Deadly Love

Death could be sweeter.

Valentines starts poking me with the daggers and I am doing everything in my power not to make a sound. I don't want these innocent people to die because I can't handle pain. I realize knives and daggers are sticking out of my body. Valentines comes close to my ear and whispers, "Okay Nubia you're going to want to bring him."  The last knife digs into my thigh. I want to scream. I want to feel the pain through my voice but I can't. These people can't die. I whisper so loudly to him through our soul communication. His voice breaks through the silence. "Don't you think she's had enough?" I know from the sound of his voice he is leaning against the doorway with a smirk on his face. "Oh Damian, who the fuck are you to tell me she has had enough.." valentines air is being ripped from his throat. And then the body starts to drop. I don't know what's going on because I can't lift my head to see. My vision started to blur. I know that Valentine took it too far. I hear foot's footsteps start to get close to them. "You need to kiss me to seal the deal, Nubia. Please just kiss me." Damian's breath is heavy and his voice is begging me to make the deal to marry him. to be his forever. Without thinking I kiss him and all the pain goes as fast as it came my blood slowly comes back into my body and I can finally sit up straight. The elixir is still coursing through my body and I can't feel my legs or arms. Damian tries to kiss me more but I push him off. His eyes go wide and I won't look at him. He unties me lifts me and walks me over to Ezikel. "Here you go, god boy. You better keep up your end of the deal or I'll rip your halo from your head and kill you with it." Damian's voice starts to walk away and then he is gone. I look at Wzikel and can't believe I am back with one friend and I can't wait to get back to my mother and figure out how we going to save my dad.

By the time we reach the pyramid, I have feeling back in my legs and arms. My mother ran out to me and gave me the tightest hug I'm afraid she might kill me. We walk through the door and see that Damian is back and Clarissa is wrapped around him. Damian and I will eventually need to talk about this deal and if I need to abide by it or if it can be broken. "Nubia, what happened to you?" My mother asks and I fill her in on what's gone on and what I have figured out but right when I get to the part about me having to murder people Damian interrupts. "So, how many did you kill, and why the fuck are their souls attached to you?" I whip around and look at him pissed off. I can't even hide my anger I charge at him. Ezikel is about to intervene when Damian holds up his pointer finger and shakes it no. My life pick hits him in the jaw and he stumbles back then she shoves me back so I swing again. He moves, dips, and dodges my next couple of dodges. Then I kick him out into the hall. I go to kick him again and he grabs my leg and pulls me into his chest. "Keep going Nubia. I need to release all of the anger." His voice and what he is saying annoys me. I elbow him in his side and he goes down but he gets up fast and blocks my kick. He dodges my kicks my punches. Then I finally get him down. He is lying on the floor and the memory of Yessica throwing a blade at me and telling me to kill them floods in. Damian lays there and my knees hit the ground. I start to curl downwards and start to scream in sobs. I let myself break. I let my heart break. I feel every emotion I kept locked down because I couldn't let anyone see my weakness in that building. The floor starts to shake and then the building. "Is she causing an earthquake?" I hear my mother faintly. Damian comes and wraps his arms around me then my mother, exiles, and finally Clarissa arms are kind to me and they let me cry and unfold everything with each sob. Neither one of them let go of me.

We are sitting there on the mat and I finally feel nothing my soul, mind, and body are completely numb. I'm not fighting for my life anymore and I'm not sentenced to murder people. But now I am stuck. My mother eventually lets go and moves out of the room Ezikel and Clarissa let go but sit off to the side of me but Damian doesn't let me go. He keeps holding on. He is shhhing in my ear and rocking me back and forth. I'm afraid that he knows I have broken. That this was my last straw and now I have to live with these deaths. I have to figure out what to do with these souls that are trapped in my body on top of that I have a psychopath after me because she fell in love with me but she has a soul that jumped into her body. The worst part is that I feel all of these souls' grief, sadness, hopelessness and so much more. I don't know what to do with it. "What is wrong with her Damian?" Clarissa asks in a whisper. I want to answer her but I honestly feel stuck. Like I can't move. Something is seriously wrong. I close my eyes because I can't speak I can't even function. So I close my eyes and hope it will just stop. "Her soul is broken and she also has visitors inside her body and she doesn't know how to help her soul breathe through. She is lost inside her own body because it's too crowded in there. I knew it when I kissed her to heal her. She wasn't kissing me it was something else and when she called it wasn't her voice it was deeper. She just needs time to sleep and sifter through who she is and who these other souls are." He says well taking into my hair. "Did they make her a soul eater?"Ezikel asks concerned and I feel Damian shake his head no. "These people asked for her to do this so they could be freed but they also want to help her defeat Yessica or whatever is inside Yessica so she can truly be freed. I honestly think that anyone who is dying or trying to make their way to heaven or hell is being interfered with by whatever Yessica is. When I was in hell we had lost souls and when I went to go look for them they weren't lost they were Being devoured. I couldn't see what or who it was but now I know it's something very powerful that's going to take out the world for all the wrong reasons and reasons I don't get. There has to be more to the story." Damian says as he starts to lift me. He carries me to my room and lays me down on my bed I keep holding onto I'm by his shirt because I'm afraid if he leaves none of this is real. I'm not back home and I'm not free. That everything was for nothing.