Antagonist Witch
Magic 5
“Do you know a creature named Manticore?” asked Zayn with a flat face. Abellona nodded.
“I've read it in the book Unique Creatures Terrible. Manticore is a lion-like creature, winged and has claws like a dragon with a poisonous tail like a scorpion. Amazing creatures in the Freshie mountain forest. Their food is meat.”
“Did you ever see it in person, Miss?” Zayn smiled bitterly after hearing Abellona's explanation.
Abellona shook her head, she looked at her servants, and they did the same.
“Do you know that many lies in the book?”
“Really? You don't joke Zayn. Where are the books lying? After all, the ten level great magicians who compiled them based on the facts. So where is it possible that the book was written with origin?”
Zayn grunting.
Abellona and her two servants looked at each other.
“In the book it is mentioned that they eat meat. But it is not explained they eat meat what is not?”
Abellona nodded. “Maybe they eat horse meat or deer?” guess it. The bodyguard chuckled.
“You are plain once, Miss.”
“If not eating animal meat, then do they eat human meat?” guess Abellona's origin while laughing. Zayn fell silent, his eyes turning fierce. His face showed an expression of anger.
The face of the master changed drastically. “Cannot be! You lied!”
“That's the truth, Miss.”
“They are very wild creatures. In fact, it could be said to include the ten most ferocious creatures on the face of this earth. It is said that the manticore is the widest and strongest creature after the dragon,” continued Zayn.
“What?” peek at Abellona as she gulps. Sofie and Marie were just as shocked as Abellona.
“Their body height, twice the height of the human body. It is almost the same size as a mammoth. What they eat is not animal meat such as deer or horses. They eat humans. Even to no size.”
Abellona and her two servants were suffocated, their hair bristling. Zayn sighed.
“They have a leader named Mertikora, He can speak and understand human language. It is five times larger than a regular menticore. Has a creepy winding horn with pointed and sharp teeth that can crush bones into fragments in an instant.”
Abellona shuddered at the thought and dismissed her thoughts when faced with them.
“But, why does menticore eat humans?”
Zayn shrugged his shoulders.
“According to the story I heard, originally, they were just amazing magical animals. Their food is also the animals in the forest. However, due to the actions of humans who disturb the habitat and hunt the menticore, make them angry. Killing to save themselves. They also kill for revenge. A vicious cycle that has continuously revolved like that for centuries. Until the menticore changed and became a wild animal. Humans are terrible, because human activity is greedy, causing an imbalance between the positive and negative sides.”
Zayn. He stood looking at the blue sky with a pushy look.
“Do you know what they sound like, Miss?” Zayn turned around and looked at Abellona's face.
Abellona.
“The voice is like a trumpet. When his roar echoed, a second later your heart seemed to stop beating. Your breath seems to be choked causing tremendous panic in the body, because the lungs are not able to absorb air properly. His roar was like a melody of death ready to take your life in the next second.”
“Is there no other story, Lord Knight? I can't seem to hear this story next. Excuse me for coming out, Miss. I better prepare lunch only,” said Sofie resigned.
“Mr Zayn, how could they possibly turn into beasts?” ask Marie curiously.
“Really! A very unreasonable thing. I don't remember ever reading a book about such drastic animal changes,” Abellona added.
“Black magic. They changed because of the powerful black magic. They made a pact with the Black Wizard in order to become a powerful being in order to slaughter the cursed humans that interfere with the lives of the menticore.”
“For what did they do such a nasty thing?”
“No one knows what Black Wizard promised them.”
“Zayn, have you ever met with menticore?” ask Abellona.
Zayn did not answer, he only gave a sad and angry look, like holding a grudge.
***
Finally, Abellona was able to breathe fresh air, after a week of being sentenced not to come out of her room.
He was still upset at the irresponsible Millard leaving him just like that in the middle of a lesson. In fact, until now he did not reveal his nose at all. Millard gave only a letter, the day after he went to the magic tower, and two days after. After that, he did not receive any more letters from friends since childhood.
“Milli you suck! What kind of teacher leaves his student like this!” he muttered while spurting his horse into the forest. Zayn, follow him from behind.
Abellona stopped her horse in a field of flowers and asked Zayn not to follow her. The bodyguard also died and cast a protection spell around him.
Abellona ran down the field and spread her arms. He jumped up and down and occasionally his body spun enjoying a gust of wind.
The flower fairies spread the powder and made the flowers bloom immediately welcoming the arrival of the wizard they were waiting for.
“Do you guys miss me?”
The tiny butterfly-winged fairies surrounded him. Wearing a flower crown on Abellona's head and giving flowers sprinkles poured on tulips bewitched into a cup.
“Ah, thank you!” Abellona happily received the tulip cup and drank it quickly.
Another elf pushed her around, taking her flying into a lake with a colorful sparkle. There the lake fairies had made a circle of light shaped clothes. With a slight splash, the circle of clothes was already stuck on his body in place of the clothes he had previously worn.
“Alright! I accept your invitation.”
Abellona ran and splashed in the rainbow lake and swam with the fish and creatures of the rainbow lake.
After swimming, he went up to the edge of the lake. However, he felt the presence of someone not far from there.
“Who's there? Show yourself!”
Abellona brandished her magic wand, alert.
*pic from pinterest, credit to owner
