Unlikely Hero: Fall of the Demon Slayer

Part 10

The pain from the holes through my chest was unbearable, even though I was out cold I could still feel the pain. I was in a dark abyss with nothing around me, yet I knew exactly what was going on in the real world. Eric was stitching me up and trying to keep me alive. With every minute passing I could feel his heart rate jump. His hands were extra shaky which made stitching me up even harder. I tired to force myself to wake up, I could use my power to heal myself. It would save both of us a bunch of time and effort. I used all of my mental power to wake myself up. I needed to heal myself then get out of here as soon as I could. I don't want to get anyone else killed, especially since he has done so much to keep me alive as is.

I could feel my heart start to slow down. My breathing was almost nonexistent. I was beginning to die. Then I felt a pulse of energy flow through me, it felt like a static shock. Then I was hit with another, and then another after that. I woke up on the last shock, I jerked my body up off the table taking a massive gasp of air in. Eric was standing next to me holding defibrillators. He must have noticed I was going out and used them to keep me alive.

I looked down at myself. I was covered in scars from the fight against Coleton. How did that end exactly? I killed him, I couldn't detect a heart beat coming from him yet he managed to get the best of me. He killed those innocent people right in front of me, and all I could do was watch. I'm a failure to the town and all the people who live there. I should have made sure he was dead before I walked away.

Eric came up to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. He knew how I was feeling, the guilt of failure was all I could feel. I got down off the table and walked through the door at the end of the room. I was in the middle area of the house, dark brown walls with a wooden base board covered the halls. I made my way through the house until I was to the front door. I turned the knob and walked outside. The woods around the house were filled with the chirping and tweeting of birds and the whistle of the wind blowing through the trees. I kneeled down on the porch and cried. I was suppose to save everyone, yet I couldn't even protect the ones I cared about most in my life.

"Claire I'm sorry, I let you down. If only I didn't go out that day and got myself shot then I would have been there to protect you and your parents from them, but I wasn't there. I'm sorry." I said through my sobs.

I cried rivers of tears for what seemed like hours until Eric came outside. He stood over me and watched as I broke down on his porch. He placed his hand on my shoulder again and kneeled down next to me.

"Look kid, no matter what you say and do you can't bring back the dead. You have to move on eventually. If not use that as motivation to stop him form hurting anyone else. Bad things happen, but you have to be the one to not let those things drag you down." He told me.

I sat on the ground not even considering what he had told me. He thinks that some inspiration will get me back on my feet, but what he doesn't get is what it feels like to lose something this bad. Nothing will fix this. Nothing can repair what was lost. I'm going to find Coleton and kill him, I will make him pay for what he did.

I got back up on my feet and walked off the porch. My face was red with rage, I could feel something inside me getting ready to snap. I'm about to go berserk with the thoughts going through my mind.

"He is going to pay this I vow.....and I'm not letting anything get in my way!" I yelled into the air.

My jagged, fiery wings spread out as I took my demon form in. Eric stood on the porch and stared at me with worried eyes. He knew what was about to happen, but also knew he couldn't stop me. A new perspective of things flowed through my mind. At first when I got these powers I was hesitant to kill anyone, unless it was my only option like it was with Ethan and Austin. Something clicked in my head where my state of mind changed from a maim and injure to scare my enemies to the point where I just want to kill every last one of them.

I walked out into the woods surrounding Eric's house. The rage of ten thousand suns blistered through the air around me. With every step I took the ground shook beneath my feet. I was ready for Coleton to come at me with everything he had. I will destroy his little army he created and then I will kill him slowly. I'm going to make every bit of his death agonizing, then I'm taking those kids and getting them away from here.

The sky turned black as time flew by. Flashes of fire could be seen for brief moments through the woods. I stood in the middle of a massive clearing, the trees around me cut down and charred at the stumps from my fire balls. I fell to my knees in exhaustion. My breathing was heavy and my heart felt like it was about to explode. The adrenaline in my system finally began to wear off and my body was starting to feel the aftermath of it. I could barely stand, I laid down on my back and stared up at the night sky. The stars were easily seen out in the country. Shooting stars could be seen scratching the sky as they flew passed. I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep in the middle of the clearing.