Blood Covered Roses

Chapter 12

Luna's pov

I heard the door smash open and the two boys stumbling on the front porch. They were still pushing and shoving but they would laugh a little at each shove. I saw jack shake his head and put his hood over his head.
" alright fuckers let's go." Jeff said as he put his hood over his head like jack did. He placed his hand on my lower back slightly pushing me forward to follow him. As we walked across the yard I noticed we were surrounded by trees but it seemed we were in a small circle. The house was right in the middle and the trees formed around it. Strange, I thought.
It felt like forever going through the woods. The more we ventured the more ominous they got.
" Jeff how much longer? Are we almost there?" Ben groaned. He crossed his arms as he walked with a bored look on his face.
" hold your shit Ben. We're almost there." Jeff hissed at him. He continued to walk but picked up his pace. Finally reaching a spot, he sighed heavily and looked at the surroundings.
" we're here..."
we stepped into a little opening but trees still hovered over. There was a slight dim light coming through the tree tops just enough to see. There were also ropes with nots in them hanging from a few trees and a bow and arrow was laying beside the trunk of one of them.
I looked around taking in the surroundings noticing that the trees were grey and black.
" What... is this place? "
" it's for when we aren't strong enough for ourselves.... it's for getting away from things.... it's for...." he paused thinking of another idea before continuing.
" its for newly acquired.... Uhh...  "recruits".
Jack said showing a toothy grin.
"Recruits?"
Ben stepped beside me and placed a hand on my shoulder.
" yeah..... New and Different killers ....like us"
I shook my head not wanting my mind to wonder off too far.
" so then what-"
Jeff sighed and cut me off.
" To.... Uhh I guess you can say "practice"? Test your limits? Whatever it is....... Draw your dagger"
He said as he pulled his knife out.
" wait........You can't be serious. Jeff I'm not-"
I was cut off by a knife being thrown at me and just barely missing it making it pierce the tree behind.
My breath became shaky and rapid as my heart picked up speed and pounded through my chest. I looked over at Jeff a little stunned as he looked right through me.
" if someone were to come at you..... human or
Monster, they won't hesitate."
He swung at me with his knife and I ducked barely missing it again. I looked at him for a moment before he swung again. I got up and pulled my dagger out, it's blade bouncing a reflection of light as I pulled it from its leather strap. I looked back to where Jeff stood to find him gone. I didn't see jack or Ben either. I frantically looked around trying to spot them but all I saw was darkness surrounding the tiny dimly lit circle I was in. I would hear rustling of leaves and my first instinct was to run but my feet were planted to the ground not daring to move from what little light I had.
I heard evil laughs and deep chuckles from every shadow around me, making me whip my head in every direction trying to spot something in the darkness. When I gave up I turned around and eyeless jack hurled at me tackling me to the ground. He had his mask and hood on giving him more of an eerie look. I stared up at him before he threw a punch at me. He missed as I ducked my head the other way and reached for my dagger. As i did, he pinned my hand down and his legs stiffened around me as he straddle my arms with his hands. I struggled and tried to break his grasp with no luck. Fortunately he took one glance at what I was trying to reach for and gave me a split second to wiggle my leg free. I kicked him hard in his side and turned over to scramble back up grabbing my dagger ready to fight. I turned around to face him only to be met with an empty space where he once stood. Damn it.
My mind was blank and frantic and my breathing was uneven. An unexpected wind blew from the tree tops and soon around me. I could hear a faint whisper through it.
......you know what your capable of.....
