SACRIFICE (BL) [COMPLETED]

Chapter 11 Alexander

Commander's PoV

Us royal knights were put on duty to protect the forest of Arzonia located at the South West and is also known as the misty mountains. This forest was formerly owned by the Human Kingdom but because it's near the border of the Demon's territory, there were a lot of demons lurking around here and they could not handle killing them with just their swords and bows. They need more skilled warriors who only don't have physical strength but also magical abilities.

So after the long discussion between the Emperor and the Human King, the forest's rights were transferred into our hands. Now, we are the one slaying the demons and protecting the humans from not encountering demons in their land.

Most of us are mixed breed. Half vampire and half werewolves excluding myself who was a full blooded vampire. They call me the War of God after participating in wars and leading them to their victory without a single defeat. After retiring since there aren't ongoing wars anymore, I was stationed at this misty forest.

We were able to make this place a hidden sanctuary for the full blooded werewolves who survived their extermination. We are all being protected with a barrier that makes this place invisible from the outside. But tonight, it was turned off to lure the demons because we found out that their King raised and made a new species with the help of black magic. 

We decided to investigate them.

But it's strange. Those demons should have been attacking us with the amount of blood we gathered from killing ogres and orcs since we found out they approach the smell of blood.

Was the barrier still on?

"Commander!!!" one of the royal knights cried out while scrambling his way up to my tent.

"Come with us! We saw a dead body of a noblewoman in the middle of the woods while patrolling!"

With his odd news, I urgently stood up and left my tent.

A noblewoman?

How is it possible that there's a person in this deadly place? Was she abducted and got killed here to dispose of her?

Ten minutes, it took us only ten minutes to reach the spot where they found her body.

Her red dress was all torn from the branches, I assumed because of the leaves stuck on her and her legs and arms are all dislocated but what drew my attention was her familiar face.

I went down on one of my knees and touched her cheeks with my trembling hands.

No way.

"Nattarin?" my comrades looked at me and asked in concern.

"You know her commander?" I couldn't barely hear what they said because my eyes were only directed at the dead woman who looked absolutely the same as the only woman who I love the most.

But that can't be. Nattarin is already deceased.

Then who is this person?

Why does she look exactly like her?

"What should we do to her commander? It appears to be that she's already dead just look at her. No one would survive after falling down from the sky, well of course except for you Commander Alexander since you are immortal." the knight commented but they weren't able to talk to me normally as my mind was too preoccupied.

Is she really Nattarin? 

Did she come back to life? 

Or is it just a coincidence that they look alike?

"Commander? Are you listening?" After a short while of being silent, I let out a loud heavy sigh and buried my face in my palms.

"First of all, tell the mages to set the barriers on again. Let's deal with the demons next time." I ordered the three knights who's in the site and they left me alone with this unidentified woman.

When I removed my palms on my face, I noticed that she was still breathing since her chest was moving up and down and that caused me to frown in disbelief.

"Huh...she's.....breathing?"

As I reached her pulse, my eyes caught a glimpse of her chest and I froze up from what I saw.

There's a crossed mark on her chest that looks exactly like what we have from our ancestors. I quickly yanked down her dress to see it up close and I was surprised for the third time.

She's...not a woman but a man.

"Commander! Commander! You need to get out of there! The demons are flying to your direction!"

I heard my colleagues from a distance so I looked up at the sky.

Squinting my eyes, I saw demons charging toward us at a high speed as the members of royal knights tried to distract them and make them ungroup because they were flying together like geese.

I immediately dismantle my armor and grew out my wings before holding the unknown man by his waist and flying off from our position.

Shit.

"CANCEL THE BARRIER AND DON'T LET THEM BE TRAPPED IN THIS FOREST!" I yelled and withdrew to our campsite.

"YES SIRE!"

Rushing, I was still inside the forest while I watched the knights from above the trees struggling to slay the demons as it seems that they keep on multiplying. 

My jaw dropped upon witnessing their unusual attributes.

How do they do that?! 

It's my first time seeing that kind of demons. 

Just what was the reason for that bastard King from creating them?

For war?

For fuck sake, do they badly want to carried out a Coup d'état?

"DID YOU SEE THEM?"

"WHERE DID THEY GO?!"

I slowed down after hearing them being at a loss and looked back at where I came from.

The knights landed around the nobleman's pool of blood and vigilantly grasping their swords for unforeseen attacks.

So from where I stood, I called them and asked what happened.

"COMMANDER, THE DEMONS WHO LANDED ON TOP OF THE BLOOD SUDDENLY VANISHED! EACH ONE OF THEM! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!"

Vanished? 

I was about to ask him for more details but the person I was carrying flinched and weakly groaned which shows he was truly alive.

Fuck those demons, it's not the time to trouble myself with them, I need to check his body fast.

"Report your findings to me later. I'll take care of this ma—woman first!"

On my way back to the campsite, I told the knight guards to never allow someone inside my tent until I said so. 

I was the one who removed his dress and cleaned up all his wounds that was slowly healing by itself.

I'm positively sure...

This man....

Is certainly our child.

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Arts Used:

Military Camp Site: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oOa0vz

Alexander: https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/520447300685580576/

Dark Forest: https://threeriversdeep.wordpress.com/tag/poem/page/9/