Chapter 1: The Help

It was another day for Sebastian to waste his time eating human who made a deal with him. He just finished one man before another man came up and made him another new deal. It was tiring, but it was good for his appetite since he was really hungry.

"The crow has teeth to show for another day yet to comes."

Sebastian just smirked at what his friend but also his foe said. "At least I did not waste my time to sew all of my webs here and there only to fill my plate."

Claude shrugged his shoulders a little bit. "Well, I hope you concern about yourself. Many people from the village come down to seek a help from demons. Eating is good, but being a bloat will impress no one."

"I will never let myself show such an appearance. You need not to worry."

That said, Sebastian left by using his form as a crow.

He was a crow demon. He liked to fly here and there to accept a worthy deal for himself and to eat. Now that he was flying, someone shot him right to his left wing until he fell and kissed the earthly ground.

"Whoah! This is a crow! Not a hawk!"

"How could you be so wrong when a hawk surely much bigger than this? Let's just leave it here because sooner or later it will die."

"Okay. If you said so."

That poor Sebastian. Wrongly accused as a hawk, shot down, and left just like unused trash. He was severly injured in that form which caused him too weak to transform back to his original form. Just as he thought he could die because of a man's carelessness, he heard another steps.

It was no man, but a woman. Covered with a dark-colored cloak. She stopped right in front of him and picked him up.

"They were so bad, weren't they?" She asked him softly and checked his injury. "Please forgive them. They just did not know what they had done."

The woman, whose face was unseen because of the cloak, tried to give some helps to Sebastian by treating his wound and gave him a bandage. Just a moment later, she realized that the crow had maroon eyes.

"Are not you afraid of me?" Sebastian, still in a crow form, asked her.

The woman laughed a little bit. "Now? Not now. You are in a form of a crow so I am not afraid of you. Besides, you are badly injured so I believe you can do nothing while recovering yourself."

Sebastian looked closely to the woman and he could see her sparkling clear brown eyes and her genuine smile. Sebastian froze for a while when he thought as if he ever met someone like her.

"Do you know that you are talking to what they call as the forest demon?"

"Really?" She smiled as if she did not care. "Well, then I can tell them that I help the forest demon to recuperate."

"You really are not afraid of me." Sebastian sighed in a disappointed manner.

"I am not. I am sorry."

Just a little bit later, the woman finished helping him. The bandage she gave was really strong so Sebastian could just fly again.

"As to show my gratitude, Human Woman. Tell me your wish! I will give you a free charge for once."

The woman kept silent for a moment before finally she smiled and shook her head. "I can think none of my wish now. May I postpone it or will I lost my chance?"

Sebastian smirked. "You lost yours, Young Lady."

That said, he flew away high and left that woman alone in the forest. It was the first time Sebastian knew someone who had no wish when seeing a demon. It was not easy to summon one and made a deal with. Once someone got a chance, the deal should be done before the demon got bored or became uninterested in. But this time, even when Sebastian offered a free charge, she had nothing to ask to him and somehow she let him down.

Your comments are welcome since English is not my first language. :)