Chapter ten: Hear it and weep
………………………FLASH BACK……………………………………………….....
Legend has it, that there lived a tribe, of thieves and dark magic; they called themselves the night stalkers, no one knows of their true identities nor has anyone defeated the night stalkers in battle but that was about to change…
A mysterious woman appeared out of nowhere her hair as red as blood and her eyes as piecing as a newly sharpened sword, many of the bravest night stalkers tried to bring her down, but their weapons were no match to the weapon she welded which was a large knight that seemed to be made out of pure crystal.
One by one they fell, until there was no more in existence, all except a young boy who was forever scarred by what he has just seen, his own mother slaughtered before his very eyes…
"Run…run and don't look back" were the last words his dying mother ever said before the boy knew he was truly alone.
The jewel witch suddenly turned her attention on him, the boy had to escape, he ran over to his pet the wind wolf and took flight tears filled his eyes as he knew he wouldn't see his family again.
The boy was suddenly struck down and felt himself falling his vision went black, when he woke up again he found himself in a loving place where he was brought up by an old engineer and befriended a toddler destined to become a priestess, he had his share of enemies to, but the people who loved him tried to show him revenge was not the way to go.
But the boys mind was already made up, he was going to get revenge, so he went on a hard journey to find this woman and before long he was face to face with the same witch that killed his family, in total anger he lashed out…
The battle was long, hard and quite bloody but like all the others he was no match for her and soon fell to her mercy, but the witch some how felt pity for the boy so she made a deal with him.
"I shall forgive you for what you tried to do, but in return you must work for me, and do as I say you must also call me mistress, and in return I shall let you live and when I believe your debt is paid you will be free, do we have a deal?" the woman asked
And since that day the boy had walked in her shadow, doing what she asks of him, living in misery and regretting the day he had ever met eyes with the witch…
………………………….END FLASHBACK…………………………………………
The room fell silent; Rosette was speechless as she tried to take in what she had just heard.
"Rosette?"
"Huh?" Rosette said looking other at Chrno
"Do you understand now?" he asked
Rosette felt chocked up, she didn't know what to think "He tried to kill his mistress…yes but can you blame him she did kill his family…yeah but that's not the point…" all these thoughts kept going around in her head.
Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder it was Ku.
"Chrno is not really dangerous, its just he couldn't believe anyone would do that to his people and wanted revenge" Ku tried explaining
Rosette couldn't take it, and pushed Ku away, before running out of the temple she could hear Chrno and Ku calling after her but she carried on running.
She didn't care where she was going as long as she was far away as possible, this truly was too much one girl can take, first she was in danger of her soul being drained and now she was…lost?
Where was she? She seemed to be in some sort of woods, all by herself, just then she heard something rustling in the bushes, she turned but no one was there.
"Chrno, Ku is that you?" she asked
There was no reply "Okay guys, this isn't funny" she exclaimed
Panic gripped her by the throat, something was out there, oh how she wished Chrno or Ku was with her now. Something gripped her leg rosette let out a scream before being dragged down, then feeling a dark presents behind her…
"Rosette's heading for weepers forest!" Ku cried pointing in the direction Rosette was going in.
"Oh that idiot, I knew this was a mistake!" Chrno exclaimed
The duo ran after her, praying they weren't to late…
As Chrno entered the forest the hairs at the back of his neck began to stand on end, as he could sense the hunger of those who lurked in the shadows, slowly he took out his sword given to him by the elder.
"Look, over here I can see tracks!" Ku called
Chrno ran over and saw the tracks were in shape of a boot; yep they defiantly belonged to Rosette.
"They're still fresh so she must be close" Chrno exclaimed
They began to follow the tracks, which went further into the woods "oh Rosette, what was you thinking?" Chrno thought to himself
The track had suddenly changed like rosette had been dragged by something, Ku and Chrno exchanged looks this couldn't be good, a sudden scream was herd and it sounded like…
"ROSETTE" Ku and Chrno shouted together
They followed the echo of the scream and the drag marks but only to stop in their tracks, when they had finally found Rosette.
To both their horror they found rosette tied to a tree and her mouth was gagged she looked as if she had been crying hard, and Chrno could sense her fear or was it his own? As he saw that behind Rosette were the things every creature feared the most including his mistress…
"Chrno, there are weepers behind Rosette" Ku whispered
the weepers body and head was the shape of a tear drop that glowed, its eyes were the shape of rugby balls, it two slits for a nose and it seemed to have a sad up sided smile and there appeared to be sticks coming out of its back like torn wings, a small halo hovered above its head.
"I know" Chrno whispered back
"And that's not it, there are also Howls" Ku pointed out the strange black dog like creatures surrounding Rosette.
