Dimitri (The Demon King #1.5)

Chapter 3 - Oncoming Change

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have not read The Demon King, then do not continue with this story. A lot of things will not make sense and this book will spoil everything that happens in The Demon King. So please go read The Demon King first, before reading this one.
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Dimitri 235 years old (looks 21 human years)

I had just killed an entire human family. I had never killed this many people at once. The Shadow really took me over for a second there. All I could think about was killing the family and I hated myself for it. I really did.

But I did have some good left in me to stop myself from killing one person from that family. A child. A little boy. A 5 year old boy. I had never killed someone so young and I couldn't bring myself to.

I should have killed him. But I instead left him in the cell. He would stay there until I figured out what to do with him.

I had other things to worry about anyways, such as the twenty girls that were being sent down today. Every year, the humans sent twenty 18 year old girls down to Rovana, in hopes that I'd stop killing humans after taking their offering of these girls.

I didn't like how the humans chose these girls and sent them here against their will. Everyone knew they wouldn't survive here. Yet they kept sending girls every year.

The less humans I came across, the easier it was to control myself around them. But when I was sent so many humans at once, it was hard trying to control the Shadow inside me as the Shadow would want them all dead within a second. My control was starting to weaken as years and years went by. The Shadow was getting stronger and stronger, the more people I killed. It was becoming a huge problem but I couldn't find a way to make it stop, no matter how hard I tried.

Now I had more humans coming in and I was going to have so much fun trying to make myself last long enough to meet the date for my next kill. I had set the exact date and time for each kill because if I put a certain amount of time between each kill, it slowed the Shadow down from getting stronger. But the problem was, if I was exposed to so many humans at once, it became a problem controlling myself. A huge problem. The Shadow inside me always went crazy trying to get me to kill and it was so annoying and hard to block out.

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The girls had came as Stark had came to report to me. I was told that they were put in the same cell the little boy was in. So I told Kenneth and him to get the little boy and bring him to me but it had been quite a while and they still weren't back with the little boy. I was getting annoyed as I waited. I already dreaded this day so much knowing I couldn't stop what would happen and then on top of that, Kenneth and Stark wouldn't hurry up. How long did it take to bring one little boy over here?

But soon enough Stark appeared with Kenneth by his side, both of them empty handed. "Where's the boy?" I asked as I looked at both Stark and Kenneth.

"Your best friend has taken a liking to the little boy and a girl and have taken them away to his house with him." Kenneth spoke in an annoyed voice. He was probably angry because he knew how angry I got when people didn't listen to the orders I gave them. But right now I was too exhausted to really get mad at anyone. Especially if Devon was involved.

I had no idea what Devon was up to but I would deal with him in the morning. I didn't want to deal with anything at the moment. And I was kind of glad Devon had the little boy with him because I knew Devon was a good person and would take good care of the little boy. The boy deserved it as I had taken his family away from him.

"Whatever, you guys can leave." I waved Stark and Kenneth off. "Oh and I'll deal with the girls tomorrow morning so just tell them to go to sleep."