Monsters

Chapter 7

 She's been descending into a downward spiral for a while.

"I've killed people before...but never a child unless I tried to save them." Her voice was almost void of emotion.

"She could've gotten us all killed. We had to do something Lourdes. We had to do something. Lourdes just no she didn't have to die because of you directly."

"Don't you think I know that !"

She was about to storm off when she turned back to me and said "She killed Bruno. And I knew she would kill me next and then everyone else if I didn't do something."

"Wait a second ...Diodotus, a little girl can transform into different creatures. She killed Bruno! Big, strong,....six feet tall guy.The guy that can turn into a freaking cyclops! I don't believe it." I blinked and next thing I knew I was in the woods where a very large body lay. He had long and deep scratches all over his arms and legs. Parts of him had dried blood stuck to them. But what really got me was that there was a large burn mark in his pupil.

"It's as if someone shot him...in the eye......with a flame arrow."

She then pointed to a burnt and bloody arrow on the ground.

"She may be small but boy is she intelligent. She lured him out here with a jaguar. She then attacked him and when he was on the ground. She transformed back into her human form and shot him right in his eye. I know she did it. I can smell her scent on his body ...Her scent is driving me insane. I thought I was seeing things the other day."

'I just want to ensure that your life is a living hell.'

"Iggy, please tell me you heard that too."

"I wish I could but I didn't hear anything."

"But I did."

Azrael said triumphantly as he landed. He was in his raven form. But his eyes gave him away.

★★★★★

Azrael is mysterious to everyone except me. He constantly disappears and sometimes doesn't come back for days, weeks, sometimes months. But he's a raven. He's there as a beacon of death. Death is often portrayed as a bony man in a black hood and a long ax. He is a tall, slim guy. With a pale complexion Which is more Slenderman than death. He appears when someone is going to die. Which is why I was both happy and nervous when he came back.

"Lourdes, I know you think you might be losing it. But as the actual form of death, I can hear them too.

"I just really hope it isn't y' know haunting me."

"I'm afraid it is."

"Why is she haunting me?"

"Spirits will wonder and sometimes haunt people they knew in life ...Especially when there is unfinished business with that person. She said she wanted to kill you right? She managed to be rid of one protector but died before she figured out how to kill you."

I paled with sudden realization. The girl refused to pass on until she's destroyed our family. Which would never happen for as long as I exist.

I ascended upon the living realm. I had unfinished business to attend to.

"Ayla...I need a favor....."