WARNING: Slight gore ahead by.
"Hey your cheating not fair", Adrian whined.
Sticking out her tongue and then stifling a giggle Rea said, "It looks fair to me"
"It seems Ike chest", Adi muttered under his breath and she heard him.
"Boom! I beat your high score", she said and started to do a victory laugh making the young boy in front of her burst out laughing.
"Cause you cheated"
"Stop whining like a child"
"We are kids"
"Huh...that's true", she said in a thoughtful stance then gave a casual shrug.
"Are you hungry", Adrian ask all of a sudden.
"I'm not sure", Rea responded immediately her tummy growled and she felt embarrassed, Adi smiled at her cute expression.
"There's a hot dog stand over there let's go", Adrian suggested.
"But I have no money"
"I know, you never have money"
"What!...rude", she yelled and smacked him
"Just kidding"
Adrian went over to buy the hot dog and then spotted a claw machine and ran over to it.
"Hey watch am going to get a teddy bear for you"
"Am not a fan of those", She replied joining him.
"Why not all girls love teddy bears"
"Do I look like other girls"
Adrian tilted his head to the side and stared at her.
"Nope", he said popping the 'p' and focusing back on the machine.
"I would take that as a compliment thank you", Rea said with a mock bow.
"I wasn't being nice"
"Urgh fine you can win me a teddy bear..... happy"
"Yeah..very", Adi said with a toothy grin.
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Rea looked round and noticed the number of people in the arcade were few and spoke up.
"You've been doing this for over thirty Minutes now", Rea complained from her sitting position on the floor.
"Stop sulking like is been an hour already and let me concentrate", Adi said puffing his chest.
"You've been concentrating for so long'
"Plus It's almost twelve and I need to go back before my parents find out", Rea added.
"Oh", Adi's face dropped slightly then lit back up "I promise to get it this time", he said with determination in his voice.
"You've been saying that since"
"Shhhhhh...I think I got this"
Rea rolled her eyes at that, she pretended to be angry and disappointed in him for not winning anything but in reality was just amused by his struggles.
Rea stifled a giggle at that.
Both got distracted by a thud and turned to the source of it and noticed a woman on the floor with her child bent down next to her.
"Ouch", the woman cried out in pain holding her knee, she had tripped over a plastic toy on the ground.
"Oh my gawd mum your knee is bleeding", the woman's daughter with panic in her voice.
Rea immediately got enticed with the metallic smell of blood and paled at the memory of her bodyguard.
"What is it...why do you look pale", Adrian asked.
"I..I have no idea", Rea lied as she stared at the blood dripping down the woman's knee, her hunger was growing by the seconds with the smell alone.
"Hey.... she's going to be ok, is not that serious", Adrian reassured.
It was not ok for her and a very serious dilemma she was in. She was literally having an internal battle just from the metallic smell of the blood, she felt her fangs itching to come out.
The store owner came to check it out what's happening and bent down to access the woman injury.
"Shit this looks bad", he muttered he looked round and noticed not much people were left, his gaze landed on Adrian.
"Hey kid, could you help me go to the back and get a first aid kit for me, it might take a while to find it since have really not arranged the store since it opened"
"Sure thing sir", Adrian replied and turned to Rea.
"Will you be ok...I will be gone for just a couple of seconds or minutes", She nodded at Adrian question even though something beastly within her was fighting to come out....growling repeatedly that his hungry.
She tried suppressing the beast by doing the breathing technique Lucifer had taught her...she could leave the place and Adrian..she didn't want to seem rude which was another mistake by her part.
"Is just a little cut there's no need to look so frightened by it kid", the store owner said amused by the girl's stiff nature.
"Am not scared...am scared for you", Rea said her voice dangerously low.
"Huh... what's this child saying", the man laughed.
"Mum she looks so weird", the woman's daughter whispered.
She felt her fangs at the tip of her tongue and stalked towards them.
"Can I see Mrs"
"Um sure", the woman said unsurely.
As Rea stared at it, she salivated internally and her eyes turned darker. The beast within kept pounding at the back of her head that he was hungry.
Without hesitation she grabbed the woman leg, bite down and began to suck the woman's blood.
"MUM!"
"Get off you brat", the man cried tried out as he tried to pull the child off the woman. In retaliation Rea tore the woman's limb out completely, turning to face the man with glowing red eyes and snarled angrily.
