Shackles of a Demon

Chapter Two

Chapter two: Cellmates

~ Raphael ~

I slowly cranked my head up at the illuminated street sign looming over me.

 Bus stop... I did it. I made it to the bus stop down the street from my house. I sighed.

 Congratulations Raphael, you made it twenty feet from your house and your hearts already pounding. How fucking brave are you...? I thought gripping onto the strap of my book bag in frustration. I stared down at the headlights approaching me. I reached into the pocket of my jeans and fingered the five-dollar bill for an all day bus pass. The buses tires screeched to a halt and the doors groaned when opening up to me. I hesitated and I stepped onto the bus, stuck the money in the slot and out popped a pass. I headed toward the back of the bus, slumped down into an empty seat, and had two words dancing around in my mind;

 I'm free.

~ Zakaru ~

My soul felt unfilled. You'd think after all this time my soul would have felt this way a long time ago. My eyes glazed over with more tears and I stared vacantly up at the dull gray ceiling. I felt my body beginning to numb everything out. Xeno had been in here at least four times since he killed Maria two days ago. That was twice more then normal. I didn't feel what he was doing, but I fought. I didn't want him to think I had given up.

 "Tell my sister I said good-bye..." Maria's words were buoyantly tossing around in the inner walls of my brain. She wanted me to escape. She wanted me to be free. I wanted to be free. I had realized when Xeno took away Maria that love only caused a person to hurt more then physical pain ever could. Freedom was the only thing I had now.

"Hello, Zakaru..." My head unwillingly dragged up to meet Xeno's eyes with a glare hiding behind my own.

"Go away," I sneered turning my back to him. He will not break me... I thought obstinately. I will live and you will not break me...

"Get up!" He snapped throwing the cell door closed.

"Kiss my ass," I retorted. Instantly I regretted this.

"With pleasure," He purred disdainfully.

"No! Get off me!" I bellowed when his hands reached over and commenced ripping my shirt off. I reared back and swung at him.

"Hold still," He seethed sinking his jaws into my throat.

"Ah~!" No! I will not let this happen! I growled and tore him off me throwing his body into the other side of my cell bars. I hissed at him.

"Stay away!" I screeched, pressing my back against the walls, getting as far from him as I could. I blinked and he was on me with anger and lust pouring out of his eyes.

"No~!"

~ Raphael ~

Where the hell am I? I thought looking around. I stared down at the boarder line between a gravel road and what looked like an on ramp back to the highway that led into the city. I stared at the back of the bus as it turned around and drove off with a cloud of dust chasing after it. I peeked down at my ridiculously small teeny weenie map that I had. I turned it over, rotated it, looked at it in every way humanly possible to look over a folded piece of paper and still had no clue where I was. I gave up and torn the map into pieces.

"Hello? I called out to someone I knew wouldn't be there. I looked out in front of me past a field of sunflowers at a small mountain range. The over lapping, transparent mountains stood out against the burning sun. West coast maybe? Somewhere? I got on bus, after bus, after bus for the last two days just to find myself completely lost. In a place that's actually kind of beautiful, and peaceful. It's not like I actually knew where I was trying to go but still, anything was better then home.