One hundred years later, Darius' grandson, Damian stood on top of a cliff as he prepared to climb a mountain.
"Are you sure that you are not afraid?" Chloe asked.She was Damian's wife. She had known him all his life and she was the only one who could get away with saying things like that to him without being thrown down the stairs by his father. "I have been in worse situations." He looked over at her. "But if I am wrong this time, it will be my last."Chloe knew that he meant what he said but she also knew that there were times when he was trying to convince himself more than he was trying to convince her. "There is no need for us to go up the side of a mountain together," she said. "We can leave your father here and we can take our chances."Damian shook his head. "No, we cannot do that. We must face whatever it is together." He smiled slightly. "Besides, even though Father has made me promise that I would never climb another mountain again, heThe next morning, Damian woke up and found that there were three people lying beside him. He sat up quickly and backed away from them."What are you doing in here?" he demanded. "How did you get in here?"The three figures looked at each other for a moment before the man spoke. "We're not here to hurt you," he said. "In fact, we want to help.""Who the hell are you?" Damian asked. He didn't seem to remember seeing any of these men last night."My name is Martin," the man said. "This is my brother, Mike, and this is my son, David."Martin pointed to each one in turn. "This is Martin, my older brother; Mike, my younger brother; and this is David, my son."Damian recognized the names. "Mike and David were in the group I fought yesterday. They were the ones who helped me escape from the trap that they had laid for me.""Did you kill them?" Martin asked.Damian shook his head. "They're alive," he said. "They're just
Damian and his companions walked through the forest until they reached the edge of the mountain. There they found a large rock formation shaped like a bowl. On either side of the bowl, the ground sloped downward."This is the bowl that Grandad and Uncle Zoltan used to explore in," Damian said. "Now it's the safest place in the world.""Does it lead anywhere?" Martin asked."No," Damian replied. "It's just a big hill.""Well, it can't hurt to take a quick look," Martin said. "If it doesn't work out, we can always try again later.""Good point," Damian said. "Let's see what's at the bottom of this bowl."Damian climbed down into the bowl. It was slightly higher than the bottom of the forest, but not by much."What do you think?" Damian whispered to Michael."I don't know," Michael answered. "It's hard to tell."Damian turned around and looked back at his companions. He could see Michael climbing down into
The eve of the full moon was upon my village. And, I could hear the howling sounds of wolves echoing through the forest as they swept through it at great speed.Before the village bell could be sounded, every family had been cleaned through be the wicked Lycan king and his warriors.At first, I thought I was dreaming when I heard the sound of my mother crying because I was under my bed, trying to avoid being seen by the Lycan King and his warriors.A minute later, I could hear another strange screaming inside my room. The screaming was too loud that I had to cover my ears completely with both hands in order to avoid being affected.By the time the screaming died down, I saw my mother crying as the Lycan king spat on her."Where is your daughter?"The Lycan King's voice was loud, clear and brutal. The more he pressed my mother to reveal my secret location, the more my mother denied my very existence in the room."We will be back," the Lycan King said to my mother before leaving to look
The smell of urine in the dungeon felt like fresh poison to me. I could literally breathe in the choking smell, and I could literally do nothing about it because I was now a pr4isoner who was captured and who had no choice, but to do the will of the people who had captured me.I turned to my left side in frustration as the thoughts of hunger filled my mind, and all I could think of was sitting in my house, close to my mother and waiting for her to tell me that the food she was taking her time to prepare was already ready."You! You! You!" I pointed at the girl I met at the forest as I saw hed crawled up in one corner like an innocent child who had no idea of where she was or where she was going to."You led me teto this place!" I raised my voice as I moved closer to the little girl. "Your foolishness led me to this place!""Stop the accusation!" The little girl I met in the forest showed herself in the light. "I, Lydia wanted to save you from your possible failure, but your weak legs
A special dungeon was not the type of liberation I was looking forward to experience. If there was anything that I wanted so badly, it was food, water, and a chance to see my parents again.Gord made me sing praises in honor of the Lycan king, and each time I missed a verse, he made sure to strike me with a wooden stick on the head just to make it clear to me that I wasn't going to mess around with the name of the Lycan King.By afternoon, I was already looking like a famished goat who needed to be freed from the shackles that I had gotten myself into."What is that your stupid name again?" Gord asked in a way that made me murmur."Angelina!"Gord took a quick step forward, before moving backwards and observing the crossed lines on my face. From the way he stared at me, I could sense a bit of desire within him. Like, he wanted me for himself. Like, he wanted to have all of me just for himself."I am going to get some water for you to drink," Gord informed me. "I am not doing this bec
I paced around my dungeon with little or no words left inside of me to express the fear that had gripped me when I saw the Lycan king fall down on the ground. Was he going to die? Was he dead?The sound of the trumpet coming from outside made me to turn my eyes to see if there was anyone coming to set me free from my captivity. But, there was no one. Everywhere became still.After some minutes passed, I felt a sudden urge to urinate. The urge to pass out urine was so strong that I nearly ended up peeing on my body if not for the timely intervention of Gord who saw me in my distress and decided to open the gate of my dungeon."Do not go far," Gord instructed me. "The kingdom is still trying to figure out what happened to the Lycan king."Outside, I saw some warriors of the Lycan king gathered around a temple as if they were all waiting for a priest to show up and confirm the state of their king. Nothing happened.I quickly urinated and was about to return to my dungeon when Gord took
Lydia was brought forward to speak, and before she could make a statement of any significant background, she received a heavy slap from Gord."How dare you disrespect the dead Lycan king?"Lydia grew fear instantly."How dare you speak about my late king in a manner that is not befitting of him?"Lydia could see the anger and bitterness in Gord's voice. For a moment, I thought she was going to retaliate, and fight back. Instead of doing that, she just submitted immediately and apologized for her actions which both surprised me, and the women who had heard Lydia express her view in the dungeon.When Ariel was done taking to Lydia, he faced me and told me to come forward. I obeyed and moved forward as I wondered what I was going to say to defend myself if I was being accused of killing the Lycan king."You were present on the day that my father shared his last breath with us?" Ariel’s question was straightforward."Yes!" I answered truthfully."And, from the information that I got from
Darius tried to hide his real intentions from his brother, but all he could think of was the silliest excuse ever, "she's just happy to be on my bed Ariel, ask her how she got here?"Ariel was not dumb and knew that his brother was lying he just gave his brother a strong look and then went out of the room.For a moment seeing Ariel leaving the room made me scared, was he going to let his brother have his way with me without doing anything to stop him, well I hoped not.Then something happened that made me shocked and surprised at the level of authority and fear that Darius had for his brother, Darius looked into my eyes."Get up now! Leave my room," he did not twitch in his sentences for they were just as he meant them, I quickly got on my feet and ran away from the room.While I opened the door I saw Ariel standing outside, "was he making sure his brother let me go?" I did not have time to ask him as he immediately left after seeing that I had been sent out of the room.While all thi