Chapter 2: The Witch

IT is such a long day for Edna Fritzhald after she finished all of her everyday duties in her house. She let out a deep sigh and sit in the soft and comforting sofa in her magnificent sala. She was too tired from work and of course from her last mission in other dimension-in Sinathra, the world of elves.

"Now, my life is now back to normal..." she murmured and massaged the back of her neck.

After she finished the important mission that the king assigned to her, she felt like all of her energy drains and her life where turn back now into normal-boring and dull.

She was living alone in her nipa hut house located in the outskirt town of Cleon Kingdom. She was far, faraway from the mischievous and judgemental eyes of the mortals who once crowned her as the 'Witch of Destruction.'

Edna Fritzhald. 17 years old. A witch borned from the ashes of the crimson clan. Her magic was specialized in fire and her spells were often destructive and can even burn down a thousand lives that's why she planted an infamous reputation to the people around her making her to be called as 'The Witch of Destruction' since she can destroyed everything around her by her own fire if she pass her limits.

Those were the reason why she distance herself from the people-to avoid herself from drawning chaos and taking down the lives of the innocent people.

Despite of her difficult circumstances, she still making herself happy and adores human a lot. There is no reason to bear hatred against them since it is part of their nature- to judge.

In her three years of becoming a witch, she think that she fully understand humans and how they think and act. In her mission, she have this fated meeting with different faces of humanity which made her think that no man is no evil. Somehow, she undestand every bit of them.

But it is boring to be stuck in this house alone. She wanted to be in an adventure and in exciting fightings. She is sick from sitting in her sofa, doing nothing aside from reading books and making different stuffs such as magic potion.

A knock coming from the outside catches her attention. Her eyebrows knotted as she stares at the small door of her nipa house. She can feel the existence of someone outside of her house.

A human.

What does a human doing here?

She immediately ran towards her door and ready herself from the danger if something happened. It is too unusual to felt a human presence in her area and besides humans bears a grudge at her.

She open the door and then she saw a young man infront of her, breathing heavily. From his appearance, it seems like this man is tired from doing something.

"Who are you?" She asked and roamed her eyes all over his body.

The man was well-built, tall, and handsome. He has this strong appearance beneath his steel armoured hiding all of the nuscles on his body. He suited himself with a aqua longsleeve and a pair of silver gauntlet and silver combat boots. There is a sword on his left waist- screaming his existence as a knight.

She looked at his eyes. It was a pair of pretty ocean orbs yet there is somewhat coldness in it. His eyebrow is thick and his lashes was too long, and his crimson lips underneath his pointed nose was too enough to call him handsome.

The man didn't bother to utter a reply. It was staring at her face-like examining all of her. She felt uneasy because of his cold gaze and she was about to speak when suddenly the man collapsed and now laying in the wooden floor.

"Hey!" she called him and rushed to his side to check on him.

She placed her soft white palm on the forehead of the man. He was too hot like a fire.

"He's suffering from a fever." she uttered to herself and carries it towards her small bed. He was too heavy enough to lift that's why she uses a little bit of magic to give her strength. She was lucky because her magic didn't harm her though.

Kinumutan niya ang lalaki at tinungo ang kanyang kusina para gumawa ng gamot. A thick book appears infront of her like a magic and she search for the potion that cures sickness.

It took thirty minutes when she completed her potion. She place it in her small tube at binalikan ang lalaking nag-aapoy sa lagnat.

"Drink it..." she whispered to him then the young man drank it without hesitation.

Umupo siya sa gilid ng kama at tinitigan ang lalaking mahimbing na natutulog. Maraming katanungan ang naglalaro sa kanyang isipan.

Who is he? What is he doing here in my place? He's a knight so I think he lost himself from his last mission.

Gumalaw ng bahagya ang lalaki. May isang kumikinang na bagay ang nalaglag mula sa bulsa nito. Dahil sa kanyang curiousity ay kinuha niya iyon at tiningnan.

A golden crest. The crest of the Cleon Kingdom!

This thing. Tiningnan niya ang natutulog na lalaki at muling ibinalik ang paningin sa crest na hawak niya.

If he had this crest, it means he got a dangerous and heavy mission that even a normal missioner couldn't do. Hindi niya tuloy mapigilan ang pag-atake ng kanyang kuryosidad.

'Ano kaya ang misyon na ibinigay sa kanya ng hari?' she thought to herself as she stares at the peaceful face of the guy that sleeping in bed embellish with soft and fluffy clouds.

Then she felt asleep on his side while guarding him to the fullest, leaving her hand holding the golden crest.

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IT'S cold. Too cold enough for her to feel asleep. Malamig iyon at nanonoot sa kanyang balat dahilan kung bakit binuksan niya ang kanyang mga mata.

Gulat na lang siya nang makitang wala na roon ang lalaki pero lukot-lukot ang sapin ng kama at inisip niyang kaaalis lamang nito. She sighed while thinking that guy didn't even wake her up to say thank you.

Gusto niyang mapailing pero alam niyang may mga tao talaga na walang utang na loob sa kapwa nila kaya papalampasin niya ito. Edna was trained for being a person with a high and tough level of patience so she should be calm and be happy.

She stand up from her chair and started to fix her bed where that guy had slept. While fixing something catches her attention, she took it from the pillow to look for what's inside the folded paper.

May nakalagay roong isang magic circle at isang batong may pangalan na...

"Genesis.." she read what's on the white sheet and her eyebrows automatically knotted.

For her, that name was sounds familiar. Saan nga ba niya nabasa ang pangalang 'yon?

Suddenly, she felt an eerie presence concealing all around the place. She paused on her own track, tracing where is this drowsy existence hides.

"Ah!"

Mabilis niyang tinungo ang kinaroroonan ng pagsigaw na iyon. It was not far from her house and when she got there, she gasped when she found a young knight from earlier, reclining in the tons of grasses buried in an icy mud.

He was helplessly aligned along with them, beaten into unconciousness and defeated by the three bogu monsters!

Bogu monsters are monsters evolves in the brown hellish mud. They much like a carabao appearance with thorn on it's head and some act like humans depending on their intelligence.

Why is there some bogu monsters in her place? This is so rude and she felt like she was being treated with no respect.

"I'm sorry monsters but I will treat you with harm and caution." She hold the man's waist and carries him in her shoulder.

Shit! Ang bigat naman ng lalaking ito! Ilan ba ang timbang nito?

Hindi na niya muna inisip ang timbang ng lalaki at itinuon ang atensyon sa mga monsters na sabay na inihagis ang kanilang mga boomerang patungo sa kanya.

She let her mouth utters an deflection spell but it's effect was too much. "Thy arm shall be turn."

The boomerangs of them were suddenly wheel and change the direction of it's attacks. Bumalik ito sa mga bogu at mabilis na iniwasan iyon ng mga ito but it's already too late.

Her spell employs too much damaged so even they avoid it, it is still following them with no end unless if she cancel out her own spell. Nagulat ang mga monsters sa nangyari at nahiwa sila ng sariling sandata.

They got vanished after being beaten along with their own weapon. They too weak to handle so it is easy for her to defeat them.

Napako naman ang tingin niya sa walang malay na guwapong mukha ng lalaki. Another work, again.

"Lagi ka na lang nawawalan ng malay, napakatigas siguro ng ulo mo." aniya rito at binitbit niya ito pabalik ng kanyang tahanan.

Another caregiver vibes again, huh? I wish he would never ran away this time. I wanted to ask him about that thing called Genesis.