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Chapter 47: Monsters

That made everyone at the table sit up straight and turn to the man that had just cried murder. All the blood drained from them? I looked at the men and made eye contact with Tim.

"Go watch Gastbo with Corbit, we will go check it out. I want to know what this thing is that I can do what I can. I will come and find you when it's done."

Tim nodded and dragged a sulking Corbit who was also hoping to was up, but there was no rest for the wicked. I turned and nodded to the girls, and they all got up with me as I went to go see the person who was surrounded by other townspeople. I pushed through them as the man described the man as a dried husk that he had found.

"I just saw Carl earlier today bringing in produce to trade, the poor guy must have stopped for a drink at Flea's Bar before heading back home. His wagon is still parked just outside of town, and this is the second time this has happened!" The crier complained.

"Take us to where the body is, I deal with blood, and I would like to examine the body to find out what could that do to a body. Do you mind?"

The man was not good-looking, a bit on the homely side, Still, when giving the chance to escort four beautiful women to a murder sight, the man could only nod.

The rest of you please stay behind, I would like to try to catch whatever did this, but I won't be able to do that if you are all following me, okay?" I asked the gathered crowd.

There was some grumbling, but everyone agreed that it would be best if we could catch whatever it is that is killing the town's folk while we were here. With that settled, our group was led by Fin, the Crier, and we walked about four roads over and ended up near the outside edge of town. The small building known as Flea's bar had a back alley, and that was where the crime had taken place, so I left Gloria and Mei in the front.

Lesha came with me and this way if they were by some strange chance still in the Bar, we had both exits watched. Fin led us to the back lane, and both Lesha and I put our hands to our faces.

The smell of piss was rank, the day was still warm, even in the dark, and the urine was almost more than a person could handle. Lesha pulled out two rags and handed me one, but I gave her a look as I took it.

"I thought the body might stink, there is a bit of perfume on it to help," Lesha said as she put her face into the cloth she was holding.

"Sorry, the men around here just step out back for a piss. The body is over there," Fin said, pointing at something that looked like a lump of trash.

"Thanks, you can go, be careful. Whatever did this is still out there somewhere, so warn people to stay together and not to go out at night."

The man smiled and left the two of us to go investigate, but I looked around first. There were many low buildings, but there were a couple with second-story sections that had shadowed spots. They were hard to get a good look at, but my eyes were able to pierce the darkness, but I didn't find anything.

"Let's go, if it's still here, I can't see it. Let's go check the body, and confirm how it happened."

Lesha nodded at me and the two of us walked over to the body, bending down to look at the dried-up man's neck. The neck was completely torn open, it was a bit but even the torn flesh was dried up. They must have ripped it to get the blood out faster, but what could do something like this that wasn't me?

'A Vampire, the very same as the Blood Queen that lies deep inside of you. This thing is going to be trouble; what other monsters are in this world?' -Drania.

'Vampire? Monsters? Those are things from the dungeons, we don't have monsters. Unless you mean things like the Green Panthers?'

'No, If there are Vampires here then they were always here. Monsters can't leave the dungeons, so there is no way that this couldn't have been here...you need to prepare yourself! Vampires don't tear throats like that! But Lycanthropes do!' -Drania.

That's when I started to hear the low growl that rumbled my chest, it was coming from the end of the alley. I backed up and put a hand to Lesha to back her up slowly with me. The growling was getting close until a massive creature walked out on bent legs.

"What is that?!" Lesha whispered harshly to me.

'Werewolf!' -Drania.

"Werewolf?"

"K, and Lesha, come back to us, quick!" Gloria called.

Both of us turned and ran, but it didn't chase us. Still, we ran to get with the group, and we got ready for it to come, but it never did. As a group, we advanced on the alley, but there was nothing, and even when we looked at where we had seen the thing come from, there was nothing, not even tracks.

We all headed back to the stables and explained to Tim and the others what had happened.

"A Werewolf? This far down? They are normally in the north with all the other weird shit. Looks like we will have some company for the next little while!" Tim said with a smile.

"Company? It's going to flow to us? Why are you smiling? The thing is massive and it drinks people's blood!" I said with shock.

