The Demon's Bride

Clues

Seeing the large spider, her hand went numb and cold filled her body. Elise could almost feel her entire blood was drain out from the monstrous-looking being preying on her with his golden eyes. Seeing the creature began to move again, Elise resumed her running. She mustered up her power to run again despite her tired and wounded legs.

"I've always thought that you have a bad luck but perhaps that's an understatement." A voice echoed from above, stopping in front of her was a tall man with the fold of his coats flowing out like black streaks from the wind. Ian raises his hand, placing it on the spider for the creature to suddenly unable to move. It raged around howling to Ian with his large eyes bug out on him. "You think you are the scariest, huh." Ian spread his palm before the spider as he stated his words, slowly clenching it to a fist for the spider to have his body slowly crumbling into a powder.

Elise had her blues eyes closed when she saw the entire spider had turned nothing but dust bellow Ian's soles. Turning his head, Ian swept his red gaze over the wounds on Elise's leg and drew his brows together. "You're wounded." He spoke and placed his hand to her wound. In an instance light beamed out bellow her feet and all her wound disappeared along with its pain.

"Thank you, master Ian." She whispered in awe.

"What happened here and how did that beast came?" Beast? Elise asked herself. Was that also a magical beast? Then what about the little ghost boy? Elise mustered up her strength on her leg, beginning to walk again, she realize that although her pain had disappeared her fatigue was still there. Panting her breaths, she spoke. "The boy."

"The boy?"

"They ghost boy." Elise walked over back to the spot where she last met the boy. Bringing Ian with her, they both padded the muddy road. Ian took a glance around with the knit in his brows still hovering upon his forehead. Like a trace that showed how long the large spider had chased Elise around in the forest, many trunks of tall trees have been broken down or splitting down in to two with almost none of them spared. Following behind her steps as she run was a trace of red line made up from her blood. Like a game of cat and mouse, he noted in despise.

Elise arrived at the spot before but found no one there. Worried, she called out again. "Boy? Boy?" She called and walked around on the place to search for the boy. She had never known anything about ghost getting ill but seeing the ghost of the boy grimace in pain, it must have been a painful thing similar to an illness. Turning to Ian, she spoke explained. "There was a ghost of a boy here, before." Her mind was out of places and she knew that she must have sounded like a crazy woman in front of him right now. Regardless, she told him what had taken place.

"Then?" He asked for her continuation. "What happened after that, puppy?"

"We played and talked for a moment but then suddenly her start feeling pain and his eyes turned wholly black." She weaved her words in a state of confusion, speaking in scrambles. "He then said something about 'corruption' and told me to run."

"Then you ran to find out that it was that spider beast who chased you." Ian filled her last sentence. "Yes," she replied. If the boy disappeared right away after telling her to run and a spider beast chased her, then could it be the spider was the ghost's boy? When Elise rounded her conclusion and her face went pale.

Ian hummed. As a demon he could also see ghosts but none dared to come near him and he wasn't also concern of the dead's matter. "Corruption, if that what the ghost said it would mean he was corrupted into the spider beast."

Elise turned her quizzical eyes to Ian. "What is a corruption?" Perhaps Ian knows something about ghosts?

Ian shook his head, indicating he also didn't know for Elise to pursed her lips into a thin line, not knowing what she should do. Moving a step forward, she felt her view turning hazy and her body became unstable as it collapse forward. Ian reaches out his hand to catch her with his eyes widen in a surprise. "You've lost too much blood." He spoke, pressing his tone. "My healing magic can't recover the blood that you lost. Let's go back now."