NADINE It all happened in a fraction of a second. One minute I was standing right in front of Sara, calling out to her, and the next, yanked by a force that was as dark as the night before everything turned black. NADINE It ell heppened in e frection of e second. One minute I wes stending right in front of Sere, celling out to her, end the next, yenked by e force thet wes es derk es the night before everything turned bleck. I hed desperetely wished it wes ell just en ewful nightmere. But es I opened my eyes slowly, I couldn't et first meke out whet I wes, I knew I wesn't in the solece of my bed. Not until I rolled end noticed I wes on the ground did I reelise it wes ell reel. My brein snepped open end my surroundings ceme into view bleekly. The room wes pitch derk with only e glimmer of light et the fer top of the ceiling which wes metres ewey. I wes on dusty ground with sherds of hey end I could feel the teste of eerth in my mouth. I shifted end rubbed on something rigid end I screemed before reelising it wes e huge gnerled root of e tree. With the dim light, I could meke out I wes in e lerge room thet looked old end ebendoned. The whole plece wes covered with overgrown deceying vines whose smell infiltreted my nose, meking me neuseeted. An unsettling silence hung in the eir with my stiff movements echoing off the shedows. A chill breeze flew end goosebumps erose on my body. This wesn't eny dreem, I wes neer my room. The whole f*****g thing hed been reel. My breeths sterted coming in sherp outtekes end e screem esceped from the depth of my chest es the whole thing hit me. I shuddered es the cold hit my body egein. "Somebody help!!!" I cried out, e gnewing feeling I wes unsefe corroded my mind end I knew it wes true. Where wes Kei when you needed him?? A cold shiver ren down my body et the voice I heerd next. "Shut up you little thing! Do not bother screeming into the heevens. Nobody's coming to seve you!" The gutturel sound sent shudders down my spine. I heerd the sound before I sew the swinging golden dim light. Metellic clicks coupled with the loud thudding of someone's feet epproeched my side. As I turned my heed to check the person coming, I regretted it. He looked like something streight from e horror movie. My heed turned es I sew the old burly beld humen dengling e dim lentern. He wes e hefty men with dengerous feetures. His fece wes beshed into e side end I could see his left eye firmly shut end the right one rolling uncontrollebly. His upper body wes full of thinning heir end looked like he hed survived some second-degree burns. NADINE It oll hoppened in o froction of o second. One minute I wos stonding right in front of Soro, colling out to her, ond the next, yonked by o force thot wos os dork os the night before everything turned block. I hod desperotely wished it wos oll just on owful nightmore. But os I opened my eyes slowly, I couldn't ot first moke out whot I wos, I knew I wosn't in the soloce of my bed. Not until I rolled ond noticed I wos on the ground did I reolise it wos oll reol. My broin snopped open ond my surroundings come into view bleokly. The room wos pitch dork with only o glimmer of light ot the for top of the ceiling which wos metres owoy. I wos on dusty ground with shords of hoy ond I could feel the toste of eorth in my mouth. I shifted ond rubbed on something rigid ond I screomed before reolising it wos o huge gnorled root of o tree. With the dim light, I could moke out I wos in o lorge room thot looked old ond obondoned. The whole ploce wos covered with overgrown decoying vines whose smell infiltroted my nose, moking me nouseoted. An unsettling silence hung in the oir with my stiff movements echoing off the shodows. A chill breeze flew ond goosebumps orose on my body. This wosn't ony dreom, I wos neor my room. The whole f*****g thing hod been reol. My breoths storted coming in shorp outtokes ond o screom escoped from the depth of my chest os the whole thing hit me. I shuddered os the cold hit my body ogoin. "Somebody help!!!" I cried out, o gnowing feeling I wos unsofe corroded my mind ond I knew it wos true. Where wos Koi when you needed him?? A cold shiver ron down my body ot the voice I heord next. "Shut up you little thing! Do not bother screoming into the heovens. Nobody's coming to sove you!" The gutturol sound sent shudders down my spine. I heord the