My mind rushed with the information my mother just shared. I felt tired and weak. My body felt stronger, but the information drained me. Santino grabbed my hand and squeezed, then he dropped it.
"We need to find Seraph and Don. Let's stay together. I don't want to lose anyone else."
Santino grabbed me and pulled me into a hug. His scent was calming. He started to heat up and his scent intensified. "If anyone else sniffed me like this, I would honestly think they were trying to eat me. You never tell me what I smell like."
I laughed. "It's relaxing. That's all you need to know."
"To me you smell like cocoa, citrus and pine. When you're angry the cocoa takes over, and right now you smell more like citrus. I haven't met many beings with such a variety of scents. I like when your close."
I inhaled deeply, but let go. I felt my parents staring at us, "Let's go."
Walking around the hospital, we noticed blood and bile everywhere. Heads rolled on the ground, limbs were thrown all over, and I could tell Lucifer did this. He loved torture and playing with humans until they died. The hospital was a mess of dead bodies. I could feel the cold wrapping around my veins.
I sighed heavily, "This bastard is so fucking sloppy."
Santino frowned, "He's definitely a lot sloppier now that he feels invincible. His methods always caused too much of a mess to clean up."
My father frowned, "Your mother used to get frustrated with him as well. We had our own cleaners to fix his mess. I hated working with him personally."
My mother scoffed.
A loud ringing sound pierced through the silence of the hospital.
"You dipshits are taking too fucking long!" Lucifer appeared and threw Seraph's limp body at me. She was dead. "Now that boy that you 'love' he's on the verge of death. Hospitals have a lot of instruments to kill humans surprisingly."
I needed to find that bastard. "We need to start searching for him. Let's go."
Lucifer appeared right in front of us. I froze him instantly and started running toward Don's scent. My mother was behind me.
I heard Lucifer break free from the ice and the hospital's temperature increased by sixty degrees instantly. Hopefully Santino and my father could handle him. We won't be long. I checked each room as I passed it and my mother did more thorough checks on the humans we passed to see if any had survived.
On the fifth floor I saw him. His body lay broken and violated. Don was dead. Lucifer had smashed his face in, opened up his body, and removed some of his organs. His heart was placed in his left hand, like he pulled it out himself. I walked over to Don and fell to my knees.
I had just decided to stay with him. I wanted to live a normal life. No killing, no drugs, none of…this. I just wanted a chance with him. Lucifer took that from me. He killed Don to hurt me. I stared into Don's dead eyes. Blood splattered the walls and the floor and my tears accompanied them.
"Wait, I still smell the rain." It was fading but still there, but it didn't seem to come from this body. I sealed his wounds and wiped the blood from his face. It looked like Don, but it was not. Who had this power?
I realized my mother was behind me. "Are you okay?"
"This isn't Don."
The tears I shed turned to ice, but I could sense Don close by. I picked up the imposter's broken body and transported us all back to Santino and Lucifer.
I instantly cooled the room. Santino dodged an attack from Lucifer and left me facing him.
"Lucifer, I need my blood." I placed the body in Santino's arms, "Also, where is Don?"
I stared at Lucifer and his yaria seemed to be different. He had been exposed to my blood the longest. Could it have somehow transformed his own life force, or did he use the Rabbit's blood as well.
He smiled and stretched his arms out wide, "Well."
I flew toward him and tried to slash his neck, but his body hardened, and only a small scratch appeared. His brain and heart were located in his torso. I had to remove them to kill him. The experiments he undergone made killing him near impossible.
Lucifer chuckled, "Seems like you're moving a little slow. LET ME SHOW YOU TRUE SPEED!"
He rushed at me and I barely had time to react. Shit. An uppercut hit my chin and I launched directly into a side kick after the impact. My mother hit Lucifer with a wave of her yaria, and my father appeared behind him, slamming him to the ground.
"What have you done to yourself?" My father looked concerned.
Lucifer laughed and tried to recover, but my father kept a foot on his neck. "I always felt that your mother and father were different. They tried to fit in, but the feeling of dread and inferiority I felt around them never dissipated. They were newbies in town and could have lived a normal life. Gotten jobs, raised you and had peace, but that's not what they chose. I kept asking myself…"
I sighed, "Get to the fucking point."
Santino's anger was simmering. He was building up his energy.
"Now be patie…"
I sent out a flurry of ice shards and pierced his limbs to the ground. He let out a small chuckle. He struggled but couldn't remove himself from the shards or my father.
"As I was saying, your parents were always odd. They made deals way too quickly, impossible tasks were easy for them and then…Then Kitten revealed to me what they were capable of and the true power they had. Kitten had a poison to control them, something from their planet she said. So, I teamed up with her and James to trap your parents and absorb their powers, but that was a bit harder than expected. It took years to figure out how to mix their blood with ours. But you willingly sharing your blood, made all of this possible." He looked down at his unnatural body, paused then started to laugh. "Took them long enough. Just so you know, Don is still alive!"
Before any of us could react, there was a small explosion on the roof. A barrage of bullets started flying through the building. I ran to Lucifer to keep him from disappearing, but to no avail. I screamed
I looked at Santino and the body he held transformed into James. He placed the body on the ground. The windows shattered and smoke bombs lit up the room. Santino started to release his smog and lava destroying the hospital and all of its inhabitants.
We walked out the door, and were met by cops and the military. "Santino Leone and Kitarya Lin, you two are under arrest for the murders of various officers, corruption, drug and human trafficking,…"
The officers kept going. I was annoyed. I needed to find Don. Santino sensed my irritation and he started with his smog again. The police fired at us but everything just bounced off.
My mother moved and swung a long sword in the direction of the police. They all stood for a second before falling in a mess of blood. The sword seemed to be throbbing, like it had its own heartbeat.
I gathered my energy and ice shards were sent out in every direction. I felt the clouds above us swirl. I thought of Don, Santino, my parents. I had to save everyone. I felt my ice shards ripping through the flesh of the police. The lava of Santino's body pushed them back.
I screamed and a tornado of anger touched down. The tornado swept up the remaining officers. As they were being swept away. I saw missiles flying towards us. I dropped a second tornado and merged the two. Not enough. A third and a fourth all merged into one. I sent the tornado in the direction of the missiles. Santino merged his lava with my tornado and the missiles were destroyed on impact. More missiles came and I could feel myself getting weaker. I never needed to expend this much energy.
Santino was also weak. I could feel us reaching our limit. My tornado waned and all that was left was dead bodies, volcanic smog, and the missiles heading toward us. My parents stepped in. I closed my eyes and darkness enveloped me.