2 Chapter 2: A camp full of killers and whores
The next day came and the boy Victor from his sleep to find himself laying on a bed and not alone. The boy looks to the woman with white hair laying beside him and holding him in her arms this was something that brings a familiar warm feeling to him.
A feeling that Victor miss so much when his mother who hold him this way when at times he would have a nightmare or when he hurts himself. Victor mother would always come to his side to hold him in her arms to help him fall asleep or to calm him down when he hurts himself.
Thinking of those time made the boy shed a single tear that came down the side of his face. Victor really misses his mother as she was someone that love him even though he was a bastard to the others in their eyes.
Victor wipe away the tears from his eyes doing that awake the women sleeping from the side.
"Mhmm…. Oh it seem your awake…. And have you been crying." Lydia ask once she awakes.
"It nothing." Victor side trying to put on a brave face.
Lydia smile and side "it alright for a young boy to cry there is nothing wrong with that."
"I wasn't crying….. There was just something in my eyes."
"Yeah if you say so." Lydia sat up from her bed getting off it.
"Since your up then I should go find him since he one that brought you to me."
When she said that, Victor attention was caught by her words.
"Do you mean the curse beast that killed the black bear."
Lydia show a displeased look from what the boy side.
"Yes well… what your name boy." Lydia ask.
"My name Victor." he answer her
"and my is Lydia, so to answer you question, yes the one that saves your life is indeed a curse beast, but it best you do not call him that instead you should called him Hellfang."
"Why? Isn't that what he is a curse beast." Victor said as he see Lydia shack her head.
"Yes that is true to what Hellfang is, but it's best not to bring that up about him being a curse beast, he does not like to be called that or to say any other beastfolk."
Victor can understand what Lydia was telling him as the boy had read books about curse beast studying about them and their sad and painful history.
No one knows the true origin on how these curse beast came to be the way they are as these beasts were born from only the human race. Few every year a humanoid beast is born, the human race try to come up with many solutions to the reason why such a thing was happening.
None could find the answer and only came up one Theory and that is they believe they are cursed, but no idea who or what cast this curse on them. The news of this spread throughout the whole human race creating the seeds of fear and hatred toward the humanoid beast, that is how the beastfolk were named curse beast and were treated coldly from then on.
It was not easy for a curse beast even when one is born it is killed, sold or even abandoned and because of such cruelty the cures beast had to endure push them to the breaking point to where a war broke out between the humans and the curse beast.
The war was a bloody one where many lives were lost from both sides creating piles of bodies. This war made the human cruelty more stronger towards the curse beast same goes for the curse beast hatred for humans.
So long this battle went on that both sides decided to call for an end to it by both the humans and the curse beast signing a treaty for peace. On that day when peace was made, the remaining curse beast who fought in the war created their own kingdom where only their kind can live as themselves.
Even though peace was made the hate between the two can never fade away.
"I understand Lydia, I have no problem if he a curse beast." Victor side
"You don't?." Lydia was a little surprise.
"Yeah the Kingdom I lived called Votteryn there are curse beast that live there too, I even had a maid who was a curse beast, Her name was Mary."
"How long has she been around as you maid?." Lydia ask
"Oh she has been around a long time before I was born, Mary work for mother family since she was little at the same time mother was little too. Then she was kicked out right after by my step-father...…. At the time Mother die."
When Lydia heard that she look at Victor to see the sadness on the poor boy face, She couldn't hold back and quickly hugged the boy to make him feel a little better.
"You must not have an easy life."
"No it wasn't because my step-father made sure of it even to mother, he did the same, I hate him for how much pain he caused us."
"That enough, you don't need to tell me anymore then you need to, I understand pain very well."
Victor look at Lydia then hug her tightly, Lydia then smile at the boy until someone enter her tent without permission.
"Hey Lydia! Is the kid up yet?." Hellfang ask and the answer he got was a hit on the head.
"Damn! Women what was that for?."
"How about not asking for my permission to enter my tent."
Lydia yelled out to Hellfang and as Victor watches, he started to laugh. Hellfang and Lydia noticed him laughing as both smile liking to hear the sound of a laughing child.
"Well I am happy that you enjoy my pain boy as it seem to bring you so much happiness."