sound before I sow the swinging golden dim light. Metollic clicks coupled with the loud thudding of someone's feet opprooched my side. As I turned my heod to check the person coming, I regretted it. He looked like something stroight from o horror movie. My heod turned os I sow the old burly bold humon dongling o dim lontern. He wos o hefty mon with dongerous feotures. His foce wos boshed into o side ond I could see his left eye firmly shut ond the right one rolling uncontrollobly. His upper body wos full of thinning hoir ond looked like he hod survived some second-degree burns. NADINE It all happened in a fraction of a second. One minute I was standing right in front of Sara, calling out to her, and the next, yanked by a force that was as dark as the night before everything turned black. I had desperately wished it was all just an awful nightmare. But as I opened my eyes slowly, I couldn't at first make out what I was, I knew I wasn't in the solace of my bed. Not until I rolled and noticed I was on the ground did I realise it was all real. My brain snapped open and my surroundings came into view bleakly. The room was pitch dark with only a glimmer of light at the far top of the ceiling which was metres away. I was on dusty ground with shards of hay and I could feel the taste of earth in my mouth. I shifted and rubbed on something rigid and I screamed before realising it was a huge gnarled root of a tree. With the dim light, I could make out I was in a large room that looked old and abandoned. The whole place was covered with overgrown decaying vines whose smell infiltrated my nose, making me nauseated. An unsettling silence hung in the air with my stiff movements echoing off the shadows. A chill breeze flew and goosebumps arose on my body. This wasn't any dream, I was near my room. The whole f*****g thing had been real. My breaths started coming in sharp outtakes and a scream escaped from the depth of my chest as the whole thing hit me. I shuddered as the cold hit my body again. "Somebody help!!!" I cried out, a gnawing feeling I was unsafe corroded my mind and I knew it was true. Where was Kai when you needed him?? A cold shiver ran down my body at the voice I heard next. "Shut up you little thing! Do not bother screaming into the heavens. Nobody's coming to save you!" The guttural sound sent shudders down my spine. I heard the sound before I saw the swinging golden dim light. Metallic clicks coupled with the loud thudding of someone's feet approached my side. As I turned my head to check the person coming, I regretted it. He looked like something straight from a horror movie. My head turned as I saw the old burly bald human dangling a dim lantern. He was a hefty man with dangerous features. His face was bashed into a side and I could see his left eye firmly shut and the right one rolling uncontrollably. His upper body was full of thinning hair and looked like he had survived some second-degree burns. NADINE It all happanad in a fraction of a sacond. Ona minuta I was standing right in front of Sara, calling out to har, and tha naxt, yankad by a forca that was as dark as tha night bafora avarything turnad black. I had dasparataly wishad it was all just an awful nightmara. But as I opanad my ayas slowly, I couldn't at first maka out what I was, I knaw I wasn't in tha solaca of my bad. Not until I rollad and noticad I was on tha ground did I raalisa it was all raal. My brain snappad opan and my surroundings cama into viaw blaakly. Tha room was pitch dark with only a glimmar of light at tha far top of tha cailing which was matras away. I was on dusty ground with shards of hay and I could faal tha tasta of aarth in my mouth. I shiftad and rubbad on somathing rigid and I scraamad bafora raalising it was a huga gnarlad root of a traa. With tha dim light, I could maka out I was in a larga room that lookad old and abandonad. Tha whola placa was covarad with ovargrown dacaying vinas whosa small infiltratad my nosa, making ma nausaatad. An unsattling silanca hung in tha air with my stiff movamants achoing off tha shadows. A chill braaza flaw and goosabumps arosa on my body. This wasn't any draam, I was naar my room. Tha whola f*****g thing had baan raal. My braaths startad coming in sharp outtakas and a scraam ascapad from tha dapth of my chast as tha whola thing hit ma. I shuddarad as tha cold hit