The next morning, we continued the trip after breakfast, but there was a difference, Aldea was accompanying Zoe in front, because of the conversation last night. So only Darryl beside the carriage…
On this day, there was no disturbance or strangeness, it was a safe trip. The sun almost set so we once again stopped and took a camp. Same thing, I was prohibited to sleep in a tent, so I slept in the carriage…
The next day was different, Aldea was accompanying Zoe in front, and Darryl was beside the carriage…
At some point during the trip, I heard a voice from outside the carriage.
{בּוֹא….בּוֹא….בּוֹא….בּוֹא…} A voice emitted into my head.
I asked everyone in the carriage about the voices "All of you heard that??"
"What voice does your highness hear?? We don't hear any voices." Aalis said.
{בּוֹא…בן אנוש…בּוֹא…}
"You guys seriously don't hear that??"
"We don't hear anything, your highness."
"It came from outside…" I said.
{בּוֹא…בּוֹא…בּוֹא…}
I kept hearing it from outside, so I ordered Louis "Louis, STOP THE CARRIAGE NOW!!"
The carriage stopped immediately, where the left and right side were the woods, and Aldea was confused about what was happening. I came out from the carriage.
Louis asked what was going on "What's happening your highness, why are you ordering to stop?"
{בּוֹא…בּוֹא…בּוֹא…בּוֹא}
"All of you hear that??"
I saw them were confused
"We don't hear anything." Louis said.
"I swear that I heard someone's voice…"
{בּוֹא…בּוֹא…בּוֹא…}
I focused on my hearing, to find where the voice came from.
"Everyone quiet for some time."
The surroundings were quiet…
{בּוֹא…בּוֹא…בּוֹא…}
Finally, I knew where the voice came from, it came from the woods on the left side…
For some reason, I immediately went to the woods where the voice came, not thinking what would happen.
{בּוֹא…בּוֹא…בּוֹא…}
I kept going to the woods and chased the voice without thinking around me or behind me.
…
..
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In the middle of dense woods, I saw a light in front. After I passed it, I saw a giant wolf with full of white fur in the lower body, blended with red fur in the upper body in the open field. It was surrounded by the wood's creature like squirrels, birds, and some bugs.
she stood up, and our eyes contacted each other. In front of her, my body was shaking and could not move but…
..בּוֹא..
After I heard that voice, my body was moving without reason, I was sweating a lot…And we were face to face. It looked down at me, and its head was in front of my face, I tried to emit my own voice…
"M…ay…I…Kno…w….who…thi..s…maje…stic…is…." I was struggling to talk to it.
She lifted her head.."It seems you don't know the language I have spoken.." She said "I will speak with a language that you know."
"Than..ks…For…your..cons..di..ration…" I was still struggling to release my voice..
"You don't need to be afraid, human…I am Geri…as you can see I am a spirit…that you can hear my voice, it means you are a person that Gods have sent…which gods that sent you?"
Suddenly, the fear feeling was gone in me, and I could emit my voice easily.
"It was The Goddess of Wisdom Saggesse, who sent me."
"Oh Saggesse, that Goddess finally moved….As you can see human, I am a spirit, in your beside, do you want my power?"
"Like the Goddess said that the spirit may have some task to accept its master…May I know what your task is to me?"
"You..humans have great thoughts…"
Suddenly the area around changed to a dark place. I could not see the wolf…
{"My name is Geri…"} her voice was emitting in my head {"Sister of Freki, I have known as the greediest one and my sister as the ravenous one…"} In front of me, there were 2 images of wolves standing between each other, the image kept changing as she said.
