14 Village Inside the Mist (2)

In a devastated village, building debris scattered. Former man-made tents roofed with leaves and bamboo poles are scattered and centered in a field, in the middle, there is a pile of firewood with the remnants of wood charcoal that still leaves embers and emits smoke. The settlement of the simple tent is located in a former bustling village surrounded by rice fields and coconut trees around it.

After a major disaster occurred, only a few local residents survived by hiding by making a fence around their tents with whatever was there.

For more than a year, they only lived on the rest of the harvest before last year's disaster and ate the meat of their remaining livestock. A few months ago where we lived was attacked by a pack of wolves in the shape of an abnormal wolf, they were two or even three times the size of a normal wolf, the leader of the wolf pack even had large sharp and frightening claws with long fangs and yellow eyes light up. At that time we were helpless and scared, we felt like there was no hope of life anymore

[Sounds of panic and chaos]

"Kyaaakk ..."

"Run !! Run !!"

"Honey ... !! Get out of here, save our child!"

"Papa ... sob ... sob ..."

"Someone please help us! Sob .. sob ..."

"Damn! Why did this have to happen! I must be strong!"

"Hyaaaa !!"

[Swoosh! Swoosh! Clank!]

There was a man in the chaos holding an iron rod, which was a broken earth fork, with all his strength he swung his iron rod blindly and ate several wolves. Instantly he shouted "O my friends! Maybe this is the end of our lives, let's fight them, let's fight!"

A number of adult men who were struggling to keep out the wolves responded to him, "Come on! Kill them! Kill the wolves!"

The man then turned to his wife while shouting "Honey! Bring the women and children into the hiding hole under our ruins!"

"We will put a halt to them!"

"Hyaaattt! Clank!"

"Growl! Woof! Woof! Grrrrr...!"

When their attention was only on the wolves, there were some who tried to run away from the place, leaving the people who were fighting against the pack of wolves, but their efforts were in vain. The wolf leader who initially just lay quietly watched his mob attack the helpless humans immediately ran and pounced on the people who wanted to escape from that place.

"Kyaakkkk! Please!"

"Uncle! Run !!"

"Kyakk! Growl! Grrrrr ... !!" With a large body even bigger than an adult, the wolf beast tore apart the people who ran away from him.

Then the wolf beast walked towards just above the secret underground entrance where the survivors were hiding. The wolf beast then sniffed at the door that blended with the ground floor, as if the creature knew there was something down there. Instantly the wolf beast roared in a thunderous voice while looking up, at that moment his body gave off a red aura like the light of the fire that enveloped the creature's body, and sure enough, his body ignited flames and blazed in flames all over the creature's body, but the fire was like a fire burning on a bamboo torch without burning the creature's own body. The creature turned its head down and spouted outbursts of fire that came out of its mouth like bursts of flame tower, smashing the door and burning to the inside.

The figure of a man who was wrestling with a wolf pack was aware and saw the incident firsthand. With anger and anxiety, the man stabbed an iron stick that he held at the wolf leader who was off guard and only scratched the right leg of the wolf's beast.

The man shouted to call out to the people in the basement while distracting the beast wolf who was staring at him sharply as if like a missile aiming at his target.

"Are there any survivors ?! Answer!"

"Huff ... huff" The man continued to try to breathe and gather energy to fight the beast wolf.

How shocked when his wife and daughter came out of the hiding room with burning clothes and burns all over his wife's body.

"My wife! My child!" The man immediately ran without paying heed to the wolf and beast wolf around him at that time. The man, made it to his children and wife and immediately hugged them. Then the man saw a glimpse of the giant claw .. "Gyaaaaaaaa !!"

Huh? Where am I?" the man was confused, then he heard a familiar voice and a little girl ran to him and hugged him tightly.

"Daddy !! Sob .."

"Finally daddy wakes up too. I'm so happy." The little girl's eyes are twisted and radiating happiness that is fitting for a child who misses his parents.

"Finally you've regained consciousness. It's been two days since you've been unconscious." A soft voice came from a middle-aged female figure dressed in white like a nurse's uniform and wearing a hairpin on her hair.

"Rest, your wound has healed, just need a short rest to calm the mind."

"Alisa, let's go with auntie."

"Alright, aunty." Then the woman was about to leave the room and the man then said "Thank you very much, I ..." the woman immediately answered patiently and with a smile "Just rest first, the story later."

[Sreekk, the sound of door closing]

Behind the door, several figures appeared, and then they left the room.

"..."

In a simple room, about 2 x 3 meters in size, with wooden walls and palm-roofed, hanging sliding doors. The atmosphere is calm and quiet, the room is not dark and also not too bright because the sunlight entering through the sidelines of the palm leaves breaks through the room like a towering pillar made of light.

"I can't imagine a place like this on earth, after what I experienced out there. How lucky I am to be able to live this long, and my daughter survived." The man said to himself.

"I'm sorry, my wife, I promise I will take care of our daughter with all my heart." The man shed tears amid the silence of the room set against the sound of birds singing and chirping.

- to be continued-