Dominic knew he was sane. He had spent all his time thinking of this choice and perhaps even more than Shawn had imagined. He recalled Rose’s words as she forgave her sister. Even though there was a time where his sister had prioritized someone else more than Rose, she wasn’t angry. She believed that her sister was only lost and one day she would come back to her. Dominic wondered why he had never given the same chance to Shawn. Since the past when he saw Shawn, he immediately brushed him aside, knowing that one day Shawn will hurt him as Ashley had hated him too. But perhaps this thoughts of him was too childish. Shawn is not Ashley. He is his own person. If he had been closer, if he had been a good older brother who lead his own younger brother to a better path, would Shawn still be the angry person as he is now?“I know who you are well, Shawn,” Dominic said calmly, he knows that Shawn didn’t want to listen to him but he still want to let his words to be heard, “I have hope for
The leather glove covering Starvos’s finger turned wet as blood continue to drip from the ends. He wiped his cheekbones where the blood had splattered to his face but Starvos still feel thirsty for revenge. When he imagined in this house how Elizabeth had suffered, he could only feel more rage fueling to his blood. It got worse when he imagined the idea of a child like Dominic who have to think this man as his father who couldn’t protect him. Starvos threw the gloves to the side, letting his dry hands to settle the fresh teeths he had plucked out directly from Jeremiah’s jaw. “This doesn’t feel enough, don’t you think?” Starvos questioned, staring down at Jeremiah who couldn’t speak any longer which was good as he didn’t want to hear any word from this bastard even if it was his dying plea.“I took your feet that had brought you into making decision to come to Agios. I have taken your fingers that have hurt my son and touched my wife. I have taken your teeth that you use to show yo
Shawn recalled well the moment when he was still attached and close to Dominic. All he wished was for his mother to one day understood how Dominic was a good brother who care for him as much as his mother cares for him! One day he believe his mother will understand him too but that thought was quickly rejected the moment Shawn saw Dominic’s nanny.The woman as she had served Lady Elizabeth wasn’t the happiest upon seeing Shawn, always frowning and always appearing as if she was displeased. It was difficult to say what the woman was thinking whenever she glared down at him but Shawn was sensitive enough to understand how he wasn’t liked.Shawn stepped aside when the nanny came only to crash and fall to the ground as the nanny had bumped into him.Falling to his knees, Shawn was confused and groan in pain. “Martha,” whispered the maid beside her. “Let it be. How dare a kid like him cry when our young master had never cried for himself!” Martha huffed, angered as she had been close to
Dominic felt as if it had been years since he heard anyone mentioning Rose’s name and was never expecting for Shawn out of everyone else to remember her. Dominic grabbed Shawn by his arms and his face filled with a deep frown, “You said Rose.” “Yeah, that blonde girl, your fiancee,” Shawn responded, looking at him in confusion as his brother suddenly appeared shocked as if he had grown new heads on his neck. “You remember her?” Dominic asked again, feeling dubious.Shawn wondered what he meant and nodded his head, “It’s hard to forget her when she was the one who had changed you this much and she stabbed me, remember?”“No, you don’t know?” Dominic became confused, “Rose used a forbidden magic. She seemed to have made a contract with a demon and for the curse, everyone has to forget her.” “But I remember her,” Shawn tilted his head, understanding that he couldn’t see the curse around Dominic which also mean that Rose had contracted with a demon so she could get rid of his curse. “B
Starvos frowned hearing Isaac’s name, also knowing how Isaac was a dangerous bastard who was always thirsty for blood and was out there to kill. It wasn’t strange for him to this time planning on killing them using creatures from Hell. Starvos turned to Eston who was still whispering a spell and asked Mona, “What kind of serpent is it?”Eston who could hear his question replied instead, “It is one of the biggest one in Hell. Its body is covered by poisonous scales that could melt a human’s flesh just by a single drop. Its also a vicious eating and always hungry, meaning it would go for any beings around it to fill its stomach.” “It’s a creature that everyone wants to avoid the most, usually it would be difficult to summon them but knowing Isaac and his magic, this would be easy,” Eston continued again, clicking his tongue as the neutralization magic he used didn’t work, “This is terrible, I don’t know how long he had imbued his magic into the circle for but it’s certainly not going
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
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