Eighteen

Chapter 3

Revelations

"Look what I found a wayward pack of High School students," a Ghoul emerged from the alley. His eyes were dark and grim the red shining out brightly with hunger and desire." I haven't eaten in a while. Mind to help a brother out," the messy haired, grease-covered Ghoul questioned holding arms out to either side.

A reflex ran in all of them to flee but at the same time no one did such. Brick pushed his way to the front of the crowd, and considering he was the largest it made a lot of sense. He rolled his neck and spread both arms out encompassing everyone in his wingspan.

"Sorry but we're just trying to get our friend here home," Brick put on a bold face even though every inch of his body was shaking like a leaf. The Ghoul slumped both arms down fatigue and hunger obvious on his face.

'He's not enough. I can tell that this Ghoul is going to hurt him,' Yato flinched back tired body wobbling with hunger. Eyes changed quickly to the red and black of a normal Ghoul no one noticing because of the real Ghoul in front of Brick. He did not even try to move but something kept him prepared to spring in for what little good it would have been worth.

"Allan don't. You can't fight a Ghoul like this," Keiya tried to be the voice of reason. Brick turned and gave thumbs up before turning back to the starved Ghoul before him, the hunger was plain as day.

There was blur of motion and the sound of a wall cracking. Brick fell to his knees in the alley, chips of wall fragments dropping onto him as air left his mouth at an alarming rate his kidneys had been bruised in a single smack. Blood stumbled out of his mouth and to the asphalt in the alley before he dropped face first to it loose trash circled around him.

"Come on over here sweetheart! You're the one I really want," this stray laughed tongue drooping out of his mouth like that of a panting dog. Keiya flinched back as Tatsu kept a firm look forward." Of course if you don't mind you can be my appetizer!" he laughed drool flooding from his mouth like a waterfall.

"No one is getting eaten got that," Yato stepped forward against his own control. Primal urges kept him moving towards the Ghoul body pained with hunger and eyes still brimmed with dry tears. Two red orbs burned towards this hungry beast stopping his tongue from even dripping a drop of saliva." Leave us alone and you won't get hurt," the blonde remarked the sinister eyes of a Ghoul locking onto him.

Something happened but no one truly saw what. Impact riddled the blonde haired youth's body, as the Ghoul towered over him with a sadistic grin. Teeth dripped with salty spittle as they came to clench down upon him they met a trashcan lid instead as Tatsu rushed in to his friend's side.

"Hey now I can't have you eaten either," the brunette laughed as the teeth bit through the lid like it was a piece of paper. Hunger flared deadly in the Ghoul's eyes the faint odor of death still present upon his dirty shirt.

"Come on I only need one of you," a crinkle ran through the Ghoul's nose and he took a step back. There was something different about one of the two teen's before him on the ground, one smelled different.' Is one of them another Ghoul? I've never seen these two around,' hungry the Ghoul faded into thoughts for a brief second.

"How about none of us!" Tatsu threw a right uppercut into the creature's chin knocking him back but barely enough to push away. In fact it was not enough a left hand gripped his left shoulder tightly.

Yato stood back up breaking the arm away from his friend's shoulder with his own. Yato's eyes flared darker for a moment as he whirled a right hand into the Ghoul's gut driving him back without air. A forearm reached up too and struck this greasy mongrel in the left cheek spinning him around where a left kick to the back pushed him away.