Desperate for Love (Chapter 23~Uh oh...)

by Steven in Illinois

I stared hard at Claire, who looked shocked. I couldn't control anything besides my eyes. Infinite power was inside me. Auburn stared at me, petrified from head to toe. She shot an arrow at me, which magically bounced off. I stared. I was definetely containing huge power right now. And I was familiar with this feeling of murder, of killing, of despise. Because I had felt this before.

The last time this happened, I had killed half of a family at a party.

My eyes were definetely red like that time; and my hair had turned into a strange long hair that streched beyond my back, like a fur. I felt myself gripping the sword strangely, almost numbly.

I ran, and the next thing I knew, Claire was getting thrust in the air, and I was right where she had been. I stared in shock, but my body didn't. I jumped up to her, and hit her with the sword so hard she flew into the ground in an instant. There was a humongous hole in the Earth. And I dashed forward, from that ground, approaching at a sickening pace, and stabbed her. I knew she was definetely barely alive; one more hit could easily kill her. I knocked her away, and she was thrust into the forest far away. I stared down, and began to run. But something else stood in front of me. Auburn; and there were tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Please...stop...." she whispered. My body was normal again all of a sudden. I stared at her. "Auburn?" I whispered, then I fell over, and everything went dark.

I woke up in a hospital; boy oh boy, I must have been a daily customer, wasn't I? A nurse walked in, saw my conciousness, then smiled. She ran over, probably wishing to check on me. I let her do the usual stuff, then let her exit. I tried to get up, only that moment, Auburn came into the room. She saw my stupid effort, then tied me once again to the bed. She smiled. "Rest nicely, evil fiend." she teased. There was a tension, and I stared into those ice-blue beautiful eyes. She leaned over, kissed me on the lips, then left. I stood there, feeling suddenly moist, as though water had replaced my blood flow. I stood there simply, then flipped over, and drifted to sleep.

My dream was strange. Claire was talking to another person; her former boyfriend. "Let me explain, Josh..." she said, but he pulled away from her.

"I don't need your company, monster." he retorted. Claire froze, but cluctched his arm. "Please..things aren't the way they appear." she whispered. I never heard Claire sound like this, before or after her monster transformation. He slapped her, and she fell to the ground.

The answer came to me along with me jumping out of the ties of the bed. And then I stared outside the window. Because I knew that Claire had loved someone too. And that, was perhaps, giving only too much more information.