The monster wolf now ready to attack Aiden once more, Fenrir rushing through the thick brushes and grab the neck of the monster wolf before it could do some heavy damage to Aiden.
The monster wolf drops to the ground while Fenrir still attaching his fang through its jugular, the monster wolf then punching Fenrir's head repeatedly, until he finally lets go of its neck.
Fenrir maneuvers his way in front of Aiden, protecting him from the monster wolf. Aiden, still busy attending to Caleb's wound, take a look at Fenrir.
“Fen, careful, the monster it’s Kawhyun!”
Fenrir couldn’t believe what he just heard from Aiden, he turns around in disbelief and then looks back at the monster wolf again.
The monster wolf still struggling to stand up, the neck now has an open and ghastly wound from Fenrir’s bite, half of the flesh is torn and blood is gushing out from it. Fenrir pupils widen, he can see it now, a white dirty fur, grey eyes, and a small scar at the upper right cheek, it’s Kawhyun, but in a different form.
Kawhyun finally able to stand up, he’s eyeing Fenrir once again, Fenrir already braces himself with his fang visible from under his huge snout, and the extending claws ready to destroy anything in front of him. They clash at each other, they are wrestling, Kawyun has a big advantage with his huge size and mobility as a two-leg, he punches and clawing at Fenrir, while Fenrir trying to gnaw at Kawyun.
Kawhyun locks Fenrir’s snout with his huge hand and then throws the exhausting Fenrir into a huge pile of Boulder, Aiden can hear the sound of crackling bones, not long after whining and then no sound at all.
“s**t! Fenrir!!”
Aiden tries to call his friend, but no movement is visible from the black wolf, until a small whimpered can be heard, a sign that the black wolf still breathing. Aiden doesn’t have time to get to Fenrir, Kawhyun now tries to attack him once again.
Aiden closes his eyes and ready to brace for an impact from Kawyun's attack, but nothing happened. He opens his eyes, a force field protecting him from Kawyun, he turns to see his protector, it was Daniel, he can see Emir now already summoning a very large firebird ready to attack Kawhyun.
Emir's eyes are sparkling with an ember color, that’s happened whenever a sorcerer summons a mythical creature, especially a creature as big as a car.
“Aiden! Take Fenrir and Caleb together behind the huge rock, cover yourself, I’m going to blow these motherf*cker!”
“Okay, got you!”
“When I say now, I’ll give you three seconds to do everything.”
“F*ck, there’s not much time!”
“Just do it! Daniel cannot hold the force field much longer.”
“Ugh, Okay!”
Emir looks in Daniel's direction, he gave him an okay sign, Emir then screams at Aiden. “Now!!”
Daniel blows the force field, it makes Kawyun thrown away a few hundred meters, Aiden running into wolf Fenrir, and then grab him along with Caleb. Kawyun running to chase him, he almost got him when the firebird flew directly in his direction, the firebird claw into Kawyun big wolf head and then it spread its wings that turn into massive fireballs, that explode immediately.
Aiden, already safe between the boulder with the unconscious Fenrir and Caleb, covers himself and his two friends with his broken wing when the huge explosion happened. Daniel and Emir already cover themselves away from the target, They look at the destruction from a safe distance.
“s**t! Quite a trick you got there handsome!” Daniel was grinning and wink at Emir.
Emir laughing and smiling at Daniel. “Thanks.”
“By the way, where’s my friend? Where are you hiding Aileen?”
Aileen came running towards both of them, she’s out of breath from running.
“I told you to hide, why are you here?!” Emir looks annoyed by her appearance.
“The short elven, he got away!”
“Sh*t! Daef?!”
Daniel and Emir look at each other with a worried look.
“Nothing we can do now, let’s just go back to Aiden for now.”
“Okay, C'mon Aileen, stay by my side okay?”
“Okay, Daniel.”
The three of them then rushing to Aiden who's now attending two elven. He glances at Aileen for a moment, a sigh of relief came through him, at least no harm done to her.
“Oh my God, what happened to Caleb and Fenrir?”
“Caleb fights Kawhyun alone, I came, later on, he was already unconscious by then, and then Fenrir…”
Aileen finally looks closely at Aiden's broken wing. “Oh dear, your wing.” She touches the tattered feathers with the bloody crooked bone between them.
“No! It’s okay, do not heal it! I told you, No!”
“But…”
Aiden’s glare at Aileen. “No, means no!”
Suddenly, the boulder that protecting them from the huge explosion shatter into pieces. Emir holds Aileen's protecting her from the flying debris, while Daniel conjures a force field.
All of them now in shock, the Boulder got destroyed by the now mangled body of the monster wolf Kawhyun, half of his face is missing, one of his eyeballs is dangling from the socket, his inside organs are visible, intestines just bursting out from his stomach, and the worst of it is the smell, the smell of a burn rotten flesh.
“F*ck! Why he is still alive?” Emir looking frustrating, he’s still holding Aileen close to his body.
“Emir, can you do the summoning once more?”
“f**k no Aiden, I need time to restore my magic, after summoning that huge bird!”
