Starvos watched as Elizabeth walked away, holding a glass of water on her hand which she then pass to his hands. She looked outside, somewhat grateful of the snow as it cooled down passion and pain.When she came back, she settled the water to his hands. Starvos continue to stare at her as though he had been dreaming and finally woke up from his daze. Elizabeth waved her hand in front of him, smiling, “What is wrong? You keep looking at me.” “I was just thinking that this all feels like a dream,” Starvos patted the seat beside him again, calling her so she would take a comfy place beside him. “But although I’m happy I have to be angry to you this once.”Elizabeth rubbed her cheeks, “I was worried and I know I was too hasty but I couldn’t help it.” “I know but where you are going to is the battlefield. It’s not a place where you could come whenever you feel like it and I’m sure you understand that too,” Starvos sighed, his hand clenched tightly together. “If anything were to happen w
Starvos immediately stood up on his seat. He frowned as he realized what was wrong with the suggestion that Mona gave. He immediately sat back down to his seat and sighed, “But I have to be going head on to the castle, alone right?” “This is what I want to ask you to do,” Mona said, as she tapped the cross that she had given to him, “If you hold to this cross, it will help you to connect with my magic. Meaning, I don’t have to be sticking close beside you to protect you. I can simply whisper a spell whenever I think you need and for you to use it.”“What do you mean?” Starvos was sure that this was Mona’s own way to shoo him off, as if to prepare him so he could go to the war. “I want you to go to the castle and capture the Duke,” said Mona at once, revealing her plan. “I can’t let those children suffer alone. Especially not Rose. Not her.” Starvos looked surprised by her words and confused, “What do you mean Rose will suffer?” Starvos saw how Mona immediately went silent. The woma
The master sighed as he finally looked into Rose’s green eyes after a long while of silence. He then asked, “Did you use any black magic yet?”Rose shook her head after a moment of silence. She didn’t remember using any black magic and the worse she had done was probably the small magics that she read from the books. The master trusted that Rose would never lie to him, knowing how she don’t know any black magic to begin with. But seeing how there was the black aura behind her, he could also tell she had somewhat started a black magic without knowing it herself. Rose nervously looked at the Master whose eyes kept studying her. She wrung her hands together, feeling a little anxious that the Master would turn her down. She knew that in this world, the master would perhaps be the strongest compared to everyone.His limits were humans and the oath his ancestors made but without that, perhaps it would be extremely easy for him to turn Essex into his own kingdom. If he reject her offer… s
Isaac walked down the empty imperial castle. He hummed a song, walking in a fluid movement as though he was dancing. His hands were kept lower, one circling half way and the other spread wide away from his shoulders. It almost appeared as if he was dancing with an invisible partner. He continued to close his eyes, walking down the staircase as in his head the song had began more intense. His feet moved faster and faster, his hand swinging his partner in a deeper curve as though he had let his partner down only to suddenly pull them back up. He only stopped once the music in his head had stopped moving. His eyes then turned to look at the bottom of the staircase where his left eyes had turned completely purple, unable to turn back to black which was his original eye color. “You are still insane,” spoke the creature standing right in front of him. “But that what makes you fascinating Isaac enough to gain my attention.” “Fascinating?” Isaac chuckled, “I gave you half of my soul, Nezu
Raindrops fell like diamond on top of his carriage. Dominic who had left the mansion to investigate the news he had just heard from his men was greeted to come back to today’s sky mourning on top of him. He sighed as the coachman jumped down from the driver seat of the carriage. He pulled out the umbrella and hovered it over Dominic before his master would get wet and ill. Dominic looked at the mansion, finding his room had been alighted, signaling that Rose was there. Dominic took the umbrella and looked behind, finding the unconscious Cain who he had just found. The man who is also his most trusted assistant had disappeared for weeks and was only found today as Dominic’s men finally reported to have found the wounded man. “I guess he does has a strong body,” spoke the man who had appeared beside Dominic. The young man’s eyes were silver. He is the man who his cousin, the King of Agios had lent to him. The man, although appearing younger than himself, was in fact the second best
It was a nightmare. It is a nightmare. There was no way this wasn’t a nightmare! Dominic felt his surroundings blur as he processed what Mona and Starvos told them. They both looked confused, wondering what Dominic meant by Rose and who she is. There was no way that they would suddenly play such an unfunny joke on him! But then everyone forgetting Rose wasn’t funny at all. “Where is Mr and Mrs Maury?” Dominic questioned for Starvos and Mona to look at each other. Anyone else would have forgotten Rose but there was no way for Rose’s own parents to forget her!“Didn’t you told me that Mr and Mrs Maury already left to Lady Victoria’s house?” Mona inquired for Dominic to sigh. Indeed, he recalled that two days ago Mr and Mrs Maury had left to take care of Josephine who had been found and kept away in his cousin’s house. “You two really don’t remember Rose?” Dominic’s face had gotten pallid which worried the two elders in front of him. They both shook his head, sinking his heart lower
Raindrops continued to cover Essex. Even though Essex rarely become a home for the raindrops, the past three days after Rose’s disappearance, the rain continued on as if it was mourning for the sudden turn of fate. Starvos sat out from the door, watching Dominic who appeared soulless as his back faced him. His son had locked himself in his room for days, as if to punish himself and Starvos didn’t know what to do as he couldn’t understand the reason why he had suddenly became sorrowful as though he had lost someone close to him.“If I have to guess, this must have something to do with the woman named Rose,” Mona whispered beside Starvos. The two people had taken a peek at Dominic from the gaps of the door, discussing the changes that occurred in Dominic in a mere night. At least, a night to them. “What? Are you telling me that he met a girl, fell in love with her, bring her home, and she suddenly disappear?” Starvos began his wild guess for Mona to shake her head. “I don’t know sill
Dominic who heard this creased his eyebrows. He took a moment to think of Mona’s words and finally saying, “So this person knows a lot about magic, right?” “Yes he does,” Mona confirmed at once, thinking this might be helping Dominic as immediately his face lit up. “How do we meet him?” He immediately questioned. “I have questions that I want to know from him.” “I can arrange for you to meet him. Not long ago I went to talk to him to discuss about the curse you were burdened with. He is an extremely kind person who can be talked with,” she spoke, turning around to see Starvos who tilted his head. “Although werewolves can’t really enter that place easily, so I would advise only one of you to come.” “Then I will stay,” Starvos said, knowing that Dominic is desperate to find this man who knows about magic, possibly for the woman named “Rose”.“Thank you Starvos,” Dominic responded at once. “I’m sorry that I would be leaving the burden to you as I leave the mansion.” “Don’t worry pro
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