The Woman He Loved
Othello was staring at the huge capital before him. Sitting on the ledge, while swinging his leg from side to side. Robynn comes towards him and hops on the same ledge to join him.
"Time really flies fast huh.' Robynn commented.
"Yeah." Othello nodded. "I wonder what's gonna happen to me from now on. I mean the King is planning to purge all the Night Hallows in this continent, right?"
"Yeah. That's what he told me. But that is if I told him how to. As of now, I haven't really told him anything but the poison."
"Poison. Oh yeah, where did you get it?"
Asty walked from behind them holding a tray of cookies that was made for them by a kind maid.
"Poison?"
Othello and Robynn looked at each other before gesturing for Asty to come near them. "Yeah. Give us."
She hands them the tray and walks near the ledge to join their conversation. "What about the poison. Is that the poison that the King mentioned?"
It a bright sunny day outside when a young man dressed in blue and green robe was sweeping the fallen and dried leaves of the front yard. Beside him were two other sunchildren like him, who were invited to stay and hone their skill in combat fighting- with their mentors being a snake woman and a strict owl.Under the scorching heat of the sun, the sweepers pouted in irritation.“This is why you shouldn’t have entered the library without his permission, Len!”The girl who was sweeping attempts to hit the complainant with her broom. “You were the one who told me that the research books are there!”“I meant the other library! The one made for us, scholars!”The girl stomped her feet in frustration. These three were being punished because of one certain thing. A groupmate of theirs has entered the Lord Chaol’s personal archives.“Sorry we dragged you along with this,
Robynn, Asthenosthene, and Vaughn stared at the three swords before them. Othello stared at Asty with a heavy heart knowing he, too, was nearing his end. In his veins, Chaol’s blood surged, and therefore, if he falls to close his eyes, then so will he.“W-What are these for..?” Asty looked at Vaughn who was beside her. “W-Why are these swords in front of us? What are we going to do with it..?”Vaugh took a deep breath and took the sword. He carefully places his arm near it and slashes his skin. A bright, red liquid flowed through the blade, slowly making it turn into a shade of rouge.“V-Vaughn? What are you doing..?”“This will hurt a bit,” he told her and gently took her arm. “Close your eyes and tell me if it hurts too much.”Vaughn slowly pricks her finger with a needle. Asty didn’t feel anything as her blood dripped to the floor. He takes her fing
"I love you, Chaol." she pressed her lips against his forehead. He gazed at her but he couldn't find any light and mercy from her bright tangerine eyes. "And farewell."The woman's words were strikingly painful and difficult to hear. Before, she would always run to him and shower him with hugs and kisses.But he never thought that the day would come that she will raise her sword against him and take his life instead.Chaol had never once understood the feeling of dying. He had never experienced it. From the souls that he would comfort, they would always tell them how painful it was or how joyful it was for them to die.It depended.And now that today, he was fated to get the gist of what truly death felt like, he didn't think that his soul would be this terrified of closing his eyes to see nothing but the darkness of the empty void.Years ago he wanted to die. He wanted to finally close his eyes and rest, but then, she came.Suddenly,
There was that haunting echo in the air, followed by the deafening silence.Everyone stared at the platform with their eyes wide open as the woman in a maid dress screamed her knowledge in the wind.Asty slowly opened her eyes only to find Chaol starting at her wide-eyed, vexed of what Lana had revealed. The sword was directly beside his neck, pierced a little bit on his skin, drawing blood. Robynn, Vaughn Garland along with the other officials stared still, looking at them with disbelief in their eyes."It wasn't Chaol, Asty!" Lana continued to implore her. "It was—"Suddenly, there was a long chain of howl in the wind. The atmosphere changed and the wind became colder."Wolves?" the people whispered at each other. "But we are at the center of the town!"Asty turned around, lowered her sword, and listened to her surroundings. She can still remember the synchronization of
It all made sense why the man was so similar to Chaol now. His movements, his choice of words, his laugh, his traits. Everything about him resembled Chaol and only a fool could deny it.“Tenth moonchild. What is he trying to say, milord?” Lana asked him, completely bamboozled. “I… don’t understand. I’ve seen this man many times inside the castle for the span of many years that I have served you, and yet deep inside me, I know he wasn’t you. What is this feeling that I’m having..?”“He is what he had said.” Chaol answered. “He is me and I am him. He is the last persona of the previous moonchild that I am.”Chaol lowered his head. “My… tenth self.”Asty’s throat became dry. She reached for Chaol’s hands but they were cold and shaking. “C-Chaol…”“I cannot remember of who I was back then
The air became colder and the howling of the Silverhounds became more haunting. Their huge, sharp fangs were much longer than the normal mountain wolves. Their huge, scraping claws that never fail to allow them to climb in trees and grappled onto their prey. Their silver-hued eyes that resembled the bright, gray moon.They were the pioneering predators that have always been on the top of the food chain.But they won't back down. With their torches, shovels, and rakes, the people stood with the burning passion to protect their territory, and they won't hesitate to show what they are made up of, if the wolves advance any further.Polo shrugged his shoulder and sighed. “I guess we would really have to do it in the hard way, huh.”His sadistic, blue eyes glowed sinisterly as his lips formed a grin. “Well then if you insist on protecting this place too much, then I'll just destroy
The wind continued to how and the explosions were heard from almost every corner. All the villagers had been evacuated to a place where the silverhounds won't get to them. Still carrying their rakes, shovels, and lances, they tried to fend themselves off the silverhound that tried to reach them from the water. They were all mixed. Soldiers, maids, villagers. But they were not as many as the minutes before all these chaos happened. Some of them have perished from being crushed by the rocks and debris of construction materials. Some of them were eaten by the silverhounds. Some of them were impaled by Polo's ice glacier magic. Everything was covered in blood, sweat, and night hallow dust. Most of the night hallows were killed by the silverhound and turned into dust. Asty could see all the violence before her eyes. This was the real world. The real world that they needed to protect. For so many weeks they saw that they were protecting it f
Polo stared as they drowned in the lava. He stood still hearing their wailing from are. Their painful roars and their bodies turning to dust. None was left on the battlefield but him and him alone.Asty had successfully reached near Chaol, who had protected himself in a runic barrier. Inside was also the King, the Captain, Yuran who had come back from the evaluation to help, Lana, Owl, Robynn, Othello, and Yvonne Polo casted an ice tower to launch himself in the air, but the lava crushes and melts the tower's foot, causing for it to crumble again. He makes another platform of ice and he landed on the floor and casted a spell."Frozen Catastrophe!" In an instant, the liquid around him froze and crumbled into tiny pieces. The ice then melts and evaporates in the air leaving the battlefield clean once again."I really hate it when people let me clean up their mess." he gritted his teeth and looked at Chaol. "Are you happy?" he gr