Author's note: SO sorry for not updating. The story is done anyway. I can't seem to begin Janovah 3 though…every beginning I write is crappy.

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Chapter 3

I felt woozy, and achy.

Dash: Jan..? You don't look good.

I fainted...Then I awoke, again, in the same cabin. I felt weaker and achier than before. I opened my eyes, but they felt heavy. I caught a glimpse of Dash standing, watching me. I had a little tube thingy that split into nose...I also had an IV attached to my wrist.

Dash: That wasn't funny. You almost didn't walk away from that one. You've been in a coma for three days, meanwhile there's a killer on the loose. There's something feeding off your body. The doctor says it's just a common parasite, but you've been plugged with pretty much every anti-parasite drug out there, and you're still staring death in the face.

I tried to say something, but my lips felt glued together. I closed my eyes, as though just keeping them open was a huge challenge.

Dash: The killer...he's been at it a lot...and...

Her voice seemed pained.

Dash: They...They got Kat!!!

Dash tossed a folded piece of paper on my bed, and she turned away and buried her face in her hands, and I could tell she was crying. I weakly reached for the note and took it in my hands. I opened it, and written in blood, it said, "She wasn't rich, she wasn't significant, she was just fun to kill." Fun to kill...Fun to kill...it echoed in my mind. Kat was gone, she was murdered. Why? Why poor, innocent Kat? Fun to kill...It was FUN? FUN to kill an innocent little girl? FUN to slaughter her in cold blood?

Dash: It was the most horrible thing I had ever seen. I found her in the bathroom, knife in her back, blood everywhere.

I pictured that in my mind...it was heart-wrenching.

Dash: People think Torn did it. No one has seen him anywhere. There also some wackos who think YOU are doing it. Like, you've been faking sick, and then getting up and killing people. Which is ridiculous. You're half dead just lying there.
Janovah: It's Torn's knife.

I finally found my voice.

Janovah: But how? Something's not right with him, just before the girl was murdered, Torn asked me to marry him. Then out of nowhere he almost tried to rape me, and when I pushed him away...

My voice was going, I cleared my throat.

Janovah: He had this murderous look. But then it went away, and he ran.
Dash: There's something wrong, that's for sure.
Janovah: Somebody's trying to kill me.
Dash: They're after you, Janovah. That girl that was killed? She was going to tell you something important. Another guy, who got shot, he was bringing you medicine. Kat? Going to visit you. She would...she had a good heart.
Janovah: She was a good person.
Dash: The girl who was killed, we found an excerpt from an encyclopedia that talks about Dark Makers. She circled how Dark Makers could shift shapes. She also wrote "Rin" on there. I think she's saying Rin is a Dark Maker. Here.

She tossed me a crumpled piece of paper, and I opened it. I saw something that churned my stomach. "A Dark Maker can deliver its spawn inside another species to collect genes and to take on certain traits. This form of impregnation is uncommon; the baby Dark Maker usually drinks all the nutrients from the host's body. The host usually dies. The baby Dark Maker requires large amounts of Dark Eco to survive the unwelcomed maternity." The puzzle came together...Rin was a Dark Maker, he raped me and injected me with spawn...The Dar Makers took me and injected dark eco so the spawn would live. THAT'S why I got sick. And now I was free, and lacking in dark eco, so they would have no choice but to kill me.

Janovah: Oh my god...
Dash: What?

I explained it, and she looked mortified.

Dash: That's...That's terrible. I have to tell the doctor. We never did light eco radiation on you; we figured you could handle eco enough not to be affected. At this point, we have one option. We could try the radiation, hope for a miscarriage. But right now, the Dark Maker could be too developed to kill. I'm so sorry. I really am.

Dash turned and left. I fell back into the pillows, and fell asleep...there was a bright light...I was standing in a room going on forever, just white. Rin had his hand over my mouth while I was trying to scream. I was trapped in a restraining embrace. I saw something coming...it was a horrible creature; it was like a Dark Maker, but with characteristics like my own.

Rin: This is our creation. You are this creature's MOTHER!!!

The creature stopped in front of me a struck...wham! I was awake it was only a dream. But what I saw just terrified me more...Torn. Standing over me. His knife inches above my face, eyes burning. I screamed, but Torn lowered his knife, and he dropped it. His eyes were blue again.

Torn: Janovah...I'm so sorry...I killed them. I killed Kat, I killed Dana, I killed them!!! I couldn't stop myself...there was a voice inside my head...It said to kill. It wanted me to kill you, but I couldn't.

We heard a ruckus outside the room. It was dark, in the middle of the night.

Torn: They're coming. They will take me away, they will probably kill me. You were never involved. And it will stay that way.

Torn reached over and kissed me quickly.

Janovah: Torn...

Then the door burst open, and several men rushed in.

Man #1: He's trying to kill the queen!!
Man #2: Get him! Arrest the traitor!!

They tackled Torn. They hit him several times, and he was bleeding through the nose. I couldn't say anything, I could only watch in horror. They pinned him against a wall, and cuffed him. Before they dragged him off, he mouthed to me.."I love you." Then they pulled him off at gunpoint, and I thought I would never see him again.