Venator : Devil's Moon

XVIII EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE

A short chapter, sorry! But what can I do, I'm getting really less time because of my unit test. Fortunately, tomorrow's maths and I finished studying quite early today. But once my tests are over, I'm gonna stay up entire night to write two chapters at least, for the most interesting part of the book is about to come, when Laura finds out...sorry, can't spoil the fun :P.

[ Laura ]

"NO!" I shouted when I felt the demon blood curling against my tongue, flowing through my oesophagus and entering in me, mixing with my own blood. I frantically twisted my body here and there, rising up, trying to control the pain and the disgust. But when I sat up straight, I noticed I was not tasting anything weird. I wasn't drenched in the nasty liquid. My clothes were clean and my insides no longer burned. My head was also fine, aching just mildly. But the fear remained though.

I always pictured myself as a strong lady who could take care of herself, who could fight for herself. But my courage blew up like a deflating ballon whenever something paranormal came in the way. Fear of the unknown, I guess. But with Alzaknos, I could feel it on an entirely different level. I'd managed to control myself when Delroy had came to abduct me with his six ninja buddies. I'd survived all those jobs where I learned how cockiness could get in the way of survival and how difficult it was to live as a hunter. But those creatures, though capable of freezing me or making all of my skin tingle with goosebumps, didn't have that effect in me what merely Alzaknos's stare had. I'd felt as if I'd forgotten to breathe and my heart amd soul were drowning in the limitless ocean of his darkness. When I thought I couldn't take that mental torture, he physically harassed me by making me drink that nasty liquid. The disgusting rotting blood whose taste made my taste buds die and whose smell made my nasal sense suicide.

But even now, the smell was still funny. It wasn't demon blood, for sure, but it was something worse, if not as bad as demon blood.

"Laura, you awake?" Sebastian was sitting infront of me, in the driver's seat while I'd been sleeping in the back seat which had been stinking of, well, I'd rather not speak of it. Just that, we usually used the backseat to keep the dead bodies of the freaks before finding some place to burn them. Now, I think you can imagine how bad would I be stinking.

But things were way weirder and I no longer cared for such silly things. I guess, after living through what I'd lived through, you won't care if you smell like a zombie, unless you are becoming one. Then, things would be a teensy bit serious.

"No, no, please stop." I cried and begged in fear and curled my hands around my face. Though I was in the familiar chevy, and though I was no longer at Uncle Rob's, I could still feel the cold marble beneath me and the blood in my mouth. I could still hear Alzaknos laugh and feel my brain freeze with fear. It was as if I'd entered an endless loop of reliving the same thing, again and again. Never in my life was I so afraid.

Strange thing fear is. It makes you see things when there isn't anything wrong and can easily make you believe your friend is now your enemy. But there was some good point about fear. Fear was the only thing which brought me to Sebastian. Well, to be honest, it was the only good thing my crappy destiny ever gave me - to feel fear. Yes, the only good thing.

Sebastian halted, walked towards the door against which I'd been leaning and opened it.

"Laura, it's okay. He has gone and we are far away from my uncle's. Everything's fine, Laura. Everything is." He said with a gentle voice as he brushed his hand against my tear stained face, while I shrunk further.

Everything's fine. I wondered how many times I was told this. Once I'd fallen ill for some exam and my dad convinced me I won't be removed from my college. 'Everything's fine.' Once I'd lost in a competition and he again said everything was fine. And now, Sebastian. But from all those experiences, I realised how pointless it was to say that everything would be fine. Sebastian was just lying to make me feel better. Alzaknos will appear out of nowhere and take me away, I was sure of this. Because in my life, nothing was fine and nothing will be.