In winters most part of the village got covered in snow. This was quite a sight for Luke as in his previous life he lived in middle East and it never snowed in there.
Snow storms were quite common in the village of Dorset. Due to snow storms it became very hard for Marcus to daily travel between his village and Dorset which were about 10 miles apart. He expressed this problem to Dan who discussed it with Ella and then the whole family decided that they would create a small for Marcus in backyard where he can live during winters.
Marcus had no objections as he had no family or loved ones. He gladly accepted their offer.
Now that Marcus had started living with them they needed more food.Their provisions were depeliting so they decided that men of the family should start hunting sone animals. Dan who had experience in hunting went to the forest in the North with Marcus and they both set up some traps for animals they set various traps for animals of various sizes. Rabbits and squirrels were often caught in the traps, sometimes even boars or deer would also fall in the pits that Dan had dug but it happened very rarely as they never went very deep inside the forest. If they managed to catch a large prey they would have a delicious meal that day and everyone would eat till their full.
With this the problem for food was solved.
On one cold day a small wolf was caught in the trap in the forest, everyone looked happy except Dan and Marcus. "What's wrong? " Luke asked Marcus who who was sitting on the chair next to him with a serious expression.
"He is worried that the wolf we just caught was a cub" Dan replied who was skinning the small white wolf. 'That was a cub, pretty big for one if you ask me' Luke thought.
"Wolfs usually don't leave their cubs alone, I doubt that it's mother would come here sniffing her child, they have an excellent sense of smell, even for a beast" Marcus explained on seeing confused expression on Luke's face.
"Is this really that big of a problem" Luke asked Dan. "Nah, if it came I and Marcus can easily take it down, but still I don't want a beast near my house" Dan replied. He resumed his task of skinning the wolf.
The talk was still going ons when they heard Luna's scream. All three of them rushed to the backyard from where they supposed the scream had come.
In backyard they saw that a 2.5 meter tall white wolf was slowly moving towards Luna who was in return Throwing fireballs of size of a fist to it ( this was the new spell that Marcus taught her, but Luna had still not mastered it).
The wolf was 2.5 meter tall with shiny white fur, red eyes like a ruby. 'This thing is a wolf, it is the size of a fuc**ng mountain bear' Luke thought.
Without wasting any time Marcus launched a fireball towards the wolf, this fireball was about double the size of Luna's fireball. It hit the wolf on the head burning some of its fur and it's left eye. The wolf howled in pain, it jumped towards Dan dodged the attack and with butcher's knife made a shallow cut on it's back. 'It's pretty slow, if it was a little smaller and had a little more aglity it could have killed Dan with that attack' Luke thought who was standing at a safe distance from the fight. "Step aside Dan" Marcus shouted with a spear completely made up of fire in his right hand and with his left hand he was preforming some hand signs.
Dan jumped to the right giving Marcus an opening, Marcus launched the fire spear which penetrated the Wolf's stomach. Thinking that the fight was over, Luke mover a little closer. The wolf was still standing, with the last bits of it's strength it jumped on Luke who was standing behind Dan and looked the easiest prey in it's eyes, 'F*UCK' Luke fell of the groung. Wolf was ready to rip off his head.
'You think you can kill me, you overgrown must Luke thought trying to remove one of the wolf's paw from this hand which was keeping him pinned down. As soon as his left hand was free he placed his hand in front of wolf's large face, he didn't care about his hand or that there was a pain in the back of his head which was probably caused by him falling to the ground. 'Now die you bastard' Using anihilate he burned woolf's mouth from the inside, he felt like almost half of the mana in his body has been depleted. At the very same moment Marcus launched another fire spear at the wolf, this spear penetrated it's head giving it a painless death in an instant. All this happened in barely five seconds, 'probably no one noticed me casting the smell Luke thought.
"Are you okay?" Dan came rushing towards Luke. After checking that his arms and legs are alright he hugged him and went to check Luna who was still in shock with what just happened in the last 10 minutes.
Marus was examining wolf's body. He opened wolf's mouth and after staring at it for a while he looked at Luke.
'I have been discovered' Luke thought giving Marcus a innocent smile. "Let's head back inside or we will catch a cold". Dan said dragging the dead wolf inside.
Ella created a ruckus when she heated about the incident. Apparently Luna was practising her spells in the backyard when she saw a pair of bright red eyes at a distance in some bushes. She turned back to go back inside the hose but before she could do so the wolf came running at her.
That night everyone was happy except Ella who thought that their hose was a little too close to the forest. They now had a enough meat to last for this winter and wolf's fur would also be sold at a high price after all not many people go around killing aroung wolf's size of a bear.
After everyone was stuffed and couldn't eat any more they went straight to bed. Luke was no exception.
Next morning when Luke woke up the first thing he saw was Marcus sitting on a wooden chair next to his bed. "We really need to talk, don't you think" Marcus said. He was smiling at Luke.
"What are you talking about? " Luke said with the most innocent smile that he could give at the moment. " Ha ha ha, now don't act all innocent. The wolf which we killed yesterday wasn't killed by my attack, it was burned from inside, with a spell I have never saw. It was just burned yet it was so cold". Marcus's voice was now cold. 'Of course you haven't seen it, I am the oy one who knaw about that, I created it after all'."What are you trying to say? " Luke said. 'I couldn't think of an excuse damn it'.
"Now now, no need to hide anything from me, after all I live here with you all now. I will find out sooner or later" Marcus said, his warm joyful voice was back.
"I can't hide it from you now can I" Luke said, replacing his innocent smile with a cold glare. With his black hair in front of hid deep blue eyes he looked kinda scary.
" No need to worry, I understand your situation. Everyone has secrets of their own" Marcus said. With a smile.
'Like I would ever trust you' Luke thought.
"If you want to learn magic, tere is no need to hide anything from me. I can help you instead" Marcus said, he sounded genuine.
"Fine I will tell you" Luke gave up.'the cold smile was still on his face'
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