Dominic and Shawn continued to speak to each other. It wasn’t certainly their first time to convey words to their siblings but both of them felt a certain awkwardness in the air that made it even more lovable and fragile to them.Shawn who had held the coffee cup then questioned Dominic. “Do you plan to search for Rose now?”Dominic nodded his head firmly. He didn’t know what Rose had in mind but he could tell she was sincere with her words and as painful as her words was to his heart, he accepted the fact that he was the one who had ruined her life. Even though she would hate to know he tried to repay her for erasing his curse, Dominic who still feel his burning love for Rose would never want to see her suffer alone.“I will find a way so that everyone remember her again and so the demon’s curse would disappear from her life.”Shawn silently listened to his wish and smiled, “Do you still love her? I mean from your words I can hear that she hates you.”“It’s not her choice to hate me.
The evening before, Isaac watched as the final blood of the royal heir have finally breathed his last and pulled his widest smile. He pushed himself from the stairs, looking at the sun that had appeared to greet the new morning and spread his arms wide as though he was waiting for someone to appear. But as he does, he noticed no one appeared that caused his wide smile to slowly fade.Isaac put his thumb between his teeth, biting his flesh in annoyance, “Still he doesn’t want to come out?” His feet that was glued on the floor began to step hurriedly. His master! The man, he had always admired, his god! The day where he could finally escape the cave that always bound him, finally appear! This should end his curse and allow him to show his mightiness to the world, but where is he? Isaac waited until the sun was high up, still hoping to the silver hope that his master will come after him. He had on purpose waited in front of the castle so his Master could come for him but the man remain
The Master chuckled hearing his words and shook his head slowly. The man bear an enormous power but he didn’t once appeared to be daunting. Instead he was a person with a lot of smile, “I know everything from Josephine.” Shawn’s eyes widened like saucer, “Josie?” Dominic raised his eyebrows hearing how Shawn had called Rose’s sister by her nickname. All this time, he thought that Shawn was only trying to influence Josie and to make her sway.. but maybe he’s wrong? “She ran away after you chased her from the castle and by chance, I saw her there. She seemed to be scared so she fell into a deep sleep for quite a long time. I took care of her during that time.” “Wait,” Dominic immediately stopped the Master’s words. “You know Josie so you should know Rose too, right?” “Rose?” The master looked back at his black eyes with his purple orbs. He tilted his head as if he was trying to think, “Can you remind me again of who she is?” Dominic immediately pursed his lips. If the Master don’
The Master who heard her words laugh. It didn’t seem to be his first time that someone had asked him such a question. He quickly reply with a wistful tone, “Well I love my people but I can’t see myself loving humans normally or other creatures as much as I love my people.” “How is that related?” Shawn inquired in confusion. “As an example, Mona could kill a human in front of me now,” The master pointed out. “I would never come to protect that human. I will protect Mona and perhaps talked to her so she would stop it but I won’t try to save them if she has a reason in holding a grudge against them and wanting to take their life.” Shawn tilted his head, “So why wouldn’t you help Isaac instead? Judging by how you love sorcerers more, wouldn’t you love him more too?”“Isaac is different,” the Master then said, “Isaac is a good sorcerer and a good person in heart but he wouldn’t mind killing his own kins now. In the past he wasn’t like this and I tried to help him and reasoned with him.
The Master chuckled hearing his offer but shook his head at one, “As I told to you before, I don’t need anything as a repayment.”Dominic nodded his head, although he understood that the Master was behaving kindly to him by asking no repayment, he still find it suspicious that a man of his power would bother helping him, especially when he wasn’t one of his people who he love dearly. But then again, he had found the Master to be a man filled with contradiction. He said to them of how he love his people and would close his eyes on whatever deeds they had done and would never hesitate to protect them with his life. If that was so, why didn’t he side with Isaac?While the man had earlier gave his reason, Dominic could notice he wasn’t saying the truth. Mona tapped his shoulder noticing how he had gone in a deep ponder. Turning his face, Dominic tilted his head for the woman to whisper, “As long as he is in our side, we don’t have to question his reasonings.” Dominic was half surpris
Rose didn’t respond. She didn’t deny either to hear his conversation that made it as a green light to Isaac’s eyes. As he was alone and bored, he decided to speak up, “You see, I’ve been in a situation where sorcerers are a mere pawn to humans. No one knew this but whenever there is a war, the king of Essex will send out not his people or soldiers but sorcerers who they could find. Our master did his best by hiding every one of us in the cave but that doesn’t always work when a sorcerer fell in love with a human.”Rose raised her eyebrows at the stories. She wasn’t interested but she was curious gradually from the informations that Isaac began to give her. “I thought most of them are killed.”“Some are killed some aren’t. Some who seemed to be easy to take control of and of course female is out of the question. My mother lost her first husband, my father due to it and since then she hold a big grudge against humans. She wanted to kill every one of them and due to that I was also subj
