Stephen woke up to the loud smashing sound coming from the other side of the wall. He rubbed his eyes to the gleaming sunlight smoothly touching his wounded face. He turned up to see the clock pointing at 10:21 AM. Another round of a bomb like commotion rumbled to the other side.
He hissed in annoyance at the burst of the sound.
"What the f...hey!", He shouted with his eyes half shut. Let out a big yawn and pulled himself up.
Just when he was about to open the door, a big realization just came rushing through his mind. The thought of fighting with Darwin , the succubus and the wendigos just stopped him on his tracks. He rolled the knob and slowly walked towards the banging sound.
He opened to door to the other room but no one was there. He looked around and heard another electric driven burst coming from the attic. He pulled back and slowly followed the noise.
He walked across the alley and into the deck. Slowly, he cracked open the door and saw a familiar face covered in bruises and burns, sitting on the ground and hissing in pain. His pale skin emitting smoke from the little drips of sunlight touching him.
"Fuck! Fuck! Argggh!", He pulled himself and launched forward in a lightning speed only to be blocked and electrocuted by a force field that seemed to stop him from going through.
"Hey! What are you doing here?", Stephen asked in both shock and confusion. Darwin just gave him a dagger and look with his grey eyes shining like moonlight in the middle of a day.
"There you are", He whispered before dashing straight into Darwin in a speed of light and pinned him down to the ground. He locked Stephen's arms with his legs and pulled his neck from his back.
"Taking a vampire as a hostage. What a bold move human! Now I'm hungry as hell", His expression shifted from taunting to a deadly one as he dug his fangs into Stephen's neck.
He's about to take a sip of his blood when he felt an extreme burning sensation in his mouth, and the blood tastes so bitter that it dried his throat instantly. He kicked Stephen back and ran outside in his usual vampire speed and threw up gushing his blood.
"I'm gonna kill you", Stephen winced in pain at the shot of Darwin's fang into his. He chased Darwin out covering his wound and saw him vomiting hard that it almost drew his intestines out.
"What the hell is wrong with you?", He asked him it between hiss still covering his neck with his hands to prevent the blood from dripping.
"Hey! Are you ok darling?", Stephen's neighbour asked from the other side of the fence. She's holding a cup of tea as she strolls across her lawn. Her expression shifted from worry to afraid as she looked down at Darwin vomiting blood on the green plains on Stephen's yard.
Darwin looked up to her. He wiped the small drips of blood on his face as he looked straight directly into her eyes.
"It's OK, you didn't see anything", His compulsion crept like mist into the woman's ears as she nodded at his words.
"Yeah, I didn't see anything", she said in a plain emotion as she walked back inside the house.
"You shouldn't bump into people", Stephen sat at the bench on his deck. Hissing at the short pinch of pain of Darwin's fangs into his skin. He took a glimpse of Darwin sitting like a defeated champion across the yard ,"What if she saw you acting supernaturally?"
"You never had a masterclass on supernatural studies. Compulsion, easy. I can even convince the whole town to be my friend", He rolled his eyes as he boasted his ability at him.
"Except me", Stephen continued.
"Yeah, it would only be such a waste of my ability to even try to be friends with you", He looked him from head to his toe.
"When did you get a hair color?", Stephen added.
"Are you blind or just clinically insane?", He looked at him with a weird look. Dark circled started forming under his eyes and his skin starting to dry. His hair, faded grey stripped down with red locks and strands. His lips cracked up a little and starting to go dry.
"Neither, I just noticed you hair changing color. From grey to red? And dude, you look horrible. Haven't you eaten for a century", Stephen shrugged his shoulders at him. He gestured his hands to give darling a sign to look himself at the mirror on the car next to him.
"Funny", he rolled his eyes again as he realized that he's got no reflection in the mirror. He walked slowly to the deck next to Stephen and sat there like a puppy.
"Your blood is the most obnoxious blood that I've ever tasted. I don't know why you have to live in this world. Such a rotten waste of life", Darwin added.
Stephen stood up and walked towards him. Trying hard to get close to him but he gave him a death daggers just when he's about to stand up.
"Look, I don't have any idea what happened the night before today but I'm pretty sure that whatever is happening right now I did nothing. At least that's all I know", He threw his hands at Darwin's expression.
"Of course you know nothing, I even tried breaking in that small brain of yours but I ended up walking in an empty hall", Darwin pulled himself up and walked passed him.
"Fine. Don't forget that I still have to take you to the Colossal to get back all my duties and positions. This is all your fault in the first place. I lost everything because of you", He said as looking away from him.
"First of all no one asked you to come after me. Second, a human like you is nothing but livestock. I have nothing to do with you but you keep coming after me like I'm some kind of treasure that's worth millions. Whatever it is that is happening to you right now, it's just a matter of reaction on how you decide", Darwin replied like nonchalantly as he walked straight to the kitchen. His voice sounded like a child with cough.
Stephen turned to him and saw him slide to the door of the kitchen. He shrugged off his shoulders at him.
Few hours passed and the whole house seemed so quiet. Stephen wiping his weapons in his walk in armory. He can't help but think about the situation and what is Darwin doing in his house. Why can't he just walk away. He sighed at the thought of living together with a creature that ruined his life and his reputation. After arranging his guns, set of daggers,specialized whip and other equipment he took his shirt off and took a cold shower. His wounds slowly healing, dripped in a cold water gushing over him. He turned around and checked himself on the mirror. His face slowly showing signs of aging, or maybe because of stress and busy schedules. Scars on his chest that he referred to as a trophy from the battles that he'd fought. But something really caught his attention, the markings on his back. A snake biting its own tail inside an inverted pentagram.