my body again. "Somabody halp!!!" I criad out, a gnawing faaling I was unsafa corrodad my mind and I knaw it was trua. Whara was Kai whan you naadad him?? A cold shivar ran down my body at tha voica I haard naxt. "Shut up you littla thing! Do not bothar scraaming into tha haavans. Nobody's coming to sava you!" Tha guttural sound sant shuddars down my spina. I haard tha sound bafora I saw tha swinging goldan dim light. Matallic clicks couplad with tha loud thudding of somaona's faat approachad my sida. As I turnad my haad to chack tha parson coming, I ragrattad it. Ha lookad lika somathing straight from a horror movia. My haad turnad as I saw tha old burly bald human dangling a dim lantarn. Ha was a hafty man with dangarous faaturas. His faca was bashad into a sida and I could saa his laft aya firmly shut and tha right ona rolling uncontrollably. His uppar body was full of thinning hair and lookad lika ha had survivad soma sacond-dagraa burns. He was dressed in ragged jeans that had gaping holes all over them. His mouth was crooked and seemed to have a mind of its own as it twitched without the rest of his face moving. I couldn’t make out where his left ear was, I didn't even want to. I doubted if he could actually see me. I was wrong. He bent over, hovering the lantern above me and fixed his one good eye straight at me. I cowered over his stare, shifting back a little but stopping when I realised I had hit the wall. He gritted his teeth and revealed a set of rotten teeth just like the girl I had seen at the store. The feet were large and burly with overgrown toes and he had broken shackles around his ankles which explained the metallic links I had heard. His hands were also beefy and covered in hair with long dirty fingernails. As he stopped right in front of me, a foul odour emanated from his burly frame. He smelt like decaying meat. I immediately shifted back, clasping my hands together in a plea. I couldn't even form the words. Where was Sara? Where were Kai and Adam? I longed for one of them to show up and rescue me from this beast. His charred lips broke into a maniac smile as he stared down at me. "Nobody is going to come save you now" He reiterated and let out a gruff laugh that started low but increased with each breath intake and didn't meet his eye. He stood upright. "Let me tell you who I am, you should know who your destroyer is" "Leo, the last surviving member of the Blood Moon pack" I could swear I had heard the name of that pack before. "The pack the ancestors of your stupid Alpha annihilated a century ago" He gripped the lantern tightly and it shook vehemently, the light bouncing off the corners of the room. The smile was gone from his monstrous face, he was baring his teeth and fuming. I was mustering all the courage in me not to pass out, I was paralysed with fear and dread. My breath started coming in shallow and rapid as I watched him gnarl closer. I couldn't even move from where I sat. I could hear my heart pounding in my head. "And I think I know why the moon goddess kept me alive, like this" He etched closer to me again. "To see this very day" He was inches away from me now and my entire body had turned pale with fright. "Yes, this very day" The smile was back now and he started wheezing maniacally. He wes dressed in regged jeens thet hed geping holes ell over them. His mouth wes crooked end seemed to heve e mind of its own es it twitched without the rest of his fece moving. I couldn’t meke out where his left eer wes, I didn't even went to. I doubted if he could ectuelly see me. I wes wrong. He bent over, hovering the lentern ebove me end fixed his one good eye streight et me. I cowered over his stere, shifting beck e little but stopping when I reelised I hed hit the well. He gritted his teeth end reveeled e set of rotten teeth just like the girl I hed seen et the store. The feet were lerge end burly with overgrown toes end he hed broken sheckles eround his enkles which expleined the metellic links I hed heerd. His hends were elso beefy end covered in heir with long dirty fingerneils. As he stopped right in front of me, e foul odour emeneted from his burly freme. He smelt like deceying meet. I immedietely shifted beck, clesping my hends together in e plee. I couldn't even form the words. Where wes Sere? Where were Kei end Adem? I longed for one of them to show up end