“s**t!”
Daniel who’s still holding his magic force field defending them from the hideous undead turns around and glares at Aiden. “F*cking hell! Do something! You guys are supposed to be the one who’s protecting me! Not the other way around!”
“Let me think something first.”
“There’s no time! I cannot hold him much longer!”
Daniel look exhausted using all of his magic. The undead Kawyun now pounces repeatedly into the force field, the force field getting weaker and weaker.
In his desperate attempt, Daniel then does a let trick, he blows the force field, sending the undead Kawhyun to fall away, sadly not that far.
The undead Kawhyun got back up again and then with his last effort extend his huge claw straight through them, Aileen got away from Emir's arm, standing right in front of the exhausted Elvens, defending them from the undead fatal blow.
“Nooooo! Amyra!!” Aiden screams, towards Aileen, they cannot see anything, dusted and debris everywhere limiting their line of vision.
Then the three of them look at a shadow, a small and slender figure emerge from the pile of dust and debris. Emir and Daniel stand up and want to look closely.
The shadowy figures get closer and to their surprise, it’s Aileen, unhurt, with glowing eyes looking straight into all of them.
“Seriously my love! That’s all you can do? You guys were supposed to be my guardian?”
Aiden cannot believe his eyes, he stands up, even though he cannot walk anymore, he just stands there, staring at the unfazed and unbroken figure in front of him.
“Naura? Is that you?”
Daniel and Emir turn around to look at Aiden. Aiden tries to walk, he doesn’t care about his broken wing, he walks slowly and limping towards her.
“Naura… I… Oh my heaven.” He's crying while his hand trying to reach the elven woman in front of him.
The elven woman smiles warmly towards him and then fainted to the ground. Daniel grabs her immediately, while Aiden lowers himself beside her.
“Look I know you want to be sentimental s**t piles right now, but we have to go back to your hiding place now, I don’t want to handle any undead or worse an army of that huge monster right now.”
“I’m sorry, you’re right, Aiden, I’ll grab my car, we have to be pile up in one car, but hey it’s better than nothing.”
Aiden, not even saying anything, just looking longingly towards the pass-out Aileen. Emir gives a long sigh and then just goes away in a hurry to grab his car.
They have a smooth ride back into the mansion, Caleb finally conscious just right after Emir parks in front of the doorway.
Daniel already carried the pass out Aileen, he asks for the direction of her room, Aiden accompanies him, he's retracting his wings, even though it wasn’t fully healed yet, they walk together, Aiden eyes still fixated towards the sleeping Aileen.
Emir checking in to the now awaken Caleb.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine, f*cking hell Kawhyun turning into some kind of wolf monster!”
“Yeah, the very powerful one too, I have to summon my creatures once for it.”
“Damn! Tell me you destroyed that motherf*cker.”
He looks at Caleb, in silence.
“Wait, you did not?”
“Just help me carry Fenrir for now, we can discuss it inside.”
Caleb who’s now realizing that there’s an unconscious black wolf beside him just gave a grunt and then cursing.
“Sh*t, I hate to carry him around in this shape.”
“C'mon, the sooner the better, we need to speak to Daniel and Aiden inside.”
“Can we just leave him here? He will eventually heal, just open the car door.”
“Good idea, I don’t want to carry that wet furs too, c'mon, I need a drink so bad.”
Together they’re leaving Fenrir in the car, both of them saw Aiden and Daniel in the living room, Aiden sitting on one of the sofas, he spread his broken wing and then put on some medicated salve straight to the wounded flesh, the wing healed just in a matter of second.
“Dawain salve, you guys still using that? Impressive.” Daniel fixes himself a drink and then sits comfortably in one of the barstools.
“Already make yourself at home, I see.”
Emir goes inside the room, he takes a seat beside Daniel, while Caleb dropping his body on one of the huge sofas.
While pouring a drink to Emir, he asking a very straight question towards Aiden. “Now, I’m already in your custody, would you care to explain about now exhausted and unconscious best friend in the room upstairs?”
Caleb gets up immediately and glares at Daniel. “Whoa, before that, we need to know who the f*ck are you?”
“Well I thought you guys already know anything about me, yes, I’m the oracle, a branch group of the sorcerer clan.”
“We get that, but your group was extinct because of a g******e two thousand years ago.”
“Yes, but no, just like I said, we were extinct from the elven realm two thousand years ago, but now we weren’t, because some of us got away through the human realms two thousand years ago.”
Aiden looks into Daniel with a sense of respect. “You guys escape the g******e from the elven realm because you find a way to get to the human realm? Amazing? Our scientists just discovered the human realm two hundred years ago.”
Daniel laughed and then tasting his drink. “Discovered? More like finding our hidden wormhole, we Soul readers already know about the whereabouts of the other realms, we just decided that we weren’t going to share our knowledge to the rest of the clan.”
“Why the f**k did you do that?” Emir got annoyed by Daniel's condescending remark.
“Oh please, like we want to give you more reason to destroy us more, we Soul Readers doesn’t have an offensive magic or even the healing magic like the Nephilim, but we have the knowledge, the mind that knows everything.”
