Blood of Monsters

Adrian Rivera

Being at the summer solstice festival was always awkward for any spellborn. Though our people, monsters as the uneducated called them, were accepted there, we really weren't. We were mocked by many and avoided by others, but I was lucky enough. My family being close to the king allowed me to have a Traitor's Bracelet, a artifact made from the soul of a hybrid or one that had forsaken the king's law.

***

A flick on his shoulder interrupted him as Amara suddenly became irritated from her perch behind his shoulder. "That's what you used," she asked furiously. "And here, I thought you cared."
"I didn't know you then," he pointed out.
"But you still continued to wear it."
"Oh give me a break that soul is ancient."
"So? It might be one of my relative's."
"Might no-," he tried to continue but Cal interrupted him.
"You two, you know we are trying to tell the truth just ignore it, Amara don't interrupt, Adrian write."

***

This allowed me to transform into a human form. My eyes were always an odd shade of blue but with the popularity of colored contacts these days it didn't matter.

***

"Cal, I'm sorry but I have to point this out," Amara said flicking her wings back.
"Knock it off," he tried to say but she wasn't listening.
"Colored contacts can't make your eyes glow," she said.
Finally Cal nodded his agreement to that statement, "fair point," he decided, "but can you stop interrupting."

***

The line in front of me moved, the pair ahead of me, a tall pale haired boy and and a dark haired winged girl moved a few steps forward to search the food on display, after several minutes of the girl considering the options the boy turned around to face me, the moment the dark brown eyes looked at me I realized who it was the son of the mayor, Cal. "You can go ahead of us if you want," he offered pointing to the girl beside him, "Amara usually takes a while."
I stood there for a moment considering the offer, well aware that I looked like I was still coming to my senses, if this boy was Cal, the mayor's son then I know who the girl was too, one that I had seen in school so many times Amara Sithe, a member of the most traitorous family of all monster history.

***

Once I had asked my mother why if we were so terrifying to humans was the Sithe family so revered, her response was to tell me the story of Regina Sithe and the Monster King.
Long ago Regina was the best friend of the king. The two grew up together and were like siblings, until one day Regina met a human. This human claimed to love her and corrupted her.
One day left the kingdom without even telling the king, he believed that she had been kidnapped until one day she returned. It was not long before stole the The King's Blade and left as an army of humans attacked the fortress.
Since then the Sithe family has been considered the protectors of humanity, and grown despite the truth, that they were simply traitors pretending to be heroes.

***

         Amara had by some miracle made it to the end before getting irritated, "seriously I'm not that indecisive and traitorous, you've seen Ryan and Myka not to mention me, so any of us seem traitorous.
        "First of all, yes, you definitely are." "Second come on I'm trying to put it from my perspective at the time and at the time that's what I thought of you.
        "Fine, but can you at least tell the real story of Regina, that one's just offensive."
        "And the real story is," Adrian asked.
        Amara stood up and then began to speak, "once there was a girl whose best friend was a king, a man that some claim she may have once been in love with." "He had told her for years that the humans were evil however one day Regina met one, a young man named Ryan Sithe, the man my brother is named after." "They two became immediate friends and eventually fell in love, but when the Monster King learned of this he sent armies to kill the humans and bring her back, jealously clouding his judgement." "Regina returned but knowing the only was to stop the attack was the King's Blade, she stole it." "Upon her return she killed the commander of the monster army and ordered a retreat." "Then she and Ryan were reunited and live the rest of their days protecting humans from the threat of monsters."
        Adrian laughed looking at her, "and you called my story offensive," he said with a grin.
       "Well I wasn't saying that the monster part wasn't rude but it's better than that Traitor's Bracelet," she said with a laugh. "Now, it's my turn to write," she said taking the pen and notebook.