Retribution

I narrowed my eyes at him, but all his did was soften. He had a weak smile plastered on his lips and his forehead was furrowed.

“Unya, you just killed a man!”

It’s strange that it didn’t twig until that exact moment that Malachi was right. I took a life and it wasn’t quick, painless and merciful. I had made him suffer, not just him but everyone that had stood alongside him.

I knew I had lost control and hadn’t intended to take his life, but to be honest, I loved it.

It made me feel powerful and exhilarated, I took control of his destiny and wiped him from our plane of existence. Not just that, but I was buzzing, adrenaline was coursing through my body and my blood was pumping hard and fast. I was excited almost deliriously, I was also horny as fuck and all I wanted to do was take Malachi on the floor right there and then. I didn’t care who was around, I just wanted this high to continue.

Malachi took my hand in his and led me back to my room, I was excited, thinking I knew where it would end up between us. But instead of coming in with me, he kissed me on my forehead and then walked away.

I threw myself down upon my bed in utter frustration, I could not understand why he wouldn’t stay. Did he find me repulsive? No, I knew that wasn’t the reason. The bulge in his trousers couldn’t lie, especially when it was growing harder against my stomach for the entire time our lips collided.

“You are frustrated dearie, but also thrilled. Would you care to explain what has caused this within you?”

I turned my head to look at Adiran, what was I supposed to say to him or it? Whatever title I was supposed to associate with the shadow man.

“I killed someone, I can’t get it out of my head. I roasted him like it was a BBQ and he would become my favourite meal. It feels like I should be horrified by taking a life, but I can’t, I enjoyed it Adiran and I want to do it again.”

8

Malachi

I did it again, I ignored her for two weeks. I knew why I did it, and it was because I knew I wouldn’t have been able to hold myself back from the temptation that is Unya. It had been disturbing what she did to that Shifter, she looked as though she had gotten off on it. If anyone could understand it would be me, but she wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Sure she had always been the girl who would punch first and ask questions later, if she didn’t skip the last step. The person who would look after her friends or die trying. Even though she was numb, she still went to great lengths to make sure the people in her life were happy. It hadn’t worked out for myself and Addy, but she had never set out to hurt either of us. She would never have idly taken a life, she would have tried to find another way.

I realised yesterday that I couldn’t keep hiding from her though, so that decision led me outside of her door. A lot of creatures had gone missing and no one could work out what the pattern could be.

I knocked and tried to keep my impatience at bay, but when she hadn’t answered after a few minutes I took it upon myself to let myself in.

That isn’t something I would do, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

My eyes opened wide in shock and a little fear, once I stepped over the threshold and laid eyes on her room, it was the definition of a bloodbath.

The male creature I had sent in that first time was pinned to the wall, by what looked to be dinner knives. I couldn’t wrap my head around the strength it would have taken to force blunted knives through his hands and the wall. His intestines were hanging out of his body and dangling towards the floor, dripping into just one of the pools of blood that were present. The eyes had been carved out of his skull and were dangling around his neck, like some sick handmade necklace.

His feet had been twisted around, so that his toes were pressing against the wall and his heels were facing the same direction as his face. The same had was done so his elbows now faced outwards, and his left hand had been removed and sat perched upon his right shoulder with his heart resting in the palm of his hand.

I couldn’t fathom what would have driven her to do something like that, but as I glanced further around the room I quickly solved the other disappearances.

There must have been at least five bodies, jumbled together as some sort of macabre puzzle. The only things missing were the heads, brains and hearts, what can I say? It was graphic enough to know the hearts were the only organs that were not being displayed in t

hat way.

As I walked closer to the remains I could not ignore the smell of decaying flesh, it made me want to wretch, but somehow I found the strength to stop myself.

I placed my hands upon my knees, bending forward, as I took a few deep breaths before righting myself.

I moved further inwards, towards the closet and bathroom door. She had left the closet door wide open and inside were two heads. Their skulls had been removed, as had their jaws. Teeth had found a new home within their empty skull, along with their popped eyes. Even their brains were spread out around them, in the shape of a heart, of all the things she could have chosen, she had decided on that.

I hurried away from the door, not wanting to see anymore as I made my way towards the closed bathroom.

“It’s okay, I only wanted to play a game,” said Unya, as her voice travelled through the wood.

“Shh, there is no need to cry pet, this game will be so much fun. Now that our other friends have gone quiet, their noises had grown so tiresome.”

The strange thing about that sentence, was there were no other noises or voices coming from the room. There was only Unya’s.