I scanned the place sensing any living creature nearby. I could feel how the beast inside me was craving to suck out the life out of someone until their very last breath.
A deathly silence reigned the night and the moon was hidden behind the clouds, allowing the darkness to take over the streets.
I closed my eyes and I knew once I opened them they would be black and the beast would be unleashed.
Suddenly footsteps could be heard from the distance, approaching at a steady pace. I hid in the shadows and waited for my prey to come closer. Seems like someone's in a hurry. I can sense how scared she is.
"You shouldn't be walking alone far into the night." I said as I looked at the girl in front of me.
"W-Who are you?" She asked, scared.
I came out from where I was hiding and smirked at her. "Let's skip that since I'm going to kill you anyway."
"Wha-"
Before she could finish whatever she was going to say I grabbed her by the neck and threw her against the wall. I got closer to her face and I saw deathly fear reflected in her eyes as soon as she saw my lifeless ones.
Without any hesitation I opened my mouth and started to suck out her soul. The girl struggled until the very last sign of life left her weak body.
Once she was dead I moved my face away and contemplated what I've done. She had her head to one side and her eyes were opened with fear etched in them. "You were going to die anyway." I said feeling somehow disgusted and angry. Out of nowhere the girl moved her head slightly, which caught me completely off guard. I frowned and started squeezing the almost death girl's neck and the smell of burning flesh could be sensed. The girl cried out in pain when her body suddenly burst out in flames and soon it turned into ashes. I looked down narrowing my eyes; a lugubrious expression all over my face. Just like Raiza.
"Control yourself, Harry." Niall suddenly spoke. I turned around and he was walking towards me with an expression of reproach reflected in his face.
"You fucking dragged me here to get souls." I pointed out, angry. "Don't fucking lecture me now."
"I'm fucking going to if you overstep the mark."
I raised an eyebrow and looked at him incredulous. Overstep the mark? The blond haired demon motioned me with his head to look something. I followed the direction and saw some ashes being blown by the wind. The piercing scream of the girl who I had just killed was all I heard for a few seconds.
My eyes widened as they went back to normal. I had vented all my rage on that human.
I covered one side of my face with my shaking hand in shocked. Am I losing control? Am I going back to how I used to be?
I felt a hand on my shoulder and when I turned my face I saw Niall smiling at me with sympathy. I gave him a wry smile. "Don't look at me like that, asshole."
"Come on. Let's go back." He motioned with his head and gave me a few taps on my shoulder before walking away.
I followed him and we went back to the hospital. I was eager to see Raiza yet I was ashamed of the way I had behaved. I had lost control and allowed my emotions control my actions. We demons don't lose control like that, we don't let our emotions and feelings get in the way and condition our behaviour. We're just driven by our instincts and desires. The way I behaved was-
"As if you were acting like a human?" Niall suddenly said, snapping me out of my thoughts.
I frowned and looked at him not really knowing what to say. Before I could come up with something to say I saw something out of the corner of my eye that caught my attention.
"Irene?" I asked surprised. Her face reflected tiredness and a deep sorrow. "What are you doing here? It's quite late. I thought you had gone home."
"I could say the same thing to you, darling." She smiled, tired. "I just had this strange feeling that I couldn't go home tonight. That I needed to spend the night here."
I got closer to her and squeezed her shoulder. "You don't have to worry." I reassured her. "If anything happens I'll let you know. Just go home and rest."
Irene smiled at me and hugged me. You're honestly a remarkable young boy, Harry. I'm glad Raiza met you. She finally found you, I heard her thinking. "Why don't you come to the prayer room with me, Harry?" Raiza's mum asked me kindly. "It's always good to talk with the guy up there."
"I prefer staying with Raiza, if you don't mind." I turned down her offer politely. She smiled at me and nodded.
I watched Irene walked away and felt sorry for her. She was always praying for Raiza's recovery. I guess that was all she could do considering she was just a human. But I was a fucking demon. A creature who didn't have any boundaries; there was nothing I couldn't do. If her benevolent God wouldn't do anything to save Raiza, wouldn't I be able to save her? I looked down and clutched my fists in frustration.
Humans believe in God. But does God believe in them?
I let out a deep sigh and headed over to Raiza's room. As I was about to open the door I felt swift changing and all my senses were on alert. I opened the door quickly and encountered two figures on each sides of Raiza's bed.
"What the fuck are you two doing here!?" I yelled.
"Lower your voice, Harry. We're in a hospital." Liam smiled at me, amused. "Show some respect."
"We just came visiting, mate." Louis smirked. "You know, to bring our condolences." He leaned closer to Raiza and caressed her cheek. "Poor little Rai-"
In a blink of an eye I got in front of Louis and grabbed his wrist. "Don't you fucking dare to touch her and say her name." I said with clenched teeth as I squeezed his wrist. The sound of bones breaking made that bloody demon turned his eyes black. He was ready to fight back.
"Enough." Liam warned us.
I looked at the messy haired demon with a disgusted expression and let go of his wrist. But didn't move an inch from Raiza's bed. "Why the fuck did you come back?" I glared at them.
"We were bored." Louis said shrugging, nonchalant.
"We thought nothing interesting will happen between you and Zayn but I guess we were wrong." Liam said looking at Raiza. "I wonder what Zayn did to this human..." Then he looked at me cocking his head and then smirked. "And how did you let it happen."