Screams were heard from both the mother and the daughter at the site in front of them, but Rea ears were closed off instead her gaze was focused on the store owner backing away to hide behind the counter.
"Stay away....stay the fuck away..you fucking demon", the man yelled.
Getting a bat from under the counter, he began to swing the bat angrily at the child.
Rea didn't flinch instead her lips formed a smirk as she stalked towards him, claws retracting, fangs out but that wasn't what scared them..well it was part but what frightened them to the core was the shadowish figure hovering behind her.
It was was like a dark mist in the shape of huge four legged beast with eyes so golden.
Rea pounced on the man and tore him into shreds, his screams muffled by the sound of the blood splattering everywhere.
"Mum am so scared"
"It's going to be ok"
After she was done she looked at the mother and the child, her hunger not quenching.
"Please spare her....I beg you"
"But am hungry", Rea replied as she stalked towards them too. She started with the daughter and then moves towards the woman.
"What are you doing this", the woman cried out.
"Cause a hungry", she replied and did the same
"Yo...yo Corner I finally got the mov....what's going on", a man with dyed red hair asked as he looked around the arcade that now looked like a mess with blood and guts everywhere.
His eyes finally landed on Rea and it widened in fear
"Shit..... MONSTER!!", the man yelled as he bolted out the door, he ran down the street yelling the word 'monster' gaining the attention of the people on the street.
Rea followed after him with super speed, caught up to him and tore him apart.
"Hey sir, I know I wasted time but I really can't find the....", Adrian cut himself off as he looked at the scene before him.
He felt nauseous looking at the bodies.
"Rea..no..no where's Rea", he said not finding her in the store and ran out to look for her.
The people screamed and began to scramble away as the saw what she has done.
"That's a fucking demon"
"Monster.. there's a monster"
"Lock the doors"
"Is the end of the world"
"My money"
They shouted all sort of things and names as they ran for safety. At this point she wasn't just hungry alone anymore, No..she enjoyed the thrill of it and relished in their fear.
She grabbed anyone she she saw on site and killed them.
"Woah dude...it looks and feels so real", a blonde dude said to his friend who was begging to him to shut up and run.
"Seriously come look at this...what you afraid of she's just a child...a girl for that matter", the blondie snorted out.
Rea looked towards his him and appeared in front of him....snarling angrily at him.
"Oooh nice trick... yo bro check it out she looks an...."
The blondie was cut by Rea jacking him by the collar and throwing him across into a building made off glass, the walls of it shattering from the force of the impact.
His friend ran towards him and saw the pool of blood sweeping from his broken skull.
"Fuck...I told you to shut up mehn...what the hell is wrong with you"
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"So what happened in termaria wasn't just a story to scare kids not to go out in the night"
Termaria was once a village till the night when half of their people died, the remaining that survived fled out and disperse to other villages.
"It was real alright"
"But they said the last vampire was in...when was it again", Mari asked
"Don't know", Cherry said with a shrug.
"That child isn't exactly a vampire perse, let's say she's an eemate of Lucifer"
"I don't understand"
"How do I put this simply she is just like Lucifer but the younger version of him"
"Then she's dangerous"
"I don't know she's the first and last of there kind, No other Royal ever had that gift. Plus after that day she never really used her powers..locked it up away"
"Couldn't handle the burden of it", Cherry whispered.
"What of her parents... didn't they know about it"
"They would...but I don't know what happened next after that day"
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"REA", a voice called it was heavily laced with fear and doubt as he looked at the girl he calls his bestfriend.
Rea turned to source and gnarled at him. Adrian took a step back and gulped as he saw what she has become. He could barely see her with the beast shadow now enveloping her. It looked like she was stuck inside of it and had no control.
"Rea...it's me Adrian", he said calmly as stepped forward. She snarled at him again but this time he didn't waver, he was determined to get his friend back.
"I don't know what happened..I know you won't do this..to them", he said taking a deep breath as he looked around the mess the village had turned to, buildings destroyed, glasses broken and corpses everywhere.
Some of the villagers who fled for safety peeped through their windows to watch the interaction.
"I won't hold you accountable...I promise", he added now close to her proximity.
The beast snarled at him and used his paws to scratch across Adrian's torso. The beast stood above him and snarled harshly again bringing out all canines.
"Rea I know your in there please", he said with tears brimming at his eyes as the blood gushed out from his wound.
