32 The Journey 3

Jasmine sat behind Cheng with her hands wrapped around his waist. To someone who hadn't ridden a horse before,she felt like puking. With the great speed they were going,she was suffocating and had no choice than to scream, "stop,stop."

Immediately,they halted,she got down from the horse in a clumsy manner and puked instantly. Cheng offered her a bottle of water and she smiled faintly at him. When she was done,she apologized embarrassingly to them. She had never ridden a horse before. And with the fast pace,she suffocated.

The men just shrugged their shoulders as it didn't bother them. They moved forward and decided to rest there before they continued their journey. After an hour rest,they continued.

With the fast ride,they got to Hu mountain by noon. A mountain spirits resides. Spirits that uses your fear against you and then eat you up at your lowest. Even their happy moments will be used against them. Zheng explained it to them at morning and told them to never let their emotions show. They must never cower in fear. In that Mountain, going over it was even more dangerous than going over Zhao dungeon. If that there was another way to reach Lu Forest,they would had gone through it but there isn't. Just to reach Lu Forest,they will have to go through so many ordeal.

Getting down from the horses. They stood together. Taking their weapons with them,and the supplement which Jasmine carried,Cheng offered her a sword.

They spoke to each other and took a piece of cloth,tied it already eachother's hand. They were stuck together.

Walking toward the mountain,it started to rain. Heavily. There wasn't any place to stay so they just kept walking.

"Look who it is,Jasmineee",Jasmine heard and turned to look back. "Are you alright?"questioned Cheng and she nodded.

As they got deeper in the mountain,the voices began fully.

"Wohoooo,Min Min Min. Damn girl. You are a disaster. Die girl!didn't you kill you sister,die die. You are a killer,a murderer."said the voices and Jasmine screamed, "stopppp... I didn't kill her. I didnt kill her. She killed herself." Cheng and Shang held and and continued to move until Shang feel into his knees.

"Demon Shang,Shang Shang. The fear will burn you. You are here right now but you will burn as always. Have you forgotten?you are a cursed demon. A demon that will curse calamity to his loved ones, haha"spoke out the voices. Echoing in their head and using their hidden fear against them.

"Shang come back,fight it Shang. Min,you can do this. Fight the voices. Fight the voices,you are stronger,braver. fight you both,fight!"screamed loudly Cheng to both Shang and Jasmine.

They kept fighting the voices that kept echoing in their ears. Cheng didn't get any voice in his ears because of his demon ability. The voices that were screaming into Jasmine and Shang's ears,were Demons too. but their own demonic ability was in this cruel.and gruesome way. If ever Cheng was ever taunted emotionally like this,he did go mad for sure.

Shang got to his feet as he was able to get through it. His eyes bloodshot red and his finger nails,long. He was changing into his demonic form. If it were to be in another circumstances,he would have rejoiced but this,he couldn't. He was annoyed. To the extent that he growled out causing thunder to strike and the ground shaking.

In hell,he was Cheng's servant. He became a servant to Cheng after his family were annihilated. They were all burned by the torturer of hell. Burned to death. As they were Demons,they burned them until they became ashes. He was burned also but Cheng came to his aid. He might be a servant but he was strong,powerful. Always sticking to Cheng,they both were best of friends.

His scars were so gruesome,though not like the ones on Cheng's body but still,it looked bad. He screamed loudly as horns grew out of his head and his wings spread out from his back. He was in pains. His ears elevated looking the same as Cheng's.

Fu Cheng stared at his friend changing into demonic form after so long and knew what must have triggered it. He was certain that what he heard and saw was what he had buried deep down in his mind and now...

Cheng took Jasmine who had passed out already and make out of the mountain with Shang trailing behind. When they got out of there,Cheng laid Jasmine down and stood up. He faced Shang and called him softly, "Shang."

Shang faced him and snorted flame. He was deep annoyed and sad, devastated also.

"It's fine Shang. Don't think about that Shang. Everything will be fine. It was never your fault. Don't blame yourself",said Cheng and Shang started changing into a Human back. He changed and Cheng pulled him into a hug as he shed tears. He cried and cried and that was the scene that Jasmine saw after waking.

She held her head immediately and screamed,her head hurts. Memories she never wanted to remember came forward today. How did the voices even know about that. She head her head and cried,blaming herself and cowering in fear as she remembered what occurred back then.

Both Cheng and Shang pulled away and rushed to her. Cheng pulled her into his arms and patted her. He started regretting on them coming on such journey. They should have never journeyed to find Nimune. But they needed to find Succubus. He might be cruel but not heartless.

Jasmine calmed down afterwards and was giving water to drink to patch her dried throat. She didn't say anything to them and just sat up and stared at a distance. One could see that she was hurt and broken.

"Are you alright?"asked Cheng and that jolted her from her thoughts.

She gave him a light smile and nodded lightly.

"You don't have to think too much. I know whatever you saw brought back hurtful memories but just know, everything will be fine", said Cheng.

A journey that they thought was going to be easy,wasn't. They hadn't even reached Zhao dungeon and were already broken.

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