Protecting My Sister.....the Angel

Chapter 3

"Ahhhhhhhhh" the scream erupted through me like a volcano. The pain was unbearable, I felt like I was on fire. Burning, burning and then the ripping sound again, "Ahhhhhhh" what was happening to me.

"I am coming for you, Ara!" I heard him plain as day in my head, I knew I was dreaming but it felt so real.

"Ara! Ara! Wake up!!!" I could her a different voice, the voice of an angel. "Ara, sweetheart, you have to open your eyes." At that my eyes sapped open. Ryder, that's the voice that I heard. Ryder was holding the top of my arms like I was a child, trying to wake me up.

"It hurts, get it off!!! GET IT OFFFFFF!!!" I was tearing at my shirt trying to rip it off my body.

"What are you doing?" Ryder asked right as I was finally able to rip my shirt off. "HOLY SHIT!!!" he had a stunned look on his face but I already knew what was there.

"He's able to get in my head." I said trying to shift to find less pain, but every move was making it worse.

"Who?"

"Vlance, Vlance McGowan. He's a demon, he's after me and my sister." I said looking up at Ryder.

"A demon?" he said with a quick look of shock then it suddenly changed to furry and worry.

"Yeah. He's 'in love' with me," I said with air quotes, "and wants to kill my sister."

"Why?" Ryders look was genuine concern.

"Because I am extremely lovable....." I said sarcastically. While he gave me look like 'you know what I mean', "I told you my sister is special, she's going to save the world."

"Hmm okay then." He didn't ask anymore questions, which I was grateful for. "Let's get you cleaned up then and we can get on the road."

"Thank you." I said as Ryder filled up the ice bucket with some lukewarm water and got a washcloth and a towel. He told me to spin around so he could sit behind me and clean my wounds.

"Here we go" he mumbled the warning like he was scared of hurting me, that was inevitable. I winced and moaned but never cried until he got to the worst one, it was straight down the middle of my back, deep and brutal. "It looks like claws did it."

"Your exactly right, Vlances' true form is a demon. It has claws and fangs and pitch black eyes and even it's skin is an ugly horrifying color." I said with a shudder.

"Your going to have to get me up to speed on this Vlance guy, but I think we should get going. The neighbors probably heard you scream and they probably called the cops again." Ryder got up and threw me a shirt.

"What is this for?" I asked

"It's loose and until we can get medication on those and bandages we don't want anything tight pressing against them." He explained while packing up our stuff. I slid the shirt over my head carful not to move around to much and he was right I would hate having one of my shirts on it would kill me. Within 30 minutes we had everything packed and we were on our way. Ryder was right the cops were called they were pulling up right as we drove off. That was a close one.

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We drove for 12 more hours and talked a lot. Ryder asked about me and my family. I asked about his, he didn't remember much after being shot in Afghanistan over a year ago, he just remembers waking up and being in the Georgia wilderness. We were able to figure out that he was in the wild for at least 2 months he counted the sun sets and there were 62 of them.

Around 6 pm we finally pulled in to the house my parents were renting for the month. They never stayed in one place long and this was no exception. It was beautiful, as always, it backed up to a lake that was bluer than the sky. I got out and walked around the side, we never use the front door in any house we stayed in, it was how we determined our friends from our enemies. As I rounded the corner to the back of the house, I saw him. Captain, my sisters pet lion. No joke he's  a lion, he is rare with his fully black fur and piercing blue eyes. Captain was found by my sister when she was four he was only a cub and we refused to just give him up to the wild. Well as it turns out Captain was the best thing to ever happen to my sister, he protects her and loves her.