Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Blood Scream

Saturday 9:00 PM

Kat couldn't believe she fell for this. She couldn't believe she let him lure her. But, she thought as the ground quickened towards her, at least before she died she would live her dream to fly. Her back hit the ground, a snap echoed through the theatre, and her breath caught. She screamed, blood growing wings and flying from her mouth. She couldn't believe she'd been such a fool.

Saturday 10:00 AM

Alex walked out of the house, her bag clutched in her hand since it couldn't rest on her shoulders, the scars still not fully healed and painful to the touch from that demon's visit. She placed one stiff leg before the other, thinking of the coming concert. She had decided, she was going to tell Kat. She would make her believe. She couldn't live in fear like this of a man that wouldn't even know if she told Kat. She walked down the street and waited for the bus to come. She leaned against the pole and waited silently.

10:30 AM

Kat leaned against the brick wall that was infected with deep green moss and waited for the bus to arrive. She crossed her arms, plugged in her headphones, paced, till Alex hopped off the bus with a nervous weight and forewarning as she looked up to see Kat waiting there. Kat uncrossed her arms and placed them in her back pockets, smiling.
“Hey, Alex, right?” She breathed, trying to seem unsure. Alex nodded and walked forward, “Yep, that's what they call me. So where's this place we're going to? And..how exactly did you get here?”
“Bus, same as you. And waited for you to come to lead the way.” Kat murmured through her teeth. “Anyways, it's on Wilson and Doctor, and is like, some intesne building. It should have something like banners all over it saying 'Kutless, here tonight!'”
Alex smiled and nodded. Then, as if realizing that Kat couldn't see that, she told her “sound's good.”
They walked in silence for a time. Kat having to be lead by Alex, even if Alex almost got them lost. She had to bite her tongue from telling Alex where to go or how to get there so many times that only God knows how many times she actually did. When they finally did make it, Kat asked the time, one thing she still couldn't figure out even with a clock in her hands.
“Nearly time for the concert to start. C'mon, let's get our seats.”
They walked through large, wooden doors and into a massive building, one story packed upon another, filled with chairs and people filing in. Alex lead them to a man taking tickets then showed them to their seats.
“There's so many people here!” Alex screamed, though Kat strained to single out her voice.
“I can tell,” she shouted back, “I can barely hear anything!”
The screams roared louder, collected together instead of various conversations.
“The lights are going down! Kutless is coming on!”
As she finished her sentence a loud clang of the drums and beat of a guitar screamed out through the crowd. Kat's and Alex's screams followed the note along with the entire crod. Half way into the second song, Treason, they had found their way to the front.
“I love this song!” Kat screamed, dancing crazily.
“So do I!” Alex shouted. She paused for, Kat sensed, hesitating. Her mouth opened again, “Kat! I have something to tell you!”
“What?!” Kat screamed, being pulled away by the crowd ever so slowly.
“Something to tell you!”
Kat fought her way back to Alex and nodded, “What is it?”
Alex's mouth opened, a hand wrapped around it from behind, and she got no more than a squeak of panic out through the fingers. Before Kat could react, Alex had disappeared.

12:00 PM

The hand pulled away seconds later and Alex let out a scream that could burst ear drums. Her ears still rang from the roaring voices and the screaming music and her eyes fought to adjust to the new, natural light of the outside. A slap came from the back of her head and Alex stumbled forward, though as soon as the hit landed she whipped around to face the attacker. Her face went pale, stepping back.
“Did my servant not tell you not to let your mouth slip of a certain something you know?”
She couldn't respond. She swallowed several times, but still nothing came out. There was a wicked grin crossing the muzzle of a beast behind the man.
“Answer me, girl, did he not tell you not to tell the girl?” his voice was rougher now.
“H-how..?” she managed, eyes still fixed on the beast.
“Jerry was watching you the entire time. He has precise hearing, my girl.”
Alex was caught off guard and focused on this man's face. He was wearing a cloak, though his posture was stiff but confident, his arms crossed, and brunette hair lighting up the darkness of his hood along with a flash of white teeth. She then turned to the snickering horned wolf with deep blue fur and dark gray horns.
“Jerry?” she breathed, “Jerry? The one who-”
“The very same,” said the raspy voice, smirking his fanged grin. “You surprised beautiful?”
Alex coughed, “But-you and Kat! And-” then she trailed off, realization dawning on her. “Tonight..you two...you guys are going to some play...right?”
Jerry laughed, shook his furry head, and took a step forward, “Now now, aren't you a clever one, my dear? But it's time to silence you, as much as it pains me to see such beauty be thrown down the drain. Sleep well, Alex.” He pulled back, then leapt forward, jaws thrown open and claws stretching for her.

12:30 PM

Katara paced the outside of the place, wishing she had a phone to call the girl. She had sent out her senses and walked to every corner of the building and found no sign of her. She had started to flip, what was so important that she would be stolen right before Kat? Kat paced back and forth before the door, trying to think of some logical reason she would be gone. Some reason why Alex would be stolen right before her, and thought of none. And what was she to tell the police? That Alex was suddenly taken from some concert and disappeared? What evidence would she have? She's supposed to be blind. She sighed and tucked her hands in her back pockets and headed back to her bus stop, hoping, by some random chance of fate, that Alex was back at her house.

