Chapter Five – The Wolfman.
“See how gentle he is with water. Imagine how much gentle he’ll be with a woman” she whispered. Evelyn sighed tiredly.
Lydia slaps her mouth off her ears, “Did you hear that growl? That’s what we should be worried about?”. Margaret eyes shot wide with realization.
A small killer wolf appears from the bushes. It held a small flower in its mouth. It kept it’s head low and dropped the flower on the wolfman's laps. The wolfman in turn kissed it’s head.
“What’s happening?” Margaret glared at the wolf jealously.
“What's happening? We have two predators now, that’s what” Evelyn answered. For the wolfman to be comfortable with a Killer Wolf, he could lord one and that wasn’t safe.
The little wolf rests on the man's lap while the man places the flower on his head. Lydia recognizes that act but still stays quiet.
“How'll we move without that wolf sensing us?” was Evelyn’s new question.
“Dustin, do you wanna play?” the wolfman spoke suddenly. The girls looked surprised. His voice was deep and his accent was accurate.
Wolfmen weren’t educated and were expected to speak wolf. Whatever language that was. None had ever gone to a school in the villages. None had been reported to anyway.
The wolf made a small sound in response and rolled it’s back. The wolfman rubbed it’s belly and the wolf stuck out his tongue enjoying it.
“Is that a dog or a wolf?” Lydia was curious, she looked closely.
“Or maybe wolfmen treat wolves as their dogs” Evelyn added. It was a more sensible explanation.
The wolfman held the wolf in a small grasp and it could be said they were bonded.
Either way, Margaret was struck by both the wolfman’s beauty and gentility.
“My ideal man” Margaret whispered again, “He's out of this world's ordinary”.
Evelyn confirms but instead calls him “Freak of nature”. Wolfmen were not a common phenomenon so it was fair to call them freaks.
Lydia in turn corrects that they should be rather called “curse of nature” as she once heard how their origin started from a curse.
Margaret was surely displeased to hear her sister’s review on a man she was drooling over.
She stood up straight but ducked when the wolf spotted her. It growled in displeasure.
Lydia face slammed. The wolfman seemed to have smirked as he releases the wolf from his grasp.
“Crazy bastard” Evelyn screamed as she ran off. Lydia and Margaret began running. The wolf sprang up from the wolfman’s lap and began chasing after them.
Margaret kept making small screams as she ran, leading the wolf on.
“Why can’t the bloody wolfman help us!” Lydia screamed as she ran.
“Cos he’s a bloody wolfman!” Evelyn screamed back.
Margaret bent her head down in shame. If only she had controlled herself. They wouldn’t be where they were now.
Evelyn swerved back and jumps on a boulder lifting herself to a tree. Lydia runs past her. The wolf gets to her but fails to climb the tree.
It growls angrily before chasing after the rest.
Lydia does the same though her leg gets twisted as she attempts jumping on a tree.
It was so close or the wolf would have scratched off her legs. She sent an ear piercing scream to the air as she pushed herself higher up the tree.
With Evelyn's new height she could see the wolfman still resting on the cave. She noticed however, his immediate reaction when he heard Lydia's scream.
She saw him run to them but couldn’t see him clearly as he leapt in wolf’s speed. She was slipping so tried balancing on a branch.
“This is not good. Lydia, we need to kill that wolf” she shouted to Lydia who was hugging her tree tightly, afraid to let go.
Evelyn jumps down landing with her the legs. She lifts a heavy stone to her shoulder and runs after the wolf with it.
Lydia does the same, limping towards the wolf with a heavy boulder.
Margaret had reached a cliff. She never knew that forest had one.
It had always been her dream to get to the end of the cliff and now she had, she wasn’t feeling so excited cos it may be where she ends.
The wolf growled to remind her of its presence. Margaret turned to it, ready to accept her fate.
A stone lands on the wolf’s tail making it whimper in pain. It turned the other half of its body and growled at Lydia.
“Sister to the rescue here” Evelyn roared as she threw her stone on his snout. The wolf fell flat, injured.
