Ravaged An End of Days Novel

Chapter 6: Dimitria: Hunted vs. Hunter

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Dimitria

Hunted vs. Hunter

"Run Babe," Sam was shouting as she was ushering us to run for our lives. "RUN!" Behind her were the gaggling screams of the Draugar as they were rushing towards us, slowly closing the gap between us. Thought of trying to turn around real quick and throw some magic, but something in me told me not to. Something told me to keep running. To get to somewhere safe.

Somewhere...that wasn't here.

I don't know why or how I managed to do it, yet, I always found myself either running from someone or something, or on the run trying to escape some part of my past that I always tried to conceal from those who didn't know, and those who hadn't earn the respect and trust to be told of such unspeakable things that had happened when I was younger.

Not everyone knew.

Not everyone saw the scars or bruises.

Not everyone saw my suffering. My pain. My tears.

My Loss.

I craned my neck just in time to see a Draugar bringing down its bone skewed blade directly on me as Kait and the others screamed in horror, thinking that it would connect and end my life; just like so many other things form my past had tried to do.

As I felt the wind from the blade nearing me, I used my magic to open a portal wide enough for me to jump through it headfirst, and not thinking about where I would end up. Not like that matter any.

Anywhere was better than there.

I wanted to go back. Really.

I wanted to go back and help save Brittany; I felt partly responsible for what happened. I should have seen that coming. I should have reacted better—faster.

I was better than that—better than this.

Running away me feel like a coward, and I was anything but. I was trained and bred as a warrior. A fighter.

I knew I had Erin, and fucking hated leaving her in the hands of that psycho. No, that wasn't even the correct word to use—fuck it. Olivia was a fucking monster. And what made it worse? I was once again at my wits end running from something—from someone who desperately needed me the most.

Olivia. Zombies. Hell, even this new Joshua person, it all didn't matter, it all yielded the same thing. I was running as If I was the one being hunted.

Which technically...that wasn't a lie. Since I was.

As I tumbled through the portal that resembled an ocean all around me, I drifted towards a memory of my past, but this wasn't as painful as the others, but still it had it bared it marks on me and made remember why I was here.

I had met her for the first time, and it was completely by accident too. I was living in London with the rest of my housemates, at the time of the incident; and at the time, I didn't know who or what I had gotten myself into.

I was with Kait, and we were just enjoying a day out to ourselves on the side of Waterloo, on a beautiful autumn day, where the leaves had just started to turn colors to their golden yellows and vibrant reds. We had just come off the tube together looking for a place to eat when we crossed through the Bernie Spain Garden, enjoying the weather when my eye caught something out of the ordinary. And I couldn't pull away from what it was either.

Before she could even get a word out, I started making a run towards the thing, or person that had attracted me. I followed my instincts to the source, only to come to find out that someone had been left by the rippling waves of the incoming tide from the Thames River.