Untamed: The Alpha

290 PROMISE ME ONE MORE THING

“The onlace is the key for Lord Chaos to take back his sword! Without that, he will never be able to retrieve his sword!” He cried out loud at Zuri. “Keep that creature away from me!”

Apparently, White knew better, since the wolf didn’t even move an inch without an order from Zuri. The more Norbeat felt afraid of her, the more the white wolf growled deeply at him. Probably this was the wolf’s way to tease him, which was not at all fun for him.

On the other hand, Zuri fell deep in thought. She had never thought Chaos would give her something very important like that. A lot of things had happened to her and there was a big chance that she would lose the onlace, thus how could Chaos entrust her with something so important like that?

“What if I had lost the onlace, what would have happened then?” she asked the little boy, whose face had turned red because he was trying to hold back his emotions, yet when he heard what Zuri suggested, his eyes opened wide.

“Are you crazy? Did you lose your mind? How could you lose something so important like that? The onlace is a treasure!” Norbeat scoffed, but he toned down when White growled at him again, disliking the way he talked to Zuri.

“What is that sword to him?” This was one of the most important questions that she wanted an answer for, but Norbeat clamped his lips shut when he was questioned about this. “What is it?”

“If you want to know, you have to ask him yourself,” Norbeat said, as he nodded his head in Chaos’ direction. He was standing a few meters away from them, busy staring at his black sword with an expression that was devoid of any emotions.

“You are useless,” Zuri muttered under her breath, but clear enough for Norbeat to catch her words anyway.

“What?!” He was trying to free himself from White, but it was hard, since he was pinned down to the ground and was afraid to make any sudden movement fearing it could provoke this wild animal.

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“And you?” Zuri squatted down next to Norbeat, her hazel eyes fixed on him right now. “How could you return in a different body? I remember that you were a weak, ugly, old man when I pushed you down the hole, so how did you become so young now?”

Zuri knew what she had seen, thus there was no way the old man that she saw earlier could be mistaken with this five year old boy.

“Don’t you know, I am a soul possessor!” he said in an angry tone, but his golden eyes showed how proud he was right now.

“What is that?” Zuri tilted her head. She was sure that she had never heard of such a creature before. “That name sounds ugly.”

Norbeat seethed when he heard that, but Zuri could care less about that, as she looked at him with an expressionless face, waiting for his explanation.

“I will not say anything before you take away this creature!” Norbeat shouted loudly, his scream beating all the noises from the cars around them on this highway.

However, Zuri seemed to find Norbeat’s annoyance amusing, thus she looked at White and the wolf licked his face instead, which made the little boy scream bloody murder.

Bullying this creature entertained her, since she was used to not having anyone around them and there was no way Zuri would do something like this to Chaos. Let alone having a long conversation with him, it was not an easy task to even make him talk.

“Stop licking my face!” Norbeat howled.

On the other hand, Zuri tilted her head to look at Chaos, just in case to check if that man would mind it when she treated his old friend like this, but he seemed to not care at all, so everything was fine.

“Start talking then,” Zuri said lightly. She wouldn’t order White to stop licking his face before he gave her the answer that she wanted.

“You are a little bitch!” Norbeat cursed Zuri loudly, but before she could do something or the wolf punished him for saying something like that, all of a sudden, the hem of his shirt caught fire. “AARRGH!”

Out of instinct, Zuri turned her head and looked at Chaos, but he didn’t seem to have moved even an inch from his position and his expression was still the same, but there was no way this fire appeared all of a sudden if it were not for Chaos who caused it.

“My lord, you are so mean...” Norbeat whimpered. And just as the wolf got off from his chest, he immediately sat down, trying to put off the fire on his clothes with a panicked expression on his face.

Once the fire had been put off, the little boy’s hands turned very red, as blisters already started forming, while sweat dripped down from his forehead. If he was a normal little boy, Zuri would have taken pity on him, but the fact that he was not, only brought a little frown to her brows.

“You should know better than calling me that,” Zuri said in a matter of fact tone to him. “Now, tell me what you are,” she asked the same question again.

Only then did Norbeat finally speak about what he was.

“I am a soul possessor,” he said firmly. “I am an old creature from ancient times.”

Based on his explanation, Norbeat was able to possess other creatures’ souls, but it depended on how much strength that he had. It would be easier for him to possess a human’s soul, yet it would take a lot of his energy to take a supernatural creature’s soul.

Therefore, because of this reason, it would be hard to tell how old this man was, because he could literally possess any being. His power was not limited by sex or age or even any race of supernatural kind, as long as he had the power to do so.

But of course, there was a limit to his ability and there was no way for him to possess one of Chaos’ souls; it would be hard for him to do so. It would almost be like killing himself if he dared enough to even try.

“What will happen to the body that you used?” Zuri looked at the little boy in front of her. He had brown curly hair that reached his shoulders and chubby cheeks, which had turned red by now. He must be a lovely kid. What would happen to his parents when they knew their child had disappeared and turned into a monster like this?

“The body will rot and die eventually,” Norbeat shrugged his little shoulders.

“The kid will die when you leave his body?” Zuri narrowed her eyes at him.

“Yes,” he said lightly, there was no remorse or even regret in his tone, as if this was an everyday thing, well this was indeed a usual thing for him.

“You just killed an innocent child,” Zuri hissed, she looked at the boy with disdain in her eyes. How could he possess a child like this and make him suffer?

“Kill? That is a heavy word,” Norbeat snickered, he then stood up and dusted the dirt from his clothes before he faced Zuri. “You are the one who pushed me into the hole, if it were not for you, I would have stayed inside that old body for a little bit longer, at least for another year.”

Norbeat would prefer a younger body, so he could stay for a long time before the body became older and useless.

“So, if you want to blame me why I chose this body and you have to be blamed too.” Norbeat came closer to Zuri and raised his head because he was so small, his head only reached Zuri’s hip. “You killed this boy too, little girl.”

And before the wolf could knock him down to the ground, Norbeat had run toward the car and locked himself inside, sticking out his tongue at Zuri through the window.

He was so childish for an ancient creature.

However, Zuri didn’t have time to deal with him, so she walked over to approach Chaos, who was still staring at his black sword.

“What sword is that?” Zuri whispered softly to him. She was still fascinated about how beautiful the sword was, but she still couldn’t understand why Chaos had this urge to have this sword when he was fine in every battle even without it.

“This is not for a fight,” Chaos said gently. His voice no longer had this sharp edge to it and when Zuri tilted her head, she was surprised to see his dark blue eyes.

Chaos had not yet gotten his next shattered soul, but he looked almost normal.

“And what is it for?” Zuri stared straight into his eyes, she wanted to make sure that she didn’t see it wrongly.

“For my protection.” Chaos shifted his attention from the sword and then reciprocated the way Zuri looked at him.

“What do you mean?”

“The sword is a shield to prevent my dark side from running rampant.” That was the reason why the color of his eyes returned and he looked less anxious and hostile. “Can you promise me one thing, Blue?”

Blue had promised him a few things in the past and one more promise wouldn’t hurt, right?

“What is it?” For some odd reason, Zuri felt there was something more to this promise. She felt fidgety at the sight of Chaos’ expression right now.

“If things go worst for me, stab me.” Chaos handed the sword to her.

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