Leo shifted back from the imminent danger, and Lara shifted with him. He threw her an irritated look. “This is all your fault; you should have let me go when I wanted to!” He hissed at her. “I wasn’t holding you back!” She cried. “You were, with all your talk of services and screams! Perhaps if you hadn't screamed, these monsters wouldn't have heard you.” She raised a brow at him. He cursed under his breath and focused back on the approaching animal. This was not her fault, and both of them knew it. Perhaps it had been her fault for entering the trap or a worm-like creature, but her screaming for help was completely natural. He was the one who was stupid enough to go head first into danger because he was missing Draven and wanted to know what was going on with him. He peered into the bush and strained his eyes to see. The bush was suddenly quiet and still, but he knew what he had heard. So far, they've heard just a growl, but there could be more. If Lara was right and it was a w
Leo turned slowly to the side. The wolf has sizzled and turned into roast beef by two teenagers on a mountain bear. How the fuck did they get there in the first place? When the wolf had died, the two laughing teenagers turned to Leo, their laughter dying into a smile. “Are you the protector of gold?" the girl asked. Leo had never been confused in his entire life as he was right now. So many things were happening at the same time and his brain was trying to catch up with them. "What is gold? What are you talking about?” he asked them. “Maybe the wolf was the protector?” the boy said to the girl.”It’s possible, right? I’ve seen movies like that.” “This is not a movie, Ben, this is a game,” the girl rebuked. ‘Can you just focus for once so we can get this done and move on?” The boy called Ben was not having it. ‘I’m focused!” he said. “I held my temper until I got here, didn’t I? I would have killed the man and we wouldn’t have arrived here.” ‘You dare not.” “Besides, don’t yo
Leo hadn’t even gotten the chance to get answers from Draven before the boy pounced on him and pushed him away. He fell to the floor, bracing himself with his hands back on the rough ground, stunned that they had come out so fast before Draven could even let the words out. The girl, who was slower than her brother appeared with Lara, who still held two cubs to her chest. Lara was as stunned as Leo to see Draevn on the ground, writhing in pain as his body returned to normal.“What is he doing here?" How did he even get here? What’s happening to him?” she asked Leo, and then remembering that Leo is as clueless as she is, she turned to the boy called Ben.Ben, seeing that eyes were on him, had no choice but to answer. “Well, we brought this guy out here for very specific reasons and now this friend of yours wants to take the treasure for himself.” He then nodded at Leo. “Tell me friend, did
“What did you just do?” Draven asked as he stood up. “What did you just do?”Lara didn’t wait for him to repeat the words again. She rubbed her hands on her shirt, staining her shirt with blood. Her eyes filled with tears as she kept rubbing her hands on her shirt over and over again.“I just killed someone,” she cried. “I just killed someone.”“It’s not a real death,” Leo said quietly to her.Just in that moment, the two bodies swirled into black dust and vanished into the air. Lara wiped her eyes with her blood stained hands, further rubbing it off her skin too. Leo found it hard to concentrate. The nine wolf cubs gathered around Lara, having smelled the blood on her and probably thinking she'd brought them food. Draven stood fully straight now, even as a bone snapped into place.Leo walked towards him. In as much as he was glad to see his friend, he was mentally drained and confused by the events that surrounded his presence.“I should be the one asking you questions,” Leo said. “H
It took a while for the group to get used to Diane. Even at that, they were still not used to her. Lara was cuddling with the small cubs, unwilling to let them go. Leo was absolutely shaken with a lot of questions for Draven; they just have to wait for Diane to leave before they start sorting through their own problems. For what’s worth, Draven was not exactly offended at seeing Lara. What surprised him instead was that Leo had saved her. Leo, who was completely selfish for his own well being, put himself in the line and saved someone else. It surprised him more than Diane’s presence ever did.Diane on the other hand, went about gathering firewood and tiny sticks to boost the fire she was about to make. Leo was so very irritated by her presence, and was much more antsy than Draven was. He followed her about and asked her questions.“Those people I killed, why won’t they be coming back?”Diane then looked at him like she was surprised he could be asking such a thing. “They were on thei
The meat was delicious. This was what pained Lara the most; that the new girl had killed her fur babies and the meat tasted extraordinarily sweet. She also noticed the tension between Draven and Leo. Lara didn’t know what the story was—nor did she care since Draven was more preoccupied with the woman than her—but she still wanted Diane out. She was sophisticated and wildly attractive; like the kind of person who’d offend you madly and still laugh at your wounds. It sort of made her inferior.Lara ate the last part of the meat and licked her lips. It really was delicious. She wondered if the fear that Diane was talking about really was true or if it was just something she made up. After tasting the delicious meat, she was more inclined to give up the rest of the cubs so they’d eat too. As a matter of fact, Lara made a reminder at the back of her head to sleep beside the cubs and warm them up for the next kill.Leo ate without a single look at his food. He barely tasted it; watching Dia
Draven and Leo inched away from the rest of the group. It was way past midnight and the girls were in bed. The boys, now fully aware of each other, had purposefully stayed awake overnight so they could talk about the missing pieces of Diane’s story. They only had to look at one another and decide that it would be best to stay awake while the other slept.It didn’t take much for Lara to sleep. After the tremendous events of the day, she only had to eat and sleep straight into the grass, not caring about the tiny insects that bit them. Draven had rolled her into a cloth he found in her bag so she could be more comfortable, and then he had to agree to Diane words to her face and then sleep right after.No one had directly challenged her words. There was no use; she would promptly laugh and tell them to watch out. They knew her well enough to know that she would play around her words rather than giving them direct answers.Leo waited until he felt Draven moving out of bed before he follow
They walked back slowly to the camp, being careful not to make any noise to alert the others. Lara was probably a deep sleeper, which was not an issue, but the other new comer could not be accounted for, especially since they have all these new suspicions about her.Draven tried to think as they walked back to the camp, but he was distracted by the events that led him right here. No matter how much he thought about it, he needed Leo. He needed Leo so very much. He won’t be able to handle Diane all on his own.Speaking of Diane; she was no longer in the camp when they got there. The blanket she slept on was still there, the roughness signifying that someone had slept on it. Where had she gone? Now on alert the both of them looked around in fear, wondering where she might be.“A number of things could have happened right now,” Draven said.“Nothing happened right here. She stood up and left,” Leo said.He then brought out his sword from his side hilt. The sound of the sword leaving the