I waited. And waited. I opened one eye at Sam, my impatience growing. "Go on." I urged, still holding my breath and flexing my muscles in anticipation. "I... I'm trying." Sam said, again placing his thumb on his middle finger. My eyes shut again, but still, nothing happened after the snap. "My demon won't let me." My entire body fell. "What?" I asked with a frown. His demon won't let him? "Something inside me won't allow me to hurt you." Sam shook his head as if he didn't understand, looking down at himself like he could find the issue. "I thought you enjoyed inflicting pain." I stated with a small voice. What was going on? "I do. I enjoy hurting. I'm the devil. I'm made for it." Sam half-snapped at me. "Then do it, Sam." I snapped back, my own emotions rising. "I cannot." He firmly stated back, now looking down at me angry. "Of course you can." I pushed, stepping closer to him. The whirlwind inside me was about to explode and I needed something, anything, to take over those emo
We walked through the forest in complete silence, his grip firm around my hand. Darkness descended around us, and the air grew heavy with anticipation. It was evident that something significant was about to unfold. We were still basking in the afterglow of what we had shared by the stream, and a cocoon of contentment protected us for a little while longer. Until we could no longer, and I knew we were close. "The dark ones are close. Very close. I can sense them." Sam whispered. his alert eyes scanning the surroundings for any sign of danger. Always looking for danger. He turned around to me with a serious look. "The army is hidden. There's a clearing ahead, the perfect spot to catch them off guard. Wait there. They'll come to you." Sam instructed me and I nodded in understanding. "I will be right next to you, in the forest. With my entire army. If anything goes wrong, shout for help." Sam said next. Doubts creeped in. "The plan is to strike when they're near you. When they realis
Not even when I felt eyes on me. I didn't know whether it were the demons or the dark ones watching me, but I shrugged off the incredibly uncomfortable feeling and kept walking. My feet were starting to ache terribly and my body was tense from the fear. The blood on my arm was starting to try and stick to my skin. An instinctual urge suddenly halted me in my tracks. I strained my senses, but all I heard was silence—no approaching footsteps, no sound at all. I waited for ten whole seconds. "HELP ME!" I screamed desperately. Still, nothing. "HELP ME!" I cried out again. Come for me, you filthy dark ones. Smell my blood and come for me like the blood thirsty creatures you are. "HELP-" I stopped when a figure appeared— black, with long fingers and long limbs. Nothing like the strong build demons had. Its eyes burned with bright red intensity, and it regarded me with an unsettling familiarity, as if I were a long-lost family member. I didn't know where he come from; he seemed to em
"Fay."I sighed out. Sam knew not to wake me up."Fay. Please wake up. Please."I was about to tell him to shut up, until I realised I had never heard Sam say the word 'please'. It was a word he would never, ever utter. And the voice sounded strangely female."Fay!"I jolted awake, my heart racing. My best friend was looking at me through iron bars, her cheeks streaked with dried tears. "Oh my god!" I exclaimed, jumping up to her. I slammed against the hard bars separating us and reached my arms out. Elle sobbed and threw herself against me. Her warm, thin arms encircled me and we hugged each other with thick, steel bars in between us. "Fay... Oh my god..." Elle cried softly. "I know." I replied back, gently stroking her back. My eyes scanned our surroundings. "Where are we?" I asked her."I'm not sure. They keep moving. I think it's some sort of dungeon, this time." Elle answered in my ear.I leaned back to study her closely.Her cheeks were hollow. Her arms were too thin. Her eyes,
"NOOO!" Adrian roared from next to me.Fay. Fay. Fay.She was there, right in front of me. Nothing but empty air remained."NO!" Adrian roared again, charging to the spot where his wife had vanished.The entire army rushed forward. "What happened?!"Dagon demanded as she appeared on the other side of the field, Micah and Lucifer by her side. Their entire army followed, their faces etched with shock. They scanned the surroundings, searching for any trace of the dark ones. "They took her! They took my wife! They took Bri!" Adrian snarled angrily at Dagon.My thoughts could not align. I was still in disbelief. My eyes were glued on the spot where she disappeared, as if she would just magically return there. A sharp, excruciating pain shot through me. My heart, which was dark and lifeless, shattered into pieces. I felt it physically break as the realisation sank in that my Fay had been taken. My flower. My beauty. My human. My heaven.Gone.I turned to face my army. "Find them. Do whatever
Three days. Three whole days. Not a single sign. Nothing. Sammi's army had returned empty-handed, and Sam had sent them out again, telling them not to come back until they had something, anything, about the girls' whereabouts. My dove was gone. "They are alive, brother." I reassured Sammi for the hundredth time. Because of my bond with Bri, I knew that she was alive. I would know if my bonded and my claimed one was dead. "You don't know if my Fay is alive." Sammi responded, his hundredth response. We continued our relentless search through the forest, desperate for any sign of them. "She has a fear of being locked up." He said, more to himself. I already knew this. He had told me he had instilled this fear in him when he locked her in that carriage. Sammi had opened up more and more to me about his thoughts. I, as reply, had shared insights into human behaviour and needs. The 'let them sleep' part he was already aware of. They needed at least three meals a day, and couldn't hand
Silence fell as Sammi failed to recall a single name. Not that he would remember their names, anyway, if there even was one that survived. "Nobody, Sammi. Not a single living being lived longer than a day once you drank blood from them. You always take too much." Micah told him. Sammi shrugged his shoulders, like he didn't really care. "Well, Fay always stopped me." "She stopped you? And you listened to her?" Lucifer asked him incredulously. Sammi retorted, a faint smile tugging at his lips, "She can be very persuasive." A hush fell over us. Sammi's smile was a rare sight. Satan smiled? That was something to behold. "Yes, if there's one human that can handle you, it's definitely Fay." I remarked. Sammi's smile quickly faded as soon as her name was mentioned again. The nightmare returned, and when he clenched his jaw, I knew his withdrawal symptoms had returned. His teeth ached, his head was throbbing, during the night he had cold sweats, he was refusing any sort of food and liq
Black dots. They were all black dots. I didn't see any demons in front of me. They were all just black dots in the way of my goal. It was hard to remember my goal. All I wanted to do was kill. And kill I did. I became a hurricane, leaving a wake of destruction behind me. Everything turned to ruin in my wake. I couldn't remember who my own demons were, or where my brothers were. I was lost to my Wrath, forgetting everything and everyone as Satan. My teeth hurt so much, I bit into anything in an attempt to relieve the freezing pain. Nothing helped. If anything, every time I tasted blood, I spit it back out in disgust. Everything inside me was cold. Cold and dead and icy. Nothing warmed me up. I was a shard of ice, cutting into everything and everyone that met me. Black ice. I was Satan. Everybody's worst fear. We were closing in on the dark ones. I knew we were close. I could smell them, their foul stench of decaying flesh reaching me from a distance. "We're almost there." I snapp