Chapter 36: Heli Mitt

It was a small dimly lit room; a phone was vibrating on a small table. A figure moved through the darkness of the room and picked up the phone.

The light of the phone made the shadow visible; he was a man with a thin and pale body. There were varieties of tattoos on his body.

He clicked on the notification on the phone, which opened a photo. It was a picture of a young woman, around the age of twenty.

A thin yet creepy smile came to his face. The fingers of his hand started to touch the photo of the young woman with the same creepy smile. He was licking his lips while touching the photo. The expression on his face was something of a predator that had gotten his eyes on some new prey.

Suddenly the photo was gone replaced by the caller Id reading ‘Private Number’. A hissing snare left his mouth, revealing a set of sharp teeth.

“How it’s going, man? This one is a fine hot ass bitch, man!”

The man spoke with a cheesy tone while bored expression on his face.

“Leroy, the contractor has asked for an immediate death, no other sniffy stuff.”

“Okay, I will do it. Where is the location?”

“It’s Old Town in Estonia. I am sending you all information about her. Just make sure you are quick about your mission.”

“Don’t worry, man. You know how swift I am?”

The person on the other side took a deep breath and spoke

“Leroy, what about the last contract? It’s been more than a week and the police haven’t found the dead body yet?”

“Oh, man don’t you trust me? Maybe they lack competent cops!”

“Leroy, it’s not about trust. But you know it’s tough to close the case if the dead body is not found. It ruins our image.”

“Okay, okay, man, I understand. Maybe they will find the dead body in the city’s drainage system tomorrow.”

“They better, or things will get ugly.”

With that, the call went dead from the other side.

“Fucking pig!”

The man snared at the phone after the line went dead. He was breathing quickly barely controlling his anger.

He placed the phone on his table and walked toward a brown wooden door that was on the left side of the room.

He unlocked the room and walked inside it. It was dark and dank inside the room, there was a small lamp burning on the walls of the room.

The limited light was projecting the room as nothing less than a torture chamber. A variety of tools were lying on the tables, and most of them were covered in blood and other bodily fluid.

The man walked toward the back wall. A pale-skinned, thin woman was bound to a huge X frame on that wall.

The woman’s body was extremely thin and covered in a variety of wounds.

The man walked closer to the bound and unconscious woman and hugged her affectionately.

“Wake up, sweetheart!”

He tried to wake her up with a soothing and gentle voice.

The unconscious woman opened her eyes. While her weak and thin face could barely show it but her eyes were expressing fear.

Her weak body was shaking with fear, from seeing the man that was standing before.

“I have loved every moment that we have spent together.”

The man spoke while holding the woman’s face in his hands and moved his face closer and gave a gentle kiss on the woman’s face.

“But now it’s time for us to say goodbye.”

He moved his head toward the neck of the woman. Within a few moments, the eyes of the woman became lifeless.

She woke up from a deep slumber, something which she hadn’t experienced since the last century. She was lying beside an unconscious man right outside of her forest.

The reality of the situation quickly washed away all the sleep that was fogging her mind. She looked at herself. Her magical dress was gone; she was naked. She looked at the equally naked man.

Memories of last night came rushing. Although she wasn’t in absolute control of her body, she still could remember everything clearly. Since yesterday was a full moon, the spell was extremely powerful. This was the reason why it triggered such an extreme reaction from her.

She could still clearly remember her fighting with him, and then the animalistic fucking he gave to her.

Heli Mitt wasn’t some naive forest spirit. She had been here for more than three centuries now, and she knew how the world functions. So, it wasn’t hard for her to compose herself after the incident of the previous night.

It wasn’t some kind of instinctual reaction; it all happened after that demoness hit her with a lust spell. She noticed that said demoness was also unconscious on the other side of Erik.

She again looked at Erik; he seemed to have grown a lot compared to how he was just a few weeks ago.

Erik Goodman was the grandson of Bjarke Goodman, a noble human being who died a few months ago. She closed her yellow-slitted eyes; when she opened them the yellow colour had covered both of her eyes entirely.

She looked at the unconscious Erik. Heli Mitt had seen many ups and downs in her life but it was the first time she was stuck in a situation like this.

A few centuries ago, a noble human being helped her and her grandmother by saving young Heli’s life from a coven of demon worshipers. Heli’s grandmother was pleased by the human’s gesture and provided that human with a chunk of land outside of their forest.

The human built a house there and started his family. Young Heli, alongside her grandmother, often visited the human and his family but, except for him, no one in her family knew about their true identity.

They would visit this house often to celebrate festivals, but after a few years, the man died due to some illness. Something which puzzled young Heli, but her grandmother told her that she was too young to understand at that time.

After his death, they stopped visiting them but Heli would often see his family members roaming the forest. It took her a few more decades to understand the situation.

Once her grandmother taught her the ‘seer’ ability, she was able to see the problem. It was one of their specie’s natural abilities; they could see magic like any other physical object. Her kind had this ability to see magic or anything magical.

One day she noticed the grandson of that man who was roaming the forest was under some kind of curse.

It was bad news, she informed her grandmother about it, but instead of being surprised; her grandmother took that news lightly.

“I know, dear, it’s some kind of blood curse. And neither I nor anyone I know is capable enough to break it.”

Since then, Heli had seen every child born in that family bear this curse. Her grandmother had researched to find a cure but failed. After her death, Heli continued the research work, but just like her grandmother she also failed to find any cure.

She had seen many people die in that family, so just like her grandmother; she hadn’t contacted anyone in the family.

Until three decades ago when she one day encountered Bjarke Goodman, Erik’s grandfather. He was heavily injured by a wolf pack.

Heli had taken him back to her home and healed him. During that time, she had also told him about the illness which was due to some curse that was placed upon his bloodline.

Instead of breaking down, the man took that news bravely. Within a few years, his son and his daughter-in-law died in a car accident.

After their funeral, he came back with a young child in his hand. Heli saw the child at such a tender age bearing such a harsh punishment of a ‘Blood Curse’.

She said so to the old man, who was tense due to the news, but again took the news bravely. Instead of whining around, he focused all his attention on nurturing the child properly.

Heli would often see that child roaming inside her forest bearing the twisted cursed in every drop of his blood.

She had noticed the curse was like some kind of leech; it was eating the vitality of the bearer. Like some kind of parasite, it was destroying the blood of its very owner.

But now the curse wasn’t there. She again looked at him. The ‘Blood Curse’ that she was seeing on this family line suddenly disappeared from the body of this young man. She was surprised when she noticed that last night but was also disturbed when she saw some evil spirit possessing his body.

At least that’s what she believed last night but now she could see it clearly, while the curse was gone it was replaced by another one; a curse which wasn’t just affecting his blood but also had corrupted his soul.

A small part of Erik’s soul was twisted and turned into some evil or dark beastly spirit. Heli was beyond shock never before had she seen such a twisted and dark curse in her life.

‘But how? Where?’ She could see the demoness was too weak to place such a curse on him. ‘Then where did this curse come from?’