Rose tightly held back to his big fingers. Somewhere she felt scared to let him sleep. For she feared when his eyes were closed that would be the last time he would ever open his eyes.. But noticing how tired he was, she did not have the heart to deny him from rest. With a smile she forced to leave her lips, she said, “Yes. I will be here until you wake up.” Dominic gently closed his eyes with a smile on his lips. He was in so much pain but he know he wasn’t as miserable as he was in the past. In the past when he was alone and wounded where no one would search for him or tend to his wounds. Even though he was in a better shape in the past, he still felt his current situation was much better well off than the past…Rose’s sweet scent filled the room. Although he couldn’t smelled her earlier, his heart felt in haven upon her fragrance. Rose watched as Dominic slowly fell asleep, his consciousness drifting away. Her eyes softened watching him sleeping to regain back his energy. Not f
Rose flinched upon hearing Starvos’s tone that had raised, causing the man to recoil from guilt. He didn’t meant to shout at her and quickly whisper, “I’m sorry.” “No,” Rose shook her head. She didn’t feared Starvos’s harsh tone. Anyone in his position would feel the way he did and even now, Rose would have acted the same way as he did. She feared that with more people knowing the curse, Dominic would be more susceptible to harm. But she know for once that Starvos would never ever hurt Dominic. “It’s a curse that is extremely rare. Until now there is no cure for it or a way to break them. It— it’s almost impossible to find a way to break the curse. The curse would slowly eat Dominic from the inside, making him suffer from unknown illness…” Rose’s voice broke as anger filled the back of her throat. She had to force herself to speak as though swallowing a bitter medicine. “That’s why he had been weaker physically.” “So all this time.. he’s bearing a curse?” Starvos slumped down to h
Rose’s eyes snapped behind her and she quickly darted her eyes back to Mona, “What’s that?” “Magic,” Mona said at once, “I could feel magic.” “Damn it. It must be them,” Starvos said with a click of his tongue that raised her eyebrows. “What do you mean them?” She inquired, feeling that they don’t have enough time, she quickly walked toward the table, pulling the powdered painkillers which the Master had given to her early in the afternoon. Quickly, she dawned the bitter medicine, gulping it down with water. “When we went to the imperial castle earlier we found out that the King and Queen are under influence of magic. The people behind it are Dominic’s brother, Shawn and that damned sorcerer..” Starvos’s words were cut as Rose uttered the name before him.“Isaac,” she saw the startled look on Starvos’s eyes, confirming her guess that they had been working together. “What magic did you feel, Mona?” “Summoning magic,” Mona shuddered when she felt the dark magic that brushed her ne
Shawn narrowed his eyes, his face saying his refusal to trust her words but Rose didn’t say any more words, allowing for him to think for himself whether the words she had uttered was lies as he had accused or the truth that Dominic had never revealed. He thought about his older brother, who was a hot headed person who wouldn’t hesitate to kill.Dominic wasn’t blood thirsty but to keep himself alive, he would kill whatever necessary to keep him alive. Of course there had been many instances where Shawn could feel that if Dominic had killed him, he would be more free. Of course killing him was difficult and his mother wouldn’t stay quiet about it. But knowing Dominic who would put hhis emotions and anger first before finding a way to eliminate evidence, killing him should have been easier.. Yet he didn’t. He didn’t.. he didn’t want to, not because he could not. ‘You believe in her lies?’ Whispered a voice at the back of Shawn’s ears. In fury, Shawn smashed his hand to the nearest p
Shawn narrowed his eyes, slowing stepping backward. Rose noticed that her words did an effect to him, causing him to move backward out of fear of her magic. She didn’t expect for him to be scared by her words and perhaps he wouldn’t be as much frightened as now if she hadn’t told him the truth about Dominic, he would still remain unfazed by her words.Shawn gritted his teeth, raising his hand, “Move for the last time!” “I said no,” Rose’s green eyes turned lighter in color as she responded to him in a fiercer tone. “I won’t repeat that twice.” Shawn angrily turned the same hand he had raised into a fist, tightening his fingers enough for his fingernails to draw blood from his skin. He ignored the pain, muttering a small whisper of magic.Rose saw the blood drops that fell on the floor began to shake as a creature pushed it body out from the floor. Rose shuddered when seeing the creepy eyes of the gargoyle but something was different with the gargoyle that he had summoned compared to
Dominic had rose to his seat again. A while ago when his eyes were closed, he could hear Rose’s voice. She sounded so distressed that it worried him. Yet for some unknown reasons, he couldn’t open his eyes or find Rose around him. Dominic hated the feeling of being chained but he knows that he couldn’t wake up no matter what. Just then he heard a weak howl coming from his back. His eyes turned behind him, understanding that he wasn’t in the physical world but somewhere inside his mind.. or perhaps his own heart. The howl began to sound clearer despite of how weak it was. He pushed his feet to move, striding toward the sound of the howl that began to appear like a soft cry of small pup. At first he didn’t feel anything to hear the cry but his heart ache to hear the whimper of the animal that sounded broken, as though abandoned. Walking toward the source of the voice, he found the wounded wolf that had sprawled on the ground. From its eyes were tears that continued to stream down.
Dominic never knew that this whole time he had been thinking the way he did until his wolf had pointed this part of him. Dominic looked at the reflection of himself, raising the question he had kept in his mind, “Why do you look like a child?” His wolf raised his hand, his finger pointing straight at him, “You are a child.”“In your eyes maybe but I’m sure I’m not as young as you look like now in appearance,” Dominic raised his confusion. He thought that his wolf should look similar to him as Starvos told him that wolf is a perfect reflection of a person with the only difference being their wolf are more truthful to their desire, something that most people would hide in their heart. “You are supposed to die in this age,” the wolf said, pressing his hand to his chest, “But someone helped you, making sure that you live longer until now.” Dominic raised his eyebrows, confused by what the wolf meant, “I should have died in that age? Why?” The wolf stared at him in silence, uttering n
Dominic rushed forward, wanting to snatch that bastard of a brother he had and kill him here and there. At first he thought there would be a way to resolve everything without having to kill Shawn but he changed his mind. Shawn needed to be killed. He was the whole danger in this matter, even worse when compared to his father. Shawn managed to leave by a hair’s breadth, disappearing from the place with his gargoyles. Angrily, Dominic smashed the nearby table. He was mad by the fact he had lost consciousness in the middle of the chaos and had left Rose alone to fend for herself. He was also filled with rage with the idea that dangers still wouldn’t stop anytime soon. He immediately turned around, finding Rose who looked frozen in her place. Not knowing what had made her so shocked, he gently paced toward her. His big hands covered her small back and his eyes were filled with warmth as he stared at her, “Are you alright?” Rose finally snapped from her own thoughts. She turned her
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