The Beauty And The Wolf - Chapter 125

The supreme leader of the clan chanted imperceptible words that only he can understand while his followers stood around the women with their heads down and holding sharp knives in their hands, ready to kill the women and offer their life to Count Lestat’s awakening.

Half an hour later.

Amber’s eyelids fluttered, she awakened in the middle of the chanting, and to her horror and surprise, more women were lying on the floor beside her, all unconscious!

She saw Lady Jasmine and Helen as well, both their eyes were closed. The women’s mouths were covered with clothing to silence them including her.

Then she noticed the men wearing black cloaks surrounding them, her eyes widened in fright when she noticed that they were holding sharp knives in their hands.

Her heart beats rapidly in her rib cage after realizing that they’re no longer in the hall, they were taken away and brought here against their will to be slaughtered!

Panicking, her mind went overdrive. When did this thing transpire?

Ah! She got it now! It must be during those times when the lights suddenly went off – that’s when she remembered that she was about to faint – before she loses consciousness, she felt a hand encircling her waist, carrying her somewhere then after that she no longer remember what happened afterward.

Her body was shaking due to fear.

These men are dark-looking and mysterious, they have bad intentions!

It looks like she and the others will die here tonight if they can’t escape this place!

No! She can’t die tonight! She won’t accept it!

What she’s going to do now?

Think fast!

She urged her mind to think of a solution before the men starts killing the women.

She took a deep breath, she remembered that she was wearing a powerful medallion on her neck. She will try asking for help, maybe it will listen to her. ‘Medallion, can you hear me? These men are going to harm me and the other women. Please help us! Please save us! I don’t want to die tonight! Please do something for me this time! I badly needed your help!’ she begged in her subconscious over and over again.

A few minutes later.

The supreme leader finished chanting the spell, he went to the women and looked at their faces, trying to pick the first sacrificial lamb as an offering for the awakening of Count Lestat.

One by one the women began to awaken from their slumber and were shocked to find themselves in a strange place, surrounded by men, holding sharp knives in their hands.

Terrified and panicking, the women tried to get up but they were immediately restrained and pinned back to the ground by the men before they can even get up from the floor.

The leader looked at Amber and pointed his hand. “I want this girl to be the first sacrificial lamb! Bring her to the altar!” he commanded.

One of the men lifted Amber’s body effortlessly and carried her to the altar.

“Put me down!” Amber screamed at the guy beneath the gagged on her mouth. Her desperate attempt to free herself from his firm grip didn’t succeed, he was too strong for her.

The guy placed Amber down on the table beside the golden coffin.

While Lady Helen and Jasmine stared at the altar hopelessly, tears of fright and despair rolled on their faces.

The leader waved his hand at Amber trying to freeze her to prevent her from moving, but to his absolute surprise, his power can’t freeze her!

He stared at the girl’s face, flabbergasted. “Who are you!? Why I can’t freeze you!” he asked.

Amber looked at the guy whose face was hidden by the hood that was covering his face. She quickly removed the gagged on her mouth. She was feeling confident that the medallion was already helping her because the guy ask why he can’t freeze her. She looked at the guy boldly, projecting the bravest expression that she could muster on her face. “Release the women now! Or else, you and your men will die tonight!” she demanded in a fierce tone. Her firm voice echoed around the room.

Everyone stared at Amber with a mixture of amusement and wonder.

The leader looked at the girl laughing hard in amusement. “Look at you! You’re only a mere human girl! What can you do to me!?” he said and picked up the knife from the table. “Get ready to die!” he said and without further ado, he stabbed the girl’s heart with the knife.

To his surprise, the knife didn’t reach the girl’s skin because there is an invisible barrier preventing the knife from penetrating the girl’s body. He wielded his power and stabbed the girl again with the knife but the same weird thing happened, the knife failed to penetrate the invisible shield protecting the girl. ‘This is impossible!’ he muttered to himself. He finally realized that the girl is not an ordinary person, she is someone powerful!

Amber was observing the guy’s reaction the whole time, she noticed the confusion on his face when he failed every time he attempted to stab her with the knife. Her boldness comes in full force!

