The Road to Darkness

Case 3: The Ignorance of Humanity

"I know you want revenge but these kids don't need to be part of it" I bargained, inching closer to him.

"Oh but they are, I'll make you feel pain! Just like the pain you made me feel when you put me away!"

He hissed gripping his knife tighter.

"I was your first arrest and I got outcasted for being caught by a rookie, you ruined my life!" he yelled lunging forward.

I used the same move I used on the thug in the alley from before but this time he twisted me around and flipped me on my back. I fell with a heavy thud before rolling to the side, narrowly dodging his first stab at me. I kicked his hand and got up from the ground in one quick move, his knife now plunged into the ground. We went into a struggle to overcome the other, pulling at each other any way possible, anything to grab the knife.

"I'll...make...you... pay," he threatened as we rolled on the ground.

"How...are...you going to do that without...your...knife!" I shouted, pinning him down.

He grinned, our eyes matching when he struck me in the head with a blunt object and pushed me away.

"With this!" he cried, gripping my gun.

My head rolled before I locked back onto him, red engulfing my right eye.

"You think I'm scared of getting shot?" I exhaled, getting closer.

My right temple ached, it had cut skin and was now bruised. Vision to my right eye would soon be gone, I had to do something, Now!

"No I didn't expect you to be but-" he turned around. "They might." He pointing my gun at one of the kids, laughing hysterically.

"Wait, stop!" I cried out.

He gave me a huge smile.

"Why should I?" he wondered, putting the gun up to one of the kids head.

"I'll give in, you can take me instead" I gave in, getting on my knees.

"That's more like it," he proudly walked, cuffing my hands and throwing me to the side.

He got his knife from the ground and began spinning it in his hand, "yes, this is what I imagined! This is revenge!" He laughed. "But I believe it's missing something"

He thought for a moment, pacing up and down, left and right, all while spinning his knife faster and faster.

"Aww yes...agony, I must make you feel agony" he snickered. "And because you don't care about dying, then I guess I should make you watch as I kill these kids."

"Don't you dare, you low life bastard, I'll kill you if you even touch one of them!" I blurted, saliva spewing from my mouth along with some blood that mixed in from my temple.

"Scary, aren't you? And how are you going to stop me?" he questioned, walking up to one of the kids, the knife laying gently on his exposed neck.

"Of course you would go to the kids like the spineless coward you are" I murmured under my breath.

"What did you say?" he whispered back, walking up to me.

"I didn't say a thing," I told him.

"Don't lie to ME!!!" he screamed, stabbing his knife deep into my shoulder.

I flinched in pain, holding it in the best I could, my meat parting for the unwelcomed guest. He barely missed the bone.

He quickly shot down to my eye level, his eyelashes tapping mine. His toothy grin on full display, he twisted the blade before yanking it out in full force.