Silver Blood

Chapter 7

"So, from my observation, there are basically around 20 adult Oceleon, and they are breeding together producing a large amount of larva, and I have no idea why and who is the one behind this, but all I know there is a trail of this green liquid straight out of the hole," Snow explained to the werewolves pack, they managed to get out from the tunnel but they couldn't find anything useful.

"And plenty of larvae to step on, and seriously, these guys must be breeding it for a long time, it takes a long time to breed so much that they are everywhere you could step!" Matt said angrily.

"Relax, we can ask Carls about this, he probably could tell us something."

They started climbing up the walls, helped by the werewolves.

"Well, got any clues by going down there?" one of the werewolves asked, "only the fact somebody been breeding Oceleon, and a lot of them, it is probably going to take a while suggesting the tunnel in there is quite huge," Snow said, looking sad and frustrated.

"Let's go to Carls, we could probably know something from him," Lireid said. The werewolves followed wherever Lireid went.

They knocked on Carls' door and he opened it, "my goodness, is everything going okay, what is the news about the Oceleon, did you got it exterminated?" the farmer said, Lireid shook his head, "but we know there's a breeding ground for Oceleon, from what Snow said."

"Oceleon breeding ground, I wonder who could've done that, I demand action for this!" Carls said, "and I will pay you a bit more if you could tell me who did it."

"Sorry Carls, I would if I could tell you who did it, but too bad there was just no clue and it was too dark in that tunnel," Snow said, "probably by tomorrow morning when it is brighter, I could tell you."

"Fair enough, the Oceleon not only troubling me but other farmers as well you know, gosh, they are disgusting me."

"Your lantern oil is made of-" before Snow had the chance to finish Matt closed her mouth.

Before the night ended, Snow went to the guild, being tired, while Hettlesmith is pouring water for her, Snow was just putting her head lying on the table being sad, "I am going to cry over here, this is going to be hard, even if get an extra of 50 silver if I could solve it..."

Snow lifted her head up, and began to mumble with a complaining tone, "well seeing how things are, Matt is the one who is happier to do the job than I do."

"Well he isn't very happy in the guild as much as you think, look over there."

When Snow turned, she saw Matt being timid, he was just drinking his drink by himself, sitting at the corner alone, the loud people were laughing next to him and he could not be bothered, he wasn't talking to anyone in the guild. He looks very passive, and shy.

"Well, to sum it up, he doesn't like hanging out with people other than his pack of wolves or you, feeling lucky Snow?"

"To be honest, I too don't like hanging out with others, some talk too much, and some have quite a bad mouth," she said, "but that's life, you can't deny some existence of people like that," Snow finished her entire drink and stood up.

She walked toward Matt while he was drinking, and the moment he saw Snow walking toward him he dropped it instantly. "Mmph?" he said mouthful of water.

"No wonder you don't talk to others, it seemed the way you act reflect on how you talk to others," Snow said, he gulped the drink down his throat. "I would like to help you, make some friends," Snow said.

"I have a lot of friends, in the clan, you don't need to worry about it," Matt said.

In a dash, Snow grabbed Matt by his shoulder and threw him out of the tavern by the window, everyone started screaming and paid attention to the two of them. Matt fell on his back, he tried to stand up, as he saw Snow climbing out of the window, "Snow, are you mad?!"

Snow put her gloves on, and started to crack her knuckles, "MATT! MATT! MATT!" people started cheering for Matt, and not for Snow. The people started cheering for Matt, Matt realized what Snow was doing and he threw himself at her, trying to grab her but Snow avoided and grabbed Matt by his collar and threw him to the bush.

Matt got up quickly, and he kicked Snow leg making her lose balance and she fell down, and people started cheering for Matt. Snow stood up, she kicked Matt and he stepped back, she quickly knocked him with her shoulder, and Matt nearly fell but he was fast enough to hit her on her arm dropping her down the second time.

"You won this round, Matt," she said trying to get up, but not being able to. She managed to try to stand up a bit before falling back again, "and how you suppose that you can go for the mission tomorrow?" Matt asked her before the entire people from the guild started climbing out the window and carried Matt away cheering him up.

"A good night sleep, and a joyful quest," she said smiling at him.