Lydia placed her feet on the stone at the wolf’s tail to wage it. Evelyn slowly places hers on the stone at the wolf’s snout.
“Ensure justice” Lydia tells Margaret signaling at another stone nearby. Margaret rushes and grabs the stone with her fat hands.
She comes to the wolf’s stomach and smiles as she let go of her stone to smash its middle. The wolf wiggled helplessly.
A loud growl commanded her to stop. Lydia springs off from the wolf but returns her legs to wage it.
Margaret froze on hearing the growl and leaves the stone. It fell down still but was caught mid air.
Sand and dust flushes into Margaret eyes as something had dashed and held the stone before it landed on the wolf. She opened her eyes slowly to see angry red eyes glaring at her soul.
Unconsciously, she winks.
He pushed Margaret forcefully away from the wolf and she fell meters away from the edge of the cliff. She scampers away from the edge with fright.
Evelyn was thrown away from the wolf snout with ease. She stayed still on the ground as she wondered how a wolf man could lift her up like a baby and toss her about.
However, the wolf man lifted Lydia with care and dropped her away from the wolf.
Margaret frowned at the preferential treatment but then noticed that Lydia’s legs were twisted. Lydia’s eyes glowed and her cheeks flushed as the wolfman stayed down at her.
He proceeded in carrying the little wolf in his arms to leave.
Chapter Six – No one to help.He proceeded in carrying the little wolf in his arms to leave.“Hey!!” Evelyn got back to her feet holding a stick. Margaret shook her head to tell her not to fight back but she knew her sister. Evelyn was stubbornness itself. “Wont you apologize for your pet wolf nearly killing us, huh?!”. The wolfman smirked. Margaret found it unbearable adorable. “But you nearly killed it” he replied, looking Evelyn dead straight in the eye. Lydia wanted Evelyn to stop since it was fair. She was regretting leaving her uncle’s home in the first place. “It attacked us first, we didn’t do anything” Evelyn retorted. “You came to its home to bother him, that’s what you did. Kindly go back home with your sisters” the wolfman said and left. Margaret helped Lydia up while Evelyn angrily broke the stick. “How does he know we are sisters?” Lydia wondered out loud. “We look it” Margaret responded. Three girls wearing the same boring style of dress. With brown
Chapter Seven – Lydia is Loco now. It wasn’t a cave. It was a fortress. Scott led the girls down to the very last wall. He punched a button and a stone rolled open. Another world was behind there. Everywhere green and flowery. There was a small stream that got it’s root from the forbidden river. It excited Margaret. They weren’t any houses in sight and just vast green space. Only small animals ran about, no bigger mammals. After surveying and finding only smaller caves inside the place, Evelyn confirmed that that was where she and her sisters would be staying. Lydia began making weird noises and acting stubborn. She climbed down from Margaret’s shoulder and began running to a tree. Margaret wanted to stop her but Scott held her back, “Let her play”. Evelyn found a less creepy cave amongst the many. It was also narrowed in and had a hole inside. Would be very useful at night. She was the one carrying their heavy bags so she dumped them on the floor and tried catchi
Chapter Eight – Bringing them back.Margaret face slammed. She was embarrassing and so not Lydia-like.Scott handed some of the ‘yummy fruits’ he had to Lydia, with a smile. Again, Margaret was not appreciating his nice treatment to Lydia. She jumped in between them. “I could stay with you while my sisters stay in that cave” she smiled cutely. Evelyn came forward with a frown, “He is staying in a cave as well, what makes his cave difference from ours?”. She knew exactly was Margaret was thinking. And the last thing she wanted was her sister smooching around with some wolfman in the middle of the night, when wolfmen are most dangerous. “Well, my cave has only one person in it” Scott answered Evelyn. She shifted her frown to him. So he wanted Margaret to stay with him? Suspicious. Margaret smiled brightly. “Well, if you don’t count my wolfs, May, June and July, though. I am alone” Scott added with a smirk. Margaret moved backwards. “You have puppies? Let me see” Lydia’s e
