Nathan Black"I'll be back in a minute!" Before I could reply to him, Ethan had already moved his feets towards one of the tents nearby, uncaring if I had heard him hollered the words.Albeit, instead of wondering where he was off to, my head whirled on the things we had discussed momentarily. How could Sir Joshue be missing? And adding to the fact that they had only found Xena, awfully injured from the fire, and not a sight of him.I bit my inner cheek, jaw unintendedly clenched, as I mulled over the condition I left him that night.I was beyond certain that I pushed him to the fire long before Xena had arrived. Thus, logically, wouldn't his body supposed to at least be as grievely as Xena was? Too horrible that they couldn't even be sure that she would survive, even till today.I walked further, nearing the forest as I spotted Allan, Thomas and some others already waiting for us. Just then, I picked up the footsteps striding behind me when an arm sled around my shoulder.I didn't

Nathan Black "Hey, Nat." My head turned to Ethan, snapping my attention away from the campfire they had started up hours ago. "I'm heading in first." He muttered, visibly exhausted as he weakly pointed towards his tent before he sneaked inside it for the night. I replied with a nod, though I doubt he even noticed it. Seeing him trudging his way around, patrolling the site in the evening was enough to show how out of it he was for the day. I heaved a sigh, forcing my legs to straighten itself from the ground as I trailed along the area. Now that the dark sky had dawn upon us, only a couple of us were seen outside of the tent. Most of them stayed up to guard the surroundings. And only when they had kept surveillance long enough would they wake the others, trading places for them to fall into slumber. It had already been three days we had tried to find some hints of where he was, to no avail. All we did was hop from one place to another, following Thomas's so-called 'I remembere

Nathan Black"We're here." Thomas's whisper was enough for us to stay alert, eyes instantly averting towards our surroundings. We had to ensure we were really by ourselves, without unnecessary company that I hoped we wouldn't have to unfortunately meet eyes on.It was when we were perfectly certain that none had trailed after us that we set our attention on the grim sight not far from where we hid.The second my eyes trained towards the pointed area had the line between my eyes creased, forming a neat line on my forehead.What even was this place?If there was anything I could describe it, I would say it was an abandoned small village. However, seeing a couple of small wooden houses based around the area, with the smoke exiting from it, it wouldn't need a hard guess to know the place was populated.Though, who would even dare to build such a population in another's territory. Not to mention, in the notorious Solis's territory at that.And if Thomas had been telling the truth, that

Nathan Black"Unbelievable." Ethan shook his head, unknown of other way he could express the horrid feeling looming inside him."I–I'm telling the truth." The young man choked out, "It was all his plan right from the very beginning. He knew we were stranded after we were exiled by our previous pack.""He offered us a place to build our home and he acted all nice at first." His eyes were unfocused as he retold the story, as if his mind had to go through the event again."Then, I realized that one by one, our people had gone missing. I thought nothing of it until one of my close friends disappeared, right after he had met Sir Joshue." He panted, a tear slowly glided down his skin, seeing the ache he tried to suppress."It turns out, he had been tossing us, one by one to the Luna Pack, attacking their border." he sniffled, flicking his eyes upward as it met mine. "B–But you know how strong the pack was, everyone knows." At the mention of our pack, I averted my sight away from his undou

Emma Grey "I think there's something beneath us." As though confirming my words, the knocks returned. Now that we stood in the center of the room, we could hear it radiating from the floor. Only this time, it was getting weaker by each second when it suddenly disappeared, clawing the nerves that fumbled through my senses. Something's not right. What could it be? Adding to the fact that it resounded below the ground, how can that possibly be? Could there be an unknown basement underneath the house? I've lived in this house for 20 years, surely I would've noticed if there were peculiar things happening over the years. Right? Though, I couldn't deny that I spent most of my time in my room, away from mom's sight. It was actually easier for those matters to slip by my attention. The question now was, how do I find the door? The only furniture there was in here was the worned looking set of couches with a soft shaggy brown rug underneath it. And also a radio on top of the wooden co