“Wait, so the one that we're doing the g******e towards the Soul Readers, was it the sorcerer clan?”
“Oh, handsome, how naïve you are, but do you even want to know more about your bloody history?”
Emir drinking his vodka and just staring at the empty glass. “Yes, I do want to know, but not right now.”
Daniel looks at him with a sympathetic eye. “Of course, I will tell you everything whenever you’re ready.”
Daniel then standing up and goes towards Aiden, he crosses his hand and gave a cold look to Aiden. “Now, Nephilim, you know everything you want, now please answer me, why Aileen?”
Aiden retracts his wing and just sitting comfortably with his foot at the table. “Simple, because she was there.”
“The f**k! You’re using my best friend as the new soul for your precious vessel for some lousy reason like that?”
Caleb interrupts Daniel to calm him down. “Wait, it wasn’t like that, we actually need to safe her, your friend was dying, so we figure that in order to safe her we need to transfer her soul right away.”
“Oh yeah, by using the dark ritual? Are you f*cking kidding me!”
“There’s no other way and you know that.” Aiden glared at Daniel with the same intense gaze Daniel has given him.
“But now you practice using her the way that you want, did you even consider asking her opinion about it?” Daniel rubbing his nose, suddenly he feels a headache came coursing through his head. “Do you already told her that you bound her, body and soul to you, so every time she needs a source of energy, she has to be intimate with you?”
“No, we don’t have time to explain everything to her yet, and it wasn’t just me who bound himself to her.”
“Oh the f*ck, Nephilim, who else besides you?”
Emir sips his drink. “I did.”
Caleb looking solemnly laying down on the big sofa. “and so was I, and the big black wolf in Emir's car.”
“Four of you? Oh my heaven! Why?”
“That body of hers is… one of the kind.”
“What’s so special about the body?”
“It was the former body of our Amyra.”
“Hmm… it makes sense, an Amyr or Amyra will have an immense power inside of them, one bound will not enough.”
“So do you get it now? We need the four of us to bond together, so we can contain the huge amount of power radiating from the body.”
“But dark ritual is not the answer for anything.”
“It is for us!”
“You’re binding yourself to my innocent best friend, the four of you, my friend has a huge scar on her past, I don’t want her to remember any of it now.”
“What happened in her past?”
“I’m sorry I will not tell you anything, it’s her decision if she wants to tell you or not.”
“Okay, fair enough, we will tell her everything tomorrow when she recuperates.”
Daniel let a frustrating sigh and gaze at all of them. “Oh my heaven, she isn’t going to have her stamina if she’s not sleeping with one of you right now, do you saw the amount of power she let go a few hours ago?”
All of them look at each other with an awkward gaze.
Aiden clears his throat. “Do you mean she can't recuperate with just a kiss?”
“Not this time, this time she needs more than just a kiss.”
They all look at each other again, afraid to decide anything. Daniel will not let go of this easily, pointing at Aiden and look at him with a tense glare. “You, Nephilim, you’re their leader, now you have to take the responsibility first.”
Aiden looks at Caleb who gives him a shrug, and then he glances at Emir who just stared at his empty glass of vodka.
“Okay, I’ll do it.”
Aiden walks away through the door, but before he reaches out the hallway, Daniel grabs the collar of his shirt. “Look here, you b*stard! I’m doing this for my best friend's sake, not because of your mission, or even for your precious Amyra, do you get it?”
“Look, I get it, don’t worry I’ll be gentle, and if it’s possible I will explain to her about the ritual first.” Aiden lets go of Daniel's hand on his collar, both of them then go to Aileen's room.
Aileen awakes in the dim light of her room, she can open her eyes but she cannot even raise her hands or legs, she tried to wiggle her ways from the bedroom but to no avail, she tries to glance at her whole body, she's wearing a sleeping gown, so someone was changing her clothes, the thought if it makes her blushed.
“You awake?”
She saw a shadow of a person in front of her door. It’s Aiden, who’s now sitting beside her in her bed.
“I’m sorry I have to do this, I need to explain something to you, can you understand me? If you do tap through my hand.”
He placed Aileen's hand into him, he then feels a small and weak tap coming from her hand.
“Good, now then you do know that when you use your power, you will become weak and need stamina, the last time you used a bit of your healing power, and then Emir had to kiss you.” He nervously looking at Aileen's face. “Do you understand it so far?”
Aileen uses every strength that she has to send a weak tap from her fingers to Aiden's hand.
“Okay, I told you that I will explain everything when we got back from the hospital, unfortunately, we met obstacles and you used a huge amount of power, more than before.”
He then caresses Aileen's cheek.
“Aileen, kissing isn’t going to give you enough stamina right now, I… I need to give you the stamina by the more intimate gesture.”
Aileen's eye goes wide, she knows exactly what Aiden means, using more power, means that using a great amount of energy, and to restore all of the energy, he needs to have s*x with her. She got tensed and whimper a bit, Aiden needs to calm her a bit.
-End of Chapter 7-