A Shadow's Host

Chapter 2: The Encounter

When I woke up I was in my room. I saw my dark blue walls and my black curtains that covered the window blocking out the sunlight. Instantly I sat up in my bed though that wasn't such a good idea. I got really dizzy and my ears had this loud ringing in them. Grabbing my head instinctively, I fell back on my pillow out of breath from the pain. Slowly as the dizziness and ringing dissipated, I let out the breath I hadn't realized I was holding. I heard the door slowly open and I looked over to see my siblings, Jonathan and Violet. Violet covered her mouth tears coming to her eyes and Jonathan held a serious expression on his face. Slower this time, I sat up and threw the black comforter off and swung my legs over the side of my bed so that they touched the floor. My hands gripped the edge of my bed and I looked at them as they just stood staring at the door way. "What?" I asked in a raspy growl and Violet flinched. My throat felt dry and my lips were chapped, upon this observation I grabbed the glass of water that had been left on my nightstand. They were watching me like I had risen from the dead or something. When they didn't answer, I got annoyed and stood on unsteady legs and walked over to them. Then I grabbed Jonathan's shirt and growled, "Why are you looking at me as if I rose from the dead?" He looked away for a moment and wiped his eyes. Upon closer inspection, it looked like he had been crying as Violet now. "Because we thought you weren't going to wake up! I found you collapsed in an alley with your face all bloody. When I got you home, you were barely breathing. Violet panicked and called the doctor as I carried you to your room. That was 2 days again. We thought you were...." Jonathan couldn't bring himself to finish and broke down hugging me tightly. I didn't return the hug, I stared ahead in utter horror when I heard that. Violet joined the and all I could feel was the overwhelming warmth and joy they felt to be able to see me finally awake.

After a moment, i freed myself from their grip and I stepped away from them and turned my back to them. " I'm fine, that's all that matters. Quit crying over trivial things." I said roughly to hide how unsettled I was. I then went to the bathroom to look in the mirror. What I saw turned my blood to ice. After moving my hair out of my face, I saw four 4 scars on the left side of my face. They were identical to the ones that that demon had. My left eye was the same, blood red with a black slit like a viper for a pupil. Jonathan and Violet came to the door of the bathroom as I started to cry. It was all true, it wasn't just a prank or some very bad nightmare. I actually was attacked by a demon and that demon was trapped in my heart. When I looked over at my siblings, they saw the scars and my eye. They gasped not knowing what happened to me. I covered the left side of my face with my hair to hide the scars and my red eye. Saying nothing, I pushed past my siblings and went to my room. When Jonathan tried to follow me, I closed and locked the door on him. "Midnight, please talk to us. What happened." I heard him ask worriedly through the door. I didn't have a response, so I said nothing, though I did place my hand on the door. To my surprise, I somehow felt the warmth of his hand through the door, it was right where mine was. I felt like I was being overwhelmed by my emotions, that's when the pain hit me again. I gasped , instantly losing my breath from the intensity of the pain. Then I collapsed, unable to breath when I felt the demon in my heart start to break my will that trapped her in it. My hands covered my ears in a feeble attempt to block out the deafening voice taunting me in my head. If I hadn't had my ears covered, I would have heard Jonathan pick the lock on my door and open it. Though this time I'm glad and at the same time not so glad that he did that. He immediately called Vioelt into the room and I felt him pull me onto his lap and hug me tightly. I felt Violet pet my hiar gently to soothe me, but nothing could soothe the pain ripping in my heart or the pounding in my head. My whole body was shivering uncontrolablly from the pain until it felt I was at my limit for pain. Slowly, as I started to lose conciousness, my body stopped shivering, though this was far from over. My body started to assimulate into a shadow as that demon surfaced. Jonathan and Violet watched in confusion as their arms went through my now shadowy form. "Midnight." Violet whimper unable to touch me, her younger sister.

Violet's POV

I watched in horror. My little sister turning into what I can only describe as a shadow. Every attempt to touch my precious little sister failed and resulted in my hand going right through her. She felt so cold, it felt like all warmth of life had left her now shadowy figure. I looked at Jonathan in fear and he looked at me, the usually playful and mischievious glow was now gone and replaced with a grim look. I knew my eyes held fear and confusion. What was happening to our sister?

Midnight's POV

My body would'nt respond as I stood, my shadowy hair moving like black fire around me. The demon was now had complete control over my body, but I was still conscious much to her annoyance. "You're sister is mine. Her body belongs to me. You'll never see her again after this so I suggest you say your goodbyes now. This is your last chanse to do so before I kill you and leave this place to create as much choas as possible." Shadeara said with a evil smirk plastered to her red glowing mouth. "NOT TRUE!" My voice echoed around the room in extreme frustration and anger. "How do you keep popping back up? You shouldn't even be conscious right now!" Shadeara growled in frustration. "I'm an overly agressive, very stubborn and reclusive person. I made myself acustom to the dark. Do you think I'm going to let a shadow like you take over my body and hurt my family? I think NOT!" I snarled fightng back for control of my body again. "Jonathan! Violet! Get out of here ! NOW!" I snarled as the battle raged in my body over who had control of it.