Zoophobia:Tears to blood

Chapter 13: Little Talks

Jill walked through the hellish landscape, feeling the heat of lava and hell fire beside her as she walked, she had never really ventured to these parts of hell, not this close to the castle anyways, she dare not look at her feet as she walked nor did she dare drop her guard even for an instance as she kept her ears erect in case to hear the scurrying of any demons nearby who would think her easy prey. As she walked down what looked like a path of some sort the floor made of some kind of red material that she really didn't know about but as she walked down the path she heard something a demon of some sorts making a call that Jill was familiar with, the call of a demon who has found their prey, she rushed in the direction of the noise climbing a ledge and when she finally reached it she saw some little boy around her age sitting against one of the walls of the dip who looked startled but she had no trouble spotting the demon who was readying to attack and she lunged at it, turning her hand into a scythe, as she jumped on its head and began stabbing into its head viciously with her scythe hand. As blood now coated her blade she jumped down when the creature was dead and went to the boy, he didn't seem all that scared of Jill but she just couldn't stop staring into his eyes for some reason while silence had overtaken both of them, Jill had never really met anyone else her age so this was extremely unnatural and new to her. She took a few steps to him but suddenly everything around her began to turn black and distorted, she looked around fearfully as an intense ringing noise had found it's way to her ears and she collapsed and looked up to see that the little boy's arms had gotten monstrously longer along with his chest and head, rows of sharp teeth lined their jaw along with their eyes turning black and demented and they stood above the shapeshifter as Jill stared back up only to see that was going to dive for her and when it's head dived down with mouth wide open ready to clamp around their jaws around Jill's head until she snapped awake panting as she began to panic because she couldn't move, she was in some sort of old barn house and she looked at herself to find that she was tied in ropes and chains but there was something metal and cold on her neck that made looking down harder. After Jill managed to collect herself she looked around to see if anyone was there as memories began flooding back into her head "Jack" she thought as she remembered the events frp, before and looked up to see a large ledge in the barn where tools and stuff like that were stored and Jack was sitting against a box while staring outside threw an opening made to let light and air into the barn, it looked as though he was watching the rain outside and she noted that his fur looked darker and his eyes looked.....empty. She struggled a bit more and then tried turning into a snake to slither out but to her horror she found that she couldn't change, she suddenly felt extremely trapped as she struggled more and tried to change into something, anything! But her attempts were futile and she froze when she heard a familiar voice with a deeper and darker tone to it "hello Jill" her head shot up but Jack wasn't even looking at her, he was still looking at the rain, as he spoke "so you're up then....bet your wondering why you can't change, well the scientists over at that demon research facility were kind enough to.....donate......that collar on your neck so that you can't change form" Jill just stared at this astonished, why would Jack do something like this? And what did he mean by 'donate'? Did he steal it? No no Jack wouldn't do that.......would he? All these questions ran through her head rapidly as she continued to try and think of what possible reason Jack had to do any of this. Jack stood up and jumped down from where he was, safely landing even though it looked like that would hurt your knees from jumping from that high up, and he turned toward Jill, his eyes were now red, he stared at them as he slowly walked forward, standing tall and defying as he reached Jill and looked down at her "...I love you Jill" he said crouching down and grabbing her chin to force her to look in his direction as she struggled "but I can't let you leave, for that reason precisely" he said planting a cold kiss on her cheek before shoving her away as he grabbed a large hook with a chain attached to it "I have some things to get to and you can't be in my way love, because I don't want to kill you" he said staring at the hook as the red in his eyes began to glow and suddenly then the hook morphed, turning more twisted and jagged while some kind of black smoke emitted from it and the inside of the hook had spikes on it so that anything that is caught by it would be impaled on the short spikes, he looked behind him once more at Jill as she stared at him horrified "good talk" he said before blowing her a kiss then going to the barn door and saying "sit tight and get comfy" before he opened the door and slammed it shut to leave Jill in utter shock at what had just occurred, but all she knew was that this wasn't Jack, at least not her Jack.