Iris stood in the shower for a long time. The water running down her body , she was breathing heavily. She watched as the water washed away the blood from her body.
"Fuck!" She said trying to control her breathing. All she wanted was to take back her bag, but she ended up killing a bunch of butchers and still didn't get the bag back.
"Iris!"
"Iris!" Someone called.
It was Lucy
She must have heard the news.
"I'll be the..." Lucy opened the bathroom.
"What the fuck did you do?!"
"Do? I didn't do a thing", she said wearing her bathrobe. "Don't try to pretend. You killed all those people"
"How sure are you that I did it?" She asked sitting on the bed. "That's same thing you did ten years ago and tried to do to me almost a week ago! Why?" She said her tone raised and she was obviously angry.
"Anyway you look at life, it's not fair", she said getting dressed. " That doesn't explain why you killed all those people "
Iris said nothing. "Why?!"
"Do you want to know why?" Iris said getting annoyed. "I didn't want this. I never wanted it, but when something is forced upon you and you can't fight back no matter how much you tried. It's so frustrating!" She said snarling, her fangs growing. Lucy flinched.
"I've spent five hundred years running and you never asked why they always found me?"
"Why?" She muttered.
"Haven't you realized it? Or are you that dumb? Each time I smelt human blood I go haywire and act like a wild animal "
You are literally a wild animal.
"I was cursed", she said trying to control her anger. "They can manipulate me if they see me. And anytime I ran they found out where I was"
"That means she'd come to Nestle lake?" She asked. "Yes, but you don't need to worry. I'd know if she comes to California "
"She visits my slaves first before she sees me. I just hope you won't be so dumb"
Why's she shouting at me? I'm meant to scold her for killing innocent people but she's here acting like my older sister.
"Slave", she suddenly said dangerously which made Lucy turn sharply to her.
"If you see her... Run"
I don't even know how she looks.
***
Connor sat in a restaurant taking a drink or two when the artist came in. "We keep bumping into each other ", the artist said. Connor nodded.
"Heard the news ", he said sitting opposite him. "Guess you weren't surprised "
"True, I wasn't. I knew that animal would be back even if it hadn't attacked for ten years now ", he said sighing.
Connor clicked his tongue. It came as a surprise and no one had expected it to come back after a long time and most especially to a slaughter house.
"We made sure we searched the woods and it wasn't there. How could it possibly..."
"It had blue eyes..."
"Green " "Dark eyes"
"It had dark hair..."
"What if it was human. Think about it ,those people at Nestle lake said she had different eye colour and dark hair... Just what if ..."
"Cut it out. You seem to be into these kind of stories, it isn't possible ", Connor said putting his glass to his lips.
"You never know ", the artist said and grinned standing to leave. "I'll take my leave, Mr Connor ", he said and turned to leave.
"Why? You just came. Do I bite?"
The artist laughed and shook his head. "You don't bite", he said wanting to walk out then stopped and turned his head to him. "By the way, my name is Celest. You've been trying to get my name", he said and walked out.
Right. Celest.
He stared at the TV, the news was playing.
Twenty four butchers brutally murdered by an unknown beast. This beast has been said to be seen ten years...
"I'd find that animal and end this", he said his hand in a tight fist.
***
"It's going to be epic , trust me, it won't cause a lot of explosion", someone said. The person seemed to be a little too over confident. "Are u sure about this Damion?" Someone else asked. "Yeah", the over confident one answered.
They were in the school science lab during sports. "The explosion would make them think it's a real fire and they would come here", Damion said and the other nodded.
"Let's add a little sodium and potassium", he said as they did it. It started off fine. They mixed it properly and did the needful.
It started as a low flame, causing no harm at all until someone added water. The fire increased and the scared student threw his lab coat on it which ignited the fire and before they knew it the place was on fire.
"Let's get the fuck out of here"
***
"Hope you wouldn't turn into a beast if someone injures", Lucy said and Iris nodded rolling her eyes.
"Sometimes I wonder if I'm the slave and she's the master", Iris muttered sitting at a Connor tying her shoe until someone screamed.
"Fire!"
There was a huge fire coming out of lab room. "This is bad", someone said.
"Help!" Someone screamed in pain from the other room beside the lab.
"Help me!"
***
Lucy sat with Iris drinking. No one said a thing until Lucy asked. "What's wrong? You've kept that scowl for over two hours now" Iris laughed a little.
"I didn't know that. Just didn't expect the fire to be so harsh", she said putting her glass to her mouth.
"But it's a good thing"
"How?" Lucy asked. "School would be closed for the time being", she said and Lucy rolled her eyes. "You're dreaming, right? It's just a fire", she said.
Iris smiled a little. "Just fire? Have you ever heard the story of the werewolf being chased out from the woods due to bush burning?" Lucy shook her head.
"Well that werewolf ended up turning other humans into one", she said and Lucy snorted.
"Is that some kind of movie?"
"When I was just a little fox, your dad hadn't even been born , I used to play with a certain wolf until one day, the woods were on fire..."
She said letting her voice trail. Lucy realized she felt sad even though her eyes didn't show it.
"So... What happened?"
"Nevermind, just forget about it"
A notification popped up on Lucy's phone; Nestle lake high would be closed down for the meantime... .
"Fuck"
"What's that?" Iris asked rubbing her forehead. "School's been closed for the meantime, no specific date", she said feeling rather happy.
Surprisingly happy.
"That's great. We'd spend enough time together, slave", Iris said smiling evily.
Lucy looked sharply at her. Anytime she called her slave, it had a tremendous impact on her.
What does she mean by that?
"I have to run , see you in the evening", she said and left.
Fuck! Alone again.