Pushing Through [Chapter 3]

Chapter 3

      The pain was unbearable, it felt like I was in hell for days, just sitting there waiting for someone to save me. My legs ached and I couldnt move any part of my body except for my mouth, and even though I could, I didnt unless absolutely necessary. It felt like I was under a thousand feet of water, the pressure pushing at my skull my brain about to explode blood running from my eyes and mouth, making me want to puke. It felt like the waves had hit my body so many times repeatedly that I was a doll just floating there being brought to and fro the shore of survival. The pain on my skin was unbearable, as if a hundred mites were all biting at the same time causing my whole body to burn with their poison; the aching in my throught for something I couldnt explain was overpowering, and I wanted to survive, the rage and want to live floated in my brain, comming and going like a mid summers breeze. I thought I would die, but slowly very very slowly the pain started fadding and I shuddered moving first my toes and my hands then finally at the brink of the moment I opened my eyes and stared up at peach colored cealing, it was all over.

      "Grab him." I heard Lex's voice miniscule seconds before arms braced me down to the metal table, they looked so appealing these people, I wanted to eat them because well, I was hungry. A growl escaped my swollen lips and I fought but they were so much stronger than me, so much bigger and most of all they were different, but still in a way the same as I. "Hush up Jack, its just so you don't go fucking Psycho on the whole world. I bet your hungry though arnt you?" He asked laughing as he came and stood in front of me. "You bastard, you never told me it was two damn years, you could be demented right now." He twirled a ball in his hands and I laughed stunning myself speechless by the deepness of my laugh. I coughed and tried again comming out with the same sound, I looked bewildered as I shot up and was immedietly pinned down again.

       "Uhm, Lex.. Whats up with this voice?" I asked rubbing my forehead and finding my hair to be longer than before and softer, it seemed like a normal transformation after all I hadn't had a haircut in a long time. When he didnt answer I coughed and he shot his head upwards to look at me, I saw my reflection in his eyes and I yelled getting out of the grasps of the men who were holding me throwing myself at Lex until I had him pinned to the ground my teeth mere inches from the rushing blood located in his throught, but I wouldnt do it because Lex was my brother, my only family. I was stunned when he suddenly easily pushed me away standing up and brushing himself off.

       He fumbled with his cell phone and checked the time leaving me laying there on the floor "Well Roberts, If you can act like a big boy, I'll be willing to explain everything." A roar of laughter came from the guy behind me, a guy I hadnt even known was there because my rage hadnt let me know he was there. I turned and looked at him, it couldnt have been.

        "Max?" he nodded and I shook my head closing my eyes "What the hell? Are we all.." I didn't have a word for it, we were different and I wanted answers. "Alright Lex, I'll act like a big boy as long as you tell me what the hell I am." I stood up and saw that I towered over him, not too long ago he towered over me. I didn't know where we were so I followed closely behind, at every corner there was a mirror and I stopped sharply at one looking the guy that wasnt me over. "What am I?" I whispered and I touched my too long hair, longing crushing me as I stared into my too blue eyes, just like my pops had been.

      "You are one of us now Roberts. You are everything everyone desires, you dont kill you make sacrifices, you dont take they give. You dont ask, they are concidered lucky to be taken by you. People; men, women will be begging you to take them, in all the ways you know how to, by taking their blood. Before you come to a conclusion we arnt what you thing we are, we are not vampires, we are not werewolves, we do not burn in the sun and we do not only wander at night, we can love without having to die for it, we are everything people desire and everything people are afraid of, we have jobs, we dream, we have kids, we live, but we are not human. The only thing that will ever tie us to being more humans that this is the blood that rushes through our veins the slow pumping of our hearts and not even that makes us humans because our blood is blank, if someone were to test us, they would come up with nothing of our trace, no DNA, nada nothing. " He stopped letting me take in what he had just said, I didn't know how to tell him all the things I wanted to, nothing came out and he took that as the signal to keep talking.

      "You are a womans best partner, a mans if you wish it to be. Dont think this is just for fun Jack, we are this way for a reason and that is to accomplish what we started so long ago. There are more like us, but they are different we are the ones who need to be trusted the ones who cant be concieved. The only ones that will save the world in the end, no matter how many people's lives we take we have to finish what we started, we need to kill the three girls who can destroy us, the three girls we created in hopes that it would not only be males like us." He shuddered and I figured it was a normal thing until one of the guys grabbed him and shook him violently making him bash his head against the wall and he sighed returning to the room we were in again. "We call ourselves The Guardians, you have to understand me Jack. We have to kill them, you have to kill her." the soft words slid from his lips before he collapsed to the ground and one of the guys picked him up and slung him easily over his shoulder.

       "Whats wrong with him?" I asked and they shook their heads one of them staying and the other one taking a brisk run down the hallway. "Can you tell me more?" I asked walking up to the short man that was supposed to be guarding me, any other time I would have scoffed, He shook his head and then looked into my eyes and nodded.

       "Later maybe, but dude, you really need to eat." the change of subject was sudden and an unexpected grin shot up on my face as the collision of pain came too, I was starving, it hurt and he had made me hurt, but I couldn't hurt him back I needed him.

       "Ok, Wheres the kitchen?" I turned and started walking looking for it. Hysterical laughter filled the hallway and I glared at him as he rolled on the floor and clutched his stomach, I was mad. "What?!" I yelled and He stopped looked at me and snickered.

     "Did you not just hear what Lex said? You need people, sacrifices, blood, lust, desire, but not food. All food will do is make you violently sick and weak." He shrugged his shoulders and then laughed again.

       "I'm not eating people, or killing anyone." I said and I turned around, this is what Lex ment by acting like a big boy. I didn't want to accept anything at all from what I had just learned.

         "You dont eat people, You.. It's complicated. You have to kill to live, whether emotionally or physically." A whisper escaped his lips and the pain in his voice radiated past the authority. I nodded and the walked back toward him, putting my hand on his shoulder and looking down at him.

     "Whats your name?"

      "Sanders, My first names not important, I see people call you by both." He looked up at me and I nodded shrugging again.

      "Has a nice ring to it I guess. So we gonna go? I'm dying for food, I think I might die." I laughed and he laughed with me.

      "We cant die that easily. if you dont feed, you go insane but you dont die." He had said too much so he covered it up by walking towards the door and openining it, the sun hit my skin and it felt weird but then turned pleasant again. I looked at it and stared like I had since I was a kid, I'd never gone blind.

      "How long have I been.. out?" There was no other way to explain it. He looked down the street and then laughed.

       "Look at the girl over there, want her? and like five months I guess. Dont worry about the school, you were never enrolled anyways." He was gone then, but somehow I kept my eye on his too fast moving frame as he came up behind the girl. She spun around and drew herself up to him, lust in her eyes wanting him needing him. I walked down the sidewalk, it was time to join in on the fun, and try to fit into what I was now.