The way to enter the fog forest was obscure. No one knows how to enter but Dominic didn’t have the luxury to find a way to enter the forest in a civilized manner. His blood was boiling, with anger to both the person who had taken Rose and to himself who didn’t notice her disappearance despite her standing right beside him. His Rose had disappeared and he could tell she had gone inside the fog forest. It was the only way for him to find her yet he couldn’t as the fog forest kept on pushing him back to the spot he had started.It was useless to wait, he didn’t know what might be inside the forest and how Rose’s condition was. If she was harmed, if her skin was even the slightest wounded, he knew he couldn’t keep his sanity anymore. Dominic had left his men to Cain before standing at the edge of the forest. He wracked his brain under the few seconds he has.Humans… the people who entered the fog forest were mostly humans, it’s why they had been thrown out of the forest. As the witness
His question was met with the same look that Rose received when she asked about the werewolves curse. Andrius who noticed that they were under a misunderstanding immediately spoke up, “You got things mixed up, us being a werewolf is not a curse. If it is, it would mean everyone here is doomed for life.”“We come from a kingdom where everyone is a werewolf,” explained Anna who walked beside her brother Chris, hiding as though she feared Dominic. “Humans are instead a very strange and odd creature for us. If you think that way, if a human was to suddenly appear in our kingdom, they would think themselves as cursed as well.”Dominic frowned and Rose could fee his hand tightening around her. Like how she was before, he was having a hard time to understand it all. It was difficult for him to believe he wasn’t cursed as since he was young he had been doomed by other’s words.“Let’s talk this out inside my house,” said the elderly lady who was walking with a stick toward them.Rose nodded he
Rose stepped outside alongside Dominic who hadn’t said a word since he stepped out of the house. She watched how his silence means he was thinking deeply of what had happened and his complex expression made her worried. She touched his hand noticing how he wrapped his fingers around and tightening them.“You’re thinking whether they had lied to you?” Rose started her question. Even during this time, she was grateful Dominic hadn’t brush her away or ask for a space to be alone.She was glad to be able to stand beside him, especially in times where he needed her.“No,” he answered after a while. “I can smell my own kind here. I can tell they are are similar like me. Their words when they said I belong to the kingdom over the sea might also be true.”Rose remembered how back in her village the old lady had spoken about a land far away that have werewolves. She had brushed it aside, not knowing it was true.And the last and crucial question was, “Will you go there?”Dominic looked at her
Dominic managed to catch one of the mercenary who was sent to kill him. Pulling the human by the collar, his enemy looked at him in terror. He begged, “Please! I promise I would keep my mouth shout of what had happened tonight! And I promise I will— I will—”Dominic simply looked at his eyes, offering his question, “Do you have a family or a lover waiting for you back at home?”The mercenary didn’t think before nodding his head in energy, fearing Dominic will kill him before he could reply.“I do! I do! I have a child and a wife!”Dominic looked at the man for a couple of second and a sigh left his well shaped lips.“Even when you’re in front of days you still lie, don’t you?”Watching how inhuman the change of Dominic’s eye color from black to golden caused the man to scream, leaving his last word unheard as his scream become his last dying words.Cain rushed into the forest side where it was burning. Oddly why he had instructed the men to look around the forest for any traces of Ros
Rose watched as more humans being brought into the forest, they were all however mostly lifeless by the time they end up inside the forest.The elderly woman sighed seeing this, “Death has never been easy.”And Rose looked at her, finding the woman gently smiling.“I guess you doubt my words. Most werewolves sees human as creature inferior to them but none of them have difficult feelings against them either. We just see humans as pitiful, whether how easy they die due to old age or how weak they are. But trust that deaths are never easy for us, whether its humans or for werewolves.”Rose saw how one mercenary was holding to his chest but the werewolf did nothing and watch them. She felt terrible seeing a fellow human had been wounded and left to die but seeing the amount of blood shedding from them, she could only watch from afar.The man caught her gaze on him and crawled. Anna quickly stepped in between her and the man as if to protect her from the man’s harmful intention. But from
Rose who had just concluded the bullets to be harmful for everyone in the village, pushed the bullet inside her pocket. Something about it must have been different than ordinary metals. Something.. but what could it be?“It’s better if we bring all the wounded ones and the children somewhere more safe,” she then prioritized and Anna agreed.“Let’s move to the cellar,” Anna quickly ushered everyone to follow her. With the help of Martin who took the role to guard them as they moved to hide on the cellar that was built underneath the elder madam’s house.Rose watched as the children goes down only to hear a shuddering and inhumane cry coming from far outside the house. The voice seemed to sound even terrible for the werewolves as they grunted while covering their ears.“What is that horrible noise!” Martin shouted, hoping that his own voice can reduce the pain stabbing his eardrums. Rose quickly looked over the windows and how she shuddered when she saw a creature, much bigger and tall
What was this man talking about?? He went on and on on his own monologue as if forgetting she was there. Rose looked around her while the man continue to speak.“Say do you know that there are not many things that could vitally wound werewolves?” The man spoke when she caught at the corner of her eyes was a candle holder that had sharp ends. She looked back at him, “That bullets you had from earlier?”“Oh? So you indeed know magic?” He chuckled as if taking her previous statement as a funny jester to trick him.“No, I don’t. So that was magic that you used on that bullet?” She questioned, that would mean there is many magician… no sorcerers in this world who are like him? Who knows how to kill werewolves?!“Close but wrong. Do you know how magic is close to science? There are some people who learn science but was suspected as a witch and got killed,” he continued, “Sadly those people had killed the wrong people.”“So that bullet was made by science?” She asked, questioning as it seem
He looked at her, albeit looking down on her quite literally as his eyes stared down at her face that turn rigid as she found the man’s wounds on his left shoulder had mended itself yet the wound that Anna had given to him remained.“You’re thinking that such a mere sword can hurt me?” He looked at her with a smile. “No but I seem to have find out what can grimly end your life.” She nudged her chin to the wound that gravely carved his shoulders.Tired, the man sighed, “You do know that I’m not one who is your enemy?”“Do you think I would agree to letting you kill my own lover? And I will say ‘yes, I will show you the way’?” Rose saw as the man tried to study her face. “He is my soul.”The magician stepped behind. His expression turning darker and although Rose cannot see his smile, she saw he had one before and now it was completely gone.What was left on his face was just a deadly boredom.“Fine,” he uttered. “Then you can die with him.”Rose shuddered when she heard the cries from