Episode 3

Erl Reyhound brought me into a house, through the tunnel, and he dropped me from his back. I twirled to take a look at the house and it was beautiful and enormous. I stared at the paintings, hung on the wall, and one caught my eyes. Erl Reyhound stood near Dyth-orak. The legendary warrior that died, 300years ago. 

It wowed me and I walked towards the painting, moved my hand on it, and its rough surface, to check if the painting was real, as I saw him stand beside him it. It was quite amazing. Obviously, he is absolutely one of the legendary werewolves for he to be painted years ago before the birth of Taseaus Eil, the one that is still alive till date, whom I thought was the oldest werewolf. 

I was startled as I heard sharp clangs. I turned around and found no one; the room was in a grave silence and my heart started to pound as I saw that the room was left to me. 

"Hey Reyhound!" I called. "Reyhound where are you at?" I called again, softly as I tiptoed to the nearest door.

"Hey" he called out from the door that was in the opposite direction, and I flinched as the 'hey' caught me in terror and my heart almost fell off my chest. 

I held my chest and seeing that I was frightened, he came close to me and walked me to the chair that was close by. 

"Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you. I couldn't answer you where I was but I didn't expect you to be frightened by seeing me. Please don't." He assured, and I nodded.

"It's... It's all good." I said as I caught my breath. 

Actually, I had fear in me because I had been thinking about all the things I experienced and it burdened me. I don't get frightened easily.

"Okay then..." He stared into my eyes, "what will you do to the person who is behind the murder of your parents?" He asked with a frowned-like face.

Immediately, the question triggered the darkness in me and my eyes glowed once more. The darkness mixed with anger, revenge and sorrow.

"I'll smile at the head of such a person. And after... I'll hang it up a tree." I replied.

"What if I tell you I am behind it?" Reyhound said what he shouldn't have said, I kept calm and scoffed.

"Please don't pull my legs right now, I am not in the mood." I paused as I saw him unsheathe the sword that was above my head and stood with a grin on his face. "Wh...what is this?" 

"I want to make sure you die along with your parents, and make sure you meet them before they go beyond this world." he revealed as he lifted the sword. 

I couldn't say what launched me, in a millisecond, I was up and behind Reyhound with blood dripping down from my nails. And my wolf hands turned slowly into a human hand.

"Ohhh" Reyhound grunt as his intestines closed up slowly and his belly formed back into the normal shape.

Turning back, I grabbed the sword which fell off his hand as I attacked him. I walked up to him, and bent. He sat, leaning to the chair behind him, drenched in blood. He caught his breath and looked at me with a smile on his face. 

"Hey, stop! Wait..." He coughed and spread his fingers as he stretched his hand toward my chest. "No,I am not behind the death of your parents. I am just trying to know how fast you'll go, and I think I have that now. I just needed to know more..." He sighed and sat up. "I had to try that now that you're angry and sad, I need to tell you more about that power in you. No pup can do what you just did, you went too fast that I barely saw you stand up."

"Gosh!" I cupped my mouth as I stood up and curled my hair backwards, with tears rolling down my cheeks. I summoned up the courage to wipe off my tears with my hands as Reyhound stood up and hugged me, pet me and showed me the way to the room which I was to stay. 

The room was beautiful as the bulb lit the house, bringing out the beauty in blue. The room was almost all blue, as the wall was painted blue and the bedsheet also was blue coloured with white designs, made for girls as the sheet was beautified with flowers and teddies besieged the bed, as they filled the bed. Even the lampbulb was covered in blue, and the towel that was there also was blue in colour. I turned around to look at Reyhound. "Do you have kids?" I asked, strictly.

"Couple of times, and they died. So I gave up having one." He answered softly, and landed with a tap in his laps.

"Wait. Aren't you a werewolf?" I asked, confused.

"I am"

"So... How come?"

"I married a human, all the time I married. And only two of my kids were werewolves, and they were the first."

"So, where are they now?"

"I couldn't protect them when the Dojras came for me…" He moved away from the door and sat on the edge of the bed, which I joined him to do. "so they were killed by the Tyrants. And since then, I had dug a lot of tunnels from one house to another. So I will keep myself safe. That is why I have been marrying humans, so the gene of werewolf might not be in them, and all of them didn't get my gene or trait. But I still watch them grow old and die." he wiped his face with his hands before a drop of tears would pop up.

"Why don't you get a werewolf lady and bear children?" I asked sincerely, confused.

"I... Oh I'm sorry, that part is as complicated as a werewolf." He said and patted me on my back.

"How?" I asked. 

"As a werewolf, you can't just take a girl or lady to be your wife, or mate as we call it. It must be your mate, and you will make her your wife after that." He smiled at me softly and giggled afterwards.

"Okay" I nodded once and looked at him. "How do you know that someone is your mate?" I was being inquisitive and I enjoyed it.

"Okay girl, you will know that when you grow old enough to get one, and it might be in another 500 years."

"Wow..." I nodded positively, like I was about to get it right. "Wait, what- 500years?" I asked with terror filled tone.

"Like I said, 'might'." he wiggled his two fingers at me, and make a funny face as he smiled at me. "Are you curious about getting married?"

"No. Why would I? I am just amazed that I can live more than a hundred years." I was surprised and wowed.

"With your super abilities, you might live more that 1 thousand years." he said as he moved to the door.

"WOW!! How old are you?" I asked with a long face of confusion.

"More than 300." he said and slammed the door behind him.

"Oh, wow!'' The door opened again and Reyhound's head popped in.

"Wake up early for your training, pup." he smiled and slammed the door closed again.

"I'm Beck" I said to the air.