Alone Together: A Rose Undying

Far Away

Groggy eye'd I awake hanging by my arms. Smissami is hanging to my right still unconscious. I rattle the chains that hold my arms "come on. Come on!" I groan as I dangle helplessly trying to break the shackles. "What the hell?" I pivot and shimmy around to get a view of Smisammi. "Come on, wake up. wake up." I plead as I hear footsteps approach. "Not used to being in anyway normal huh kid?" a familiar female voice echoes throughout the empty room save for a few pillars. "Who are you?" I ask as I slowly rotate. "Tsk, now now no questions just..." as she gestures i see Payne cut Smisammi lower stomach. Its not fatal but she's bleeding I look down to see my stomach bleeding. My eyes widen. "Ngh," I grunt and shout in pain. After a series of questions and rants about how the world would be better if people just didn't exist. "Well I'm going to come back later." the woman chuckles as she leaves.

Hours later cut after cut my wounds slowly begin to heal. I sigh in relief as I see Smisammi beginning to wake up. "Smisammi keep calm please just breath and let me handle this." I think trying to calm her and she sees the wounds on her stomach. She howls in pain and begins to cry. Payne's holding an empty syringe "This cancels out your powers and makes you vulnerable. This is what they use to cleanse people." he leaves. My stomach churns and sinks and my chest tightens. "You're different, remember that Zeek." the memory of my mother's voice echoes through my head. "What did she mean. I knew I wasn't regular but..." I think as smoke pours off of my arms. My hair's color changes into a dampening shade of a sad black. "Why? Why did you leave?" I growl angrily as my teeth sharpen, and my arms bulge. My eyes lose their color and change into a dark black. Payne returns with another syringe that has a swirling yellow and, reddish orange, liquid inside. He turns to me as I pull the chains apart, and fall to me knees shakily. Smoke illuminating off of my body. It slowly fills the room the choking black of the seemingly endless stream of ash poured across the floor. Wings protruding from my back, my hair had a pair of large slightly curled horns protruding out it.

"Are you an H-Strain?" Payne questioned as he back paced  stumbling and stabbing himself with the syringe. "You... You did this, everything bad that's happened to me happened... BECAUSE YOU LEFT ME, YOU LEFT US!" I roar back as my nails sharpen "Well where are you now dammit? I've got so much to tell you, like how i failed, like how people tried to kill me everyday, like how I'm so confused as to what I'm supposed to be or do, LIKE HOW YOUR SON DIED AND I COULDN'T SAVE HIM!" Payne stabs the syringe deep into my shoulder. "now people are trying to wipe us out, all of us. I put my brother in the ground I'm not going to do it to her" I say grabbing Payne by the throat "You! you've have run your race." I say lifting him up and grabbing his ankle "now do like all the the little creatures do" I grown as I slam him into the ground "and" slam "die" slam. I leave him in the crater as i turn to Smisammi she still i pull out the needle in my shoulder, and drive into his neck. "Are you dead yet? no? you know what I like that ill give you ten seconds, do something, say something, anything, its your time." I say as I lift him to his feet. He coughs as blood pours from his mouth. "hey were you not listening times ticking, you're down to what about five seconds I say turning to Payne, "who's turn is it to run?" "you know i just thought about this, you're a grown man who chained a woman up and tortured here then threatened her." I turn to see a sword of all colors twirling near my face but it as if time had stood still, everything around me had stopped. I saw the look in Payne eyes the frozen fear paralyzed and awe struck. It churned my insides to know he had tricked us. everything was awash, stumbling and bumbling about as if i had finally lost the last sense of my mind remembering my brother, remembering the promises of freedom from this caging life he escaped in a painful way. the blade spins and stabs at me a pace that would shame a tortoise of old. I shift over to Payne and lift him out of the pool of piss he stood in. "Bad dog, WE DO NOT PISS INSIDE!" I slam his face against the ground near the mess he had created. "You, you are what killed your mother. You are what tore your mother into bits. It was not the war that harmed them, it was your lack of control even  as young as you were you were a monster." he utters mouth agape. "You don't know anything." I lose myself in a fit of rage I destroy half the building and kill Payne. 

Taking Smisami to safety she seems hot and sweaty she cant open her eyes I hold her up to my neck and brace for something, anything but she just breathes faintly I cut my hand but smoke is the only thing the pours out. "come on, you gotta open your eyes for me, you gotta come back to me in need you to wake up please. please" I embrace her to no response. days pass I monitor her constantly her condition wanes, and there is no sign of slowing or stopping.