Amante POV
The party was peaceful until a cue from the matriarch to start the buffet wreaked havoc when several attendees, guards, and servers transformed into beasts and devour the human guests. Awfully horrendous scene mocked the extravagant decorations in place. To top it all, I was here, cowered like a hunted prey under the elusive safety of a low-down table.
Back in Verte Monde, I played as a worthless idler, not because I lack the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things, but as I wanted to believe, it was an ingenious strategy to conceal my wretched secret plan to lure the pack in a war or battle with the human beings.
This was a different and more humiliating condition than before. I became a weakling, comes from the thought of having nothing but the weak physical body of a human who cannot face off a beast like that one salivating flyer above the table where Gizzelle was desperately trying to sq
Amante POVThe Aswang clan surprisingly welcomed me. Allyssa’s parents hosted me into a lavishguestroom for my stay. I could have just shrugged it off, should have, knowing Allyssawould not be happy about it. Now that the Lopez was a goner, I have their apartment allfor myself, for the time being, of course.I would guess. My confusion, being lost in this vast world, terrible past consigned tooblivion, future unforeseen, and heartbroken; it made me feel like a lone leaf that fell offfrom its rooted tree, swept away by the strong current of waters of a river called life.It was a mystery how Allyssa’s parents tend to my needs, behaving like they werehonored for me being here. They made sure all my necessities were satisfied beforeretiring to the master bedroom.Through the snippets
Amante POVHumankind has long been fascinated by the events that happened in the past.Many have refused to believe that time spent was lost forever. There has beeninterest in learning about the past through history.Some people believe they can look back and even show others their long-lost,almost forgotten past. Other, older, methods have been lost in the mists oftime. Ancient civilizations had some different methods of scrying the past.One of these comes from the ancient Aswang and has been revived in recenttimes. The nekromanteion of the ancient Aswang involved scrying with mirrorsthat continued in generations. These attempts at scrying largely dispensedwith the ritual elements so beloved by the Aswang.The seer called Iris Meritis, the odd-looking gal before the party and theAswang, who fought off her kind to save me, created thi
Amante POVI was pulled back suddenly; the face haunting my guilty heart gradually fades away. That was the last moments of the past that I magically experienced thru the mysterious mirror until I was forced back, as if succumbed by an invisible vacuum. It was painful and nerve-wreaking.I found myself back inside the dark, tiny room, breathing with short, quick breaths from both the physical and mental vigorous attempt to sneak a peek beyond time.The mirror was stained with slowly dissipating fog. It was dark once again after a moment. I was left, alone and confused, unable to comprehend everything that transpired just a moment ago.I felt weakened, shaken, and depleted.It took more than a moment to hold upon my sanity. It was a rough turn of events. The “tracing back the past to understand the present and foretell the future” was a t
Amante POV“She must be in the garden, Master Amante.”The servant ushered me at the end of the hallway leading to the door outside, where she claimed Allyssa might be. I have been looking for her since she romped her way out of the room, agitated obviously by my foolish reaction.Well, what should my reaction be?I was stupefied, petrified even, of all the things her family had shown me. She does not know how baffled I was.I have to find her. One thing’s clear in my mind right now. She was my destined mate. We were bound by the Moon Goddess. Our fate has been decided and we shall abide.She might have rejected me as her mate, but I never accepted it yet. It was invalid. And I intend to forgive her, I meant, her to forgive and take me back.My supernatural sense of sme
Amante POVIt was decided. I must prove my worthiness as Allyssa’s rightful mate. Somebody else was claiming her! One could never imagine how outraged I was when I discovered about that fish suitor of my mate.I pursued Allyssa that night. She ran away after Amaltheo’s grand comeback inside of me. She was the only unhappy entity about that. She called me names for the first time.Not that I do not deserve it. Traitor. I really was a traitor, before.But I have learned my lessons the hard way, have I not?I was full of remorse, lost everything I could ever wish for, and on the verge of killing myself if my spirit wolf had not come back. I almost ended up murdering the one and only seer of her family, Iris Meritis, as she preferred to be called.I was told that I snapped badly at that time. It was that crazy little thing called seer that provoked me and made me turned vargulf. S
Amante POVIt took two days and a night to reach the island the Lausanne had me banished into. It was a rough sail with a rude Aswang as the captain of a squeaking rust, Dufor 29 sailboat. He made sure my journey was nothing but adventurous.We were met by waves with the size of a mature birch tree. The boat was consecutively being tossed around like a dirt bag in a raging water of a riverbed.He had chuckled maniacally all throughout the menacing waves and blurted it was that fish-of-a-gun rival of mine that was responsible for our tricky trip.This said competition must be anything but a fair game. I was sent by myself, though Amaltheo, as a part of me, draw back inside his sheltered abode inside my mind.That limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water, called Tarif or whatever, has its own way of coming into the island.It was so obvious
Amante POVSomething dreary about the mysterious tree made me pause because of the uncertainty of my condition and fear in my mind. It’s that kind of difficulty or impossibility to understand, explain, or even identify a certain phenomenon or a thing that happens, especially one of great importance.I only took a step inside the trunk of the tree, and I already know I ended somewhere in a different realm. The surroundings were pitch black. There does not seem to have a sky, for I saw nothing but darkness, no moon, or stars, not even clouds. It seemed like an endless vast of blackness. Only the tiny, faint light coming from the little fireflies lends a source of brightness to the place.The smell of tobacco polluted the atmosphere, like it was the very air I breathe. There were extremely large trees that seemed outlined in perfect angles with enormous branches hanging out and formed like big open summer umbrellas
Amante POVThe first mission was a tremendous success. I gained the santelmo, gifted to me by Banyan, a Kapre, my new friend.“You did well in there!”It was Amaltheo, my spirit wolf, applauding our first success. I could imagine him with the grotesque but lively grin on his astral wolf’s face. It has been long since we achieved something immensely satisfying. A good feeling, indeed!“Congratulations to you as well. Where did you learn those jokes, anyway?”“Allyssa. You should have heard her tell a tale. I could vouch for her being the best storyteller there is!”I could feel his enthusiasm, the excitement in his voice was resounding inside my chest. And I felt a bit of jealousy about that. He was able to experience genuine happiness with our mate, Allyss