A New Era

I moved away from the now blood ridden body and backed away looking into a mirror where my reflection could not be seen however I didn't want to see myself like this, like the monster I had become. I grabbed a white medicine cloak and started to rub it all over my face. I carried on rubbing until I could feel nothing on my face, not coldness of the blood, not the dampness of the fabric and not even the trickle of sweat that fell from my forehead. I threw the cloth over the corpse of her and quickly got up. I kept my eyesight above her so I could not see what my destructive cravings had done. I walked over to the cloakroom, which she had come from, and started to search for a coat to hide my blood soaked clothes and the scar, which had now stopped bleeding but seemed to look even deeper. I found a large over coat that would hide most of me and only show my shoes which were the only part of me not blood soaked. I looked down and there on my shoes were a few droplets of blood. I knew that these were not hers or mine but the more I tried to remember the more my head seemed to try and pry itself apart. I forced myself to bear the pain as I thought more of where the blood came from and there was a flash in my mind. I showed the blade that had ripped into me just after I had died and saw that from it not only was my blood but blood that was slightly lighter coloured than mine. I then remembered the statue and the blood that fell from it and I thought to myself that Chris had cleaned it first so how could there be any blood on it but then I could hear a voice in my head much louder than the beating of a heart that I heard before and this voice made all the pain in my head simply drain from my body. It was my mothers.

"You are now a true immortal James. Your father and me gave our lives just so that this world would never be destroyed and we lived our whole lives hoping that you would never have to know the truth but now you do. However you are not like me or your father we were warriors with the blood of angels coursing through our veins, you however don't just have angel blood in your veins you have demon blood that is why you hunger for blood and that is why you can feel all the essence of being around you. You are the first of a new generation and only you can free the world from the tyranny of the overlord." Her voice began to become weaker in my head.

"What are you on about? How am I still alive and why does my head hurt so much to remember the past especially that night? And how am I supposed to fight someone when I don't even know how to fight?" I felt all the anger build up within my fist and I slammed it into the wall which buckled for some unknown reason and fell through. I looked at the wall and saw that it was made of concrete and bricks. I looked at my fist and saw that it had a gash across it, which healed while I looked at it. I saw the skin thread across the wound and then start to fill up so that it was healed within seconds.

"See you are unique. You are neither angel nor demon, you are both with all their strength and neither of their weaknesses. And you are alive as you turned into an immortal before he struck you as for the memories only you know the answer to them as I do not know much about demons only that they feel everything and fear nothing not even death as to this world they are dead." She seemed to be weeping almost as she said it. "And the only way you can destroy the overlord or the one you called Chris you must use the weapons that you found in your fathers chest and drive the blade through his heart and only someone of pure demon blood can this be. I feel that you may not be able to do this, as you are an angel and a demon, although I know of only one way for you to lose your purity."

"If you know of a way to stop that demon who killed you then tell me I do not wish anymore people to be hurt by him and I am willing to die just to defeat him." I collapsed on the floor and looked towards Ann who was still silent under the cloth that was covered in her own blood.

"Do not worry about her she is still alive and she will not turn like you have. She will wake up and feel weak and call for help. You may need to change your appearance because she may recognize you again. Just look into yourself to find the answers. And for turning you away from the light you must find you true love and receive a kiss from her and she must give it of her freewill." Her voice faded from my mind and my head was filled with questions but I decided to quickly get out of there before she awoke.

It was incredibly dark for this time of day. The clock at the morgue said that it was 5 o'clock but it looked more like midnight and the more I walked down the street the more I felt that feeling I got as I stood on my stairs. I turned and looked around and could see nothing. I remembered what my mother had said about my blood and that I could see all beings all I had to do was look for the answers within me. I remembered back to the morgue when I was in the bag and thought about how I was able to see then and then realised. It was blood that made me see like this and the moment I opened my eyes I saw it. I dark skinned creature crawling barely a few meters behind me, its jaw hung open and its teeth bared revealing a red shade of blood on its 4 sharp front teeth.