12:50 PM

As Kat walked towards Alex's house a form caught her attention off to her right. She stopped and turned it's direction.
“Dr. Vain?”
He started, turning to her, his heart beating hard enough to feel through his feet. “Oh, hi Kat. You startled me. What are you doing here?”
“Well, going to check out my friend's house.”
“Oh. I see. Kat..there's something I need to tell you.”
“That sounds like bad news.” she said slowly as Silver walked closer. He came next to her and sighed, “Was this girl's name by chance Alex?”
“Yeeeaaah...why?”
“Kat,” he started, looking down at the ground, “She's been taken by the Darksiders. She's-she's not coming back..The organization found her body at her house..I wouldn't suggest going in while we're cleaning it up.”
“What!? That's not possible! C'mon, honestly, that's not funny. Why don't I sense them up ahead?”
“They must've finished cleaning up, my dear. Please, calm down and breathe.” he rested his arm around her shoulders and pulled her close, shock still racking Kat's body.
“It's not true, Silver. It can't be.”
“But it is, my dear, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.” He breathed. Kat pulled away and shook her head, “I-I need to go home..I'm sorry.” She leapt up and ran. Ran fast and hard till her lungs burned and her feet hurt. Then she let herself fall upon the grass of the store she had ended up in front of and let uncountable, invisible, tears fall.

1:20 PM

“No, she didn't.” A voice whispered in the darkness.
“What do you mean, she didn't?” Hissed the other.
“She got away. I don't know how. But when I turned around to finish her off, she was running faster than I could catch her. And before I knew it, I was passed out on the ground.”
“Passed out. You let that girl go, while you were passed out on the ground!? Get out of my sight.”
“Sire, please, give me another chance. At nine tonight I'll get you the one you want. Please, Sire, give me this last chance.”
“Fine. Do not fail me, Jerry, or I swear to you, you won't wake up tomorrow.”

1:20 PM

Kat slumped down on her couch and reached for her guitar. She pulled the acoustic, wooden beauty into her lap and placed her fingers upon it. She closed her eyes and let out a breath, allowing the music to calm her down. She strummed the notes and let the sadness and pain whip through her guitar smoothly like a wave upon the shore. She sat there for a time, ignoring the hunger ripping her from inside and ignoring the pain in her fingers. She didn't pay attention as her fingers started to bleed. She was lost in memory, lost in the thought of how this happens to people like her. She contemplated what she's done wrong, contemplated on what she could change to stop this from happening again. She choked on tears that weren't there and thought of the day coming home. She was younger then, but not in body, in spirit and mind. It was two years before, she had come home to find the door kicked in, a note cut into the wall and covered in blood, and overturned furniture everywhere. There were bodies upstairs, but she did not go up there for days. She cleaned up the house but avoid their room. She ignored the smell, ignored the blood that covered her hands everywhere she went. But she could no longer ignore the blood on her hands. She could no longer stand the fact that she did this. She was this being who was a rare creature, and for whatever reason, whomever she comes in contact with finds some why to die off physically or mentally. Her grandparents went mad, her parents were massacred, and now Alex? All within five years? She gripped the neck of her guitar tightly, the strings slicing her already pain-filled fingers, and hunched her shoulders. Was there any stopping this?

7:00 PM

Kat was leaning against the door frame when he came. She sensed him long before in her state of totally emptiness and awareness. She had her guitar still in her lap, but now pushed it aside and stood up.
“Hey.” she said as she opened the door before he even knocked. He smiled and nodded, “Hey. Everything okay?”
She took a breath, and nodded, smiling. “Yep. Of course. You're early.”
“Well, I was thinking, maybe we could go get something to eat?”
“Sure, why not? Where to?”
“Do you like pasta?”
She grinned, “Course. Let me get some things and I'll be right down.”
She ran upstairs, scoured her room, gathered a bag and threw in mace along with an assortment of other needed items. When she came downstairs he gave her his hand and lead her to his car.

8:30 PM

“So all of those are from playing guitar?”
“Yep, all of em.”
He whistled in slight shock, smiling, touching her hands again and running his fingers over her callouses. “How long have you played?”
“Mmm, not long, just long enough to know a few tricks and that's it.” Kat responded, fighting off a blush that tried to leap upon her cheeks as she felt his soft hands against hers. He laughed, nodding, “Well, that's always good.”
She nodded, “Yep. So where, exactly, are we headed?”
“There's a large theatre downtown. We're headed there now. We'll be there soon.”
She smiled at him, “Sounds good.”
They shortly approached said theatre, and he stopped them and looked at her, smiling.
“Kat, you're beautiful, you know that?”
Kat grew tense, predicting where this was going. She smiled and kissed his cheek, “C'mon, we don't want to miss the show.”
He hesitated, grinned, and nodded. “You're right. It would be a shame if we did.”
As soon as they walked in Kat knew something was wrong. She opened her mouth to express such feelings, but then he grabbed her arm so forcefully that all thoughts were washed out of her, replaced with a wave of shock. He pulled her to the balcony, and as they came to the top, she gripped her mace and sprayed it in his eyes and mouth with such precision, she prayed to God he would choke to death. Cause she could feel the waves of wind hit the ground from the creatures above. She could not see them herself, but she knew they were there.
Jerry screamed, stumbling back and whipping his eyes. It was a quite unmanly scream, Kat noticed with the quickest hint of pride as the winged beasts from above attacked. She threw blind punches and was awarded with a few good crunches and snaps. But more often than not she ended up cut over the face and arms. She stumbled back as the monsters attacked her. Then she could not stumble anymore. She found herself falling from the balcony, and when the ground opened it's embrace for her again, it took it's vengeance upon her back, snapping it completely in half. Kat gasped then let out the cry of an angel.

(hope yall enjoyed! i tried something diff in this chapter :D as yall can see!)