Mouthful Of Blood

Chapter 5

Corbin awoke to smoke filling his lungs, each breath sending a cough piercing through his lips, his lungs tightened as light flickers of orange flashed from all around him, flames licked the sides of the hut as crackling penetrated his ears. He stood to his feet, his surroundings clouded in a haze of thick grey smoke. Grabbing his bag, He pushed through, the flames almost dancing over his skin.

"Aura!" Corbin said, coughing more.

Auras hands found his body through the smoke, pushing him towards the door, his hand gripping the door handle and forcing it open as the heat sizzled the palm of his hand, blood spewing out of every pore, his mouth opening as he whimpered in pain, they both poured out of the hut to see the tree line surrounding them covered in tall bright flames, the sky darkened with a soulless sky as night still loomed over them, his arms and shoulders pulled low as he moved out towards the smaller huts.

"GET OUT! EVERYONE WAKE UP AND GET OUT!" Corbin cried waving his hand.

People flooded out of there huts and bolted for openings in the tree lines, Corbin spun around to see a man standing by the thrown, he was holding a large piece of wood that had rags tied to the end, in his other hand he held a small silver lighter, flicking it open a flame burst from the top, Corbin moved closer as he merged the flame with the rags, a small fire lit up as he then touched it to the thrown sending it bursting into flames, as Corbin moved in he stopped in his tracks, the man's face was lit up by the movement of the flames. The colours bouncing off of his clear lightly tanned skin, his deep red almond eyes scowling through him, his face was soft, his jaw a more rounder shape, his deep black hair pushed up the ends pointing backwards yet the sides were shorter, his lips plumped and freshly stained in a crimson, patches of a pale pink peered through. He was at least six feet and wore a black hoodie with ripped skinny jeans, a green plaid shirt lay around his waist and he had deep brown boots with the laces slightly untied. Corbin was struck back by him, his face so friendly yet what he was doing was far from that. Who is this man? I can't take my eyes off of him, an electrical jolt pulsed through him as he moved closer and closer, stopping only a few feet away. The man's lips parted as if to speak yet he stood staring into Corbin, his eyes only leaving him briefly to lock onto Aura who was now right behind him.

"What are you doing? Leave these people alone!" Corbin said.

"I'm not here for them, I'm here for her" The man said, his voice higher pitched yet smooth.

"Aura? What do you want with her?" Corbin said glancing back at her.

"She's poison, I've been tracking her for a while now, I've seen what you've done to these people, hypnotising them, brainwashing them for your own personal greed" he leaned forward, "Do you get a kick out it bitch? Huh?" The man said.

"Who are you? You have no place here!" Aura said walking forward, her energy was strong and hostile, yet the man had a strong presence too.

A violence oozed from him, "Doesn't matter who I am, what matters is what you're doing to these people, you're no longer innocent. You haven't been for a while now, I see you've finally started your sadistic cult!" The man said raising his hand, gesturing towards Corbin.

"I'm not in no cult, I'm here looking for someone." Corbin said. Moving a little more closer, his hand outstretched low to the ground.

"So making these people call you king, that's not involving yourself is it?" The man said.

"He didn't I told them this, now who are you? If you don't tell us what you're here for I'm going to get really, really, violent." Aura said, her back upright and her teeth baring at him like a wolf sizing up its prey.

The man threw his head back chuckling a little before raising his eyebrows in disbelief, "And he went along with it! I will tell you my name, so that's the last name you will remember when you're dying at my feet. My name... is Cole."