"Mmm.. which one would suit me the best?" The tall male wondered to himself, staring at all the little children playing at the kiddie pool.
The village had its own urban legend: For many generations elders have told their children and grandchildren to stay away from a man who had a pale skin, nose as sharp as the villages witch's tongue. The are fond of riddles and often come ask, riddling along the way. The number one threat is their powerful charm, which helps them win the trust of the children. People would fall in love with these beasts, get played and tricked, and eventually get their life sucked out of them.
He had the ability to bribe any children with whatever he had under his cloak, which was the first attribute. He would also have a hood over his head which covered its face, its true face.
Once finding his prey, he would torment it for the rest of their life and treat them how it likes. It is also extremely rare for a missing child to return back home.
Right now he was sitting on a wooden tanning chair, lying on his back he peeked once again the children behind his sunglasses. Some people were staring at him for his pale skin, but others, especially women, stared at him for his muscular body. Well, he was lean but still had visible muscle on him.
A young and very lively boy's laughter piqued his interest while he was still scanning the pool. He spotted the boy and stared at him for a while. The boy had navy blue hair and eyes as blue as the sky, and was playing with a blond kid. Both of them looked to be at least six years old.
Something odd happened once he set his eyes on the laughing kid, a tight feeling which he never had felt before. Like, ever. He got up and adjusted his black swimming shorts which had white outlined maui flowers patterned all over them. Few of the women, old and young, licked their lips and some of them even tried to hit on him, but he paid no heed on them and walked straight to the two boys. "Hello boys, how are you today? Having fun, I see. Mind if I join you?"
Two pairs of innocent eyes stared back at glowing red ones. "Fun!" The blond one shouted with a big smile and splashed water on his friend and the pale man's legs and abdomen. "Okay." The blond calmed down and nodded, his friend didn't quite like all the splashing and looked at the man bitterly as if he was staring at the camera in The Office.
The man chuckled awkwardly but joined the two young boys. They had a few minutes of silence, with just the background noises from other kids, until one of them poked his shorts "I like your shorts." It was the blond, he smiled at the man, his hand patting the wet shorts.
Some of the women saw this and started whispering to each other. The dark male swatted the kid's hand away and said "touching me like that will get people's attention and when people see this they will think of weird things—"
He looked around and saw all the women in the pool look at him with a loving gaze, he even heard one say something about how his kids looked so cute. The man had an idea, but it would probably fail— "I wanna go to your place after this, I'll call mommy and tell her." The blond said cheerfully and hugged his friend.
"Oh yeah, your parents are still at work." The dark haired boy said nonchalantly.
The dark male watched as the two boys chatted as if he didn't exist "silly you, always forgetting things," the blond hit the other playfully and splashed a bit of water on them.
The man smirked, his idea was going to work.