Walking around in a grey dead field like place I wondered what had happened to me. The last thing I could remember was sitting in Jess' chair with her tending to my leg. Looking down I realized that my leg was still bleeding and now looked infected. Fucking joy. I mentally slapped myself for being so stupid and allowing myself to get wounded by Al. Sighing I just continued to walk around the dead place.
I had been walking for what seemed like hours. Surprised that I wasn't limping due to the wounded leg, I stopped to inspect it. Just touching it sent a jolt of tingles up and down my leg. It was asleep. A twig snapped from behind me causing me to jump and turn around all in one swift movement. Standing before me was exactly what the book had said I would look like in my full demon form.
"You're the one who was talking to me weren't you?" I asked slightly defensively.
"Yes. I'm what Hellions call an instinct. I'm your darkest desires and what not." She informed.
"What did we do to piss of all these demons?"
"We walked away from Hell leaving everyone behind for a prophecy."
"What prophecy?"
"The prophecy states that the ultimate darkness will find the one mate that will change the darkness for good and potentially turn the darkness to light."
"So more or less we left everything we knew for some guy that may or may not exist?" I snapped.
"Yes. But that 'man' may also be a woman. The prophecy just says mate. So our mate maybe man or woman."
"Ok, I suppose that we really are demons."
"Yes."
"So, what do we do now?"
"Now we need to figure out to wake up."
"Wake up?"
"Yes, you've been poisoned by Al. The poison is only active once the nail is broken or bent."
"Shit. Well that explains a lot about this." I said pointing to the bleeding wound on my leg.
"This is something you need to do Sarleen. You need to start going by your real name otherwise you may not be able to ever use your powers. Be careful of your powers. Get to angry and you may not be able to handle your powers. I'll send you Dowser, our beloved and loyal hound of darkness. You will only be able to see him if you properly call him. That you will have to figure out." The instinct stated before leaving me there in the middle of the dead place.
Sighing, I continued to walk around this depressing place of death. It felt like I was walking in circles. I had passed the same dead creepy tree like three times now. Finally getting annoyed, I just sat down and leaned against the tree. Without realizing it, I had fallen asleep against the tree. Suddenly a voice woke me up.
"It's not the wisest idea to sleep in the land of the dead." A hooded woman stated.
"Great, and who are you?" I snapped since I really didn't like being awoken.
"I am Death."
"Death?"
"Yes, I am Death. I'm here to bring you home and to ascend from your human shell."
"I'm not dead. I'm just in a very fucked up dream. I'll wake any moment now." I insured.
"My dear Sarleen. Do you think Lucifer had sent Al just because he thought you needed something to do? My dear, dear Sarleen, he sent Al to the middle realm to bring you back home. He is not very pleased with what you have done."
"So I've heard." I sighed.
"He wishes to have a word with you Sarleen. It's wise not to keep him waiting." Death stated as she ripped open a red anomaly. "Shall we?"
"Allow me to go first." I said as I walked over to the opening.
"Be my guest." Death said gesturing for me to go first into the anomaly.
As I entered the shining red light I waved my hand in front of Death's path and closed the anomaly. Suddenly I sat straight up in a hospital bed. Looking around I jumped out of bed, ripping out all the tubing and wires connected to my being, a stormed into the hall. I recognized the hallway; I was still in the ARC. Walking down hallway after hallway I finally came to a room that I knew well, the ADD room. Looking around I finally found the rest of my team. I headed up towards them just find them all in Lester's office. I entered after knocking twice.
"Sorry for interrupting." I smiled as they all gasped. "What?"
"K-Kat?" Becker stuttered.
"Yes?"
"You um...look different." Connor said as he took a couple of steps back.
"I what?" I gasped as I headed out of the room with Abby right behind me.
"Kat. Hey Kat wait up," Abby called as she finally caught up to me. "Here, use this to see what we see." She said as she handed me a make-up compact.
I looked at the reflection that stared back at me. My black hair was straight and for some reason seemed different. My eyes were a stunning electric blue and were almost glowing. I had slightly elongated fangs and my nails where thick and now black. But the most shocking feature was that I now had a pair of black wolf ears sticking out of my head. What the hell has happened to me? I gasped mentally.
