Dominic would have never believed finding Rose had disappeared from the castle. When he returned with his men, his heart was instantly filled with a dark dread with the sudden loss of Rose's sweet fragrance around the manor.At once, he jumped down from his stallion, pulling aside his coat to move faster into the castle. He first searched for his Rose inside her room, finding it empty. There was no sign of scatter that could imply anyone coming inside, but the fact her scent had gone meant she was no where near the castle.Veronica, Josephine, and Gabby appeared to the room after seeing him running toward Rose's room. Seeing rose no where to be found, they were also confused."What's wrong, Dominic?" Veronica hurriedly question, finding the situation that doesn't add up."Where's Rose?" Dominic quickly questioned her as reply. His hand held Veronica's shoulder. "Have you seen her?""I-I saw her earlier," Josephine raised her voice hastily, still scared of Dominic. "Around the time of
The taste of iron on his lips remain the same to the first day he had killed those who wanted him dead. Dominic never fears death, but he couldn't describe the maddening anxiety he had felt when his Rose had disappeared.He was far from relieved of her safety until he had made sure to kill every last of the insolent bastard who had attempted to kill Rose.But those were just the tip of the iceberg. Now that the humans were killed, he should made sure his Rose was alright. In Dominic's minds were thousands of questions.'Are you alright? Are you hurt anywhere? What did those people do to you? For every last fear they caused you to feel, I would make certain to chase and haunt them to Hell. I will rip them apart from their flesh to their souls.'— those are the words he wanted to tell her. But he couldn't voice those words in his current form.Even if he let a single tone from his long mouth, what would come out are the frightening howl and he didn't want that. He didn't want to scare Ro
Dominic made sure to note on the wounds that covered the victims' bodies. They were far from any normal injuries. The injuries were deep but had marks that appeared as though a beast had stormed to the place.Rose had seen enough blood for the day but still felt her stomach churn at the sight of headless bodies on the ground. The night and the forest all seemed as though it had been splashed over by bucket of red paint.After walking around, Dominic returned to his human form. He took a coat from one of the dead man to cover himself as to not turn into a caveman. Seeing Rose's pale face, he wanted to get her out of the place as soon as possible when Rose recalled of the missing piece."Mr. Jayden… he is here. He was with them," Rose spoke out, receiving the raise of the eyebrow from Dominic.The name of a man made him narrow his eyes and the context made him even more suspicious. "Amongst these men, you didn't see that… Jayden thing?"Rose shook her head, "I think he was kept back at
Rose woke up not long after. She felt dizzy and her head ache as though someone had puncture her head with a nail. She tried to look at her surrounding, but her fever made that opening her eyes was painful for her.Turning around, she had notified the man who had stayed with her like a watchdog, protecting her and caring to all her needs. Dominic didn't miss how she struggle, her small moans didn't slip from his notice as he had always kept a close eye on her.Cold hands that settle on her forehead lessen the heat filling her head, making her more comfortable."Sleep more," Dominic whispered. He caught sight of Rose was shivering and pulled the duvet to cover her carefully."I… it hurts," whispered Rose. She felt she had spoke some words but couldn't process what she said. "Dominic," she called."I'm here," Dominic whispered. He couldn't reply to her first words as he couldn't do anything to lessen her pain. "It would be alright. Sleep more and I promise you the pain will disappear wi
Josephine walked around the garden with deep frown knitting on her forehead. There was only worry that filled her heart also self hatred and guilt.After Rose's disappearance, Dominic had came back alone with Rose on his arm. The man hurried to bring her to his room and tend to her wound, this was everything Josie heard from the servants.They mentioned there was a lot of blood covering Rose. Since her little sister was younger, Josie recalled how Rose could easily caught illness. She was born with a weak constitution and she couldn't imagine how much pain Rose was going through now.It made her to reflect on all her doings. Even though she was fueled with jealousy that her sight was clouded, Josie was taught with kindness by her parents. To protect her younger sister was the responsibility of the elder child. But Josie still couldn't contain her jealousy when she thought how Jayden loved Rose more than her.But reflecting on her past action, made her painful aware of her egoistic nat
If there was anyone who knows the most of the dark histories that the castle posses and its ugly truths, it would be Veronica. More than anyone in the castle, she could perceive people's truest desire by her eyes.Her aunt, Lady Ashley only wanted wealth. But Veronica also noticed how her aunt wanted a position for herself, a position where she would be on the top of the throne, where everything was hers.Like her, Shawn had followed his mother's unending greed. Veronica disliked how Shawn would always pretend to be the kind man he wasn't while painting Dominic in the bad light, despite the truth where the beast was him.It appears that with his wicked ways, Shawn had managed to convinced Josephine that he was a good person. In truth, he wasn't."Good afternoon, I'm sorry, I didn't quite caught your thin presence in the room," Veronica openly showed her dislike through her words but Josephine was oblivious as the lady had kept a very tender smile on her lips.Shawn chuckled that only
Rose nodded her head gently. She was met with Dominic's eyes. His burning gaze could kill her and bring her back to breathe on his air. Her hands held each other as she looked at him, "How many people know of this?""Not a lot," he started, "My late mother, my father, Cain, and you."Rose tilted her neck, "I thought Lady Ashley knew," she whispered, receiving a shake of his head."She witness a simple silhouette from me on my werewolf form to scare her enough to death. The rest are unspoken theory which they put two together to create a bigger picture," Dominic responded to her words tenderly. If one had ever seen him spoken, they would be surprised to the first ever gentleness he uttered from his lips. "Veronica, Shawn, and some others only guessed.""I see," whispered Rose to herself. It was why people had rumored him as a walking curse. She looked at him who was sitting on the side of her bed, pity spreading in her heart. Knowing how he had been avoided and feared for being cursed,
As Rose took in the information about Dominic's curse, she couldn't find a way to break his curse, not when she knows nothing about curses. Dominic spoke, "There were rumors that people bearing the same curse as me was spotted a few time across Essex.""That would mean they would also know about your curse," Rose concluded. "We have to find them." As she paused, she recalled, "The accident which occurred in my village, they also spoke about witnessing a werewolf."In the past, she had brushed the thought aside, thinking it was only a hoax. But now that she knew Dominic was able to change his form, she kept in the possibility that there might be more creatures than humans living amongst them. But then again it wouldn't be easy knowing how they would be orcastrized if they are known to be a werewolf."I had my men searching for the evidence, but we found nothing," Dominic responded. He noticed how Rose's head sunk in disappointment and rested his head on the crown of her head, "Don't wo
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