Chapter 4: Hidden Evil

While walking down an ally Thorns jumped to barely avoid a charging monster that seemed almost human. What the hell is that thing? he thought before slamming a ball of ice into the creatures back. Looking at it thorns saw it had pitch black, marble-like skin that served as armor. "Shit..." Thorns said before getting sent flying back.

The beast hung over Thorns and growled. "The mistress seeks your assistance." it said before knocking out Thorns and dragged him off to an unknown place where painful memories live.

Keme's eyes widened from the shadows and she followed after them silently.

In an old abandoned building sat Emily Light, who Luna was searching for. When the creature came in with Thorns Emily smiled. "Good job my minion. Set him down in that chair and tie him up." she said.

After half an hour Thorns woke up to see Emily and struggled to get out of the chair. "Emily, let me go!" he yelled.

"Is that how you greet your old friend? It's been six years since I last saw you. My how you have grown up," Emily said in a devilish tone "Tell what you've been doing all those years."

Freezing the knot in the ropes Thorns stalled for time. "Tell me why in the hell I should tell you? That was when I sealed that evil for only six months and you were different when the seal was still active." he said.

Keme was hiding in the shadows, her eyes wide as she watched the encounter.

"For starters you tried to help me. Where did your kindness go?" Emily asked rhetorically. Her creature stood in front of the door that Keme was hiding behind. Thorns looked over at it and spat on it's face. It roared before charging towards Thorns, who managed to get on his feet and jump up in time to land on it's head. Snapping the frozen ropes, the chair he was tied to fell to the floor and Thorns smiled wickedly.

"Now now you ugly beast. Where are your manners?" Thorns asked in a benevolently evil tone as his skin turned gray. The monster roared again and charged at the now gray skined Thorns, who only seemed to laugh like a maniac before grabbing it by the throat. He freezed said monster in pitch black ice and smashed it into hundreds of shattered pieces.

"Grrr, Thorns, you'll pay for that!" Emily yelled as she prepared to throw a deadly ball of flames at Thorns. He laughed again before releasing a heavy pitch black fog.

"Sorry to run Emily my dear, but I have other plans, and I'm no longer Thorns, so call me D.T. Bye now!" he laughed through the fog before bolting out the door onto the streets of NYC. D.T. ran to Central Park before his skin turned pale white again. Breathing heavily, he sat down on a bench and sighed.

It happened again. I let him take over. Thorns thought as he looked around.

Keme's eyes widened in shock and she followed after him. "What was that?" She asked, popping out of the shadows behind him.

Thorns jumped slightly before calming down. "It's something I would rather not talk about. It's kinda deep." he said while looking around to see if any of Emily's creatures were following him.

Keme nodded softly and sat beside him. "Don't worry, I took care of her goons that were chasing you..."

"Okay, I'll tell you. Emily was a part of my past. I found her while wandering at 11 years old. I could see the evil within her and my family was specialized in sealing away evil. I could only prevent it from taking over her mind for 6 months. When the seal broke, a little bit of the evil within her transferred to me, causing a dark and sinister version of myself to take over whenever I go over the edge with my anger." he sighed. "That is why I don't want to be close to anyone. I fear I may hurt them."

Keme looked at him sadly and put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry..." Was all she could say.

Katelyn left the house she had been in, it had felt like months went by. She got into her car, and drove to Times Square, or she was going to. She dozed off for a moment, accidentally turning left into the other lane. The consequences came soon after, she hit a blue ford pick-up.

"Wait, sh..." Her words were cut off by the instant terror of being in a car crash. Her head hit the steering wheel violently, when the twisted metal came to a quiet she wasn't sure of anything. She wasn't sure where she was, what happened, or even who she was. She was if horrific pain.

"Oh god, where am I? Someone help me!"

Keme looked up in shock when she saw a car crash into a blue pick-up. She jumped up and rushed over. "Oh my gosh!" The man in the pick-up seemed uninjured. He managed to climb out of his car and looked in horror at the wreckage before calling 9-1-1. Keme ran to the other car and gasped. "Katelyn?" She asked before using her shadow magic to pry the door open and gently lift her out of the car.

"K... Keme, please tell me that is really you." The pain was really starting to become unbearable. "W...hat happened, last thing I remember w... was dozing off, and then being here. In a sh... shit-ton of pain." She quickly noticed blood soaking through her jacket.

Thorns ran over, his eyes glowing as he pulled out a small paintbrush and put a small symbol above Katelyn's wound. It glowed before preventing anymore blood loss. "That should keep you from losing anymore blood for now, but we should get you to a hospital immediately," he said before picking her up gently and looked at Keme "Check on the other driver. I'll get Katelyn to a hospital."

Thorns then ran off to find the closest medical center to get Katelyn treated properly. "Don't worry. You'll be taken care of soon. Just sit back and try to hang onto consciousness." he said while dodging people in his way while trying to be careful not to undo the symbol holding off the blood from pouring out onto the ground. I'm not going to let another die. Not while I'm here.

A/N

I'm ending it there. I hope you enjoyed reading and continue to read. R&R.

Vamp out.