"Adi", she said in a soft voice as her eyes turned back to normal.
"Get away from me", She cried out. She was having an internal battle with the beast, in struggle to be in control.
"Adrian", she called out again.
Finally she got control of her mind and body, returning back to normal. She looked down and saw the state of the boy beneath him and knelt down in tears.
"Adi...no no no this is not supposed to happen... Adrian please stay with me keep your eyes open", she said carrying him on her lap and holding his face so dearly. His eyes was dropping, the pain was unbearable for him and he tried his best to look at the girl staring down at him
Adrian couldn't understand the feeling he felt, he wasn't angry with her instead he understood her...what he understood, he had no idea off.
Is this love?..the question rang in his head as he was on the verge of drifting into the darkness. As if the gods were against them that immediately it began to snow.
"Please stay with me", Rea cried out.
"Am not angry....I understand if you hid this part of yourself, I forgive you...is ok don't cry"
"But....but I...is not ok", she wailed.
He smiled at her even at this moment, she still looked as beautiful as the first day he met her. Adrian had tried to be rude when they met not wanting to give off his startled expression of her ethereal beauty.
She reminded him of the goddess they described in stories only this time she was more beautiful than the ones in the stories.
"You will always be so beautiful to me Rea", He said with a smile. Closing his eyes a tear streaked down his cheeks.
"No...no...please don't close your eyes, open it back... I said open it", Rea yelled with tears streaming down.
"Please come back please...I beg you am sorry...am sorry", she cried loudly and hugged his body so close to her not wanting to let go.
"I left you alone for two hours and this happens", she heard a voice say but didn't answer despite knowing it was Lucifer.
"Precious child", Lucifer said kneeling beside her.
"Stop calling me that", she snapped at him
"See what I've done...do I still look precious to you"
"It was a mistake"
"Doesn't justify my actions...my hunger resulted to the death of this people and Adi...Adi is gone Uncle!", she yelled.
Lucifer kept quiet and watched her cry, he wasn't used to consoling people and didn't know how to go about it with a child....he watched as she began to hiccup, her face already red because of the tears.
"I don't want this life", Rea said looking up to Lucifer.
"I never asked for this..not like I have a choice....I just hate myself"
"It was a mistake...a power you don't fully have a control for", he said.
She was silent for a while then a thought came to her.
"I'm going to bring him back", she said with determination in her eyes.
"Child..what going on your mind"
She ignored a him and instead bit down hard on Adrian left wrist.
"No what are you doing", Lucifer yelled dragging her away.
"Am saving him...let go of me", She yelled, using all her might she pushed him and went back to biting on the boy's wrist.
"Your not saving him..do you hear me, your bringing him more sufferings.
Do you have any idea of what your doing"
"I'm aware of what's going to happen now but as long as his alive I really don't care...you brought that bodyguard back to life and I can do the same. You did say we are alike"
"That's not the same way...his not going to be human anymore...your turning him into a monster"
"I don't care", Rea shouted. She didn't care, she just wanted to see Adrian smile at her again.
"Your being selfish...and you will regret this"
"I just want to look into his eyes again", she said in a small voice.
"Then you should have asked, now you've made him into the beast the others are hunting for"
"I...I don't understand", she said looking up at him.
"They hate us ..despise our kind to the extent they want us dead. I told you the story of your origin and how you are linked to me...your just going to make him a target now"
"I will protect him"
"You can't be with him always"
"I can and will"
"Child", Lucifer warned.
"His eyes are fluttering", she said ignoring him and focusing her attention on Adrian.
They were both then distracted by the sound of the boys name coming from afar.
"That's his mother", Lucifer looking at the girl. "We have to leave", he added.
"Am not going to leave him", she yelled.
"Adrian....Adrian my boy where are you", the woman's voice was heard. Now much closer Rea could her the panic in her voice with her hard breathing and heart racing.
"Do you merely think that when she sees you in the midst of this she won't put the pieces together. Not only that they're witness around you", Lucifer pointed out.
Rea looked round and noticed how the people who were peeping from their hiding place hurriedly closed their windows.
"Why am I always the problem...I never do things right"
"Your not the problem and never would be the problem...come let us go"
"But what if Adrian", she said as she looked at the boy stirring in his sleep. His wounds has closed up and he looked fresh like before except from the jagged tear on his shirt.
"You will come back for him"