Chapter 12 - 12. Sabotage
"Kerberos, to the station!" I yelled at him who was quite far from me.
Kerberos turned around, we ran toward those monsters now. Those horrible creatures were still chasing us, all at once triggered my craziness and brutality came out naturally.
When that white dog took me to the direction of that pack, I lunged myself to one of them. Their bodies were like lumps of soft flesh when I kicked them. I pulled a spear from one of them and I saw hands without skin held that spear. I stepped on the head without mercy, hoping to crush it into pieces. He screamed like he was in great pain.
After I got the spear, I wondered what kind of devil that possessed me, I threw it right in the heart of any monsters under my reach. I did the same things to the others, lunged myself and beat them fiercely on the heads without mercy.
I did not realize when one of them cut me. My body was numb for such pain. Kerberos helped me by biting their body. We worked shoulder to shoulder against those monsters. Their number was never ended, when I destroyed seven, other seven would come.
Kerberos pulled me signaling me to give up, we ran until the station. At there, I saw the crate and sacks of soil that we would use to catch Zie.
I took the soil out of the crate, and also the one in the sacks. Then I jumped into the crate surrounded by soil I had spread. Then, we were waiting silently to the creatures chasing until that place.
Until then…we heard loud scream, I opened the crate we used to hide. Their bodies melted like burned candles. Kerberos looked happy seeing what happened in front of us. He stuck out his tongue. We did it! Some of the remaining monsters chose to leave us.
After I did not see any of them appearing, I jumped out that crate to make sure they were really leaving us.
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I wanted to talk to Kerberos what I had in my mind after making sure all monsters had gone
"Kerberos, could I ask you to wait? I mean literally waiting until the spirit you are looking for leaves its body, then you can take it away," I spoke quietly, hoping he understood the message behind that request.
"Miss, didn't I tell you that I can not take spirit that still is attached with its body," there was a pause, "But it will be much better if we incapacitate the spells as soon as possible. If we postpone it, they will keep chasing us and that marionette, for sure," Kerberos stared at me in curiosity. "Miss, you have something you hide from me," It was a statement, not a question.
I doubted to tell him all, but sooner or later Kerberos would find out the truth, "The spirit is my friend" I could not lie to him. "He is my most valuable friend for me. Please I beg you, give me the second chance to be with him. Only until the spells run out, after that you can take him back. I beg you". I knelt down in front of him, begging him to grant my wish. "So far do not incapacitate him or whatever with the soil from this zero zone. I know your plan using that crate is to capacitate the spells and use me as the bait so that he will come here."
Kerberos was silent for some time, before he finally broke the quietness in serious tone. "Miss, that is hard for me to fulfill that promise. I am bond with another oath and I don't want to get involve with other oaths. It is too hard and complicated for me. I cannot help much though, but as long as the spells are still attached with him, I will not take him. I allow you to stick together. That is all I can do to you," he patted my shoulder with his front leg and asked me to get up
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As soon as we finished all, I started feeling the pain all over my body and great tiredness. I checked my arms which were full of scratches and cuts from branches of trees and two big wounds that might have be from the swords.
Kerberos stopped me from going home, he took me to the city instead. At a simple building, someone opened the door for us. She seemed to have known that we would come. She was around 60 years old, and she looked very patient.
Kerberos spoke with ordinary language with that woman. He asked some stocks for us. I wanted to help her but she asked me to rest instead. Perhaps she was sorry to see me full of fresh injuries.
Arriving at a room, I looked around, "Kerberos, who is that woman?" I asked her while sitting on the bed.
"Have you ever heard the reinncarnation?" Kerberos threw a question, instead. "When someone die, before he goes to the realm of spirit, we clear up his memories during his life in the world. We do the same thing to the spirits that are reincarnated. But that woman is the onlt that we do not clear her memories., so she has her memories in her previous life and her life in the realm of spirit. That is one of the sort of punishment. She is mentally punished in the any lifes she has. Miss, sometimes being able to forget things is a blessing, forgetting the badness and replacing it with the new ones is a blessing God give to us," He told me long and clear.
I nodded, looking at the white dogsitting next to me, "Keberos, do we have to run again? I mean running from their chasing?" He might have different plans for us.
"No, we do not run from them. Miss, we will fight against them with the help of someone who is still sleeping right now. We will wake that person up," Kerberos expression made me feel calm. He was so confident with his plan even though it had been sabotaged, but he really focused on his goal that made him come to this earth.
Suddenly I remembered Mickey. I needed to tell him this, too. But I did not know who would tell him about this. If the situation changed quickly like what we had just faced, that grey cat might be in danger too.
"Kerberos, can we take a friend of mind to meet that person? I mean that marionette?" I was so worried to open this issue up, but I needed to think about Zie and Mickey's condition as well. Leaving them alone and being caught up by those creatures, would make our efforts work for nothing.
"Of course Miss. First we have to find the place where that marionette is and hide him," Kerberos answer made me relieved a little.
"Why don't we take him along to look for someone who will help us?" I asked him enthusiastically, hoping Zie would come along.
"Miss, that would be very risky. Imagine. When we have to fight dead or alive like we had today, it will be difficult when we have to fight as well as protecting another one. Marionette has slow and stiff movement. He will not help us much. On the contrary, he will be our other burden later on, " Kerberos stood up from my side. He walked to another room. In a few minutes, he came back with a small sword and a knife. "Use these. I do not have any weapon suit with your capability, so you need to adjust yourself with these weapons.. We do not know what will happen later, so we need to prepare for the worst." He reminded me to be careful and left one more advice for me, "Do not die before your target is achieved,"