THE BLEEDING TRUTH

A Day Before The Day

"I have not turned into a full demon". My voice came out weak. "You can beat me all you want once I can take it".He gave out a humorless laugh.As if saying where's the fun in that.

"Tomorrow, at the night of your pathetic birth, you will be brought to the Fate room", he said.

You see Fate room is not a nice room and it's certainly not equipped with a comfy, soft, king sized bed and a bathroom with jacuzzi, oh no. It's actually a huge barn far away from the citadel. There are thousands of them in the vicinity. This so called higher treatment is only for royalty, other demons are just brought into separate rooms or facilities specially designed for this.

Demons live for many years, infact we can live ten lives of a human but it is usually at the eve of our eighteenth birthday that we become full demons, with all our mighty strength and the carvings that are marks on our bodies.

Every demon has his own marks. The more the pain a demon has to endure at the occasion, the darker the marks.This whole ceremonious occasion is called 'The Changling'.

I have known all this because I have been yearning for this day since the day I started yearning for my father's death, but the devil only knows he has too much time before his death, unless someone decides to deliver it.And wouldn't I be owing a big time to that someone.

He continued his bullshit, " ....and let me tell you Jace, the pain is much worse".

Roughly grabbing my chin, he brought my face upto a level with his face and whispered, "much worse then what you have been through with my beating".

No, he wasn't going to scare me with his fucking weak attempts. I have been waiting forever for this and I was finally going to get it. No way is he fucking with my head like this. The entire assembly of Council of Law and the demon student body watched as I smirked with bloodied lips, "I have taken more then possible of your shit father, Iam positive I can manage this".

"Haa!", he gave out a single laugh.
"Well that's where you're wrong". He shoved my face away from him and kicked at my side as hard as he could deliver. My limp self just rolled off on the ground. I could only hear him as I struggled for my breath.

"Do not carry him until the morn and even then when I say so".

And I surrendered my guard on all my senses, and conveyed myself to the black I was all so familiar with.

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Egan threw his hands in air and struggled not to shout, " You know he can snap your neck like a twig so why the fuck do you let him".

"Gives me something to live on," I responded.

"So letting him beat you to a pulp so you eventially die one day is your plan then,"he grabbed his hair.I saw his knuckles had turned white.He would always do that when he was crazy angry.I could still not figure why hadn't he turn bald yet.

"I offered you and you refused, so this is the only road Iam left to go down with." I knew my words weren't helping him but he should really just stop trying.

He looked so frustrated like he was aching to break someone's face. I wouldn't be surprised if it was mine.
"If you can't do it then why not let your psycho father do it. He has enough anger pent up in him, he can do it perfectly"

Okay what to say to that. He's been right so far. So I just shrugged.

"Fuck you Jace", he got up and left the room.

We were in the dining room. It was too fancy for my liking but Wade and Egan brought me here as soon as they were allowed to move me from the cold hard ground outside. The room was huge and it's walls were plush satanic red silk with golden furniture. Others stayed far away from this table. There wasn't a huge dining table stretched to each end of the room, used to be once. Now only more then a dozen tables.

"I think you should crash a bit after eating that", Wade pointed at the chocolate cube in my hand. I swear chocolate is the only appreciable discovery the humans ever came up with. Well this and the condoms. The humans get feely quite often I'd say.

"Now why weren't you guys my nannies" I say.

"Because they were babies too when you were one, dumbass!. They can hardly pull their shit together now."Kate startled me as she whispered in my ear.But the whisper was loud enough so Wade could hear it perfectly fine.

And no demons could not hear other demons approaching from far away.Atleast not before the changling.Even then this trait was pretty rare. Only a few demons I knew could, and they were all given they were all guards to the gates of the citadel.

We both glared at her as she slid into her seat beside me.

"I was wrong .Not only can my father do that job, Kate can too. In fact she can kill me better and faster, but it would be too painful".

"Oh lighten up dud", she said as she smacked my arm.
"Today's the big day".