveta explained.

"But research is boring," Matthias complained.

"No one expects you to do anything, just sit down and play with your Legos," Silvia explained.

Matthias huffed and then looked at his girlfriend with angel eyes. She gave him Emil.

"More research then that OCD Brit, Ida, Romulus, Vladimir and me. I don't think so," he explained. He looked around for somewhere to sit, but ended up leaning on the wall because there wasn't anywhere to sit.

"Then what can we do?" Allison asked. "Antonio is a person in trouble and as future greatest heroine witch of the world, I need to do something."

"Let the adults take care of it," Francis explained.

"But I want to help Iggy!"

"Don't do anything. Iggy will take care of it," Francis explained. Allison tried to say something but her sister put her hand in front of her mouth and whispered that she should back off. Allison huffed and puffed but she didn't say anything. "Okay, now we all know that hospital food sucks and I wouldn't eat it for a thousand sexual partners. So I cooked for all of you." Francis smiled and brought in a buffet of French foods.

"It's okay, we'll find out what's wrong," Lovi said softly in my ear. I smiled back and kissed her forehead. Francis gave us our food.
Boring chapter, and small, with a weird Allison ending. Sorry it's late, I've been watching Angel (you'll see in the next chapters how that show will influence the story). I'm sad to say that the courting has finished but that means a new relationship has started.

More new characters, like Old Norse. And some FrUK, PruAus, NethCan and PruCan for you.

Old Norse is Matthias' father… I called him Sigurd. Lilly is either FemSwiss or Normal Liech I'm not sure at the moment. So SwissLiech or Swisscest?

I'll be honest, I know almost nothing about police ranks in Canada. I know there is regional police and each region has its own police. Then there's the provincial and then there is the federal. But I'm doing some research, so hopefully I don't get the information wrong.

All mythical creatures mentioned in this chapter are from real folklores.

Chapter 1 - [link]
Chapter 2 - [link]
Chapter 3- [link]
Chapter 4 -[link]
Chapter 5 - [link]
Chapter 6 -[link]
Chapter 7- [link]
Chapter 8 - [link]
Chapter 9- [link]
Chapter 10- [link]
Chapter 11- Here
Chapter 12- [link]
Chapter 13- [link]
Chapter 14- [link]
Speacial Chapter- [link]
Chapter 15- [link]
CHapter 16- Coming soon
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