Monsters of the Night

⇔○Tick, Tock○⇔

Chasity hated it.

Hated the damned clocks that just wouldn't shut up!

She grit her teeth, focusing on anything but the clocks. Ty. That's what her mind went to. It made the clocks tick faster. Sky. Her mind felt like it was going to explode. Tears dripped down her cheeks as she was reminded of how she kept letting them die.

"It's your fault, ya know." Dragon had said to her, taunting her. "Ya could've been faster and helped them. It's a shame. My condolences, by the way."

"Shut the hell up. I know it's my fault. I know I could've been faster. I don't care about your god damned condolences." She had answered.

Yet Dragon had sympathy for her. Sympathy? No, sympathy was not the word. Dragon pitied her. She hated pity.

Dragon was trying to drive her insane. Chasity had laughed at this realization. As if she wasn't already insane. Seeing Ty and Sky dead was what sent her over the edge. Not that there was an edge to begin with.

"A soldier." She told herself. "I'm a soldier, not some civilian. I can't be insane to fulfill my duty as a soldier."

The name Selene had been made up right on the spot and it hadn't been inconsequential.

Ty was sure to have found out about her real name by now. She had heard him trying to say her full name. Instead he just got a surname: Dallis.

Her mind flew back to her old military records.

Dallis, Chasity. Age 26. Height 5" 2'. Weight 114. Race Human. Relatives REDACTED. Aliases REDACTED.

Most of it was a lie, so she wasn't particularly concerned. Like her age. She was actually 19. Her last name was Ellis. She was a Vampire-Human hybrid. Relatives and aliases didn't matter to her, Chasity didn't want special attention for having both of the kingdom's leaders as her parents, she's always kept quiet about the alias part.

"Heya, Chas!" A particularly annoying voice called. The ticking got louder as Dragon was closer. "How those clocks doing for ya? It's a shame that you're on a time limit." Chasity had stood still.

"What the hell? Time limit?" Sky's voice said.

She whipped around. Sky was being held at gunpoint, the gun to his back. "Oh, how rude of me! Sky, this is Chasity, your daughter!"

Sky trained his eyes on her. He was evidently trying to figure out how Chasity looked so much like him. His eyes darted over to Dragon. "What the hell do you mean she's my daughter?"

Chasity didn't know whether or not to be offended or glad. "Exactly what it sounds like, Chasity's your and Ty's daughter. Right, Chas?"

"I would just love to shut you down right now. If only you weren't fucking right all the time." She hissed out as a response to Dragon's question.

"Honestly! You're very rude! Your brothers and sisters in the agency will think poorly of you. I knew I should've converted you into a sleeper agent." Dragon scolded her.

For a moment Chasity was tempted to apologize, then she realized that the clocks were a part of a brainwashing and that they were trying to control her body. "So-ree." She smirked.

Dragon's smile turned into a frown. "How the hell are you resisting?" She demanded.

"Well, that's for me to know and you to find out, now isn't it?"

"Tch. This bullshit again? Honestly, stop speaking in riddles!" Dragon snapped. "Flame, shoot her."

Flame --of whom she failed to notice was a sleeper agent-- pointed his gun at her and shot. It whizzed past her ear. Dragon turned to him. "What the hell was that?!" She scowled.

"Apologies, Madame, but isn't she apart of our agents?"

Chasity placed a condescending smirk on her face, she technically was part of the agency, even if she refused it. "Looks like you're short of cards. Shame, isn't it?"

"Flame, the gun." Dragon demanded, failing to notice that Sky was still there and with a weapon.

Flame handed Dragon the gun without hesitation. If that's what a sleeper agent is, then she sure as hell didn't want to be one.

"Any last words?" Dragon trained the pistol on Chasity, her finger on the trigger.

"Yeah. Go fuck yourself." She responded, still smirking. "Also, neither of you know how to use it do you?"

"Of course we do!" She snapped. She pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. She tried again. Nothing.

"Hey. One word. Safety." She laughed. "The safety's still on, idiot. Flame turned it on. He's useless, isn't he?" Chasity's words undoubtedly wrapped around Dragon's mind. "After all, sleeper agents are really just people who are brainwashed to kill and do whatever you want them to do, aren't they? You have to order them to do everything. Isn't it annoying?" Dragon flicked her gaze over to Flame. "Aren't regularly brainwashed agents who have something of a conciousness easier to use and get? Flame can't betray the agency so trying to get him to kill me is useless. He really is useless. Turning me into a sleeper agent is a bad idea isn't it? Then you'll have to tell me what I have to do all the time. You should free all of the sleeper agents. After all, they're useless."

Dragon seemed focused on shutting down the sleeper agents with her telepathy. The gun that was previously trained on her was lowered. Chasity looked at Sky. "We need to move now, I've bought us some time."

Sky still looked shocked. "Uh, okay. Sure." Chasity ran towards him and grabbed his wrist and continued to run. Sky trailing just behind her. "So you're my daughter?"

"Yeah. Truthfully I thought you'd be a little bit more shocked about the whole agency thing."

"What's the agency?"

"A bunch of brainwashed people who plot to blow up the world or set it aflame. They also have clocks just ticking in their head which, by the way, is really fricking annoying." Chasity said. "And before you even ask, yes, I am brainwashed. Honestly, I'm going to rip the tramps jugular out."

"Huh, go figure."

The rest of the running was in silence. Sky had always tried to start up a conversation, Chasity just didn't continue with it.

"So how did you do that?" Sky asked.

"Do what?"

"The talking and the convincing. Did you do it on me?"

They were reasonable concerns but she couldn't help but feel offended. "Thanks for having so much trust in me." She said sarcastically.

Chasity let go of his wrist. She slowed down to a fast walk. She turned to Sky. "Just shut the hell up, okay? You have no god damned clue how many times I've been asked that. How many people thought I was a monster because of it? Do you really think that if I wanted to live a life that I had no god damned say in? If I had any god damned motive to live that I would've enlisted in the fucking military?"

There was a tense silence. "I thought not, and don't me any fucking 'I understand what you're going through' bullshit, because you don't. I never asked to be a fucking hybrid!" She yelled.

Sky looked shocked, Chasity couldn't find any reason to care. The clocks grew quiet in her head. For a moment she wondered if she had finally got rid of the accursed ticking but when she heard the ticking she figured that screaming and crying wouldn't have been the trick.

She turned hot on her heels and just started to walk away. "If Ty even hears a rumor about this, I'm coming straight to you."

She hoped Sky knew how fucked he was if he slipped up.