Only a few minutes later, Noah was pulled along by Mikaela upstairs to one of the many rooms in McCain's house.
Her mouth invaded his before the door even closed. He picked her off the ground and walked her over the bed.
His hands ran over the supple, warm skin, absorbing her warmth like a drug. Her hand ran over his bare chest hungrily. Feeling her body against him was strangely exciting.
Noah often lived in a state of perpetual apathy. There were moments when he felt alive.
Like when he killed Dalton or when he blocked Derick's shot, but those were isolated moments in time. One stop at pleasure before moving on.
But Kae was unbelievably alive. She clung to him desperately and kissed every inch of his skin. Her warm lips tracing a line over his neck before returning to his mouth.
And it was strangely infectious. His heart was racing, his body felt so hot he wondered if his head was on fire, and he was very ready to go farther than this.
"Do you have any condoms?" He asked, breath heavy with desire.
"What? Um… no, but forget it," Kae said casually, before attacking his lips again.
That sounds like a very bad idea.
He placed his hands on her hips to separate them, but she took it as a welcome. Her hands reached down and grabbed his cock like it was the last piece of pizza.
Startled, he jumped a little but she ignored it and buried his face in her chest. Logic escaped his mind in those moments. He grabbed her ass and forced out a groan.
Soon they were in more compromising positions and the heat was starting to overwhelm him. His vision became a bit blurry.
Something's wrong.
He tried to pull away but Kae got on top of him, not letting him get a second to think. She rose and fell quickly, occasionally slowing down when it got too intense.
Moaning in his ears and taking his hands to cup her breasts. Noah did his best to gain control of himself but felt it slipping as Kae's warmth surged into him.
She sank down to lay a kiss on his lips at first, but after a moment, her body grew limp, robbed of her previous energy.
Noah sensed something was very wrong immediately.
He carried her up and laid her down. Her eyes were closed. Her blue hair was starkly contrasted by her pale skin. The rising rhythm of her chest was getting slower.
"No, no, no," Noah cursed, placing a hand on her neck to check her pulse.
He immediately yanked it away when he felt more of her heat sapped from her skin. It was like a current rising through his veins, uncomfortably addictive.
I was draining her life force?
After a moment running his hands through his black hair and checking his face in a mirror, Noah came back to Kae, still quiet on the bed.
"I'm still human, how did my powers work on her?"
"Did you evolve recently?" a voice asked suddenly.
Noah jumped to his feet, covering himself, and turning to the door. There was a girl standing there, full black hair and golden eyes like Mikaela's.
Wait, have I seen her before?
He rushed over to the Ziploc bag that held his clothes and tore it open, speaking as he dressed up.
"What do you mean evolve?"
"Like obtaining a new power from your Phantasm recently," the girl walked over to Kae, checking her pulse. "Life drain… your phantasm is a ghost-type? How did you get it?"
Noah grabbed his head once fully dressed. A myriad of thoughts running through him.
She knows. About phantasms, monsters, everything. The problem is how she knows and who she works for.
And whether this can remain a secret.
If it couldn't…
He watched the fair skin of her slim neck quietly. His green eyes burned with reluctance.
"Can you just explain to me what's happening?" Noah said with a tint of impatience.
The girl took out a pill from her bag and slipped it into Kae's mouth. Noah surged forward, stopping from just barely touching her.
She glanced at his hand. "You're a good guy. Too bad my cousin can't sense danger. I'm Madeleine by the way. You can call me Mads."
He saw the resemblance immediately. They both had similar faces with honey eyes.
"Can you tell me why this happened?" he asked again. "And what any of this is?"
He feigned cluelessness first. The girl wasn't dangerous just yet so he would hold back. His body was still thrumming with Mikaela's energy, like he had been hooked up to a battery.
Madeleine sat casually, staring up at him almost too softly. Like she wasn't afraid of him at all.
"Your [Life drain] ability activated because you haven't fed in a while," Madeleine explained. "I guess getting excited made it go off. But you already know that."
"What do you mean?" He asked, raising an eyebrow and backing up.
"Most Phantasm abilities won't activate in your human form, unless you have an evolved form." Madeleine said, rising to her feet. "But once you gain these extra abilities they can be used even when you aren't fully transformed. But they'll be weaker."
She walked up to Noah, meeting his eyes with a soft intensity. "So why are you pretending not to know you can evolve?"
That's unfortunate. I had no way of knowing that was how things worked. I haven't even used the life drain ability since Dalton…
Wait, did I gain intangibility when I killed Dalton?
He hadn't used the ability back then till he was shot by rage. And his fiery head changed slightly after killing Dalton.
Did that count as an evolution?
He gulped and returned his focus to Madeleine who was just staring at him. "Okay, I lied a little, but only because I don't know who you are."
"I'm Madeleine LeBlanc, trainee for the enforcement division of the Union, D7H." Madeleine said rapidly.
"Now who are you, and how did you get your Phantasm?"