Chapter:4

I took a step backwards slowly, Ahiab demon, a massive scaled lizard like body...check, blind and has a keen sense of smell...judging from the lack of eye's check, has a long narrow tail that glitters as it moves due to it being edged with razor tipped bones...check, has talons I quickly looked down..check, has a long forked tongue with a scorpion stinger at the end? Check,

Rapes there victims before killing them...great. I quickly run backwards but it was quick I stop in mid run "Aquariel" I whispered and watched as it burst with light, I closed my eye's before quickly jamming the blade behind me I opened my eyes to the demons screams but he was far from dead in fact now he was just angry. I quickly rip my blade out sending demon ichor everywhere I jumped backwards landing on my feet, go for the head my father would always say...so without a second thought I jump into action slicing my blade directly towards his head but he was too fast I caught a quick glimpse of it whipping its tail around smacking against my legs sending me to the ground. The pain shot up my legs as if a thousand knifes pushed into my legs I released a loud yell in pain before the demon crawled on top of me, I struggled underneath its heavy body reaching around for the blade, I felt it slam it's tail now against my legs forcing me to stop struggling, I forced my hands up above me holding off its extremely sharp talons even its ruff scales sent pain through my body I look up to see its long tongue dancing just a few inches from my face I released a loud cry, scorpion stinger at the end..defiantly a check "Rapes it victims before killing them" repeats in my head I used the very last strength I had trying to push away...but it was no use...panic rushed through me "I'll die here" now was the only thing going though my head I could feel it pushing closer against me all of in weight against its arms "No!" I cried forcing my hands up the stinger just inches from my face, its talons now pressing against my palm, blood starting to trickle down my arms I could feel warm tears falling down my cheeks my arms shaking under pressure this was it I am going to die hear in this trash filled alley..."Shhh soon we'll all be together again..i promise" my mothers voice echoed in my mind "Soon" I whispered and lowered my arms and the world went black.

And for a moment there was nothing, there wasn't pain, there wasn't the crushing weight of the Ahiab demon, there wasn't the suffocating smell of garbage..just peace.

my eye's slightly lifted and the pain rushed back through me as if it had never left but I was no longer under the demon...but slung over someones back..being carried, I quickly closed my eye's the pain was far to much to remain conscious and yet again the world faded away leaving me in nothingness.

My eye's slowly opened and I'm back in my room at the institute, I couldn't help but laugh it took me having to almost get murdered by a giant lizard to have a dreamless sleep. I quickly sat up ignoring just how sore I am, and my eye's focus on the dark outline of the boy leaning against the far wall.

"Your not supposed to be in here..." I say my voice sounding a bit sleepy.

A small chuckle escaped him before saying "That's what you have to say? Just make it a mental note, and when you can so much as walk without limping, you can escort me off the property." he said sounding no longer amused but annoyed.

"What happened..?" I asked ignoring that comment and sounding a lot more like a whisper then I had meant too.

"Well, after you stormed out like a little five you year old, your friend..ah Judith was worried and I had over heard were you might have gone so..." he said slightly shifting his weight.

"after a few minutes I had caught up with you, I decided to keep my distance since I was probably the last person you wanted to see." I can feel his eye's on me as he talks...even though he had saved me I still couldn't help but dislike him,

"i got a little lost in that maze of an alleyway but when I herd you scream.." I could hear his voice shake slightly as if he was remembering it all as he said it.

"When I found you, I couldn't believe how you managed to hold it off, Ahiab demons, female shadow hunters are practically there specialty..." he pushed him self off the wall and sat at the end of the bed, turning his head so that he faced me.

"Your ok right?" he asked almost sounding like a whisper,

I know what he meant by the question not if I was ok but was I raped.

"I'm..I'm fine no permanent damage" I said quietly back. I could hear a large sigh in relief escape him, "Thank you..." I whispered looking up at him. I had never so much as been this close to a boy before non the less be in my bed room on my bed,

"Don't mention it...what I said earlier I didn't mean..." he said looking down at his lap.

I exhaled "Yes you did...but it's ok, good night..." I said still staring at him.

He slowly looked up "Oh Ethan...Ethan Greyweather, and goodnight Mercy" he said jumping to his feet and walking out the door, And I drifted back into a dreamless sleep.

When my eye's open I jump to my feet ignoring the still sore pain in my legs ever since I was a little girl I have been trained to jump out of bed and get dressed all before six am. I quickly grabbed a black tee-shirt with a stick of butter right in the middle and large white text reading "I must be butter...cause I'm on a roll" along with the same dark blue jeans from yesterday and quickly ran across the hall into the showers.

When I was finished I ran into my room wearing only a towel and shut the door behind me,

I slowly moved the towel so that I could see my legs although they were still swore the only reminder of last night were tiny white scars going up and down my legs...on my ankle was a few white line dancing into a pattern...a healing rune. Ethan must have did it last night...i cant imagine him drawing it with how bloody my legs must have been but there it was perfectly drawn a small piece of art carved onto my ankle.

After I finished getting dressed I ran a brush through my hair and pulled it up with a band I keep around my wrist. I glance quickly in the mirror, my eye's didn't seem so tired today of all days but there was something else...i can not put my figure on it but something is different. Or at least there should be, how could so much of my life change without actually changing me?

I push away the thought and walk out of my room.

The institute was louder today the sounds of people calling out our running into the kitchen to have a quick breakfast before they go, it's normal though they come they stay for a night maybe two and then they go off too fight some demons I presume.

Some go without so much as a goodbye and some thank us for our hospitality.

I stood in front of a very large brown door just off to the right when you enter the institute,

lucky Jonathan was at breakfast or I would feel pretty silly right now just standing here staring at my parents office. I hadn't even thought about going in since they died but now it was no longer there office...but mine