I caught a glimpse of someone out of the corner of my eye. Someone wearing full body armour and wearing some type of goggles with a reddish tint to them.

"Oi, you kid get out of there now. There's one of them right in front of you and if you don't move it's going to get you." The man held a gun out from his chest with a light fixture on it. The creature's head cracked as it turned towards the man however I was the only one who heard this as the man was stood watching me unaware that the creature was now looking dead at him.

It pounced. It leaped using all its four legs to propel it forward towards the man at tremendous speed. To me it moved quite slowly but I also could see the ripple it was making in the air and knew something was not right. I dived towards the creature colliding with its side with a force equal to its own. The creature was sent flying into one of the building across the road and the man quickly turned the gun towards the now dead creature. Its body had ripped straight through one of the supports of the building which had quickly fallen onto its remains.

I smiled almost pleased with myself but part of me wanted to fight it and I felt myself pulling away from that feeling with all my strength. The man hurried over to me.

"You ok son? Did it bite you?" He looked me over and could see there were no wounds on my neck or pretty much anywhere on my body. "Where the bloody hell did you come from and what made you think that coming out of your shelters at the exact time they hunt. You must be barmy but I have to hand it to you, you handled yourself good and also you saved my bacon and killed one of those buggers but I think we better motor cause those buggers sense if one of em is killed and I don't wanna be here when his mates come back and neither do you." He chuckled and grabbed me by the arm. His hands were covered in metal gloves that would be used by riot police during dangerous riots. He pulled me towards a narrow backstreet and rushed me down the street until we reached a large truck. It was fully armoured and had a mounted gun on the top which seemed to be slightly damaged but was still operational as a young lad was sat there looking through similar goggles to the man.

"Any buggers out there son?" The man quickly jogged over to the back of the truck and pulled down the cover. There were a few people mainly men all covered in silver blankets and all looking slightly shaken. "Your lucky we found you or you might not have lived for much longer. Hey! Son you should have seen this guy he went charging into a crept and killed the slimy thing with his bare hands." The people looked at me wit awe and the lad jumped down from the turret and looked at me.

"What this guy killed one of those things without using any kind of weapons and without goggles. You must be smoking something again cause I really doubt that." The kid chuckled and climbed back into the turret.

"He did, did you not hear the loud crash that was this guy hitting that bugger into a building and anyway can't sit around chatting I've got to get this thing back to the shelter as Jenny and Mary will be worried sick about us." He hurried over to the front of the truck and hopped into the seat then looked through the hatch that looked onto where all the people were sat. "Take a seat I think you earned it." He closed the hat and then some of the people stood up and offered me their seat. I declined and turned to face the outside of the truck. I stood there staring through the fabric looking around and trying to picture where I was exactly as I couldn't remember any of the landmarks or any of the building especially the morgue. I looked back and could see the people staring at me and I quickly pulled the coat tighter around my body so that the blood stains could not be seen but what I hadn't noticed was that there was a large gash down the side of the coat which was where I had hit the creature which the guy called a crept. And through that cut you could see part of my bloodstained shirt. They all seemed to be slightly scared and backed further into their seats. I continued to stand there silent and looking for anything that I knew but still there was no luck and I decided just to stand there.

The ride wasn't long but it wasn't short either. The roads were badly damaged and I was sure people knew there was something wrong with me as I stood up all the way here without holding on at all. The kid dropped out of the turret and walked towards me patting me on my back.

"Did you have a nice ride? Well welcome to paradise." He walked over and kicked the metal bottom hatch and pushed back either side of the metal like fabric.

The room was brightly lit and seemed to be quite large but on closer inspection there had to be almost a hundred tents that had been put up in it and each seemed to have about 10 people standing in front of them looking at the new arrivals. Most of them couldn't see my side and neither could the guy standing in front of the exit who was a lot older than me and who seemed to have war wounds on his face. The people who were sat behind me quickly hurried past me and jumped off the ramp and hurried into the crowd as not to be seen again. The lad looked at me.

