My Love Triangle: Choose Werewolf Or Demon Prince

Luna and Helios manage to seek refuge in the Duke’s castle closest to the meadow like all the other villagers closest to it as well, and like every other night since the first time she saw them, the darkness came again, stealing light from the sky till colors bled out of the kingdom, rendering it cold, dark and unforgiving.

The sea of siren-flowers that hummed at the gate of the castle wilted long ago, their bright blue colors that were once reminiscent of the summer sky was now a pale grey. Luna couldn’t remember what life was like outside the castle walls.

“Arm the gates!” A guard yelled as he dashed past her. “Arm the gates! They’re coming!”

Luna could feel her heart pumping faster in her chest. Was it fear? Was it adrenaline, she couldn’t tell but she gripped her dagger firmly beside her. She wasn’t going to go down without a fight this time.

She stepped out of the grand hall where all the villagers had gathered since the attack started. The castle’s big strong walls gave enough protection from the dangers outside and those that were not lucky enough to get into the castle before the gates were shut suffered gruesomely at the hands of the beasts outside… The shadow creatures. They devoured everything and anything. Luna couldn’t decide which she feared the most, the darkness or the creatures it birthed. The monsters came in all shapes and sizes and she had learn a few things about them from the fearful whispers of the villagers that she slept next to.

The weaker ones were smaller in sizes and they traveled in packs, they destroyed crops and livestocks and were quick to retreat into the darkness after they were done rampaging, the more dangerous ones moved alone, confident in their destructive abilities. They devoured humans leaving behind only bones and they attacked till there was nothing and no one left standing.

“Where are you going?” Helios asked from behind her. His gray fur glowed a soft color under the light of the flickering candlesticks that lined the wall of the castle.

“To the gate. The shadowlings are coming, if they breach the gates I’m going to fight them off with the rest of the guards.”

“Oh,” His eyes seemed to narrow in concentration and his whiskers twitched on their own as they often did wherever he was deep in thought. “I’m coming with you,” He said and hopped a little closer to her as if to prove his point.

“What? No. It’s dangerous out there—”

“Which is why you need me. You need me as much as I need you,” He said.

Luna looked down at her companion and couldn’t help but smile at the warm feeling that his words triggered in her chest. He always had that way of calming her even when she didn’t know she needed to be calmed.

“Fine. But you head back immediately you think you can’t handle the fight, okay?”

“Pfft. I’m not as sensitive as I look,” Helios said. He had a certain glint in his eye like he was telling a joke only him could understand. Luna had given up a long time ago trying to understand Helios.

“I heard the capital is still standing. The darkness hasn’t reached that part of the kingdom at all,” A woman whispered in a hushed tone as she walked past Luna and Helios, hand in hand with a man that looked like her husband from how firmly they held each other.

“If the castle falls. We go to the Capital, it’s safer there. The Queen’s guard will do a better job than this Duke’s washed up farmers pretending to be guards.”

“The Queen hasn’t addressed Arcadia in months. Some say she’s gone crazy,” The man whispered.

“Don’t say that about the Queen,” The woman whispered back harshly.

“Oh please, you know something’s wrong with her head.”

“Something is seriously wrong with your head, girl,” A voice hissed in the back of Luna’s head. It sounded so familiar, like she had heard it a million times before.

“She and her familiar have not attended any of the meetings the High Mages have set up, how are you so certain the Capital is going to be safe?” The Man continued. The lady beside him turned her head around to see if nobody heard her partners blasphemous words and her eyes widened when it met Luna’s. She squeaked in fright and urged the man along the dimly lit hallway of the castle.

“You okay, champ?” Helios asked from below. Luna clutched her dagger girdled at her waist. “Yeah. I’m—”

BOOM!!!

Something slammed against the gates so strongly that it rocked the entire foundation of the castle making both Luna and Helios lose their footing. Luna gripped the cold stone walls to keep her balance while Helios skidded to a stop.

“They’re here!” Helios yelled, his eyes were wide open in shock and if he didn’t look so terrified, Luna would have thought it looked comical.

“At the gate?”

Helios shook his head just as a couple of guards dashed past the both of them.

“They’re on the castle grounds.”

“Heavens!”

She dashed off immediately, her dagger left it’s prison beside her waist and it glinted in the light as she brandished it with a yell.

She didn’t get to the gate before she saw the first beast, it slithered up the staircase with it’s mouth wide open as it hissed. It’s tongue was almost twice the length of her hand. It had razor sharp teeth and the body of two full grown crocodile. It’s long tongue came at her first, doubling in length like a chameleon trying to catch a fly and her body moved on instinct, her blade whistled through the air slashing through the organ with a speed that was too fast for the creature. It let out an unholy screech that would have sent anyone in their right senses running in the opposite direction. It rang in her head, making her wince as the pain brought tears to her eyes.

“Get away from my head!!” Luna yelled and tackled the creature, her dagger going through his body as they tumbled down the staircase it came from.

“Luna!” Helios yelled after her.

She crashed in the middle of the battle, loud cries and inhumane screeches filled the air, she could smell sulphur, it clung to her like a second skin. The grey grass of the castle ground was turning a vivid red as more guards lost their life to the claws and fangs of the beasts, they fell one after another. Warm blood sprayed against her face as a guard beside her lost half of this throat to a gorilla-like beast with claws that curved to a dangerous point. She moved just as the guard’s body dropped, pushing herself of the ground with one foot and slamming into the beast, knife-first, while he tried to lick the blood of his latest victim off his hand.