“Release the women right now or you will die tonight!” she demanded, threatening him in a menacing voice.

“In your dreams! I will burn you alive tonight little girl!” the leader said smugly. Suddenly, flames emerged from his hands, he hurled the flames at the girl.

Amber was terrified for a moment but she went on a relaxed mode after she realized that the flames were unable to harm her. She grinned. “You’re so stubborn! I already warned you several times yet you ignore my warnings! Time for you to die!” she shouted at his face.

The leader ordered his men. “Attacked the girl! Kill her!” he ordered.

Amber watched the men rush towards her location and that was the time the medallion shone brightly illuminating the entire room, preventing the men from approaching her – freezing them on the spot.

Then suddenly a shadow of a guy wearing a dark ensemble materialized in the middle of the room and went to Amber’s side. “My Queen, I am the guardian of the medallion, what is your command?” he asked.

With mouth agape, Amber stared at the mysterious guy in absolute shock. He appeared out of nowhere claiming that he was the guardian of the medallion. She was greatly surprised by his sudden appearance. Due to great astonishment, it took her a few minutes to come up with a reply, she already come up with a decision though. “Um… kill all the men in this room, don’t harm the women, they’re my friends!” she ordered without hesitation.

“Thy will be done!” the mysterious guy responded. Bright lights that resemble lightning emerged from his fingertips and struck all the men at once.

The men died instantly, struck by the fatal force of the lights, a few minutes later, their remains were reduced to ashes on the floor.

The mysterious guy went to Amber’s side. “Anything else, My Queen?” he asked.

“Can you erased tonight events from the women’s memory? I don’t want them to remember what they’ve witnessed tonight,” Amber requested.

The guy nods his head. “Thy will be done!” he said and went to the women’s side. One by one, he began erasing the women’s memories regarding the things they’d witnessed a while ago.

A few minutes later, the guy returned to Amber’s side. “Done, My Queen. Anything else?”

Amber pondered for a moment. “Um… can you get us out of here? We have no idea about this place… bring us back to the party venue or outside the mansion and then unfreeze the women!” she commanded.

“Thy will be done, My Queen! For your information, this place is in the basement of the mansion and the masquerade party was still in full swing in the surface,” the guy explained, then he flicked his fingers three times.

Everything happened so fast that when Amber blinked her eyes for a few seconds – she and the women were already lying on the grassy lawn, outside the mansion.

The women were speaking to each other, wondering why they were outside the mansion and lying on the grassy lawn.

“Why I’m here?” one woman asked, scratching her head in confusion.

“Yeah, the last thing I remembered is the lights went off in the house – but why I’m here outside when I’m on the dance floor dancing with my partner?” another woman spoke in bewilderment.

“This is strange!” a woman stated.

The women looked at each other trying to find the answers to their questions.

Amber stared at the women in silence, watching the confusion flashing on their faces.

Lady Helen and Jasmine rushed to her side.

“Are you okay, dear?” Lady Helen asked.

Amber shook her head. “I’m not feeling well, my lady. Can we go home now, please? I want to sleep in my room,” she begged.

“Okay, let’s go home now,” Lady Helen agreed.

The women strolled towards the location of their carriage while the rest of the ladies went back to the party.

Inside the moving carriage.

Jasmine was silent the whole time, her brows furrowed in confusion, then she finally broke her silence. “The lights went off on the dance floor and then we find ourselves outside the house lying on the ground, isn’t that strange and weird?” she said, looking at Helen in the eyes.

“Strange indeed!” Lady Helen agreed.

“I feel like… something happened in between but I can’t remember it!” Jasmine continues.

“Me too!” Lady Helen said, finding the whole thing baffling. She knows something happened a while ago! But she can’t figure it out.

Amber fixed her eyes to the window. Her mind was preoccupied after what transpired in the basement, the sudden appearance of the guardian of the medallion stunned her.

She didn’t expect that the medallion has a guardian, and by the way who is she? What is her role in the medallion?

She has many questions to ask the mysterious guy about the medallion but he suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Can she summon him? Or he will only appear to rescue her if her life is in danger?