Josie walked down from her room late at night. She could not sleep as she kept thinking of how it had been a week and no letter had been sent from Rose. She wondered if something had happened and the thought get deeper, causing her to wallow in the depressing thought.As she was walking down the staircase, Josie had heard a sound of footsteps from above her, making her feet to stop suddenly.She recalled how she was at the second floor of the castle where the third floor above belonged to the duke and the duchess. The duke had left the place while the duchess was terribly ill from the attack that happened last time.Then whose steps were those?The servants knew not to touch the third floor, unless they would like to be punished. Josie only moved her steps once she had convinced those sounds were a part of her imaginary.She must have imagined the sound. She must have! It wasn’t possible for her to hear such footsteps when there was no one behind her. There was no ghost in the castl
“I might be wrong however!” Josie quickly said, “I did wake up suddenly so I might have misheard it.”“I will have al the servants asked,” Shawn said at once.“No! I don’t think it’s necessary,” responded Josie only to see Shawn whispering to the butler and the latter disappearing, as though ready to scold the servants. “Sometimes there are servants who do not follow the orders that are given, it’s a must to scold and punish them,” said Shawn firmly. “As you say, I don’t believe in ghost but to see you panic that you’d fall from the staircase, I believe it’s more than a simple hallucination.”Josie didn’t know how the castle work but Shawn’s words made sense to her. She nodded her head, agreeing to his words.“I’m sorry again,” Josie whispered when she looked at his ankle that had been bandaged.Shawn smiled, “As long as you are safe that’s all that matters to me. You can’t sleep?”“A little,” she answered, taking a seat in front of him. “What are you working on?”“Complaints,” answe
Shawn could tell the maids planned on waking Josie late at night before frightening her to death. Their plan did work with the only different that Josie hadn’t been able to sleep and instead frightened herself.Josie had been clear open about herself to the maids, not knowing how some of them have slept with him and was jealous to see how close they have became. Shawn could tell most women who spend their night with him once dreamt of becoming the next duchess, an idea that was both stupid and foolish. Yet Shawn didn’t care. He knew their foolish plan and went along with it, raising the hope of some maids and laughing when seeing their hope being broken. He didn’t know how angry he would be to find out his action had led to Josephine to almost die.The anger that surged through his veins burned as he imagined what would happen if he was a minute late to save her.When he left the servant hall and had his time alone, the magician followed him two steps behind. Shawn ordered without
“There are many people who would like to meet you, Sir Dominic,” Remenia spoke, smiling as he wanted to form a good relationship with Dominic. Although he might have started at a wrong step, he hoped it wouldn’t offend Dominic as much.“Your grandparents, Lady Elizabeth’s parents, the current King,” Remenia pursed his lips, “Also…”“What about Lord Stervos?” Andrius inquired. “Who is lord Stervos?” Rose questioned curiously as it was her first time hearing the name mentioned. After her words she found both Andrius and Remenia looking at each other awkwardly. “Our captain,” said Andrius. The captain? Wondered Rose. That would mean the man was Lady Elizabeth’s mate…?“Why he doesn’t want to meet me?” Dominic boldly inquired, looking extremely chill. “But I thought you had sent him a letter. Lord Starvos is a reasonable man,” Andrius reasoned. “What did you wrote in the letter?” Rose didn’t knew how Dominic had written the letter and looked at him in unison with Andrius, curious and
Lord Salem couldn’t stop looking at Dominic. In all his eyes were the face of the young man who was extremely similar to him. He couldn’t believe he would have a grandson. When his daughter had left, he had expected the possibility of not seeing her again and although that did happen, he was glad to find his grandson, the child who came from his beloved daughter.Dominic could feel the sincerity coming from the elder couple which he couldn’t express on how it made him feel. It was his first time to feel such kindness and sorrowful from the people who was his family. “We shouldn’t keep them waiting here!” Lady Christine said quickly, wiping her tears away. “It is too cold here, are you feeling cold too Dominic.”Dominic shook his head as he was about to take off his coat and replaced it to Rose, lady Christine made her way next to her. The older woman settled a smile on her lips as she looked at Rose.Seeing the warm greeting, Rose quickly offered a gentle smile in response, “Greeti
Rose looked over the window of the carriage, finding the citizen of Agios enjoying what seemed like a festival. Vendors covered the side of the street with people and their family enjoying their time.Although Agios was a kingdom of werewolves, Rose noticed no different from the street at the town back in Essex. If she had to mention one thing was the lack of violence in Agios. The people seemed to be close, everyone knowing each other as it proven with how a child had waved their hand toward the window, greeting Lady Catherine.When Rose shifted her eyes to the older woman, she showed her a smile in response, “Usually I would take my time to stroll around the street. Agios might have a large territory to govern but everyone here knows each other, just like a small tight knit village.”Lord Salemn nodded, “In the past, Agios was quite terrible. It wasn’t until twenty five years ago when the new king was crowned and the people’s life quality improved.”“A new king,” Dominic noted.“He
Iris could feel the grim gaze from Dominic as he kissed Rose’s forehead. Her lips settled a smile while her hands balled into a fist. Seeing Dominic to his grandfather, Rose then shifted her eyes to Iris. “Where should we go, Lady Iris?” Iris could only stare at her, wondering if Rose was naive to happily accept her offer. “What do you like to see, Lady Rose?” Iris offered in a gentle tone.“Flowers,” Rose responded at once. “Is there a garden here? Other than the one in front?”“There is, follow me,” Iris stepped forward before her. She looked at her older brother before coming closer to whisper, “Go follow Dominic. You’re my older brother but do I have to tell you every single thing you should do?”Nico seemed to be used with his younger sister’s sharp words, only nodding his head in response and following after Dominic. Rose watched the frown on Iris’s forehead, making her curious, “Is everything alright?”“Yes, even if it is not, I don’t think there’s anything you could do to
Dominic watched as his grandparents hesitantly held their words. There were something that they didn’t want to talk about. Although he had seen from earlier how his grandparents would be apprehensive upon coming to some topic about his mother, now he could see their expression that were truly tightened in silence.Lord Salem sighed. He also knew how Dominic deserve to know about what happened, “We are not too proud of what had happened. It started with our family and Lord Starvos’s family. We both knew each other for quite a long time. His father was my closet friend back when I was still working as a knight.”“While his mother was my friend,” added Lady Catherine. “Seeing how we were both pregnant at the same time, we decided to have a little engagement between us. That if our children are the opposite sex, we would have them engaged to unite the two family.”Dominic didn’t felt odd with the arrangement as it happen in many family back in Essex. “Of course, we never planned to ignor
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