Jeepers Creepers 3; The Curse

Chapter 10

When Maggie woke up she realized what Darry had been talking about, William was sleeping on the other side of the large bed, but one of his wings was stretched out over Maggie. The long clawed thumb was curled slightly around her shoulder and the rest of the wing was curled snugly around her. She fought back a shudder at waking up next to him, although she had to admit if it weren't attached to something so horrific looking the wing would have felt nice wrapped around her. She hesitantly, gently started pushing the wing and blankets off of her.

William woke up, turned his head to look at her then quickly pulled his wing away from her, "I'm sorry about that I-"

Maggie held up a hand and said, "Don't worry about it, you can't control what you do when you're asleep, but couldn't I just have my own bed?" she asked.

"This bed is big enough for both of us and I don't sleep that much anyways. Plus it would be too difficult to get another bed down here and the only place there would be enough room is in the main room and I doubt you would want to sleep out there," William replied.

Maggie shuddered at the thought of sleeping in a room with dead bodies all over the walls then said, "Fine, just stay on your side of the bed then."

"I'll try, but like you said I can't control what I do when I'm asleep," he replied, grinning at her.

Maggie fought back another shudder at the sight of his long sharp teeth, but quickly recovered and said, "As long as you really are asleep, because if you try anything and you aren't really asleep and I find out you'll wish you had just slept on the floor."

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Once Maggie was ready to leave for school William handed her a large oval pendant that looked like it was made out of bone and had a leather strap to tie around the neck.

"What is this?" Maggie asked looking at the beautifully detailed carving of a dragon on the one side of it.

"I want you to keep it with you just in case you need it," William said taking it and shifting one of the dragon's wings to the side and pushing a small button causing a three inch blade to come out the bottom of it.

"Okay," she said then not entirely sure she wanted to know she asked, "What's it made out of?"

William smiled and flipped it over so she could see a carving of a man holding an ax standing between a young girl and a bear, on the other side, "This was made several years before my family was killed. There was a bear in the area, it was injured, but was still able to hunt, but had started hunting people and had killed a few men who had tried to kill it. I was chopping wood when I heard one of my sisters start screaming, she came running past me and the bear was right behind her. I did the only thing I could, I attacked the bear with the ax. I ended up with a few long cuts from its claws, but I won. For a while I was the town hero for finally killing it and my grandfather who taught me how to carve insisted that I should make something from its bones so I would always have something to remind me that I was a hero, that I had done something that had saved my sister's life and probably dozens of others. Then I ended up killing everyone in that village, more people than that bear ever could have killed," he said.

"You chose to risk your own life to save your sister, you had no choice when you killed others, except for those first twenty three and anyone who could hang innocent children deserved to die. You are a hero for saving your sister's life, what the curse has made you do doesn't change that," Maggie told him, "Now let's get going or I'll be late," she said as he handed the pendant back to her and she put it on.