• Chapter 2: my power

    When I woke up it was about dawn from what I could tell. But I didn’t wake up in the bed this time, I was at the kitchen table with a plate of food infront of me. Gregg walked into the kitchen and came towards me. “G-get away.” I stammered at him “don’t worry I’m not gonna hurt you.” he said as he turned me towards my plate. “Eat up princess you’re going to need your strength, for you’re training.” he said as he took a piece of the meat and shoved it in his mouth.
    He started to walk away, then turned to me when he was at the door. “There are clean clothes on the bed for you, as well. Please change before you come out. We wouldn’t want people to know that you’re the princess. Then you must meet me out back. Do as I say or I will kill you.”
    After he said that he left, through the front door. “I hate him!” I screamed as I put some of the meat on my fork. I put the fork in my mouth, then spit the food back out. “Disgusting I hate squirrel meat!” I shouted as I took the plate over to the trash can, and put it on the overflowing trash can to my right.
    Then I walked over to the other side of the house, and walked over to the bed. Sure enough there were cloths on the bed. But they weren’t at all fitting for a princess, but they were good enough. The shirt was black, with a gold “NO” on it. The bottom was a black and gold plaid skirt. The shoes to go with it, were plain black boots. “Well....the cloths aren’t bad, but they aren’t good either.” I said to my self as I slipped out of the blue gown that I was wearing. Then I reached to take off my necklace, but then I remembered what I had promised Max so I kept that and the bracelet on. Then I put on the cloths that were on the bed, they fit perfectly. I looked at myself in the mirror on the wall. My long blonde hair fell gently on my shoulders. My fair complexion seemed to glow. While my clear blue eyes sparkled as I turned.



    7

    When I was done looking at my reflection, went out the front door and went around to the back of the house. Once I was around back I saw Gregg, he was siting down and whistling to himself. Then finally he noticed that I was there, and said “oh you’re so obedient, just like a dog.”. I huffed and said “im not being obedient, im just curious as to this training you’re talking about.” he stood up and said “sure”. “Were are the weapons I need weapons to train?” I asked him. “You do not need any weapons, just your mind and body.” he told me.
    I was confused by what he said. “I don’t understand, explain it to me.” I told him. “Well, you’ve heard of powers haven’t; you?” he asked me, I nodded my head to say yes. “That’s what im going to train you in. I saw that when ever you trained at the castle, you never used any powers. But I know you have them. So what kind do you have?” I answered with. “I don’t know, I’ve never used them before. My mom told me it would be to dangerous if I did because of my demon.” he shifted his stance and said. “Well she’s wrong, having a demon has nothing to do if you using your powers are dangerous.”
    Then he explained to me that powers are based on some time of element. He said that there are twelve known powers. The powers are, time, earth, water/ice, lightning, moon/star, storm, healing, dark, invisible, fire, sand, and wind. He also said that there could be more powers, that haven’t been discovered or developed. Then he told me that a demon was formed inside a person because that person, has to much extra energy. He also while he was on a role said what a anti-demon was. Anti-demons are the mortal enemy of people with demons. And that they are also formed because someone has to much extra energy. But anti-demons aren’t as destructive as demons are, and that they while not harm a life unless necessary.
    “So the only thing left to know, is if you want to learn a power.” he concluded as he ended his long lecture. “Yes, but.....uh which one?” I said. “Well, your sisters all basically know water and earth. But I don’t know either, I only know sand. So what do you say about sand?” he suggested. “Okay.” I said enthusiastically. And that began my training, he showed me a demonstration of the sand powers. It was incredible. He could even make sand appear without there being sand around it was awesome. And the other cool thing was, that you didn’t just have to use it for fighting you could use it for anything, it was awesome.
    8


    My training took five months, on the day my training was complete was January 14. That day was my 6th birthday, so my birthday is January 14th for those who didn’t catch that. On this day Gregg was being particularly nice to me, by that I mean unusually nice. When we sparred he actually let me win, (I usually lost, but can you blame me he was an adult and I was a kid) and he told me to go in and rest instead of cleaning the house.
    I was in the house lying down on the bed, trying to go to sleep. When all of a sudden I thought about Max. I had forgotten about my mom, actually I thought that I didn’t have one and if I ever did she had abandoned me. I also had forgotten that I was princess Blade, and thought that I was average Blade with no royale connections. This was because Gregg had stopped calling me princess. I still remembered Max, but my memory of her was going away. I didn’t know her name, just what she looked like, and her voice, small things like that. But the strongest thing I remembered was our promise, that was still strongly stuck in my head. I had never taken off my bracelet or necklace, except to get a shower, but that was it.
    Eventually I gave up on trying to go to sleep, and sat up in the bed. I had a strange feeling that something bad was going to happen today, but I just kind of brushed the feeling off. But as it turned out, my thought of something bad happening was right. About two minutes after I decided to sit up in the bed, Gregg decided to come in to “speak” with me.
    He walked up to the bed and pushed me back down into a laying position. Then he tried to take the gold and black plaid skirt I was wearing off. But I screamed and punched him in his face so that he would stop, and he did. “Why you little b***h! How dare you hit me after all I’ve done for you. It’s only right for you to give me a little reward for taking care of you!” he yelled in my face. I could smell the booze on his breath, and I saw that his eyes were bloodshot as well. He gave me such and angry look, all of the anger he was directing at me was overbearing.