Rose who slowly narrowed her eyes tilted her face. She tapped her finger to the table and looked down on the ghouls, “So you will go to see him now?” “How do you know?” Isaac crinkled his lips. “You know, I always think that you are smart but I’m really surprised every time you guessed what I was thinking that I could almost believe you could see the future.” “You are much more of an open book than you think,” Rose looked back at Isaac and smiled wider. “I would like to see him too with you. He helped me a lot before.” “Sure but on one condition,” Isaac pulled out his index finger and showed them toward her. “I want you to not touch a single hair on Master. He’s precious and he should always be protected.” “I owe him a lot thus I won’t ever hurt him,” Rose gave her words, “You can rest assured with it.” “Alright then,” Isaac smiled wider, “Let’s go visit him when the sun has taken its rest.” Meanwhile, Dominic who had requested for the Master to find Rose’s location found how th
Dominic frowned, feeling an indescribable bad premonition. Was there more reason that simply her curse that had caused her to leave his side and for her to push him so harshly. He knew her well, and he also knew she wouldn’t have hurt his heart simply because she’s in pain That’s not the Rose he knew and although Mona said how someone could change after they had their contract with the demon, Dominic believe this wasn’t how Rose was. “You,” said Dominic as he stared at the Master and his purple eyes, “You will stay here?” “Of course,” responded the Master without a hesitation, appearing to have been waiting for this time. “I have told everyone to leave and I suggest for you all to leave as soon as possible as this fight between him and me wouldn’t be safe for other creatures in the surroundings.” Mona nodded her head as she also agree how this fight between the two strongest sorcerer will only cause for chaos that could destroy and ruin the entire land. It was better for them to e
The guests had filled the entrance of the castle faster than how a fire would spread. Colors filled the white walls as not a single place inside was missed from being decorated. Some of the guests gladly greeted Dominic and his wife, Rose. They had acknowledge her soon and even called Dominic “duke”. As soon after the incident, Dominic ruled out is father’s death and take over the duchy, being the new ruler of his fief. “Congratulation on your marriage, I apologize for being late with my words of happiness, Duke Dominic,” said one of the guest, Mr. Hanggs. “It’s nice to see you too, madam Rose.”“Pleasure to meet you,” Rose greeted the man’s words back. “How is the land now to you, Mr. Hanggs?” Dominic asked the wise man who seemed to be quiet. “It does feel different now. I gradually found people who could suddenly fill empty barrel with water as miracle instead of fearing them. I’m also glad to see how wise our King is as he had rooted off all the corrupted royals. Now Essex fee
The ground shook and the impact of the explosion launched both Dominic and Rose backward. When Rose couldn’t hold him tighter anymore, she almost slipped from his back and fell. Seeing that, Dominic changed to his human form, capturing her body even though he was on air and shielded her in a tight hug as they roll down across the cold floor with a harsh thud. Both Shawn and Gallahan was thrown backward. They tried to nail their feet on the floor to no avail as the extreme explosion would had destroyed the entire land if not because of the shield that Gallahan had perfected for years from his life. The entire world turn black for a moment and by the time it turn brighter again, Shawn saw Gallahan who had sprawled across the floor and Balbazor who had been reduced into a scorched human corpse. Even after that however, Balbazor didn’t stop moving. He crawled with his body like a snake, disregarding how his fingers had been turned into ash. No one could ever see his features anymore, o
Gallahan faced off Balbazor alone. It was a crazy feat to not even die after receiving the harmful attack that was made to eradicate humans and Gallahan’s performance so far have shocked everyone including Balbazor himself. “You are agile,” commented Balbazor. “But if this tentacles weren’t around me, I would have destroyed you in seconds by now.” “Making excuses now? When you killed my family with your curse, you were extremely silent. I’ll put that mouth of yours to rest too,” Gallahan quirked a smirked, urging anger and fuming Balbazor. The ancient demon opened his mouth again but this time, Gallahan had a smarter option. Rather than shielding himself, he rushed forward. Balbazor smiled, thinking how foolish this human is for coming on to him face to face but he was startled as he saw Gallahan had dodged his previous explosion attack. This time, Gallahan murmured a spell and a sharp blue light appeared from his hand which went straight directly to Balbazor’s thick neck. The an
