C14 Bloodlust

"Why did you make us come all this way, the ruins are nearly completely opposite from this way?" I sigh, if I knew Alvana would be worse than Ciora I would've sent her instead "because I have a package. Now if you ask me one more time if we're almost there I'll send you to watch the kids." Celeste struggles not to laugh at my growl and Alvana and she share a look "Dammit!" I start running and after a second of hesitation they both follow me. I stop in front of the grave I dug for the sword "which bastard goes around digging graves up..." after almost two minutes of trying and failing to find any tracks I let out a piercing whistle, a howl echoes from somewhere further in the mountain, soon two more, then five, and not long after tens of howls spud through the air "Nicta, please tell me you intended to do that?" I sigh as even more howls sound "she shouldn't have gone that far, but I whistled too loudly, now they're all coming, and I can't control that many wolves." They both raise an eyebrow, though I'm not sure which part they were surprised about, and soon a black wolf comes from the rocks surrounding us, she's slinking along, trying to hide, and not doing an very good job "sera, I'm not mad, just help me find my sword." She whines slowly and slinks up to me, I hold out a hand and she nuzzles it before two more wolves come out of the shadows "Tell your friends this isn't a fight they'll win, no matter how many there are." I go down on one knee in front of her and whisper to her, trying to keep the situation calm, she turns to them and growls low, but after one growls back even more come from behind them "Nicta, do I need to kill them?" I shake my head and stand up "I heal fast enough, and besides, it's nice to fight a beast sometimes, they don't try to ambush you." I step past Sera and she drops back, dropping into a crouch and immediately coming to my side. There are seven right now, and they don't seem happy "there aren't many female wolves left, especially ones that can be an alpha of the pack, Sera is special in that single way. That means that I have to fight a lot of wolves if I want to keep her, but since she likes me more then the other wolves I let her stay." One of the wolves growls at me and I growl back after that they all kind of hesitate, there most likely rethinking the plan and soon they fall back, waiting for reinforcements. "Let's go, they won't follow very far." I turn and Sera, after sniffing a trail put, leads me along the path to my sword "I swear, I'm gonna put a tracking spell on the damn thing, it seems like every being in the world that has any connection to sin has a hard on for the thing." Alvana starts laughing and I jerk around, I forgot they were there to be honest. "Sera, speed up, I have to go search some ruins." If the sword wasn't cursed i would throw the thing away, but as it is my father sent it to me to protect the world "Nicta, what's so special about the sword, you said criminals are drawn to it?" I nod and Sera speeds up more, causing me to run. Celeste and Alvana both pull out a gem and summon horses, those must be the beast gems that city Aleov is famous for. I hear a few howl in the background and Sera cocks her ears back, but she makes no noise, they'll follow the trail but we soon come to a creek, Sera loses the trail in the water and doesn't manage to find it on the other side "fine, it'll summon every beast in this mountain but I'll survive, sadly whoever stole my sword won't." I stretch my hands wide and slap them together, the tattoo over my stomach warms up and from experience I know the thing is glowing "bring me my sword, bring me my vengeance!" The scent of blood covers everything and a dull red light shoots up from down stream "found him, will one of you... actually don't touch the sword I'll go get it." I can't afford for either of these to fall prey to the demon, hell, I struggle against the damn thing and this tattoo was meant to protect me from it. I was right, by the time I find the light there are tens of beasts in the way to it "you two, go ahead and find my students..." I sigh and take off my shirt, Sera takes it and when I tell her to leave she follows Celeste, who steals my shirt. Alvana retreats but doesn't leave, and Celeste finds a tree to sit in, waiting for me to return, amusingly Sera climbs up to sit beside her "sera, you're breaking the rules, wolves can't climb." She mock growls at me and Celeste snickers, I turn around and wade into the pile of beasts and blood.

(Celestes POV)

"How do you think he'll get the sword back?" Album makes her way up the tree, and the wolf, Sera climbs past me to crouch at the end of the branch. "I don't know but if her doesn't figure out soon I think Sera might get it for him." Alvana nods and takes the branch above mine, Laying down so she doesn't break the branch. Nicta pushes a few beasts aside but most of them are mountain beings, they don't move lightly, soon he punches one in the face and rolls over it when it tries to attack, soon the beast he punched gets in a fight with two others, and he moves away from them, pushing further into the group "why isn't he killing them?" I shake my head and Sera whines "sera, I know you want the sword but stay!" She whines but shrinks back, soon she's pushing against me and when I put a hand on her head she pushes against me, I cover her with armor made from sunlight and she relaxes "it seems his sword calls to certain beings, animals and beasts among them." Alvana cocks her head for a minute and gasps suddenly, I lea forwards as Nicta jumps from the back of a bull like beast and gets between them. Sera howls and soon blood splatters all around, Nicta rises up and a red sword unleashed hell all around him, I know now why he didn't want us touching the sword. If he, the one that knows how to stop the demon, can be dragged under his bloodlust by it then we would definitely have been overtaken.