[Writer's Pov]
"She's transformed!"
"She's become a werewolf. Run! She's a devil!!
People screamed and scattered around the place, running away from Athena, who just transformed into a werewolf without her even aware of it.
Everyone in the kingdom of Blumund is wary and afraid of werewolves. History says it that a long time ago before the kingdom's were established, people, beasts, monsters, and demi-humans used to coexist and live peacefully with one another. That's well.... not until they had a dispute. It's said that the werewolves couldn't control their powers, so they regularly transformed and went on a rampage, killing and destroying everything and everyone on their way. They fed on their friends and families. So out of fear of their monstrous forms, people started fleeing to as far away as they could from them. The situation divided them into a lot of parts. Demi-humans went on their way, humans on theirs and werewolves just scattered around like hunting stray dogs that were capable of snapping their prey's necks in an instant. They became feared, and humans, out of desperation for survival, began uniting and killing these werewolves. The conflict never ceased. Werewolves were almost driven to extinction, and the few of them that survived are believed to be living in the kingdom of Vetmund and working as their military force in exchange for protection from the rest of the world.
No one didn't hate werewolves. Even Athena and Flynn themselves harbored so much hatred towards them, and they wanted nothing but to bring them to extinction. However, at present, Athena has become one.
She got taken over by her werewolf instincts. All she now wanted was to hunt, kill, and survive. She couldn't even tell between friends or foe. She just wanted to tear everything and everyone apart. .
"What is this pure evil doing in the land of our God,"Mr Seith barked in anger, looking at Athena with so much disgust and hostility. He averted his attack from Flynn and directed it at Athena instead.
When she realized that she was getting attacked, her survival instincts kicked in. She had to kill the person attacking her. She lunged forward and closed the distance between him and her in a heartbeat. Mr Seith's eyes widened in terror as he noticed that his barrier couldn't even stop her, and she just teared his sword slash apart like it was nothing. His believers were now exhausted, and they couldn't share anymore of their mana with him, as a result, he couldn't continue using the sword of salvation.
"H-h-how could that be,"the king stammered after seeing what Athena just did. "She wasn't affected by the sword of salvation's barrier..... just... just like him,"his hands were shaking violently as he thought about him. Why.... why was everything about her reminding him of him. Could it be? No... it can't be. She's nothing more but a mere commoner,"he consoled himself.
He watched as she grabbed Mr Seith and ripped through his muscles, dipping deep into his flesh with her claws. She grabbed his right hand and pulled in, separating it from the rest of his body. He screamed loudly, it was almost deafening. His blood gushed out like running water in a tap and Athena started feeding on his ripped-off arm like it was a chicken drumstick. When she took a taste, she immediately spat it out. It wasn't good for her taste buds. She wanted something else— a tasty victim, perhaps. She threw away Mr Seith like he was nothing and then began going for the citizens who were near. Luckily, Mr Galard was still present. He opened his spatial teleportation door and ordered everyone to teleport into it, although they couldn't help but wonder what was going on in their kingdom. First, they were attacked by a dragon, and now it's a werewolf. Just what evil was going on. The ones who were taken to the safe room and still looking pretty healthy started kneeling down and praying to the god of calamity to save them.
Meanwhile, because of how weak and hurt Mr Seith had gotten, his paralyzing magic circle on Flynn faded away, setting him free. Although he was now pretty weak and exhausted, he quickly called for his dragon to come to him. The sword of salvation was now deactivated, so it could get into the colosseum freely. He ordered it to take Lana and Marvelous to a safe place since they were now bit and weak from using too much mana. If they were in their homeland, Lana could be looking for their special herbs and creating a mana restorative potion, but they weren't.
When he tried picking up Mimi to put her on top of the dragon too, Athena lapped forward and gave him thunderous slash with her large claws that sent him flying away. The slash was so powerful that it shattered his shield to pieces and injured him on the chest as well. He began coughing hard and vomiting lumps of blood. He looked around the place, and everyone was gone. Mr Galard had gotten everyone to safety, well... except for Cyrus and a few of his men. He has been standing in one position for a long time, unable to move or walk away. His legs were shaking and he had peed on himself numerous times, plus he was still smelling like shit, thanks to Marvelous who made him swim in a sewage pool, so he couldn't risk going into a crowded place looking as hideous as that. His pride just couldn't allow it. He is the first prince, after all. Being dirty was a job for commoners.
"Big brother. H_help me out,"Flynn struggled to speak. It's true he has learned a couple of magic spells over the past years, but he wasn't physically strong or anything. The many years he spent living in his room and not even going outside when he was young made him weak for life. His body was just too fragile, and he grew up slower than the rest of his age mates.
Cyrus just stared at him, not knowing what to say or do. His nervousness just couldn't allow him to do anything. He just coward in one position and kept quiet.
Flynn tried casting more spells to fight back his new mistress that had hone bersek, but she was too fast in her werewolf form. He couldn't hit her while she landed a couple of serious injuries on him, which made him lose a lot of blood. From there, he started feeling drowsy—like he could faint at anytime. He was powerless. Athena came and grabbed him by her claws. She was a very big wolf, so she could carry Flynn on the palm of her hands. Her size was as big as that of the werewolf that murdered Flynn's one and only childhood friend. It made him so angry just by thinking about it.
How could the mistress he just picked turn into a monster. Into a beast that he hates the most in this world.
As he was thinking, he felt his body stretching. It was Athena, trying to tear him apart. He had no choice but to try and bring her back to her senses.
"Athena!!! I know you're in there. Wake up!!,"he yelled, but the pain from almost getting teared apart was just too much for him to handle. He just hoped that maybe somehow, Athena might hear his voice and come back to her senses just like how possessed people in movies always regain self consciousness after hearing their lovers voice, but that didn't seem like it would happen in his situation.
Before he could be torn apart, a splashing wave of water hit Athena in the back. It wasn't that powerful, and it made Flynn recall about his past life and how he used to attack with such a low-level water spell. But thanks to it, Athena managed to put him down and gazed her attention on where the splash came from. When Flynn looked to see too, he was shockingly terrified to see who the person was. It was his sister, Victoria.
"Victoria!!,"he screamed. "Run away! She will kill you!"
"I can't run away leaving you in danger. ,"she responded as she chanted her spell and hit Athena with another of her low-level water magic spells. When Cyrus noticed that Victoria was in danger, he finally snapped out of his cowardice and stood up to try and protect his sister. He chanted a spell and attacked Athena with a fire ball, but her skin was too hard and impenetrable to even feel that. In fact, she felt like his attack was tingling on her skin.
He attacked again, and Athena howled in anger. The more they made her fight, the more angry she became and the more she lost her humanity. She was giving in to her transformation. Rumor says sometimes a werewolf can transform and live in a werewolf form for the rest of its life without transforming back to its original human foam. Well, this was all because no werewolf has ever been able to control their powers without going wild - well, expect for one man. The only man who can make the king shiver just by hearing his name or thinking about him.
Thanks to the fact that she was now weak and exhausted, she fell down and fainted just the second Cyrus attacked her with his fire ball.
Without knowing the truth, Cyrus thought his attack was the one that made all that much damage, and he was so proud of himself. His ego was flying through the roof..
Tbc