Enda (Boyxboy)

*Special* Chapter 39: Daddy Loves You....

Dukem's POV.

The air soldier kindly called for dragons to escort us to the Eastern region near the water purifier. I hold my breathe as the big bronze Dragonheart lowers to the ground. I hiss, throwing myself down and landing on my feet, hunched over. The fire soldier screaming out that I could've got hurt. I scowl. Kicking the door in. Freezing. In. Place.

"Mew." Small baby Skanta's cry. Skanta laying beside her 2 kittens dead. My knees buckle. Bloody handprints on the walls and footprints lead to my fathers room.

"Father?!" I push myself up onto my feet and throw open the door. Eyes growing wide.

"Dukem is he alright?" The air soldiers calls out. Before stopping behind me. Silent.

"Daddy." I whisper, eyes brimming with tears. Before I tear myself away from the shock moving towards my father laying on the bed with a knife in his hands and throat slit. His eyes black and void of life. I cry out, taking the bloody dagger from his cold pale hand. Looking at the other hand to see a piece of paper stuck in his grasp. I open his hand gently and pull the paper our unfolding it. Something rattles onto the ground from it. I begin to read...

"I won't try to be secretive to you because you probably already know. You've felt it. The urge. The blood lust. Endure it, my son. This key is to my bathing room. I have been cutting my arms lately trying to keep my mother quiet. I only have so much blood. Skanta misses you. I miss you. I've been lonesome ever since you left. Mother has been calling me home. I may need to go soon. Take the blood from my bath to her in the Orcania forests. A building with a long glowing tower will be seen. That's where we will meet one last time. I love you so much."

Tears fall onto the piece of paper. Blurring my vision. I drop the paper and fall to my knees in a hysterical sob. Clutching the key in my palm to my chest. The air soldier drags me away from the bed. Pointing to the others.

"Go and collect the blood." He pries the key out of my hand replacing it with his own. I try to blink away the pain. The soldier makes me lean my head back onto his shoulder. Crying in hysterical sobs. Eyes locked on my dads body. The air soldier makes me look at him but my eyes fall shut. I cry out. The pain in my chest too much to handle. I rush to the bed and hug my fathers dead body. The soldier stands frozen. The tears and pain break my soul more and more. I grab my dads hand.

"Please, don't leave me. Please. I love you....I need you. Ple-please. N-no. Daddy, daddy no. Daddy please." I beg, holding his cold hand. The air soldier grabs me.

"Come on, child. We must go." He swallows down his emotions, pulling me away, before taking me in his arms, "I'm so sorry, Dukem. But we must go to the shrine as your dad instructed. (I sob loudly and it echoes) I'm so sorry. Pl-please don't cry...(his eyes tear up..) Please, Dukem, don't cry."

"Daddy..." I trail off in a mess of tears and pain, the soldier grabs me and holds me like a bride as my eyes stay locked on my dad. "I-I.."

"Shhh, don't speak. Don't even move. I'll take care of you." The air soldier commands, his black hair falling in his eyes. I shake, furiously. Sobbing. "Hold onto me. Please, don't let me go, Dukem."

"O-okay..." I manage, wrapping my arms around his neck. Leaning my head into his shoulders.

....Arriving at Shrine.....

I stare at the ground as the soldier leads me through the shrine. Vile's of blood and the foul smell of death flood my nose. Immediately I look up to see bodies hanging from the ceiling. My lip quivers. These are mothers children. 2 younger men and girls hang by black ropes looking as if they were there awhile. I feel the guilt hit me. They didn't want to shed blood of the ones they love so they took their own lives to feed her. My hands shake. That could have been me. The air soldier nods to the others.