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Suddenly, despite any warnings for last chances, Jason and Eric both jump him. Tray and Aaron both turn to me and
Danique. For my state, the little Aaron could easily overpower me. For Danique's case, her opponent is way too big for
her to even try to handle.
Unexpectedly, Danique doesn't care. She puts up her fists to fight, being ready for either of them as she stands in
front of me protectively.
Chase manages to knock the crap out of Jason, and he does the same to Eric, though worse. As Eric falls to his knees
trying to breathe, Tray suddenly turns to attack. Instead of simply charging into Chase, he approaches quickly and
snakes about to get a clear shot at his face. At his first sign of vulnerability, Tray takes his strongest punch, which
nearly snaps Chase's neck.
Meanwhile, Danique and I can't get away because Aaron's in our way. Danique takes a swing at him and he jumps
back, but she's so quick that his jumping back did no good. She swings her foot around to trip him. He's instantly
knocked to the ground, and Danique lunges to keep punching, but then, as she manages to grab at least a handful of
gravel to use them like a brass knuckle on the inside of her fist, Eric catches her ankle and jerks so that she's knocked to
the ground. She instantly goes to kicking and she goes closer to him, and as he tries to block her kicks to his face by
shielding himself, she suddenly jumps us and takes the rocks in her hand and one slips between her fingers so that the
point is dangerously out, and she starts punching him with it, jabbing it against his skin repeatedly.
Before I can cry, "Watch out!" Aaron hits her from behind, and then Eric takes a strong swing and hits her so that she
falls to the ground beside me.
Eric and Aaron quickly join in against Chase, who'd done fairly well until they join. A second later, as Danique begins
to stand, Eric and Jason both have Chase, and Tray's slamming his knee into his gut repeatedly, and he punches his
head so that Chase's head jerks to the side.
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As he begins to slump over, Danique looks up and sees what's happening and jumps up the rest of the way to run to
help her brother. Some unknown force seizes my arm, and I grab her wrist. She looks at me in dismay, yearning to
help her brother. Words spill from my tongue, thickly accented. "No child," I say. "It's too late to stop them…"
Suddenly a large amount of energy is taken from me. It wasn't me that had spoken, though I was used. My voice
was raspy. I am now horrified and let go of her hand, backing away in fear, shaking my head as I stare at her.
It's Octavius…It has to be, especially since he loves torture.
I shut my eyes to stop tears as I turn my head down. Danique doesn't realize yet, and so, she's confused.
I, though my eyes are closed and my head is turned down, see Chase lose consciousness. "Help him…" I whimper as
they drop him and turn to us. Eric and Jason are the only two with scratches and bruises. I am quivering.
Danique quickly goes to obey, seeing what I meant. But before she can reach him, Jason pulls her back.
Simultaneously with Jason pulling her back, Aaron snarls, "Who's next?" with a grin.
Jason shoves her in anger because she claws at him, scraping the skin from his arm, and she runs into the stone wall
without being able to stop it. Immediately she is knocked out and blood begins to run down her forehead.
I begin to suppress tears. My terror returns stronger than before.
Tray is close by, and he smiles wryly, answering Aaron as he steps closer to me, "Obviously she is."
"Ooohhh!" the others taunt as I stumble back, Tray grabbing my arm and me trying to hit him with my elbow.
"Leave me alone!" I cry loudly. But suddenly he hits me again.
"Shut the fuck up, bitch!" he hisses, shoving me against the wall and pinning me there as he did before.
My head hits the wall because of the force of his punch, and I am dazed and partly disoriented. With his left hand, he
takes a hold of the back of my hair and pulls my head back roughly, whispering, "Well, Queen Freak, you're one hell of
a pretty little bitch, but it won't stop us from pounding your face in."
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I try to pull away from him, but he pulls my hair harder and snickers as he says louder, "Or we could just take turns
with you since no one's around. 'Sides, you're probably a slut anyways, so it's not like you'd care."
The other guys begin to try to contain themselves. They obviously thinks it's hilarious.
I can't move.
Tray has me penned tight against the wall…I black out a moment after I feel his hand slipping up my shirt as his other
hand holds my mouth to keep me quiet.
The next thing I know, I am upon the hard ground. I instantly come to and try to scream, but he covers my mouth,
shoving my head to the ground again.
Suddenly, my eyes roll back in my head and I can't breathe anymore. I start to have a seizure as my vision turns red
and blurry as tears fall, and my body is motionless. I'm choking, even as he moves his hands from my mouth.
Then, a cold washes over me. Frozen, icy wind eases into my lungs even though it still feels like I'm not breathing.
My body convulses once and ceases to move again, and my heart slows. A terrible rage fills me, an anger past any fury
I've ever held before, but it's not my anger.
Despite the pain I feel, there is now another entity in me that seems to take pleasure in the pain, but it has a conflicting
view: perhaps it isn't right to do this anymore. I cannot let this happen to this child.
My teeth and my nails begin to protrude beyond normal length and the rage in me gives me an unmatched strength;
I'm seemingly stronger now by some unnatural force, than I've ever been in my life. This dark energy inside of me is
silent but powerful, and I hiss loudly in Romanian, "Enough!"
My claws dig into his ear hard enough to pierce, and quickly, as he cries out as I shove him from me, I pull myself to
my feet, as does he. He is holding his bloody ear.
