The monster makes an appearance (Part 2)

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Ciri and I walk up to the gate and the guards stop us. "What business you got 'ere? I've neva seen your faces before." Quite standoffish if I got to say, they are wearing weird face paint to. I look to Ciri and see she is as surprised as I am.

I look back to the guards and I prepare to answer. "We heard this is a place to watch fights, we were hoping for a seat. We can pay for entry if that is what interests you." It shouldn't cost to much money to get in here. It will be a good way to spend the day until we move the rest of our stuff to Jaskier's place tonight. We packed light so we can get it in one trip.

They look between each other. They seem to be looking for a reason to give us a hard time. "You need to know someone who has pull in Novigrad. This place isn't just for regular people to enter." Here I thought they would sell out for some coin. We have to know someone, that seems hard.

I should ask for more information. "Exactly who do you qualify as influential? Seems strange that you would reject coin for that." I like playing chess with people who think they are smarter than me. I am sure that I can out wit these simpleton's. They may be working together, but that wont help them.

The leader of the four gives a crazy smile. "Someone more important than you could possibly know. You two should run off, if you don't leave we'll take your whore and fuck her right, doesn't that sound good princess?" The moment he said that something inside me snapped. "*RRRUUMMMBBBLLLEEEE**CCCCRRRRRAAAACCCCKKK*" It felt like all of Novigrad was shaking from my rage and fury that I am bottling up. An aura of deep turquoise light surrounds me.

My eye's light in bright fury. "What did you just say....." I am having extreme problems holding the other guy back. My right hand is shaking from me keeping it from my sword.

~~~(POV Ciri)~~~

I can feel the power rolling off of Cera, it is absolutely insane. The entire surrounding area is shaking, some rocks and pebbles are even rising and falling with every angry breath he takes. I have never seen something like this from Cera. The hate, the anger, the bloodlust. I can see in his posture and stance that he is ready to kill.

His eye's are what are drawing my attention the most. His eye's were always a beautiful aurora borealis color. Now its like you can actually see the colors glowing in his pupils, like you are watching the beautiful event when you look into his eye's. I take my eye's off him for the first time since the shaking started and look to the ugly men that caused this situation. They are full of fear, like they are looking at death itself. The insult didn't faze me in the slightest, it affected Cera greatly however.

I reach out and wrap my arms around his right arm, his hand has been twitching for a while now. I have an unconscious need to stop him. "Cera.....I need you to calm down....." My words don't reach him however. The power and shaking intensify around us and the men lose there balance, I am only standing because I am holding onto Cera. I am beginning to feel like I wont be able to stop him, I have never felt this way in my entire life. I feel completely powerless to stop the one I love from killing a person because they said a vile and base thing about me. I didn't think anyone other than Geralt would do such a thing.

I need to get his attention off the men who caused this. I reach up with my hands and cup his head in my palms, he still hasn't relaxed yet. I turn him so our eye's meet, they are a raging storm of power that takes my breath away. "Cera.....Just focus on me.....I am right here and I'm fine....." It takes a few seconds for him to realize it's me. When he does, the shaking slowly stops and the world doesn't feel like its coming apart now. His eye's lose there intense light and he looks like the Cera I know. Both of us react differently, I am worried that there is something wrong with Cera. He on the other hand, looks down in shame.

I look around and take in the actual damage that occurred. Some of the ground is torn open and deep cracks line the ally. I look to the buildings and see they suffered severe damage as well, glass lines the ground in the ally from the broken windows. We need to get out of here before we attract the wrong people. "C'mon Cera....We're leaving...." I tightly grab his hand and attempt to pull him away. He doesn't budge though.

He turns to the men and power begins to leak again, this time more controlled. "Apologize to her....If you don't, you'll wish you died....." I can feel the weight and seriousness of his words. The men are shaking on the ground and have blank faces of shock. Soon they gain there senses back and stand up.

They have no intention of trying anything. I look to Cera again and he is growing impatient, soon he slowly reaches for his sword. I was about to stop him when I hear there voices. "We're re-really s-s-sorry. It wont ha-happen again." He lowers his hand to his side, he finally gives me leverage and we head out fast. I need to get us out of here before more bad things happen.

We rush back to our inn, after we get back to our room there is silence. I look to him and he is just sitting on the bed looking at the ceiling, in a totally different world. I just stare at him for awhile as I sit in a chair, I'm worried about what's going through his head. Thinking back on it, I'm happy that he would do that to someone that treated me like that. On the other hand it worries me that he was so willing to take there lives. I get that they are terrible people, but I wouldn't think he would go to a death sentence so fast.

I get up from my chair and sit next to him on the bed. He doesn't look away from the ceiling, I reach out and rub his arm just so he knows I'm here. He doesn't react at all, he is withdrawing from me. I wont let you run from me right now Cera. I stop rubbing his arm and climb on his lap, I straddle him so if he gets up I go with him. "Are you okay Cera....?" I just need him to talk to me, he has been there so much for me, now it's my turn.

He never stops looking at the ceiling, guess he wont talk to me. I lean my head in and rest it between his neck and shoulder. He leans his cheek on the side of my head. That's a good sign I think, I am getting something from him now. I hear him take a breath. "I'm sorry you had to see that...." I'm not sorry I saw that, I'm glad that I saw it. I now know that we need to be careful around others like that. I run into people like that all the time. "I should have reacted better than that.....It's just when he called you a whore and said that he would take you....I felt something I buried a long time ago....I wanted to hurt him.....Brutally...Not like a human would....." I get what he is saying, I probably would have reacted violently if a woman made a comment like that to Cera in front of me.

I hug him tighter and he finally wraps his arms around me. "It's okay Cera, you know that will never happen to us." I feel like I know him more now. I feel even closer to him now, I want to know more about him after I saw this happen. I thought I knew everything, but I'm wrong. I shouldn't rush him to tell me everything. I do want to ask him one thing though and I cant wait till later.

I take a breath to relax him and me. He loses some of the tenseness in him. "Why go straight to killing them?" I need to know this, it will help both of us, empty his thoughts and share them with me. We are still hugging and haven't let go in the slightest. I know he needs this right now, it feels so good to be able to support him like this. To be there for him like he is for me.

He gently rubs his head against mine, that feels better than I would like to admit. "I didn't want them taking you from me...." BA-BUMP, BA-BUMP. I feel something indescribable when he said that. I have a lot of feelings going through me right now, so might as well convey what I feel to him.

I pull us apart so we can look at each other. I look into his eye's and he into mine, I lean in as I close mine. "*SMMOOOCCCHHH*" Our lips meet and it feels so good, not in the sexual way. In the emotional way, like we are connected in every sense. We move our lips together and continue like this until we need air. We open our eye's almost at the same time and I can see the love and emotion he has for me in his. I know mine are the same if not greater. We lean forward and rest our foreheads together, I close my eye's enjoying the closeness I feel.

The sun is still up, guess this wasn't the best date to have. "I think we should take our stuff to Jaskier's, might as well since we need things to cool down around the area after all that all happened." I say to him. He nods in silence and we pack the little stuff we have and head to the Rosemary and Thyme. We walk hand in hand, I want to be closer to him so I bring us shoulder to shoulder too. I want him to always know I am here to stay and I will always be his.

Unknown to them, there is a discussion about the events today by the higher ups in the city, government, and criminal overlords. They are discussing the young man that made the city shake. We don't know what type of problems Cera's presence and power have caused in the city, but that is for later discussions.