On Rex's back, Rosie is following him with a sense of curiosity.
Rosie can see that the steam Rex's body releases turns into reddish-white, she becomes even more sure that Rex is not that simple than just meets the eye.
But she became confused when she saw Rex run like a madman,
Since she's an Awakened, Rosie can match Rex's speed with a little bit of effort without bumping the passerby in the mall, unlike Rex who doesn't have the courtesy to dodge the passerby.
The speed of his running increases as time goes by heading to the mall exit,
Rosie saw Rex exit the mall before he lift his head up to look at the sky, she becomes even more confused upon seeing Rex's weird act.
Out of nowhere, Rex suddenly collapses to the ground.
Rosie was shocked to see Rex suddenly collapse to the ground, she immediately rushed toward Rex and saw that there was a painful expression on Rex's face.
Seeing Rex hugging his body on the ground in pain, Rosie didn't know what to do.
"Hey! Are you okay?! What's wrong?!", Rosie asks with a worried tone.
Although she's not interested in Rex since he's not an Awakened, she can't just leave Rex who just collapsed to the ground alone without helping him.
Rosie was shocked, she immediately rushed toward Rex.
Under the immense pain he's currently feeling, Rex mutters softly, "H-Help..."
"What's that? I can't hear you, say it again"
"Are you sick? Do you have medicine for this? Talk to me"
Since Rex's mutter is so soft, Rosie didn't hear Rex ask for help as she becomes even more stressed not knowing what to do in this situation.
The people around have started to notice Rex lying on the ground,
A crowd started to form around them as they look at Rex hurting on the ground while conversing, Rosie gritted her teeth as she finally decided to bring Rex away.
She takes out a white crystal from her purse,
The white crystal glows with a bright light after Rosie crushed it, the light then starting to envelop both of them blocking the crowd's vision.
After the bright light receded, Rosie and Rex are nowhere to be seen.
"Where did they go?", a man wearing a jumper suit said.
A middle-aged woman then replied from the side, "They're teleported away, it is a new invention by the UWO called Transferral Crystal"
"They must be an Awakened because that thing is expensive as hell", another person commented.
Meanwhile, a bright light appears inside a mansion not far away from Nokas mall.
Rosie decided to teleport them to her family's house, she doesn't know where else to go so she decided to just bring Rex here.
The transferral crystal is linked to her mansion, so she can't bring Rex to the hospital.
"ARRGGHH!!", Rex suddenly screamed.
Rosie jumped in shock upon hearing this, she then glances at Rex who is still hugging his body in pain, "Rex talk to me, what is happening? What can I do?"
Instead of answering Rosie, Rex pushes her away as his bones started cracking.
Crack!
Krack!
The sound of bones breaking and moving can be heard as Rex's body slowly grows bigger, his human nails started to turn sharp as well as his human fangs.
Under Rosie's gaze, Rex's already muscular body becomes inhumanly muscular.
But what terrifies Rosie the most is not just Rex's body that is growing bigger, but he also starting to grow jet-black hair all around his body that slowly turns into furs.
Looking at this, Rosie started to step back slowly.
'Is he awakening? but there are no elemental properties in his transformation', Rosie thought after inspecting Rex's body, this is not how an Awakened undergone the awakening process.
Upon seeing Rex slowly arches his back, Rosie felt her senses screaming danger.
Without wasting another second she activates her power as her body started to glow with a green aura, "I need to get him into the training room", she mutters.
After deciding to do that, Rosie dashes toward Rex before she chants, "Wind Gale!"
Swoosh!
Rosie slams Rex's back with both of her palms, and a gush of wind shot out from her palms as it pushes Rex into a room.
Just after Rex got pushed inside the room, Rosie closed the door hurriedly.
'He's certainly not normal... How can a non-Awakened makes my body tremble like this', Rosie thought as she looks at her trembling hands.
Meanwhile, Rex is experiencing the most painful moment of his life.
'What is happening to me?! Don't tell me the system that I thought was a joke is real?!', Rex screamed in his head, he looks at his hand that now has turn furry, and even his fingernails are already as long as a ruler and sharp.
Even with the proof in front of him,
Rex still denies the fact that this is happening to him right now, "It can't be... I'm a human! I'm not those disgusting Supernaturals'
"AAHHH!!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.
The transformation he was currently undergoing had not yet been completed, his bones were still moving and growing longer as seen from his growing body.
Shrill screams and cries of Rex can be heard for two full minutes,
Rosie was just outside the door with her shaky legs, she can hear all the cries of pain that sent a cold shiver to her spine coming from the room.
'Is he a supernatural?', Rosie asks herself inside her head.
She then shakes her head, 'But there is no supernatural that can turn into a human no matter what races they are, it's impossible for Rex to be a Supernatural', she thought.
As time went by, the scream from Rex becomes fainter and fainter until it has completely gone.
