LEGEND OF THE FALLEN ANGEL

CHAPTER 8: BLOOD-SUCKING BEASTS

Damon wondered why his parents weren't asking him any questions at the moment, even though he was glad it was so, as he hadn't prepared an answer yet. 

He knew he had to say something that would please them, or they might send him away or even kill him, calling him a monster. 

He helped them gather the ones who were still alive, and together, they all set out to leave the town he grew up in. Not that he had any great memory of the place anyway, and he wasn't in his right mind to miss anything. 

Just when he thought he wouldn't miss anyone, his mind flashed back to the small boy who saw him in the academy's hospital, and his heart raced again. 

"Maybe he would have gotten killed, too. I heard almost all the students were killed, and only a few were able to escape. Out of the few that escaped, they are all with us at the moment, apart from a girl, and looking at the kids, none of them look like that boy, which means he must be dead, but why do I feel strange all of a sudden? Could the boy be trouble?" 

Damon was lost in his thoughts as they ran into the bush. They all wanted to escape as far as they could before the beasts chased after them again. They made sure to kill the remaining beasts before they escaped so that none of the beasts would see them escaping, and they ran away before new ones could catch up to them. 

Even Damon killed a few as he was almost as strong as the Elders and even stronger than most of them with the 55% of powers that he had at the moment. 

They continued running, and after a while, they finally stopped as they were all tired. "We will rest here for a while and continue later. We need to get out of this vicinity as fast as we can before they catch up to us again." Lucas suggested. 

Being the one who rescued them and led them into the forest to escape, the people had started looking up to him as their leader, and they were ready to adhere to whatever he said to them. 

They all sat down to rest for a while, and that was when Lucas walked over to Damon, who was sitting with the other kids. "Marcus, can we talk?" He asked gently. 

Damon's heart raced right then. He was scared, as he already knew the reason for the meeting he was about to have with his father, and he wasn't ready for it yet, but he knew he had to do it at one time. 

He looked at the kids around him, hoping any of them could be of help to him; however, all of them were busy playing away as if nothing was going on at all, and the more mature ones were crying about the loss of their loved ones. 

He stood up and walked toward his father. "You want to see me?' He asked with his eyes lowered. He found it hard to look at his father's face. 

Lucas nodded. "Yes, we should walk away from these people so we can talk very well." He suggested, but that only scared Damon more. 

"Is he planning to kill me there? He doesn't want people to think that he killed his son, so he wants to take me somewhere else and kill me there. Is that his plan?" Damon was already thinking ahead. 

Having known that humans tend to fear what is more powerful than them, he knew he wasn't safe with them anymore, and if anything, he needed to be wary of them. 

At the moment, he had 55% of power, and Lucas only had 20%, but being an adult, he was naturally still stronger than Damon, and that was a big disadvantage to the little Damon.

He looked around, hoping there was someone who could help him, but they were all humans, and he knew none of them would accept him for who he was. Just when he was thinking of this, he felt a hand on his shoulder, and his eyes widened. 

"Marcus, what's it? Can I come with you guys?" It was his mother, Wendy's voice. 

She saw what happened earlier, and she must have figured out that Damon wasn't a normal human, so she must want to find out what he was too. Damon's fear only increased with Wendy joining them, and he wanted to escape more. 

"Why are you so pale, Marcus?" Lucas asked with a little smile on his face. 

Damon quickly shook his head. "Nothing. I'm okay..." He replied. "Whatever, I already died once anyway. Who knows if I would return to my world if I die here? They should do whatever they want. They will be the ones with no child on earth, and I wonder if they will be able to hurt their only child anyway." He assured himself inwardly before he forced a smile."Yeah, let's go." He finally agreed. 

"Can I join in? I have some questions to ask, too." Wendy pleaded and Damon nodded, agreeing with her. He already accepted his fate anyway, so whatever happened wouldn't faze him anymore. 

They all found their way deeper into the bush and stopped when they figured they were far away from everyone else. 

"So, will you tell me now? What am I? Or... What are we?" Lucas asked the moment they stopped and Damon let out a deep breath. 

"We are vampires. The blood-sucking monsters people know..." He wasn't able to finish his words when he felt a stab in his stomach!