The Deadly Spell

Chapter 3: A Beast

a/n: sorry for some grammatical errors in the chapter :)

Chapter 03: a Beast

Birds and trees, grass sways with the every blows of wind, the silence filled me and Christine since she told me how she is been cast out of their pod, Jack the three year old kid we found in the third cage is the one who keeping both of us a company.

He makes us laugh every time he try to talk, looking up to us with his blue innocent eyes either he's asking what is the problem or he is hungry and usually we wanted to pinch his chubby cheeks when he pouted when a mosquito bite his white cream skin.

I don't know how long our travels had been and we didn't have a place to go or decided to stay. We've been traveling without a map of destination for 4 days and the bad part is a hunted memories of mine turned into a nightmare every time I closed my eyes. The scenario always is I was alone in a deserted island composed of nothing but sand, and to make it worst there is a creature with me alone in the deserted place but nothing but myself. I didn't see clearly what the dark creature is it but I know it's scary enough to make my skin crawl in shiver.

I told Christine about what my dream is but she just shrugged it off and said that it just my imagination and nothing more, I don't know if she is angry with me but I felt when Christine said that means to me that she didn't care what happened to me.

Now we are traveling west, Christine said that the territory of Lucere is more safe than the others because of their light magic, she also said that their light magic lessen the curse of deadly spell so we can stay there for a while and then we parted our ways from each other.

She hates me for unknown reason.

My life pass 8 days long but it's so eventful from the death and revelation that Christine told me. I don't know where I and Jack would go, Christine is the only one who mature enough because of her 20 years of her memories life are intact to keep her guided but me I'm not good enough to pass a toddlers mind for the 8 days I endured.

I would be a mess.

I cannot stand on my own is my problem.

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The sun set down from the sky, me and Christine are trying to yield the fire to these two branches of tree I found for our heat in a cold night. She's still haven't talk to me or spare some glance, I don't know If she's mad or ignore I'm existed.

"Christine do you need help?" I tried to start a conversation but she ignored me and continuing creating fire from the two stick.

Well at least I try to talk about the problem to solve it but she remained unspoken, I walked away from her and go to Jack who is busy watching the fireflies fly above him. I sit next to him but I comprehend he didn't felt my presence. I look back to Christine whose face is mix with anger and frustration.

"I'm not mad to you" I heard her voice say and my eyes widen when she's the one who starting a conversation to me. I beamed with happiness when she talked to me being the one to engage the conversation first.

"I don't know you are not talking to me" I guilt-trip her to make her aware how she make me feel when she was not talking to me.

"I'm sorry if I make you feel like that I hate you I'm just not feeling good when I talked about my past family" she apologize but to what. I'm fine of her being like this to me I'm her friend after all or so I thought.

"Friends? Do you have one?" I asked

"Hardly have one" she said like it didn't bother her not having at least one.

"What about me?" I boldly asked her about what relationship we have right now.

She look at me with confuse face. Now I'm missing the anger faced Christine when we still caged by the hobgoblins. She's always at her period with a reddened face fuming with anger.

"I-I could say we are" she replied back and look down to jack who is beside me staring at Christine.

"What's wrong are you hungry?" I asked worried when he didn't say yes in his own baby way. I decided to end the conversation and turn my attention to the hungry three year old who after asking the question to the innocent Jack burp indicating he was full.

"Yvonne I'm still wondering why Jack is in the supervision of the hobgoblins?" she asked, huh I didn't know either but that's what make me think more about this.

"I don't know Christine, we cannot just ask a three year old boy to tell us why he was in the care of those creatures" I said what I thought but I'm sure there's a why he was in our care now and found him.

"Okay so I just going to find us some food to eat" I said standing up the log I was sitting and decided to find us food.

"I'm getting a food for us to eat" I said leaving Christine to take care the 3 year old child.

As I was searching for edible food but it's more than that what I found. A 5 feet beats lurking around the lake I wandered on, I didn't know what to think by then but stare to the lion like beast but many resemblances to the said animal.

I was supposed to run away from being eaten by it but a force pulled me closer to take a good glance on what creature that might be. I was nearside the lake when it move his head to look at me but move his head down to drink the lake water. I stare to the clear water that flowing with small little waves, seeing my appearance for the first time I just found out that I had a sparkling crystal blue yes, a small 5'6 height but have a physically strong and delicate figure, a small nose, thin lips, well defined cheek bones, a long black wavy hair that pass my hips and I also seen a unique birthmark on my shoulder that visible to the tear up cloth on my clothes.

I snap back to reality when I heard the big paws of walking and stare up to the beast that was feet away from me but now I closely see because of it being inches away from my face, I stumble down on my feet of fear when I saw the sharp teeth this beast has.

Please for all the deity in Arvo I pray to let me continue to live.

As it might seem that I will die today.

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