    9


    “Get away from me! What are you trying to do?” I yelled helplessly. “You don’t deserve any kind of “reward” from me or anyone else. And you didn’t take care of me you kidnaped me, and forced me to stay here.” the look in his eyes now was as if the anger he already had just shoot through the roof, and all this anger was directed at me. “I don’t think you understand brat, I need some kinda compensation for you being here. You’ve been taunting me with that little a** of yours, and I’ve been waiting to she what’s under that skirt.” he told me with anger in his voice.
    “I kidnaped you so that you could be my tool. So act like a good tool and let me have my fun, then after words I will take over Aqua with your demon.”he yelled as he tried to take my skirt off again. But I stopped him again, by punching him in his face and kicking him in his genitals. “No! I won’t let you use me.” I yelled, with tears in my eyes. “You will princess.” he groaned. When he said princess pictures of Max flashed in my head, and oddly enough some of my mother did too. My head started to hurt, so much that I had too hold my head in my hands.
    Then I felt a power surge through me, a power I had never felt before. It felt evil and malevolent, like a bloodthirsty monster it was a horrible feeling. The power enveloped my body, pushing my soul aside back to the depths of my mind. I realized that my demon was activated and there was nothing I could do about it. I knew this even though my demon had never activated before. It was Gregg that told me in one of his lectures, that I wasn’t capable of doing anything while it was in control. All I could do was watch what was happening from the depths of my own mind.
    As Gregg finally noticed something was wrong, (he was a little to preoccupied with making sure his genitalia was all there to notice my demon) he scrambled off of the bed, and tried to escape threw the front door. But he was stopped, by my demon wrapping sand around his ankle and flinging him to the opposite wall. He was implanted into the wall from the force of the impact, and bleeding out of his forehead and mouth. Then all of a sudden I felt myself move off of the bed, and start to run out of the door and down the alley. (His house was oddly placed in the alley.) I turned a corner, then another, and another until I was at the place were the stand, that I was taken from once stood.

    10
    My head started to hurt, and a picture of Max standing near the stand being slapped by someone I couldn’t remember in the face. The pain hurt so much that I had to clutch my head in my hands again. Then I started crying, I watched as my tears hit the sandy ground. The tears weren’t made of the salty water you taste when a tears streaks down your cheek, and stops at the corner of you’re mouth and you’re just a little compelled to taste it. They were made of blood, I was crying blood! All of a sudden my attention was directed to one thing, and one thing only. That thing was Gregg, who was standing right behind me.
    “Go away! Get away from me!” I screamed at him, as more bloody tears streamed down my face. Then I ran as fast as I could away from him. Then I realized something, I had just screamed on my own, and I had just ran from him on my own. My demon was still activated I could tell that but I had control of my mouth and legs.
    Of course Gregg wouldn’t let me get away that easily. He followed me, every time I turned he turned, when I zig-zagged he zig zagged. He was on me like a blood hound on a rabbit, it was scary. I have no shame in admitting that I was scared, I was scared for my life. I knew that if caught me he would kill me, so I ran with all my might to escape him. Eventually I wound up at the top of the tall white marble steps of the church. Gregg had caught up with me and had me backed up against, the big redwood doors of the church.
    I let out, a blood curdling scream as he lunged at me. Then my demon took complete control again. She made me use my sand powers to wrap around his body and hold him in the air. “P-put me down you monster!” he yelled as he tried to squirm, out of the grip of the sand, But my hold was to tight. “now you die.” my demon said, as she began to crush him with the sand. The sand became tighter and tighter, until the sand caved his body in and he was crush to bits.
    He was still being held in the air, as my demon made me dance around. Under the blood that was pouring down like rain, from his lifeless body. “Hahaha, it tastes so sweet.” she chuckled as she continued to dance. she lowered his body close enough to the ground so that she was eye level with his dead body. His face was stuck in a screaming expression. He looked like he was truly in peril. “For such a bad man, your blood is just so delicious.” she told him. “What? You look so astonished close that stupid mouth.” she said as she took one hand and, punched his jaw right off of his face.
    11
    Apparently my demons actions had caught the attention of some of the villagers in the church. Because I was tapped on my shoulder, then forcefully turned around. “H-hey you monster you g-get out of out of our village.” he stammered. He had about twelve other villagers behind him. My demon gave a innocent smile to the people, then said. “I don’t think I want to leave. I like it here so much that I’ll just kill you instead of all of the people with you.” the man backed away and pleaded for his life. But there was no mercy for him. My demon caught his arm and broke it. As he screamed in pain she said. “Shut up!” and ripped out his throat.
    Every one ran from the church area. I ran, I ran until I couldn’t any more. When I stopped I was infront of a small pond on some farmers plot of land. I looked into the pond, to see my reflection and I saw that I looked extremely different.
    My eyes were not there usual pretty clear blue, They were blood red.
    I also had fangs and my nails were razor sharp. Those changes weren’t so bad. But then I saw that instead of me having regular human ears I had, sandy brown cat ears! I also had I sandy brown tail to match. Every thing was the same, my hair was still blonde, and my complexion was still fair.
    Suddenly my ears started to twitch cutely, like how I kittens does when it hears you calling it. I knew someone was coming, I was from behind me so I turned around to see who it was. It turned out to be an old man in his fifties, probably the owner of the land I was sitting on. He was waving a stick at me moving his lips but I could not hear what he was saying. Then he through the stick at me, it missed but it was by a hairs width. Apparently almost getting hit was just enough to piss off my demon again. I was forced to use my powers again.
    A hole in the sandy ground appeared under the old man. He fell in it, and was buried neck deep in the hole. My demon made me slyly walk up to the mostly buried man. She kicked him with so much force that, my foot was lodged in his skull. I didn’t hurt my demon any to rip my violently rip my foot out of his head. But I guessed it hurt him, but I couldn’t tell because he was dead before she ripped my foot out. I started to run again. And I wanted to cry but I couldn’t because my demon wouldn’t let me. I felt so terrible.