Venator : Devil's Moon

XIX EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE (2)

[ Sebastian ]

No, nothing will be fine. My entire life had been the perfect example that, in the end, something definitely ruins our lives. I was made to kill someone. Ok, just this once and everything will be fine, I'd convinced myself then. But nothing went fine. The killing continued and I finally had to murder my father. At least now, everything will come back to normal I'd thought then. But was there anything good in my life for coming back to? No, there wasn't. The first person to take away my virginity was my cruel fate. It screwed me bad, pretty bad.

If just my uncle would've gotten hurt, I'd have controlled myself. If just my aunt had disappeared, I'd have controlled my devastation, somehow. But what completely shattered my soul was the one person whose misshapening would break my soul in a billion pieces. It was Laura.

I recalled how I'd been lying on floor, fighting against the pain, trying to get up and somehow kill or at least send Alzaknos back to hell. But I couldn't. All I did was lie there, struggling against my pain and trying to get up only to fall again. If it weren't for my aunt to come down there and save me, I still would've been struggling down there, or perhaps I'd be long dead.

For some reason, Aunt Jane, who wasn't aware of this small little hideout came running towards the door, holding a small goblet. She quickly came towards me and helped me rise up. I tried to grab the dagger which had cluttered down somewhere where I'd been lying but Aunt Jane assured me everything will be fine. I wished it wasn't my aunt who told me this. She's the only person who had the capability of making me jump off a cliff if she willed to. Her position in my life was irreplaceable. She was never an aunt to me. She was a mother, a mother far better than any angel or even perhaps god himself.

Like a small kid, I nodded. But even though she was an excellent hunter in her age, I couldn't just let her get in Alzaknos' s way alone, could I? I quickly approached her as she tried to convince myself. But there was no time. Alzaknos had already sensed our presence. Now, I clearly wasn't a threat. But when he saw my aunt, his eyes flickered with a passing feeling of anger and when his eyes slithered down and fixed on the goblet my aunt had been holding, they widened with the feeling I'd thought Alzaknos must never had felt or will never feel ever - fear!

While my aunt kept Alzaknos distracted, I approached a fallen Laura and quickly regretted it. I wished my eyes had popped out or at least I'd been hallucinating.

For, before me, there was not the Laura I knew. What rolled in the red puddle was some miserable creature, drenched in the nasty liquid, blood all over body. But what made my heart fall by a million miles was her face. While her tongue was curling against the bloody floor, her face glowed with a sense of pleasure as if the rotten taste of the frothing liquid calmed her soul.

Wondering what to do, I quickly ducked down to grab Laura. But as soon as she was separated from the spilled blood, like a dying fish, she struggled against me to get back to the rot. Holding her was the most difficult thing I'd ever done. It was as if I'd been holding a hungry tiger from it's prey, or a bloodthirsty vampire from its fresh meat. She dug her nails in my flesh and longed for the freshly oozing reddish liquid - my blood.

"Laura, Laura!" I'd shouted as she'd managed to bite me on my injury and slip away. Then, when I happened to look at her eyes, somewhere beneath the big brown eyes I loved, I could sense a darkness lingering,  growing stronger with every drop of blood she devoured.

"Knock her, Sebastian!" My aunt shouted over my shoulder and I realised I didn't have much time. Though my aunt had been a great warrior in her time, she was now in no position to fight a devil as dark as Alzaknos.