A Teenage Crisis Chapter 10a

*Kaylin*

Kaylin knew she was in her grammie’s bed. She could feel the warm blanket over her body. She heard grammie talking in the next room. Her heart fluttered at the thought of James. She felt Dardon chuckle in her head as she brought herself into a sitting position. She wondered where James went because when she strained her ears she could not hear him.

The smell of cucumber and vanilla permeated the room. The cover was soft and silky against her fingers and when Kaylin put her cheek against the cover she realized that it smelled like the room: cucumber and vanilla. She slipped out of the bed without a sound heading towards the door. She was about to open the door when a glint of light came from the closet caught her attention. She made her way around the bed and inspected the closet door. Nothing she found could have made that shine of light. She pulled the gold cord for Dardon.

:: Dardon, what do you suppose that was? ::

:: It could have been nothing or it could have been a low-level demon. ::

:: I thought you said all demons were good. ::

:: Not all Kaylin, not all. ::

:: Okay then, well, talk to you later. ::

She let go of the cord with a snap. Smiling, for hearing Dardon’s yelp of pain, she opened the door to the rest of the house. Kaylin immediately went to the kitchen. She knew her grammie was in the living room talking on the phone but she was hungry. So it was to her shock that she saw James, leaning against a counter, touching some pendant he wore on a leather cord. Kaylin noted that she never saw that on James. He still hadn’t noticed her for he was so engrossed in his thoughts.

She took this moment to silently observe… James was probably around her age of nineteen, muscular build of a swimmer. She looked at him some more and saw that his hair was not the black hair she had thought it to be, but a very dark brown with tints of red that shown through when the light hit it at a certain angle. His eyes were dark gray when Kaylin first stared at him but now as they were looking at the pendant in his hand, they were a magical light gray. Strong cheek bones and honey sun-bronzed skin completed the whole effect of him being a total sex symbol. Narcissistic bastard, she thought as she heaved out a sigh. She immediately regretted it because James looked up at her, putting the necklace in his shirt.
"Sorry I didn’t hear you there." His eyes flashed into the dark gray they once were.
"Says the werewolf."

"Hey I’m not just a werewolf. I was born a wizard-vampire."

"You smell mainly like a werewolf."

"Are you trying to piss me off?"

"No I just want you to know that you can leave. Thanks for the information but I think me and my grammie can handle ourselves. I mean she is an Angel, right? So buh-bye!"

*James*

James smiled inwardly at the remark that was so much like Tinzy, Kaylin’s cousin. "You are so naïve." With that he left. He knew he could leave Kaylin because of that damned pull, but she still reminded him of Tinzy. Tinselda Wainwright was a beauty. James instantly fell in awe with his brother Jack’s girlfriend. He trained with her for months and got his ass kick by her plenty of times before he could challenge a high-level demon. Now that he was so near Kaylin he knew that the prophecy he read almost two years ago rang true.

Outside, he sensed that Kaylin was eating trying not to think about him, as he went towards the gangway to scale the wall to the roof. To him rooftops were the greatest relaxing spots in the world. So he sat near the edge of the rooftop and started looking at his pendant again.

James’ pendant wasn’t exactly glamorous. Technically it wasn’t even his. He remembered the day he got it. It was the same day actually that he found out that he Jack, and their sister Pressy were to be the Guard. His father divided the original pendant into thirds, so each child got the third of the pendant that corresponded to the Rarity they were to protect in the future. Jack told James that when he and Tinzy first slept together- Jack swore it was not the way it sounded like- that the pendant showed them a vision. It showed them of Mammon and Gertrude’s decent from Couther, the forging of the original necklace and the passage of necklace from father to son.

As he sat sitting on the rooftop James felt the pendant zap him. The silent electric wave went throughout his body as he was forced to remember things he thought he would soon forget.

James was sixteen. Wizard-vampire. Then a bite from a wolf-demon. So high caliber the wolf-demon, vampire blood was burned from him. Then soon it replaced with that of wolf. Very unstable. He needed to run to protect his family. He ran in his new wolf-from. Fur the color of his eyes: a shifting color of dark and light gray mingling just so to the illusion of true silver. Wolf eyes the color of his hair: dark brown, near black with red ring around the iris. Demons everywhere. Hatred filling his every pore.

For the demon that transformed yet did not go through pain. Those that did not flinch as their skin was ripped from them to change. So for days he killed. Days turned to weeks. Attuned to demons he got, to the point were he could sense them for more than a mile. Weeks turned to months. He was going near insanity until he met the wolf-demon once again. He wasted no time in killing it. He made sure he didn’t slay it, or even executed it. He slaughtered. The slaughter came with a price. James was cursed from then on. The price: James would one day die for the sake of a demon.

When James returned to his hometown, the government had changed. For the next two years James devoted himself to read everything in his father’s old and immense library. He wanted the curse away. It wasn’t until he read the prophecy that he set it aside. Jack found out about James reading it and was baffled. To read it meant instant death, yet James was alive. What it meant was anybody’s guess.

James felt the pendant’s power ebb away from him as he breathed again. Feeling a presence he looked up. He gritted his teeth as he saw the glimmer of demons down the block coming towards him fast.

NEXT*****10b----the fight!