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With the cage blowing up, Eve's eyes glowed into a brighter gold while her teeth were no more human-like as they had taken the form of the siren.
Erasmus said, "Look at you hiding all that power. It will be wonderful knowing you died in my hands this time."
"That is yet to be seen, isn't it," Eve responded, and she swiped her right hand from left to right before turning it into fists. Quick stones made of ice formed in the air, and she said, threw it in his direction.
Erasmus jumped back, trying to dodge her attack, while Eve didn't let him approach her. She said, "I can smell the sea, where I belong to. The water is at my disposal and it is limitless, unlike your life that ends today, Erasmus."
Erasmus was annoyed that the priest was dead, but that was fixable. He had learned the spells and all other ways to fulfil this night, just as a backup if something did happen to the priest. The priest was only a human sacrifice that he knew the sea creature had to make, everything was part of the plan.
Eve raised both her arms, and when the stones turned into sharp needles, she directed them where Erasmus was standing. If the werewolf didn't move back in time, he would have several piercings of ice in his body before bleeding himself.
"It seems like you don't want to have a peaceful death. Nerissa... you have always been a rebel, isn't it?" Erasmus questioned her, and the next moment when Eve tried to attack him, the werewolf disappeared in thin air.
Eve's breathing was ragged, and she wheezed for air. If it weren't for half of her essence now being possessed by Erasmus, she would have more energy and wouldn't feel the fatigue in her body. Her eyes moved left and right, trying to see where the werewolf went.
Without Eve's realisation, Erasmus appeared behind her and whispered, "Naive little creature."
Before Eve could react, Erasmus caught hold of Eve and threw her at one side of the cave's wall, which was the entrance. She winced, feeling her muscles sore, but it didn't stop her from pushing herself up to stand.
"What the hell..." Eve muttered as she hadn't expected Erasmus to have the ability to apparate.
His current ability made her wonder what other abilities he was hiding. Erasmus laughed connivingly and said, "It would be wise of you stay where you are without doing anything."
Eve glared at the werewolf and said, "Why? Are you scared that I might leave a scratch on your furry face?"
Erasmus sneered at Eve's cocky words when she was supposed to be on her knees and begging for him to spare her life. He said, "Let us see if you can leave a scratch on me. Or if I will be the one to tear one of your limbs, because you don't seem to want it during the last hours of your life."
Instead of continuing to fight, Eve turned to look at the sea that wasn't too far from where the entrance of the cave. It came beyond the forest, and she jumped down from the cliff.
"Where do you think you are going?" Erasmus asked her, following her and catching up to her. "I thought you were trying to wound me!"
Eve put all her energy and concentration into creating ice walls behind her that Erasmus had to break through. She dodged him when he tried to catch her, but as a water being, she didn't have the agility like the werewolf born to roam the land. He caught hold of her by her hand, but Eve only used her long and sharp nails to pierce into his skin, had the man hiss.
But Erasmus grabbed the back of Eve's hair and whispered, "I want to rip your head off your body now."
"Why don't you," Eve felt the man tug her hair painfully, but they both knew he couldn't kill her now. He had to wait for that moment when the moon would appear and be at its highest point.
Erasmus's nose grazed Eve's exposed neck, as he took a big whiff and said, standing behind her, "You smell delicious. It makes my mouth water." He continued, "Once I finish you, I will slice you into pieces and enjoy your flesh. What better but to enjoy my rule than have the sweetest delicacy this world has to offer." He ran his fingernail across her neck, drawing blood out and humming.
When Eve tried to get away from him by digging her fingernails back into his flesh or biting his hand off, Erasmus only pulled her hair that much in force before throwing her against one of the barks of the tree near them.
"Argh..." Eve groaned as her body experienced muscle soreness she had never felt before. But she wanted to kill him.
Eve had been waiting for this moment until now, waiting to kill the man who had killed her mother in front of her eyes. It just happened that the person who had killed her mother and the person Vincent or the sea sisters had to kill were the same. She had sworn to kill him, and she wasn't going to let anyone steal that opportunity from her.
"Give up already. You are weak," Erasmus slipped his fingers into his mouth that had her blood on it.
Eve was still on the ground and noticed him staring at her smugly. She prayed to have the strength to end this person, who had caused misery in her life and others. With Erasmus staring at her with eager eyes, something dawned on Eve. There was a way to surprise. Her body now held the two daughters of the sea goddess, and she doubted her abilities were lesser than this werewolf.
Erasmus said, "I was worried when I saw that little mark on your hand. I thought it would be hard to bring you out of the mansion, but it seemed it was easier than I first thought. It only points that your bond isn't strong."
"Neither is mine with yours," Eve responded, calming her heart and mind. Now that they weren't in the cave anymore and she was closer to the sea, and where Vincent could pick up her scent, she had to hold on a little longer.
He chuckled at her words and said, "It is a pity that you couldn't say goodbye to Acheron, but I will send him soon to you when I am done killing you."
During the time they spoke, Eve started to build a glass with a mirror-like surface. But the base needed to be strong else the ice mirror wouldn't reflect. She asked him, "Why? You could have lived in peace with your brothers and sisters in the castle."
"Because I am the true son of my father. It is his blood that runs in my veins and I was always meant to rule the lands," Erasmus said to her in a matter-of-fact tone. "Something to think about, isn't it? If my father had matched me with Marina, maybe I would have never realised what I am capable of."
When Erasmus walked towards her and grabbed her by her neck, at the same time, Eve, who had grabbed the silt and mud from the ground, threw it right into his eyes.
"You bitch!" Erasmus cursed her, and Eve bit into the palm of his hand, turning it bloody.
Erasmus growled and kicked her, having her thrown a few distances away. He said in rage, "Now you have done it! I will rip those teeth of yours!"
Eve ran as quickly as possible, and she tried to near the sea to use more water or the best way to stop Erasmus was to swim to the far end and disappear. That was a good option, but she was no coward to run away and had a promise to keep.
She quickly hid behind the large tree when Erasmus was rubbing his eyes and trying to catch her. She tried to breath without much noise and heard him say,
"There's no point hiding! I can fucking smell the blood, and it gets stronger as I walk towards you."
Eve looked down at the side of her waist where her dress had been ripped, and blood oozed out. It had happened when Erasmus had thrown her across the bark of the tree, she thought to herself.
When her hands moved down in silence, her eyebrows furrowed, and she reached out to see what it was. Her eyes widened on seeing the dagger. She didn't remember carrying it, and the last she remembered, Vincent had it. Did Nerissa steal it without their knowledge? Eve questioned.
Erasmus exclaimed, "There you are!" And Eve cowered.
But Erasmus had got the wrong tree, which only had Eve's blood marred on it, while she tiptoed carefully away from him. The werewolf turned annoyed, and his yellow eyes moved to the corner as if trying to pick her movements and scent. When he heard the sound of the twig snap, his eyes narrowed, and he hightailed her.
Noticing her stand right there, looking in another direction as she hadn't seen him coming, he leapt and attacked her with his nails grown sharp and big. But what Erasmus didn't expect was to crash into a thick wall of ice that shattered into pieces, and he fell to the ground as he had only attacked Eve's reflection.
