UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

July had been waiting for Zuri for almost two hours by now, but she had not yet appeared, even after she asked Norbeat to check on her, the soul possessor also didn't give her any news.

This library was so quiet and the sun out there was almost set, while she was waiting for Zuri to come. Did she forget? Did she do not want to see her again?

July closed her eyes and decided to see her in the same place, where she left her with Darius, thus she decided to leave, but before she could reach the doorknob, someone from the opposite of this door had opened it.

"Knox…" July mumbled, she felt her heart skipped a beat. They had not yet talked about what happened last night, because this morning, when July woke up, Knox was no longer sleeping next to her.

She thought, he would be awkward like her, but then his voice was so clear when he asked her politely to leave the library because he wanted to use it with Chaos.

Behind Knox, Chaos was staring at her, but she couldn't say what was inside his mind. Should she apologize again for what she had done?

Maybe that could make Knox less upset to her, if that could help, July didn't mind to do it.

"Chaos, I apologize for what I have done," July said. She had never been so close to him. She didn't dislike him, but she did not really like him either, because she always felt like he would put Knox in constant danger.

Even Chaos's existence alone was a danger for Knox.

"Just leave the library for now," Knox said when Chaos said nothing about July's apology. "He is fine now."

No. July was clueless about Chaos's current situation, but she knew that he was not fine, because she had seen how he lost his temper and almost killed the whole city because of that.

"Chaos, can you say something?" July ignored what Knox said. For her, it would be better for Chaos to just yelled at her or make a sharp remark for her stupidity rather than to be treated so cold like this.

Yet, Knox opened the door wider and then took her hand to make her move away from the door.

Even though, it looked like Knox was very impatient to get July out of there, it was simply because he didn't want July to be close to Chaos, because he couldn't predict what he would do to her after she let go of his shattered soul.

Knox didn't want July to be close to Chaos for the time being because even himself, couldn't read what was in Chaos's mind. He could lose his control all of sudden and then hurt July.

"We will talk about this later, please go now," Knox said, now their position had changed, Knox was inside the library, while July was outside and Chaos already went inside the library and didn't even care about the two of them. "Leave."

July looked at Knox for a moment before she nodded. "Will you come to our room later?" she asked expectantly. She wanted to be close to him again and work things out.

"I will," Knox said, but then he closed the door right in front of July, as he needed to talk with Chaos, there were a lot of things that he needed him to know.

And with that answer, Knox closed the door, he could see the disappointment and sadness in July's eyes, but she needed to understand that she was not safe to be with Chaos right now.

"What do you mean that there is another shattered that is able to take another shattered soul except me?" Chaos asked, as soon as Knox closed the door and walked over to sit near the fire place.

Knox had been considering to talk about this or not with Chaos, since he was not so sure about what happened to him when he lost his consciousness.

He was not in good condition when Chaos lost his control over the monster that resided in him, but this was not the first time, because every shattered soul would feel it if something happened to Chaos, but in Knox's case, he was the most affected by it.

"Don't take my word as it is, because I need more time to gather information about this, and moreover, I am not really sure if that was what exactly happened at that time." Knox threw a small piece of firewood to the fire place.

This whole manor was modern enough, except for this library, because you will feel like you entered another era of time once you stepped in.

"Stop beating around the bush," Chaos said in grim tone, as he looked at Knox deeply. He already disliked this topic or even the possibility that was truth, therefore he wanted this to end immediately, so they could think what they would do next. "What is it?"

Knox then told Chaos about Flo and how that little girl tried to steal his soul. It sounded crazy because aside from Chaos, there was no one else, not even a single supernatural creature could have done that.

Therefore, if there was another soul that could do that, it would be a disaster for them. There would be another Chaos.

"What will happen if there is another creature could have done that too?" Knox asked in the end of his explanation about why he thought Flo was trying to steal his soul.

Chaos was silence for a while with this question, but then he looked at Knox sharply, he looked at him filled with anger that he didn't understand.

"What?" Knox asked, he didn't think he did something wrong to receive such hatred.

"You know about this and you let the girl go?" Chaos stated. There was no way for them to know this for sure if Flo was not there.

On the other hand, Knox wanted to retort this, because it was him, who wanted to let go of Flo, but then he remembered it was July.

And if he could choose, he would rather Chaos vented out his anger on him, rather than he did something to her…

"I am sorry about that," he said in grim tone. He looked at to different direction. "So, what do you think will happen if there is another shattered soul, who could absorb the other shattered soul?"

The sound of it was already so bad, so needless to say this situation wouldn't get any better. It would only get worse, especially with Aaron out there, if he knew, he would chase down this shattered soul.

"If she can absorb the shattered soul, it meant, there is a possibility that she will be as strong as you." Chaos looked at Knox. So far, the strongest shattered soul that he had was Knox. "Or me."

Chaos needed his shattered soul to tame the monster, the dark side in him, which meant, his own power equal to his dark side, but if there was another creature that could absorb his shattered soul too, logically, it meant, she could increase her power and eventually be on the same level like Chaos.

Knox closed his eyes. July had done something wrong. Completely wrong. This was another disaster that waited for them.

It was not only about July let Flo go out of her kindness and her attachment toward the little girl, but it could create another trouble for them, a huge one.

"Do you think it is only her, who can do that?" Knox asked Chaos again, he opened his eyes and then looked at him.

Both of them knew what the underlying meaning of this question.

If there was one shattered soul that could do that, how many more was able to do so?

"It had never happened before, right?" Knox looked at Chaos grimly. They needed to find the little girl. He needed to talk to July, they really needed to have a serious conversation after this.

"The tree of life is dying now," Chaos told him.

He stood up and then walked toward the second row of the bookshelves of this library, while looking for the book that he needed.

"What do you mean? How could that happen?" As far as Knox knew, the tree of life was an ancient tree that had lived since so long ago. There was no way that tree was dying.

Therefore, Chaos told him about the whole inside the tree and about the Ageha butterflies that nested inside its trunk.

"Aaron. That's him, right?" Knox didn't need answer for that, because he knew that must be him. "Chaos, what is your plan? Especially with Blue, I heard you give the sword to her. Why did you give the sword to her?"

"So, if there is nothing left of me, she can kill me," Chaos replied curtly, but he talked the truth.

Hearing that, Knox scoffed. "Do you think she will do it? She is very infatuated of you ever since she was only a child and now, knowing that your fate entangled together, and more complicated than one could imagine, do you really think she will do it?"

"She has to do it." Chaos took one book and then brought it to Knox, he opened a certain page and put his finger on a picture there. "She had done it before, she could do it again."

He was certain with what he said.

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