the night brings beasts

one week ago-

Maxwell is on the dinning room with Emma Jefferson & Robert Larsson.

"aren't you afraid of dying?"

asks Larsson as he drinks tea.

"should I?"

asks and answers Maxwell at the same time without saying much.

Maxwell spend many years on a cage. in which one forgets the meaning of sanity or the meaning of fear to death. in a place in which you have to see and feel the bony touch of death at every step.

"I left my brother on my homeland nine months ago. I am thinking of doing this last task before going back to earth to bring my brother here with me. I want him to enjoy of the beauty of this world. he will be so happy, I am sure of that."

said Emma with a silly smile.

"I have a little girl. she will love it in here. I am no longer going to run away from my responsibility. I am going to be a good father once I find her."

said Robert feeling sorry for been an awful father.

they keep talking for a while. Logan enters inside of the house. he walks towards the dinning room. he sits with them to also talk about his desires after this task is over.

Logan puts on the table a bag, full of potato chips with different flavors. he tells them that he went to Eartho (the name the people on this world use to refer to Maxwell's world.)

Logan explains that, only people who belong to royalty or criminal organizations have the authority to travel to another worlds. he also explains that the only way for people from another world to be able to enter is by signing the contract. the contract is more of a deal with the world and less of a deal with the contractor.

Emma talks more about her situation on earth. she explains how her parents didn't know the meaning of being a parent. she talks with bitterness about her life growing up, how hard was for her to take care of her younger brother.

she is starting to talk about the stupid 'crime' that she commit. with tears on her eyes she talks about how she stole something, she did it because she need it the money. she tells them that she only wants to be with her brother once more.

Maxwell is looking at her unsure of what to do. he wants to hug her and comfort her. he wants to tell her that he knows how it feels like to be on an unknown territory and to wish for your love ones to be at your side.

he wants to tell her that he knows what it is like to suffer in silence and to keep your feelings to you unsure if your love ones are safe or not. he wants to say many things, but then he stops himself thinking about the wounds of the past.

Maxwell has suffer enough to tell himself to not get emotionally attach to others. he then stops thinking after seen the pain on her face. he hugs her at that moment and he tells her that everything is going to be fine.

"I know we had been together for about a week, but I feel like we are becoming a small family in this short time."

said Robert Larsson with a huge smile.

he tells them that he wasn't as pathetic as he is. he start to talk about his own life. he enters in details explaining how he used to be all brains on his school days. he talks about how he graduate from school two years early and how he was the youngest person to enter the university in which he studied.

he talks about how he was on his days of glory the admiration and envy of others. a young man like him was a man with a great future.

he talks about how one day his ex broke up with him and he went to a bar. he explains that he isn't the type to slept with strangers, but that night he did it.

he stops talking for a minute, then he keeps going with his story. he tells them that the woman with whom he slept with, she visited him four months later with a life inside of her. at first Robert didn't believe it, but the day the baby was born and she looked a lot like his mother, it was impossible for him to deny that, that little life is his daughter.

with tears Robert tells them that he has struggle to bring food to the table. he cries as he admits that he is a terrible father. he tells them that he tried to study and to raise a kid, but it wasn't that easy.

he tells them that a year after his daughter was born, the mother of his little girl left. he admits that he had the stupid idea of gambling thinking that with his big brains he was going to make a lot of money. he confesses that he wanted to give a great life to his daughter, he also wanted to wash his sorrows gambling.

that night Robert Larsson kept crying until he felt asleep.

.....

now-

Robert Larsson is walking with his horse at his right. behind him is Emma also walking with her horse. Robert is thinking about gifting the horse to his daughter.

Robert turns to see Emma and he talks to her on a friendly tone. he talks about his daughter. Robert feel nervous. he doesn't know if he is going to be a good father. he didn't do well parenting before and there is nothing proving that things will change.

"you know. I am afraid that my own daughter is going to hate me."

said Robert trembling with sorrow.

"how can you be so sure?"

asks Emma trying to concentrate on the mission.

"because I wasn't a good father. what kid can love a neglectful father who didn't took care of her? a father, I was meant to be. a stranger became."

said Robert with a broken voice.

he starts to cry with sorrow and pain.

