Chapter 25: The Full Moon

It was a grand terrain. In the dark of the night, the only visible thing was the full moon.

It was a strange moon with brown shades on it. An even stranger thing was the moon`s size; it was covering one-third of the sky.

There were two huge mountains in the centre of the terrain. A lone figure was walking towards the mountains. Under the light of the moon, the figure was visible enough to be recognized as a woman from her feminine curves.

The woman was wearing a white tunic and a purple cloak. The beauty and color of the clothes was a royal status symbol in ancient Greece.

She came closer to the mountains; when she was just a few meters away from the mountains, the mountain on the left side started to shake. It was like it was being lifted off the ground.

On the mountain, two huge orbs like eyes opened themselves right below the mountain peak. The mountain peak that was above the two eye-like orbs cracked open, revealing wolf-like ears.

After a few earth-shattering movements from the mountain, it was clear to see that it wasn’t a mountain but it was a wolf-like creature.

The creature was as tall as the mountain it was standing beside.

It had brown fur which was sparkling under the moonlight. An aura of power and strength was visible around it; it was a peculiar sight to see!

“I asked you for one thing. Did you do it?”

The question was asked in a booming sound, but the mouth of the creature was still closed. Yet, its voice was coming from all directions.

“It’s about the man?”

“Yes. Is he dead now?”The voice of the creature was booming throughout the terrain.

“No.”

“Why not?”

The sound was heard with even more thunder.

“Because he didn’t turn.”

“I don’t care; I just want him dead.”

With that, the creature again set back while resting beside the mountain. The entire ‘Terrain’ was shaking with its movements.

The woman turned her back and started to walk back and she was about to leave the ‘Terrain’ but again she heard the booming voice of the creature.

“Theodora, kill him quickly if you know what is good for you!” After the creature said that, everything became silent.

Erik drew his pickup truck to the campus, still shocked after the drawing-room incident; he helped Tanha a bit to clear the stones and pebbles. Then he left to attend his lectures at the campus.

Shock wasn’t word enough to describe the state of his mind when he saw the entire wall that was between his kitchen and drawing room shattered to pieces from his small punch.

It was a good thing he and his grandfather had done interior renovation last year or the impact could have damaged the entire house.

He entered the gates of the campus and parked his old pickup truck in the parking lot while still lost in his world, a world that was shaken due to the events that had happened in the past few days!

He found the woman with whom he had gone on a date was a witch; she had a twin sister who was also a witch. They were being hunted by some hunters, but he somehow happened to save them without having any memories of those events. Also, he didn’t have a memory of a few sexual encounters that he had with her. And above all, he also had some kind of super-strength!

All this information was scaring him. As a child, he always imagined himself getting some superpowers and becoming a superhero as they did in those books, but as an adult, he knew how peculiar his situation was.

There were some supernatural creatures, some professional hunters, some multinational corporations ... and he was stuck in the middle of all of this.

He tried to calm his mind and decided to focus on the present. When he entered the parking lot, he felt the sensation of being watched. He didn’t feel any emotion with the gaze that was placed on him but he knew someone was watching him.

He tried to look around discreetly but didn’t see anyone except a black sports car that was immediately driven off of the campus. He couldn’t see the driver of the car, nor had he seen any passengers inside, but something within him told him that he was seen by whoever was in that car.

He knew only a few rich people in the town could afford such a fancy car, but who could it be?

The question was still ringing inside his mind when he entered the classroom. He suddenly felt a spike in emotion; again, he looked discreetly to notice it was a girl.

She was surrounded by other beautiful girls. Hannah Ruth, the heiress of the Ruth family. She immediately averted her gaze. He felt anger and hatred masked with excitement directed toward him. He couldn’t remember what he might have done to invoke the ire of the princess.

A broken vision appeared before him, it was more like an image. It was a woman. To be accurate, it was Hannah Ruth. Her face had ecstasy written on it while lying on the floor. A severe headache hit him, shattering his vision. A hiss of pain left his mouth. He tried to divert his mind from its current thought process.

Being in pain, he didn’t notice the fact that he had somehow read another person’s emotions. He tried to ignore all the thoughts about his current situation while paying attention in class.

He was seated away from all the others during lunch. Again he noticed a spike in emotion. He took a glance and it was Hannah entering the mess hall. Their eyes met for a brief second. There was anger and hatred, filled with disgust, fueled by excitement. He was again hit with pain in his head. He knew something was wrong with him.

‘Should I visit the hospital? Then what about the super-strength? What if they find something in my blood?’

The thought of going to the hospital had occurred a few times, but every time he dropped the idea. He wasn’t sure if the people involved in the events knew about him or not, but until he was prompted, he wouldn’t kick a hornet’s nest.

He didn’t have the resources to survive the ramifications if he somehow wronged those who held the strings. An image of the brown-haired and brown-eyed woman came to his mind: CEO of Leos, Int.

The company’s field of work was genetics, shipping, manufacturing, cosmetics. It has many subsidiary companies. There wasn’t any industry in which Leos, Int. wasn’t involved on the world stage. The company was like a huge empire that was spread across the globe. That was the reason why their government approached ‘Leos, Int.’ to do investments in the Old Town.

‘What role might she have in this incident? Was she also involved in it?’Those kinds of questions kept troubling him the whole day.

After lunch, he started to feel weird. He felt an ache within his chest. The ache was slowly increasing and spreading through his body. Once the classes were over he was quick to drive his truck out of the campus. It was late; only a few hours before the evening; the strange, creepy feeling was irritating him.

He stopped at a small restaurant just a few meters from his campus. He sat at the table that was far from the backside of the restaurant. He gulped down a glass of water that was on that table. He was feeling uncomfortable; the headache was making it worse. He asked the waitress for a coffee

After giving an order to the waitress he was going through news on his phone. Since the incident at the storage building, he was following the news every hour to see where the investigation was going. The thing that surprised him was the representative of “Leos, Int.” claiming it was an ‘accident’.