{"Our creator was a lonely man, he created us to protect him and accompany him, we always passed all the seasons, all the obstacles, all the hurdles and all the battles…As the time being he found the loved one. We were so happy at that time that our master and creator found the perfect company, but…"}
The atmosphere changed {"My sister didn't trust her, as I said she was the ravenous one, she could sniff bad intent and killing intent in hundreds kilometers away, and she told me the loved one of master was the most hideous one ever she encountered…I kept doubting her and kept believing my master choice…One day, she came to me and showed affection toward me. While she was doing it, my sister kept a distance between me, day after day she kept coming to me, and made the relationship between me and my sister become distant. After a few days, I didn't see my sister anywhere, and I asked my master where my sister was, he said Freki was with her. Suddenly, I got a feeling my sister was in danger, we have a power that each of us could feel each one of us in danger. I followed this feeling and her sense...and….until now, I will never forget what I saw when I found her in the middle of woods covered by snow…..that she was covered full of blood and scars, I was shocked by her appearance, I kept saying to her who did this to her, while I kept asking her, I felt something disturbance and horrified in same time from distance in front of us. There was no time to think at that time, I just grabbed my sister with my teeth, and ran away as fast as possible. I was so scared while running away. At that time, I felt so guilty not hearing what my sister said about her...."}
For a few seconds, there was silence from her…
{"After we ran for some quiet time, I didn't feel anything in some distance, so it made us safe. I put down my sister, and started to talk to her. She said the loved one of the master did this to her, and she said we needed to part ways. I kept disagreeing with her about part ways, she said she would always chase us, not just her, her next generation would do that. I said how about our master who created us and raised us? That evil woman already bewitched him, so there was no way to get help from him. We agreed to part ways, to hide from her. Before we parted, my sister asked me one thing: after I got a new master, I needed to find her right away, and we agreed to take her down. After hundreds of years and now, I never hear anything from my sister….."}
Suddenly, Geri appeared in front of me..
"Human, I will accept you as my master, if you agree with 3 things from me." Geri emitted her voice with her mouth, not with her telepathy anymore.
"What is that??"
"First, You will help me to reunite with my sister ... .Second, you will help us to take her down…Third, let me have a feeling of doubt for you."
"Who is this company of your creators?"
"She is Eris, I saw her as a good one, so I don't know who she really is, only my sister who knows about her, because there was no time before with my sister, only when I reunite with her will we know the truth of her."
"Sure, I will help you to reunite with your sister….and the third one, why do you need to have that?"
"I don't want to repeat my mistake, I only think that my master was the only right one, so he acted, said was the right thing, so I want to feel some doubt toward you to not repeat my mistake."
"You can have a feeling of doubt for me anytime and anywhere, If you think I do the wrong thing, you can doubt me and warn me. If I go insane and you think I went out of line, you can kill me"
"You..human..so interesting…" She raised her paw "You can grab my foot, and after that the contract between us will be sealed."
I grabbed her paw with my right hand…Suddenly an illuminating light came from it, and there was a mark in my back right hand, it was a symbol of one wing with blue color..
"With this…You are my new master…you inherit my power...that I need to teach you about it…"
"Yes, hope we can get along…and can your identity be spread or you need to keep it a secret."
"You don't need to keep it a secret about me, but your identity is more important than me, that mark is invisible to ordinary people, but visible to people with the same identity as you, so it better that we speak each other by telepathy, so people don't accuse me as magic beast but mythical beast."
"What is the difference between them?"
"Magic beasts are contract beasts between magicians, the magic beasts share their power to their master, and they teach their master to use the power. But mythical beasts are wild beasts with unordinary strength, they are usually being tamed, not sealed by contract."
The surrounding area became back to normal.
"So I treat you as my pet in front of people to hide my identity."
"Yes…"
"Right….We better hurry up, my people will be so worried that I am long gone."
"It's alright, when you choiced to chase my voice and entered the woods, you have entered a different time realm."
"What do you mean??"
"Time in the surrounding area is abnormal, 1 hour here equals 1 minute outside, so they are only waiting for you for just a few seconds."
"Well we better hurry, no matter if the time is abnormal."
"Well, I need to resize my appearance first…"
Geri's size was shrinking, she was a quarter of her real size, but she was still big, her size was the same as a carriage.
"You're still big…" I said.
"Hop, in my back…"
I hopped on her back…and she immediately ran…She ran so fast…and suddenly there was a light in front of us…and we passed it…I saw Louis and everyone in front of me…Their faces were stunned and scared at the same time.
