Back again! I had SEVERE writers block and couldn't figure out what too put but I think this is good! Please read and enjoy! R&R.
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Carol, Kate, Airin, Raven, Lucia, and others © Me MaximumRide-Angel
Chapter 17 (and eleven considering the really long tenth) Dark Sky and Black Memories.
Carol's POV
When my eyes fluttered open I was lying down, arms and legs sprawled across and deep black leather couch with mahogany for the wood base as Kate was down and my ankle putting a bandage wrap around it.
"Don't move" I heard her say still looking down at my ankle, "Stay still, your low I can tell that much." I nodded
"On food" I said hungrily, my stomach growled. I was overwhelmed with hunger but I didn't feel like getting up, I honestly felt like I was dying. That's when Kate finished and she slid up towards me on the swivel stool she had been sitting on,
"You okay?"
"Food" I mumbled clutching my stomach weakly, "I...need...food," Kate shot to her feet.
"Wait here I'll go get you something. Anything in particular-"
"JUST food," I said again sounding louder this time. "Anything" I was dying of hunger, before she left I asked at my highest point right now which wasn't high. It was barely above mumbling,
"How long was I out?" Kate shrugged,
"About half a day, you wouldn't wake up the first few times we tried to get you up." I sighed, a half a day! Now I felt stupid, stupid and sick. I was disgusted with myself but I wasn't sure why. That's when I noticed me and Kate had been the only two in the whole lobby, everyone else was somewhere else, either outside preparing for tomorrow. Or upstairs somewhere sleeping or eating. But then something swished behind me and I bolted to my feet, something behind me was moving. Something alive, I scanned my whole area hunched over as if I was ready to pounce. But then I forced myself to retreat, No! I thought pushing my hunger down, you are not a monster! Keep it together! All around me the feeling of a true pureblood swarmed me, I felt like a true hunter. Like I was a true Vampire, but I needed to keep it together, what would happen if I went ballistic? Would I end up hurting everyone, Kate.....Airin....... "NO!" This time I yelled but I was in my knees my stomach roaring. Then I bolted to my feet and dashed toward the smell, I seized the unknown person by the throat. The person coughed and gagged, I turned them over so their succulent veins pumped the crimson fluid to where I was in full indulgence of the smell.
"Carol....." a mangled voice said my fangs scraping their side ready to plunge. "What....are you doing....?" I recognized the voice immediately. The person I had attacked, the person I had nearly killed was Nights. Dropping Nights I stepped away breathing heavily gripping my neck, Nights coughed and clutched her face realizing I had made little holes that weren't deep in any arteries but there were holes. And I had made them. I felt terrible, I felt like a monster. I had nearly killed Nights and it was all because of my undeniable hunger that got worse every second I ignored it. When her eyes met mine I knew she halfway understood,
"Nights...I-I'm sorry.....I...couldn't control myself. I didn't mean....." Nights didn't at first say a word, but I could tell her eyes were swimming with questions. Number one: why had I attacked her? Number two: Had I gone completely insane? But all she did was sigh and smile but it was faint,
"Carol.....you don't really need to apologies, it's not like I had expected you to go ballistic like that." I still felt horrible,
"I'm a monster....." I muttered turning away tears streaking my cheeks, "nothing but a bloodthirsty monster...." Nights laid her arms around me but I pushed her away. "Don't come near me!" I screamed, "I'll just end up hurting you again!" She looked so sad like I had just broken her heart, now I wanted to die.
"Carol......" I stepped away, and then I screamed as if I was angry with myself but said about nearly killing a friend. And I was. At the same time I screamed an oak wood side table about a few feet away exploded. Smoke filled the room and the alarms went off, the sprinklers hissed to life and both me and Nights were doused in a showed of water. Static erupted off of me illuminating the room, and then I saw behind me Kate's shocked face. She immediately dropped the cup she had been holding filled with blood. She had that to make me feel better, but nothing would help
"What's happening to me!? Were all in danger and it's all because of me!"
"Carol!" Nights and Kate screamed in unison, but I was already out the door running blindly threw the rain my body flashing static. Threw my rain drenched vision I managed to find a house with a small roof running around the whole side and I slid under it panting and my body feeling heavy. Then the silver cross around my chest flashed revealing my other sides face,
".......I told you, sooner or later neither of us would be able to satisfy ourselves. You can't go on like this much longer, there is a time when all Vampires have to fully kill their victims. It's in our nature; no Vampire has gone through life without doing so." I scowled and continued to cry,
"Well I can!!" I yelled as the lighting drowning out my crying, "I'm never going to do it. NEVER!" Just then a tree next to me lit on fire as one branch fell disappearing into ashes. I pounded the side of the house, my hands were badly cut from running and my feet were bruised and grimy. I felt like dying, I didn't want to live anymore, what good am I to anyone if my only purpose is sucking life from living things. My stomach growled, that was it. I couldn't take it anymore, I charged toward the nearest person I saw, I couldn't tell whether it was a monster or a nightmare but at this point I didn't care. I seized the person by the neck and as if on cue my fangs extended ripping through the person's soft skin and with every second I hung on, more of their delicious AB positive slid down my throat filling me. But I knew I was about to kill the person but my stomach wasn't full. With a final swallow I gorged on the last drop and the person fell dead at my feet. I stood there my arms hanging in front of me with blood running off my fingers.
"I.....killed....someone." I said stunned at myself, "this person is......dead." My heart slammed against my ribs. How could I have killed someone!? I was right, I really am a MONSTER! I screamed again and this time a spike that was purely black shot out from under the halfway burned tree and ripped it to pieces. The whole world seemed to be spiraling in front of me, I clasped my hands over my head and suddenly there was a high pitched ringing that wouldn't stop. Images flashed through me, sharp fangs ripping through skin. Pure red eyes like mine and a cold laughter that made my eyes flush and blend the colors in front of me together. I couldn't' see my hearing had been drained (or at least it felt that way) and my legs and arms felt as if someone was soaking them in lava. Then I saw Kate, Airin, Zero and Nights. All of my friends, then the image inverted so I could only see their veins and the juicy blood that ran through them. "Get out of my head!" I yelled pressing further against the wall the cold brick made me shiver. The last thing I remember was opening my eyes to the shocked face of Kate. Then I passed out.
Chapter End. Oh no! What's happened to Carol, will she ever get control? R&R and look out for Chapter 18 or twelfth considering the long tenth chapter! ;)