Forbidden Fangwoods

Chapter 16 - Training

I apologize for not updating in what I know has seemed like forever. There is so much going on for me with school and work that I have literally had no time to do anything lately, I write when I can guys I promise.

I stood across the small valley from Demetria panting. I had been training with her for several hours straight and hadn't understood what she tried to accomplish forcing me to charge her repeatedly. She is more agile, stronger, and smarter when it comes to fighting, I was and never have been the fighting type, I have always been the type of person to step back and watch or break up fights. "Again!" She commanded. I shook my head as I continued to try and catch my breath, my hands on my knees. I lifted my head from staring at the ground and looked at her before I stood up, I stumbled slightly still out of breath and exhausted. I replied "I don't think I can keep doing this, my chest hurts, I'm dehydrated, and I'm positive Nathaniel and Cinder would frown on; over exerting myself more." Demetria snarled "You must stop with these excuses, I am tired of listening to them. You will train until I say otherwise, I will not have you raging at random, you must learn to control your vampirian side." I took a deep breath and tensed, then I closed my eyes and focused on Demetria: every sound she generated, every breath she took, every movement she made. I felt my fangs descend ever so slightly and like all the other times, I took in a deep breath, opened my eyes, and charged her. I had moved swifter than I thought was possible considering I was still recovering from previous injuries. When I was a good few feet from Demetria I realized her eyes were closed, I had taken advantage and lunged for her. She stepped to the side, grabbed my forearm in one hand, placed her other hand over my chest, and like the times before, she used my body weight and speed against me. She easily flipped me over her head and slammed me into the ground. I hit the ground so hard that I felt it dent underneath me and I heard my spine crack with the amount force. Demetria opened her eyes and released me, I layed on the ground defeated, pained, and exhausted. Demetria stared down at me for a moment, she scanned my features, it felt as though she was searching for something. After a few moments she locked eyes with me and stated "You are pathetic, a worthless waste of my time. How could fate make such a large error?  You are no prophecy. You are useless. I should feed you to the wolves." I heard Saber growl some meters away, from where he ideally watched the training session. When Demetria circled me I felt anger swell from up from deep within. I clenched my fists and gritted my teeth when she threw out insult after insult and expressed how she had planned to tear me limb from limb. Then it was as if someone had taken over, and something had switched inside me. I couldn't take the insults anymore, I had shouted "Enough!!!" For minutes the valley echoed with my raged voice, it had felt like forever as echos faded to silence. Demetria was frozen in place, midstep. I turned to face her as my fangs fully descended from my cainies. I saw the reflected orange glow of my eyes in hers. Demetria mouth gaped and the moonstone attached to my necklace luminessed so bright a blue I thought I would've gone blind. Demetria seemed to back away from me utterly terrified as I continued to fire angered questions at her. 

I questioned "Isn't this what you wanted? A rage, it seemed you were trying pretty hard to inflict one. Or were you trying to get me to focus and control my anger? Oh Demetria you know better then to force a newborn into a rage, the same concept applies here. I thought you were smarter than this." I smirked and began to walk towards her. What's wrong with me? Why did she force this 'Rage' upon me? She knows I have no control, it's like I get pushed aside by my vampirian half every time someone attacks me personally or those I deeply care about. Demetria had visibly gulped and stuttered "G-Get he-help." Saber instantly took off at a sprint toward the Char dens. Demetria sighed, she composed herself, then stood her ground, I growled and stated "Wrong decision." I had charged her and took notice as I started to move in a blur, Demetria lunged at me, grabbed my shoulders taking us both to the ground. Where we then grappled savagely. I had continued to leave terrible wounds all over Demetria's exposed skin as I ripped clean through her clothing as if it had been nothing. It seemed like she was playing defensive, or as though she had done her best not to hurt me, but had also tried to keep me from hurting her. I had eventually pinned both her hands with one of mine and I gripped her jaw tight with my other hand to keep her fangs away from me. It became clear she was in pain as she growled "Sierra.... Stop this...It is not you." That was something I never thought I would ever see, Demetria in pain, especially considering her statement about vampires feeling pain differently than humans. I hissed in annoyance and snarled "You brought this on yourself, you wanted to test my limits so lets test them." I turned her head away from me exposing the soft flesh of her neck. I growled "Why don't we start by finding out what my fangs can do." I flashed my fangs and snarled before I dug them into the flesh of Demetria's neck. She had immediately  let out a sound I can only describe as a cross between a wolf howl, a low growl and a scream. Blood gushed into my mouth as I begun to drink her blood. It was the strangest sensation, calming in a way but mortifying at the same instant. I closed my eyes and continued to drink her blood, and there were several minutes of sturggeling before Demetria whispered weakly "Sierra...I-..." She trailed off as I felt her go limp beneath me, and I continued to drain her as she fell into unconsciousness. Surprisingly Sabers bark rung out through the trees, and moments later I was ripped away from Demetria and thrown in a blur, I slammed against a tree so hard that it splintered to pieces, and I hit the ground some meters away. I sat up to find Thor, Ember and Moore in a line between Demetria and I, their fangs descended, eyes a blazing red. 

I felt my fangs begin to slowly retract as Thor snarled "If she has killed Leader Demetria-." I had slowly begun to get to my feet as Moore cut him off growling "Enough, I know what must be done, but we must restrain the human and we are wasting time." In a blur they had me pinned to the ground and I struggled against them, my body reacting before I even had time to think. I knocked them a good fifty feet away from me in a matter of seconds. I couldn't watch this travesty continue, I couldn't let my vampirian side shove away my humanity and take control of my mind. I begun battling my own mind fighting for control. I collapsed to my hands and knees panting, fighting the urge to rip everyone to shreds and kill Demetria. I snarled "No!" and dug my hands into the dirt gripping fistfulls. I battled my re-descending fangs back to canines and glanced up as Moore, Ember, and Thor were about to lunge again. When Moore had suddenly blocked the others and said "Let her fight her instincts to rage, watch and interfere if necessarily. She must learn control, as we can not restrain her forever." I collapsed to the ground completely, tossed and turned, and battled against myself. Saber slowly padded over until her was sure that it was safe to be near me. He laid down adjacent to my struggling and whimpered. I watched from afar horrified as Nathaniel, Cinder and Moore struggled to help Demetria, and stop the flow of dark blue blood that pooled around her. I eventually felt calm was over me, I closed my eyes and felt myself still. I became aware of pain that enthralled throughout my whole body, and new  wounds stinging in irritation. Ember and Thor rushed to my aid as I started to get up, they looped my arms over their shoulders, supporting me before I was carried away in a blur. The one thing on my mind was Demetria and what I did to her. I turned to Moore as he stared ahead, I had questioned weakly "Demetria?" Then I watched as he closed his eyes and replied snarky "Don't know, you tell me, your the one that well-nigh killed her." His words had stricken me with more terror then I had ever felt. As result, I instantly knew that there was a strong chance Demetria would die as and that it would completely be my fualt. I feared for my life, what would happen to me if I killed her?  I questioned "Where are you taking me?" Thor replied with forcibly restrained anger "To Amber clans healer, Chars are occupied currently."