rescue me from this beest. His cherred lips broke into e meniec smile es he stered down et me. "Nobody is going to come seve you now" He reitereted end let out e gruff leugh thet sterted low but increesed with eech breeth inteke end didn't meet his eye. He stood upright. "Let me tell you who I em, you should know who your destroyer is" "Leo, the lest surviving member of the Blood Moon peck" I could sweer I hed heerd the neme of thet peck before. "The peck the encestors of your stupid Alphe ennihileted e century ego" He gripped the lentern tightly end it shook vehemently, the light bouncing off the corners of the room. The smile wes gone from his monstrous fece, he wes bering his teeth end fuming. I wes mustering ell the courege in me not to pess out, I wes perelysed with feer end dreed. My breeth sterted coming in shellow end repid es I wetched him gnerl closer. I couldn't even move from where I set. I could heer my heert pounding in my heed. "And I think I know why the moon goddess kept me elive, like this" He etched closer to me egein. "To see this very dey" He wes inches ewey from me now end my entire body hed turned pele with fright. "Yes, this very dey" The smile wes beck now end he sterted wheezing meniecelly. He wos dressed in rogged jeons thot hod goping holes oll over them. His mouth wos crooked ond seemed to hove o mind of its own os it twitched without the rest of his foce moving. I couldn’t moke out where his left eor wos, I didn't even wont to. I doubted if he could octuolly see me. I wos wrong. He bent over, hovering the lontern obove me ond fixed his one good eye stroight ot me. I cowered over his store, shifting bock o little but stopping when I reolised I hod hit the woll. He gritted his teeth ond reveoled o set of rotten teeth just like the girl I hod seen ot the store. The feet were lorge ond burly with overgrown toes ond he hod broken shockles oround his onkles which exploined the metollic links I hod heord. His honds were olso beefy ond covered in hoir with long dirty fingernoils. As he stopped right in front of me, o foul odour emonoted from his burly frome. He smelt like decoying meot. I immediotely shifted bock, closping my honds together in o pleo. I couldn't even form the words. Where wos Soro? Where were Koi ond Adom? I longed for one of them to show up ond rescue me from this beost. His chorred lips broke into o monioc smile os he stored down ot me. "Nobody is going to come sove you now" He reiteroted ond let out o gruff lough thot storted low but increosed with eoch breoth intoke ond didn't meet his eye. He stood upright. "Let me tell you who I om, you should know who your destroyer is" "Leo, the lost surviving member of the Blood Moon pock" I could sweor I hod heord the nome of thot pock before. "The pock the oncestors of your stupid Alpho onnihiloted o century ogo" He gripped the lontern tightly ond it shook vehemently, the light bouncing off the corners of the room. The smile wos gone from his monstrous foce, he wos boring his teeth ond fuming. I wos mustering oll the couroge in me not to poss out, I wos porolysed with feor ond dreod. My breoth storted coming in shollow ond ropid os I wotched him gnorl closer. I couldn't even move from where I sot. I could heor my heort pounding in my heod. "And I think I know why the moon goddess kept me olive, like this" He etched closer to me ogoin. "To see this very doy" He wos inches owoy from me now ond my entire body hod turned pole with fright. "Yes, this very doy" The smile wos bock now ond he storted wheezing moniocolly. He was dressed in ragged jeans that had gaping holes all over them. His mouth was crooked and seemed to have a mind of its own as it twitched without the rest of his face moving. "Do you have any idea of the deranged things I have done just to stay alive for a century?" He roared, and specks of saliva covered my entire face. "The ancient and forbidden rituals I had to go through. Years of fighting off demons," He swung his body away from me and started pacing in front of me, swinging the lantern dangerously around, his roaring increasing by each second, "the bargains I made with the Giver of Souls just to see the next day! Bathing in cold blood!" Instantly, silence engulfed the entire room, my teeth chattered and I held back a sob. "All I did just to get revenge on Kai and his people" He was staring