Victor stop laughing right away and was scared that he might be made at him for laughing, but instead he sees Hellfang having a big grin on his face.
"Hahahaha it alright to laugh boy, I would have done the same, anyways since your awake, now we can talk."
"Come on Hellfang the boy just got up, he should at least have something to eat first before asking him question." Lydia said as she was acting like a mother for the boy.
"Alright, alright let's grab something to eat and talk at the same time." Hellfang said as he exited out the tent.
Lydia walk up to Victor giving him her hand as he grabs it and left the tent together following Hellfang. The boy looked around the surrounding area noticing other tents and the people there was a mix of human, curse beast and demi-humans not only that these people were carrying and holding weapons.
"Hey Lydia who are these people? And why are they have weapon?."
"Oh that…. How should I answer."
"Kid we are mercenary that get hair by the rich and powerful to fight for their war against one another one."
Hellfang answer as Victor look at Lydia as she nodded in agreement.
"So you guys are killers."
"In a way, yes, but only when were being paid to do some killing."
"Do you enjoy doing this Hellfang." Victor asks Hellfang, but he didn't answer back right away.
"Maybe that was not a question you should ask Victor." Lydia said
"I am sorry didn't mean to ask such a bad question."
"No it fine to answer that question, I say is what I do is not something I can't enjoy, but it is something I have to do in order to live."
Things then became quite as they kept walking out of the camp and into the woods making good distances from the camp
"Alright you two make a fire while I go hunt down a deer." Hellfang said and set out right away to do some hunting.
Lydia and Victor started working on that fire, but only Lydia was doing all the work since the boy didn't know how to make a fire in the woods. So take care of it and made sure that he watches her to learn for one day he can do it on his own.
Not long Hellfang return with a dead deer in his mouth, Lydia was not pleased it was in his mouth as she quickly took it out. Lydia then took out a dagger she had hidden somewhere in her clothes and started right away at skinning the deer.
Victor was Impress how well she was doing the work on the deer.
"So care to explain, how a kid like you ended up in these woods here alone as well as telling us who you are." Hellfang asking seeing it was a good opportunity to do so.
Victor was quite from that question as it seems like he didn't want to answer, but he began to speak.
"My name is Victor chandler, I am noble mistake."
"A mistake, how can you say such a thing about yourself Victor." Lydia said.
"It true as I was told that by my grandparents and step-father and they are right as my father was not noble just some guy who hunts monsters passing through Votteryn kingdom on a mission. All I know about him is that his name is David and he belongs to some Organization that hunts down monster for payment."
"How did you get to know about this?." Hellfang ask
"Well I always had a feeling that my step-father wasn't my real father as he and I look different from each other. I asked my mother and she told me everything about my real father and that she was forced by my grandparents to marry this man in order to cover the shame of me."
Lydia and Hellfang look at each becoming sad thinking how hard this boy's life must have been.
"Anyway when mother passed away at the time, I was 11 year old, my mean step-father remarry another woman named Barbara Klein a year later. That woman was not good person just like him and I am sure that she was the one that talk him into abandoning me and he even promised my mother before her death, that he would look after me."
Now they know the story on how boy like him ended up in the woods.
"I think that enough talking for now, let's have something to eat." Lydia said as she finishes skinning the deer and cook it while Victor was talking
They all eat a piece of the deer meat for the time being until Hellfang spoke.
"So kid what are you going to do now?." Hellfang ask
"I want to stay with Hellfang and Lydia."
"What!?." Lydia was surprised to what the boy said
"No that's unacceptable Victor, you should just go back to live with your grandparents."
"No! I can't stand them, I rather stay with here."
"Do you understand what you be giving up even if your only half-noble, your still a noble. That a life you should just live not give up..."
Hellfang stop Lydia from speaking any further.
"Are you sure you wish this boy." Hellfang ask
Victor nods his head with a piece of deer meat in his mouth.
"Alright then, you can still with us."
"Are kidding me Hellfang, he's just a kid this is no life for him."
"Don't worry Lydia, I am watching over this kid from now."
Lydia didn't like it, but it was two against one, so she has nothing more to say against it.
"Alright fine, but I am going to help too ok."
"That fine by me."
Victor was happy that it ok for him to stay with them as this would be like a new home for him from now on.
