In the Blood of a Witch

Chapter 3- The Brutal Ending

Chapter 3- The brutal ending.

Mom gave me one last reassuring squeeze and then she trudged off, maybe heading home or maybe just going away from a while, as I wished so badly I could do.

I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in my families tiny, but yet comfortable cottage on the seashore with no worries in the world, just surrounded by the people I love and not worrying about this catastrophe that had so randomly jarred it’s ugly, drama filled head into my nearly perfect life.

I looked around me and saw that hours had passed. It was night once again, and Bladeit had not attacked yet. I was thankful for that I turned my head and when I looked back, Brilai was standing in front of me

. “Bristol, you have to leave, NOW. Take your family and no one else. Ambalay is not safe anymore Bladeit will destroy you all. Before it’s too late, go!”

Then she disappeared into thin air. “What?” I exclaimed. “Come back” I yelled angrily. 'What the heck?' I thought. How could she just so randomly pop up, tell me something so terribly important, and disappear suddenly? 'I mean what about all the other people in Ambalay, the people that were fighting with us, against Bladeit?'  I should save them too, right?

I was a miserable wreck right now, and I was extremely confused. I wanted to stay with my friends and all the others and do what was right by fighting against Bladeit. However, I also wanted my family to be safe. I looked around me, mentally begging Brilai to appear or at least to wake up and this all be some kind of a dream. Nothing happened.

 “Hey sweetheart” someone from behind me said. I knew it was not Brilai, and that thought alone made my sour mood return. I honestly did not want company right now, and I dared anyone to start something.

I spun around and Lynus was standing in front of me, his bare chest revealing tan skin, which glistened under the full moon making him appear God like. He put his hands in his jean pockets and stared up at the beautiful full moon.

“You couldn’t go home either could you?” I asked.

He chuckled, “No, not with all this going on…not with me being a leader.” He said still staring at the moon. I became very silent, steadying my heartbeat, trying to relax.

“You know” he paused, to look at me. “I would have never thought something like this would happen. I would have never imagined that the Elders would turn against each other, or that I would be defending the humans. They killed my dad, but for some reason I feel as if it is, my duty to do what is right. To protect them, I figure it would make dad proud.” I smiled at him.

He was just so brave, so handsome, so loving.

“It’s because you’re a good person, and somewhere inside of you, you know they are worth fighting for or at least some of them,” I said back. That was a seriously lame response but it was all I had, all I could think of.

He was quite for a little longer and then spoke up “My first girlfriend, or real love I guess you could say was human. She was so beautiful, kind of like you actually. Her personality had no faults or at least in my eyes it did not. I loved her, I really did. I did everything with her, and if a day passed where I didn’t talk to her I felt like I would die, I felt like my life was slowly being sucked out of me, painfully. Of course, I had those days a lot since we lived in different worlds, but I never got used to it. She was literally my world. One day, I woke up and it was a beautiful morning...the day after a full moon actually. Dad, had woke me up for training, but I knew I was going to miss it. I had to see her, Brooke- that was her name. I waited until dad and my other brothers went out the front to collect the weapons, when I snuck out the back. I was so excited to be seeing her again; actually, I was way beyond excited. I felt invincible, I ran through the portal, so anxious to reach her. I never stopped running until I reached our house. We had both decided that was the safest spot, since humans were not supposed to know about our kind, and I had told Brooke anyway. I used the hidden key and opened the door not bothering to knock, since her parents were not supposed to be home. It was weird though, before I twisted that golden knob, I felt a pang of dread, remorse and pain shoot through me. And what I saw when I opened that door still haunts me to this day.”

He paused and stared at the moon some more. I could see tears start forming in his eyes, and I dreaded what he was about to tell me. I felt pain as well, I wanted so bad to comfort him, but he continued.

“Her beautiful face, it wasn’t the same. She was coated in blood. Blood was on the floor, splattered on the walls in fact. In addition, you would figure those blood sucking monsters would take every ounce, but they did not. They wanted me to see it; they wanted me to know what they were capable of, what would happen if I ever told anyone that secret again. I ran to her body, and grabbed her. I held her in my arms for what felt like an eternity, I watched the love of my life take her last breath, say her last words. I saw the tear drizzle down her cheek, but I also saw her force the smile that had made me fall in love with her in the first place. I sat there in that house; crying, paralyzed it felt like. I knew I would never be able to move again, I would never be able to wake up in the mornings and get going. After all, I had no reason to anymore. I, was forced to clean up the blood, I was forced to watch her DIE, I was forced to lie to her parents, the people who other than myself, she loved more than anything in the world. The people that would have died for her in an instant. I had to lie to them and tell them she had not shown up for the date, that she was not home. I had to walk out of that door, knowing that lie would haunt me, knowing that I had buried her myself, and knowing that my life would never be the same. Everything about that day still haunts me, and I remember that I took a vow when she said her last words “I love you Lynus” that I would hunt down and kill every blood sucking monster who had something to do with her death. And I did, I hunted them all down and killed them brutally, painfully I hoped. I wanted them to realize what they had done, was the reason they were dying and I believe I made that point clear. Maybe that is the reason I want to protect the humans, maybe it is because no matter how many good vampires exist I will still hate them all, I will still cringe at even the sight of them. They leave a bitter seed in my heart, and a bitter taste in my mouth. And for Brooke and Brooke alone, I will defend the humans until I die.”

He looked deeply into my eyes, and I could feel him staring into my soul. He was crying, but that did not take away from his manliness, not one bit. He had a real reason to cry, he had a reason to fight. I did not have to ask what happened after he walked out of Brooke’s house, because I already knew what happened. He pushed himself to get up and if that had not have happened, he probably would not have been the person her was today. He was proof of amazing, he was someone I admired and I did not admire many people. After he told me that story, I realized that I could not leave Ambalay; I had to stay and fight with him, for him.

He was my motivation, my inspiration, and from then on out, I would fight like heck to protect him, my family, and the humans.

It was my duty.

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