"Are you getting off or do I have to drag you off and please say the second one I've been dying for a little human fight." He laughed and then the older man walked past and climbed half onto the back of the truck.

"Ben, why do you always have to intimidate the new people? I'm sorry about my son he's been kinda edgy since the whole event cause it got him good lost almost everything his best mate James who had already lost his dad and then his mum when the first started showing up." The man looked at Ben who was now facing away from me and looking at him. "Sorry son but I need to tell him coz if you don't you'll end up taking out your anger on him and that ain't fair, is it?" Ben looked at me and stared for a few seconds before jumping from the ramp.

"It ain't that. It's just he remind me of James." He started to walk into the crowd and I just felt myself overwhelmed.

"Ben! It is me James." Ben turned around and laughed.

"James died that night I know I was one of the people who found his body and the only way he could be alive is if he is one of them and everyone knows what that means." Ben pulled out a gun from his pocket. "Now if you know what smart for you, you'd shut the hell up and get off the truck!" Ben was now completely angry and I could see that his hand was trembling with all his anger. "They took everything away and now we stay here hiding from them for as long as we can until we are next.

"Well you might as well shoot me coz I am James and if you don't believe me ask me something only he would know and I'll answer it." I jumped off the truck and stood there with Ben's father stood barely inches behind me.

"Fine then just coz you seem so eager to get yourself shot. If you are truly James which means you are really one of them then answer me this. When was the first time we met and who was my first crush?" I chuckled and stepped further away from the truck and the man behind me raised his weapon to.

"We first met when I moved in and started school. Your dad fancied my mum and your mum slapped him for it and we've been friends since then. And as for your first crush it was Jade and she was your first true crush and your first girlfriend was Anne." Ben looked at me his hand shaking more than ever but not in anger but in disbelief. He quickly snapped back to life and aimed the gun at me.

"So you willingly admit you are one of them?" His voice squeaked as he said it.

"If you mean a demon then yes but I am not like any demon as I am part angel as well and if you want to you may shoot me thinking that I am the enemy when I stand before you to aid you." I lowered my head and knelt on one knee before him. He was shocked to hear what I had to say but kept the gun pointed at me. He wasn't the only one shocked as the large crowd erupted in a roar of murmurs between people and I heard many people talking about a prophecy.

"Son put the gun down if he was one of them do you think he'd have told us that he was?" Ben slowly lowered his gun and looked towards his feet however I still felt a gun in the back of my neck. "So you're an angel, are you, I should have known the way you fought back there but you also said you were a demon. How is that?" The whole building went silent so they could hear me speak.

"It was on that night, when Ben found me dead. I am and always have been since birth and angel and only learnt about it on that night. I was bitten earlier that night by something that resembled the thing I hit today and while Chris…" The whole crowd began murmuring again until Ben shouted.

"SILENCE!" Ben's face had turned pure white with either intrigue or sadness upon hearing that name.

"While he was performing the ritual to kill the last of the angel bloodline I began to turn and when he hit me with the blade he mixed my blood which had turned with that of my mothers and I guess I became more powerful but I was dead." Ben began to walk towards me.

"I thought you were dead but if what you are saying is true then you're still alive and you are the one who can finally bring peace to this ravaged world." I smiled and nodded and the murmuring began again. Ben put his arm around my shoulder and moved his head close to my ear. "The prophecy states that a pure blooded demon would kill the overlord and you are half blooded but you are not a true pure blood either as you are half angel, so how can you stop the war." Ben's face began to become redder and he reached for his gun.

"I was told that as I still have that blood in my veins all I have to do is find my true love and then my blood will be released into me." Ben stopped reaching for his gun and smiled. He let his arm go from my shoulder and then walked away telling me to follow him.