After parking the car in the garage, I immediately went to the horse stable. It's still early so there aren't many workers in the hacienda yet. I picked a brown horse. I'm about to ride on his back when a black horse nearby suddenly caught my attention. He was in the other stable alone and his black eyes were looking at me. I returned the taken horse to his stable and approached the black horse. The horse started to wagged his tail. He let out a low grunt too as I approached him. I caressed its neck. This was the horse Koko was talking about before. I grinned. Looks like we'll get along well. I didn't think twice and immediately took him out of his stable. I love horses ever since and as I watched the horse in front of me, I can't help but to be mesmerized. This one was way bigger and taller than normal stallions. His legs and muscles look strong and sturdy and I'm sure that he can endure a long and fast ride. I climbed on his back. "From now on, I will call you Brigo. That will be
The Rogue slowly approached and encircle us around. I have my gun pointed at him and watching carefully his every move. The rain started to pour. I tightened my grip on my weapon as the rain grew stronger and I could barely see through it's thickness. Brigo was just next to me who was in a poor state. I can't ride him again because his wound was so bad and it's obvious that he's already weak from the amount of blood he'd lost. I kept thinking on how I could get out of this woods with my horse in his condition. My conscience can't bear to just leave him here. He came here with me so we should also go out of this forest together. But we need first to defeat the enemy in front of us. I need to face it and there was nowhere to run anyway. We need to kill it for us to escape. The Rogue jumped and immediately attacked us. I quickly dodged and when his large body passed by my side, I strongly thrust the dagger held in my left hand. The Rogue whimpered in pain. I immediately pulled the dag
Me and the brown wolf kept on staring at each other. It was only interrupted when four giant wolves appeared. They were stunned when they saw me. The brown wolf glanced at me once more before he faced the newly arrived wolves. I just stayed where I was standing while looking at them talking using the wolves language. From their posture and their expressive eyes, there's no mistaking it that they belong to a pack. The four wolves quickly left in the direction where the three wounded Rogues ran earlier. I think the brown wolf gave instructions to capture the three."W-Who are you?" I dare to ask.The wolf stared at me for a moment before gradually changing it's form in front of me. My eyes widened when a gorgeous man appeared in front of me."Hi," he greeted me with all smiles. I was dumbstruck. I find it hard to utter a word. I felt like I was stoned when he smiled at me. His brown eyes were now green. He has a red lips and his thick left eyebrow has a lining on it. My eyes went down
We traveled for about 30 minutes before we arrived at the Witch's house. Jacob carefully placed me on the ground."Is that the house?" I asked him while looking at the small house in front of us. "Yeah," Jacob answered. I studied it. The house was made of pure wood. It was small but it looks sturdy. Behind the house was a huge rock covered with thick moss. Around the house was a small river and the blue water was sparkling and flowing fast. The small river just goes around the house without any direct source of water. There's no doubt that this was a house of a Witch.I cleared my throat. "H-Hello?" I said in a rather loud voice. I heard the laughter of Jacob and Sebastian. I looked at them in confusion. What? Am I doing it wrong? "Lauren, you wouldn't see a Witch if you call them out outside their house's. You need to knock on their door," Jacob explained with a slight laugh. Oh, so that's how it is. "Sorry, I didn't know." "It's fine because you kept on entertaining us," he sai
I slowly opened my eyes when I felt thirsty. I stared at the ceiling for a long time and wondered if the ceiling in my bedroom was this color. When I realized that it wasn't , I jumped out of bed. "Shit," I mumbled and rubbed my temple because of the dizziness I felt from my sudden movements. I looked up at the table nearby and quickly picked up the glass and a pitcher of water to quench my thirst.I looked around the room. A combination of gray and white color. The room was very elegant with only few things, it was also clean. The bed I was in was big and spacious, the sheets and bedsheets were also white. Only then did I notice that I was wearing different clothes. I was wearing a loose white dress with the SpongeBob logo on the front while I was wearing short walking shorts underneath. I took a deep breath and calmed myself down to the foreign things I was seeing. I now remembered where I was and why I was lying here. Jacob must be nuts! He's gone crazy! What should I do now? Sho
Jacob left me alone in the car. He said he would try to find a slipper that will fit my feet. My eyes landed to the baseball cup on the dashboard. I picked it up and put it on my head. I'm sure it's Jacob's because it smells like vanilla. I pulled down the visor a bit to cover my face. I licked my bottom lip then looked up. Even though I was a little nervous, I couldn't help but look around. If the buildings in the Centro look like Spanish, the buildings here were European inspired and made of black bricks. The equipments here were also old. "Vegetables, everyone! They're cheap and freshly harvested!" My gaze flew to where that loud voice came from. It came from an old man with a white towel wrapped on his head. In front of him were different kinds of vegetables. I leaned against the door and folded my arms. One of the characteristics that I noticed in the people here was their tall stature. I thought that Jacob's height was just a coincidence but I'm all wrong because being tall i
Jacob spoke after the long silence. "Do you know the word 'mates' and how important that thing is to us?" he began. Mates.."They are your lifetime partners, right? Like soulmates?" I said and Jacob nodded slowly. "Something like that but there's more to that. Supposedly, Leon should find his mate last year but the whole year had passed without any single trace from his mate." Maybe that's the reason why Leon's like that. "Most of the population of wolves finds their mate at a young age. The lowest is age fifteen but most of the time it is between the age of eighteen to twenty and no one goes past that when you are a normal wolf." I frowned at what he said. He said earlier that Leon should have found his partner last year. Jacob mentioned that Leon's already 24 now so he was 23 at that time. "So, Leon is not a normal wolf?" I turned to Jacob who was a bit confused. I wonder what was their basis for being normal and not normal. "I thought he wouldn't get affected because we are j
Am I being selfish again? While I was talking to Jacob earlier, I made a decision. I'll stay here in Magnuth since I'm already here. I can't risk going back in Asthad without an answer or cure because there is no certainty if I can come back here again, especially since I am wanted by the Rogues. I can come back but I can't be sure if I will be lucky the second time I come here. I will lose contact with Jacob once I return to Asthad. More than that, I don't want to bother him anymore because it looks like I'm really bothering him. He was supposed to be patrolling around as Leon said earlier but here he is, taking care of me. So I can't go back. I will only go home when there is medicine for my father's illness. "Dad, I promise. This will be the last time. After this, I won't leave again. Just.. just this once." My father on the other line was quite and I knew he was upset with me even if he didn't say it. I shook my head and looked down at the town below. Up until now, all I've bee