Silent fills the mansion,
The mansion that is filled with screams of pain becomes dead silent, nothing can be heard inside the mansion except for the silence.
Rosie brings up her courage and put her ear on the door,
After putting her ear on the door to assess the inside from the outside, she could hear a faint growling sound that is not the sound of a person.
Her heart starts to beat faster, there's an urge to peek inside the room.
But just from the growling sound alone she can already picture what was happening in the room, but got beaten by her own curiosity she decided to peek inside.
Creak...
The door slowly opens as she pushes the door lightly,
Expecting fully that Rex has turned into something else, Rosie slowly peeks inside the room while activating her power just in case.
Since it's a training room, the room is as big as a basketball court.
Different kinds of weapons are neatly arranged at the side of the room, and there's also a big window at the end of the room that can be opened for some fresh air.
Rosie gulps harshly as she lays her eyes in the center of the room,
There, she finds a black creature standing on two with the blood-red moonlight shining through the big window that shadowed the creature's entire body.
Claw marks can be seen on the wooden floor which should come from this black creature.
Her body stiffens in fear when the creature suddenly glances at her,
The creature's back is facing Rosie with its yellow eyes that are glowing under the blood-red moonlight fixated on her, its body is still human-like with sharp claws and fangs.
With Rex nowhere to be seen, Rosie is sure that the creature is certainly Rex.
Just from the human-like appearance of Rex right now, one will know that he's only a half-Werewolf because he doesn't have a full snout and was not as big as the regular Werewolf.
But even so, the appearance of a Werewolf strikes her with immense fear.
Werewolf is one of the dominant Supernatural races, they're classified as one of the highest-ranking and also the backbone of the Supernatural.
Their animalistic and overbearing power brings terror to humanity.
Not only that, Werewolves are the worst enemy to fight at night.
During the day, a Werewolf can be killed by a group of elite Awakened but when it's night, a Werewolf's power is amplified becoming a horrifying monster that came straight from a nightmare from a children's story.
Rosie unconsciously steps back as she made eye contact with Rex,
The slow movement of Rosie also sparks a movement from Rex as he turns to his back slowly, his bright yellow eyes are still fixated on Rosie.
Upon seeing this, Rosie unconsciously held her breath.
She felt her legs become jelly seeing the bloodthirsty yellow eyes that are staring at her
Grr...
A low pitch growling sound escapes Rex's mouth as he bares his fangs,
"Rex... I-It's me, snap out of it!", Rosie mutters trying to bring Rex back from this state, she's still clinging to the hope that Rex's consciousness is still somewhere inside of him.
Although Rex turns into a Werewolf, she still believes that Rex is not a monster.
The way he looks at his mom with gentle eyes and also how obedient he is makes Rosie believe that this is not his true self, again, she also believes that there is no such Supernatural that can turn into a human just like this.
But at this point, Rex has already lost consciousness.
Urges and thirsts that he's feeling right now from the Blood Moon make him drown in bloodlust rendering him unable to respond to Rosie's words.
All Rosie is in his clouded red vision is only prey, even saliva started to drip from Rex's mouth.
Just as Rosie is nearing the door on her back,
Rex's eyes suddenly glisten with ferocity, he leaps toward Rosie stiffening his hands intending to slash her with his steel claws.
Slash!
In the nick of time, Rosie jumped out of the way using the wind to push her to the sides.
The attack misses but the momentum brought Rex crashing to the door resulting in the door being slammed shut, this makes Rosie's expression turn pale.
She's scared shitless, her only escape route was blocked by Rex.
Without being given any other choice, Rosie grits her teeth as the only thing she can do is fight.
'How can I a rank two Awakened fight a werewolf who even a high-ranking Awakened can't', Rosie thought with beads of cold sweat.
But then she remembers something,
Rosie looks around the room searching for something before her eyes stopped, 'My sword!'
The sword that looks slightly different than the other weapons inside the room is what Rosie is looking for right now, it is silver in color with a green outline on the blade.
Just as she finds her sword,
Roar!
Rex is already right in front of her opening his mouth to bite her,
With a swift movement, Rosie rolls to the side avoiding Rex's attack again before just like before Rex crash to the wall behind Rosie.
The fighting spirit inside Rosie is riled up,
She immediately cast her spell to slow Rex down, she swings her hand in an arc while she chanted, "Basic Magic, Wind Cutter!"
Whoosh!
A wind blade comes out of her hand aiming at Rex,
Rex's yellow eyes glow fiercely, he roars in anger and slashes the incoming wind blade with his sharp claws to try to parry it.
The Wind Cutter put a bit of resistance, but it eventually got cut into two.
With the time Rex dealing with the Wind Cutter, Rosie manages to grab her sword before she did the same motion but this time with her sword, "Basic Magic! Wind Cutter!"
