Chains Of Blood

Chapter Thirteen

Once the blood washed away down the sink, she was about to walk out, when the door slammed in front of her, making her fall backwards. She ran to the other door which was connected to her brother's room and it was also locked. Rattling the door handle and banging on the door. She was screaming for her her brother, "Jonathan, Jonathan, help me". Her brother rushed to the door and was trying to kick the door down, all Maia could hear the banging on the door. Maia suddenly couldn't see anything her eyes were black as it would be.

*FLASHBACK*

Maia still crawled up on a bed, playing with her necklace and heard something clatter on the ground, she quickly got up and looked in the shadows. She heard low snarling again, she cried out for her brother, "Jonathan, there is something down here". She saw a animal-like figure crawling towards her, she walked backwards her body pressed against the brick wall. She thought she was safe, but she wasn't sure. She heard her brother shout, "discedant". It obeyed his orders and crawl back into the corner, "What did you say and what the hell was that thing?, she demanded. "It doesn't matter, just stay quiet", she said, her voice breaking. Jonathan saw Maia, like really saw her, her body skinner than it was, her skin was grey and blue and her body was covered in dirt, she looked like she came back from the dead.

Jonathan walked up to the cage and took pity on her. "Maia, I can't help you, you have only less than a day, please try and make it", her brother said. "I don't care what happens to me, I just want our little brother to be okay", she whispered. Jonathan had a bottle of water in his hand and he gave it to Maia, she grabbed out of his hand and drank the water, quickly. She hadn't eaten or had anything to drink for a day. She gets dehydrated quickly, Maia had finished the bottle and handed it back to her brother. Jonathan nodded and walked back upstairs.

Maia crawled back on her bed and tried to fall asleep again, but couldn't. She kept thinking about Matthew and also if what her father was doing to her was wrong?, she didn't know if it was right or wrong, she was so used to her family being like this that she didn't really think about it. She was trying the cry herself back to sleep, it was the only way she could, she  would get so upset sometimes that she would pass out. She heard whispers, she was screaming them to stop, but they got louder and more clearer. She heard the words speaking "You're broken". They were repeated a number times, she didn't understand what they meant. She passed out on the bed, her lifeless body hanging off the bed.

*FLASHBACK END*

"Jonathan, I don't know where I am, I can't see anything", she screamed. "Maia, please calm down", her brother was speaking. Maia felt a hand brush her neck and she felt a whisper of her name crawl into her ear, the voice was her father's. "Jonathan", she screamed out, "Father, he is here". Jonathan was getting more anxious, he cried out "Let go of my sister you son of a bitch". His father was just laughing at him. "Jonathan", she whispered out. Her father's hand was around her waist, heaving her upwards, but pulling her closer towards his body. She just stopped moving,she was silent, he was silent. She felt like she had lost the feeling to move, she was like a doll, lifeless and always putting on a straight face.

Jonathan kicked down the door and saw his sister and his father. He walked towards them both. His father took an syringe out of his pocket and injected it into Maia's neck, she screamed out in pain and their father turned into dust.

Maia collapsed on the floor, she felt all her scars re-open, the blood trickling down her body, all of her body. "Jonathan, I'm bleeding, I'm going bleed to death", she cried out. Maia ripped her shirt off and saw red blood drying on her body. Maia was still as a statue, she was breathing inwards and outwards to calm herself down. Her brother reached out to her, she pulled him away, then suddenly she stopped bleeding. She could control it, just as her brother said she could.

"Jonathan, I need to feed on something", she whispered. Her brother jumped out and ran towards the fridge and he was getting blood for his sister. Maia walked towards her window and she felt a shadow behind her and saw it was the silhouette of her father. It dived into her body and she wasn't herself. She felt her body change into her demon-self. She slowly moved towards the bin of broken glass and she picked up the biggest shard and drove it into her stomach, she cried out in pain and collapsed on the floor.

Her brother came running towards her and saw the shadow move out her body and disappear. Jonathan was holding her sister and saw blood bubbling up her open wound, it was black as night. "Jonathan", she said weakly, "that wasn't me, i couldn't do that". "I know, Maia", her brother said cradling her sister. "Am I going to die", she whispered. "No, you're not", her brother was speaking. "Okay, it hurts", she said. "I know...", he said. Jonathan reached to pick pulled out the glass out of his sister's chest, when Maia flinched out. She was screaming in pain as he slowly pulled it out. Maia gasped out with dried tears on her face and whispered, "That hurt". "I know, your fine now", her brother was whispering. Jonathan carried his sister onto the sofa and Maia again drank the fresh blood and her wound slowly but painfully was healing.