The Other Husband [Male! Beldam x reader]

Chapter 8: Finding the Women's Eyes

You walked to the garden gate and pushed it open, there were still flowers in the garden, but they grew dull and emitted nothing, unlike last time. You tried to step away from the flower as much as possible in case they tried to prevent you from winning the game.

The yellow snapdragons made a sound as they called out to you. You looked down at them before you slowly stepped away, unknowingly stepping closer to another set of blue snapdragons that emerged from the stone well and slithered behind you. The yellow snapdragons made a sound louder as you grew wary and baffled. You screamed as two blue snapdragons bit your wrists but didn't sink teeth in them, the rest wrapped themselves around your body before attempting to drag you to the well.

You struggled to escape as you swang one of your wrists from the bite before reaching for the gardening shears on the ground. You successfully grabbed it in your hand before you cut all the vines to set yourself free. You panted lightly as you watched the vines go back inside the well.

But as you were collecting the stuff you dropped from the bag, three buzzing bugs attacked you. Two of them quickly carried the adder stone on the ground and tried to escape from you. Fortunately for you, the yellow snapdragons quickly bit all the bugs, killing them instantly. You looked down at the sand pouring out from the bugs before you picked up the adder stone, growing curious about it.

"Why steal this?" You mumbled under your breath. The snapdragons called out to you as one of them looked through the hole beside the leaves. You soon realized what the snapdragons intended to say as you looked through the hole and met with a dull gray environment instead of a colorful one. "Wow..." You looked around with an eye through the stone before you caught something shining in red color in a dull gray world across the bridge.

"That must be it!" You carefully walked across the bridge and met with the giant mantis machine. You looked through the stone again and found the ghost's eye on the handle. But the mantis soon activated with eyes glowing bright as you screamed in shock. You backed away from the mantis to the bridge as you grew panicky, avoiding the sharp claw the mantis tried to strike.

But suddenly, the mantis was struggling with something wrapped around its body, preventing the movement. You backed away as quickly as possible and saw the yellow snapdragons gang up on the mantis, restricting it at the middle of the bridge. But as the mantis used the claws to cut the snapdragons, it destroyed the bridge's floor. As the mantis and the snapdragons were about to sink into the pond below, one bit on the handle, pulling it out before spitting it to you. You quickly caught it in your hands before you watched the mantis sinking and grew shocked by the area around you soon turned black and white.

You panted lightly before you heard the voice of the Georgian woman speaking to you from her glowing eye. "𝓑𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝔂𝓸𝓾, 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓼! 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓶𝓮! 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮'𝓼 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓮𝔂𝓮𝓼 𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓽."

"Don't worry. I'm getting the hang of it." You reassured before you kept the first eye in the bag. You looked up to the sky to see the moon slowly covered by something black, indicating the time you had left. You looked back at the apartment before you remembered another wonder the Bluebeard gave you a hint. You decided to check on Ms. Spink and Ms. Forcible downstairs. You stopped at the glowing door in front of you before entering and moved the red curtain away, showing an empty and dark theater.

You picked up the flashlight in front of you before you shone it around the theater. You then heard the sound of something rustling and you shone to something hanging upside down. A pack of black Scottish terriers with large bat wings and glowing red eyes snarled at you. You gasped before you quickly shut the flashlight down, calming the dogs immediately.