Emma ignores him. Emma thinks about her sibling. she looks around of her as she thinks in how wonderful it will be to live on this peaceful lands with him.

two man walk towards them. those man are also assassins send by Logan to kill the king. they were part of another group.

to be more precise Logan had four groups to make sure if one of the groups fails, then he has the other group to take care of the job. he didn't care about the money he has to spend on this operation. the only thing he cared about was getting things done.

the two guys are afraid as they describe the gruesome way in which the guys on their team were slaughter by a man. no, not a man, but a beast. yes he was a beast, a beast that slaughtered them like if they were less than humans.

they didn't finish talking before Cole appeared behind of them. Cole was holding a shotgun. in one shot he blows off the head of one of the guys.

the other guy was on shock looking directly at the eyes of the beast that was approaching him. in one blink Cole shoots leaving a hole on the stomach of that guy.

Emma was still on shock when Robert pulls her. he starts running while holding of her hand. she is afraid of dying before seen her brother one last time.

they run as fast as they can like souls that carries the devil. Cole walks on his own rhythm like a wolf making sure the lambs he follows are of high quality.

yes that is right. Cole is a wolf, a wolf with thirst for blood, but for the blood of the lambs walking in front of his own eyes. he wants to rip apart the limbs of the lambs, he wants to tear apart their flesh until his thirst can be satisfied.

"I am sorry Monique, but I suspect that papa won't be able to see you grow up. I hope you can forgive your stupid old man."

said Robert to himself as he stands behind Emma who is still running. Robert turns around to see the beast that has been chasing him.

"you want me, here I am. go ahead and take me on a fight."

said Robert as he trembles fearing for his own death.

Robert takes a sword out as he runs towards Cole. in one second Cole avoids Robert's sword. he steps ten cm away from him. Robert didn't felt it, but he was stab in the center on his chest. Cole twists the blade and then he takes it out.

Robert falls on his knees. he spits blood. he looks at his chest and he sees a hole. there is so much blood. he is scared of dying, but there is no longer anything that he can do to avoid it.

Cole keeps walking following his next target. Cole takes his riffle out and he aims at Emma. he shoots four times. she falls with multiple wounds. one of the bullets penetrated her heart.

"tell me how are you going to kill the king?"

asks Cole.

Robert is in pain, he is so scared that it is difficult for him to talk. he is breathing fast, he is so nervous.

"am I going to die? why? how can I stop it?"

Robert asks with fear and feeling a horrible pain on his body.

Cole puts his riffle on the floor, he is aware that Robert doesn't have enough strength to be a problem.

"there is no way to stop it. you are already dead, but I can make it easier for you, a painless death."

Cole showed a false sense of mercy.

"wait.... I h-haven't s-seen my daughter. l-let m-me s-say good b-bye."

said Robert with a force smile.

.....

four hours ago-

Maxwell Altham, Robert Larsson, Emma Jefferson, Ramiro Gutierrez, Raku Kobayashi, and Ji-hye Moon are arriving on the territory that is surrounding the castle of the monarch of this land.

"I just want to make something clear. we can die in there, so I want to give you all my last wish if I die..... if I die, I want you to bring my daughter to this beautiful land."

said Robert with a huge smile.

"if we are going to do last will's or wishes, whatever. I am only asking for my brother to be taken to this land, I want him to be helped to have a bright future on this magical land."

said Emma with a tearful smile.

"I don't have anything to share. if I die, I die and there is nothing else."

said Ji-hye with an emotionless face.

"I don't have any last will."

said Raku with an emotionless face.

"I don't have any unfinished business, and I don't have anyone to care for. what about you Max?"

said Ramiro with a huge smile.

"I have two bastards to kill and I won't let anyone to take the pleasure of killing them. I am a vengeful ghost that won't die until my vengeance is done."

said Max with clear hatred like fire on the eyes.

Logan steps behind of them with a small smile feeling proud of them. he congratulates them for going so far. he tells them that everyone (except Max) is going to be free of living their own lives after this last mission.

the group keeps moving. Logan stays behind with a creepy smile on his face. a pawn approaches him, he asks if it is right to lie to them. he reminds him that is likely that everyone is going to die on this execution.

"I am not cruel, I am just guiding them with false hope so when they die, they won't blame me, but themselves for not surviving."

said Logan believing to be merciful.