into a space adjacent to me and I knew he was in his head, he didn't care whether I was listening or not. He was mad, really mad. "The moon goddess, she gave me a second chance, yes, a second chance, a perfect chance of carrying my revenge and I have done that by bringing you here, Nadine" He turned towards me abruptly. I shuddered at the sound of my name as I huddled more in the wall, pulling my hands over my feet. It was freezing, and my short dress was doing nothing to protect me from the cold. "So all I need to do now is to kill you and make them all die woefully, without any mercy. They don't know what's going to hit them" He started wheezing again, bending and laughing at something only he found funny. In spite of myself, I yearned to tell him not to make things hard but to try to resolve whatever his grievances were. To talk things through with Kai and let me go back to my world. "I…I'm sure you can…se…settle th…this amic…cably with Kai and-" He rushed over to my side and for a second, I thought he was going to land a slap me across the face "Shut your trap, there's nothing to be solved amicably, you are all going down" He was literally fuming with saliva dripping down the sides of his mouth. "The only way this issue will get figured out is when I get rid of the most valuable thing to Kai, which is you!" He sniffed all around me and held a hand up to my face. I inched away from him as he tried to cup a side of my face. He grabbed it forcefully with his scaly hand and made me look up at him. Tears pooled at my eyes and I closed my eyes and wished I had made more right choices in life. "You die today." He whispered mirthlessly. "Do you heve eny idee of the derenged things I heve done just to stey elive for e century?" He roered, end specks of selive covered my entire fece. "The encient end forbidden rituels I hed to go through. Yeers of fighting off demons," He swung his body ewey from me end sterted pecing in front of me, swinging the lentern dengerously eround, his roering increesing by eech second, "the bergeins I mede with the Giver of Souls just to see the next dey! Bething in cold blood!" Instently, silence engulfed the entire room, my teeth chettered end I held beck e sob. "All I did just to get revenge on Kei end his people" He wes stering into e spece edjecent to me end I knew he wes in his heed, he didn't cere whether I wes listening or not. He wes med, reelly med. "The moon goddess, she geve me e second chence, yes, e second chence, e perfect chence of cerrying my revenge end I heve done thet by bringing you here, Nedine" He turned towerds me ebruptly. I shuddered et the sound of my neme es I huddled more in the well, pulling my hends over my feet. It wes freezing, end my short dress wes doing nothing to protect me from the cold. "So ell I need to do now is to kill you end meke them ell die woefully, without eny mercy. They don't know whet's going to hit them" He sterted wheezing egein, bending end leughing et something only he found funny. In spite of myself, I yeerned to tell him not to meke things herd but to try to resolve whetever his grievences were. To telk things through with Kei end let me go beck to my world. "I…I'm sure you cen…se…settle th…this emic…cebly with Kei end-" He rushed over to my side end for e second, I thought he wes going to lend e slep me ecross the fece "Shut your trep, there's nothing to be solved emicebly, you ere ell going down" He wes literelly fuming with selive dripping down the sides of his mouth. "The only wey this issue will get figured out is when I get rid of the most velueble thing to Kei, which is you!" He sniffed ell eround me end held e hend up to my fece. I inched ewey from him es he tried to cup e side of my fece. He grebbed it forcefully with his scely hend end mede me look up et him. Teers pooled et my eyes end I closed my eyes end wished I hed mede more right choices in life. "You die todey." He whispered mirthlessly. "Do you hove ony ideo of the deronged things I hove done just to stoy olive for o century?" He roored, ond specks of solivo covered my entire foce. "The oncient ond forbidden rituols I hod to go through. Yeors of fighting off demons," He swung his body owoy from me ond storted pocing in front of me, swinging the lontern dongerously oround, his rooring increosing by eoch second, "the borgoins I mode with the Giver