Chapter Nine – Law of forest. Two men shrieked as they saw a snake slid by. It was the third wildlife creature they were seeing that passed them without attacking. The forest and its river were called forbidden for a reason but Sylvester had still paid them to go into the forest to search for his nieces. They were so blinded by the huge amount he gave that they broke their own law of trespassing the forbidden forest. A squirrel ran through their legs while chasing after a nut and one of the men screamed his lungs out. The other looked horrified. “Why do these animals not act like animals? Snakes are supposed to attack. Squirrels would avoid humans as much as possible. What’s wrong with these forest animals?” they wondered to themselves. Well, the animals at that forest had an Alpha. An Alpha they believed wouldn’t let anyone hurt them. They were also bonded by a law not to hurt anyone from the village as well. It was the new law of the forest. “How can those girls be
Chapter Ten – A marriage for Lydia. The hunters were surprised to see the girls coming out from the forest like they owned the place. They looked healthy and strong except they had gloom faces. Before any hunter could speak Lydia dragged his net that had little squirrels. The fearful squirrels ran away for their life the moment they were free. “Isn’t this forest forbidden? Why are you catching animals from it?” Margaret pointed at the men. Lydia spared them no dialogue as she targeted their catch and dragged it away, setting the animals free. Some hunters tried fighting for their catch but one look at Lydia’s face made them realize she was meaning business. Evelyn just watched in silence. She was careful not to make an outburst as it would be rude to the hunters. They were just acting on their natural instincts, doing their jobs. It was rather their own fault for running to the forest. She now understood that the forest was forbidden for a reason. The girls stood in
Chapter Eleven – Can’t marry a classmate Her face looked like someone had splashed it with mud because before her was Mrs. Lara and her teenage son with a bouquet of flower. “Did you mistake here for an asylum? What are you doing here?” Margaret asked disgusted. “That’s no way to speak to an in-law or an elder” her uncle spears behind the visitors. “Wow. Margaret is getting married to that kid?” Lydia looked both amused and repelled. Sylvester invited Evelyn and Margaret to the dining room to talk on “important matters”. Margaret had given an evil smirk and followed them. Evelyn didn’t bother. She knew her sister would reject the boy. For his own sake. She collapsed on her bed and let the amazing scenery of Scott’s home fill her mind. She low-key wished she could go back. She was slowing drifting to sleep when Margaret barged into the room, laughing her head out. Evelyn glared at her with half closed eyes. “You won’t believe. That kid is actually getting married t
Chapter Twelve – The Price of his Freedom. Evelyn slammed her hands in the table abruptly. Her hands ached as it was a wooden table but her anger subdued her pain. “Stop messing with our brains. Where’s the dead-now-revived boy, huh!” she looked like she’d hit the old man. Lydia looked calm. Sylvester didn’t look threatened at all by her rage, he had the exact words for her. According to him, the acclaimed boy was now a servant of the priest. It was a Buddhist priest, more or less a monk, and the boy was a servant there. To retrieve the boy is only by adoption and a huge amount have to be paid. Margaret listened with anger but it soon fizzled out as she remembered it could be a prank. “If you think it’s a lie, then ask yourself why Han looks like Lydia?” Sylvester ended his explanation with a grin. He expected to see a sense of realization in their eyes but their eyes only emitted hatred. There was a pin drop silence. Lydia clenched her fists, she raised them to hi
Chapter Thirteen – Their reward. Margaret gazed down at her youngest sister and she could see the sadness and fear welling up in her. “It isn’t going to end this way” she said before stomping off. Evelyn followed her outside and noticed she wore forest boots. Meaning she could only be going one place. “But how can Scott help us now?” she wondered to herself. Margaret kept her hopes high as she ventured deeper into the forest. A howling nearby didn’t scare her but assured her she was getting closer. She knew that Scott was always with the wolves to make sure they didn’t get in trouble. A snarling was made right behind her and she turned with a smile. “Take me to Scott, please” she said politely. The wolf responded by growling loudly and then howling to his other pack members that he has found FOOD. Margaret immediately sensed this and began running. With her high pitched screams she hoped Scott would find her.*******(Galdrish. Camp of Galdrish Royal Soldiers) A high r