CHAPTER 13: DARKNESS FALLS IN
She could feel herself getting closer and closer towards the dark side. She could feel herself changing from the timid, scared-of-everything little girl into a bloodthirsty vampire hybrid who is bent on helping the gargoyle Demona to do her bidding and destroy all the humans she once was.
Somehow she felt that Demona was quite right about the humans. She had seen the way the humans reacted when she and Demona appeared in front of them. They looked as if they were terrified of them, scared and horrified by their appearance and if they could and have the courage to do so, they would want to kill them. They run at the sight of them and they scream like hell was going to come and claim their souls or something like that.
Well, she and Demona are coming to claim their lives anyway, literally.
Demona was right. She was right all along. Humans really don’t appreciate people who are different than they are. They really see things which are different as a threat. They didn’t stop to think or find out who they really are and what their purpose in this Earth is all about. They are just so bent on trying to get rid of people who are different from them and bring the ones that are as same as they are closer to them. They take the protection they were given by those who are different for granted and when they have no use to them, they try to eliminate them without trying to understand what they need. She found it hard to believe that she used to be this kind of race.
When she thought about it, she couldn’t see why Goliath tries to protect this race who doesn’t even know that the clan existed and fear them whenever they actually appear up close and personal to them. Goliath told her before that she was one of them and that she also has an obligation just like the rest of the gargoyles to protect and watch over the humans. Brooklyn even volunteered to protect the humans alongside with her and help her out in any way he could to make her understand her purpose. She understood the purpose now and yet somehow she felt that it was practically the dumbest, most worthless purpose she had ever brought herself to believe in.
Their cause is meaningless and should be enlightened to a truer purpose. Demona was right. They are against her and should not be of any connection to her. Any enemy of Demona is an enemy of her.
Including Brooklyn.
“He’s awake! Oh, thank the gods, he’s awake!”
Brooklyn opened his eyes slowly and could barely hear Lexington’s excited voice. He held out his hand and reached over towards the place on his neck where it hurt slightly. Then the memory slipped silently back into his mind. He remembered the pair of sharp fangs buried into his jugular by the hybrid gargoyle he had come to love. He was actually attacked and was almost killed by Suki, his love. He felt the bandage on his neck and let out a small sigh before shifting his eyes towards his clan.
“Are you alright, Brooklyn? You gave us quite a scare there,” Goliath asked as he knelt down beside his second-in-command.
“Yeah. Bronx found you in the park after Demona got away from us,” Broadway said as he sat his brother up. “You were bleeding from the neck and we thought you were a goner. We took you home and stayed by your side until dawn broke, and we seriously hoped that the morning sleep will heal, seeing that you have lost so much blood.”
“But after the sun set and we broke out of our stone sleep one by one,” Lexington continued, “you took your time to break and when you did break, you didn’t stretch or yawn like we did. The stone skin just broke and you just fell onto the floor like a rag doll.”
“We were so afraid that you lost so much blood that even the stone sleep couldn’t cure you,” Angela said worriedly. “You were barely breathing. We couldn’t do the…CPR Elisa taught us, so we had no choice but to try and shake you awake.”
“That explains the dizziness of my head,” Brooklyn muttered in a half-jokingly way.
“Who did this to you?” Goliath asked, his voice rumbled in his throat with a serious tone. It sounded pretty authoritative and Brooklyn was afraid. He could tell from that tone that Goliath was going to pulverize the person who had hurt him. He remained quiet, his hand still on the neck, fingering the bandage.
“Who else but his vampire girlfriend?” Lexington said in a grudging tone. “I knew she was a bit of a trouble from the start. She probably tried to kill him just like she killed all the other humans in the bar…”
“She didn’t mean it, OK?” Brooklyn hissed, not wanting Lexington to say anything bad about his love. “She just wanted to get away and escape from me. She didn’t mean to hurt me…I’m sure of it.”
“No matter what the reason,” Goliath said as he helped Brooklyn to sit up, “she has gone against us and has deserted our clan. She is now our enemy and must be stopped at all costs before she kills again, even if it means taking drastic measures.”
“Please don’t kill her, Goliath,” Brooklyn pleaded. “I beg you, Goliath. She really didn’t mean to hurt me. It’s just…”
“I, too, would not wish to hurt her. She had been a fond member in our team and I would like to avoid anything unwanted if I can. But if the situation gets bleak, I’m afraid we’ll have no choice.”
