The Necklace of Elements [Book one]

-- Chapter ten --

Chapter ten: Crystal, The Greater Wolf of Judgement

It was unexpected as standing before them was a wolf. However, as much as it was the wolf that Boboiboy, Kaizo and Fang had met before. There was something about it that was extremely wrong with its current appearance.

Instead, this wolf had taken an even larger form, one that was trice the size of what its origin form was.

(At least, to those who had seen its form in the past before today.)

Not to mention that it was also furious, extremely furious as it hovered over the injured child. Its glowing golden eyes glaring down at the enemies before it.

"You of the sinned ones, you must pay for your price for harming the child," it snarled, mouth wide open with saliva dripping out of it as it growled, baring its teeth at them. The way it spoke, it had changed entirely, in a way or so, and whatever it was now, it certainly wasn't going to sound any good, at all. "And your life alone will not be enough to astonish you for your sins!"

The enemies who shivered under its words, knew instantly that they had, in a way, messed up.

Horribly.

Those humanoid foxes had already warned them before, and yet, they thought their warning was but a joke. And now, they are to pay the price and face the consequences of their ignorance against the genuine warnings.

And now, those foxes looked at them with an amused look on their face, giggling from time to time as if mocking them for their mistake.

The enemies had only two obvious choices in hand, one of them was to accept their death by the hand of the wolf, and the other was to run away as far as they could, away from the threat of death, away from the people they had wronged.

And among two obvious choices, there was one clear choice they could, and would, choose.

Run away.

And run away they did.

"Cowards!" The wolf growled, its teeth shown. It was about to give them a chase, to hunt them till none, when it felt something grip onto one of its paws. Lowering its head slightly, it was Boboiboy that did so. "Child? Why did you stop me?"

Boboiboy held his hand up, gently stroking Quake's snout in an attempt to calm it down. "Let them go, Crystal, let them go" he whispered, pleading for the wolf to stop whatever it was about to do next, "Let them go and they will not be seen again. Never will they bring harm to others."

(The way he spoke was solemn, as if he had spoken a promise, a silent promise of the destruction of something so obvious—)

Quake—Crystal?—whined, not really wanting to let its prey escape, but lowered its head in submission and nodded dismayed.

The child smiled.

He then opened his mouth to speak, but the injuries he had had begun to overwhelm his brain, he had forgotten about it for a moment. His vision blurred, but from the corner of his sight, he could see a familiar winged stag standing slightly further from him and Quake.

Its head tilted a little—he could've sworn that it was frowning—and nodded as if it had understood something.

It was then that he submitted himself into the world of unconsciousness, blacked out completely from the overwhelming pain.