Weakened

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David had managed to catch The Beast's clenched fist in his hand before the toll of another nightmarish vision made his knees buckle as he collapsed to the floor screaming.

The vision was of The Beast hunting, they were in a field, the cold biting at his exposed torso as he inhaled the crisp air filling his nose whilst he hunted for fresh prey. He did this a few more times before his sense of smell picked up on something, The Beast bounded in the direction of the scent and was not disappointed. Surrounding a small fire was a small group of young boys and girls, probably out camping, The Beast climbed a tree and crouched on a branch that was directly above them to get a better look at his catch, one of them was telling one of those stupid scary stories to the others.

The lad had just finished telling his story as he jumped out and screamed at the others who screamed back in terror as he laughed at there reactions, they all groaned feeling embarrassed by their reactions.

"That wasn't funny" one of the girls moaned at him 

"You should have seen your faces" he cried as he went around impersonating them, before he was tripped over by one of the other boys and landed with a thud on the floor causing everyone else to laugh.

"Well now that your done scaring us I think it's time we got some sleep...we have a long walk ahead of us tomorrow so we'll need our sleep" he replied standing up from the log they were sat on.

The Beast moved closer to the edge of the branch he was standing in getting ready to jump down and attack the impures until one of the branches snapped a little bit causing the whole group to pause with fear.

"What was that?" the girl asked 

"I dunno it sounded like a twig snapping" one of the older kids was saying he turned to face the others before saying "Okay you guys stay by the tents I'm gonna check out what that sound was"

"Be careful" the girl said which he smiled at before switching on his torch and disappearing into the darkness.He was only gone a few seconds until they heard a scream and the sound of his torch breaking, the others froze in shock as a tall, muscular man appeared from the shadows covered in blood, his veins popping up all over his body and he had a manic grin which had blood dripping from his teeth.

They all gasped before The Beast approached them

"Who are you, what do you want?" the girl spoke up and The Beast stared at her intensely before chuckling

"That is of none of your concern insignificant girl, as for what I want I want you" The Beast stated

"What do you mean by that" she asked, The Beast strode over to her 

"I need your flesh" he whispered and before she could respond The Beast grabbed her by the arm and bit down onto her neck, ripping off the flesh before swallowing, allowing the blood to drench his face and dropping her on the floor before stalking the other kids who were running away, screaming.

Every time The Beast caught another victim and sunk his teeth into their skin, tearing them apart, the weaker David became, he could feel the pain of each injury The Beast caused these innocent children, the sheer terror as their lives were taken from them so carelessly and it made him feel sick as he collapsed on the floor, shaking his head to escape from the haunting vision. The Beast hit him hard on the head causing him to roll on the floor as he tried to stumble away from him.

"You reek of fear" The Beast mused as he leaned on one of the seats making it lean forward as he pushed his entire weight on it "Those children were weak and impure they were never going to become like us, their potential was limited so they never really mattered"

"And what about their families, the people they loved...did they not matter to them" David asked making The Beast's face darken 

"You never thought about that when you saw Kevin's father dying on a hospital bed next to you" he growled 

"I couldn't save him, I'm sorry I know your life would have been so much better if I had" David cried.

"You ignored us again after our paths crossed again at that station" The Beast pointed out

"I didn't know about my powers then...I'm sorry, I truly am...I would have saved you all if I knew" David sobbed

"Always an excuse with you impures, you all claim your so self righteous and yet you have caused more damage than anyone else here, this is why we hate you" The Beast snarled, before grabbing David's throat and pinning him to a wall "I could beat you all day but alas that won't cause any long lasting damage to you will it?...luckily your friend Elijah Price was very helpful in divulging to me your biggest weakness, even better I know where to find it" The Beast purred before punching the nearby window and dragging David outside with him, to a nearby pond close to the train station and chucking David down next to him.

As soon as he saw the pond David started trying to back away from it, only to have The Beast grab him by the collar and knocking his head to the ground.

"This is where you die, Unbreakable man, you only have yourself to blame for this, although you can blame your "friend"Elijah Price for your demise, after all if it wasn't for him telling me, we would never have found out"

"Why are you doing this?...you know Mr Glass is doing this just to tear us apart, he's the real enemy here" David argued

"I'm sorry Mr Dunn, a long time ago we may have believed you, after his betrayal...unfortunately you have caused more pain for us than Glass has and now it is time for you to die" The Beast stated before dragging David to the water and planting him head first underwater, causing him to start drowning.

David tried to bring his head back up to the surface and only succeeded long enough to gasp in a long breath of air before The Beast's large, strong hand brought his head back under the water. David tried to hold onto his breath for as long as he could until it became too much, the first gulp of water hit him and he slowly started losing consciousness, his last thought was hoping that Emma had survived her encounter with Stevens, otherwise his last hope had been snuffed out before he fell into darkness, the fight leaving his body as he gave into his fate.                 

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