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Chapter 8 - Blood Ties:3

In a crater with the trees giving way to the epicenter. Some of the trunks splintered, while others bent unnaturally. The center of it all is a puddle of blood, with nobody in sight. towards the tree, a blood trail. Like painted by the most grotesque and sinister god a path that leads towards the large elder tree.

The Butler appeared at the site, standing at the center. Gracefully the butler took an empty vile and took a sample of the blood that was laying there before disappearing into the shadows once again.

Following the painted path of blood created by Damien. Branches snapped, and the trunks clawed like a bear that had rampaged through. Every now and then scattered a corpse of animals that was scraps of husks left.

~Elm Outpost~

There laid a village of dryads, The soldiers and warriors tense. Their elder who is sweating profusely held his daughters' hands looking into the forest specifically towards the sounds of guttural roars and cracks of the woods.

"I am sorry my daughter but for the survival of the forest. In the texts left by the ancestors, there will be a beast that comes thirsting for the blood of a maiden" The Elder spoke solemnly.

As the minutes feel like hours. The snapping branches and the smell of the blood start to thicken. Their heart beats faster and faster. Sweat started to pour from their heads, some wiping their fingers so that they could hold onto their spears.

Finally, after some time, the beast started to walk from the forest. With their blessings from mother nature herself. They used her gifts bestowed upon them to enhance their vision seeing what was coming to them.

"Get the woman and children and hide them in the basement quick!" One of the elders shouted.

"Soldiers with me!" A different elder this time wearing armor and holding a spear.

"Father let me fight with you, with my blessing we hold a chance to at least contain the beast" The Nymph spoke.

Looking at the beast with a tense atmosphere. His skin looked like leather, colored in a shade of grey and red. Its arms extended grotesquely long, at the end claws protruding from its hands. Blessed by the Lord of the Dark, the creature had an impressive physique. Its muscles protrude with activity. Its eyes glowed in an ominous dark red hue.

*Roar!*

-Boom!

With an explosion the beast went straight into the first soldier it had on its sights. Slashing the spear apart and with its other hand pierced the man's chest. In one rough movement, it ripped out the heart of the solder still beating. As if the blood itself was hypnotised it started to turn into mist and absorbed through the skin of the beast.

The soldiers attacked back after the beast was preoccupied with it absorbing their brethren's blood. Two of the soldiers were able to pierce the skin of the beast making it bleed.

The elder that was in the front line studied the beast.

"It's a ghoul king! Do not let it bite you or else you will become a mindless ghoul!" The elder screamed desperately.

The ghoul waking up from its trance of blood, made another roar this time shrieking as if in pain. With its long arms, it grabbed one of the soldiers by the arms and bit into the neck causing the soldier to become pale and drop immediately having a seizure just a moment later.

Quickly the elder stepped in and quickly cut the head of the infected soldier off immediately halting the transformation.

"Garden Of Eden!" The daughter of the elder shouted. Immediately the soldiers that were too terrified to move gained newfound bravery. Those who were hurt in the initial charge and explosion of the ghouls had their wounds healed.

"Sarah! Now it's going to target you!" The elder next to Sarah had exclaimed in panic.

The ghoul noticed that the soldiers that its claws had cut through now had their wounds closed and the blood that flowed had stopped. Looking around it noticed that there was a woman who had held a staff anxiously looking at the battlefield.

Launching its bloodlust toward the woman, Sarah collapsed, and her knees gave out on her. Hair which was golden blonde started to ashen. Its colors slowly faded away.

"Shit not now!" The Elder shouted.

Quickly the elder seemed to have gotten a vile out of his pocket and quickly fed it to Sarah. which immediately caused Sarah to lose consciousness.

The ghoul immediately ignored everything else and went straight to the vile that had contained some liquid left. Slashing at the elder who had been running away from the scene carrying Sarah.

The Elder screamed in pain but clenched his teeth together. Throwing his daughter inside one of the buildings and turned around. Upon turning around the elder had seen an odd sight. The ghoul was trying to get all the liquids from the vile-like man who had been thirsting for years.

The ghoul looked at the Elder its eyes suddenly flashing a bright red.

"Where..." Tears started to drip from the ghoul's eyes.

-Slash

Before the Elder could even respond, his head rolled and the ghoul started to snicker an awkward terrifying laugh but its eyes continued dripping this blood-stained tears.

Standing for a moment, It started walking toward Sarah who lay unconscious. Her head had a minor wound that caused some blood to seep caused by her being tossed into the hardwood.

The Ghoul rushed toward Sarah, quickly licking her blood. Immediately after taking a bite out of her neck.

*Crunch*

In a single moment, a threat-wrenching crunch was heard. Her blood started to trickle down to her collarbone. Her hair again started to turn ashen. Her skin turned more and more pale. Her pink lips started to transform into a luscious red tint.

After a few seconds, Her hair had turned completely ash color. Her eye opened revealing her red irises her pupils contracted into a tight slit. Immediately opening her mouth fangs protruding in such a quick motion that doesn't make sense to the human eye. She bit into the ghoul. This time both holding onto each other greedily.

The Elders and Soldiers quickly collapsed into the house. In horror seeing their Holy daughter turning, The elders look at the situation with depression filling their hearts.

"We need to leave them alone. As stated she was to be the sacrifice. She is only doing her part now we must pray that it will be enough" the elder spoke while walking back to the chief elder covering both his body and head with a blanket.

Leaving the ghoul and their holy daughter in the broken-down house. The ghoul slowly had its hair grow back. Platinum white hair started to grow from its head. Its Grey skin started to transform into that of a milky color. His Grotesque features slowly turned into that of a handsome young noble.

Both figures hold to each other greedily. Sarah started to wrap her legs around the waist of the young man. In the heat of the passion the young man quickly without missing a beat and without taking his mouth from the neck of Sarah pinned her down.

Sarah's body instinctively started to move seductively, her face starting to blush. The young man, in response, became more aggressive. As if he was trying to completely tame and dominate the woman.