"It seems we have found our demon." The officer stood up with a serious face, he shouted "Remember our mission! We are to capture the demon in any means possible! Do not let it escape again!"
The Knights and Mages all shout in unison as they slowly start to corner the demon.
The mages prepare their spells as they make a circle around the demon, the knights brandishing their swords, banging the sword with their shield.
The officer smiles with a proud smile as he stares into the sky with his hands behind his lower back, without looking at Jacob. "You be wise to take cover within your home. Oh, and don't forget your daughter, unless." He stops for a quick moment to look behind him. "Unless you want your daughter to be blinded for all of eternity."
Jacob didn't know what he meant by that but, without a second thought, he slowly stood up and began to walk to his daughter with uneasy steps.
"Huh… Ahh... B-Bella, Bella come, we need to get to safety before we g-get hurt." He tries to reach out a hand to her shoulder but Bella screams in anger, regret, all sorts of feelings all mixed at once. She stands up and shoves her dad away as she stares at him with anger as she weeps.
"Bella, please we need to…"
[Shroooooosh]
Countless bolts of light cover the sky with its radiating intense light that shines over the whole village as if it turned morning all of a sudden.
Jacob stumbles back as he tries to cover his hand to prevent the light from blinding him. He regains his balance and runs forwards and forcefully grabs Bella and puts her on his shoulder.
"We are going whether you want to or not but I am not losing you as well!" He shouts as he tries his hardest to maintain his balance and get to safety, but Bella constantly kicking and punching his back only makes it that much more difficult.
"I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! I HATE YOU, How could you just watch mother die like that you-you, MONSTER!"
Jacob shakes his head and ignores her and continues running with uneasy steps.
…
[Drip]
[Drip]
Blood slowly drips down along Sirus's arms, he flicks his arm in an attempt to get rid of the blood.
"Ahh, it's all over me. I need to take a bath after this, now I need to get out of here before more reinforcements come after me." He looks up in the sky with squinted eyes, quickly looking away, feeling drowsy, losing his balance. He grabs onto a nearby tree branch but fails, he falls down onto the floor.
[Bang]
"I-I think I'm going to be sick, what the hell is that…" He vomits all of a sudden, he shakes his head and wipes his mouth, slaps his face a couple of times and shakes his head and suddenly bursts up.
"FUCK! I need to get out of here, I really need to get my body checked, shit… I'm gonna puke again, no, swallow it back in!" He swallows it back in but some of the acids remain in his throat, making his throat feel as if it's on fire as well as dozens of needles piercing his throat.
He stared at his hands and saw his hands were moving in an unnatural way. Even though he wasn't moving his hands in any way, He looked over the river and saw countless knights approaching his position, all he could do was curse his luck, loud clanging sounds coming from the knights armour only made him more nervous and anxious and that was not helping him in the slightest.
"I need to get out of here first, then I can worry about what's happening to my body. Before they come." He walked for a few metres while trying to lean onto the trees, he felt even more dizzy and drowsy with every step he took. The next thing he knew, the floor started to glow brightly, he slowly turned his head around and with awe, he witnessed countless dozens of lighting bolts raining down upon him, he panicked even more, making him move faster and trying to get away from the mysterious light falling from the sky.
His body felt so weak, so weak he couldn't even see any more, he felt as if he was carrying a bus on his shoulders. Every step he leaned further into the ground and finally he collapsed making him fall asleep.
…
A voice coming from one of the many mages performing the spell shouted towards the officer.
"Sir! We have hit within the desired location, the mana signature belonging to the demon is fading rapidly, reporting, the demon is neutralized!"
Hearing this wondrous news filled the Officer's ears with such joy that he smiled with glee, "Excellent work men, knights! I want that demon back here in less than 5 minutes." He shouted as he pointed a finger at the forest.
The knights did a war cry as a response and the mages halted their spell and the movement of the Knights hastened.
Meanwhile, Sirus unconscious, his unmatured horns slowly start to glow a faint golden glow, shortly after the trees start to move and surround him, a variety of sounds start to creak from the nearby trees, they turn and twist, slowly starting to cover his body.
The trees alongside the river bent over the river and their leaves all at once fell into the river, its branches were sharply pointed and that's not all that happened. The trees were alive, they were moving and swaying as if someone were controlling them of some sorts.
The knights noticed this strange phenomenon, but continued their march, their hearts starting to beat rapidly. their instincts were telling them not to approach this sudden phenomenon.
One of the knights dipped their metal shoe into the river and one after another all stepped in. The trees vibrated ferociously before leaning even further and burst out their sharpened branches forward causing them to easily pierce the knights armour with ease. knights screamed in pain and agony as they were hanging onto the branches. The other knights just witnessed their comrades getting stabbed by the trees? Unaware of the situation they just witnessed, the next moment they felt a warm bloody liquid pouring out of their bodies and at that moment they screamed in pain.
The trees blackened in colour, the tip of its branches turned a crimson red, swaying side to side and jutting forward with its sharpened branches pierced one knight after another.
The river once again turning into a bloody colour from the knights, blood flowed gently down the stream.
The officer gasped in awe, his jaw dropped to the floor, he couldn't believe what his eyes just witnessed. He quickly regained his composure and ordered the mages to light the forest on fire.
The mages were frightened in fear at the sudden occurrence and took them a couple of moments to snap back to reality and hear the officer's orders.
'What just happened? Never in my life have I seen the trees move like this. This can't be the demon's doing, there must be someone else who performed this spell to act up the trees like this?" Countless thoughts entered and exited his mind, trying to figure why and how the trees did this. He began losing his sanity as he tried to remember his teachings and tried to figure out if there were any mentions of magic manipulating the very trees themselves. And these aren't normal these, these were trees belonging to the monster forest no less.
"Sir!? Sir?" One of the mages slowly approached the Officer and tapped his shoulder, as result he stared straight into the mages eyes. "WHAT!" He shouted in panic, his breathing heavy.
The mage hesitated to say anything after his sudden burst of anger. "Sir please calm down and order us what to do next?"
The officer breathed in deeply, making him feel calmer. "Yes, yes. Set the whole damn forest on fire otherwise, we will never get that Demon."
"But sure if we set the forest on fire the Lords of the forest might and will possibly retaliate, and the chance the Demon might.." Before the mage could finish his speech the officer interrupted him.
"I do not give a damn about that demon! He has caused all of our men to die by BLOODY TREES!" He grabbed the Mage shoulders tightly as he began breathing heavily.
"Y-yes!" The mage spoke in fear.