Bloodlust: Sliver of Moonlight

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Damien fell asleep later that night and once again awoke inside a dream. This time, Damien found himself enwrapped in darkness. He began to walk around, trying to find his way through the void.

This is odd... Damien thought, Where am I? As Damien kept walking until the darkness melted into a small living room. A long, brown couch lined the farthest wall, where a little girl sat curled in a ball. Damien walked over to the little girl slowly, trying to get a better glimpse at the girl's face. A door opened to Damien's right, and the girl's head popped up. Damien looked at the girl's face: she had brighter red hair and big blue eyes that were welled with tears. Damien looked at the face intently and gasped in astonishment.

"Rosalina..." Damien whispered. She looked up as he saw a young man walk through the door. Damien looked at the younger man, whose black hair was slick back with a small cowlick resting on his face. He took off his dark shades and revealed his gleaming red eyes. 

"Maximus?" Damien whispered again, "But then, where's...?" Then, a woman around her mid to late 20s ran out of the kitchen and hugged Maximus. Her blonde hair stuffed itself in Maximus's mouth as she clung to him tightly.

"Oh, Maxxie," the woman said, "Where were you? I missed you soo much."

"Uh...hi, Sarah," Maximus said, spitting the hair out of his mouth, "Where's Rosalina?" Sarah's smiled dropped and pointing to the couch where Rosalina sat. Maximus pushed Sarah out the way and walked over to Rosalina, whose hopped off the couch and ran to hug her father. The two shared a long embrace and Maximus sat down with Rosalina. Damien shuddered slightly.

This won't end well... Damien thought. Then, a scream echoed from the kitchen and the woman Sarah lunged towards Rosalina with a long knife in her hands. Rosalina screamed and rolled away while Maximus tackled Sarah to the ground, knocking the knife out her hand. Rosalina looked at the knife, which slid a few feet away from her feet. Maximus struggled to hold Sarah down, but she was thrashing around the floor.

"Sarah, calm down!" Maximus said, but Sarah kept thrashing around. She eventually threw Maximus off of her and crawled to where her knife was, but Rosalina leaped onto her mother and stabbed her in the shoulder. Sarah hollered in pain, grabbing her shoulder. 

"Rosalina!" Maximus screamed, but Rosalina couldn't hear him. She took the knife out her mother's shoulder and stabbed her mother in the chest. Roslaina repeatedly stabbed her mother, her mother's blood splashed on her face. Rosalina raised the knife over her head, looking down at her dead mother's bloodied body. Roslaina shook in fear, dropping the knife and climbing off her mother. Maximus ran to Rosalina, who curled into a ball next to her mother's bloody body, crying and shuddering. He embraced his daughter and pulled her away from the body.

"Shhh..." Maximus said, "It's ok...shh..." He patted his daughter on the back as her cries rang out in the room. Damien turned away from the gruesome scene as his vision began to fade back out. Before his vision went black, he heard Maximus whisper something.

"I'm sorry, baby," he whispered and then Damien was shrouded back in darkness.

Damien woke up from his sleep and sat up in his bed just as Rosalina knocked on his door.

"It's open," Damien sighed. Rosalina opened the door to Damien's room. She smiled warmly, but when she saw Damien's face her smile dropped. She walked over and sat next to Damien and put her hands on his shoulder.

"Hey..." Rosalina said, rubbing Damien's shoulder, "You ok?"

Damien looked at Rosalina and smiled, "Yeah...we don't have much time." He got up and took off his bloodied jacket and shirt and put on a new white shirt and a sleek black leather jacket with red lines flowing down his arms and back. He walked towards the door, sliding his boots on his feet. Damien reached and grabbed Rosalina's hand leading her out the room and downstairs back to the med tent.

"Damien..." Rosalina whispered as they walked up the entrance to the base and towards the city's exit, "You sure you're ok?"

"Yeah, I just..." Damien started, then took a deep sigh, "I had a rough night."

Rosalina looked up at Damien, "Want to talk about it?" Damien shook his head, walking faster towards the cave exit. Rosalina frowned, squeezing Damien's hand tightly. The two made their way to the exit, where a bright light shined deep from the exit.

"You ready to see the surface again?" Damien asked. Rosalina laughed slightly and kissed his cheek.

"I have been to the surface before, Damien," Rosalina smiled, "It has been a while, though." Rosalina walked Damien towards the shining white light. They both paused, feeling a small breeze blowing past their faces. 

"Whatever happens today," Damien said, "Just know...it's been a blast getting to know you."

Rosalina punched Damien in the shoulder, "It's not over yet." Damien nodded and kissed Rosalina on her cheek.

"Let's go save the world," Damien smiled and led Rosalina into the light. They reappeared right behind a small barn with a tractor, a pickup truck and a black sports car sitting in the front of the barn. Rosalina smirked devilishly at Damien and raced towards the sports car.

"She's totally going to hotwire that car," Damien whispered, "I love her." She silently broke the glass of the driver's window and unlocked both doors. She slid under the wheel and began to hotwire the car. Damien slid into the passenger seat as the car's engine roared to life. 

"Bingo," Rosalina said, strapping herself in, "Now where to first, o fearless leader?"

"I told you," Damien said, putting his seatbelt on and sitting back, "We're going home. There's someone I need you to see." Rosalina nodded and put the car in drive and sped off. Damien took in a deep breath and smiled.

"Finally," Damien said, "Back on the surface...actual air..." Rosalina poked his side and Damien winced, sliding back down in his seat. 

"I get that you're happy," Rosalina said, "But where exactly where I'm going?" 

"Keeping driving straight, then make a left," Damien said, "Home will be on the right." Damien reached inside the glove compartment and pulled out a pair of black sunglasses. Rosalina did as he said, driving down the road and turning left into a street lined with large houses.

"All the way at the end," Damien said, pointing to a chrome colored house at the end of the street. She parked in front of the closed garage door and turned the car off.

"Are you sure you're ready?" Rosalina asked, unbuckling her seatbelt. 

"I guess I have to be," Damien said, climbing out the car and walking towards the front door. Damien paused for a second before knocking on the front door three times. Damien and Rosalina both stood in front of the door before the door swung open and Damien's father stood in the doorway.

"Hey, Dad," Damien smiled, "Miss me?"