A Tale of Chase and Love s1

“Master Long Ren… he.. can’t turn human for now. Even if he does, it won’t last for long.” Ju Wei said in a soft voice, head bowed.

“This…” she caressed Long Ren’s fur.

“Is it true, Long Ren?” she asked.

“Mistress, please don’t ask. It’s so shameful.” Long Ren replied to her telepathically. He refused to look at her.

“Ju Wei, tell me. How did this come to be?”

“Great mistress, my master… he… he’s broken the rules of the contract since day one,” said Ju Wei.

“You mean the first day we met?” she asked.

“Yes, you two wronged, schemed against and tortured each other from day one. Master is suffering the consequences and also I think… you won’t be left out either.” Ju Wei explained.

“Oh! So what will be my punishment for breaking the contract’s rules?” she asked as she caressed Long Ren’s fur again.

“I dunno!” Ju Wei replied while shrugging his shoulder and then he disappeared before she could ask him any further questions. Theresa shook her head and sighed.

“Long Ren, tell me… you really won’t be able to change back to human form?” she asked.

“Well, mistress… let’s go to the secluded room first.” Long Ren said and both disappeared from the living room.

20 minutes later.

Theresa who has been meditating for just ten minutes, suddenly spat out blood and opened her eyes.

“Mistress, are you alright?” Long Ren who is still in fox form and standing on a chair asked in concern.

“I’m alright!” Theresa replied.

“There’s dark qi in my body.” Theresa added.

“You finally realized. We’ll remove it now so that you can stabilize yourself tomorrow. But mistress are you ready?” Long Ren asked.

“I’ll do anything. I’m ready,” she said with determination.

“Good then, let’s start!” Long Ren said before transforming back to human form.

His long thick blue hair served as covering for his nether regions and he didn’t bother to cover himself further with a cloth.

“You… take this!” Theresa threw a scarf at him but he simply burnt it to ashes using his lowest grade green fire.

“You…”T heresa turned around making Long Ren smile.

“Now that’s how a girl should behave,” he said softly before a yellow light covered him and after a minute the light faded and Long Ren is now dressed in white robes and black boots.

“Mistress, it’s time,” he said before walking towards Theresa and sitting on the floor cross-legged behind her. He placed his two hands at her back.

“Mistress, you need to follow my instructions and persevere” said Long Ren.

“I thought you wouldn’t be able to turn human for a while”

“Mistress, please concentrate!”

10 minutes later.

Theresa opened her eyes and saw that she was back in the cold palace. Not far off from her is the bed that Han Fei Fei died on. The whole place wasn’t as cold as before but had become warm and smelled of flowers even though there aren’t any.

“Did the emperor do something to this place? Does he slowly want to transform it into some paradise? It’s too late that she didn’t get to enjoy anything before she died. But how did I get here? Long Ren, where is he?” she thought as she surveyed the room.

The door of the room was locked from the outside. How would she get out? Sometimes, she really needs to smack Long Ren.

“Long Ren? Long Ren?” she called out.

“Mistress, you called for me?” Long Ren asked the moment he appeared but he’s in human form.

“You… didn’t you say that you can’t last in human form? Why waste your energy?” Theresa asked.

“I can maintain my human form in one way. And that is…”

“What is it that can help you?”

“Mistress, you seem to be more caring now than before. Before you hate me but since you speak this nicely to me… does it mean that you have fallen for me?” Long Ren asked with a smile.

“You… who’d fall for you. Why did you bring me here?” she asked.

“Err… you can say.. to consummate our love.” he replied softly and walked slowly towards her.

Theresa’s eyes widened in shock.

What did he just say? He wanted to consummate… love? What love? The only person she fell for was Kim Tae Hyung. What’s wrong with Long Ren today? Did he take aphrodisiac or is he under a spell from an evil demon?

No! She can’t allow his plans to succeed. Theresa began to retreat towards the door but halfway she tripped and fell.

“See, you have fallen for me,” he chuckled.Contentt bel0ngs to N0ve/lDrâ/ma.O(r)g!

“You… don’t come near me!” Theresa warned.

“Little kitten, what will you do to me?” he asked provocatively as he got closer to her and knelt. He pinched her chin and lowered his head to kiss her plump red lips.

Theresa was stunned. What just happened? Did he just kiss her? Did he steal her first kiss without her permission?

“You…” she was at a loss on what to say.

“Do you like it?” he asked.

“Let’s consummate our love here. I promise to be gentle yet fierce. What do you think?” he asked her.

“I think… since I’m the mistress, I should be on top. Now lie down,” Theresa said in a firm tone.

Long Ren smiled.

“Not bad! I’ll do as you say my lovely mistress,” he took out a bed from his storage ring and lay on it.

