Savon felt the burning pain of the bullet slam into his chest. Right before that, he felt the marking shift. Already knowing what Jonas was going to do. It almost hurt with how it moved in his skin over his chest so fast.
It was like the world was suddenly very far away and Savon was trapped in his head. Right now he was the voice and the acolyte was in control. Until the wound was healed he couldn't come forward. It had hit his heart and it wasn't completely healed. The wound deadly to a human, but not to the acolyte. Which meant Savon could not be the one in control of the body, it had to be acolyte or they would die.
He let his acolyte take control. Felt its anger and need to kill. Violent, it felt completely violent that this man had tried to kill him. Kill his human part, which wasn't going to happen so long as he resided in this human body. He would simply remove the threat to his existence. Not that he was worried about him actually permanently killing him.
Savon heard Kayla talking to him, trying to talk him down. There was no talking him down from this... single mindedness. He'd get what he was going after. Just in that short amount of time he'd lost a huge volume of blood. He could smell it. Knew it soaked the ground where he'd been laying.
"Savon, don't you'll damage what you have here. What if they kick you out?"
"So?" He said back to her. Clearly didn't give a shit.
"Son, I can't keep you here if you go over there and kill that man. Not if the others want you gone." Drake said.
"What they say doesn't matter to me." Savon jerked from Kayla's grasp and moved forward. The others moved aside looking at him and clearly it was better to get out of his way. They hadn't reached the group yet but they moved. Moved more behind Jonas and to the side. No one else tired to stop him but Kayla and Drake.
"Savon, please don't kill him." Kayla pleaded but he moved forward. She should let him. After all Jonas had shot him. Tried to kill him, however she was worried that if he killed Jonas it would damage so much more than his standing here. It could change something in him. She couldn't let him get a taste for vengeance. Couldn't let the acolyte crave that kind of dominance over others. It wasn't that she cared about Jonas and what happened to him. Just that Savon didn't do it. Not this way.
"He should be dead, how is that not proof! He isn't human. Nothing but a fucking animal. Look at him." Jonas said. Savon stopped just in front of him.
"Worse actually." Savon corrected and controlling the strength that he used he hit Jonas hard across the face. His fist connecting and Jonas stumbled to the side nearly falling. More blood rushed from him nose as it had slowed from Kayla's hit. He may have cracked a couple teeth this time.
'It won't be a smart choice to kill him.'
'Shut up, I want to. I'll enjoy it. To let him live makes us weak. We are no better than him.' He didn't want to listen to his human side. He moved over to Jonas who swung at him. Savon caught his arm and twisted. There was an audible crack as he broke the bone and Jonas let out a sound of pain. It wanted to hurt him, make Jonas suffer.
Savon tossed Jonas to the ground, the group flinched at the sound but didn't move to stop him. Honestly they didn't even know how to stop him. He was just shot and moving like it didn't matter. Jonas got up and moved to the left quickly. With his good hand he pick up a metal pole and stood looking at Savon. Kayla moved in front of Savon putting a hand to his chest. She spoke quietly so that only he could hear.
"This is the human world and you have to play by their rules. You are only as weak as the ones that you kill Lycain." She used the name knowing that this was really more of what he was right now. That his thinking would be that of an acolyte and she went over all that she knew about it. She would use any tool at her disposal to get through to him.
'She is right, humans see strength where acolytes see weakness. Killing him shows that you are no stronger than him to those here. They are human, they would see that you gave in like a mindless animal. You are him.'
Jonas took several steps forward. Savon hooked an arm around Kayla moving her out of the way and caught the pole as he swung. He jerked the pole away from him and swung hard hitting him in the side of his right knee. Jonas went down and Savon jabbed the pole hard against his chest. He didn't quite break skin but it was painful none the less to the man.
'Let me forward I can do it. You need me for this, I can let him live.' He was healed enough now that the wound wouldn't kill Savon if he was in control. Though it would make him physically weaker.
'He doesn't deserve to live, he is weak.' However Savon felt the marking move and his eyes went from bright green to dark in a second. He looked down at Jonas. Savon's chest hurt horribly and he hungered. His acolyte screamed at the injustice of letting this one live, but knew what he said to be true. It took Savon a moment, and he fought the urge to shove the pole down and through the man's chest. He wanted too and the edge started to cut into Jonas's flesh but he stopped.
"I hope you remember that I let you live. I could have killed you several times in the past few minutes. You are a pathetic waste of life. I'd be doing everyone here a service killing you." He said, and pulled the pole away from Jonas's chest. There was a small ring of blood on his shirt from where the metal had finally bit into skin. Savon tossed the pole and it stuck in the ground some distance away.
Everyone stood there and knew the truth of his words. Jonas hadn't stood a chance if Savon really meant to kill him. The casual grace that he used to attack the man said very well that he wasn't using full strength. There was silence as everyone absorbed what had just happened and how lucky they were that Savon could control himself. Clearly he was capable of mercy, no demon was.
He just turned and moved away from the group. His stance ridged and anger in every step. Kayla rushed after him as did Drake. The rest looked at each other. Neil moved forward and grabbed Jonas none to gently and pulled him up.
"You stupid asshole." It was all that he could say to him. Jonas could barely walk with the pain in his knee. He wasn't sure that it wasn't dislocated. Neil pulled him over to the picnic tables. Hannah and a few others came over.
"Set his arm, and check his knee." She said to their medical expert, who nodded but looked at him dispassionately.
"Did you see how he healed? The wound was just gone." Tina said.
"He could have seriously fucked you up worse than he did. Shit I thought he was going to tear you a part piece by piece. Not that you don't deserve it." Louis commented and looked at Jonas like he was nothing. "You nearly committed murder."
"I'm not the one that deserves to die."
"Look buddy," Todd said moving over and grabbing a few items from the med kit. "I've never seen him look that feral, that pissed. He was going to kill you, planned on it. I'll tell you that much. Whatever Kayla said to him clearly changed his mind. Otherwise you'd be a bloody heap on the ground. If he was the monster you say, I doubt that anything would have changed his mind." Todd moved off having said what he wanted.
"After your arm is set, you are on your own. Louis will take you where ever he thinks is good enough and dump you off there. We don't want to see you again. Don't want anything to do with you. You may have just ruined our chances of getting food and shelter for the winter. You tried to kill an innocent man." Hannah said.
"He's not innocent, humans don't heal the way that he did. Don't have his strength, their eyes don't change like that." Jonas defended.
"Us humans are out numbered and we need help from any direction that it comes." Tina said. "For god's sake, he saved several people's lives and you think he's got an ulterior motive?"
"Doesn't matter what he thinks." Louis said. "Savon showed that he can control himself. That he's the better man, fix him up and I'll take him from here." The decision was final, and for once no one questioned whether Savon was or wasn't trustworthy.