He was about to touch it when the doorbell suddenly went off.
"Who the hell ordered something?", He frowned.
He slid out of the shower and took a towel. He checked himself in the mirror and combed his hair back with his hands. Took a razor and shaved his beard. His face squeaky clean and clear after taking a refreshing bath. He took a small glass and poured an ample amount of mouthwash and walked out of the room only to witness a very horrible sight on his way to the living room.
"Fuck! You cannot...!", he almost gagged him self at the sight of Darwin on top of the delivery guy. His mouth dripping in blood and his eyes crimson as red moon. His face, back to its taunting and beautifully dangerous look and his hair bouncing grey in fullness and lush. He looked up with his eyes shut, as if feeling the gush of energy in his veins after his full meal at a young pizza delivery boy.
"Hmmmm ughhhh, virgin blood tastes so good", He let out an intimidating chuckle as he flipped back smoothly like a cat and sat on the couch across them with his legs crossed.
"3...2...1", he playfully counted with his fingers and the guy rose up from his unconsciousness and let out a very deep breathe. His eyes widened at the sight of Darwin across the room. He shakily stood up and grabbed his vest.
"Did you just feed on him demon?", Stephen furiously questioned from the stairs.
"It's OK he won't remember", Darwin gave him a wink.
"I swear to GOD if something happens to him...", Stephen threatened.
"And I swear to you that something will happen to him if you won't keep that mouth shut", he rolled his eyes at him. He looked up at the stunned delivery boy and dashed right in front of him in a speed of a light. He slowly ran his hands to his shoulders and froze him with a deadly smile.
"Go pick up your stuff, not the pizza just leave it here, and go. You will forget everything that happened and you'll heal", Darwin looked straight into his eyes and into his mind and compelled him.
The delivery guy just nodded and picked up his stuff with a straight face and left.
"How about his wounds? Hey!", Stephen tried calling the guy but only the sound of his motorcycle reached back to him.
"I just told his mind to heal the wounds and his body shall follow it. Did you even learn biology in your class? ", Darwin passed beside him with a weird look in his face.
Stephen just let out a deep sigh and controlled temper. Something inside him really wanted to punch the hell out of Darwin's face. He returned to his room and took his clothes on. He looked at the clock ticking at 2:00 PM. He took the flash drive sitting on top of the computer unit and blasted off the speakers, so loud that it almost shook the entire house.
The loud banging sound sent a wave of irritation to Darwin who was silently sitting on the couch munching pizza and watching Nanatsu no Taizai like a normal dude on his rest day. He got tired figuring out how to get out of the force field because he can't even infiltrate Stephen's mind and reprogram his brain.
"That guy with the yellow hair is op as hell...", He tried ignoring the waves of sound crawling into his ears but the volume keeps going higher and higher that he can't even tolerate the noise.
"Arghhhh! Bitch!", His eyes instantly turned red and the television lost signal at the force of his vibe. He gently put the pizza box down and went upstairs in his vampire speed.
He kicked the door open and saw Stephen small dancing to the music with only a shirt and a boxers on.
"Can you knock?!", He covered his private parts with both of his hands.
"This...", Darwin walked like a brat towards the speaker and knocked the hell out of it. The room dipped down in full silence , "...is so annoying!", He looked at Stephen again with a furious face.
"What do you want?", Stephen asked him with a curious face.
"Come on. You brought me here. No food, no people to kill for fun and no peace at all. Can't you understand that I just want to have a restday and watch my favorite show? We can kill each other later", Darwin gave him an annoyed look with his vampire face and walk passed him.
"I'm tired of your games. Why are you here?", Stephen grabbed him by his arms in a tight grip. He can feel an eerie vibe. This is the first time he grabbed Darwin for a little longer.
"You see that thing right there? It keeps me from passing through. You really think I wanna spend a single second with you? Glidehaste's most boring and dumbest agent?", He turned to him a second and playfully explain the situation to Stephen like he was some kind of a kindergarten.
He felt Stephen moved forward towards him.
"I'm warning you, do not get into my nerves", he whispered.
Stephen took a step back and threw his hands in the air. Darwin turned to face him with a plain look.
"Let me out once and for all or I'm really gonna erase you in the face of this planet", Darwin asked without looking at him.
"I can't. You are the beacon of all evils in this planet and your existence is the worst thing that nature has ever done", Stephen replied with a serious tone on his voice.
"You sound like I was born evil. Like I was born Darwin Frost as I am now", He snapped back.
"I never believed you. Not even once. Now you are trying to sound affected so I can let you go? Guess I'm not as stupid as you think I was", Stephen added on.
"Judging by the way you sound. You must have known something about the force field that kept me locked here", Darwin bit his lips and looked straight at him in the eye. His vibe getting stronger and stronger every second.
"How would I know? I don't even know how it all happened", Stephen replied.
"Duh. I forgot how charming you are", Darwin mocked him with his facial expression.
He just ignored him and walked towards the door but a strong forced stopped him on his tracks as Stephen let another word out.
"Stay. Stay as long as I want. And when you stay, tell me everything that you are and what do you want", Stephen's voice sounded like a ghost whisper as it crawled like mist into Darwin's mind. Something that he can't resist and counter.
He threw his hands in the air as he stopped walking away.
"Fine. But what I'm about to tell you is something that will change you forever. I have something that will make you question your existence and everyone you once trusted. Let's see how far can you handle the truth. Let the games of truth begin", Darwin slowly turned to him through his shoulders and gave him a very malicious look.