An unexpected beginning part 3

A long sigh of relief left the two of them who could leave the cursed forest alive, they looked at each other without any feeling of mistrust or annoyance in their eyes, and then unexpectedly out of joy Eleanor bounced at Francis with a bright smile and happily said,

"we did it! yes! we got out of there alive sir Francis".

Holding her in arms, he looked at Her with a surprised expression because of her sudden act 'this woman, she sure is a fearless one' he thought and returned a smile at her making her finally aware of the situation and leaving his grip with a flushed red face. But Francis somehow knew that it was not out of luck that they could leave this cursed forest and looking at Eleanor he was about to ask,

" say how did you know the way ou....!"

Without finishing his question he went tense and quickly put her behind his back and covered her to protect her from the omnious beasts that were coming their way 'wolves and they are big so they must be mutants' that thought went thorough his mind. They were on an empty road so finding help would be hard, Eleanor gripped him firmly after seeing the monstrous wolves and uttered while trembling in fear.

"what are they?..what should we do sir Francis there are four of them here and we are alone. Why are there no one in this road?" 

He didn't give any mind to what she was saying and keep on looking at the mutants wolves and in that moment she saw his eyes turning red and the wolves froze in their place. Then in a flash she saw him take them down one by one with his sword, it was impressive. Eleanor clenched her fist so that he wouldn't notice them tremble, 'this guy is really strong but at the same time I feel in him a murderous intent while killing the wolves, like a beast' she thought but quickly shook her head getting aware of the fact that he just saved her.

Francis put down his sword after killing them all, his eyes were still red and he gasped because of the previous injury that was still hurting him. He then directed his red eyes toward Eleanor and thought, 'these wolves, I wonder why they were squattered in this place. It doesn't look normal, it is surely the work of my enemies, smirk! those idiots seem to be getting ahead of themself. Look like I scared her really good now seeing how much she is trembling in fear, heh! I wonder were that fearless personality of her went to, but I can understand it looking at this sight.'

His wound began to reopen since he pushed it too far and after getting aware of his pained expression, Eleanor went toward him and held his arm to support him, forgetting at the same time the fear she got a few minute ago. Worried, she reprimanded him and said,

"I clearly told you to be careful didn't I? look at your wound now it reopened! sigh!....are you okay? you didn't hurt anywhere else right? tell me if you did...I am here...and also..well, thank you for saving me, you were not bad!"

Her speech going softer, she rewarded him with a smile and tended to his injury. Francis was stunned by the rapid change in her behavior. The trembling woman before him who just a moment ago had as he expected the same facial expression that other often showed him while he was in this state, suddenly ran toward him and yelled, got angry and finally smiled while thanking him. He couldn't believe what happened, for this woman to not avert her eyes while seing that massacre or his red eyes and murderous aura, but at her reaction that didn't reject him his expression relaxed and his eyes turned back to normal. He smiled and said,

" You are as loud as ever! be quiet woman... ."

Eleanor continued to bicker at him and finished to treat his injury, and after some times soldiers began to appear on their horses. They spotted the two of them and ran toward them, got on their knees and greeted Francis with respect and relief from seeing him. Francis looked at them with a serious face and asked,

"How is the situation? did everythink go well?"

A man with brown hair and black eyes, with a scar on his left cheek went forward and said,

"Yes, your majesty we secured the situation but because we were looking for you, that man got away...I am really sorry for my carelessness. Please! punish me for my incompetence in failing to accomplish your order and to protect you, your majesty!!"

Francis glared at him, then he approached the man with the scar and after throwing a heavy punch at him he replied,

"That is to be expected since he planned all this but he will not get away with this, look for him and search in every corners of the empire. He must be thinking that I am dead, so we will keep the part of me being alive secret for the time been. That way he will feel at ease and not leave the empire, we will use that opportunity to capture him."

The man that got the punch shuddered from the pain but quickly got up, he understood from experience that this punch was his punishment and bowed to Francis while answering,

"Yes! I will take care of this your majesty. Ah! and we got you a carriage that will take you to the palace immediately, we will escort you! your majesty this way."

Eleanor was amazed by the turn of events, she knew that Francis wasn't a normal man, but she never could have guessed that he would be the man leading the human kingdom. After getting aware of his identity, she knew that she had to quickly flee from this place because she didn't want to be once again in the center of power struggle nor did she want to be in any way connected to those with power.

To know the reason of her disgust toward powerful people like royalty, we will go back to how her unexpected beginning started....