"You fucking bast-"
Before I could pounce over him, Liam already had me by the neck against the wall. "Too slow, H." He said amused. "You haven't been feeding properly for playing nurse with your little human, huh?"
"Just fucking leave and don't come back. You don't have anything to do here."
"Oh, what a bummer!" Louis whined. "Someone's coming. Time to go." And, just as quickly as they had appeared, they disappeared. Then, only a few seconds later, the door was opened and the doctor accompanied by a nurse entered the room.
"You're Raiza's boyfriend, right?" She asked me. I nodded slowly, still uneasy about the unexpected, unwanted and unpleasant visit. "We're going to do some tests to Raiza right now. Could please find Ms. Esmond and bring her here? I'd like to discuss the results and further procedures once we finish."
I nodded again and looked at my girlfriend as they took her away. I ruffled my head in despair and fell to the ground when I felt a sharp pain on my chest. I winced in pain and squeezed my t-shirt. My hand was trembling and as I looked at it as thought crossed my mind.
Maybe if I..., I thought as I straightened my fingers and united them, imitating the form of a dagger.
"Harry."
"I thought you had gone home as well." I said with clenched teeth.
"No, I had this bad feeling." Rue's voice sounded as if she was in distress. I looked at her surprised. She had a bad feeling as well? The psychic chick came closer and knelt next to me, and put her hand on my shoulder. "Why did you have your hand like that? It almost seemed like you wanted to rip-"
"You're imagining things." I cut her out. Suddenly I felt my eyes turning black. Fuck, it bloody hurts.
"Are you alright? Do you need me to call Niall?" Rue sounded genuinely worried, which wasn't her common behaviour towards me.
I closed my eyes and put my back against the wall. "I'm fine." My breathing was uneasy and a few sweat drops ran down my face.
"You don't look fine, Harry."
"I said I'm fine." I needed to go get Irene. I didn't have time for stupid chest pains. I got up and started walking towards Hell, a.k.a. the Prayer Room.
"Does your heart hurt so bad?" I heard the psychic suddenly asking.
I turned around and looked at her confused. What? "I don't have a heart."
"Maybe Raiza gave you one." Her intense gaze made me look away. For some reason I felt uncomfortable. What the hell is she talking about?
"Now I know why not having enough sleep causes humans to lose their minds." I said before walking away.
It didn't take me long to find the Prayer Room. I stayed outside just looking at the entrance. I could feel a some itching. A wince formed on my lips as I moved my neck from side to side.
I took a deep breath and when I was about to open the door someone did it. I stepped back and an elderly man came out of the room. When his eyes met mine I knew he knew what I was.
The priest froze and looked at me with an astonished expression written all over his face.
I made my eyes turned black and smirked at him. "Boo."
The priest startled and ran away. I couldn't help but laugh at his priceless reaction. "What? No crucifix or 'the power of God compels you'?" I asked, amused.
"You came, darling." I heard Raiza's mum voice.
I turned around and Irene was smiling at me. But a dry tear on her cheek gave her away; she had been crying. I looked towards the direction the priest had ran. She must have been talking with him. I turned my face to her once again and smiled. "I actually came here to get you. They're doing some tests to Raiza and the doctor wants to talk with you when they're done."
"Let's go see what Dr. Plack has to say then." She put her arm around mine started walking.
As we got closer I could feel Irene's grip tightening on my arm. I placed my hand on hers and then looked at her and smiled. She smiled back and mouthed a 'thank you'.
Once we got to Razia's room they had already finished the tests and she was back in her room. The doctor was waiting for us, so as soon as she saw us she made us entered to talk.
"Can we come in as well?" Rue asked pleading. She and Niall were in the hallway waiting impatiently to know what was going on. "Please?"
"Come in." Irene said holding the door for them.
Niall closed the door and there were a few seconds of nerve-racking silence before the doctor informed us about Raiza's state.
"Okay, so you are all aware that we did some tests to check Raiza's state." She said. We all nodded and waited for her to continue. "I am relieved to say nothing alarming showed up. Her health is fine and no vitals organs seems to be failing."
"When is she going to wake up then?" The question I had previously asked the woman again came out of my mouth.
She looked at me with sympathy in her eyes. I would've never thought a human would've looked at me like that. She could feel how bad I wanted my girlfriend to wake up and be by my side once again. "Raiza is in a coma right now. When she will wake up is uncertain."
"What?" Raiza's mum covered her mouth and she would've fallen to the floor if I hadn't held her.
"Ms. Irene!" Rue said worried. She came closer to her and tried to calm her down as I tried not to lose control.
"It seems her organism is fine but something strange is happening with her brain activity."
"What do you mean?" Niall spoke before I could and asked the woman what we all wanted to know.
"To put it in simple words, it is as if her mind wasn't here. And the longer she remains in this state, the faster her organism will start to fail." Raiza's mum buried her face in my chest and started crying. I hugged her tightly and tried to reassure her somehow. "I promise we're doing everything we can." The doctor stated, trying to calm us down.
Niall and I looked at each other with an blank expression on our faces. But beneath that expressionless face a terrifying feeling was hiding.
If Raiza's mind isn't here that means her soul must be in...
Shit.
I need to get to her soul fast.