Belle watched as the creature was beat up one-sidedly by Leon. It was such a grotesque sight and the violence never felt right for her but she watched through it all, steeling her heart and turn herself cold as she knew the non-violent path wasn’t available for her journey.The creature still didn’t speak until Leon stopped and cracked his finger, “You are very resilient, aren’t you.”The creature smiled despite its injury, his hoarse voice spoke, “I rather die…”“Rather die? Surely you’re joking. I never planned for you to go to Hell. That would simply be a fast ticket to heaven for you.” Belle watched as Leon cracked his finger. His entire air screamed out of a magnetic danger.“I know a way of a better torture for you. I know of my pets,” Leon uttered his words for a quick change of look on the creature’s face. “My pets are very obedient you see but they are also very painful for living beings like you. I’m sure the witches must have convinced you to help them in exchange for some
The revelation caused Belle to turn still. She stared hard at the creature’s bloodied face, remembering what the fortune teller had told her when he warned her of a demon’s marriage. But before she could say anything, the creature suddenly shriek. Leon raised both his hands upward, showing that he wasn’t doing anything and neither was his pet.Leon took a step closer, pulling the collar of the creature, “Speak, what happen?”“I don’t know! Help! Hell—” the creature couldn’t ask for more help as its body began to ashen in color and harden. It was as though he had been frozen in the winter but the different was he didn’t turn to ice, instead stone.A single touch from Leon’s finger when he released the creature’s body caused it to disintegrate to a pile of ash.“What was that?” Belle whispered, confused and shocked.“A time-ticking magic. Someone must have casted in on him, preventing from spilling anything that he had seen so far,” Leon wiped his hands over each other, dusting away th
The men stared at him, confused and perplexed by a butler who would offer a drink in such situation. There were a body of a dead man settling on the hole that had been dug yet here he was offering tea as though it was nothing.“N-No, thank you,” responded the elder man who had his left cheek covered by a deep scratch wound that reached down to his neck.“Mr. Anderson,” Mr. Carperly spoke as the head of the house. “I know that you wish to interrogate everyone in the mansion and I respect that as it is you job but can you give my daughter a little space? After her elder sister’s death, she has been in distraught.”“Of course I understand that but what is have to be done should be done,” the man named Mr. Anderson responded sternly. “I will, however, allow Miss Belle to take her time for now. Also, I promise I wouldn’t pressure her like what I heard my subordinate had done previously.”Leon stood beside them, keeping his ears sharp at their conversation, watching how nervous Belle’s fath
While Belle walked outside the house, she was stopped by Arnold who seemed to be fidgeting around while leaning his back on the wall. He appeared to be waiting for something but Belle didn’t pay attention and kept on walking until he called up for her name.“Miss Belle! Miss Belle!” Belle hold her hands together, wondering if the man knew she was hiding something.She turned her face offering him a smile, “Mr. Arnold. Is there still questions you want to ask me?”“No, no,” He quickly denied. “If there is one thing I wish to talk with you it is something different.”“Something different?” Belle tilted her head, unaware of the man’s attraction to her which cannot be blamed. Since she had just turned to her blooming age, she was unaware of anything about attraction, only ever reading them from books. But alas, reading books and experience it for herself was different. She couldn’t tell at all how Mr. Arnold had been staring at her features and how he had been smiling more than necessa
Leon smile smugly after receiving the informations he needed. He walked aside, disappearing after mingling with the rest of the humans. When he stepped back in the house, his handsome face took back its shine. He looked around the house, smelling Belle’s scent near and made his way to her. His eyes narrowed when he saw how a smile had pulled Belle’s delicate pink cheeks.Annoyance was the first quick emotion that corroded his heart. He continue to watch how the human man in front of him raised his hand as though to touch her which put his feet to a raise.Quickly, Leon pulled Belle aside with his hand. He didn’t pull her firmly noticing how frail her wrists were.He looked at the human, glaring silently. “Miss Belle, I have been searching for you everywhere.” His tone was dead as it was filled with anger when he stared back at Arnold.The human man stared back at him, glaring back that caused him to raise his eyebrows.Well aren’t that brave? He could have killed the human in a snap
Damian whispered a muttered words. It was hard to know what he had said but Leon who had been watching the view from the eyes of his bat immediately understood the language to be those of the witches’.It appears while he said their parents wanted none of their children to continue the legacy of being a witch, it seemed that Damian had been taught the ways to use witchcraft.From the bowl bright blue lights appear at the end of the spell that Damian had chanted. The bat moved upward, allowing for a better view for Leon to see what Damian had done.“Show me the pasts of the creature named Leon,” Damian whispered, closing his eyes as he imagined Leon’s face to help him direct his magic.Albert who stood behind him didn’t looked surprised, confirming Leon that the head butler was one of those people who knew the secret hidden by the family.“By the name of the witch’s queen, show me the view!” Damian chanted again and again until his fifth time where he opened his eyes to look down at t
Leon brought her to the empty hallways. The place he knew the servants wouldn’t come. He looked at her blue eyes that looked back and forward until she had made sure it was empty.Belle was confused with his little trick tonight but she knew Leon wouldn’t make such childish joke for no reason. “What happened?” She asked, trying to find an answer.“I was keeping an eye on your brother and it seemed he knows more than witchcraft and history of witches,” responded Leon as he sat on the edge of the large stained window.She walked slowly toward him, looking down as his height decrease the moment he took a seat.“What do you mean?” She questioned.“Damian, that brother of yourself used witchcraft and spells to find about my past, also the incident that happened last night.”“Witchcraft?” Belle frowned. “That contradicts his words. He told me father and mother doesn’t want any of us to be involved in our blood.”Damian was hiding something and indeed Belle could feel it. She didn’t know wh
Belle wasn’t cornered and those words weren’t directed at her but the anger and deep wrath from Leon’s eyes made her feel as though it was for her. “Her?” Belle asked seeing him silent which she took as his unwillingness to explain to her. She wanted to ask further but question if this was the right moment or if she could pry further about him.Leon walked away from her, “It seemed that tomorrow will be the time for you to meet your teacher?”“Yes, have I told you that?” She wondered as she had forgotten, seeing him shake his head.“I overheard it. You should go sleep now,” Leon placed his hand over her shoulder, directing her to her room. His fingers lingered over her neck and looking at it, his eyes deepened. “Sometimes I forgot just how fragile you are now.”Belle blinked at his words as she was certain she had heard Leon spoke but the moment she turned her head back, he had disappeared, leaving the words he said to her as a puzzle.The next morning, Belle prepared herself to leav