Chapter 49: Chapter 49 - Threats In The Dark
Daniel was looking at me with wide eyes and an open mouth, when I said that I would be the one taking over his training from then on.
"What do you mean you’ll be in charge of my training?" He asked.
I looked over at Julia standing next to me.
In my mind at that time I was really wondering how she could have fallen for a man as dense as that.
"I mean that I will be training you from now on." I said.
Daniel’s gaze shifted between me and Julia rapidly.
It looked like he wanted her to rescue him.
"This is actually a good thing for you, darling." Julia said, stepping behind Daniel and hugging him, resting her chin on his head as she looked at me. "Cat is actually even stronger than me."
Daniel’s eyes widened a bit at this.
"But she hates me." Daniel whispered looking up at Julia.
"True." I said.
It was true at the time.
Like Julia said, I had a rather big... distaste of men in general.
Add to that the fact that this man was now my beloved sister’s husband, and I didn’t like him at all.
"Is she going to try to kill me?" Daniel whispered again.
Him asking Julia questions about me in a whisper while I was standing there, was starting to irritate me beyond measure.
"If you keep ignoring me, I just might." I said.
Maybe my voice sounded a bit threatening, because the man straightened up like a soldier trying to stand at attention.
"Good, now prepare yourself, because your training with me starts first thing tomorrow." I smirked, turning my back on them as I walked out of the inn.
"I’m dead aren’t I?" I heard Daniel ask Julia just before I was out of the door.
The smirk on my face grew into a full blown smile at that question.
I only walked to the corner of the street, before turning and leaning against the lamp pole.
My gaze fixed on the door of the inn.
A few minutes later I saw Daniel’s men come out of the inn with a few bound and almost naked men in tow.
The men I had burned stumbling along, their skin still charred from my fire.
I waited until the men were a fair distance away from me before I slowly started to follow them.
I kept my distance, ducking from shadow to shadow, making sure none of them could see or hear me behind them.
Eventually we reached the adventurers guild, there they hog tied the men, and dumped them in front of the doors.
As they walked back past me, still hiding in the shadows, the man called Erick suddenly stopped next to my position.
"Try not to kill them." He said, before continuing on his way.
The fact that he had found me surprised me slightly, but I appreciated the fact that he clearly didn’t intend to stop me.
I waited until the men were completely out of sight before I made my move.
I walked over to the men bound and tied in front of the guild’s doors.
They were in a sorry state.
Those that weren’t scarred by me, were bruised and battered by Daniel and his men.
One of them even had a broken arm.
Every time he moved he would flinch, as his bindings tugged at that arm.
When I reached their position, I spread my senses all around me, using everything I had to determine whether we were truly alone.
After a few moments of checking, and double checking, I finally stepped out in front of them.
All of their eyes widened when they saw me, especially the charred ones.
"Don’t worry," I whispered as I squatted down in front of them. "I’m not planning on killing you."
I grabbed the chin of the man Daniel had said assaulted the girl.
"But you made a very big mistake." I whispered.
"You decided that it would be a good idea to assault an innocent girl."
"That can’t be punished by mere scars and embarrassment."
"Such acts deserve the ultimate punishment."
"However I was very politely asked not to kill you."
"Which means that you owe your lives to the man called Erick."
Tears had started streaming from the man’s eyes the more I spoke, but I ignored his sorry state entirely.
"Mmm-MMM!" He tried to say something through the gag in his mouth, but that I also ignored.
"Now, now, begging won’t save you from suffering." I said.
"Now before I make you pass out from pain, I should probably get the threats and conditions behind us."
"Tomorrow morning, as soon as you are released from these binds, you and these men are going to leave this city, and never show your faces here again."
"And if I ever find out that any of you assaulted a girl again, or even threatened to assault a girl..."
"I will kill you." I finished.
As soon as my last words fell, I reached out to my fire.
"MMMM!" The man tried to scream through his gag again, his eyes had rolled to the back of his head as he slumped to the ground.
I stood again, walking away from the men still looking between me and their fallen friend with wide eyes.
Smoke still trailing from between his legs.
I walked through the darkness of the streets again, passing the inn on my way back to my shop and residence.
As I passed the shop I couldn’t help but think about Julia and her idiot of a husband again.
It might’ve been true that I didn’t like the man, but his actions that night had still impressed me somewhat.
The way he had protected the innocent had made my opinions of him change, only slightly.
Just maybe he was deserving of being my dearest sister’s husband.
But he would have to do a hell of a lot more before I would officially accept him.
And even more for me to actually like him enough to not despise him taking my little sister from me.
And the next day’s training would be all the more fun because of it.
Fun for me that is.
