"Madam Maeve! Please you can't do this to me, we were just harmlessly loving each other!" Her guy friend looked at her with teary eyes that she couldn't avoid.
"You wench, after what you've done do you expect me to buy your crap?!" Maeve growled, her eyes alight with spite.
"What's going on?" People around them whispered as they heard the alpha's daughter cursed at the man, Maeve's eyes alight with so much anger it seemed she wanted to bury the guy underneath the ground.
"Maeve? What's the matter?" The blonde bombshell attached to her side asked with a pout, trying to get her attention back.
"Get off me!" She shrugged her off and stalked forward, taking purposedly strides towards her.
With calmness in her awe, she faced the crowd as a sign of her wanting to get their attention.
"This guy right here, He disobeyed the law!" She shouted, drawing attention to the guy.
"What?! What are you doing? Kill him now!" The man not far from her yelled back, commanding Maeve to put an end to the man's life.
It has been over three decades since the loveless law took over the country's people into heartless citizens, everyone could kill each other when witnessed commiting romance. Every creature must obey, to kill or to get killed. People have been greedy for more entertainment, ready to attack each rule breaker.
The man's legs trembled as he tried to flee but his body had gone into lockdown because of Maeve's capacity for controlling everyone's body just by her death glare. It became so compressed the moment it sensed sudden danger.
"Body manipulation"
"I thought you belonged in my circle but gladly not. You can't be my friend, nor anybody's friend here" Maeve hissed the word into the guy's face, spittle flying everywhere. "You're not good enough to stand beside me." Her words were inaudible to everyone even to the man. She spoke of them as if she feared someone else would hear. She was utterly ashamed of the man, he knew it. He was ashamed of himself too.
Rover knew he was a shameful person. It was shameful at fifteen, he fell in love with the third degree cousin of Maeve and it took five straight years for them to hide it. To him, nothings more shameful than living in a country without love circulating in it, no, beyond a disgrace. Now twenty, it was even more shameful for him how they let these people toss them about without fighting back.
"We can't accept you," Maeve growled to his face, her breath was reeking of alcohol.
Drinking alcohol had always been Maeve's coping mechanism. Although odd, it was also beneficial to her because her power gets stronger and stronger whenever she drinks a shot of alcohol before battling.
"Okay" Rover answered with a shrug that hid the anguish wrenching his insides apart.
Last night was his worst nightmare, he saw his lover got killed right before him. The executor? Everybody knew who she was, still, it was Maeve. The unapologetic Maeve Decruz. She killed her own cousin because she dreamt of her having romance with Rover, her friend whom she thought was exactly like her, no interest in such a thing called romance. Rover, Although knowing that the chances of them getting killed were accurate if caught, dodged all of his doubts because of his great love for Lune.
"I understand" he reeled back in no surprise at Maeve's look.
"But did you expect me and Lune to fall at your feet and beg to be accepted? Didn't you know we're proud we did this? We disobeyed your loveless law! It's the only thing that made me happy in my existence. Now reap my bones and throw me to death! There, me and Lune won't ever be scared to express our love, I finally get to see my love-
Before Rover could finish his last words, a stranger jumped inside the fence without hesitation and in a flash, slit Rover's throat which made him stop talking and instead bleed to death holding his neck.
The crowd were so entertained that they bought themselves some popcorn and it was like watching a thrilling movie from a cinema.
"You-" Maeve stuttered. In a moment, her pale face turned red.
"I only got one kill for three months, I think this'll justify it Maeve" the man replied as his mouth formed a smile of satisfaction.
From the system: Aluba Bueno, the executor, finished the target.
Maeve gave an irritated look on the man's face. Aluba was her greatest enemy but he was no competition to her. But unlike Maeve, Aluba was a human and humans were the weakest creatures living in their world.
From fairies, human royalties, werewolves, vampires and mermaids, they have one thing in common, humans were always their prey. They find humans as weak but one man, who was the bravest of them all, Aluba, he was tall, strong and the fearless of all kings after he inherited his father's. In contrast, his father wasn't as brave as him. He was aware of the presence and belligerence other creatures have. He even fought with them and killed everyone who looked down on humans. That made every creature afraid of him. They believe Aluba possessed some magical powers so every kingdom bowed to him. In reality, he was just some other human but with full courage, one who practiced a lot and trained his soldiers. He was always ready to execute every law breaker. He never lost to any of them.
"There you go! Anyway, where were we?" Aluba shouted in the hall and silence descended around everyone.
From the system: kill canceled, your target has died.
"Great job King Aluba!" A girl shouted from beside him.
"What is this again Glasses guy? It would have been better if I make you as my target"
"That won't do Maeve, you can't violate anyone's intrinsic birthright unless they go against the government's rules"