The serpent’s head appeared from the ground, causing for a large storm to appear that immediately caused for the entire Essex to shake. Even the members of the Orders who had came to the castle to kill the King and the Queen, as well as Isaac who had turned out to be the sorcerers who had hypnotized the current figure of the king and queen to manipulate them. Isaac walked down the castle’s gate. Upon seeing the leader of the Orders a smile appeared cruelly on his lips. His purple eyes was brighter on his left as he looked at the true King of Essex who had hid himself away from others so that no sorcerer would kill him. “You are that coward aren’t you?” Isaac pointed toward the older man who stared at him with a look of disgust. “The ancestor of the first Queen of Essex, the only one who bear her blood. If I kill you then, he would be free.” “Be on your guard,” the man said, knowing well that the aura of Isaac was that of a demon rather than a black sorcerer.“Your name, yes I know
Back in the castle, Shawn walked into the room that once belonged to Dominic. He had entered first as he was the only one who had kept the key to Dominic’s room. Upon entering after his younger brother, Dominic found that nothing had been moved from his room. “I thought you would at least looked around to search for my possessions and destroy them,” Dominic said for Shawn to turned his face at him with a raise of his eyebrow.“Why would I have to do that? As you know. I only planned to kill you as you have hurt me, I don’t care much about what you have. I know there are some things that I want to find an answer of from you but I also knew that this room won’t have those answers,” Shawn looked at the empty room that only have things that are needed for one to survive, such as the books and the furnitures. There were no pictures, there was nothing that would remind anyone of a person’s presence inside the room. Shawn also knew of Dominic’s habit of sleeping anywhere beside the castle,
Dominic didn’t manage to look behind quickly as the only thing he could think of was to chase after Rose. He was startled when he saw how Jeremiah managed to bring himself to stand again and tried to attack him by swinging the sword to his body. Dominic frowned and in the last moment he managed to avoid the deadly sword that almost slashed his neck. A small wound opened from his cheek and blood dripped out like a teardrop to his jaw. Shawn then yelled, “I will take care of him. You can go after Rose!” Dominic bite his lips and nod his head firmly. He dashed toward the door but didn’t leave immediately. He made sure to stop at the door and turned his head at Shawn for a while. “Thank you,” Dominic whispered out and pulled a smile even though there was a faint frown of guilt between his strong forehead. Shawn didn’t manage to answer as he left before he could manage to form a word from his shock. The younger brother could feel his heart wavering hearing for the first time how his o
Shattering screams and cries filled the castle. Christopher had to watch his men kill each other while the others tried to kill him. They had tried to stop themselves but they couldn’t and instead when Isaac was bored, he would make the soldier to kill themselves, resulting to pool of blood to river down underneath them. Christopher walked backward in horror, not knowing how Isaac had stood right behind him. Isaac smiled in menace and pushed his head forward as he whispered, “This is the power of those people who you killed. Do you regret it now, Christopher?” Christopher looked at Isaac who had gone mad and shook his head, “You are crazy. You are insane!” “Say that to yourself!” Isaac screamed back to him and for a moment Christopher saw how Isaac’s face had morphed and from his head was a shadow of a devil’s horn. “Do you know what will happen if people like us who are filled with so much anger to kill you right now are let loose?” Christopher shook his head and stepped backward
Dominic rushed to chase after Rose. He didn’t understand why Rose had suddenly appeared after leaving him earlier and now, she walked peacefully across the hallway as if she was taking a stroll back to her home. “Rose! Rose!” Dominic yelled her name with his loving tone which would never fail to bring her attention back to him but this time it didn’t work. Rose didn’t turned her face and instead she had turned a deaf ear to his words pretending as if she hadn’t heard him at all. Dominic run after her only to realize that she had entered the library. Following her, he opened the door before it closed and lifted his face to find her disappearance. “Please don’t do this to me, Rose. Talk to me, I can’t understand anything if you appear and disappear from my eyes. I can’t understand if you don’t communicate with me.”Rose didn’t reply but smelling her lingering scent, Dominic was more than certain that she was somewhere near him inside the library and she still hadn’t left. “Rose,” Do
Dominic pulled away as he traced his finger over his lips after it was pressed to hers. He shook his head and whispered out slowly, “You lied.” It was difficult to know if Dominic had uttered those words from anger or sadness. It was also hard to tell what feeling that had took over him the most. He stared blankly at Rose as she had a firm look on her face even after seeing how easy he was ruined by her words. “Rose. You can leave me but not the others. It’s too cruel for you to let them forget about you,” Dominic whispered out in regret. “And I’m sorry for ruining your life.”“You don’t have to be sorry and you don’t have to repay me in any way by breaking my curse. We should simply part ways here,” Rose walked away from him but stopped when she heard his daring words.“But I cannot part ways with you,” Dominic looked into her eyes firmer than any metal in the world. “You can hate me but don’t leave me. If it is something about me then I can change myself—“ Dominic hadn’t only aske
Starvos frowned at the odd boy. He always felt unsettled with Shawn, finding the young man was not dangerous but rather.. he was unstable. It felt as though he could flip at any second, being the scariest person but then his smile shows that he was the happiest person on earth now. The quick turn of Shawn’s emotion wasn’t much to Starvos’ liking as he felt uncomfortable with the boy who felt as if he could stab and attack everyone around him now even though he hold no grudge. “I won’t believe anything unless Dominic said he could believe you,” Starvos made his point but he didn’t attack Shawn at once as he saw the umbrella held on Shawn’s hands. “Isn’t that the object that Dominic wanted to bring from the castle?” Mona questioned for Starvos to nod slowly. This was why he hesitate. If they had somehow ruined the umbrella, the one to suffer the loss wouldn’t be Shawn but Dominic. As long as Shawn hold the umbrella, neither of them could attack him. “You should be grateful to the u
Starvos and Mona heard as Shawn spilled all his me,pries about Rose. The elders who had always kept Rose on their heart closely and hidden it keep her as their own daughter figure was shocked to find that they had forgotten about her, someone who they had apparently loved and cared so deeply as much as they had cared for Dominic. Starvos was confused. He asked himself why could he forgot about her but then no matter how long Shawn had brought up their deepest memories, they still couldn’t remember much about Rose.They couldn’t even remember how did she looked like and what her voice sounded like. Shawn who saw this was impressed. He didn’t know the magic that Rose had worked on would be so perfect that no one could remember a single thing about her. But he thought to himself that Dominic shouldn’t be too worried. While it’s true that Rose had ran away from him, she didn’t seem to want so that his memories about her to be forgotten, meaning she deep down had always wanted so that sh
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