Fire of Passion
We reached a room where all the walls were covered in metal and Ben turned to face me.
"I'm sorry about this but seeing as you are part demon we can't fully trust you yet as you may try and feed on us as we sleep." My face began to sink and I turned to see Bens' dad standing there with a gun aimed towards my head. He pushed me into the room and aimed the gun lower. He flicked the light on the gun on and moved it all over my body. Ben watched closely looking for anything out of the ordinary and I stood there waiting.
"Take the coat off." Bens' father ordered me to take the coat off and I looked hesitantly towards Ben. He smiled and I looked again at his father. I dropped the coat and Ben took a step back and all the blood from his face drained and he looked pale. "Ben what's up son? Why do you look ill?"
"Those clothes they were on you the night you died when you were strapped to the tablet surrounded by all the blood." Ben backed into the corner and began to shake violently. His father rushed over to him and knelt beside him still holding the gun in his hand. I took a step towards him.
He quickly turned around and aimed the gun at my head.
"Back off now ok. He's my son and I'll help him." He knelt down again and grabbed Ben's hand.
"It's ok, I'm fine dad I just had a flashback that's all." I wanted to ask Ben a question but I wasn't sure if it was the right time but I figured I might as well ask it now.
"Ben." The both looked towards me and Ben looked straight at me with tears still streaming down his face. "I just wanted to ask when you found me there. Did you see another person on a tablet or a statue near where I was?" Ben looked curiously and shook his head. Anger built up in me and I felt myself storming towards one of the metal walls and throwing my fist towards it. They collided with great force my fist easily ripped through the wall which was much thicker than the wall in the morgue. Ben father quickly stood up and aimed the gun straight at my head.
"I found you all alone and I knew something was wrong but why would there be a statue and someone else chained to another tablet. I mean I saw another tablet which had blood on it but that blood was dry and if someone had been there then they had been moved." Ben stood up and walked over to me.
"I wasn't the only person there that night apart from my attackers and Chris and his horde of demon. My parents were there. My dad was chained to the other tablet and my mother was encased in stone and… and he killed them both with no remorse. He just plunged his blade into them like he had done it all his life." They both looked quite quizzical at me and I wondered why.
"Why was Chris there and what does he have to do with the demons?" I felt my heart fall in my chest and I moved my hand over it. I pushed my hand into my chest to try and feel my heart beat and there was nothing, no beat, nothing just silence. I looked up at Ben and saw he was waiting in anticipation. I looked back down at my hand and moved it away and saw the scar.
"Chris was the one who did this." I moved my hand away and pointed towards it with my other hand. Ben face dropped and so did his fathers which had remained quite angry since he had found out about my blood and my curse.
"You mean he is the overlord, he murdered millions, and he murdered my mother!" Ben clenched his fist and punched the wall. He did not dent the wall but badly cut his hand. I watched as the blood poured from his hand and felt the urge fall over me again.
The thirst for blood. I clutched the scar and pushed deep into it and felt cold blood rush through my fingers the harder I pushed the less I wanted to feed until I felt myself become light headed and I opened my eyes and looked around.
I was on the floor and the blood that had run from my scar had vanished as if to nowhere. Ben was stood over me and his father was wafting an old newspaper in front of my face.
"Thought I'd lost you again mate, but I think you being an angel and all makes you a lot tougher than I could ever be. And why were you clutching that scar?" Ben stared at me while his father edged towards his gun. Ben shook his hand and continued to look at me, his eyes not faltering from my face.
"Well I told you I'm half angel and half demon, well I've got all their strength and only one real weakness from the demon blood. That is the thirst. I see blood and the only thing I can do is force myself not to turn into a savage and bite someone." I held my head low and Bens' father moved towards his gun again.
"Dad! Stop it alright can't you see he's not himself but he's not one of them. You saw what he did, he controlled himself and didn't feed, he isn't one of them." Ben moved his bandaged hand onto his fathers' shoulder who turned and looked at his son. They both turned towards me and placed their hands underneath my back.
They pulled me to my feet and I didn't feel at all queasy and no longer felt the need to feed on blood. I figured my cravings were only brought on by sight of blood so I knew what I must avoid at all time.
"Ben do you mind if I ask why you look a lot older than you did when we last met." I felt myself forced to ask this question as Ben looked like he was in his twenties when he was younger than me when we I last saw him. Ben's faced looked towards his father and they each looked towards me.
"Well I look older coz I am older, a lot older I'm nearly 26. Did you not know that it's been over 10 years since the demon gate was open and when you died?" His voice seemed to become quieter as he continued to tell me about all the events between when I was still alive to now and I was shocked.
From that night on there had been a continuous war between man and demons and it seemed that man was failing. He told me about the prophecy that a holy warrior of light would come and save mankind from their end. He had told me that since they had started to show up the sun had never fully shone brightly as it seems that the creatures are weakened by the light and that the only way they could conquer this planet was to block it out so it only let plants grow enough to sustain human life. He told me that almost 75 of the population had been killed by them and that there were over 5000 people in the building we were in and that quite a lot of them had lost their families and needed helping. I felt my heart crumble as I was told more about the atrocities that had happened since I had been gone.
