Meeting Humans

Several ogres enter the lair like they had been waiting for the fight to finish. The only left standing is a small wolf growling at them all tensed up behind him is a human bleeding.

The undisturbed monsters walked over their dead comrades. An arrow flew in one of the ogre's heads, followed by a rain of arrows. The ogres lift their weapon and try to defend, only two ogres die in the shower of arrows.

Humans wearing black robes and riding in horses arrived at the site. Some of them unmounted the horse and unsheath their swords. With just five ogres left the fight only lasted a few seconds.

A man wearing a black hooded cape casually enters the lair on his horse. He saw piles of dead ogres, in the middle of it is a bleeding human laying with a feracious small beast growling at them.

"It's really black hair." He whispered as he saw the girl's scattered hair on the ground.

He came close and looked down at the beast.

"If you don't let them pass. your human will die." He coldly said. The beast seems to understand and look at his human. He slowly stepped aside and let two humans approach. White and green sparkling lights came out of their hands.

A man approached him and put his palm on his chest and bowed down respectfully.

"Sir we found more inside the tents"

The man looks in the direction where several dead ogres are being dragged out in the open.

"He killed them all?" He asked.

"Sir, I am sorry to intrude you. May I have a moment." One of the healers put her hand in her chest and bow.

"Go on"

"She has already lost a lot of blood. She may not make it if we don't take her to the facility."

"She?" He looked at the lying girl. A pale skin underneath the thick stains of mud and dried blood.

"Gio, Take her and go back first."

"Yes, brother" A man behind him with the same hooded black coat answered.

****

*Knock Knock*

"Enter"

The man wearing black cloak entered and removed his hood. His short gray hair, right side of his face with tattoo up his cheeks and temple and vibrant blue eyes became visible in the light.

"Father, I am back." He put his palm in chest and bowed down to the man sitting behind a big oakwood table.

The light coming in from the window behind the table is subtle but it is enough to send a twinkling effect on the silver-haired man with the same blue eyes.

"Report." The man sitting behind the table looks once then returns to his reading.

"We found a human inside. I believe killed almost the entire camp of Ogres, Including its chieftain. "

"A wanderer or from the imperial palace?" Not even a hint of surprise is found in his tone.

"A young girl and young wolf shapeshifter"

The silver haired man stopped reading the documents and laid down. He met eyes with the son who possesses the same cold jewel blue eyes.

"After entering the ogres territory, we encountered decaying bodies of two or three days old dead, Few hours later another set of dead bodies, I thought it was the work of a wanderer or some one from the imperial palace . Until I saw a human girl, inside the lair surrounded by dead ogres. I waited for all her companions to reveal themselves but it never happened until she solely defeated the chieftain."

". . ."

". . ."

"How about the code?"

"It hasn't appeared yet."

"Confirm her identity once she wakes up."

"Yes. . . . Father"

"Do you have something more to report?"

"Her hair is black color."

He froze and his eyes shook.

". . . "

"I could swear I saw her eyes were yellow but when I checked again. It's black. "

****

She slowly opened her eyes and saw a familiar white ceiling and a tube attached to the back of her hand. The back of her mind automatically starts counting 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . it continues on and on. A habit she built to tell time back at the Lab.

The lab where a series of tubes attached to her and the paralyzing electricity in her neck every ten minutes. The sound of the door opening and the masked men entering. The injection she had. Pills she had been forced to take.

"Dammit!!! I am back?!" She panics and immediately removes the pin at the back of her hand, She slightly frowns as she pulls messily the pin ripping her veins and let the blood flow in her trembling hands. She reached for her right side torso but she found no tubes attached and her nape is also clean but she was wearing a clean set of white shirt and pants. It is different from the dress she always found herself in but it's still undeniably the same white cloth. The large mirror that is a few steps in front of her is nothing but a clean wall. Instead she found the mirror placed on the side of the bed.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" She screams and screams as she looks at her clean reflection. The same and only human face she knows.

'I am back! dammit! dammit or was it all a dream?!' There was nothing in the room except the bed and a stand with a transparent case hanging upside down.

"Arghh." A sudden pain in her right shoulder made her kneel. Blood seeped through her shirt. The events before she loses her consciousness flash through her mind.

'I was . . . at the . . . facing chieftain. what will happen next?'

"Luna!" She remembered the young wolf.

The door opened and two bare faced humans, one man and one woman both the same shade of brown hair and eyes. Both are dressed in whites, they entered the room with hands open in the air. She kicked the hospital bed in their direction and grabbed the stand in defense.

'Humans?'