Whoosh!
Unlike the first one, the Wind Cutter is stronger this time.
Rex uses his claws to parry the Wind Cutter again but it's evidently stronger, he struggled to cut the Wind Cutter and this gives Rosie enough time to close the distance.
While Rex is clashing with the Wind Cutter,
Rosie puts her hand on Rex's stomach, her eyes emit a green hue as she uses the Wind Gale spell again but this time in point-blank range.
BAM!
The Wind Gale's force collides directly with Rex's stomach as he got flung to the side onto the wall, but he stands back up while shaking his head in a daze.
But it didn't take long before Rex looks at Rosie again,
Rosie is already heading toward the door to get out of the room, 'This is my chance!'
'My Wind Gale is barely sufficient as an adequate spell, it's my strongest move but he barely even felt that. I'm no match for him, I need to run!', Rosie thought dashing to the door.
When she was about to reach the door, a cold wind breezes her cheek.
Rex suddenly already arrives beside her surprising Rosie, he raises his arm and attacks Rosie with his claws without pulling anything back.
'It's too fast! I can't block it!', Rosie thought with wide eyes.
She realizes that she can't dodge this attack so she covers her body with a green hue, Rosie then crosses her arms to block Rex's attack, 'He's not an Awakened, even during his Werewolf form I should be able to blo-'
Rosie's thoughts stopped upon feeling the force of the attack.
During the fight with Rex, Rosie realizes that Rex is not as powerful as regular Werewolves and since he's not an Awakened she thought that their powers will be on par.
But the strength behind Rex's attack shocks her to her core, it's too much for her!
Slash!
"Arghh!", Rosie grunted in pain.
Rex manages to leave a nasty wound with his claws on Rosie's arms, the strength he had is very powerful that she was sent crashing to the wall beside the window before bouncing off of it.
Blood drips from the corner of her mouth,
Her arms are also bloodied from blocking Rex's attack, four claw wounds are left there.
Rosie lifts her head up hazily while looking at Rex's yellow eyes, 'He's too strong!', she thought as her eyes start to blur while she desperately tries to think of a way out.
Then suddenly, her eyes landed on the curtain beside her.
Although it's not a guarantee that it will work, Rosie decided to just try it out since she doesn't have any other plan, 'Please wake up...', she thought hopeful.
With the last bit of strength, Rosie grabbed the curtain before closing the window.
Just after she did that, the entire room was engulfed in darkness as none of the moonlight manage to get into the room anymore.
'If direct contact with moonlight strengthens a Werewolf, maybe this will help', she thought.
Rosie slump on the floor, her mana is exhausted and her body is weak.
Thud...Thud...Thud...
Footsteps can be heard approaching her as she can hardly lift her head up, crashing onto the wall earlier injured her internally.
With a blurry vision still, Rosie lifts her head and saw Rex's yellow eyes staring at her.
It didn't take long before Rex's towering figure arrived in front of her, the black claws can't be seen in the darkness but Rosie can feel that Rex is getting ready to kill her.
But then suddenly, 'Eh?'
Rex's yellow eyes widen as a little bit of his consciousness stopped his hand.
Thanks to the indirect moonlight or by some miracle, Rex regains consciousness albeit faintly as he looks at Rosie who is bloodied all over, 'What have I done?!', he thought in disbelief.
Even though his consciousness got back, the urge of bloodlust is still there.
It's like when a serial killer standing in front of his victim but a little bit of empathy emerges, that is what Rex currently feeling right now.
The other side of him wants to rip Rosie to pieces,
But before his other side can control his body once more, Rex steeled his will and jumped out of the window to get as far away from Rosie as possible.
Rex feels guilty for hurting Rosie to this state,
With the hulking body Rex currently possesses, the window exploded as Rex jumped out.
Thankfully, Rosie's home is on the outskirts of Ratmawati City and it is near a forest called the Emham forest.
Without much thinking, Rex runs into the forest.
All he can think of right now is to take himself away from the crowd, just injuring Rosie is enough to fill his heart with guilt much less killing many people if he were to meet a crowd.
Rex's body disappears into the darkness as he went deep into the forest.
Not long after Rex got inside the forest, a mighty howl can be heard from the Emham forest.
Aooouuuuuuuuuu!
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Somewhere on the other side of the Emham Forest,
Aoooouuuuuu!!
A big muscular creature with red skin and a horn on its forehead is eating a dead deer, it stopped eating and lifts its head up after hearing the howl.
Compare to Rex, this creature is way bigger than Rex.
It's standing in two with a hideous-looking face, it has two sharp fangs coming out of its lower teeth and holding a tree trunk that acts as a club in its hand.
Upon realizing where the howl came from, the creature's eyes turn bloodshot.
The creature tossed the dead deer away before looking in the howl direction, it then roared in anger before bolting toward the howling sound direction.