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Chapter 6
Feeling Like A Monster
~Korra's POV~
I'd walked out of the bathroom and walked back to our table. Mako looked concerned and asked if Asami was okay. I said she would be fine and she was just feeling sick and I really needed to take her home. I felt really bad that we had to leave our dates early and I told him I was sorry. Iroh walked up looking confused and I turned and told him we had to go and told him we were sorry as well. They both said it was okay, and I rushed out the door to my car.
I couldn't believe this was really happening to her. I wasn't mad that our date had been cut short. I understood why we needed to go. As I walked out the door I saw Asami get out of the car. I also saw the girl who had fallen on the skate floor. The look on Asami's face was scary and I ran to her as fast as I could.
"Asami!" I called. I hardly made it in time to stop her. I grabbed her shoulders and looked her in the eyes. I think I saw a tint of red in her squirmed and tried to push me aside. "Asami, stop, this isn't you. You can control it."
I looked over my shoulder and told the girl to leave. The girl looked confused but then she saw Asami's face and ran to her own car. I heard her ignition start and she drove away. I looked back to my best friend; her expression had turned from the terrifying rage I had just seen in her eyes to panic. She started to cry again and got back in my car. I got into my own seat and leaned over and hugged her.
"I told the guys you weren't feeling well." She nodded. "You're going to be okay. Let's just get you home, okay?" She nodded again and I started up my car and headed to her house.
~Tahno's POV~
My plan had failed. I had used compulsion on a random guy and told him to push the girl down on the skate floor. The girl had gotten hurt and I saw Asami react to it, but she resisted…again. Instead of running toward the girl like I thought she would, she ran to the restroom. It was very strange that a human transitioning could resist blood like she had twice now. I was infuriated, it was impossible that she had resisted this long.
Once I had bitten my victims, or any other vampire bites a human, they have five days till the venom leaves their system. Asami only had 1 more day. Usually the 2nd day was the longest they were able to resist human blood, she had resisted for four days… I had to find out something soon. She would taste blood before the fifth day had passed; I was going to make sure of it.
~Asami's POV~
When I had jumped out of the car I had headed in the direction of that poor girl who had fallen on the skate floor. I was about 3 feet away from her when Korra grabbed me and said something. I hardly heard her and tried to push her out of my way, half blinded by the urge to get to that girl's blood. I forced myself to stop and turned away and quickly got back into Korra's car.
I had returned to my fetal position in Korra's car when she drove to my house, legs wrapped against my chest and face in my lap. My head still hurt so bad I wanted to scream from the pain, but I tried to keep quiet so that Korra could concentrate on driving. I still had tears running down cheeks when we got there, but I was crying silently.
I climbed out of her car and she walked with me inside my house. I climbed the stairs to my room and crawled in my bed. Korra tried to soothe me, but I couldn't hear her over my thoughts and the headache that was wrecking my skull. I pressed my hands to my head and asked her if she could get me something to stop the pain. She left and came back with a bottle of aspirin and a cup of water. I swallowed three of the pills and lay back down.
"I'm going to stay here with you for the night, okay? I don't want you to be alone." Korra told me. I nodded.
I was really turning into a monster, today had proved it. I didn't just want that girl's blood at that moment, I needed it. I had wanted to kill that girl in the parking lot, drain her dry. If Korra hadn't been there to stop me I probably would have. In front of everyone there… I was so grateful Korra had been able to stop me. I don't even know how she was able to stop me.
From everything I've ever heard or read about vampires, I shouldn't be able to resist like this. I've ran away from blood twice now. Maybe everything written about them is wrong. I don't have super strength, or compulsion, or anything like that. Maybe it is because I am "transitioning?" Will I die if I don't drink blood? There are so many things I wish I had the answers to. If Tahno really did do this to me, I want to know why. Maybe I am crazy.
I am so scared.
~Mako's POV~
The girls had to go suddenly and the date was cut short. I didn't really mind. Iroh was pretty cool with it too. Asami didn't look very well and I just hoped she felt better soon. I think I saw something strange change in Asami's face when she cried out in pain at the table. Her eyes looked red for a moment. It was probably just the lights in the room, or I imagined it, but it was still strange.
I and Iroh drank the all the smoothies he had originally bought for the four of us. They were pretty damn good for only costing two bucks. He'd gotten two strawberries, a chocolate and a mixed vanilla/chocolate.
"Too bad the girls had to go, I was having a good time." I said.
"Yeah, I hope Asami feels better tomorrow. She looked fine before I left to get the drinks." Iroh answered me slurping up the rest of his second smoothie. "Hope she's okay."
"I'm sure she'll be fine. You like her, don't you?"
"Yeah, but so what? It's not like you don't like Korra." He said bumping my shoulder. That was true, I'd never met someone like Korra. She's pretty awesome. We got up and headed out of the skating rink.
"You ready for the game tomorrow?" It was going to be our final game of the season, and we hadn't lost one yet this year. "We're up against the Wolfbats, were gonna cream them." Iroh said.
"We sure are, their team is a bunch of wusses."
~?'s POV~
Tahno was getting on my last nerve. He still hadn't made sure the Sato girl had changed. I don't do well with failures, there was no reason he shouldn't have gotten her to drink blood yet. I needed her for my plan, and Tahno had better get his act together. I wouldn't have a need for him anymore if he didn't.
My assistant walked into the lair. She was the first I had ever created, and had never let me down. She walked up to the couch I was sitting on.
"You called for me?" She said with a smile that resembled between psychotic and evil on her face.
"Yes. I need to take care of something for me." I quickly explained my plan to her. There was no doubt in my mind she could take care of the Sato girl if Tahno couldn't complete the simple task I had given him. I also told her to take care of him in her wicked own way if he failed.
"Certainly." She said licking her fangs.