Damaged Realities

I kept running. Battered and bruised but my feet carried me and I couldn't stop. My lungs burned as I struggled to breathe. He's gone too far this time. He's finally f*****g lost it! I thought he loved me but he darkened his soul. He's tapped into Void magic. Dark, forbidden magic. His soul dipped in darkness. Why would the triple goddess pair me with him? How can he be my mate? He's downright evil! Is this my fate? Memories of my family flashed in my mind as I run through the forest. His imminent threats spreading like venom in my veins as they repeat in my head. All I can think about is if I'm too late. I have to make it there before he does! I hear men yelling in the distance; a glimpse of torches in the distance and the sound of guns loading echos through the forest. Trees rustle in the wind yet there The air is still tonight yet the trees rustle and creak. They are restless. They can sense the energy of death. Of darkness. My pace speeds up faster than I can carry myself. I'm practically flying as i push the fearful though of tripping far from my mind.The feeling in my gut is unbearable, but I have to keep moving. Finally, I reach my family's farmhouse. I gasp and pant perching myself up underneath the nearest window. To my horror, as peer inside the window my stimach dropped as my fear was true. I was too late....Royal, my mate is holding my parents at gunpoint in the living room. Without even thinking it through I jump through the glass window. I tumble across the floor and scramble to my feet.I stand in front of my family staring down the barrel of a gun that is being held by no other than my mate. I look at him with pleading eyes, desperately holding back my tears. I'm a warrior. I can't show weakness. Weakness is shame. "Royal....please stop this......this is madness!" I pleaded but the look in his eye didn't soften. He was so far gone all that was left was a lust for Dark magic. "WHY SHOULD I ? YOU REJECTED ME!" He spat with pure hate in his voice. He doesn't even look as if he'd shed a tear. why dies he seem so upset about me? "Royal, I love you but I can't be a part of--" "ENOUGH!!!" He abruptly screamed over me. He lowered the gun and took a step closer to me. He stared down at me, positioning his body so he towered over me. His eyes narrowed at me with pure hate and rage. "I should have known a mutt hybrid would be a little traitor" His men behind him chuckle at his words as if in agreeance that my half blood makes Me the lesser man in this fight. My eyes filled with tears at his words. I look up at him hoping another pleading look would settle him enough to calm down. "I'm not a traitor royal..... I love you but I'm not a killer... I'm not what you need be to be. i cant be...." I pleaded. My words just infuriated him further. He was fuming and his aura radiated. My spine felt cold and it shook my core. "THAT'S YOUR USELESS WOLF MORAL CODE TALKING! YOUR A WITCH FOR GODSAKES ACT LIKE IT!!" He fumed. I couldn't hold my tears in any longer and my eyes water and I burst into tears. Royal softened his posture and stepped closer to me. He reached out his arm and pulled me into his arms off the floor, gripping my waist. "Shhhhh. don't cry. " He said softly in my ear. "Perhaps maybe I overestimated you, Lore... perhaps you're more of a mutt than you are a witch. What was the triple goddess thinking pairing you with me? You're just a useless mutt " he spat with venom in every word. He squeezed his hug harder until my diaphragm was completely pressed. I struggled to get out of his arms but I couldn't move....or breathe. "Royal-----Please----" I struggled and pleaded. He loosened his grip enough to tilt his head to look at my face. An evil grin covered his face as soon as he gazed at me. "Lore.....you're so beautiful when you cry," he said as lust fills his eyes. Without a second to think about what he just said to me he pushes me on the floor next to my family. "TELL YOU WHAT," he says abruptly, clicking his tongue. "Since you are my mate, ill give you a choice" His smark grows far more grimacing than before. "I'll let you choose the order of who dies first. Sound good, Sweetness?" I can't believe this is happening! What have I ever done to deserve this? I'm only 18, I haven't even lived yet! How can this be my fate? "Take your time sweetness. we got all night," he says as he spreads his arms gesturing to the two men beside him. I look over at my family. my mother is crying and my dad is just sitting there...lost. staring at the floor. I mind link my mother so we can speak without Royal hearing us. "wheres Vivian, mom...." She looks at me with reassuring eyes "she's in the cupboard. I put a spell on it so they can't see her even if they looked." she smiles sadly. This is all my fault..... "I'm so sorry mom... This is all my fault." "This isn't your fault sweetheart. You've always been a light. Don't let anyone ever take it away from you." "Mom--" "Stop. you and I both know me and your father aren't getting out of this alive. We're okay with that. But the first opportunity you get, you take your sister and you run. As fast and as far as you can. Go to your aunts. She's only a few miles from here. You two will be