Away from the castle filled with its wretchedness, a group of people had gathered in a forest covered with fogs. No humans should be able to enter the forest but these beings could.Unlike Dominic's attempt to enter the forest which resulted in no solution, the man leading the group entered the forest at ease, simply stepping his leather shoes inside for the fog to disperse to welcome them alone.The group of men continued until they stopped at a large mansion which seemed to be abandoned. In front of the mansion was a well closed and hidden next to the large tall tree.The man knocked on the door. There was no sound welcoming them, but he had nodded as though he had heard someone talking and agreeing to let them enter.As soon as he entered, the man bowed his body forward, "We didn't find her, milord."The man who was called the Lord was a tall and large man sitting on the exquisite chair. The man's chiseled face was covered with the short beard. He appeared to be pass the age of for
Rose had questioned Ashley's condition not out of worry for the woman but instead Dominic. She could tell it was him who had attacked Ashley and while the duchy could punish the common folks according to their standards, it wasn't the same treatment for their fellow nobles. Unless a given reason was ruled out, it was a criminal act to murder.The high authorities! Rose had never seen the authorities before, but she knew what kind of people they were. They were the type to only follow their rules and punish those they deem as a criminal into an instant death sentence. Their name could even scare the nobles, knowing most of the death sentence that was ruled out by the kingdom came from them instead of the King and Queen."She was attacked by her most trusted maid," explained Josephine as they walked away from the room and directed themselves to where Lady Ashley was located.A few servants were shocked to see Rose and though they were afraid to let her see the lady, they weren't able to
On the way to find Dominic, Rose was met on her way to the Duke. She offered the man a polite bow, seeing his face didn't change as he didn't return nor bat an eyelid on her greeting. He then left from the hallways, making his way outside of the castle."He didn't visit the duchess room," whispered the maids, loud enough for Rose to hear without trying."It is as they said, the duchess is never loved by the Duke. Even though she seems to love him a lot, how pitiful," the second maid clicked her tongue.Rose could tell the same thing as the maid said. The Duchess's keen intent on killing Dominic, was it because she didn't want to be removed from the castle?Regardless, the woman knew what she had done and had it coming for her. Although Rose grew up in a world of kindness, she wasn't naive to feel sympathy nor hope for the lady's survival for the woman's best interest. The woman had threatened her with her family's life, the most important people for her.Rose saw Cain standing in fron
Rose lips were ready to deny his words. It was a decision she had made to stay with Dominic, regardless of anything. After being threatened by Lady Ashely, she knew the risk of staying beside him but despite it all, Rose rather stay beside him than to leave him then regret for her entire life.She didn't want to imagine Dominic wounded in a place far away from her.But Dominic appeared to be adamant on giving her a choice to leave his side. It was as though he was certain that after knowing his secret, she would be scared of him and leave him.She held his hand that was much larger than her. The fingers that always bore a shattering strength was now gentle when it touched her skin. The way his attitude would always saunter mildly on her wrist felt special to Rose.She showed him a smile, "Alright."Dominic had smiled when looking at her but Rose couldn't see anymore what expression settled on his face. Whether it was surprise that had caused his lips to stop raising, she didn't know.
Rose's face were stunned, freezing as though the temperature had fallen bellow zero degree. Meanwhile, Gabby went on to finish the tea inside the cup, looking away as though she hadn't spoken a single word.Lady Veronica was no stranger to haughty behavior presented by Gabriella. Living in the high socialite life, it was easy to notice when one was using their class to set a difference before the others. She had ignored it to respect Rose but Gabby didn't seem like a person to be given kindness for."Are you jesting, Miss Gabriella?" Veronica questioned. "What you are saying is that you decided to take back a position that both Dominic and Rose had agreed to."Josephine who heard what her cousin revealed also turn pallid in shock."Oh, Lady Veronica, I am certain you aren't aware of our circumstances, more specifically my circumstances," Gabriella looked at Rose and smiled. "Rose came here because I wasn't in the condition to accept Dominic's courting. I had an illness and thankfully
Music recommended: Street- Doja Cat.*When Dominic arrived back at the castle it was already nighttime. He rushed into his room, draped in a black cloak which was different to his usual attire. Entering his room, his eyes turned bright golden when the moonlight glared back at him."Tsk," Dominic clicked his tongue, holding his other arm as he saw pitch black fur had appeared before his skin. He rushed toward the window, closing off the casement that allowed the moon to shed its appearance toward him.This was getting dangerous.Dominic pressed his broad back to the wall. He could feel his entire body burning. His blood was boiling and going in rampage. Even though his room was deadly silent, the voices of the people inside the castle felt louder to his ears ever more than usual.His fingers crawled to his ears, trying to close off all unnecessary noises that he heard even though he knew doing it won't be enough to silent off everything he heard.In midst of all the pain he felt he co
Rose's heart jumped all out of beat as she was pulled into Dominic's room. She could smell the strong earthy scent from him. The smooth scent wrapped her but unlike how it usually made her feel calm, it only made her more flustered now.His firm arms around her locked her into his embrace felt stronger than before. As she tried to wrap her mind in the situation, the warmth she felt from Dominic felt even hotter than before.Slowly her fingers touched his back only to wince from the heat, "You're having a fever!"Rose tried to pull away from the embrace, to take a better look of Dominic's face but Dominic was unmovable."Just for a moment," Dominic whispered against her ears, "Let me rest on you just for a few moments."He wasn't sure what he did by pulling Rose into his room. His thoughts begin to haze but he didn't want to do anything he would regret now on her.Even though the full moon was still a week ahead of him, his transformation was quicker than before, as though his curse ha
Dominic continued to hug her for a good long minutes. Rose wasn't used to the gesture but the warmth coaxed her, making the long minutes they spent together felt comforting. She would wish to stay in the hug for a longer time.When Dominic pulled away, Rose felt the fever radiating from him had cooled off. When her eyes saw him again, it had turned into the pitch black color. With her lips pursed she questioned, "Will you answer to all my questions soon?"Dominic understood what she meant. Although they both didn't say a word, Rose knew the curse he was rumored with wasn't a simple rumors anymore.Dominic placed his finger on her cheeks, trailing gently to back of her ears, "Yes," he answered with a lovely smile. "I didn't plan for it to happen early but in this world there are a few that we can truly control with our fingers."Rose smiled in agreement. Although she wanted to speak more about what occurred with her and Gabriella, she decided now wasn't the best time. Dominic seemed as
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