Beyond His Evil

Twenty Nine

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It's been two days since I returned to safe land. And with great displeasure, I realised I had become even more popular than I ever thought I was. I couldn't leave my room without a couple of idle humans or hunters standing outside my door, just waiting for me to leave my room so they could bombard me with questions which I always responded to by banging my door at their faces.

Sometimes, they would just stand outside my door, and talk about me like they didn't know I could hear. Their words didn't get to me anymore, it was just irritating.

I hadn't seen Devon or Evelyn since I got back. I only saw Kathryn the day I arrived. After that, it was either I had slept off before she got back or she had left before I woke up. There was a massive celebration for safe land's anniversary coming up, so everyone was super busy.

To others, life was just the same, but to me nothing could ever be the same anymore. Not after everything that had happened. There were so many unanswered questions, so many mysteries and I was tangled up at the centre of it all.

One thing was clear to me now, and that was the certainty that I might be  different from other hunters but I wasn't powerless . And my mom knew what I was. Somehow, it all made sense now. All the times she stopped me from rebuking myself, all the times she said things about me that I hadn't taken seriously.

I needed answers, and there was only one person that I knew could give them to me, and that was Rya.
The things she said to me at the library were an indication that she knew something, and I was going to find out what.

I stared at my reflection again. I had been doing that a lot since I got back, hoping that my eyes might change its color again but it never did.

I stepped out of the bathroom and walked to my wardrobe. After moving a few clothes, I had the holy book in my hands. I carried it to my bed, sat and placed it before me.

With a deep breath, I opened it. The pages smelt exactly how it looked, ancient.

Unsure of where to begin,  I remembered Devon, and as annoying as it was, thoughts of him in my head never ebded. With him in mind, I flipped the pages to the section about demons.

The first thing on the page was a drawing. It was more of a sketch but it was unsettling. The demon had long sharp claws, it's mouth was open, and it's elongated canines were on full display . The eyes were crimson red, but had those wierd black vien like lines that had surrounded Devon's eyes when he had assaulted me.

I read what was written beneath the drawing.
'The abomination in it's true form.'

I continued reading. What was on the first page was about how they are formed by the union of a vampire, and a hunter. Flipping to the next page, I found out that they kill their mothers by slicing out of their wombs. I didn't know that.

I read;
'A demon at birth is the size of a seven year old human. At birth, their vampire side is more dominant than their hunter side which meant that their thirst for blood is insatiable. They are most dangerous at birth.
However, they are able to control their thirst with time. They do not require blood for survival like vampires, but they sometimes thirst for it.'

I knew they were half vampire but, I didn't know that they actually consume blood just like vampires.

'Their hunter side enables them to possess various gifts, most common of all teleportation. There aren't a lot of demons in existence, and whenever a demon is seen it is most advisable to kill them because demons are deadlier than vampires. They are deceivers, never trust a demon. They are beautiful creatures when they are not in their true form, this can be very misleading. It's all a facade, and evil hides in facades .They are evil. Be warned.'

And that was the end of it. I shut the book, and worked on controlling my breathing, and the hammering of my heart. The woman had said those words to me, and now they were in the holy book.

I placed a hand on my chest as I remembered some words Devon had told me .

"I know everything about you Kira ".

"Don't trust me Kira "

"You'd be making a huge mistake of you did ".

My God !
I remembered the book I had seen in his room, where he had written about healers and flipped the pages of the holy book till I found a section about them. The information about them didn't even cover a full page, but I read anyway.

'Healers are the only hunters created by God himself. He had created them to heal the Earth of all evil. Their power was limitless. We the angels felt they were even more powerful than the demi gods, because they had the gift of life within them . The only difference was that they were mortal, and could die. The vampires felt they were powerful enough to bring back Zalas's soul, because they say that with him they can take over the universe. When they were unable to, the vampires killed them all. There has been no account of a survivor.'

And that was the end. I sighed, then I remembered the child of Zalas.
I flipped the pages till I found the section about him.
There wasn't much information at all, it was almost a poem.

'A child born of evil and pain.
We still mourn the loss of our  immortal to this day.
Cursed is he forever.
He shall bear the same fate as Arathes the fairy said.
But oh ! how can something so evil be so beautiful.
No creature compares to his beauty.
With markings all over his body that we don't know the meaning of, and the most beautiful silver eyes that shine so bright.
How can something so beautiful be so evil ?'

Then my eyes caught the drawing of an eye at the bottom of the page. It was silver, really beautiful. And it looked exactly like the one I had seen in Devon's room.

I went back to the page about healers, and checked the bottom of the page as well . Something was written in really tiny writing there, and I had to squint my eyes to see it properly.

'Then we heard the prophesy,' it read, 'another shall come , one more powerful than the others, and in their hands they shall bear the gift of life and death.'

I went back to the page about the child, walked over to my wardrobe and fished out the paper I had taken from Devon's room with the eye on it, and observed the two drawings side by side. It wasn't the exact drawing, but it was definitely the same just from different angles.

I had a headache. I hid the book in my wardrobe, and grabbed a hoodie. I put on my hoodie as Rya came to my mind. She had spoken of a prophesy . Was it the same one in the holy book ?
The same one the woman had spoken of ?

" ... When you've read all that you need to , find me ".

I had to find Rya .

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