“Let us be straight,” Morgan stated, narrowing his cruel eyes. “You are saying to me that you are doubting us as someone who had stolen father’s treasures? Have you gone insane, Caspian?”Caspian swipe aside his long hair, letting it rest on his left shoulder. “I don’t doubt, I am stating the fact.”“What fact are you saying in this case?” Morgan narrowed his eyes, unhappy that he had been doubted. “You doubting us brothers is the most blasphemous statement I have heard from your filthy mouth.”“Morgan,” warned Vetis, “No matter what Caspian is your older brother. Respect him.”Morgan clicked his tongue, “So you are telling me that I should be quite while he doubt us?”“I am not, therefore, brother Caspian, please do not point your hand on anyone,” Vetis worked as the middlemen between the brothers as no one was as self composed as him.“I do not but think of it,” Caspian twirled his finger for a black key to float above his hand, “Only us have this key. Us, who have father’s blood wi
Helios was always feared by the brother but also loved and respected. There was a reason why he was the eldest, a reason from not only the order of his birth but his power as well as his ability to control his siblings, the fellow demons who are as feral as him.Leon looked back at Helios’s eyes, neither of them retreating but he decided to be the bigger person and sat down.“Thank you,” expressed Helios shortly. “I do not doubt any of you. Caspian, you should never once ever doubt your brother. Doubting your brother is the same as doubting your blood. You will not disrespect us but also yourself.”Caspian pushed his long hair and looked down, like a scolded child.“I had called you here not only because of the missing item,” Helios’s range of tone didn’t change. It was rigid, firm, and strict. It was close to frightening but not in a sense to show horror. It was an authority.None of the brother dared to talk over him. He continued, “I am here to call you because I have found Father
Belle didn’t ask where they would go, but she believed that it would be worth the walk. She was silent as many thoughts flooded her head. Leon was silent as well which was strange as she noticed him keeping a look at her once in a while. It’s as if he was careful with her emotion, studying her.When they had stopped, Belle’s eyes sparkle to see the wide open view of a crystal clear lake. The trees all around the lake held a beautiful view as it was reflected on the surface of the water.The white bright moon seemed to be much closer to her touch now as it stayed on the middle of the lake. All she could do was awed by the view, her eyes widening.“How do you know this place?” Belle asked, confused as it was her first time ever arriving to Lady Edith’s house and expected it to be Leon’s first time as well.Yet with how familiar he is and his immediate knowledge of the lake, she doubted so.“Mephisto told me he saw it here,” Leon responded. While Belle was never able to notice Leon’s li
Song recommendation: None but the lonely heart. Op.6*****Belle could hear the piano’s key changing. The tune smoothing out as it turn to a newer song. Her eyes were affixed at the red gaze that didn’t once let her leave. She felt Leon’s hand across her her waist while her fingers hang on his shoulder. The waltz started slow with the flow of the tune and all she could hear was the echoes of both her shoes and his in the silent lake. Belle gulped feeling his hand pulling her tighter, “You’re a good dance,” she spoke, an effort to drive away the silence.“Am I? That’s flattering, I would have thought you have danced with so many better men out there,” Leon said, perhaps still spiteful that she didn’t called him handsome the last time.She chuckled as his sarcasm that sound funnier to her as the time passes. “In comparison, don’t you think I have fall pale in comparison to your other dance partners?” Belle stepped forward only to feel her lungs stopped working with how close her lips
Belle had now made a seat inside Lady Edit’s house. The witch continued to stare at her while she sit down holding to the teacup with her fingers tightening. She felt as though she was about to be absorbed by waves from the awkwardness.To end her suffering, Belle spoke, “How long have you lived in the forest?”“As long as s I have remembered,” Lady Edith responded. “What about you? Most witches started studying their witchcraft from childhood but you come only now.”“I thought you have heard everything about me,” whispered Belle. She caught Lady Edith scoffing.“Guess you’re unlucky like me. Do you know what others call me in the coven?” Lady Edith asked her back.She thought for a second then shaking her head, “No.”She hummed for a while and while Belle waited for her answer she instead said, “It was only yesterday’s morning that I got a letter from the high witch that I will be taking a student. Of course they didn’t ask whether I’m willing or not so you cannot blame me for my att
Her blue eyes widely stared at the woman, “You knew?”No way… all this time.. does Lady Edith knew about everything?Even her contract with Leon?But how?As Belle went in panic, she heard the woman lightly chuckle again. “Come on, I am called the high witch for something,” Lady Edith turned her eyes to the same apple tree where Leon had disappeared“Did you tell anyone?” Belle quickly asked, worried and scared.“No darling,” she respond, “And I promise I wouldn’t. I see you need your own time,” she noted seeing Belle’s paling face. “You can go home with those books now. I don’t want your parents to worry.”Belle only gulped as she held the books. Lady Edith helped her by putting the books in an old trunk of hers with her magic. As she stepped out from the house, Belle still felt shell shocked by what had happened.As she moved toward the foothill, her eyes caught the leather black shoes. She didn’t had to ask to know whose shoes it was. She spoke, “How strong do you think the witch
Kore’s eyes were deep in red as she stared at Belle. Something in the air warned Belle that the woman had come not for any good reason. There was anger that she could smell from her and the way Kore’s lips smile was akin to a predator’s smile to its prey.“You look scared,” Kore noted. “Anyone would be scared if someone suddenly appeared inside their house, in my room especially,” Belle gulped as she saw a dagger hanging on Kore’s hip.The demoness noticed her eyes at the sword and she shrugged her shoulders, “Don’t be scared. I’m not here to harm you. In the first place, I do not have any grudges against you.”Belle couldn’t believe what Kore said and knowing how much she hated Leon, she doubted her words were true. Even if she doesn’t hate her, she would harm her just to get back at Leon.Kore’s eyes looked over her body, “You still haven’t used my gift. Did you forgot how?”“How can I use anything from someone I haven’t trust yet? For all I know you can bring harm to me,” Belle to
Nikolaj eyed her for a long time where Belle realized how the man’s eyes lingered over her face before he spoke, “I think beside us she’s the most confused.”She nodded and looked at Leon, the source of her answer, “What happened?”“You don’t remember but you fainted,” answered Leon. “When I found you, you were lying on the floor unconscious on your way to your room.”Leon frowned how Belle didn’t remember. Last afternoon was the time when Belle had just finished reading her books. She would take walks in the afternoon alone and he would always silently put his eyes on her until she walked back to her room. As she ascended to the staircase that was when her eyes had suddenly black out and she fell backward to his embrace. When he thought how badly she could be injured without his help, Leon’s jaw ticked and his anger raise.“I thought you should wake up but I smell something odd from you, like a scent, I couldn’t tell what it is but it was a sour scent that didn’t sit well with me,”