It was the next day after Akira founded poor and abandoned Roy on the mountain. It was the morning time, the Sun was covered by clouds making the atmosphere dark.
"Okay I am leaving. Hope you'll not cause any trouble here." Akira said to Roy. "Where are you going?", Roy asked. "There's a little work at the headquarter as I said to you, you have to protect the country as long as you're a Trader until you retire." Akira explained. "Oh I got it, but... How can I do this Trade?." Roy curiously asked, Akira got shocked at this sudden question. "Fine, I'll explain you everything about it at night when I will return home." Akira said. Roy nodded and watched Akira leaving the house.
A few hours later, Roy alone had started to get bored and decided to have a walk around the place. As he leaved the house, locking the door properly to make sure nothing gets robbed by the thieves. Akira's house was on a empty location no trace of any other person living nearby. As it was the winter season Roy planned to not go far away.
He started to walk. The sound of his footsteps were echoing through the empty mountain. Each footstep started to sound louder and louder with each step. Suddenly he heard something.. "Footsteps!?" He thought. He stopped at the moment to confirm that he wasn't getting followed. As he stopped the other footsteps also stopped, he turned back analysing the field.
"Seems like I am hearing things to." He thought and continued to walk. As he walked a bit, he again heard the louder Footsteps. Roy's chest tightened confirming he is not imagining things. He changed his direction and started to run towards the house. As he was running he felt anxiety. He was seeing red eyes from each corner.
Suddenly a blunt force hit him on his back. He fell on the ground. He stood up and didn't look behind, he was just scared, he had no intentions to check what hit him... He was just running. "Run... Run..! Don't stop." His mind was racing and heart pounding faster and faster with each running step.
Then Roy slipped down by putting his step on a person laying down. As he was trying to stand up he looked at that person, but... It just shocked him. The person was already dead and his other head was missing and making the white snow red from the dripping blood around the body. Roy got so much scared that his legs started to tremble. His legs had just betrayed him, they were not moving.
And slowly a shadow from behind came. Roy looked behind. It was a demon and had almost size of a 16 years old teenager. He had red glowing eyes, his skin had a pale yellow tone. With big teeths, sharp as Lion's teeths and big nails just like a demon. The demon stepped forward and hit Roy with a powerful kick on his chest sending him back.
Roy crashed on a big tree. The demon started to walk again, slowly reaching towards Roy. Roy panicked and saw an axe in the hand of that dead person's body. He acted on instincts and threw the nearby stones at the demon. He stood up and ran towards the axe. The demon saw it and roared so loud, sending shock waves capable to push Roy back.
The demon vanished instantly and appeared infront of Roy landing a blow on his chest once again, shattering his ribs. Roy seemed hopeless. He screamed, "JUST WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!!??" The demon spoke, "Your death!!" Roy got shocked once again, "Demon can talk??" He thought in his mind. And then the demon approached him and was about to hit him on the face and....
Roy's eyes opened, huff... Huff..., "Was.. was it a nightmare?" Roy spoke to himself, "Thank goodness I am safe. I was almost about to die." Roy took a deep breath and got relieved that the thing he just experience was a bad nightmare. It was almost about 4:00 pm.
"It's almost night Akira may come back anytime, I should clean the house." Roy thought. He didn't wasted any time and directly started to clean the house. While cleaning he saw a door that was locked. "Why this door is locked?" Curious Roy questioned. Then he looks down the door, a gray coloured dog type this was coming out of the door from the other side.
"What is this gray fog? Is Akira hiding something behind this door?" Roy got more curious but skipped the thing thinking that it will be something related to his work. As Roy completed cleaning the house. He laid down on the couch and started to wait for Akira.
To be continued-