Monsters and mundanes 5

5.8 End of a disease

Hazel and Amada are standing across from each other in the kitchen.
"Is it true?" Amanda asks and Hazel looks up at her a little confused. "That you're Famine" she says and he sighs deeply.
"Yes. It's true" he confesses. She looks away from him and presses her lips together a little.
"You fucking ASSHOLE!!!" She throws a glass on the floor in front of him and it breaks. Hazel stands still and looks at the glass and then back at her. She's got tears in her eyes.
"Why didn't you tell me? I was your BEST friend!!" she screams at him.
"Exaclty!" He yells back. "You think I want to tell my best friend that satan stole my soul when I was a kid and was abandoned by my parents. That satan himself sent me to that fucking rehab center to sicken those kids even more! I wanted to get out of there because I didn't want to hurt innocent people-" Amanda cuts him off.
"You tried to KILL Lola!! She was innocent. She is carrying a baby!!" Amanda yells back.
"I'm sorry, Amanda. I really am"
"No... No, you're not" She takes a few steps back toward the door.
"Being a horseman is not easy. I wasn't born one so it's like having two people in one body. One of them wants to kill people and the other is just miserable" Hazel explains walking after her.
"No, you're lying. I've had enough of you!! I'VE HAD IT!!!!!!" She screams at him. "Did you make me sicker?" she asks slowly. He stays quiet for a while. "ANSWER ME!!!-"
"YES!!!!" He screams back.
"If you were my best friend and you really cared for me you would have stayed away from me. But you worsened me. I look like a fucking skeleton. There's nothing left!" she cries. Hazel walks up to her.
"Amanda, I'm sorry-" He tries to grab her by the arm but she pushes him away.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!!!!" she screams at him before she runs out. She takes her car and drives away. Hazel's eyes turns brown before he turns into a gue and follow her car all the way to the fire department.

When she gets there it's seemingly empty. She runs around looking for her father or any of his colleges. The brown gue follows her and eventually she slips into one of the doors in a corridor with a lot of doors all the way. She locks the door and picks her phone up to text her dad. A while later both Hazel and Dustin are running through the corridors trying to find her.
"Amanda!!!" Dustin calls out.
"Dad!!?" She calls back. "Dad, I'm in here!!" Dustin follows her voice. Hazel hears it too and runs toward it.
"Keep shouting, Amanda, I can hear you!!" Dustin shouts.
"I'm in here!!!! Dad!!!" she calls and her voice echoes. Dustin finds the room where her voice is heard from and he tries to kick the door open. He keeps kicking it and trying to force it open as his eyes start glowing blue. Hazel finds another room where her voice is also coming from. He turns into the gue and slides under the door into the room. When he comes into the room, Amanda walks around the gue, unlocks the door and runs out again. Dustin manages to kick the door open but when he gets into the room there is no Amanda. He looks up at the ventilation at the top of the room and understands that's where he heard her voice from. In the corridor, Hazel takes a hold of Amanda's wrist and starts to starve her out. Suddenly a lion's roar echoes through the corridor. Amanda rips her arm back from Hazel and they both look at Elliot and Dustin at the end of the hallway. Amanda runs into Dustin's arms and Elliot stands in front of them.
"You look so pale, sweetie. We have to get you out of here. Elliot got this" Hazel watches their goodbye and suddenly he smiles. Just then Amanda passes out. Dustin tries to wake her for a few seconds but it's useless. Dustin lifts her up and carries her out. Elliot turns to Hazel.
"What did you do to her?" Elliot asks and turns to Hazel
"Don't worry. She's alive. For a while." Hazel says sinister. Elliot roars again and Hazel grabs onto his arm but nothing happens. He looks into Elliot's glowing eyes.
"You deal with the devil. There's a few benefits. I'm sure you'd know." Elliot twists his arm and breaks the bone like a twig. Then he places his claws in his throat and tears it right out of his neck.
"I've been wanting to do that for a long time now." Elliot says with a smile.

Richie and Leo are walking down to the basement together.
"You can wait here if you'd like. I'm just gonna get some stuff from my locker for the next class" Richie says and continues to his locker as Leo waits by the stairs. After only a few seconds the two sons of a hunter walks up to Leo.
"Hey, new kid!" One of them calls out. Leo looks up at them. "Where are you from?" He asks as they come up to him.
"I'm from Poland"
"A polack. Well, welcome to America." He says with a smile.
"Thanks."
"I hope the language ain't too hard." His brother says and laughs at him.
"If I'm not mistaken, there's a plane for Poland leaving in a few hours. You wouldn't want to miss that." The first one says
"You want me to leave?" Leo asks and gets a little scared
"Americans don't want no Polack in their house!"
"They're not Americans. They are Colombian." Leo answers
"Well that explains it then. You shouldn't be here." The second brother says
"I didn't-" The first one slams Leo up against the wall
"Listen to me, polack!!" His tone is suddenly angry and aggressive. Richie closes his locker and puts his bag on his back before he walks away down the hallway. When he approaches the stairs he sees Leo and the two bullies. One of them punches Leo in the face and he bends down as a few drops of blood hits the floor. Tears approaches his eyes and his heart beats faster. Richie runs up the stairs and the second bully sees him.
"Guess your friend just left you. Don't trust people around you, kid." The second brother says. Richie runs up to Nellie in the cafeteria.
"The hunter's sons are bullying Leo." He says in panic, out of breath. "I saw them hitting him." Without a word, Nellie gets up from her chair and walks away. Richie leads her down to the basement to Leo who's now sitting on the floor while the bully brothers surround him.
"HEY FUCKTARDS!!!!" They back up a little bit and Nellie walks up to them. Without hesitation she grabs one of them by the hair and slams his head into the wall of lockers. The other one tries to punch her but she catches his hand and twists it, still having him face her. Then she slams her knee up between his legs making him sit down. The first bully looks at her again and she grabs his ear and pulls it backwards making him tilt his head back. Then she puts her pinky finger up his nose and he whines in pain.
"If you touch my brother again, I will press my claw into the head of your dick and shoot poison into your balls." She threatens them angrily. She folds out her claws slowly and he screams and squirms in pain and fear.
"If you pick on him again I will rip your eyes out and make you swallow them so you can see when I separate your insides from your inside. And then I will feed your brother here to the remains of you." She looks at the other bully who stays down on his knees and holds up his hands. She places her heel on his forehead and kicks him backwards. She slowly twists her pinky around and he cries out.
"I GET IT!!!! Don't twist my brain please!!" he cries
"It's your lucky day." when she takes her pinky out blood is dripping down his nose and she wipes the blood off her pinky on his shirt. The boys run away and Nellie turns to Leo and kneels down in front of him. He looks up at her with nosebleed and a small crack on top of his nose that he's bleeding from. He looks a little scared.
"What was that? Your nails and your eyes." Leo asks still trembling.
"You saw them?" Nellie sighs
"Yes."
"I should have told you this before. This whole town is full of something called monsters. They're like normal people but more like animals." She starts explaining everything to him.
"Can I become one too?" he says when she has told him everything.
"You can but I don't want you to. It's dangerous and you're not gonna be here for the rest of your life." she says. She stands up and holds out her hand to him.
"You wanna go home?" he nods and takes her hand.