Rowan slammed the door open in shock to still find Nava was there sitting with Declan in the room. She wiped her tears as he just laid there comatose on the bed to stare up at him in disbelief.
“Not awake yet?” Rowan asked.
“Where is the boy at?” Nava inquired.
“Inside the house…I have to talk to you.”
“About what?” Nava questioned.
“A goblin! An actual goblin spoke to me!”
Nava didn’t seem to understand what she had just heard lying the handkerchief in her hands down in her lap confused.
“What are you saying?” Nava spouted.
“I am not sure…Viaan is not from here! Rowan shouted.
“Not from Ucciaxar?!”
“He seemed to put the kid in a trance…Nava, you need to prepare to get you and Declan out of here once the squadron comes.”
“You are scaring me!” Nava yelled.
“Something is going to happen and we let it in through the gate!”
“You really think that boy had something to do with it?” Nava answered.
“I don’t think he knows…”
“When are they coming?” Nava asked.
“Should be within the week.”
He tried to take off without saying another word to her. Nava held tight to his hand not allowing him to leave her that very second.
“Rowan…what happened?” She responded.
“There is no time for this. Just be ready!” He scolded.
He dashed away to the house and back inside smashing the flimsy door off its frame and running through the kitchen and up the steps to find Viaan sleeping on a chair with legs huddled under himself.
“Shhh!” Sahil chided.
Rowan walked in very slowly taking his boots off. Padding in to bring Walker and Sahil outside the door gradually shut the door behind him.
“All the paperwork is done…”
He handed him the letters from Iden pressed and stamped to their fingertips. Walker and Sahil nod at each other in approval.
“We were told something is weird about him?” Walker interrupted.
“Who told you?” Rowan asked.
“We have no reason to lie, but basically a rumor had recently started,” Sahil explained.
“I can’t fully confirm this yet though,” Rowan admitted.
“So…” Walker stopped.
“The possibility is there?” Sahil finished.
“You can’t let him out of your sights,” Rowan stated.
“Understood.” Sahil and Walker said in unison.
Both of the men are known as very level-headed, but extremely flexible fighters since they have been trained as false vampires.
“I am counting on you.”
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Shrieking laughter could be heard outside the dwellings echoing high into the air. Tumbling branches from the outside had him dart back down the steps. Sahil and Walker followed to find a blazing fire on the edge of the outskirts where plumes of black smoke rose high into the heavens within walking distance.
“They are sending threats it looks…” Sahil mumbled.
“There is no way we can train Viaan fast enough, Rowan,” Walker stated.
“In a week get the saddles ready on your assigned horses to take Viaan with you,” Rowan explained.
“Do you think they want Viaan?” Sahil asked.
“I know without a doubt they want him but are waiting,” Rowan answered.
“We will protect him with our life,” Walker said.
“Rowan!” Iden shouted.
He hobbled up the small hill nearly bow-legged and angry half-dressed. The three of them only gawked back at Iden curiously.
“Yes, Mr. Iden?”
“I heard horns! There is no one even close to this place!” Iden cried out.
“Are you still denying what is going on?!” Rowan shouted.
“It could be anything!” Iden called.
BANG! THUD!
Large trees were being toppled into the compound by a significant shadowed figure in the distance. From one to two knocking the thicket over causing the other false vampires to run out of their shacks as they fell destroying them.
Fell over in what looked like four or five pieces of lumber laying flat under the trunks of overturned forestry. They cried out in one painful howl beating on their massive chests before walking away.
Rowan could have sworn he saw the leader under them with a shark-toothed grin on his face. The whole thing felt so surreal and upsetting.
“Is that an illusion to you?!” Rowan pointed.
“We need to leave right away.” Iden panicked.
“No!” Walker shouted.
“We got to make sure this goes safely,” Sahil explained.
“We have half this week to get things packed to leave,” Rowan explained.
“G-Good idea!” Iden smiled.
Nervously he ran back inside. Rowan stood head-on continuing his gaze at the mess being cleaned by anxious members of the household. A crowd of people who became affected by the goblin's mayhem ran up to Rowan.
Their voices yelled, shouted, and argued one over the others. Their hobbles lay in ruins on the muddy floors of the plantation soiled and shattered.
Rowan couldn’t hear himself think. He's attacked by their complaints but knew because he watched the whole thing unfold before his eyes.
“Please calm down! We're planning on moving!” Rowan announced.
They became even louder hearing Rowan explain the moving crawling up to reach him with their hands. They become illusions to him as their faces morph into goblins till he pulled out his sword thrusting left and right.
“S-STOP!!” Rowan gasped out.
He tumbled to his butt on the mud-laced floor below him. Sahil and Walker calmed the small crowd down from intimidating the man any further. Crawling to his feet he dusts himself off distancing from the wave of fangs incoming.
“Calm down! We will help you!” Sahil stated.
“We can do this together!” Walker explained.
It was a scary situation that Rowan was not sure he could handle without Sahil or Walker by his side. He saw them as the most bearable false vampires in the group. There were some female false vampires in the house who aided them and were just as reliable.
Suddenly feeling a pang of relief in his veins he slowly came out of it. Walking back inside he wondered if they would make it out before anymore happened.