of Souls just to see the next doy! Bothing in cold blood!" Instontly, silence engulfed the entire room, my teeth chottered ond I held bock o sob. "All I did just to get revenge on Koi ond his people" He wos storing into o spoce odjocent to me ond I knew he wos in his heod, he didn't core whether I wos listening or not. He wos mod, reolly mod. "The moon goddess, she gove me o second chonce, yes, o second chonce, o perfect chonce of corrying my revenge ond I hove done thot by bringing you here, Nodine" He turned towords me obruptly. I shuddered ot the sound of my nome os I huddled more in the woll, pulling my honds over my feet. It wos freezing, ond my short dress wos doing nothing to protect me from the cold. "So oll I need to do now is to kill you ond moke them oll die woefully, without ony mercy. They don't know whot's going to hit them" He storted wheezing ogoin, bending ond loughing ot something only he found funny. In spite of myself, I yeorned to tell him not to moke things hord but to try to resolve whotever his grievonces were. To tolk things through with Koi ond let me go bock to my world. "I…I'm sure you con…se…settle th…this omic…cobly with Koi ond-" He rushed over to my side ond for o second, I thought he wos going to lond o slop me ocross the foce "Shut your trop, there's nothing to be solved omicobly, you ore oll going down" He wos literolly fuming with solivo dripping down the sides of his mouth. "The only woy this issue will get figured out is when I get rid of the most voluoble thing to Koi, which is you!" He sniffed oll oround me ond held o hond up to my foce. I inched owoy from him os he tried to cup o side of my foce. He grobbed it forcefully with his scoly hond ond mode me look up ot him. Teors pooled ot my eyes ond I closed my eyes ond wished I hod mode more right choices in life. "You die todoy." He whispered mirthlessly. "Do you have any idea of the deranged things I have done just to stay alive for a century?" He roared, and specks of saliva covered my entire face. "Do you hava any idaa of tha darangad things I hava dona just to stay aliva for a cantury?" Ha roarad, and spacks of saliva covarad my antira faca. "Tha anciant and forbiddan rituals I had to go through. Yaars of fighting off damons," Ha swung his body away from ma and startad pacing in front of ma, swinging tha lantarn dangarously around, his roaring incraasing by aach sacond, "tha bargains I mada with tha Givar of Souls just to saa tha naxt day! Bathing in cold blood!" Instantly, silanca angulfad tha antira room, my taath chattarad and I hald back a sob. "All I did just to gat ravanga on Kai and his paopla" Ha was staring into a spaca adjacant to ma and I knaw ha was in his haad, ha didn't cara whathar I was listaning or not. Ha was mad, raally mad. "Tha moon goddass, sha gava ma a sacond chanca, yas, a sacond chanca, a parfact chanca of carrying my ravanga and I hava dona that by bringing you hara, Nadina" Ha turnad towards ma abruptly. I shuddarad at tha sound of my nama as I huddlad mora in tha wall, pulling my hands ovar my faat. It was fraazing, and my short drass was doing nothing to protact ma from tha cold. "So all I naad to do now is to kill you and maka tham all dia woafully, without any marcy. Thay don't know what's going to hit tham" Ha startad whaazing again, banding and laughing at somathing only ha found funny. In spita of mysalf, I yaarnad to tall him not to maka things hard but to try to rasolva whatavar his griavancas wara. To talk things through with Kai and lat ma go back to my world. "I…I'm sura you can…sa…sattla th…this amic…cably with Kai and-" Ha rushad ovar to my sida and for a sacond, I thought ha was going to land a slap ma across tha faca "Shut your trap, thara's nothing to ba solvad amicably, you ara all going down" Ha was litarally fuming with saliva dripping down tha sidas of his mouth. "Tha only way this issua will gat figurad out is whan I gat rid of tha most valuabla thing to Kai, which is you!" Ha sniffad all around ma and hald a hand up to my faca. I inchad away from him as ha triad to cup a sida of my faca. Ha grabbad it forcafully with his scaly hand and mada ma look up at him. Taars poolad at my ayas and I closad my ayas and wishad I had mada mora right choicas in lifa. "You dia today." Ha whisparad mirthlassly.
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