A THOUSAND YEARS OF LOVE

A couple of lovers run in the middle of a dark forest. They try to escape from the pursuit of people who want the death of both of them.  

"Go, Igor! They want you. They won't hurt me," the woman said after he stumbled upon the roots of a tree. 

"No. I won't go without you, Aurora." 

Aurora was a little surprised because Igor picked her up and ran back. She felt guilty for having gotten the man into big trouble and could have killed him. 

She wrapped her arms around Igor's body as the man ran faster. However, she thought that Igor's strength would definitely decline because he continued to carry her so that the people behind her managed to catch up. 

"Let her go, lowly creature!" shouted an old man with a hateful look. 

"Put me down," Aurora said to Igor. 

Aurora looked at the older man, who was none other than her father. He felt a potent killing aura. She made her body a shield for Igor from her father. 

"Are you throwing away your family just for a lowly beast like this?"  

"Father, I love him. I won't...." 

"You prefer your love and betray your family?" the father interrupted. 

"Love is not a betrayal." 

"However, your love is forbidden." 

Aurora knows that her love is forbidden. However, she still tried to explain to her father that Igor was not like the rest of his people. She also told her father that her love was not a sin. 

However, the father did not want to listen to her explanation. So the father gave a sign to all his bodyguards to arrest her and Igor. 

Her father's bodyguards began to attack. Aurora will not give up just like that, likewise with Igor, who will fight for her love. The two of them also managed to paralyze some of their father's bodyguards. All of this made the father feel furious. 

"Aurora!" growled the father. And he attacked his daughter. 

Aurora was shocked by her father's attack. So she didn't have time to protect herself. Her strength and her father's are pretty different. She also groaned in pain when her father managed to suppress the wound she had just received while fighting with one of her father's bodyguards. 

"Go, Igor! Get out of here!" ordered Aurora.  

"Igor, you want her to live? Don't fight anymore, and come with me!" continued the father. He uses his daughter as a tool to weaken the werewolves, who have not entirely changed. 

"Alright," Igor replied. At the same time, he stopped fighting the people who attacked him. 

Aurora became even more sad when she heard her lover's groans of pain. Some of her father's bodyguards continued to beat him until Igor was limp on the ground with his body entire of wounds. 

"We're back at the castle! Take them both!" the father ordered.  

This time, Aurora could no longer resist. She was locked in her room, and no one could get her out. Every night, she could only hear screams of pain and occasionally heard howls that broke her heart. 

Several times, she tried to smash the door of her room but couldn't. She could only sit by the door while crying at the sound of Igor's screams of pain.  

The night turned noon, and she was still sitting by the door. She immediately stood up after hearing someone unlock the door of her room. She saw a woman who had just opened the door of the room. 

"Hurry up! I can only help you get here," the woman told Aurora. 

"Odelia...." 

"Don't care about me. Go!"  

Aurora hugged her friend and said, "Forever, you are my best friend." 

She ran to the place where her father punished Igor. The man's screams of pain echoed again inside the castle. She sped up her run until she arrived at where her lover was. 

"Father, I beg you to let him go...," Aurora pleaded with her father.  

"Apparently, someone let you go. You've made the mistake of falling in love with a werewolf. Now, you are the cause of your friend's death."  

It wasn't long before Aurora saw a bodyguard blow Obelia away. She didn't expect that her father's bodyguard could catch Odelia so quickly. 

"No... Father begged to let them both go. I promise you I won't deny everything you want," Aurora pleaded with her father again while resting at his feet. 

She is willing to sacrifice herself for the safety of her lover and best friend. So, she doesn't care if she might end up in her coffin for thousands of years without being resurrected. 

"You think I'm that good? You've already disappointed me; I'd better finish them both off." 

"No. Don't do that, Aurora!" said Igor in a weak tone. 

"Marcus, what are you waiting for?!" asked an old lady in the back row. 

Everyone there starts to force Marcus, who is Aurora's father. They want to see Igor perish because he has made Aurora betray her people. 

"Just finish me off! Before you are destroyed in my hands!" challenged Igor. 

"A lowly beast like you is not worthy of talking!" shouted Marcus, who was already furious. At the same time, he was giving a signal to his bodyguards to return to torturing Igor. 

Aurora could no longer stand the torture they did to Igor. She knew that her lover would not unleash his strength because of her. If he had stayed away from Igor in the first place, perhaps none of this would have happened. 

"Igor... forgive me ...," said Aurora while looking at her lover sadly. 

"Don't give up on our love." 

Aurora ran and hugged Igor. She said that she loved him very much. Now, she is willing to sacrifice her immortality to solve all the suffering of her lover. 

She kissed Igor on the lips right in front of her father and some critical people in the castle. Her actions made everyone there even more furious, as well as her father. 

"Aurora!" shouted the father. 

"I love him. Even though I obeyed your will to set him free, however, it will only happen if you will definitely finish off Igor and Odelia. I won't give up until the last drop of blood." 

After saying that, she took out a sword from one of the bodyguards who was nearby. She released the iron chains that enclosed Igor's body.  

"What else are you waiting for? Arrest the traitor and tie her to the pillar of punishment!" Marcus ordered his bodyguards. 

Aurora fights the bodyguards who attack her. Igor did not stay silent and helped her. However, the resistance of both of them was successfully suppressed. Until finally Aurora was tied with an iron chain on a pillar in the middle of the room. Meanwhile, Igor was unable to move, and two swords were attached to his neck. 

Everyone started to take a few steps back. They avoid something terrifying. Meanwhile, Aurora only looked at Igor. At the same time, they were smiling and remembering the sweet memories when they were together. 

"Igor, I'm sorry for loving you," said Aurora with a smile. 

Aurora continued to look at her lover for the last time. She knew that soon she would be destroyed. It wasn't long before Aurora looked at her father. She also remembered all her father's kindness from long ago.  

"Thank you and forgive me, Father," said Aurora. After she saw her father give a sign to one of his bodyguards, she looked back at Igor. 

She didn't care if the roof of the castle slowly opened. She just smiled and continued to say that she loved Igor. Sunlight began to envelop the Aurora. Her body was burned by sun exposure, which was her weakness. 

"Aurora...."