Chapter 385 - SACRIFICE

Raine's question made Aeon turned his body and all the four people behind him had already gone. He just chased after Raine because he watched as she walked away and Calleb didn't even stop her.

It was only seconds and they had gone.

"Where are they?!" Raine became panic and bit her lips harshly while trying to catch a glimpse of Raphael or Calleb, or the two Alphas.

"We have to find the book soon," Aeon grumbled under his breath. "Or something bad will happen to them."

Aeon knew this place quite well, thus he assumed the other people had seen what Raine was seeing when she walked out of the group.

"Where is the book?" Raine asked agitatedly. Torak had not yet to be found and now, another people were in danger. This kind of situation made Raine's spirit turned sour as anxiety crept in her mind.

"Let's go. This way." Aeon grabbed Raine's wrist and tugged her toward the direction that they were heading before.

This room was getting colder because Aeon's body didn't provide the warmth like Calleb did.

Aeon tried to make Raine a little bit warm by taking off his jacket and dr.a.p.ed it over her shoulder, but it didn't help much as her body was still shivering.

"Just a moment and we will be there." Aeon encouraged Raine to take another steps toward the book.

Out of coldness, Raine snuggled into Aeon's embrace as she tried to keep the little bird also warm. Rather than herself, Raine was more concerned about the bird.

The bird was already very weak to begin, she didn't want this coldness to make the bird's condition worse.

Aeon then wrapped his arm around her body, though he understood why Raine did that and why she moved closer to him, he couldn't deny that he was happy by her gesture.

Though it was only a fleeting moment, he wanted to cherish it. The time when Raine depended on him.

"Here is the place." They reached another door crossed the room.

On the second thought, actually this room was very big, almost like a grand ballroom with crystal chandelier hang very high above their head.

Aeon pushed opened the door with both of his hand, it was another room. An empty room to be exact.

There was nothing that worth to be seen except an opened book on top of a translucent podium.

"Is that the book?" Raine even didn't realize when she asked in a whisper, because this room was very quiet. She acted as if she was afraid to attract attention of someone or something.

"Yes, it is." Aeon nodded and grabbed Raine's hand to approach the book.

The podium was a little bit high for Raine's height, thus she needed to tiptoe to see the opened book, yet it was only blank page inside of it.

"There is nothing here." Raine stated as she tilted her head to look at Aeon, who still flipping through the empty sheets. "What should we do now?"

Raine began to panic again because she was running out of time and now if the book was a useless thing for them, they had wasted so much time. Not to mention Calleb and Raphael were missing.

"Aeon, what should we do?" Raine urged him to talk, yet Aeon only stared deeply into the empty book with furrowed between his eyebrows.

"Sacrifice." Aeon muttered as he shifted his gaze from the book toward a strange word, which was written on the podium, right atop of the book.

It was a small word that engraved beautifully there.

"What?" Raine didn't catch what Aeon said, she tried to look the same spot that Aeon was staring at, but she couldn't understand a thing.

There was nothing there that interesting enough to see.

"Step back Raine…" Aeon said in low voice as he traced his long fingers on the edge of the book. "Step back for a while, I think I know how to read this."

Raine wanted to know how Aeon managed to read the blank sheets, yet the seriousness on Aeon's face, made her to comply and didn't ask anything again.

Raine took three steps away from him, holding her bird close to her heart, she was waiting with anticipation while staring at Aeon's back.

She hope whatever he tried to do, it would succeed.

And before Aeon could do anything, he looked over his shoulder at Raine and smiled ever tenderly.

And then the next thing that happened before their eyes turned Raine utterly thunderstruck.

Because when Aeon put his hands with his palms were facing the empty sheets, something happened and this wasn't something that Raine could imagine, even not in her wildest dreams.

Raine stood there in shock as she watched the supposed to be floor, was now fire. Flames licked the air.

In an instant, the coldness that Raine felt before, disappeared as she felt the heat of the fire warming up her whole body.

"Aeon, what is this!?" Raine stuttered. She moved closer toward Aeon, yet the flame only lasted for a few second before it disappeared, as if the thing that Raine had seen before was only in her mind.

Raine clutched Aeon's clothes and gritted her teeth, stared in disbelief at the empty room before her eyes, which a few seconds ago was on fire.

"It's done now." Aeon heaved a deep sigh. "We will find the Alpha."

Raine was about to reply to him when she watched Calleb, Raphael, Alpha Romulus and Alpha Chris were there, sitting on the floor with shock expression.

"They are comeback!" Raine ran toward Calleb and Raphael with Aeon followed behind her. "Calleb, are you alright?"

Raine helped Calleb to stand up, but his legs were very weak as he fell on the floor again with pale face.

Not only him, the other three people were also in the same state.

Raphael and the two Alphas apparently regained their consciousness faster as they skimmed their surrounding in alert.

"What happened to them?" Raine asked Aeon.

"They had encountered something from their past or future. Something bad."