Brooklyn lowered his head, feeling downcast. Deep down inside, he knew that Goliath was right and that if the situation persisted, none of them will have a choice to do otherwise. Her thirst for blood, as shown in the bar house he and his brothers barged in, was more lethal and insatiable than they could’ve imagined. She has begun to become a threat to the human race he and the clan had sworn to protect.
But he just couldn’t stand the idea of killing her.
The sound of beating wings outside Demona’s little home alerted her. She rushed over to open the window for whoever it was that was hovering outside her window to come in. Suki, who was sitting beside Demona’s chair by the fireplace, looked at the window curiously from her spot.
“Thailog, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you, my love.”
Suki stared at the gargoyle that entered the room. His white hair and red eyes looked new to her, and his skin was so dark that if they hadn’t turned on the lights, she probably wouldn’t be able to see him. The funny thing was that he looked exactly like Goliath. Suki was a little scared: Has Goliath turned himself into a different form to trick Demona and take her back to the clan and back to Brooklyn she just tried to kill? Suki growled and backed away.
“Looks exactly like your clan leader Goliath, doesn’t he?” Demona turned to Suki who was keeping a wary eye on Thailog. “Don’t worry, he’s not Goliath. He’s a very dear love of mine, just like between you and Brooklyn.”
“Brooklyn not Suki’s love,” Suki shifted her gaze for a while, then eyed Thailog’s jugular hungrily and grinned. “Is Thailog for Suki eat?”
“Don’t you even think about it, you little vampire,” Demona hissed. “Sorry, Thailog. She’s been trying to get used to enjoy the blood consumption. I guess she got a pint of blood too many.”
“I have heard a lot about your news on my way here,” Thailog said as he brought a copy of a newspaper for Demona to see. On the newspaper was a very huge headlines writing ‘VAMPIRES: TRUTH OR CULT?’ with a very big picture of dead people stacked up in a careless heap, their bite marks being highlighted. “It seems that you have a great head start in fulfilling your mission and your wildest dreams. I suppose she’s the one been doing your dirty work, isn’t she?”
“She certainly is, and what a prized jewel she is. With an appetite for blood like her, we’ll soon take our rightful place as rulers of this earth and no one, not even one single human, will ever tear this truth apart. It may take some time for her to eliminate all the beings in this world, but with the modern technology in this century, we could definitely figure out something to create more creatures like her.”
“And I, a gargoyle born of this century and with the brains of both my fathers Sevarius and Xanatos, can definitely come up with a certain plan on creating that batch,” Thailog replied as he eyed thoughtfully at Suki who was still eyeing at Thailog with that hungry look on her eyes. “Are you sure she won’t bite?”
“As long as I have her on the leash, she’s pretty much harmless,” Demona replied, then fell into her evil sweetheart’s arms and asked, “So, what brings you here, my love?”
“I’m here because I have a perfect preposition for you,” Thailog said as he brought Demona’s face closer to his mouth before whispering, “Listen…”
And as the huge Goliath-like white-haired gargoyle clone whispered his plans to his redhead gargoyle, Suki continued to watch with curiosity over the two.
Xanatos and Owen were in their office as usual checking what’s new on the market and, at the same time, trying to figure out the whereabouts of Ms. Dominique Destin a.k.a. Demona. The fact that there was someone more successful in business than him kind of tweaked Xanatos a little, and finding her became a little personal to him than wanting to help the gargoyle clan to help find Suki.
Suddenly there was a loud, long beep in one of the computer screens. Xanatos shifted his gaze from his laptop towards that computer while Owen had a head start in clicking the keyboards into finding out what was going on. As Owen scanned through the perimeters and zoomed in the screen, the screen soon showed something in the landscape that both Owen and Xanatos were familiar of.
“Sir, it appears that there seems to be some sort of a disturbance in the abandoned building on the land you’ve recently bought,” Owen commented as he pointed at the blinking spot on the landscape.
“Ah, the building that I have bugged so that I can keep track of any trespassers coming into my property,” Xanatos remembered the land he had bought from someone who was going bankrupt in his business and going down the drains in debts. “Now who could that be, I wonder?”
“Shall I get us a vehicle to go and check it out?” Owen offered as he took out his cell phone.
“Do that,” Xanatos replied. “We’ll see who the fool to cause this unnecessary disturbance is.”
While Owen made the arrangements, a dark figure with long white hair and a beak-like mouth hid in the corner of the window listening to every word before taking off down the moonlit sky.
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