Theresa rose up from the ground and walked to the bed. She touched his feet and slowly climbed the bed and crawled slowly to the end of the bed. She then touched his cheeks.

“You are handsome. It’ll be a waste if I don’t…”

“If you don’t what, my babe?” Long Ren asked huskily.

“If I don’t see what’s inside your cheeks,” she said softly and brought out a dagger.

Before Long Ren could stop her, she had already made a big cut on his left cheek. The wound however closed back and his face was still flawless.

“Audacious!”he spat as he got off the bed.

He gathered high-grade green fire and launched it at Theresa but Theresa dodged. He kept shooting the green fireballs at Theresa at a faster rate and from different angles but she seemed to have been blessed by the goddess of luck. She always dodged even if it’s by a hairbreadth.

“Fine! You forced me,” Long Ren muttered and gathered a strange green fire. In the middle of the green fire was red fire and there was a faint mist surrounding the fire.

“You… what fire is that?” Theresa asked. She didn’t need some soothsayer to tell her that this fire is very dangerous.

“This is mermaid fire. Have a taste of it.”he said before shooting two fireballs at her.

She had nowhere to run because this type of fire would be able to pursue one wherever he goes until it eliminates him. Though she was his mistress and did not understand the meaning of mermaid fire she was sure it’s grade is stronger than the green fire supreme grade.

“Long Ren!” she called out when the two fireballs were four inches away from her.

“Freeze!” Long Ren shouted and the two fireballs stopped in mid-air. Seeing this Theresa sighed.

“Long Ren, if you’re so capable, let’s fight with our bare hands. Let’s not use our fires or any technique. Just fistfight.” she offered.

“Unfortunately, I don’t like using my fists on people especially women. But you are still a girl who’s almost a woman. Though I don’t want to use my fists, it’s fine if I use fire,” said Long Ren.

“Retreat!” he shouted again and the two fireballs made their way back to him and disappeared into his palms.

He gathered the lowest type of green fire and shoot it at her without warning. She was unable to dodge it in time and it ended up burning her right arm.

“You…” Theresa’s eyes turned red and her hair began to flutter.

“Dark qi, it’s time for you to show yourself. Let’s battle!” Long Ren said lazily as he counted on his fingers.

“You are just a mere forest beast,” said Theresa as she began to gather red fireballs in both hands.

Surrounding these fireballs was lightning and a faint mist. Theresa exhibited a very scary aura. Black veins began to develop on her hands, neck, and face.

“That old fart dared to lie to me. How is this a little quantity of dark qi? This is the real deal” he muttered in annoyance.

“Today, I’ll show you, your place!” she yelled.

“I hope it isn’t the grave,” said Long Ren as he took out the dragon bone whip.

“I don’t need any fire to defeat you. I only need this.” he added with a smile.

“Die!” Theresa yelled and then shooting the two fireballs at him but all Long Ren did was to whip at the fires and they turned to smoke. The lightning effect took a bit longer to dissipate.

“You really are good. Let’s see how long you can hold on.” said Theresa.

“I think, should be the one saying that mistress. You should give up and let me, have you. It’s not like I want your leg for Ju Wei to experiment on.” Long Ren said. He aimed to provoke Theresa even more for all the hidden qi to come to light and it did when the black veins on Theresa turned to red.

“Mistress, don’t break yet,”he said before lashing at her with the whip.

“AHHHHHH” Theresa cried.

“Do you have a death wish?” she asked angrily as she gathered another pair of fireballs with both hands.

‘Err… I recall you having shouted ‘Die!’ earlier. Why are you asking for permission to kill me now?” Long Ren asked as he lashed at her even before she could shoot the fireballs.

“AHHH… You bastard!” she cursed as she shoots fireballs at him at a breakneck rate.

“You’re such a loser,” he said as he dodged the fireballs with ease.

By now, the cold palace was on the verge of collapsing but none of them had the intention to stop. Long Ren lashed at her not giving her a breather to shoot fireballs and when he did take a breather, she’d shoot fireballs at him.

This continued even after the cold palace collapsed. Both of them continued their battle until they got to the outer palace attracting the royal household attention. Those who tried to stop them got whipped fiercely by Long Ren.

The unlucky ones were cut into two while those with stronger body constitution suffered serious injuries. The battle continued and the onlookers made sure not to get too close to them. A lot of houses were destroyed in the process but there was still no sign of them stopping.

The emperor who had been notified appeared at the scene shocked.

“You… stop this nonsense!” theemperor roared.

Theresa looked at him with a smile.

“Idiot!” she muttered before continuing to shoot fireballs at Long Ren who simply dodged and whipped her when he saw a chance.

She’s been covered by many wounds but she did not care.