Undying Love-Chp5

CHAPTER 5: THE SAVING

The moon was high in the sky. Raziel felt more secure during the night (don’t all vampires feel that way?). Again he waited at Melissa’s apartment and watched intently. He had to know more about this girl. He had to find out some kind of weakness that he can penetrate through so that he won’t get electrified and bounced back at every time he tried to kill her.

Soon, he saw her coming out of her apartment. She was dressed in the same black turtleneck and black leather jeans. She was wearing a pair of hob-nailed boots and was carrying a small blackish-grey purse. She even had a black leather jacket over her. Everything on her was dark and black, making even more mysterious among the normal humans around her. She seemed pretty gothic too. She stood there outside the apartment door, as if waiting for someone.

A few moments later, a huge exotic Harley Davidson approached the apartment. The driver waved at Melissa, beckoning her to hop on the bike. Behind the Harley tailed a long hoard of bikes. Most of the bikes were Suzuki or Kimisawa brand but they were pretty much modified, and the noise that blared from the engines was loud enough to be heard a mile away. Raziel was surprised to see this spunky girl having such wild hoard of humans as friends. Melissa laughed gingerly and rode on the Harley. The gang of bikes drove off, the engines blaring like mad.

Raziel followed suite. He jumped from one rear of the car to another to catch up with the bikes and he had to make sure that the vehicle he hitchhiked was going at the same route. When he saw them stopping at a vast beach, he got off the lorry of strong-smelling fish he hitchhiked and followed quietly towards the direction of their stop point.

As he stayed hidden behind a palm tree, he saw the gang of people singing and dancing, practically enjoying themselves. Their music was blaring out screaming rock songs like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Evanessence, Eminem and even Marilyn Manson. They danced around their bonfire and drank cans and cans of beer, making loads of rackets. They didn’t give a hoot about littering the place with potato chip bags, beer cans, plastic bags and the like.

‘How can these humans stand this type of music?’ Raziel thought. ‘How could Melissa tolerate these types of people?’

Melissa was then seen walking away with a guy who fitted the criteria of the driver of the Harley. He was quite well-built, with long flaming red hair that reached his shoulders and a pair of bright blue eyes. He seemed like a person who just came out of reform school. Raziel wasn’t the least bit impressed about the boy’s looks. He was being quite close and mushy towards Melissa. He laid his lips on the girl’s and kissed her deeply. Melissa returned his kiss. Raziel grimaced. He hated mushy stuff.

He was about to turn away when he heard Melissa struggling away from the boy. The boy clearly had ‘uneventful’ intentions towards the girl Raziel had high hopes of killing and sucking the soul from. He started to touch her everywhere and was caressing naughtily at her breasts. Melissa tried to push her away but he was much stronger. Raziel realized that her force field she boasted about was only useful to beings like him. Humans like that sexual-minded boy has no effect in activating the force field.

Raziel saw everything that was happening and was thinking of leaving her alone. So what if she gets raped or sexually assaulted? That’s not his problem. His job was to kill her and suck her soul. ‘Serves her right to be robbed of her innocence by some no good reform boy,’ he thought. ‘That’ll teach her to mess around with me.’ So saying, he turned and left the scene.

When Melissa’s call became even more frantic, Raziel couldn’t help stopping in his tracks. ‘What am I doing?’ he thought in horror. ‘I’m not supposed to have any compassion for this human. I only have to find a way to kill her and take her soul away to be mine! What’s happening to me? Why do I…’

Before he knew it, his feet were guiding him towards the struggling Melissa. Melissa tried to pry and push the boy away who was definitely into no good.

“Get away from me, you creep!” Melissa yelled, wanting to just kick the boy’s dick but he was quite prepared for that.

“No one gonna hear you here. We are way out of earshot,” the boy grinned victoriously. “Besides, they won’t even care anyway. To them, we are officially a pair.”

“I wouldn’t say that you are way out of earshot,” Raziel came from behind the boy and grabbed his throat. He carried the boy high above his head, letting him choke and kick in the mid-air. Finally, with just one squeeze, he broke the boy’s neck in two with a loud crunch (Ouch!) and dropped him like he was merely nothing more than a piece of carcass. He pulled down his scarf, revealing his somewhat jawless mouth and, for his and Melissa’s eyes only, sucked the boy’s glowing soul that was floating out of his body. It all happened quite fast and quite soundlessly, that Melissa took a few seconds to realize that she was actually standing in front of the vampire.

“You…didn’t have to kill him…” Melissa finally found her voice.

“I was just hungry,” Raziel replied coldly as he covered his mouth again with his scarf. Like I said, a scarf across his face was much better than staring at his scary face without a bottom jaw.

“He’s my driver, you bone-head! He’s the only person willing to send me home! No one else would!”

“What about your companions out there at the sandy land?” Raziel jerked his head towards the direction of the beach.

“They wouldn’t dare to touch me!” Melissa waved her hands dramatically. “They confirmed us a couple! You don’t know how big his influence has on them. If they find out that you actually killed him…”

“You are a very peculiar girl. Not only you have an aura that I am yet to penetrate, you also have an unreasonable behaviour,” Raziel folded his arms across his chest. “I have just rescued you from a possibility of losing your innocence and you…”

“Aha!” Melissa said suddenly, pointing at our resident evil vampire with a scornful look on her face. “You do admit that you were trying to rescue me!”

Raziel felt like biting his tongue, except that he hadn’t many teeth—no lower jaw, for the matter of fact—to do so. When he about to argue his reasons for his acts, Melissa’s cell phone rang. Melissa hurried to pick it up from her pocket.

“Hello? Yeah, it’s me…Uh-huh…What? Are you sure? Hang in there. Just stay there and don’t move. I’ll be right there, OK? Just stay put!”

As Melissa hung up her cell phone, Raziel eyed at the little thing curiously, “What is this contraption you’re using? Why are you talking to yourself with this?”

“I don’t have time for your petty questions!” Melissa huffed irritably. “I got some business to take care of.”

So saying, Melissa dashed away from the place without even looking back or even saying goodbye to her friends at the beach who were still rocking their heads out. She ran until she reached a road and halted a taxi.

For once, Raziel actually followed her right into the taxi and sat beside her. Literally. Melissa’s mind was too occupied to bother about his existence and his persistence to follow. She had her force field to keep Raziel a well distance away from her if he had any bright ideas.

“To Firefox Street, please, and hurry.”