Our talk is cut short by an explosion that makes the castle shake, though we were too far in for it to affect us."Let"s go, my brother already started"
They were attacking a part of the castle; not the part where the party was being held mind you; as a distraction for us to flee, so we rush back to the first chamber we were before as I give a side look towards the Oak who stood there, looking at nothing, appearing like the tree he was.
He says nothing as we walk to the hidden exit, but as Leo"s opens the secret entrance I stop, biting the inside of my cheeks as Shrum, standing on top of Leo"s shoulder, looks back at Oak with a sad expression in place, hiding underneath his mushroom hat, and letting me know what I should do.
I go back with wide strong steps and stop right in front of Oak, looking deep in his hole-eyes, and say:
"You know what, I"m a very selfish hound, did you know?" I put a hand over his chest, bringing my energy towards his core and paralyzing him. "Because I know that me walking away will be the same as leaving you to rot here for eternity, so even if in ten, five, two years you change your mind it won"t matter because I will be far gone, so it"s actually very simple."
My black and red energy intertwine like snakes over the tiny long chains that embraced his core energy, breaking every fiber of it.
"I just need to free you now and, if you still want to stay here, then stay, if you don"t, then don"t, I just know that I, for that matter, will walk away with a clean consciousness."
I force the energy free, needing more than one try until I finally set it loose, a bust of pulsating green energy making me give a few steps back, fl.u.s.tering some leaves and coins away.
The creature was looking at his hands, at lost, and I say, before walking away:
"About time you take your own life in your hands, don"t you think? Even if is just to stay here, stay because you want to."
At that I didn"t look back again, going towards Leo who was holding the pa.s.sage open for us. We moved fast back to the garden, first using my shadows, but as soon as we got to the party we mix ourselves in the crowd, not something difficult I may add since the n.o.bles were panicking here and there, some even running in their pompous clothes, tripping over themselves.
At that Leo, as my guard, held me close to him, one hand over my shoulder as his body s.h.i.+elded my other side, holding his cape over to cover my figure; though the only thing I saw was him showing off our difference in height by pa.s.sing his arm over my back. p.r.i.c.k.
The party was a mess by now; tables turned, broken gla.s.s and food on the ground, some plants tramped over as the n.o.bles shouted in a chaos of sounds, some grabbing the guards by the clothes and demanding an explanation, other crying on the sides, and others talking nonsense together.
Typical.
We were calmly waiting on the messy queue that formed as n.o.bles tried to flee to their carriages when I see something that makes me grip Leo"s sleeve to move quicker in the crowd.
The cold tall man from before.
For a millisecond I could see surprised mixed with realization as our eyes met, a cold hungry gaze grimacing his features into that of an emotionless murder who found his next prey.
My initial shock was gone as he started to walk towards me, opening a path through the crowd.
s.h.i.+t.
Me and Leo did something similar, trying to move forward faster beyond many n.o.bles, but most were trying to do the same in panic, which leads on a claustrophobic amount of people together trying to move forward; but at least he was stuck in it as well.
We almost fell once we popped out of the main gates and out of the crowd towards a black hidden carriage, going straight in only to sigh deeply as the door was closed and we stood out of that mess.
From the front of the carriage the woman and her Templar stood, starting the horses without command and guiding us far from there.
Just then I allowed myself to relax; for some reason I thought everything would go down badly in the end, pew. We ride to the other side of town where we sell the carriages and buy four horses, two big ones with fur over their ma.s.sive paws for the two armored men of the group.
Mine looked almost like a pony because of that. Double p.r.i.c.k in a stick!
I dunno, I"m just mad ok? No need to rub on my face that I"m not that tall, I already know that ok?
Anyway~~
By the time we were ready to leave the fear and confusion of the party pa.s.sed through the city and made to the people"s mouth, many running toward their houses, others whispering on the corners, words like "attack on the castle", "scary" and "a Cerberus and a man" being repeated constantly.
I smirked. I trained my brother well didn"t I? I mentally pat myself on the shoulder, cough cough.
I change my clothes too, simply going to a corner and letting my shadows surround me, walking out with my average outfit; and by that I meant the long-a.s.s cape covering my desert clothes style.
As always the pants were the puffy type, but the opening was at the front this time, making a diamond-shaped whole over my knees. Second there were two layers of clothing over my shoulders, one covering my nipples as a short top, and the other falling down over my shoulders and tying over my arm until my wrist and middle finger.
To finish the outfit I put a big oval collar that covered my collarbone, made from the same metal of my diadem.
Leo, looking sideways towards me and catching a glimpse of the outfit as I hopped up the horse, stirred his own closer only to whisper:
"We have to do some talking about those outfits." I scowl at that.
"What"s wrong with them?
He just stares me down for a while, his eyes narrowing as if a.s.serting my answer.
"You really don"t know?" I shrug, making he come closer, our legs pumping as our horses almost touched each other, the woman and the Templar at the front, unable to hear or see us.
"The problem is that they show too much skin, and I don"t like others looking over what is mine."
There were so many things wrong with that sentence that I did not know where to begin complaining, so I just snicker at first.
"Look, hear me out, you do not tell me what to wear, if I want to walk b.u.t.t naked on the street I may as well do it! And second, yours? Freaking yours? Where did you get that idea?!" I look at him, angry, only to see him smiling.
"You are so cute angry."
C-c-c-cute?! Cute?!
I open my mouth to answer but nothing comes out of it as my tail and ears stay on edge. I grit my teeth, knowing that any answer I could give him would only make him happier.
Angry I look back at the streets we were pa.s.sing through, ignoring his presence and how he kept pumping our legs.
Once we were out of the city, however, after finding my brother and Aeglos already mounted on their horses, Leonel starts again:
"That reminds me." Says Leo, a mischievous glint s.h.i.+ning in his eyes as he tries to m.u.f.fle a smirk, already making me regret looking over at him." I haven"t got back on you for calling me a brat yet, did I?"
"Humf, you were a little brat back then."
"And yet I"m taller than you, and older even."
That makes a vein pop on my forehead, as usual. "But it is unfair to not compare to my true form, and I"m far far taller than you will ever be."
"So what, are you telling me that this form of you now is fake? And yet, if I reach toward you right now you would feel me touching you, wouldn"t you?"
The way he deepens his voice in the end made me contain a s.h.i.+ver, avoiding his eyes by the innuendo. Geez, what"s wrong with me.
"But of course I would." I answer weakly, cursing him in my heart. He just answers a simple:
"Good then."
His short answer only made things far worst since he gave a lot of s.p.a.ce for my brain to fill the blanks. s.h.i.+t.
"You are still a brat though… a sneaky one at that." At that he let"s go of his smirk, setting an intense gaze in my direction.
"Brats don"t think the things I do…"
Ahhh, I made it worst. Let"s stop there, yeah, for the sake of my little heart; I mean, big, strong heart, uhm.
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Sorry if it"s short, but I run out of chapters last time and I still have to write the vampire one, once it ends I will give my all to this one!
BTW ii"m late with the vampire one, and I don"t know if I"ll manage to post next week (many tests at once geez but I"ll try my best!
So… See ya~~