Soiled Love

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Monsters must eat humans, its their way of life. Monsters are greedy, selfish and only think about themselves. As long as they live, that’s all they care about.
I guess after meeting this boy I re-wrote the rule book.

I’m Riota. A monster. And I have to eat humans to live, just like every other monster. We don’t care about eating them. We’re not supposed to, we were always told that they are the scum of the earth and their only purpose is to be our prey, our food. We have been told that since we were young.

We are told that they are born with only one purpose, to be eaten. Grown and then over time harvested.
They are to grow up in fear of us monsters.
Then we go in and eat them, not all at once, but enough to make them scared of us.
We go and eat them without a second thought of who they are, where they have come from and so on.

However, this guy was different. I almost did kill him, but I didn’t. Little did I know at the time that he’d become the most important person to me.

We monsters have been around for many century's. We have always been the better kind, we had skills humans lacked, we could do things humans couldnt. We also lived longer, if you didn't get killed that is. But most of all, humans respected us. It was mainly a fear based respect, but still respect none the less.

They did sacrifices, but most the time we still fed whether it was a sacrifice or not. What difference did it make to us? Three people every two weeks wasn't going to cut it, we did go to different villages, but most the time we were still hungry. So we fed even when they didn't do sacrifics. They obviously didn't like that, but what are they going to do? Nothing. They knew they'd be killed within seconds if they tried to fight us.

That's probably why they made better weapons, such as guns.

When these new weapons came around it gave the humans a currage boost. They no longer respected us, still feared us though, but not as much as they had before.

When they first made the guns they did pose us a bit of a threat, after they killed a lot of us we then decided that instead of coming out in the day as well as night, we just came out at night. It didn't make much of a difference for us, we had amazing nightvision. It was almost the same as seeing in broad daylight.

So we came out at night, fed, then went back. The humans would wake the next morning with parts of dead body's or sometimes missing ones to deal with. They didn't like this though, so they made some of their people stay up at night with large, flaming torches pushed into the ground, the flames had beautiful shades of oranges and yellows. The torch was mainly metal and wood. They must've thought the pretty colour and  brightness mightve scared us, with us apparently being unpleasant to look at as well as gloomy.

The people who would stand watch were used as guards, to make sure we didn't come and kill anyone.
A pretty silly idea to be honest, yes it made them feel protected, but we just counted how many guards there were, make sure there were more of us, then we kill the guards and eat them. They were basically handing themselvs over to us.

They kept doing this, not realising it was easy for us.

However, when they made better weapons and things like technology it did make it a tiny bit harder for us. They made things that could pick up body heat, it sort of worked for them but the monitors often picked up their own people a well as us.

They created glasses they would wear at night to help them see in the dark better, it clearly was more effective then their heat detection as we had a lot more of our people killed by these night glasses.

But we were fast, so we learnt how to move even quicker to dodge their shots fired. It worked most the time, we'd either see or hear them load the rifle or whatever type of gun they were using. We then had a very short amount of time to move out the way of their firing line.