Severed Souls 2

 A beast tamer must always keep his beast close. Optimally the magic should be poured into the subject constantly. Now that Rob or Puffy evolved into a new much stronger form, him going berserk would be very dangerous.

Cili does not really care about it though. The untalented girl feels fulfilled, all her hard training payed off. She sometimes let's him carry her on his shoulders.

Rob enjoys it too. Human company is nice. Normal people fear him but when they visit Hobur's bar (Cili's dad) he is not really treated differently than a human there, maybe more like a pet…

But they let him eat at a table!

Those peaceful days were about to end.

The princess of the kingdom known as White Slaughter, hates all things beast related. Any best she sees is slaughtered without mercy, any man who keeps beast, investigates them or even a child that states “they are so cool” or something similar.

She is a merciless beast. As the king Alfred III told her she could not embark on her journey. She challenged him to a duel. The king lost his hand, he was the only person to survive a fight with her.

White Slaughter is only active since a year so so she had not many strong opponents.

Rob and Cili are walking to the market to buy some meat and fish. Suddenly guards come and arrest Cili, Rob wants to intervene. She stops him.

Without being told much she gets dragged to a wide open are in the middle of the city. People are gathered there looking curious, many whispers are heard among them.

The girl is very nervous. Suddenly out of the surrounding crowds a white haired girl appears. The knights restraining Cili back away.

The girl who emerged is White Slaughter. She is a thin small girl. Her hair is white and very long. It has though the form of a plait being plaited around her neck like a scarf.

Her mouth is covered in scars as if she was biting knifes, her hands too are covered in bruises that could not be attained by fighting. Her eyes are dark brown and her skin white as show.

She is wearing cloths not made for fighting casual loose pants and a shirt that is just a ripped of top of a fancy dress.

She has a sword made out of black steel.

• I have long not seen a beast tamer. First time I will kill one myself. - White Slaughter says while smiling viciously, her teeth have been remodeled into shark like teeth.

• There is no reason to fight. I can fully control Puffy. - Cili tries to convince the princess.

• Puffy?! Oh, no no I'm going to kill you so hard that even the god's won't recognize that you were once human. - she bursts out laughing.

• Please stop the... - the girl trembles.

• You are boring. Let Puffy do the fighting. - she sticks her tongue out after saying this. Suddenly rain clouds from.

Cili is scared she has no idea what to do. All she can do is hope Puffy wins or does not go berserk. Her hands are shaking. “All this is my fault.”. This though resonates trough her head.

A hand touches her shoulder. It is her father. That calms her down.

The princess is slowly approaching the in comparison to her huge Rob. She is dragging her sword on the ground.

Suddenly she starts to run towards him. She jumps up and enhances her swing by rotating in the air. Rob blocks the blow with 2 of his hands. A thunder hits him at the same moment the blade hits him. The monster is thrown back.

He stands up and follows with a counter attack. The girl dodges all his attacks with ease. The mighty swings using all his 4 hands and tail are to slow. The girl just jumps with delicacy left and right mocking him.

“Stop holding back on me.” the girl says calmly and hits him in the side with her sword sending him flying. Of course another thunder.

She rushes towards Cili at high speed. Rob jumps up, and releases a powerful roar that creates a crater and makes White Slaughter fall over. Her head is bleeding.

“Not, yet. You have more.” - she says calmly as she stands up.

With all her strength she rams her swords into the ground and turns it like a key. A tornado catches Rob in mid air. It is not big, but strong enough to make him puke gold colored blood.

He starts to jump around at high speed as the girl summons many tornadoes. His action seams random to her, suddenly.

“What the fuck is wrong with you! Don't save them! Stop it!!!”

Her scream is nearly desperate. It's as if she can't stand the sight of a beast, helping humans. Moreover humans she endangered. Keeping the tornadoes away and bringing away those who are to close to them.

“This is fucking enough.” - she says and takes out a knife.

She stabs herself trough her cheeks. She throws the knife away, and takes some of her blood to make her lips red.

She closes her empty hand. Suddenly Rob is impaled on a spike made out of salt.