In an instant as if in cue, my dagger began to lightly glow l. My eyes grew and I stood there in awe of the transformation. My mind became calm and clear and I steadied my breathing. I closed my eyes taking a deep breath as I focused. I opened my eyes and looked down at my hands as flames dance around my finger tips. My thoughts became morbid and dark as I felt a strong tugging in my chest quite similar to the feeling when I fought with my mom a few weeks ago. I began to smell and taste fresh red metallic, liquid on my tongue and imagined the sight of it dripping off my dagger. Suddenly my face met the forest floor and I turned to look up seeing Jeff sitting on my back. I smirked and roughly rolled over and tackled him down till I was on top of him. He quickly grabbed my throat with his free hand and i took his wrist twisting it off my neck and pinning it down. He wiggle his leg out from under me and kicked me on my side making me roll off. I had my dagger at the ready when he darted forward to me. He made a small cut on my cheek as I made one on his forehead. This only made his grin widen. He cackled out a loud laugh as he looked up and i looked back concerned. Soon an eyeless Jack came tumbling down from the tree tops in attempt to fall on me. I ran out of the way making him miss but he then threw his scalpel at me piercing my shoulder blade. In that moment, it was as if something surfaced from within me holding me captive against my will, and my eyes became slightly blurry. I whipped my head in his direction and pulled out his weapon from my shoulder. I hurled it at him pinning his arm to a tree and I turned to face Jeff who was right on my tail throwing fists at me. After a few try's he finally got one in at my jaw. quickly i countered his attack at him just barely missing. I noticed his ear had red smeared on it. Time stood still for a moment as my mouth watered at the sight of blood, it's smell is all I could focus on. I felt electricity shoot through my body letting My screams break through the woods making the dark feeling become more horrific.
Through the electricity, I slowly regained myself enough to make flames from my fingers. I turned my head slowly to see Ben glitching and bleeding from his eyes with a blank face making him look morbid.
You.... damn bastard. I thought to myself as I pulled myself from his piercing electricity and turned to spit fire from my fingers at him. It developed into a string that reached out to him and grew in to a thick rope of fire that took hold around him, burning him.
I then felt Jeff punch me in my ribs causing blood to spill from my mouth and my flames to stop.
" FUCK!!! You damn bitch. You.... shouldn't have done that!!!"
I heard Ben yell but only gave a grin in return. I turned back to Jeff who was now slowly backing away with a very devilish grin.
"Jeff...."
I heard jack say as he pulled his weapon and himself from the tree.
"do it"
Jeff gave an evil chuckled and ran right for me snatching my dagger and running off through the woods. Taking me by surprise I ran after him along with Ben and jack that spread out in different directions. Even though they went in different ways I knew they weren't far. They all three had a plan but I'm ready to kick ass.
I looked up ahead and I start to lose them slowly. Damn it. I cursed under my breath and pushed myself faster. I followed all the way till I came across a big lake. It was black but I knew it was just water and not like the lake my father was held in. It was the trees that hovered over that made it look so dark. There wasn't much light but my eyes adjusted to the quickly to my surroundings, helping me see a little clearer. I heard faint laughing and knew it was them. I readied myself and started to search around. I passed by the edge of the water and looked down in it. What is that? I thought. I shrugged it off and turned to walk off only to have a hand grab me and pull me under. Under the water I opened my eyes seeing ben looking absolutely demonic. He had glowing blood red eyes and sharp dagger teeth with blood pooling around his eyes sockets. He grabbed my throat and held me down.
" you shouldn't have done that...."
I reached up to my neck and struggled to get his hands off. I was running out of breath.
I kicked and squirmed and clawed at his hands with no luck, slowly then realized .....Jeff took my dagger. Damnit. Fuck. I thought. I'm screwed.
My eyelids grew heavy and my body limp. Was this it? I slowly closed my eyes and saw darkness around me.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Wake up.
.....I can't.
Wake. Up.
How?
Free yourself.
Daughter of destruction.
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The brightest glowing light, surrounded me as i reached the surface of the water.
As I came up I crawled back on to land to see Ben, Jeff, and jack standing there as if waiting for something to happen. i sprawled out on my back gasping for air. my chest violently rises up and down taking in quick breaths. My eye lids, once more, felt heavy and my body went numb.

All i could see was darkness.