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Chapter 20 - Chapter 20: Who's The Prisoner Now?

[Creak]

"Jacob! What is that!" An old feminine exclaimed in awe as she gasps.

Jacob turns his head the side to the creature with curiosity before he glanced at his wife.

"I'm not sure, all I know is that it isn't human." He replied as he walked to a small door, leading to the basement where he would lock up the creature until he knew what it was. Before he opened the door he looked at his wife and said.

"If we have any spare fillet left, put it in a plate and a bowl of water, I'll take of it from here." He said as he closed the door behind him and walked downstairs.

The wife nods as she checks to see if they have any spare fillet left from lunch.

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"Arhhh, damn my head hurts." He slowly opened his eyes as he blinked slowly. "Where? Where I'm I? Damn, why is it so dark?" Sirus tried to stand up but he felt a tug behind him, he glances behind as he tried to squint his eyes to try to see in the darkroom he was in. "Why I'm I tied up? Tsk, of course, I got captured."

Sirus leaned against the cold surface wall, he taps the wall with his head slowly and then moved his claws to feel the restraint.

"Cold wall, ruff surface, hmm, I assume it's a brick wall, then the restraint is nothing more than thick ropes, I should be able to cut the ropes and make my way out of here, assuming that I'm not in some dungeon where the door is iron, otherwise I should be able to break out." Sirus relaxed against the wall as he closed his eyes and also relaxed his arms and with his two clawed thumbs, he slowly starts to cut away the ropes.

It took no more than 3 minutes to cut the ropes with ease, luckily he was a creature with razor-sharp claws like hands.

"I can hear footsteps from above, hmmm, then I'm either in some sort of basement or in the lower floor, and what on earth is that stench." He exclaimed as he held his nose with his right hand but he didn't raise his voice so he whispered the whole time. "Far out, I'm staving, how long has it's been since I left the village? Mom, Dad, I hope you are alright." Sirus felt a shiver down his spine, he creased his left hand with his right hand as he rubbed his arm up and down with a sigh. "I got nothing to defend myself, tsk, but… I guess I have to get up and get personal. My claws should be good enough to kill the enemy, but how I'm I suppose to see in this dark room." He crouched down and felt the floor and recognised that it was made of wood with grass sprouting up.

"There's no fucking way I'm I digging my way out like some rabbit, tsk. Oh right, I remember, Demons have some sort of night vision, how do I activate it again? Shit, I remember, I was the only one who couldn't do it cause I wasn't old enough, huff, well now what. Seems they left what I would assume meat and water? Good thing I have a keen sense of smell, my eyes are slowly getting used to the dark, at least they gave me something but man I swear I can hear stuff crawling about, it's better than starving myself out."

Sirus crouched down and leaned forward a bit as he places his hand on the floor, he moved his hand slowly due to not knock over the water, he felt something touch the tip of his hand, he moved closer and used his other hand and placed it slightly forward of his other hand, as he felt a circular wooden bowl he moved his hand to the left and right to see where the other bowl was, he found the other one shortly after and dipped his hand on top and felt that the right was filled with water and the left was some sort of meat.

"Well I might as well eat the meat first quickly and then drink the water, I don't want the aftertaste to stay in my mouth." He grabbed the piece of fillet and with his index finger, he cut it in half and used his claws like a knife. He moved the wooden bowl of water closer so he could quickly drink it to get rid of the aftertaste. He gulped as he ate the meat as quickly as he could, but something surprised him.

"I can tell that it's raw just from how it feels and the smell but, yet it tastes bland and not disgusting? Like as someone cooked the meat and forgot to season it? Is this another feature of a Demon? No, it's not, since I would have known about it in school. And just from growing up."

(Story note, Demons are like Humans in terms of taste, they will feel sick if they eat something raw, the reason that Sirus can eat the raw fillet without feeling sick, that you will find out later in the novel)

Sirus finished eating the fillet and drank the water. Shortly after he felt a warm sensation in the back of his head and his heel that was bruised. Sirus ignores this and starts seeing a bit better in the dark then he moved his head around where he was tied up and looked up.

"Guess it's night time, makes sense why it's so dark, at least the moonlight is entering the darkroom from the sunroof I guess. It's too small for me to get out that way but at least I can see the room a lot better now." Sirus thought as he placed his hands on his hip as he looked around the room as saw multiple large wooden barrels and a staircase leading upwards towards the footsteps. He touched his head and pulled off the bandage and examined it.

