POV Gem
I can't help but feel numb. My own brother hates me. I would have expected to feel heartbroken, despair, hell even anger. But no, nothing.
I feel as though my entire body has been put on autopilot and the only thing I feel is bleakness.
I walk slowly without purpose. Aimlessly wandering the halls that don't feel like home anymore.
Was I naive to believe I could do it? That I could go back to how everything was before. Maybe.
That was a childish plea for normality. I have worked to hard to build up my skill set.
The hours of training, the physically grueling work. The psychological damage. The cruel, awful, horrendous so-called ''teachers'' I had. They made me faster, stronger, the perfect shadow hunter.
My aimless feet lead me to my parent's office. I walk inside and I see my mother working.
"Give me the impossible," I say and I also cringe hearing my voice, completely dull and lifeless.
"Pardon" My mother, asks confused.
"Give me a mission, give me the impossible. Give me no hope," I say.
"Excuse me?" My mother questions.
"I meant exactly what I said give it to me, unless you don't have anything of that difficulty. I can then go straight to the clave" I say dully.
"N-No I can give you something right now" She says scrambling through papers before finding a couple pieces of paper.
"H-How about t-this a pack of were wolves you need to infiltrate and get them to trust you" She says sounding panicked
"Did that before" I say condescendingly.
"H-how a-about a circle of demons s-sacrificing downworlders" She says shakily
"Easy, please just tell me if you don't have anything difficult Mother," I say in a bored tone.
"N-N-NO! I-I'll find something," My Mother says panicking scrambling through papers. It takes her a few seconds but she fines something
"W-W-What a-a-about a clack of vampires that have killed 5 shadow hunters already" My Mother asks
"How many vampires?" I ask
"200" She answers shakily.
"Thank will do" I grab the folder and I leave her office.
I walk to the weapons room and I grab angelical bless daggers, gas, lighter and as many stakes as my holsters will hold. Time to kill some sons of bitches.
I walk out avoiding anyone I know and as soon as my face is hit with sunlight I carve an invisibility rune.
I walk through the crowds of mundanes relishing in the invisibility. I make it in good time to the nest.
Of course it's an old manor house. This will be fun, it's always more fun to hunt your prey a little bit.
As my fail-safe I does the entire exterior with gas before walking in and lighting it. I should have half an hour before that's an issue.
I walk silently up the staircase I should have 5 minutes before they smell the smoke. Hopefully they are all asleep. I make sure every time I see a window to remove the coverings.
It's not hard to find the nest sleeping area I surround then with a circle of gas and then light it. The minute it's lite they all wake up ready to kill but they can't go near the fire and it's already spreading.
I leave them to burn and I look around the manner to make sure I didn't miss anything.
The smoke stinks my throat and I can feel the ceaseless heat of the fire creeping up on me. I have to finish up soon or I'll be dead.
Just when I think I cleared the manor I hear a noise. I instantly go on high alert. Not any less than 5 seconds later they attack.
There are at least 100 vampires or more, shit. It seems Mother dearest greatly underestimated the numbers.
I guess I did come here for a fight though.
I pull out a stake and I stab the first one that came at me in the heart before turning around and stabbing another in the arm then heart.
I battle ruthlessly, never ceasing, never giving mercy. I punch, kick, stab and even claw to survive.
One of them manages to slam me against the floor so hard that my vision goes black for a second as I hear my ribs cracking. I grab a dagger and stab it in the shoulder before shoving it off and using a stake to stab it in the heart.
The pain in my ribs grows with each passing breath I take but I block out the pain. Pain should never slow you down it should be your greatest motivator.
They are all in a circle surrounding me and the only way to escape is to kill them all and fast. I can feel my lungs screaming from the smoke inhalation.
All of the sudden then floor beneath me creaks and before the vampires know it the floor collapses. I leap to wall and I grab on to a tapestry as the vampires fall into a fiery inferno below. The fire must have weakened the floorboards. I heard the thin and frail tapestry start to rip and I leap for the ceiling chandelier. Either this plan will work perfectly or I die.
I manage to just reach the chandelier before using my momentum to launch myself from the third story window.
I feel the glass shredding my skin as I go through it. I grab onto the eaves of the house to stop myself from falling to my death to the ground. I lower myself as much as possible before jumping to the balcony below and I quickly make my way down to the ground I start walking away when I hear a creak. I turn around to see the entire house collapse. Looks like I made it out just in time.
I walk away from the house and I can't help but feel that house toppling was just the perfect representation of Alec and I's relationship. Abandon for years then when reunited it gets completely destroyed.
But the more I think about it I can't help but feel I'm the fire. Fiery, uncontrollable. Something that completely destroys everything in its path.
Maybe I am the fire.
But I'm not even close to being burned out yet.