protected and safe there. I'm not going to let you die here. I see more for your future." I nodded, holding back my tears that were fighting to come out. I looked over at my dad. He looked up at me and mouthed "I love you" as he slid me a dagger embedded in crystals on it. My mother slid it into my back pocket. "This knife kills witches and warlocks. He's powerful though, but even if it doesn't kill him it will maim him long enough for you to grab your sister and run. Four miles south. Don't stop until you get there. You hear me?" my mother whispered "ENOUGH!!!" Royal screamed. "Your outta time sweetness" he smirked He raised his gun at my mother first. My mother burst into tears and put her face in her hands. "I think I'll kill you first" he grinned. Without a second more the bullet entered the top of her head as the blood spread. I was speechless. My father looked enraged as he stood up and tacked the two men standing behind royal. My father beat them to death in a matter of seconds. But as inescapable as it was, Royal shot my father down. I couldn't move from the floor. I couldn't blink. I was covered in my mother's blood. My breath shuddered as I stared at him in disbelief. Royal looked down at his men. Their faces were beaten in and they were, without a doubt, breathless. He then looks down at me with a humored smile on his face. He's getting off on this..... I stood up and looked him up and down. "all this killing.......this death.....you get off on it don't you?" His brow furrowed "what?" "it excites you doesn't it? taking a breath away from someone else..... you live for it don't you?" His smile grows wider than it ever has before. He's deranged! He walks slowly over to me, his steel toe boots sound terrifying across my wooden floor. Before I could even think he grabs me by my waist and pins me against the wall. "I'm gonna give you one last chance, sweetness," he says in a dark tone I've heard too many times before. Without him seeing I slowly slide the knife my mother gave me out of my back pocket. I keep steady eye contact with him to keep the attention away from my right hand. "I will never...ever... be a part of all this killing. So do what you have to do Royal. I won't become the monster you are." I say darkly to him His eye twitches to my words. He's desperately trying to control his rage. But why? Is it because we're still mates, nonetheless? "I can force you, you know that right?" he smirks "Have you forgotten that I bear the power of possession? I can make you into the perfect bride of destruction if I wanted," he says grimly. I smirk at him as I grip the knife "yeah but......you'll never get the chance" without a second thought I drive the dagger into his chest. Royal screams in pain as a black tar-looking substance bubbles out of him. I rip the knife out and stab his temple shoving it through his brain. I'm filled with sorrow as I pick myself up off the floor and run to the cupboard where my little sister was hiding. I pick her up and run out of the house. He screams my name gruesomely behind me. He won't die from that. This isn't the end. And why was his blood black? Is he truly pure evil? I keep running as fast as I can but his screams are still in the distance. After hours of running, we've finally reached the residence in the woods my mother told me to seek sanctuary. My aunt is on the werewolf side of my family. I cant take care of Vivian all by myself. I stop running and I walk cautiously toward the house. I can feel all of the blood wounds that I couldn't before due to adrenaline. My legs shake and my feet drag across the grass. I still have blood dripping from my hairline. Only some of it is mine. I have pieces of my mother's head still stuck to my clothes and my hair. What a miserable existence... The residence is a huge blue house with a candlelit porch and a huge yard. Its surrounded by forest and trees. The house is at least 12 floors. "Maybe we could be safe here," I say to my infant sister strapped to my back. She's only 1 year old. She doesn't even know what happened to our parents. There are people on the porch as we approach the house. Talking, laughing, and drinking. I spot my aunt tending to the garden below the porch. "AUNT NOVA!!" I shout. She turns behind her and sees me and Vivian covered in wounds and blood. I burst into tears and fall to my knees. Seeing my aunt made everything hit me. My parents are dead! My life is dead! My mate tried to kill me and my sister! How did I let this happen? This is all my fault! My aunt's eyes filled with tears as she ran toward me. As for everyone on the porch their attention was broke by me. They all murmured with tones of pity as they all came down to inspect who I was. My Aunt embraced me and took Vivian off my back and into her arms. "What the hell happened, lore? whose blood is that" "MY PARENTS!" I wailed "THEY'RE DEAD!! ROYAL KILLED THEM! I HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!" I wailed and cried. "oh my god..." she said softly. she cried and pulled me into her embrace. "Come on let's get you guys inside. You can stay here sweetie. You'll be safe here." she said softly as she guided me inside. My new home. New life. What a miserable existence.