Helpless

"I guess I don't have any other choice, but to fight. Very well, that is how I wanted it anyway."I said as I put the unconscious girl on the ground. "if you want her, you have to take her from my lifeless hands!" I yelled.

"Fine by me, I guess you'll have to learn the hard way. But if you run away I'll let you go, because I'm very hungry…"

"YOU PIG! What thinks I will let you eat this innocent girl you birdbrain."

"Know that's not nice. I TAKE WORDS LIKE THAHT OFFINCIVELY YOU BRAT!"

"Shut up and get ready. You're going down fat bat."

As I pulled out my sword he just vanished." Where did he go?"I asked myself as I felt a presence behind me.

As I looked over my shoulder I realized that he had gotten past me like it was nothing. I started to rush at him with my blade pointing right at his belly. "Let's see what you're made of."I said to myself as I pierced his stomach. To my surprise he was literally empty. "Nothing…not even blood?"I said as I questioned my actions as fast as he reacted and threw me against a wall. As I hit the wall I got paralyzed from the shock and wasn't able to move.

"I guess you were hoping for blood at least huh? Well you're not the only one who made the mistake of thinking that I'm a human. I'm actually a demon called a dreath. My name is Burden the dreath."

"You soulless monster. Don't you have any sympathy or any kind of conscious at all?"

"Don't judge me boy. I had a soul just like you once. I was one of the crimson carriers just like you are now. But that was a long time ago. If you want me to open your eyes, you'll just have to wait until I'm done."

As he ate the helpless girl I started to feel woozy and almost past out. I couldn't even do anything about it. I was helpless and unable to even help the more helpless. I was like a baby in a sewer. Only there to observe.

"Now that I have finish I think you deserve an explanation. Where does a carrier go when he dies in battle… huh? Well if you don't know already they become a dreath and have to eat flesh to survive. When I died from another carrier's blade my soul was given up to let me survive. Without a soul is not a way to live. It isn't even possible. You have to eat others to survive and believe me. You won't be able to resist the urge and calling of the other souls. Those delicious soul call to you when you're hunger, and they sound so seductive as they chant your name constantly until you just eat them up. Unfortunatly once you eat one you are never the same again."



"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because I want you to know what awaits the death of a carrier so you can prevent it from ever happening again. Our brethren should never have to carry that feeling again. If you're wondering I'm the youngest of the dreaths alive on this planet so I know more than you will understand." he said as a tear ran down his face."But next time we meet I will kill you or you will kill me. I can at least promise you that. This information is what matters the most." He said as he once again vanished into thin air.

Once again I was left helplessly waiting to die. As the conscious world faded away I thought about my family. Would we ever be united again? The way it was looking I thought it would end with me dead here… alone… alone and cold.