Appalled by how strong the hands on her shoulders are, she quickly whispered for another magic underneath her breaths, causing for a bright light to appear. The magic wouldn’t hurt anyone but it was enough for her to save her shoulder from the fear of being crushed. She then stepped back to look forward, shocked to find Dominic who was the one to held her shoulders. “Who are you?!” In panic, Mona lied. She was the one who knew about the man but the man doesn’t know about her. She couldn’t let her cover to be blown away by Dominic, not when Rose asked her not to. “I should be the one asking that,” Dominic frowned as his eyes felt burred with the sudden bright light that had attacked him. It was clear that no human would be able to use such a magic. His eyes looked back at Mona who had appeared to be a woman in her late thirties, with brown hair and similar features as his mother, except for the fact that the woman’s vibe was world apart compared to his mother’s gentle nature. “Sorce
There were many effects a Fallen could give to the person it haunts. The last time Mona had read about it made the person became overly crazed to the point they had devoured their own family flesh by flesh. The true reason wasn’t told and it was hard to compare the case with Dominic considering the person was a human and he is a werewolf. Also it was written that the human in the case died only after four months he was cursed. Which also mean the werewolf blood in Dominic had done all its best to stop the fallen from corrupting him but their time was running out and it became even more difficult for them to stop the fallen’s curse. “Anyway, I am not related to this problem. I am here simply to make sure that you all are alright and in a safe condition because Lady Elizabeth had once helped me before.” Mona answered at once, making him to raise his brows even higher as he couldn’t tell if she was lying or if she was saying the truth. “Fine,” Dominic said, pulling his sword away tha
Mona looked back at Rose in a long silence until she finally sigh and relented. Her eyes first looked back and forward from Starvos to Dominic before using a magic spell that caused for an object to fall in front of them. Starvos took a step back as he didn’t expect the object to fall right beside him. Dominic then went to take the flask, bending down to take the flask. “Poison?” Dominic questioned for Mona to shook her head at once. “No NO! How could that be a poison?! I don’t make poison,” she reasoned. “I have to be honest to you so this is what I am giving you.” “And what is this?” Starvos inquired for her to sigh. “A truth serum.” Mona stared at the purple liquid inside the flask. “You can use this truth serum on me and I will answer all your questions at once without a hesitation. Seeing that none of you seem to trust me then might as well give you my trump card and prove my innocent.” “Why go this far?” Lord Salemn questioned for her to look at him with a smile. “I think
But the men who looked at her was the least trusting. They continue to stare at her with their eyes studying every corner of her expression which made Elizabeth to feel extremely uncomfortable. “Then show us who is inside the carriage,” demanded the man again who wasn’t satisfied with the result. Their guts were telling them that someone is inside the carriage. Elizabeth turned her head to the carriage curtain and sighed, “Can’t you see it from here? There is no one inside the carriage and if there was actually anyone, you would have seen a shadow of that person’s silhouette.” “She could bend down. We are not dumb,” said the other man who then rushed forward, shoving her away. Elizabeth frowned as the men had rudely pushed her. The old coachman who saw this immediately jumped down to stop them but Elizabeth didn’t want the old coachman to enter the fight and instead wounding himself when he was only a human. As she was about to stop them again, a stronger hand had caught one of t
Starvos who heard the detailed informations of how she was saved by Mona himself frowned. He felt as though it had happened before but couldn’t remember it well. With how long he was in the war, he could barely remember about the actions he did, only taking treasure of the memories he shared with the people he loved together instead. “Did you remember this ever happening before?” Dominic questioned him for Starvos to shake his head. “Not that I ever remember it happening before,” reasoned Starvos which made Mona to turn panic as the wolf had forgotten about her. “But it is possible that it happened. Elizabeth had helped a lot of people, a lot. I can’t count all of them but I’m sure with such detailed information and our conversation, I feel that indeed it had happened before,” Starvos vouched as he knew the actions told in Mona’s story was correct. “Why were you chased though?” Dominic looked at her with his eyebrows raised. “I do think it wasn’t humans who came after you. If it
Dominic shook his head and held her hands that settled on his cheeks. He whispered, “Don’t worry I just recalled something in the past when I was younger. A memory with my mother and that goddamn Duke.”“What was it about?” She whispered, wondering if it could do be a clue for them to use later on.“He threatened my mother that if she leave I would be in danger. I realize only now that the shackle that tied my mother in that castle wasn’t her feeling for the Duke but for my sake.” Dominic smiled again seeing her face filled with worries and concerns as well as sympathy. “I know darling, I am not to blame for what happened and I won’t blame myself anymore.”He then returned his gaze to Starvos and said, “I think that’s enough for the interrogation. I don’t see anything else I need to tell ask from her. The fact that she left without doing anything must mean she had said the truth.”Starvos nodded, “Although I can’t remember you well enough I don’t see you will do harm to us anymore.”
Mona who saw Dominic’s odd facial features could tell something was hidden. She knew the man had found out of something that Rose herself didn’t know. Thus she crossed her hands and asked, “What do you know?” Dominic hummed, “Someone, a bastard who liked Rose told to me that he had seen her before in the past but she didn’t live in her village rather a place that’s the very furthest of her village.” Rose looked at him as it was her first time hearing this, “Who said that?” She paused at the description of the person he mentioned as ‘bastard’ and wondered aloud, “Jayden Harding?”Dominic nodded in her question, “I went to him to interrogate the reason why he had been such a jealous bastard when he told me that. I thought he had gone mad as his words never add up to each other and seeing how he didn’t mind putting you in danger, I marked his words as ludicrous statements of a crazy man.” “But now you rethink about it and think it’s a possibility?” Mona questioned. “I have never dire
Mona stopped her heels as well. She frowned and sighed, “Nothing.”“Then why are you following me?” Starvos questioned lightly but his eyes were threatening that had her to gulp. “I just want to ask you one thing,” Mona then said which had Starvos to raise his eyebrows. “So you are telling me nothing but then ask me a question?” Starvos rolled his eyes and scoffed, “Then tell me what you have to ask me for.” Mona hesitated she then suddenly snapped her eyes to the left that alerted Starvos who also darted his eyes to the left only to find someone running away. From the clothing, he could tell the person wasn’t a servant but rather a trespasser.“You can ask me later,” Starvos then hopped toward the window frame. “Wait!” Mona was alarmed seeing him jump to the window frame as though it was nothing. She held her hands to his arm from the back only able to touch him a little as Starvos had jumped down from the third floor to the ground, arriving in both feet. His eyes looked only to
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