Immediately Louis and Darryl took a stance and raised their sword to us…
Louis shouted "YOUR HIGHNESS!!! STAY AWAY FROM THAT MONSTER!!!"
Everyone was out of the carriage, Aalis and Ame were so terrified and hugged each other, Elpis was shaking, Cail was behind Elpis…
I saw Louis and Darryl's grips were shaking..
"HEI DARRYL!! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT MONSTER??" Louis said.
"I NEVER SEE MONSTER THAT BIG"
Before it got worse, I needed to make it clear about Geri..
"Withdraw your weapon Louis and Darryl!!"
"You better stay away, your highness…" Louis warned me.
"It's alright" "Geri, {"you can put me down.."}
"Okay…"
Geri lowered her body, that I could go down from her.
"This creature will not cause any harm, so lower your weapons…" I squeezed Geri's body "See!! This creature is friendly and not hostile…" I looked at Ame that so terrified "Ame, you can come here…Look!! This fur is so fluffy…"
Louis and Darryl lowered their weapon.
"Your highness, is that really friendly?" Louis asked
"Yes it is…" I patted Geri's head and squeezed it "see! It is so fluffy.."
Ame and Aalis stepped by step to me and Geri…not just them, everyone was trying to come close to Geri…Aalis and Ame were in front of Geri, they were trying to touch her in the belly. They touched her, and their expressions suddenly changed…Ame and Aalis kept pat Geri…
"See, it is so fluffy…"
Ame "Yes it is…so fluffy.."
Louis and Darryl touched her, and their expression suddenly changed too, after that Elpis and Cail. Suddenly everyone was patting Geri with a lovely expression. At the same time, Aldea and Zoe came to us, because there was no sight of us in some moments. They were shocked from the view of everyone patting Geri.
Aldea shouted "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT MONSTER!!! WHY EVERYONE IS SO CLOSE TO IT!!!"
I just raised my hands and waved to them to come here, they came, and I asked them to touch. They touched her, and their expression suddenly changed. Everyone was bewitched by the fluffiness of Geri. I saw Geri's expression that she liked it and so proudly.
I clapped to everyone "Okay everyone, she is Geri, I hope everyone can get along with her…"
After a few moments, everyone was back to normal except Ame, she was still beside Geri.
Louis came toward Aldea and asked her "Do you know anything about this monster, Aldea??"
"I never encountered a monster big like this in my journey, but I have heard a myth about wolves like this…" Aldea said, I saw everyone's attention was toward Aldea except Ame and Aalis because they were beside me with Geri.
"What is this myth??" Louis asked.
"The myth was about two wolves who betray their creator and their master, by leaving him alone until he died, but the myth told that they were bigger than this one.." Aldea said.
"Just that?? There is no more information??"
"It is a myth, so the information is not factual, how about her highness?? It seemed her highness was so close to it, even though she named it."
"Well, she said it was friendly…so we lowered our weapons.."
"If she said it was friendly, now we better believe her word, but watch it carefully."
Geri suddenly spoke to me with telepathy {"It seems the myth about me and my sister is twisted, if what that girl said was true."}
{"It was a hundred years old tale, so the tale became twisted at some points."}
{"Maybe…but if it twisted from the beginning, it was a different story.."}
{"Sure it is, we need to find your sister first, if you have any clue about your sister's whereabouts, you can tell me anytime."}
{"I will tell you…"}
I walked in the center of everyone "I think it's time we get going now."
"Yes your highness.." Louis said.
"I will ride Geri…"
"Is that really safe??"
"Sure, it is safe…"
Suddenly, I saw Ame raised her hand
"What is the matter, Ame?"
"I want to ride Geri too…"
"Sure, Ame and Aalis can ride her, I think there is enough space for us…"
Ame's expression was so happy about it.
So Ame, Aalis and I rode in the back of Geri. The carriage with Louis, Elpis and Cail was behind me, Zoe was in front of me, Aldea was to my right, and Darryl was to my left. The Chambery was already near.