“Brother, are we not related?” Young Shawn’s voice echoed against his ears. Dominic looked down at the child that had overheard the conversation of the adult. Gently he wrapped his fingers around his brother’s little ones and gave him a gentle smile, “Does it matter? Nothing will change even if we aren’t related, you will always be my brother.”Back to the present, Dominic found himself yelling at Shawn’s name as Balbazor had thrown a powerful magic at them. Rose’s eyes snapped open, showing the glistening green eyes of her had changed into purple. At the same time she uttered her spell, the wall broke. Dominic took no chance. He jumped from the staircase, landing down his two feet as a wolf and ran after Shawn. Surprisingly, Gallahan had stood in front of Shawn, shielding them both from the explosion. “I told you to stay away child!” Gallahan yelled to Rose who had rebuilt the wall.“I can help you ease the miasma,” she said, convincing the man only to see him frowning in disagre
When Dominic and Rose arrived at the foot of the door, they found that the glow of purple light had stopped and was quickly greeted by the roar of a monster. “It’s Balbazor, the ancient demon,” Rose explained, jumping down from his body. Dominic shook off his fur and turned into his human form, standing right beside her fully clothed. Although there are other pressing matter she couldn’t help and pointed out, “You can be clothed now?” “Hm?” Dominic looked down on himself, “Right I got taught by the other werewolves how to do that the last time we met.” Rose smiled, thinking how surely the relationship between him and his father had evolved into something closer where they could teach and talk to each other eye to eye. Seeing the progress, she felt moved. “Well what is with this Balbazor?” Dominic pushed the door open for her, they both entering the mansion only to feel the ground beneath them shaking. “He is the ancient demon who had formed contract with the first sorceress. She
Gallahan wasn’t daunted by the fact that Balbazor was more than fifth fold of him, looking even bigger and monstrous. Shawn could feel that demon had no pity or hesitation on him, willingly killing anyone who stood on his way. For a moment Shawn questioned how he could ever kill this monstrous being in front of him, finding it abhorrent that his entire instinct yelled that killing it would be close to impossible. Even coming near the monster he could feel the brimming heat that would burn his skin. “Shawn,” Gallahan called his attention to make sure the younger man wouldn’t feel daunted and eaten alive by his own fear. Shawn then watched Gallahan who in comparison seemed to be eagerly waiting for this chance to come his hand. It was something he had been waiting for a long time… finally he could avenge the death of his family who all ended due this demon’s twisted curse! “I want to kill you, you won’t even believe how much I have been looking forward to this day. My heart is beati
Dominic’s silver eyes also noticed the swirl of purple glow from the black mansion and turned his head again to the view before him. “What did you and the Master talked about?” Inquired Dominic while they run through the forest. “I told him that I will do something about the demon inside Isaac if he could help me end my curse but then he surprised me by saying that he doesn’t need help.” Rose responded. “I trust him.” “I do think he is someone who wouldn’t hurt his fellow sorcerer, you weren’t wrong in trusting him,” Dominic encouraged her. “But that sound too good to be true. He always ask people for payment if he help them.” “He did ask for something, he said to continue fooling my demon, Babylion,” uttered Rose. “I asked him why and he told me so he could use Babylion to kill that ancient demon in response.”“So this entire charade is because of him.” Dominic narrowed his eyes. They can’t seem to trust the Master completely, that man would do anything if it means to fulfil his
Shawn’s eyebrows furrowed as he saw a bright purple glow appearing from the room where the master and Isaac had fought in. As the master’s hand had been touched, Isaac had fulfilled his promise to erase the curse that plagued the Master. This should have call for a celebration regardless of the Master’s wish of never leaving the cave. But by fulfilling Isaac’s promise, the demon in him finally demanded for his reward and that reward was… for him to manifest into the world inside his body!When something suddenly clicked in his mind, Shawn bubbled out of anger.“Damn it! Damn it!” Shawn yelled, finally realizing the big mistake that he made by trusting that damn sorcerer king! He rushed out of the room, questioning everything that the sorcerer had done. He first of told him to imbue his magic on the crystal ball as if doing that would help. He said that by calming Isaac, he could convince him to drive out the demon inside. He also claimed that he wouldn’t kill Isaac thus why he had
Rose could feel the dark magic that entered her skin, crawling in such a disgusting way that she wanted to hurl but she couldn’t. There was something that was stopping her from moving and she couldn’t understand it as it felt slightly different when compared to the demonic magic that he uses on her. “Rose, make my life more colorful, won’t you?” Whispered Babylion. “Now go and betray your beloved. I want to see his face twisting in pain. From your memories, he seemed to the most fun to mess with.” Rose wanted to say no, she wanted to yell and disagree with Babylion’s words but she couldn’t move. She then had the sudden idea to play by what Babylion wanted and nodded her head slowly, agreeing that she would betray Dominic while her eyes turning unfocused, looking exactly similar as to someone who had just been bewitched.“Good, now play with me.” Back to the present, Rose run through her thins hands between her hair and pushed the golden locks to the back of her head, she sighed hea