The Last of Them

Maybe Under Different Circumstances

I looked left and right at their faces. The boys stood behind Jake, Violet and Kate. They stared at me. Stared at my figure. Stared at the giant black wings on my back that couldn't fit in the room. They just stared.

"Okay don't get him mad" said Duke. Everyone looked at him then back at me.

I slowly lost my red glow and my hair went back down. My eyes changed back but nothing else really changed much. I apologized for what happened and explained that I didn't know what came over me.

"So uhh you mind explaining why the hell you never mentioned you were half demon!" Jake nearly shouted.

"I didn't know" I replied.

"You don't get mad much do you?"

"Not really." Pretty sure I said that a lot more bluntly than I would've liked.

"So you attack people when you have bad dreams." He said gesturing to Kate's side wound.

"My.. my.. your wings are bigger than mine were when I first morphed." said a very new voice. We all looked to the window in the direction it came.

"Hey baby bro... Miss me?" said James.
His voice sounded a little raspy. Harder than I remember. I created a spear and threw it at his shoulder. He dodged effortlessly.

"You shouldn't be here." I said with my demon voice coming back. I felt the glow surrounding me and my body getting hotter. My eyes changed quickly and my hair went back up.

"Your speed and aim has gotten better I'll give you that. Oooh I like your transformation too. Looks good on you punk." He replied back.

"Leave or die! I'm not afraid to kill you anymore."

He smirked, "If only you were strong enough to do so." Before I can say anything else he holds out his left hand as if grabbing something. Immediately I begin to feel my throat closing and start to lose breath. I fall down slowly as he forces me down without physically touching me. I writhe on the floor in pain and I start to fade out of consciousness. I hear screams of my name and "let him go" faintly in the distance. He then lets go of me.  

I gasp and choke for about three minutes. Everyone except for James has gotten close to me. I get up slowly shaking violently and everyone backs up. I yell enraged once more and burst into flames. I do just as James has done and he then begins to suffer. I pull him into the room quickly and I physically hold him by his throat. My hand burns him and I squeeze tightly. I look him in the eyes and see that my own are completely pitch black and have flames coming out of my eyes. 

"LEAVE OR DIE!" I order him again. I lightly toss him in the air and try to create a lightning ball but it comes as fire so I go with it and shoot it at his stomach and blast him back out of the window.

"You.. will-" James says in between gasps "-pay for that. I wish we would've met again under different circumstances but.." He finishes the rest in a thought wave.

I guess we've changed too much. He flaps his wings (which have turned a deep purple color now) hard and flies away. I'm left looking blindly at the window long after he's gone. By now I expect what comes next and of course it's Jake to be the one to speak first.

"And a brother too?!" He asks hurriedly. This time sarcastically, "any other things you wanna tell us about yourself that we don't know?"

"Other than I have no idea what's going on" I said quite seriously.

Kate suggested that we all go downstairs and talk. All agreed and we made our way down then everyone took a seat. Some on the couch, some in individual chairs, but all surrounded me. There was a great distance between me and everyone. I stood mostly because I thought I'd burn a chair or something. Otherwise, I disliked the atmosphere that illuminated the air. 

"Come on.. Are you all really that scared of me?" I didn't wait for an answer. "I'm still the same Tony you knew when you first met me. Charlie, Duke, Jake remember when you scared the living hell out of me when you woke me up on the roof? Or or Vi' when you sparred with me and literally whipped my ass with your crazy dark matter whip? Or Kate?" I looked directly at her and cautiously moved closer to her. I started  to morph back to normal and the red glow faded. "When we had a makeshift date on the roof? Does all this mean nothing to you now that I messed up one time?" I looked at her with my eyes glowing and watering.

I created a mini platform and let images of all of us doing something sob worthy and looked around at their stunned faces. My creations had real colors instead of the regular green tint it always had. I closed my hands around the platform and it disappeared. 

"Our relationships mean a lot to me. I need you guys.. I need a family." I said everything with my voice shaking with fear.

"I'm still hurt no matter if we forgive you or not," declared Kate. She stared at me from the couch. She moved not one muscle. Her eyes piercing my soul - if I even had one anymore knowing I'm probably a demon. As if it was an impulse I replied and started to glow again. 

In a demanding manner I said,  "Everyone except for Kate get off the couch."

They hesitated but complied with my request. I then told her to lie back and uncover her wound. She did and the room fell silent. I acted upon impulse at this point. I wasn't in control of what I was doing. Immediately I got hotter and glowed a bright crimson red then proceeded to get closer. My right hand reached towards the cut in her side. All the glow went to my hand and I felt it get hotter.

I forced myself to stop it from getting any closer but the heat just moved towards her anyway. I'm going to hurt her if it touches her but my body keeps going. She gasps in a sharp squeal as it touches her but tries not to fidget. Almost at once everyone gets out of their seat to get closer as if they were ready to attack me. Come to everyone's surprise she calms down and her wound starts to disappear. We all watch in awe as the wound appears to be healing. After about fifteen seconds the process is finished. The glow then fades away and I back up hiding my own astonishment.

Kate gets up to test if she's really healed. She touches her now clear side and twists back and forth. It's perfectly fine. She shape-shifts to make sure. Then there's a full tiger in our living room. They all jump back to the wall but I stand clear like a protector of sorts. Kate then lunges at me and they all scream. She shifts into a cat before she gets too close and on instinct I catch her.

"Kate you're such an asshole!" Duke shouts.

She morphs back and laughs hysterically as she does so. She can't help herself at this point. 

"Sorry sorry really," she says in between fits of laughter, "I'm.. oh god... you all looked like a bunch of pussies." Kate continues to laugh and I chuckle slightly. When she finishes laughing - in my arms still - she apologizes. "Okay seriously. I'm sorry guys. I'm okay though. My side is much better, honestly... You can put me down now Tony."

"Sorry," I say as I gently put her on the floor.

Later I revealed to everyone that I can read minds and they tested it. They had fun with that for hours surprisingly.

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Hey you guys. It's been a while. I almost forgot you were waiting for me. Who am I kidding, you were busy doing other things I'm nothing special. I just give you something to do when you're bored. But I'm back... Hopefully. I know I say that a lot but I mean it this time. I left this alone for about a year but now I'm writing again.

Welp you've talked enough they missed me too.

Whatever Devin.

Anyway...

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