The Hunt
Her eyes showed a hint of sadness as she moved her arms so they covered her neck. She shifted further away from me until she was sat on the other side of the bed. I moved myself closer so I was sat next to her again.
"Please just leave me alone. I don't want you to get hurt. I like you James but I'm not a normal girl and you don't want to be with me." She stood up and walked over to the wardrobe. I got up and followed her placing my hand on her shoulder.
"I like you to Rose and what do you mean you're not a normal girl neither am I. I'm the most abnormal guy that is alive I bet." She chuckled and turned around to me. Her eyes were full of tears and she collapsed into my arms. She still had her hands around her neck and was trying to cover something up.
"I'm sorry, it's just that because I'm part vampire I have tendencies to bite people and especially to people who are in close contact with me." She started to cry even more than before until I placed my hand on her cheek.
"I'm more sorry. I should've not done anything like this, I mean we've just met and well, it's just I feel for you like I do no other girl and I'm sorry if I've upset you. I'll take these bags n ask Ben to put me in another room if you want." She looked up when I mentioned my feeling for you and her eyes became much clearer. I felt deep inside me that she felt the same as I did the only thing stopping her from getting close was her other half, the vampire part.
"No don't do that. I really like you James. I'm just afraid to admit it in case I hurt you cause I'd never live with myself if something happened to you because of me." Her eyes began to water again. "It's just I haven't been on a hunt for awhile and that is usually when I feed and make myself a lot less edgy. But we are going hunting tomorrow if you'd like to come with me. That would make it great." She smiled and looked into my eyes. We stared at each other for a few seconds until I began to smile.
"That would be great as long as I was with you." I held her close and kissed her cheek. I felt a sudden surge of pain in my heart as her lip touched my skin but the pain quickly dispersed when her lips moved away from my skin. "We only have one problem. Who gets the bed?" I smiled and looked to the bed which was scattered with the contents of the bags. "Well it's your room so the bed's your, so you have it I'm sure I can get to sleep in this sleeping bad." I chuckled and held up a rather old and tattered sleeping bag.
"After an hour of sorting through the rather un-tidied bags into the wardrobe which was full of Roses' clothes but there was more than enough room for both of our things.
"That was quick. Well I guess I better get to sleep but first I'll get out of these clothes cause they are kind of old." She chuckled and turned around as I began to get changed. I had just pulled up the pants of what seemed to be old army pyjamas when she turned around and looked straight at me. I quickly turned around and moved my arms over the scars. She got up and placed her arms around me.
"Do you want to talk about these?" She lifted my arms and pointed to the huge scar which seemed to have grown in size since I last looked at it. I turned to face Rose and looked straight into her face. She could see I was partly saddened even at the thought of telling her. "You don't have to tell me if it will upset you."
"No, no it's fine I was just trying to think of how to tell you without you probably hating me. It's a long story so we will be here for awhile." She smiled at me and turned to face the bed throwing off a now empty bag into the far corner with only one of her hands while the other held my left hand.
"Well come on then get into bed and tell me. Then it doesn't mean that both of us have to stand up and maybe it will be easier for you to tell me if you're lying down." She smiled and climbed onto the bed still holding my hand and pulling me onto the bed. I let her pull me and smiled. She giggled and I felt my heart jump at the sound of her laugh. I knew I really like her but I didn't know truly how I felt for her.
I lay next to her on the bed thinking of what to tell her. Questions and answers going through my head and all they while I still thought of her through all the pain and sorrow of the memories she seemed to shine through and make me smile. We talked for hours until I caught a glimpse of the ceiling from the bed. It was lit up like the nights sky. Millions of stars all shining brightly amongst all of the pitch blackness that was now the sky.
"I see you've found the most extravagant part of the room. It's what I always look at when I want to remember all of the good things in life but I don't think I need it anymore." She moved her arms around my waist and held her head next to my heart. I continued to look up until I felt my chest become incredibly cold and looked down. She had her head down and was breathing into my chest through the wafer thin shirt.
"Oh and why is that? Have you found something better than makes you happy?" I was being slightly sarcastic but I still felt slightly uneasy about truly expressing my feelings about her to her face. We had only met little less than a few hours ago and it seemed that we clicked together but I couldn't tell her y feelings until I was sure it was me talking not the demon blood or the angel blood.
