Hidden Beast

41. The Murder

Jasper

Breakfast the day after is hectic. The whole place is buzzing with noise and everyone is chattering, trying to make themselves heard.

No one really knows what has happened only that two people died yesterday and four was injured.

Everyone knew I was one of the 'Victims' so I had a lot of eyes on my and I heard the whisperings and false rumors flying around me.

A lot of people had asked me what had happened but I hadn't answered anyone as the Royal Guard had been first and told me to keep quiet.

I wouldn't have said anything even if I was allowed to talk. I wanted to think for myself.

No one knew the beast had caught me and let me go, they just knew I had been attacked and found alive but shaken in another corridor that stood empty these days, just my luck to chose the avoided corridor to seek help in.

Two of the attacked yesterday was competitors and the girl that had survived didn't feel the need to keep quiet like I did, in fact she seemed to want the opposite.

Loudly the girl that had survived told the story over and over again to everyone who wanted to hear about how she and her friend had taken a nightly walk had met the vicious blood-thirsty beast.

She said that the boy, yes the boy, I don't think anyone believed they where just out on a night walk but for now everyone was too busy listening to the story to think more about what they actually did.

Anyway, he had pushed her aside to keep her safe but as she could handle herself, according to her, she had protested and they tried to kill the beast but they had lost their weapons, that they wasn't even suppose to have and probably didn't even have as they where only "taking a walk".

However they lost the weapons and she got hurt, with was probably true from the scratch marks on her head and arm that she excitedly and proudly showed to everyone, and he had yelled at her to run. Sacrificing himself to save her, end of story.

Well, that's all I got out from it, she was telling much more that i didn't believe at all that proves how brave and skilled she was, I didn't believe it one bit she had probably just been hiding behind the poor guy that had had to pay with his life.

According to the girl it had been brutal but it hadn't been from what is had seen, the beast had just slammed in to the guards and they where knocked out, it hadn't munched on their bones like the girl had said.

Unfortunately the body of the guard and the competitor that had died had been removed so we couldn't see if it really was true that the beast had really munched on his bones.

The highly ranked people wasn't present as they used to be, everyone had a grand meeting today and I wondered what chaos it would be there.

I stared at Ruby's empty chair, what did she think about all of this? Had she been up all night dealing with this? I wondered what she would do about it?

My father sat as usual with new people and discussed wathever and I scowled at him. As soon as he had heard about my involvement he had walked up to me, but not to ask about how I felt but to ask about how I had fought the beast of and so on.

I had snapped back that I hadn't fought at all but actually fled making him scowl at me and leave, I doubted that he told his friends that. He probably bragged about how I heroically fought of the beast until it turned and fled from me.

The king and queen had earlier announced that this wouldn't cause any delays in the scheming and we would return to the schedule and the training today as usual. The would talk about this and agree to what they would tell then we would get more information about what had happened.

Of course we didn't have anything to worry about as the problem quickly had been taken care of, like I believed that.

I sighed, maybe I could ask Ruby? She would know more and she would tell me the truth, wouldn't she? We where friends right? That's what friends do, is it?

Ruby

The voices in the room is just background noise as my thoughts is all i hear. Everyone that has some kind of power in the kingdom is in here and everyone want to know exactly what happened. 

The other people that just were influencal was being kept in the dark and was in this moment having a meal in the great dining hall. I wonder what Jasper thought about this, what had he heard?

Of course my father, Mahogany and maybe Peridot and Carnelian is the only ones that knows what really happened. 

Everyone else thinks that a unusual kind of werewolf was on a rampage trough the catsle and they think that it had broken free from the cage from last time we 'caught' it. The real truth was of course that i had'nt yet get locked in my room before i shifted.

I don't remember what had happened, did i turn to early? But it wasn't that late, was it? The last i remember was...Jasper? As the meeting continue around me and i'm probably needed i furrow my eyebrows and tries to think trough the fog an darkness that hides my memories.

Jasper came to my room to...talk about something? What did we even talk about? I remember that we talked about the puppy at one time...why did we talk about that? What had happened? Why don't I remember?

I had woken up this morning in my father's room. He and King Philip had been waiting for me to wake up and they had told me what happened.

No one knows what had caused the early shift but father thought that I had been stressed about something and that had triggered it all.

The thing is that I remember my room, Jasper and the puppy but I can also see faint memories of my brother Carnelian.

Jasper and Carnelian? I hope they weren't in my room at the same time because that couldn't mean any good but that could explain why I shifted?

My head starts to pound painfully when I try to remember when I had shifted.

What had I done? I only remember the dark and empty corridors. Normally I tried to forget everything but I needed to know what had happened with Jasper.

I had panicked when I had heard that Jasper had been attacked, luckily I hadn't hurt him.

Father said that guards had found him alone in a for now empty corridor, shaken but alright.

They had asked him what he remembered and it seemed that he had taken a midnight stroll through the castle and and then he and the guards had gotten attacked and he had run off.

What scared me the most wasn't the guards I had hurt or killed, it was that I had followed him but then...turned.

According to Jasper I had been right there but then just got off him? Had my wolf somehow recognized him or did I really have some kind of control in my beast form?

In one way I hoped I didn't have any control but in another I wanted that. I mean, with the control of that beast I wouldn't be dangerous any more and Mahogany would have no reason to throw me out but on the other side.

If I had always have that control but never knew about it...never tried. Then I was responsible for all the killings I had done.

It feels worse to be able to do something about the killings and not do it than kill people but don't be able to control it. I had control all this time but I didn't even try to take control.

How will I ever be able to make up for this?