"I can see that, but they seem to be asleep so maybe I can sneak past them and get Rosette" Chrno suggested
"Yeah, But how about the weepers?" Ku asked
"Don't worry, as long as I don't make eye contact with them, they won't hurt me" Chrno replied
And that was it, Chrno sneak passed the Howls, being careful not to step on their tales, after sneaking passed about ten of them, Chrno had finally made his way over to Rosette, when Rosette saw Chrno her eyes lit up and she tried to speak but it only came out as mumbles as her mouth was still gagged.
"Shh...You must stay quiet Rosette, if we are going to get out of here alive, oh yeah and don't look behind you do you understand?" Chrno explained
Rosette nodded in reply, Chrno cut the rope around Rosette's waist and then helped to take the gag out of her mouth and helped her down unaware that her feet where still tied she tripped and landed on top of Chrno who fell backwards on top of one of the Howls and accidentally making eye contact with one of the weepers.
The weepers let out an eye splitting cry that woke up the Howls.
"CHRNO, ROSETTE WATCH OUT!" Ku cried
Rosette and Chrno turned to find that one of the Howls had risen on its back legs it was as tall as Chrno and Rosette put together, it raised its paw and was about to strike out at Rosette, but Chrno pushed Rosette out of the way, so the creature stuck Chrno instead causing a deep gash on his side and sending him flying.
The creature then pounced on him, snapping at his neck but Chrno palled it back with his sword, he tried to find away to kill the Howl, but he knew they would all end in failure. The Howl grew hungrier for Chrno's neck; it grabbed hold of Chrno's sword with its jaw and yanked the sword out of Chrno's hands before tossing it to the other side of the woods.
Just then the whole pack of Howls pounced on Chrno pinning him down and biting him Chrno let out a cry as one bit him in the leg making him go paralyzed.
Ku and Rosette watched in horror in the distance as they saw Chrno struggle.
"We've got to help him!" Rosette cried
Ku nodded
Rosette looked around for what she could use to help her kill these things, just then she saw something glisten it was Chrno's sword!
Without a second thought Rosette grabbed hold of the blade and ran over to the creatures, knocking some off Chrno and as the Howls prepared to attack her she swung the blade and watched as the creatures turned to dust.
More surrounded Rosette, one of them leaped at her but never made it to the ground as a arrow flew though the air and had hit the creature, Rosette looked over to where that arrow had come from and found it was Ku holding her bow and arrow that the elder had given her.
"Keep going, I've got your back!" Ku called
Rosette nodded, and turned back to find that 3 Howls was coming straight at her, Rosette hesitated, but as one of the creature came closer it went flying and landed on top of the other two howls, Rosette looked over and saw it was Chrno he was still alive! But still badly wounded
"Ku is not the only one that has your back" Chrno said breathless and winked at Rosette.
Rosette smiled, and the duo stood back to back, Chrno took care of the back and Rosette took care of the front while Ku took care of the weepers and the Howls that jumped.
The battle was long and the trio were getting tired the Howls just kept coming and Ku was down to her last three arrows, they all knew they weren't going to last this way and almost given up hope, when Chrno remembered they had a forth team member his wind wolf Melta.
After he finished killing another Howl, he put two fingers in his mouth a blew, a sudden howl echoed though the forest and a gasp of wind stopped the Howls in there tracks and then Melta appeared she let out a huge growl and battered away the Howls with her paws while Ku, Chrno and Rosette made their way on her back.
When they were all on, Melta took flight, a Howl grabbed hold of one of Melta's paws but Melta snapped its neck in her jaw, the trio watched the now dead Howl tumble back to the ground where all the others were barking and howling at their loss.
Chrno, Ku and Rosette all began to cheer in triumph, they had made it and it was all because they'd worked together, Rosette was the first to stop laughing and looked over to Chrno who was still laughing and cheering he looked battered all because rosette had been so foolish.
Chrno's body suddenly went stiff as he felt something wrap itself around his waist; he looked down to find it was Rosette who was snuggling her face in his chest and gripping his waist tighter.
Chrno began to blush "Err. Rosette what are you doing?" he asked
"I'm sorry I shouldn't have ran of like that, and then you and Ku wouldn't have gotten hurt, no maybe if I hadn't been so careless as to open the brown box in the first place" Rosette sobbed she looked like she was about to cry
Chrno wrapped his arms around Rosette to comfort her.
"We've talked about this before, and well I would have rather have been killed by the Howls then to never have met you" Chrno replied blushing a little more
Rosette looked up and was about to say more when Ku interrupted them.
"Alright you two love birds break it up, remember we have a mission to do" Ku exclaimed a heap of jealousy in her voice
Rosette and Chrno quickly broke away from each other and began to blush,
"Err... Yeah, next stop Germany" Chrno exclaimed trying to change the subject without much luck.
AN: Well there is chapter ten for ya I've got to say I'm proud of this chapter hehe and we all now about Chrno's past so tell me what you think
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