"Yes. He's tall, handsome and I think I love him." She kissed my chest and lay there teetering between dream and reality while I stayed awake and continued to look up into the night sky.
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I didn't close my eyes until I could see some kind of daylight in the sky but the more I looked the less likely it seemed to happen. Something had happened to the sky. It was constantly in darkness and I had my bet that it was something to do with Chris. We laid together for hours until she began to move around, at first I thought she was going to get up but then as I placed my arm around her I could feel her whole body almost erupt in an up burst of anger and rage. It was a feeling and the only movement she was doing was ever now and then and seemed so peaceful but I knew something was wrong.
"Let him go! I love him. You can't take him away from me! I've just found him, you can't tear us apart! Bring James back now!" She was screaming in my arms, I was helpless to stop her but the only thing that came to my mind at that time was to hold her close and either make her wake up or try and comfort her while she was having a nightmare. She lay there nestled in my arms, silent again. I felt an overwhelming urge to wake her up but before I do, I want to just look at her, remind myself of what I'm saving in this world. I kissed her forehead and nudged her arm ever so slightly so she began to wake up.
"Hello beautiful. I didn't say anything while I was asleep, did I. Well the room looks intact so it must have been a quiet night. So this is what it feels to have a good night sleep." She smiled and rubbed her head against my chest. "And it's all because of you. You're my lucky charm." She gave me a kiss on my cheek and as she did I felt the burning sensation again in my chest and I knew it had something to do with the prophecy. "Did I start screaming out anytime while I was asleep cause if I did then forget what you heard it was my head talking." She smiled and sat up
"You did start screaming at one moment not so long ago but I didn't want to wake you up cause you looked so tired before and I thought even if it was bad you would make it through fine." I kissed her cheek and she turned bright red. "So what time are we meeting up for the hunt today?"
"Oh damn, I almost completely forgot about the hunt, and I really need to feed cause if I don't I might bite you and I doubt you'd like that." She chuckled and her teeth grew slightly larger. "Can you do that on demand?" She pointed towards her teeth and looked at me. The moment I thought about it the teeth almost seemed to shoot out of my mouth. "What the hell. I thought I was the only person who had overcome all the main vampire urges except the thirst but seeing as your supreme I bet you've probably already mastered the thirst while I still suffer from it." She clenched her fist and threw it at the wall. It stopped barely millimetres away but still the wall buckled even though it had not been touched and as she moved her hand there was a indentation in the wall. "Get changed quickly if you want to join us but you'll have to keep up with me if you want any of the good food." She chuckled and began to rapidly change clothes in front of me. I leaped out of bed and started searching through the bags for the combat gear that Rose had pointed out to me before last night and quickly popped into it.
Rose waited outside the door as I quickly finished up putting on the gear and making sure I had all the things she said I would need for the hunt which required a lot of weapons most of which seemed long range while she carried a sword on her back which seemed to be as light a air but deadly sharp and incredibly dangerous to dark minions.
"Took your sweet time we. Ben just came by and said they are leaving any minute now so come on, run." She sped off at a lightening fast run down the corridor before I even realised what had happened and set off after her. As I turned a corner I could see two large men standing in front of her both wielding large clubs which seemed to be emitting electric charges from the ends. They were talking to Rose and didn't show no signs of moving.
"Oi. What have you got against people like me? Is it just cause I whooped your butt last week at basketball or is it cause I'm stronger than you." Rose tried to move forward but just as she raised her foot off the ground both guys raised their clubs above their heads and began to bring them down. I felt a surge of anger flow through me and I felt myself roar through the corridor at lightening speeds and I stood in front of Rose with my hands clutching the two rods which seemed to be buckling under all the tension.
"You should be dead. What the fuck are you? You aren't even human." The tallest of the two men started to swing his arm out towards me. I just felt an automatic response as his fist drew closer and I felt my arm rip the club from the other mans arm and I felt the force of the club smash into the other guys head and could see through my eyes now all his bones, his blood and I felt it again. The thirst had been released again and this time I felt I couldn't control it. The other man quickly darted off through the door and off into the distance and I felt my fangs beginning to grow larger and the thirst became almost unstoppable until Rose placed her arm on my chest. She had moved her body in front of me and was making sure I didn't bite the guy.
