539: THE PAIN AND TEARS

THE PAIN AND TEARS

What Joel said snapped them out a little bit, as Dyne tried to talk to Iris that it was not appropriate for her to do so to Joel. After all, he was a young man and was not a child. 

More so, touching someone else's legs was something that extremely inappropriate to do for someone with status like Iris. 

"Luna, you need to stop this, you can't touch his legs. It is not right for you to lower yourself to…" Yet, Zephyr stopped in mid sentence with whatever words he was going to say when Iris simply threw him a dagger look, as if telling him to shut his mouth. 

Seeing such fierce look, no one of them dared enough to speak out again, leaving Joel with dreadful feeling. 

"Please, stop it, luna…" Joel was way more concern with the fact Iris touched his legs rather than these mysterious little lights that surrounded his legs by now. 

His legs were done for, whatever the luna was doing to them, wouldn't make it even worse, right?

On the other hand, Iris tuned out Joel's protest and how hard they stared at what she was doing, as she focused on the little lights she had created. She could feel Joel's wounds and they were so severe. 

If Grace's healing power couldn't help, let alone any medicine and herbs that Joel had been consuming ever since he got injured, in hope it would help with his healing ability. 

However, the power that Iris had was different…

Sweat started to drip from her forehead, as she tried to control her lights. It was so difficult, as she slipped a few times, but then she started to get a grasp of them better only after more than ten minutes past and Joel still pleaded with her to stop. 

The problem with Joel's injuries were because they were covered by a little bit trace of curse, since their enemies were under the influence of dark magic, that was why, it hindered with his healing ability and if it was not for Grace's healing ability and the herbs he consumed, Joel's legs could get even worse than this. 

However, those two things didn't help with his recovery. 

Therefore, the first thing that Iris had to do was to purify the dark magic within his system, which was not a difficult task for her to do so, since she was able to do it without even thinking of what to do, it just happened, just like how she purified those dark magic stones that Haco created and told her to practice with them to do the vice versa; not to purify the dark magic stone, which until now, Iris couldn't do. 

Therefore, once her lights touched the trace of dark magic, they were instantly purified, which helped her tremendously, since she was still trying to figure out what she needed to do next. She did all of this based on her instinct alone. 

However, the side effect of it was, she became extremely tired an hour later, once she had purified all the traces of the dark magic within Joel's system. She looked pale and sweat drenched her dress, where the fabric stuck to her skin uncomfortably. 

Meanwhile, all of them were waiting, still dumbstruck by the magical things that happened before their eyes. They had never seen this kind of magic before. 

Staring at the lights, weirdly, gave them a sense of security and calm. 

"Wh- what now?" Kian asked, he tried to put down Asher's head so he could get a better look inside the room, as the four of them poked their head at the door. 

What now?

That was the same question that Iris wanted to ask. What now? After she purified all of the dark magic, what would happen now? 

Iris stared at the Joel's wolf spirit, but there was no significant thing that happened. The wolf still looked so weak and fragile. 

"Luna, are you done? What you have been doing?" Eron immediately approached Iris and helped her to sit down on the only chair in this room. He looked curious, but at the same time concern with Iris's condition, since she looked so pale. 

Iris wiped her sweat and then stared at Joel, who looked like he almost lost his soul. "The alpha will kill me and you will be in trouble, if he knew you touched my feet, luna."

Iris ignored that comment. She would be dreadful if someone told her Cane would kill her a year ago, but not now. The thought of Cane would kill her almost sounded ridiculous in her ear. 

"How do you feel?" Iris asked Joel, she leaned her body forward and stared at his legs again before she looked at his expression. "Can you… move your legs?" She was not sure with this question. 

Would it take more than one time for Iris to do it or no matter how many times she would do it, it would be a waste of effort? She didn't have any idea how to answer that. 

Joel stared at his legs, his eyes filled with concentration, but after some time, he shook his head sadly. "I am sorry, luna. I am sorry for disappoint you," he said in small voice. "I tried, but I can't move my legs." 

This young warrior felt so bad when it was Iris, who had failed him, as if he didn't try it harder. 

The atmosphere in this room became somber instantly, they felt dejected with the result when earlier they felt hope that something miraculous could happen, but now, it sealed the deal. There was nothing they could do to save Joel's legs. 

This fact hit Iris so hard. She really tried her great to hold back her tears. The fact that she gave them hope and then failed them made her wanted to vomit. 

The room felt so depressed and the silence that stretched was very heavy.  0

However, out of nowhere, Zephyr shuffled toward the bed and stood near Joel's legs, as he scratched his left calf. 

"Ah!" Joel screamed in pain when he felt that and watched blood dripped from his calf, but soon after the wound healed pretty quickly. "What are you doing?"

"You can feel that?" Zephyr asked. 

Only then the realization hit him. Grace had told Joel that the caused he couldn't feel his legs because they were literally dead, but of course, the healer phrased it in a better way, so it wouldn't sound so horrible. 

That was also the reason why his wounds couldn't heal, because his healing ability around his legs had completely ruined, since his legs were 'dead'. 

Yet, Joel could feel the scratch, no, Zephyr actually clawed at his calf and drew blood from it, but then the wound healed and he could feel the pain. 

"I… I can feel that…" Joel felt the words stuck in his throat. "Do it again!" he said in trembling voice. 

"Do you want me to claw you again?"

"Yes, deeper now." Joel's whole body was shaken with this realization, it had been days since the last time he could feel anything on his legs and just a moment ago, he was struggling to come with term this would be his life from now on. "Do it!"

"Do you want me to make a deep incision?" Zephyr raised his brows, but the impatient young warrior wanted him to do it desperately. 

"Do it! Do it!" Joel felt his heart was beating on his throat when he watched how Zephyr made a deeper incision and the pain shot to his brain, but despite the pain, he felt elated. "I can feel it! I can feel it!" Joel exclaimed as he watched the wound started to heal. "Luna! I can feel it!"

Joel still couldn't move his legs, but for him to be able to feel them was already a great news. 

"Luna! Luna! Luna! You did it! I can feel my legs! I can feel the pain!"

"Asher, call Grace to come here and check on him!" Zephyr immediately took over the situation, as Iris was crying, she covered her face with both of her palms, while Eron stood by her side and tried to calm her down. 

"Oh." Asher snapped back to reality and then nodded. "Right away." He then rushed toward the orphanage, where Grace used to be at this hour. 

"Luna! I can feel it!" Joel cried, he felt so overwhelmed when he gradually could feel his legs again. It felt like his legs had started to be part of his body again. "Luna! Thank you! Thank you!"

Joel kept calling Iris, his voice sounded so cheerful and full of life, he was so grateful and Iris could hear the genuine feeling every time he called her name. 

Iris wiped her tears and when she saw Joel was crying, she was about to hug him, to offer some comfort, she was too emotional right now and thought of Joel just like those other little children in the orphanage, because he looked like them at this moment, when he sobbed so hard. 

However, Zephyr immediately inserted himself between them and he hugged the young warrior first before Iris could do that. 

"Let's hope this will be a good news," Zephyr said, as he patted Joel's back. 

They only needed Grace confirmation, whether this was a hope that they really needed or it was only a false alarm. 

Soon after, the healer came, but this time, she came with the alpha as well, since he had been looking for his mate. 

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