Blood

The next day before dusk, Tolo enters the twin's room holding a bag with him. He drops the bag on the floor and zips it open revealing some clothes. Two black sleeveless shirts, black gloves that stretched up to their forearm, black cargo shorts and some black socks along with a pair of black shoes each.

"Where did all of this come from??”, Kinea asked.

“Well these are your clothes for missions, think of them as your battle armour. It’s fortified with spiritual energy and will help protect you from attacks”.

“So we have a mission?”, Kean asked.

“A serious mission, I would rather have gone myself but I have to take care of you two”.

“Wear it and come meet me outside”.

Tolo then came back with two pairs of black coats and throws it at them saying “Wear this over the clothes”.

"Eh", the twins say in confusion.

The twins wore the clothes and went to the back of the castle, already drenched in sweat from the heat of the coats.

Tolo, who was staring deep into an open portal wearing a pair of the battle armor . "Your finally here", he says.

"What's up Tolo, how serious is the mission?', Kinea questions.

"We've got a report of a demon. Supposedly a very strong one at that", he replies.

"Okay, but is there really a need to wear this?! It's like fifty degrees out here", Kean asks while pointing to his coat.

"Stop complaining, you'll understand in a second", Tolo says before going through the portal.

The twins look at each other and back at the portal and reluctantly go through, they are met with extreme blizzards and snow. They're breath was easily visible in the air, there gloves had no effect in stopping the cold and even the moon was partially blocked off by the clouds which were hailing.

They were on top of a hill with dense wood all over and an open path covered with snow that stretched for miles.

Tolo raises his hand and an energy orb forms in his hand that serves as a light source and begins walking through the heavy blizzard.

"Tolo… I'm gonna die of cold. Why are the weather conditions so bad", Kinea says.

"His right, the weather around here is unnaturally cold", Kean remarks.

"I told you that you’d need the coats, I can use spiritual energy to regulate my temperature but your not that advanced yet. We have a rescue mission for a group of people that were attacked by a demon although that's all we really know so far", Tolo says.

"Oh so you believe it's the demon?", Kean questioned.

"I'm not sure, yet".

A light hush startled the three of them, they darted their attention to the woods beside them.

"Yo, what's up", Kean asks in a low voice.

Tolo looked irritated, his calm demeanour was replaced by a very angered look.

"Can't you guys sense it? The hate, malice, no…the bloodlust.".

A loud silence resonates, the heavy blizzard had stopped and the three boys were examining the wood beside them. They felt it too, the danger, the anger, malice. This isn't a regular demon.

"Can you smell it? Something smells worse than a dead body", Kean says while covering his nose.

“It’s almost like I'm smelling death itself”.

“So we're related to that thing??”, Kean asked.

“To an extent at least…don’t let it worry you though, you won’t end up like that”.

After walking about for some time, they found a cabin in a large clearing. The cabin was buried under a mountain of snow with very small of the actual cabin visible.

"This is the place, we have to save the survivors", Tolo says.

They dug up the snow and found the door, they tried opening it but it was sealed shut, after some deliberation however Tolo kicked it open.

They walked into the house, the living room looked like a murder mystery. They were two men on the floor dead with one disfigured with bite marks, a broken nose and bruises. The other's head looked like it was snapped, his eye was gauged out but the most terrifying feature were his body.

His bones were broken in many different places from his head to toes, with some even coming out of his skin. Worst of all he had an airy smell the same as in the woods, the smell of death.

There was a third man resting on the wall barely breathing, his eyes were damp and tired. He looked old, very old. His arm was missing, tied with a white sleeve which was covered in blood, his head was stained with blood and his clothes were torn with claw marks visible all over his body.

Tolo rushed to him getting on his knees and holding his other hand before saying "Sir, are you alright?!".

At first, there was no response but then the man mustering what little energy he had, shakily pointed at the door at the end of the living room. It was barricaded but it had cracks in it almost like someone was trying to open it from the inside.

The twins remove the wood and opened the door, the smell alone sent shivers down their spine. Behind the door was something straight out of a horror movie, a bed with sheets completely covered in blood and partially broken at the center but it was the body beside it that was the real eye sore.

An open ribcage gaped like a grotesque maw, revealing a face or at least what's left of a face as even her lower jaw was missing. One eye grotesquely lodged in its left socket while the other was horrifyingly absent. Her legs and shattered bones lay strewn about like discarded remnants of a carcass, the scant flesh that remained marred by savage bite marks, as if something insatiable had feasted upon her very essence without remorse.

"The fuck", Kean whispered.

"What happened here?", Kean questions.

"Looks like someone ate her", Kean answers in a disgusted voice.

Tolo's eyes glow and he healed the man but only to a small extent, "Now please can you tell us what happened here", Tolo asks.

The man nods and begins "My name is Frank Botman and I came here with my girlfriend and a few of my friends".

"Aren't you a bit old for girlfriends?", Kinea asks.

"What do you mean, I'm merely twenty\-three years old", he answers.

"Are you serious?!", Kean exclaims.

"How is that even possible?", he questions.

"I might know what caused this, please continue your story", Tolo says.

"I, my girlfriend her name was Melissa. Her brother and his girlfriend, Max and Fiona with their friend Alex who came with no guests. We came to this cabin to have fun, it was away and looked like it was in good condition and I personally didn't notice anything wrong even tho Max said he felt off”. “

“We were having a party in hear blasting music and having a few drinks, overall it was turning out to be a great night for us all".

"We were all celebrating a promotion Max got at work and having a great time until Alex went out to pee, I believed in his partially drunken state he was looking for the easiest way so he stumbled outside. He was gone for about a good ten seconds before rushing back in as pale as a ghost".

"He told us all to turn off the music and quietly follow him outside, we followed his commands reluctantly and went with him. We went behind a tree and he pointed towards the top of a cliff, on it I saw something that made me almost pee myself".

"On it, I could only make out the silhouette of a tall humanoid creature with antlers at its head, it was hunched over and it's limbs looked unnaturally long", He says.

"What was it that it had done", Kinea asks.

“Please be patient with me, it's gonna be hard reflecting uponthe horrors this beast put us theough”.

End of Episode 7

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