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"!_!*#(@&$$^@"

'...!! It's the same language. The language that I don't understand. The language they are using.' Her heartbeat frantically beat more begging to let it out of her chest. The wound in her shoulder opened up as she tensed up her body.

They are using a calm voice at her but that is only making her more wary and frustrated.

"Who are you? Where is Luna?" She shakingly asked. 'Why are they not wearing masks?'

They look at each other when the scared girl talks.

"I SAID WHO ARE YOU and WHERE IS LUNA! " She shout

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"!)*@#@(!)#!_"

She is cursing internally as she can't understand what they are saying.

"Dammit!" She just had to know where Luna was and get out of here.

*Ting* Ting * Ting * Ting

****

In the corridor, two men were casually walking. One of them has short gray hair who is slightly walking behind showing his patterned tattoo on the right side of his face. He is wearing a large black cloak with a bright blue pin on its left shoulder, his left arm is totally covered with long sleeves and combat gloves while his right arm is hiding within his cloak. Walking in front of him, who looks slightly older, has sleek silver hair. He is dressed in an all black military uniform designed by blue linings and the same design of blue stone pin in its neck collar. They both possess blue eyes, high noses, sharp jawlines and the same cold aura.

A running knight approached them and said his report.

"SIR! The girl . . . the girl in the ward escaped. . ." The knight reported.

They both creased their forehead. They both run at a quick speed leaving behind a gust of wind without saying anything.

"Theo!"

"Yes Father."

They run in different directions. Theo went to the underground and passed by and saw two knocked out soldiers along the way.

'She can knock out the knights?'

He came to view the farthest room in the basement with an open door and a hand sticking out of the door.

He pulled out the healers stuck underneath the overturned bed. They both sustained at least broken arms from the looks of it.

****

She hid behind one of the pillars as rushing knights passed through the corridor. She runs towards the open field and hides in one of the bushes and scans the system notification.

THE SYSTEM:

~ Quest Completed ~

[QUEST: Defeat the Chieftain of the Ogres]

Rewards:

Ogre's Chieftain's Skill

2x Medium Healing Potion

[You have obtained "TAUNT" skill]

'Another useless skill.' she clicked her tongue.

*Ting*

~ Quest Completed~

[QUEST : Escape the Monster Forest]

Rewards:

500 Experience points

1x Monster Forest Map

5x Medium Healing Potion

1x Random Armor Equipment (Rank E - B)

[You have level up]

[You have level up]

"I am out of the Monster Forest, but where am I?" She squeezed her bleeding shoulder, enduring the pain.

*Ting*

~Achievement Unlock~

You killed more than 50 Ogres.

*Ting*

~ New Title Unlocked ~

[Ogre Slayer]

Description:

This title will give 20% more attack power against the Ogre's race.

"Open -----" something sharp grazed her cheeks. She didn't see what or how she just felt the slight pain after it passed through.

She instantly knew that she had already found out. She jumps out of her hiding place and faces them. A man with glistening silver hair is standing, glaring at her. When their eyes met a shiver travelled in her backbone. Bloodlust.

Was it hostility? bloodlust? but there is no emergency quest. She felt so small in his cold presence.

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". . ."

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"Op--" Another slicing sound halted her command. The sleeves in her right arm were cut off by unidentified force. She was not harmed, only the sleeves were minced to pieces by something cold and sharp.

"..!!!"

****

He was on his way to meet the young girl with black hair and black eyes when a report came that said she escaped. That girl is standing in his backyard displaying a state of calm demeanor in his presence.

'. . .' When the girl didn't respond to him. He moved his hand slightly then the sleeves in that persons' shirt were sliced to pieces. Multiple brown spots were seen as the sunlight hit her pale skin. It looks like old burned skin. It was only a brief second but he definitely saw her wrist. He looked at the other wrist but he didn't find what he was looking for.

'How? She doesn't have it. ' His eyes grew big.

"Father!" looking at the direction of the girl. His thick brows knitted together.

'Is her eyes really black? What are those brown marks?'

"Look at her wrists Theo." His father said it slowly, almost like whispering. He looks at her right wrist then looks at her left but it's covered. He flips his cloak away and underneath it is an unusual shirt. One side is long sleeves while the other side is a muscle cut tee showing his well trained muscles filled with black ink patterned tattoos connected to his face and neck tattoo. The patterns are various shapes in black graffiti drawn in his skin. The girl looked alarmed and took a defensive stand. Theo pushed his tattooed arm in her direction and a strong gust of cold wind forced her to step back. Instinctively protecting herself she raised both the hands to cover her face.

"How could that be?!" Theo gasped and lowered his arm down. The strong wind stopped.

"There is no code."