He gets out though and tries to get away. He is impaled many times until he reaches Cili. Wite Slaughter seams to enjoy sein him suffer. His resilience is … huh inhuman would be the wrong term to describe it. He is covered in golden blood. The pathetic looking beast. Starts to write on the ground before Cili. White Slaughter observes it curious for now. Blood fills the letters he is writing on the ground.

“Cili, I am so sorry. For hiding it. You never tamed me. I was born human. A pathetic lonely existence sorry for dragging you and everyone here into this. I was never your beast.”

Cili looks surprised at him, her father even more. “You have always a place to come back too.”

She says while smiling at him. For a moment she imagines him smiling back. Her father is just confuse, he accepts her decision though.

The half dead monster stands up again.

Yellow light shines upon him. In each of his hands a flaming sword appears. It is attached to long chains attached to his wrists.

“Now, that is what I have been waiting for!” White Slaughter screams while covering her empty hand with a huge salt claw.

She rams the claw into the ground. Hundreds of spikes jump out of the ground. Puffy, starts to rotate and cut every single on of them going further and further as he rotates.

As he stops he sees only White Slaughter standing on a pillar smiling.

A green gas is starting to spread from the whole the battle emerged. Rob can't breath.

Suddenly he sees lights among the gas. Something hits him, and again and again. They brun inside his body or just bounce away.

The randomly moving sodium balls are wrecking havoc.

People die. Even Cili's father loses an arm protecting her. They finally start running away instead of observing everything like a play.

The beast jumps all bleeding beaten up and burned towards the girl.

Fully emerged into the fight he uses all the speed he can muster. The girl is to fast. Finally he got her. A stab into the stomach with his tail.

White Slaughter cuts his head in between his teeth the top falls off.

He catches in in the air. She did not notice but she is covered in is chains. How shocking.

With last effort she summons twisters. Twisters filled with chlorine and burning sodium. They start coming closer to the people. If this left the circle everyone would die.

Rob jumps up from the pillar holding White Slaughter in his both right hands. The girl is somewhat different than she was.

He releases a much more powerful version of the roar that he did before. The roar is combined with divine fire. A huge crater is now in middle of the town. The fire burns away everything within the are it was supposed to.

White Slaughter shivers. She is helpless and afraid, like on the day her mother died. Is it not ironic? Both mother and daughter die from the hands of a tamed beast.

Her escorting knights want to intervene but the angry townsfolk stops them. The girl shall die.

Puffy, roars once more into the sky. He bites the girl. Half of her body is inside him. She closes her eyes and is shaking no scream leaves her. She feels his teeth in her body, suddenly not anymore.

“Am I dead?” - she thinks. She opens her eyes carefully.

She is not. Just lying on the hot dirt with a few teethmarks.

“Why did you not kill me!?” - she leaps towards the beast with tears in her eyes. She is crying, and it is the crying of a little girl not of a ruthless monster.

“I don't want to kill people.” - he writes on the ground, while sitting down from exhaustion.

She jumps at him and starts shaking his massive shoulders.

“Why can't you let me hate you more than I hate myself!!!”

The girl suddenly drops onto the ground and starts to make cuts with a knife she made out of salt in her legs. She is doing it viciously.

Rob flicks her head and points at the words he wrote on the ground.

“I did not let you off, I won. Now you are my property. Please refrain from damaging it.”

The girl looks confused at him. “Right... the rule of one demand. So I am now your slave woman?”

White Slaughter Says looking at Cili.

• No, his. He was actually human all the times. - Cili says warmly looking at him while binding up her fathers missing arm.

• What the hell do you mean? - the girl looks at Rob.

• This is the effect of some illegal magic. Never mind, that now you are my servant. - he says while taking the salt knife out of her hand.

The towns people are rioting. Demanding justice. Not one of them is brave enough to take one of these beasts on. And so, full of sorrow and regrets they have to give up.

White Slaughter kept staring at him. Maybe her agenda was not wrong all along, just to extreme.

To warriors of that kingdom upholding the rule is something sacred. No matter what… she must uphold it. Like her father did.

And so an unlikely team has been formed.