"If you bite him it shows you are no different than them and they'll kill you. You know I couldn't let them do that to you." And almost instantly the thirst was gone and I felt myself become in control again and could feel the pain in my hands from the club as it sent shocks into me. I dropped it and looked at my hands. They were both badly burnt but just like the cut they healed and I felt myself feeling slightly weaker. "You need to feed. We have to get some blood in you or you won't be able to heal or do anything. Come on." She grabbed my hand and pulled me through the door towards a large metallic door which had a small people sized door cut into it on the far right corner. Rose carried on pulling me until we were outside and I got my first glimpse of the new world. The blackness of the sky shocked me. I thought it would be lighter as the ceiling in Roses' room made out like the sky was not as black as it was but it seemed to be almost pitch black apart from the functioning lamp around time which spread light far around the nearby areas.
There was a van parked next to a motor bike which had Ben's dad sitting on it. He noticed us straight away when Rose carried on pulling me away from the door as I stared into the sky.
"What the hell is up Rosie? You looked like someone's just been killed." Ben chuckled and looked towards me as I continued to look up into the sky which was still full of stars which I was sure I saw last night.
"Well lets just say James here nearly killed one of the Peterson brother's as they tried to hit me with a D-Ton and well his brother ended up running off into the crowds before we could get him. But that's not the worst part. He really needs to feed. He was gunna try and feed Petersons' body but I got him out before he did but he needs to feed and fast." The sense of panic in Rose's voice I could tell she was scared for me. She knew what would happen if I didn't feast as I guessed it had happened to her when she was cured as she didn't want to feed on anybody so she must have forced herself and she knows first hand what will happen if I don't.
"Right get in all of you we are going hunting on a nearby hunting ground. Quick, come on everybody in we need to be there 5 minutes ago so get your butts in the van now." Even his voice was slightly weakened at what he had just heard Rose say about me. Ben seemed slightly shocked but rushed to my aid as Rose tried to pull me onto the van and I felt I couldn't move anymore. Ben pushed my back into the van while Rose pulled me. After a few attempts of pulling me into the van they finally did it and Rose laid me down next to her while the van roared into life and set off down the bumpy road.
The ride seemed to be quite short but that maybe due to the fact I felt myself pass out during the ride. I could hear Rose's voice whispering in my head all the way there and all I could hear was from what she said while she was having the dream. The dream about me. What she said about me if indeed she was talking about me but I doubt she would be talking about anyone else when she seemed to like me and I liked her. My mind was in a road with questions and answers which I couldn't put together and I don't think I wanted to put them together.
The van jolted to a stop and all the passengers piled out leaving me and Rose sitting on the bench in the van.
"Rose, you know last night when you had a nightmare. You started talking during your dream and I have been wanting to ask you what your dream was about which made you scream out like that." Rose's face fell at the mention of this but not as much as I had anticipated. She must have known I had heard her last night and she knew I would ask sometime.
"Well usually when I go to sleep I have nightmares and usually these are harmless but usually when I start yelling out in my sleep then whatever I saw in the nightmare was not just a dream. It's like a vision of the future. I see the future and then I try and stop it but what I saw last night I don't think I can stop and if I could I would because it involved you and well you probably heard me last night. I love you James." My heart began to rise in my chest at the mention of the word love like she said last night but I wasn't truly sure last night of my feelings for her but now I seemed almost certain that I truly loved her.
"I love you to Rose. You are the nicest girl I've ever met and I know what you saw last night must've been bad but I promise you I won't die and I won't let anything happen to you either." I moved closer to her so I could feel the warmth of her skin next to mine and then I began to see everything differently but it was unlike anytime before. Instead of seeing through the skin I could see her skin and everything else like her bones and blood vessels but this time everything seemed to be more focussed and I could see everything more clearly and then my vision returned to normal again and I could see her eyes barely inches away from mine. I felt her lips touch mine and slowly our head become even loser than before and I could feel her hand clutching my neck. The burning pain in my chest returned and was unbearable but I knew that I must carry on if I was to save her which was all I seemed to want to do now and in the back of my head I could hear my mothers voice.