How—
I don't have any idea as to how I've attained this strength. This possession also doesn't understand why I am so
weak, except that I am human. It feels my tears, and I hear a faint thought, "Do not worry…I refuse to let them hurt
you or defile you, poor child."
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Tray is still in shock and stumbles, almost losing his balance. As he looks up to me, I swing a strong punch, throwing
me fist with intense energy. When he falls, I rush and pull him to his feet and slam my fist into his face again.
My vision begins to blur worse, the red growing darker, and I stop a moment, raising my hand to wipe it from my
eyes with my fingers. When I pull my hand back to see, there is blood. I am shocked. I whisper aloud in my familiar
language, "Tears of blood, she cries…"
Suddenly I sense movement, and I spin gracefully and lunge and bite the young man's arm as he tries to hit me. He
cries out and so I kick him. The taste of blood pleases me. I shall bite again if need be. I feel the blood trickle down
from the corner of my lips.
As soon as I start to turn, the young man named Tray hits me, and he has a powerful swing a little too strong, even
for his large stature. I spin as I fall flat on my stomach and face.
I cannot control my own movement. This thing has control of me and everything except the fact that I can see what
it's making me do. I finally realize…Octavius…
I notice Danique and Chase stirring, but all I can do is watch as I am controlled.
My jaw is sore, but I ignore it and rise slowly to my feet, beginning to laugh deeply, almost with a hypnotic aura of
evil.
I see bewilderment upon everyone's faces, and when I look up fully, I look into the eyes of horrified Tray and hold
him, entranced, in place. They all gasp, and those nearest him jump back terrified.
Jason shrieks, “Holy shit!!!”
My mouth being agape, my eyes a hollow, shining black, blood tears fallen and ever present upon my face, blood still
upon my mouth, I know exactly what terrifies them so. I know my presence in this girl has cause enough physical
change that she, herself, looks like a demon come from darkness, haunting these grounds even in the light of day, where
she does not belong. I know also, that her skin has grown colder and whiter than it’s ever been.
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I wipe the blood from my mouth. I mock him in sarcasm, smiling as I say it, which shines my fangs more
threateningly, and my words are in Romanian, my native tongue, “You hit like a woman!” I glance at the blood on the
back of her hand as I say this. My voice is very raspy and my accent is intense as I say to him in English, “You hit like
her sister might. You are as weak as a woman!” I can barely stop laughing.
I tauntingly step forward and he tries to step back, though too terrified to move. I continue to speak to him, not
releasing his mind, “I should not have interfered, but your behavior disgusts me, and his majesty would not be pleased if
you low-life humans had made Marian impure…I should have this child rip out your throats and make her feed upon
your blood whether she is human or not!”
Just as Tray wrenches himself from my mental lock on his mind and starts to turn to run, I quickly lash out and catch
him and hold him against the wall with my right hand against his throat, my nails all but piercing and slicing, which
would be quite fatal. As large as this strong lad is, he is unable to pry my hand from his throat, nor can he get away
from me. He cannot breathe.
I speak to him again as his face begins to turn red. “You say Marian is a freak. You are freaks, and you damned
creatures disgust me! Should I make her kill you now? Or simply have her put you through much pain?”
I turn my head and hiss dangerously as I sense more movement. They freeze and I shake my head and then lift my free hand lazily and slowly shake my head, waving the finger side to side as I make a clicking noise. “That would not be wise little boy.”
I continue to speak to Tray, letting him breathe a moment, which he accepts by gulping for air. But then I return him to his agony and he tries to claw harder than ever to remove my hand, still unsuccessful. “You are a damned fool to believe what she is is nothing more. She may become queen, yes, but freak? No…Here, have a taste of the pain bestowed upon her.” I slowly bring my free hand toward his head, to his ear, smiling with cruelty, a snarl twisted into my smile. I jam my nails into a tight pinch into the cartilage, cutting it, and he screams. I hold it a moment and intend to rip my nails on through by jerking my hand to shred his ear…
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I shove him from my mind, forcing him to lose control of me as I gasp, and I let go of Tray, stumbling back and falling, shaking as if in bitter cold temperatures.
Tray scrambles away, choking and gasping, and he yells back to the others, who follow immediately, leaving us.
I begin to fall unconscious, starting to lean to the side as I struggle to keep awake. The weight of gravity seems to increase extensively, and I feel as if I am pulled down. I fall heavily, and I feel that my physical for is normal again. I can say nothing, though I try. Instead, I go into convulsions.
Danique and Chase rush to me. Danique frantically says something about getting help when my nose starts to bleed badly, my eyes wide open, but not blinking as I stare ahead blankly, falling motionless. I am able to gasp a few words, even though with enormous difficulty as I start to suffocate. “Let me…let…me…” It takes several tries as I grip at Chase’s hand as he kneels next to me to try hopelessly to help me, concern and worry and fear eating him alive. I at last whisper the last word before I become completely unresponsive. “…Die…”
Danique leaves Chase kneeling over me, trying to wipe my face clean of all the dirt and tears and blood and sweat.
The last I hear is a faint echo as he calls my name, pleading for me to stay awake. My consciousness dissolves into a tranquil, yet troublesome blackness.
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