"So would you like me to show you around the place now or do you want me to take you to your quarters and I'm sorry to tell you that you will be sharing your quarters with someone else as we are running out of places to put people and that is why all the tents are in the main parking lot. But dad still goes out everyday and looks for any survivors who may need help." He looked at his dad and smiled sarcastically. "Even though he likes being in control it means he can give orders and his main rule is that each room must have an even number of both genders. For populations." Ben laughed and his father looked at him.
"It's not just for that its because most of them need support and well if you have someone who's been through it before and who is the same age and well being the opposite gender just means they end up growing up with each other and then having kids and before you know it we'll be running a little nursery here." They both laughed but I stood there still.
"What happened to all my friends who I knew before, how many survived? Where exactly was I and what happened to my mother and father when Chris had killed them? They didn't just disappear and no one would have stolen their corpse. And where was my sword and shield that was on me when I turned." I decided to use turned instead of saying died as that word made Bens face turn ever so slightly red. Ben looked at his father who looked at me.
"Well your sword was taken away by the police and I guess it was locked up in their evidence lockers and the shield was what Ben grabbed as he knew it had some value and he's used it to channel all his frustration since the start of the war." Ben looked at me with sadness in his eyes. His father began to walk out the door. "Well I think its getting late and I'd rather sort all this out tomorrow and also I want you to come hunting tomorrow to see if you are any good at fighting as what I've seen you've got the strength but none of the control someone with your strength must have. Oh and Ben show him to his room." He walked out of the door and closed it partly behind him. Bens' face began to look slightly happier and he looked more at me.
"Well you know that you have to share and well seeing as its getting late I had better move along before your roommate comes back and gets a big shock from seeing you." Ben walked towards the door and signalled me to follow him. I did and as we walked through the long and narrow corridor I walked slightly faster than I usually would mean that I had to stop every meter to let Ben move more. I wondered if this was either the angel blood or the demon blood and I figured it must be the demon blood as it made me angry and I guessed it was that part of the blood that made me do so much damage to the wall. As we turned the corner that led into the larger hall where all the tents were set up I felt myself stopping where I was and Ben turned around to look at me.
"Do you know who my roommate is and if they know who I am?" I felt I was forced to ask this question because if the person didn't know about me then they might do something which would make me want to hurt them and I knew I couldn't stop myself if I was alone and with someone I didn't know like I was with the nurse. Ben saw the look of worry in my face n walked back to comfort me.
"Don't worry she knows who you are and she's a friend of mine she's your age so you will get on fine. And don't worry about you biting her she used to be part vampire as well and she's a tough girl she won't become infected if you bite her by accident and most people know that you will have the tendency to do sometimes." Ben had a look of doubt on her face and his eyes became slightly glazed over.
"Don't worry I'm nothing like those vampires cause I can't infect people due to only half of me being a vampire." Ben looked at me and smiled and carried on walking into the hall.
All the people from before had returned to their tents and only a few people were left anywhere near me to realise who I was and those people were quickly dismissed by Ben who shot them a single glare which made them flee with fear for their lives. We reached a door that was quite a way from the large area that was probably a car park before the incident.
The door was camouflaged into the wall and only the handle seemed to show me where the door was but Ben had no problem finding the door and unlocking it with a small device that was in his hand. He turned around and looked at me.
"Hold out your hand." I held out my left hand and Ben pressed something onto it which made a whirring sound. I felt a stinging sensation in my hand. He moved the device and I saw that under the skin in the centre of my hand there was a small almost invisible chip. Ben turned over his hand and showed me a chip almost identical to mine that was in his, except his allowed him more access than mine.
"Just don't walk around with your palm facing outwards cause it gets really annoying." We laughed and Ben looked at me. "Ah we've got one problem you don't have any other clothes except those you're wearing and well they are kind of covered in blood so well I'll be right back if you could just go into the room and get changed I'll be right back." Ben quickly disappeared around the corner at a sprint. I looked into the room, it was dark and seemed quite large to be a normal room. I walked in and the lights instantly came on and I felt myself swaying slightly to try and adjust to the amount of light. I opened my eyes and looked at the room. It was huge but it didn't have what I thought it would have in it. It seemed to be more like a room that you would find in a hotel.
It seemed to be fully decorated and it was dominated by a queen-size bed and over in the corner was a large stereo system surrounded on either side by piles of CD's. I walked over and looked through the collection. They were all heavy metal and rock and most of them were from bands like Offspring, System of a Down, Linkin Park, and Limp Bizkit.
I looked around and found two wardrobes one containing all girls clothes and the other empty except for a few coat hangers and I knew that most of them had been taken and put into the other wardrobe for my roommate.
I didn't want to pry into her wardrobe as I knew it wouldn't be nice if she found someone looking through her clothes so I decided to sit on the bad and look through the CDs and play a few of them as I had been away from music for 10 years and for me that's way too long. I found some songs I liked and I decided to play them if I worked out how the CD player worked. I looked all over for a button to turn it on and couldn't find anything. The CD seemed to fit into a groove in the top but that was it. There was a slightly translucent patch on the front of the player but I couldn't figure out what it was for. I heard the metallic door slide open and quickly turned and looked for Ben but he was nowhere to be seen. Instead there was a tallish girl who had long brown hair that came past her shoulders and obscured part of her face so that I could only see a small amount of her face as the rest was hidden in the darkness of the hall. I stared for a few seconds until she stepped into the light.