"You drink blood and we think you're alright. Plus, they are pretty much harmless, I bet the guy cheated him in cards! They only killed Vampires, and wildlife, like man's best friend!" Tim said with another smile.

Great, only doesn't like vampires, great.


Chapter 48: Harmless For The Most Part

I was restless, again, but this time my mind was filled with an image of that massive creature. It had been covered in fur and the creature did look similar to a wolf, but it stood like a man, with a wide chest.

All four of us slept in the same room, and I didn't mind this time. I was worked up about the Werewolf. From what Drania had said, I was a vampire, and that meant it was hunting me. That made me worry that I might try to target the girls, opening up another bag of rotten fruit in my mind.

"K, you need to relax, there is nothing you can do about it. Come lay down, you need to get some sleep," Lesha said from the bed, patting the sliver of the mattress I was expected to squeeze onto.

She was right, and I laid down on the bed, somehow gaining enough room to be considered comfortable. I was worried it was going to take me forever to sleep, but in Lesha's arms I was out like a candle in no time.

Morning came, and I was surprised to be still on the bed, but I got up right away. I had got a decent sleep this time, and it was time to get on the road. The men would be waiting, so I got the girls all up and we said goodbyes to the Innkeeper as we left.

The men had the carriages and wagon out and just hooking the last one back up. Corbit spotted use and gave a half-wave, and a forced smile. Last night's sleep must not have been as good for him.

For all of Tim's bravado, they still slept out here with Mark, Kevin, and Gastbo. I was really surprised that Gastbo would choose to stay out here with the Werewolf around, but if something happened to his supplies, it could be his life in another way. This was a big trip for Gastbo, he only went twice a year, and when he went, he took all of the best items he had crafted at The Forge. So, for him to lose it could prevent him from paying the people working for him and material to make more things to sell.

The whole system was hard for people like Gastbo, but he wasn't the only one. It would be good to establish a way to do trade faster, but that was a problem for another day. It was time to go, so the four of us loaded back into the wagon.

Today we would be camping outside at the river of Tarcord that came from Giyadel and then led out to the sea. The area was open, and there were armed guards at the bridge, making it a popular place to camp, according to Tim. He had popped his head down to let us know a bit about the next town, but I also had some more questions about the Werewolves and Vampires.

"Greled is pretty small, but a bit bigger than the Persab, the town doesn't have any special features, but they do have good honey, so we can get a jar or two, but they don't have an Inn. The town is within a day's ride from the city, so there was more trouble than it was worth to have even a bar in the town, but it isn't dry. The town has just grown to be private, and that keeps Dysters riff-raff out," Tim explained from the floor of our carriage.

He had the door open and both he and Corbit were sitting in the wide doorway. Tim had tied the door open, and the breeze that was coming inside was nice and refreshing. The day was warming up, but the breeze made it more than bearable.

"As for the wolf, they are a tribe of people that are born with the ability to shift into monsters as you saw, but they are harmless for the most part. I do have to say that it is weird for one to kill twice in the same area. It's highly unlikely that it was slighted and killed in the same twice, there must be something else going on."

"We should have gone and found out more information about the other person killed!" Gloria said, clenching her fists.

"K, might drink blood, but she isn't a vampire, but now that she and Lesha have been seen, the creature might follow us. K, you might be setting off some kind of alert with it, I am sorry I didn't take you more seriously last night. I will keep a watch up and I will watch for wolves, they can take the form of a normal wolf, but they are much bigger and easy to tell apart."

I was glad to hear my fears and worries hadn't been unfounded, but we would be sleeping outside tonight, and that meant there would have to be watches posted all around the camp. I was starting to feel like a burden by attracting this monster to us, but we needed to know what it was.

I could have never imagined that there were such things like this on the other side of my mountains. It felt like I had been living a sheltered life, and only now was I taking a step out into the great big world. I needed to get stronger, smarter, and push past my old limits, but there was so much to learn.

"You're not alone, you know that right? You don't have to keep it bottled up inside. We all know this is new for you, and we are here to help. The wolf affects us all, something is attracting it to us, and maybe it is you, but we are a team and you are the Leader. We have your back," Lesha said squeezing my arm.

The rest of the ride was quiet, and we reached The River of Tarcord just before sunset.


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