The Palace Beast
Chapter 84 - Making a Path

Bonnie held the man she knocked out against his horse and threatened to kill him if he refuses to take her to her brother's fortified city. She has lost the memories of home and can't recall the path that leads to home.

The terrified swordsman fired back at her. "Your fangs aren't that scary and I bet your arse is stuck here with nowhere to go."

"You will take me to My brother or I will have a taste of your blood too." She released her grip on him and then pushed him to the ground.

Unknown to her the man reached out to a wooden stake that was strapped around his waist. As he was about to make a move against her, John snapped the man's neck from behind. John's eyes turned blue as his heart started racing fast. "You just killed the only source we have," Bonnie yelled.

"You are welcome."

John pants heavily as one losing his strength. He leans against the horse to catch his breath but his heart kept racing fast.

"What's going on with you?" Bonnie makes her way to John to help him out. She wasn't sure of what's happening to him but she heard something like this in the past; one of her victims was possessed by a dark spirit from the underworld that she wasn't able to prey on her victim. Would John's case be the same?

John's eyes changes from blue to red demonic eyes. Smokes started oozing out from his ears. He felt as if someone was tickling his heart.

"What's happening to me," he yelled falling to his knees gasping for air.

As Bonnie stretched her hands to help him up, a weird unseen force carried her with the speed of lightning and slammed her to the fig tree.

A violent wind started beating against them as John's countenances changed. His entire body was covered with flashes of lightning. He let out a loud cry with fire oozing out from his mouth. Immediately he cried out loud, the violent wind seized and he fell with his face down.

Bonnie quickly rushed to him and quickly carried him into the log cabin and laid him on an old sofa.

John was as though dead but Bonnie can hear his heartbeat. She placed her hand on his head and brought her mouth closer to his ear and then whispered to him, "Don't die on me."

There was a flash of forked lightning and a great clap of thunder came close upon each other. Thunder roared and lightning flashed across the sky; John exhales and quickly sat up. "What happened?" he asked.

"I should be asking you that."

"The only thing I remembered is snapping that man's neck."

"Did you remember any other thing besides that?"

Bonnie has never encountered a man with such power that John possesses, not even her victim that was possessed by an evil spirit from the underworld. The way she was slammed into a fig tree is still a mystery to her. She wanted to know if that was John's doing. If Neena has put such power in John, there should be a way to control it. Or is John also possessed by an evil spirit from the underworld?

John glances at Bonnie and then began to speak. "After I snapped the man's neck I saw myself in a dark room. Suddenly there was a bright light that appeared and lit the room and out of the wall of the room walked out a lady in the same appearance of witch Neena and then kissed me..."

"Kissed you?"

Bonnie wasn't sure of what she felt when she heard that someone kissed John but certainly, she was jealous. She saved John from Cerberus and never shared a kiss with him. She thought in her heart, 'if anyone should kiss him, it should be me and no one else.'

She quickly sat beside John and fired some volume of questions after questions as her eyes lit with an eager glow. "Did the kissing last long? What else did she tell you? Was she naked when she kissed you?"

Fixing a searing gaze at Bonnie, John wondered why such questions. He can see the eagerness in Bonnie's eyes. He brought his face closer to hers and said, "None of that happened."

"Then what exactly happened before you were awakened by the clap of thunder?"

"After she kissed me, she placed her hand on my chest and then whispered to my ears 'I have become one with you.'

"When you started acting strangely out there, I came to realize she marked you as a wizard. But my question is, to what end? And another question I ask myself is, what if you are possessed by an evil spirit?" "Why will an evil spirit possess me? If the power in me will help me get back to my place, then I will have to find a way to use it."

"How about we make a deal?"

Bonnie stood to her feet and then started pacing around the sofa with her hands behind her back.

"What type of deal?" John asked with curiosity. The only thing he has in mind is to get out of this freaking place. Weird things have been happening around him and he has never killed anyone in his entire life. He just snapped a man's neck all though that wasn't his doing but the power at work in him.

A force took hold of him to save Bonnie from being staked. He wasn't sure how it happened but he believes he was the one that killed the man even though he can still recall how his hands moved towards the man's neck without him having control of his hands.

Bonnie halted and stood before him; she bent down and brought her face close to him. "Help me find My brother and I will help you find your way home."

"Why will I help you find the same man that wants to kill you? I don't want to be part of any killing around here."

"The earlier you understand you can't survive here on your own, the best for us all. I will help you find your way home if you help me find My brother."

John grinned. "You once told me it's impossible for me to get home."

"With the type of power you possess, everything is possible. Help me find My brother, and I will assist you to master your powers and eventually get you home, how about that?"