Princess Cara, flanked by her entourage walked elegantly while her smile never wavered after his encounter with the mysterious green haired boy with no supernatural abilities.
He would have been considered human but humans can't find the dark world since it's being protected by the magic of the moon goddess and the dark world too were forbidden to step their feets into the out world, since that's the world referred to, where humans live.
"Princess..."
Alex called out, more like a whisper and the princess diverted her gaze towards him.
"Some intruders have been smelt in the east woods, we need to stop them now before they en..."
"Okay, let's go..."
The princess replied nonchalantly.
"But my princess, it's dangerous, four of my men would escort you home.."
Alex countered.
"Just take me with you, that's an order!"
Princess Cara snapped and Alex nodded, in a flash, they were headed to the east.
.
.
.
.
Scott walked fast, heading back home to deliver the Taroé he had been sent by Father Mathias but there was something that made him change his direction and made him walk to the east.
Ever since the encounter with the princess and the Vampire soldier, Alex, he has noticed he had been followed by some weird hooded strangers.
At first he hadn't noticed them but then, on his every turn, he had always noticed them to be behind him, though not too close to him but some sort of ten meters behind.
Though he didn't have any supernatural powers to detect if they were a threat, he knew one when he saw one.
"Don't look back..."
A familiar female voice spoke beside him, he flinched slightly and looked at who had spoken and there she was, the lady he had bumped into.
By now, the sun was almost down and evening was setting in, he should have been back to Father Mathias but he can't just let these threats follow him home.
"Don't talk too much... Just keep going to the east..."
The lady said again and continued walking beside him.
"Who are they?"
Scott mouthed and looked back, he slowed his pace as he saw their faces under their hoods... Pale faces and yellow eyes.
Shit!
He remembered those creatures, could it be that they wanted to avenge?
Suddenly, he broke into a sprint and headed towards the woods since he was almost there, The lady too followed after him and the snarling of the creatures too followed.
He increased his pace but the creatures had almost caught up to him...
"El enantra al' zaphuma!"
Elena chanted and waved her wand at the trolls, a huge Boulder suddenly appeared and hit them away.
She breathed out in weariness and looked back to meet the face of the kid she had been following.
"Wow... That's cool... You are a witch?"
Scott asked.
Now she had just shown the trolls she was with the boy, they won't relent until they catch them both and kill them, maybe.
"Just shut up! I told you never to look back... Now, I've revealed my identity to those trolls... It's only a matter of time until they get to us!"
Elena scowled in anger.
"Hey miss... First of all, I don't know you, secondly, I don't know why you just pop out of nowhere and now you are following me and thirdly, Those creatures are dangerous, they are going to kill me! So fucking get out of here now!"
Scott sneered back in anger.
"Oh really? Those creatures want you or kill you because if you killed three of their kind that night... Those creatures are Trolls, goddammit! They are weaker than vampires but their venoms and speed are more brutal, you think as you are now, you can stop them? They want me too and now I have just ousted my spells... They can now see and trace me and kill me too! "
Elena jeered, staring at Scott in the face, her eyes staring deeply into Scott's face.
Scott scoffed and he gave a puzzled frown.
"How did you know about the attack and why are they after you too?"
Scott asked, this time, walking into the woods with the mysterious lady walking beside him.
"The lady you helped that night of the attack... That's me"
Elena dropped and Scott widened his eyes in surprise.
"Whoa whoa whoa... You can't be serious..."
"I am..."
Elena replied with a smirk.
"So, why are those Trolls or whatever you call them after you, a lady?"
"Firstly, my name is Elena and secondly, why they are after me is confidential, and I think we might have some problem..."
Elena gulped with fear as she stared behind Scott.
"What probbbbleeeem..."
Scott slurred as he looked back and he saw their yellow eyes' staring at them in anger and the look on their faces that could kill.
.
.
.
.
Eleanor grinned evilly as he stared at the two preys he had been sent to bring, how easy.
He could feel the eager look on his men's faces, they were eager to finish the task faster than he himself.
"Stay back!"
Scott yelled at them while he slowly moved back with Elena behind him.
"Weak... You seem to be anything without that sword of yours..."
Eleanor chuckled and stepped forward and his claws slowly creeping out while his face slowly became paler and more whitish.
"Just shut up! Stay back!"
He yelled again, this time, he pulled out his small pointed knife and pointed it at them.
"You can't possibly be kidding me with that knife really?"
"Take him down"
Eleanor ordered his men, three of them charged at him.
Before he could press the button beside the knife, he felt a massive blow connect to his face and the nex second, his back hit the ground.
How the hell did they get faster and more powerful than before?
He felt two strong hands grab him by the leg and again, his world spinned and he hit his head on a tree.
"No!!"
Elena screamed as he saw Scott laid there, unmoving after hitting his head on the tree. She tried using her wand but Eleanor beat her to it and hit her in her stomach.
She coughed out blood and her eyes trailed down to Scott who still laid there.
"You think you can escape from Lord Vergo easily right? Where is the scarab?"
Eleanor asked and held her by the neck, lifting her up while he continued to choke her.
"Where is the scarab!"
Eleanor once again asked, this time more like a roar.
"Let her go!"
Scott screamed, startling Eleanor who abruptly dropped the half conscious Elena to the floor and he faced the kid.
There was Scott, standing fearlessly with a big silver sword in his hand and a smirk plastered on his face.
"If there is one thing you Trolls and Vampires have in common, that's your weakness to silver!"
And he charged.
.
.
.
"What the hell happened here?"
Princess Cara gasped as he saw the decayed bodies in the woods.
Alex and the rest of the royal soldiers sniffed the trees for wherever they wanted.
"These creatures are not like us but they seem to have similar traits with us which seem strange, never heard of those creatures before..."
Alex replied as he continued sniffing the bodies.
"What could have killed them... Or who?"
Princess Cara asked, irritated by the sight of the corpses littered on the ground.
"Silver..."
Alex answered.
Everyone stopped like the word silver was an Abomination.
"Silver? But it was banned a long time ago..."
Princess Cara said.
"Yes but whatever this type of silver is seems to be something special, the wielder isn't a vampire nor a wolf since they get burned by silver too..."
Alex stated.
"Then what creature would be able to wield that kind of silver?"
"It doesn't seem to be any creature, maybe someone who isn't even supernatural..."
He paused and he saw a blue liquid container beside a tree stump.
He appeared there and sniffed it and his eyes opened widely in realization.
"Neville's brother..."