the rise of the hybrid

CHAPTER TWO

                                                  ERIC POV

                                  FOURTEEN YEARS LATER

           " No, no, no, no please don't kill my mum please, please don't!!!!" I screamed out as the man raised his sword towards my mum to strike her, I woke up with sweat dripping from my face to my body. Another nightmare again, I can't even remember the day I go to bed without the horrific dream about my mum's death. When will this stop? I said to myself as I got up from the bed, checking my time it was 3 am, I lay down on the bed thinking about the man who killed my mum, his eyes, his voice and I damn well know for sure that if I heard his voice I will be able to know him.

           I kept thinking of so many ways to kill him when I finally find him, when a knock on my door brought me back to reality, checking the time, it was 6 am, have I been thinking for 3hours straight.

         " Hey pumpkin still asleep?" asked Nick. Nicholas was the man who rescued me a long time ago, it hadn’t been him I would have died a foolish and miserable death without avenging my mum's death

         " No dad, I am awake". I replied. Calling him dad was the best thing I could do since he raised me when I was six years old to the man I have become now. He opened the door and walked up to me and placed his hand on my forehead to check if I am okay because I knew my face wasn't that bright this morning, how could it be when I woke up from a terrifying dream

       " Are you okay, is everything alright pumpkin?". He asked with a worried expression written all over his face".

       " Nothing dad, I am okay. My face is like this because I just woke up." I replied trying not to give him any clue that something was wrong with me. I can't bother him or give him stress, he has tried a lot by raising 6 years old all by himself with no wife to support him. I wasn't his biological child yet he showed me love and gave me everything a father would give to his biological child or children. I went to the best high school and now college I can't tell him about my dreams or my plans for revenge so that I won't have to trouble or bother him more.

         Nicholas was my mum's childhood friend, they practically grew up together and they called themselves the great siblings. When my mum died it took a great turn on him, after the escape Nick wasn't himself, it took him 3 years before he could realize  that my mum was dead and she won't be coming back to live again, so he decided to raise me and make my late mum proud

          " Eric did you hear what I just said?". I guessed I wandered off again because it was the last statement that made me realize that I zoomed off again, I was lost in the past that I forgot the future and my conversation with Nick. " I am sorry dad, what did you say," I asked him looking all puzzled

          " Are you sure you are okay pumpkin", that's the nickname he always calls me, at first I hated it but I soon grew up to love the nickname.

         " yeah I am fine dad, I was just lost in a few seconds". I replied to him

         " Okay, okay if you say so, go wash up and come downstairs for breakfast, you don't want to be late on your first day in college. Do you?. asked dad

          " Nah, not at all, thanks for the wake-up call dad". I said as I rushed to the bathroom to get washed up. Putting on my normal regular clothes, which is a black top, a black hoodie sweater with a pair of black jeans trousers and a black sneaker and my black cross back around my shoulder I  hurried downstairs to see Nick setting the table for breakfast. Don't get me wrong, I love the colour black more than any other colour, Nick has complained about it so many times but I can't just change the person I am or my favorite colour.

         I hurriedly ate my breakfast and kissed Nick on his cheeks before heading out to catch the next bus. Yeah Nick and I are both werewolves, Nick and I and some other group of werewolves not up to twelve were the only survivals of the bloody night parade by those vampires, we moved for long before we finally settled in this town called Townsville, where both humans, vampires, and werewolves lived together. Though the town is peaceful we don't know what will happen next, so everybody is on an alert, not their faults each and everyone has become a victim one way or the other so they all live in fear of the unknown.

        As I waited for the bus I thought of what mum's killer said about the hybrid been a threat to them and how they are looking for him or her to kill him or her,  does such a thing exist I  thought it was a myth, a story our folks came up with, most time as a kid, mum used to tell me that they were extinct and they don't exist anymore, so why were they killing people and looking for something that doesn't exist. I tried asking Nick for more information about it but he never gave me a useful answer, he kept saying it was just a cover-up story for them to kill our kind, because they heard we have the strongest army, so for us to not be a threat to them they have to wipe us out, to slaughter us" I don't care much about the rest wolves or how they died, my main aim is to avenge my mother and that's my sole purpose of living till now. The sound of the bus horn made me realize my environment and that I was waiting for the bus, if I don't get on the bus now I will have to walk to school which means I will be late to school, to class, and also for my course registration, I quickly shoved my way to the front, paid for the bus fare and quickly sat on a chair close to the window, resting my head on the window, I allowed the gentle breeze to cool my face as the bus sped off.