"Seems they even bandaged my head, thoughtful of them but that doesn't make them any nicer." He said with furious eyes at the bandage as he ripped it to shreds and walked towards the staircase, as he looked up there were lights sipping out of the wooden door, he grinned widely as he slowly and quietly walked up the wooden door.

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"Jacob what are you going to do? We can't possibly keep a monster locked up in the basement, what if it escaped and killed us." She exclaimed as she sat down in fright as she worried for her family.

"We don't have any Knights or any Adventures all the way out here. Look I will figure something out, Bella don't you dare get curious and open the door." He said as he looked at Bella with a serious face, trying to scare her.

Bella looked up and saw how serious papa was, she nodded as she looked towards the small wooden door leading to the basement.

"Jacob please go and kill it, we don't want anyone to get hurt…."

[Eeereee….]

The wooden door slowly opened as it creaked open. Coming out a humanoid figure came out as it ducked head down and then back up and stood up as it analysed the room with its bright red glowing eyes. As well as it formed a large creepy grin, revealing its razor-sharp fangs as it looks at the 3 Humans at the dining table as it leaked intense anger and murderous aura subconsciously. It stood at the door without moving as its white long white hair waved in the cold room coming in the basement, razor sharp-clawed like hands as well with its feet were long razor-sharp.

Jacob tensed up as it felt a cold shiver running in his spine as he stood up quickly moving Bella and his wife behind them with his arms spread out. They didn't utter a word as they just stared at the creature as it released its murderous aura. Jacob gulped in fear as it felt its aura and knew that it could easily rip its family to shreds like paper any moment if the creature wanted to. Shortly after, as they stared at each other the creature large grin faded into a tired bored frown. Jacob with a surprised look blinked his eyes in confusion but it still guarded his family.

The creature started to make its move but not in a way that it would be trying to kill, instead it placed it' clawed hand on the table and moved around to the opposite side of the table whilst still keeping its glowing eyes keen on the Humans. there was a bowl of fruits that contained grapes and apples. It looked down for a moment at the bowl of fruits and grabbed the apple and bite into it with utter ease as it glanced back at the Human. Then it did the unexpected. The creature sat down at one of the chairs and sat quietly while eating the apple as it moved the bowl to the edge of the table to be able to grab another.

"What is it doing papa?" Bella whispered as it looked over at the Demon eating its food.

Jacob didn't utter a word as it to was confused but was still wary of its movements. Then it opened its mouth and spoke. Jacob widened his eyes in shock as he heard the creature spoke, he couldn't understand what it was saying but, the way it was speaking was shocking, the creature spoke as if it fast forward its voice 10 times.

(If you don't understand my shit explanation, then you know how there is an option on youtube to make the video speed faster and the person speaks really fast on the highest setting. Imagine that as Sirus speaks but with 10 times speed. If you still don't understand then it ain't my problem)

"What is it saying, Jacob?" Said his wife as she quiver in fear.

Jacob shook his head in response.

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"Seems they can't understand me, oh well, if this was a prison with guards and shit then I would have killed them, but, these are just common folk humans, huff, what else am I suppose to do with them. But damn is this apple juicy and crunchy, hahaha, they must be farmers or something, I doubt you could buy these apples at the market unless they were rich but this place and how they dress." Sirus looked around the room then at the 3 Humans.

He examined the 3 Humans first with the father he would assume so as there was an elderly woman and a small girl. He couldn't see the child so he looked at the old lady after he looked at the guy, behind the tall person guarding her. She has short black hair to her shoulders with grey hair on top indicating she was old. She wore a grey shirt with a red and blue lining poncho around her and that was all he could see as he was sitting down so was she.

"Old lady, Old guy, and a daughter, from what I could tell I was a head or a head and a half shorter than the Knights I met at the village, but this guy is over 6 foot tall damn, huff…." He yawned widely as the humans heard a loud snarling and hissing sound coming from deep inside his body. Sirus has a strange habit of when he yawns he snarls for some reason.

Sirus stood up as he reached his hand whilst keeping an eye on the humans, he tapped the bowl, then he looked down for a moment and saw he had already eaten all the grapes and apples. "Well, awkward, anyway what the hell am I suppose to do?"

Sirus said quietly as he reached his arms to the roof and stretched. He looked at the humans then looked over and saw a staircase leading up. He moved to the side of the humans and pointed at the humans to go up the stairs case. The humans surprising understood and walked up the stairs as Sirus walked behind them but leaving a 2-metre distance, he moved the humans to a room where there was a bed and blocked the door as he saw a bookshelf and moved it in front of the door with somewhat difficulty, he sat down as he leaned at the bookshelf and closed his eyes and went to sleep.