Mother

Loken waited til the night arrived and headed directly to the house of the women he had in mind. He covered Ragnar in a piece of cloth and carried him in his arms. Soon Loken noticed that he was being followed. Loken behaved, as usual, he did not need to turn around to notice that he was being followed... through his affinity to Metal he was able to feel its presence. The one following him wore a sword and shield on his back... the person was covered in a robe and had a hood on his head. On his way Loken came across a tree... he shortly stopped and touched the tree... it looked like he had to catch his breath... then he proceeded to walk on to the house not far away from the tree. As Loken arrived at the doorstep to the house the one following him also stoped, the follower then hid behind the tree Loken touched and watched from afar. The person behind the tree did not notice that he had been found out.

Loken knocked at the door... it was late so he hoped that she would open the door... but he worried for nothing and the door opened. "Can you hold him for a second??" he said as a beautiful Young woman opened the door and was met with the face of a baby... without knowing what was going on she took the baby on her arms and saw Loken standing in front of her grinning like a kid who got a new toy to play with... "I will be back in a minute and explain everything but please keep him for a moment." After he said that he focused his mind on the tree he touched before... steel cables came out of it... binding the person that followed him to the tree. He then left Ragnar to that woman end walked to that follower. "Seems like you underestimated me... Borros" Loken had a guess long ago as to who that person might be... since there were not that many Human Paladins in that town.

Borros was caught off guard "How can that be... you are just a lowly blacksmith... release me, or..." "Or what... you will tell the Beastman that I have harmed you?? Do you think they give a shit about us??" Loken interrupted. "What do you want?? Why did you follow me??" Borros was still not completely sure what has happened to him... how could that lowly blacksmith bind him... he was a tier-one Apprentice... he had nothing to fear from a tier four Novice. "That is nothing of your business." He said as he looked over to the house of Megan. That's right the person Loken thought of helping him with Ragnar was the woman he only seems to know casually. Whom he tried to avoid the last time they met...some short conversations were all there is... she had absolutely no ties to him. Loken noticed how Borros looked over to her "So that's it... your envious" Loken said. Borros's face turned green from anger "Who is envious of a good for nothing piece of a shit blacksmith like you... release me and we will see who is envious."

Loken's eyes turned serious, he knew that there were Humans like Borros who had forgotten what they are... who began to see other Humans just like the Beastman did... who think that every woman they see belongs to them. He then formed signs with his hands... more and more cables came out of the tree behind Borros... "What are you doing?? Are you out of your mind??" Borros screamed but no one could hear him the space surrounding them was long sealed by a barrier created by Loken. When Loken touched the tree, in the beginning, he released a Metal plate out of his hidden rings and disguised it as part of the tree. This Metal plate has cables connected to it that were hidden behind it. It was one of the Silverslayerclans hidden weapons technique called Pythons-grip... it was a Spirit art that manipulated Metal.

Soon Borros realized that the blacksmith he belittled was not a tier four Novice but a tier five apprentice. "How could that be?? Who are you??" Loken smiled at him and said" You are not qualified to know who I am... you are not Human anymore... do not think that I do not know what you had in mind for me... you followed me to kill me... so be prepared to die." the cables surrounding Borros wrapped him up completely and soon began to shrink tighter and tighter. Cracking sounds could be heard. Blood streamed out of the gaps between the cables until nothing but a lump of meat mixed with clothes and some scrap Metal which used to be a shield and a sword was left behind. Loken then placed everything into one of his hidden rings... nothing was left behind but a small puddle of bloody mud. Loken covered this place with another plate of Metal and made it look like the ground... he then released the barrier.

Loken then returned to the house and stopped at the entrance. He looked at Megan and said "Please let us talk inside" Megan stood there flabbergasted and did not know what to say... she then asked, "Who was that behind the tree??" Loken looked at her and answered, "That was Borros... he will not bother you anymore." She nodded and then went inside. They proceeded to the living room and sat down. Loken's face became serious and he said "Mother... I need your help to raise this child."

Suddenly Megan's body was covered in a black mist... Darkness spread inside the living room... Megan's body began to transform. Her body grew a few sises... her skin on her arms and legs grew fur and her hair turned white. "So how are you son?? Do you only know how to come back when you need my help??" Loken turned gloomy his mother would always nag about how little she sees him. He loved his mother but it was not easy for him to engage with her since she looked like a total beauty compared to his aged appearance.. he felt uncomfortable around her because he would earn a lot of envious and hostile gazes... furthermore he did not want them to be exposed and their secret of being mother and son getting lifted.

"So what is the story of this child? Why did you not introduce me to your woman?"