Natasha couldn't believe what she had just heard. Someone had seen her defecate in a bucket? And the person standing in front of her was Damian? He looked nothing like the Damian she knew!
"How do you know these things?" Natasha asked, dropping the fishing rod and getting ready to fight.
Damian gestured with his hands, "Calm down. I'm telling you, I am Damian. Your sister is in the city, waiting for you. Do you want to come see her?"
"My sister?"
The whole situation was bizarre. Natasha wouldn't trust a random stranger who claimed to be someone else, but she did trust Damian, for her sister's sake!
She wanted to see her sister so badly, and she couldn't ignore that feeling. If there was even a slight chance that her sister was in the city, she had to go!
"Then let's hurry up before the old man leaves!" Natasha said.
The old man she referred to was the one who had brought them there by boat, and who was already departing. Damian wasn't worried about him. He knew where the island was and how to get back, so it wouldn't be hard for him to return.
"No need. I can fly, so come with me," Damian said.
"Fly? No way."
Natasha started to think that the man before her was crazy, but then she felt her body lift off the ground, and in a few seconds she and Damian were soaring in the sky!
Some villagers saw them and were amazed!
"Look, mom, they can fly! I want to fly too!" a kid said.
The villagers weren't the only ones astonished by that. Natasha, who was now flying, couldn't believe that it was really happening!
"I thought you were insane! Are you really Damian? You look younger and more… attractive."
Damian rolled his eyes at that, "Of course it's me. Now, the situation is worse than we thought."
"What do you mean?"
Natasha became anxious after hearing that, wondering if her sister was in some trouble or something like that.
"Miller died, but a powerful demon took over his body. They killed everyone in the castle… Only Lila survived."
"What?"
She couldn't believe that something like that had happened! Natasha wasn't sad about Miller — she knew he was up to no good — but there were many innocent people living in the castle who didn't deserve that fate.
"Let's go back to the inn. I can explain things better there," Damian said.
Natasha nodded, and the two flew away from the island, heading to the coast. Flying was much faster than the boat, so they reached the city in twenty minutes.
Damian landed a little farther away, as he didn't want everyone in the city to see him flying. After that, they walked toward the inn and entered the room where Lila, Shareva and Natasha's sister were.
"Mary!" Natasha exclaimed as soon as she entered the room.
Her eyes were filled with tears and her body trembled. Only she knew how worried she had been about her sister, and seeing Mary safe and sound made Natasha relax.
"Thank you, Damian, for taking care of my sister. I don't know how to repay you," Natasha said, hugging Damian.
"You don't have to repay me," Damian said, "But what will you do now? With the demons around you and your sister need to find a safe place to stay."
Natasha looked down, with a lost expression on her face, "I honestly don't know… I don't have a job, and my only goal is to cure Mary."
Damian stood there, thinking about what to do next. He was sure Frederic would find things for Natasha to do, like working in his shop or something else.
"You can come with me, if you want. I have a friend in Lemoria who has a shop, and we are trying to build up a decent organization. Maybe you can find something that can cure your sister there," Damian said.
"Would you do that for me?"
Natasha cried again. Damian had not only helped her escape from the cell back in the castle, but also protected Mary, and now he would find a place for her and her sister to stay. Those were things she could never repay him for.
"Of course," Damian said, turning to face Lila. "You can come with me as well, if you want."
"It's not like I have a place to go, right?"
With that, it was settled. All of them would travel together back to Lemoria, which they did after lunch when the afternoon sun was there to warm them.
The carriage parked near the inn was big enough to fit everyone, and Shareva gladly accepted the job as the driver.
"Don't worry about me. I require little sleep, and the cold does not affect me. Just relax, but Damian, can you give me a map or something…?"
It took them a few days to return to Lemoria. When they arrived there, Damian saw even more people trying to enter the city, and the guards checked everything: all the carriages, people's identities, all of it!
Damian saw all of it through the small carriage's window and said, "Are you all according to law, right?"
Lila, Natasha and Mary were fine, but Shareva could not enter the city. She was a demon, a succubus.
"Hide using this cloak, and don't move," Damian said, tossing the invisibility cloak to her.
Shareva followed his commands, hiding inside the carriage, in a corner, covered by the invisibility cloak.
A guard stopped Damian near the gate.
"Identification, please," the guard said.
"Wait a second," Damian said. He searched his pockets and found the Adventurer's Guild token. "I think this should work."
The golden token from the guild.
"Of course. But I still need to check what you bring in the carriage. These are the rules after the recent event."
"No problem."
The guard circled the carriage, looking at what was inside. He saw one lady sleeping and two who smiled back at him.
"Clear. You can go."
Damian nodded and entered the city. He did not know it yet, but the mission he had taken would come back to haunt him.
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