VII

The wolf rolled over and he tapped Stephen at the same time. "Hey, kid. Wake up, we have to leave here before he can find us," said the wolf. Stephen gets up and fixes things. Then they started climbing the mountain again.

After a few hours of mountain climbing, I was sitting in a rocky place.

"Are you tired?" the wolf asked him. Panting Stephen nodded as he wiped away the sweat.

"Are we still far away?" the young man asked tiredly.

The wolf also sat to one side and looked away.

"We are still a bit far but I see a hut not far away, if you can still walk, we will reach the hut before the king of the sun rises," said the wolf.

The young man nodded and they walked north again.

A few hours later, they arrived at the hut where the folk healer lived. Even before Stephen could sit in the chair, an old man suddenly came out holding a bowl.

"Who are you?" he said to Stephen. "I am Stephen Ferrer," the young man replied.

"What do you need from me?" the folk healer asked.

The old man stopped walking and stared between the young man and the tree where the chair was.

"Xhien?" suddenly said the folk healer. The young man looks at the space that he is staring at worriedly. The young man looked at the old man again.

"Who are you staring at?" said the child.

"I can't believe you're alive Xhien either. I thought I was the only living wolf left," he said happily. The wolf stared at the old man and the young man.

"Stephen Ferrer, am I right?" the old man asked.

"Can I know your grandmother's full name?" said the old man as he lowered the bowl he was holding to a table.

"Grandma? What do you need from my grandmother?" The old man smiled softly and sat down on a bench near the table.

"She's dead, right?" he asked as he picked up the horseradish to cook later.

"How did you know that?" said the young man and stood up in his seat. "Akira Momoshiro used to be called her. Yifei to others and our wolves Chann is her name.

Although she has many names she has only one destiny, to live without the curse or to die with the curse.

It is like a legend written in a mysterious book after it became realistic," the old man told them.

"My grandmother has a curse? What do you mean?" the young man said confusedly. "Don't be confused, child.

The person she loves chose to save her. So she lived without a curse," the old man said.

"In exchange for the life of his beloved woman, he used the rest of his spirit to sacrifice his life. Xhien is his name. And he is what they call the white wolf," he said.

Stephen looked at the wolf he was with.

"You gave him a new name, son," he said gently. Stephen just nodded, and the older man stood up in his seat.

He looked at Stephen's side and took a deep breath before he said, "Alviary," he said. Strong winds followed after he said his name.

Stephen heard a small laugh in the distance. Little laughs that you like to hear, cold breeze hugs him while the albularyo smiles at them with a wolf.

Suddenly the wolf's body stiffened and it suddenly fell to the ground.

Stephen could not believe what he saw, but he did not speak to the older man.

The old man took a deep breath and pointed his hand at the balloon.

Stephen's eyes widened when the wolf's body suddenly floated, and when he looked at the old man, he was shocked to see that it had also changed shape.

The older man gritted his ears and fangs, and his hair fell out. The color of his eyes also changed and he had a tail.

"Are you also a wolf?" the young man asked her. The old man just laughed at the young man.

He carried the wolf inside his hut and he followed the young man inside. He laid the white wolf on the bed before he made the young man sitting in his small living room.

"Sit down, son," the old man offered Stephen. "It will wake up tomorrow," he added. Stephen sat down and looked around.

"Son, can I ask you a question?" the old man suddenly asked. Stephen nodded and arranged a seat.

"When did you call him?" the old man asked.

Stephen thought before he answered her. "He told me, the first time I called him was when I was young. He said I almost fell into a ravine, he said to me," Stephen replied.

The old man nodded before leaning back in his seat.

"And when is the last?" the old man asked again.

"When I was in the city and suddenly someone approached my black spirit.

At first, I thought it was just a shadow. But I was afraid so I called him," the young man replied.

The old man did not say a word but sighed.

"That's why he can't go back to Biringan," said the old man. "That's why he asked me to help him get back," said the young man.

The old man laughed a little at his answer.

"The wolf was young then so he may not know yet. But the people of Biringan are the reason why we are still alive," he said.

"We?" Stephen suddenly asked.

"Ah, he thought maybe he was the only wolf left when Agus attacked Gliffan," the old man replied.

"Who is Agus?" the young man asked.

"He was an old-fashioned wolf. He was one of the ancestral wolves who preceded the Gliffan forest.

They were just scattered when the queen of the forest suddenly changed. Agus did not like the way it dealt with him and he decided to leave the forest.

When he returned, his aura and appearance were different. We could not believe it then but that was his new personality. He became Sluagh.

A dangerous creature that can hurt people, "explained the old man. Stephen just nodded when the old man suddenly approached him.

"Have you met Uran yet?" he said.

"Yes. When we were just on the plane," the young man replied. "Ah, Uran is giving you a warning then.

That means Biringan is in danger so don't go there first," the old man replied.

Stephen thought about what the old man had said. He did not want to waste their time going to Maras so he asked the old man what he should do to get the wolf home to Biringan.

The old man laughed at his question.

"Tonight, you go to sleep first. When you wake up this morning you may see Uran. He is visiting me at such times," said the old man.

Stephen nodded and entered the small room where the white wolf was sleeping.

He looked at the wolf's foot when he noticed that it looked like it had a hidden tail.

He ignored it and just went to sleep.