"An angel can never kiss a true mortal or especially one that has been tainted in the blood of a demon. You will no longer be able to come to heaven again and that means you will never see us again. I'm sorry son but it had to be done to save so many lives. The sacrifice of your life must be done to obtain true balance in this world. Both demons and angels must live no longer on this planet and that means all half breeds as well must die which means she must die." I felt the burning feeling subside and be overcome with a hatred and rage which seemed to overflow me.
"She will not die. I promise her that I would not allow any harm to come to her and I intend to keep that promise so you had better let all the half breeds live or I will not battle with Chris. Let her live and I will risk my life to save her and only her as she means everything to me and I will risk my life for her." I could hear many more voice almost conferring in the back of my head until my mothers voice became louder.
"Fine then that shall be granted but you must kill Chris and then you must kill yourself if you survive the battle so that no more dark others will be born from the ashes of his body." Her voice began to become fainter and fainter until it was little less than a whisper in the back of my head. I kept on kissing her until the pain in my chest had spread all over my torso, leaving no part unscathed by its burning pain which seemed to make me become more angry even though while I was with Rose I couldn't cause no harm to her. I still loved her even if I was a monster inside. I could hear someone approaching the rear of the van and could almost see them in my mind and I knew that this must have something to do with my new found blood. It was Ben and from what I could hear, the moment he saw me kissing Rose his heart beat almost trebled and I felt a hatred against me building up in him. He looked straight at me as though i had taken his heart and crushed it and then i realised just what he felt for Rose and how I knew i wouldn't be there for her forever if I had to die to save her and I didn't want to leave her on her own in a world ravaged by the unnatural.
I pushed Rose away and looked at Ben who disappeared off into the darkness of the day. I turned again and looked at Rose.
"What's up?" She pushed her head against my chest and moved her hand so it rested on my neck. "I love you." She kissed my lips and signalled for me to stand up which I quickly did while stowing my hands in my pockets. I felt that something was wrong with them. The way they felt when I brushed them against the fabric of my overcoat proved my suspicions right as I felt the skin almost hard like stone. She jumped out of the van just ahead of me and I landed barely an inch away from her and as my feet touched the ground a sudden sense of anger and sadness overwhelmed me. I felt my insides pull themselves apart when I realised where it was we had arrived and I crumpled onto the floor my fist clenched as I started to beat the floor. It was where I had lived until the events on that night and that was when I began seeing images in my head of that night when my world was changed forever and when I lost my parents.
I felt my head hit the floor and I heard the commotion around me of the people rushing to help me but the one person who I recognized the most was Rose she was there holding my head tightly and looking straight into my eyes. She pressed her lips against my forehead and I felt nothing, not warmth of her body that I had felt whenever I had kissed her before and I was beginning to wonder if this was what those creatures felt like. Doomed for life to walk amongst a world of happiness where they would never be happy and I thought to myself if I would becom just like them, a demented follower of evil who would never enjoy the happiness of a kiss from the girl I love again.
"No! Don't you die on me James. You promised me remember the promise you made to me. You can't die not when I've just found you. James I love you don't leave me alone here." Rose leaned over my face and began kissing my lips and with every kiss I felt part of my sanity leave me as each kiss felt as cold as the last when I knew that when she kissed me it felt her warmth, her love almost flow into me and I knew that she hadn't changed it was me.
"He needs blood. We need to get him to feed but there don't seem to be any crept's around here. They all seem to have fled from here. He'll die if we don't get some blood." I recognised the voice immediately. It was Ben and I could feel his voice trembling on the word die as even though he disliked me for being with Rose we were still friends and he wouldn't wish for me to die especially not now when he knew that I could save the world. "We need someone to have a blood bond with him."
"I will do it." I heard Roses' voice above all the murmuring and she lifted her head up. I felt something cold push its way into my mouth and I heard Ben say "Bite and feed". I felt myself forcing me not to bite but just the fact that knowing a meal was not that far away i felt my fangs grow and sink into her skin. I could feel her warm blood rushing through her skin where my teeth had torn through her skin and I could also feel her pulse through it. I could feel my eyes getting heavier with the blood rushing into me and I began to let me grip of her arm go and as i did I felt her body land ontop of me. I felt fear build up inside of me.