Risen (Page 17)

Blood.

Before she could even reason with herself or think about what she was about to do she extended her long pointy tongue and lapped up the mosquito sucking out the drops of blood that remained in its body. The taste was like heaven to her yet she couldn’t understand why she was doing this. She’d never eaten bugs before or anything bloody. Blood and guts had always creeped her out yet now she was finding herself wanting more. This mosquito only wetted her appetite for what she was craving.

Feeling weird about what had just happened, Sarah stood up and started pacing back and forth trying to make sense of everything. She had no idea what was happening to her or why it was happening to her. All she could do was replay the events of the past day over and over in her head. None of it was making sense.

Then, a loud noise came from behind her. She quickly turned to see a broken beer bottle smashed at her feet.

“You ok?” a voice came yelling.

“She’s fine!” another voice yelled.

“Uh, yes,” Sarah said, looking down at the shards of glass that just missed her feet and legs.

As she stood there waiting to see who had done that. She heard the voices grow louder and louder. In the distance she saw a pack of five guys in football jerseys walking towards her with beer bottles in their hands yelling and chanting.

“Who won the game?”

“We did!”

“Who’s going to win states?”

“We are!”

The team members kept chanting as they approached Sarah.

“Hi,” one guy said as they reached her.

“Hi?” Sarah said, with a questioning voice.

“Did we hit you with that glass?” he asked.

“Nope. Just missed me though. You should watch out next time.”

“Relax woman! Why you go to be so hostile?” another guy asked in a macho voice.

“Yeah, why you such a freak anyway?” another guy said. “Just chillax. A bottle aint’ gonna kill ya.”

“Um, excuse me. I’m not sure why you’re talking to me like this?” Sarah said, trying to hold her ground after being attacked.

“This girl is psycho!” another guy said.

“I didn’t do anything. You’re the one that threw a bottle at me for no reason,” Sarah said. “Just leave me alone.”

“We aint goin’ nowhere,” another guy said. “The only way you’re gonna get rid of us is to kill us and I know you aint’ gonna do that!”

Sarah let out a little laugh and then thought about it for a minute. She began to worry that these guys might be up to no good and could possible rape or kill her. After all, she was alone in the back of her dormitory in a dark secluded spot on campus. If they did attack her nobody would even hear her.

“AHHH. SHIT!” one of the guys said. “MY F-ING FOOT!”

Rachel looked down and saw that he’d stepped on the glass that he threw at her and now he was holding his foot jumping up and down in pain.

“Serves you right!” Sarah said, with a sneer.

“What did you say woman?” the guy asked.

“SERVES YOU RIGHT!” she answered with no fear.

Then, she saw it. A red stream of blood started oozing out of his foot and onto his hands and finally dripping into a pool of blood on the ground.

“Look what you did you moron,” the guy said to his friend. “Now I’m not going to be able to play tomorrow.”

The smell of the blood was dominating her senses and it was all she could think about. It took everything she had not to start licking the pools of blood up off the ground. She couldn’t focus or concentrate on anything except the blood and knew she had to have it.

Inside her mouth she felt fangs begin to grow out of her gums and she felt her tongue begin to extend again out of her mouth. He eyes grew big and bright and illuminated the night sky.

“What’s happening to this girl?” one guy said, as he watched her morph into this other being.

Her eyes turned yellow as she focused in on the guys foot. Her hands began to shake and her talons extended out of her fingers. She felt something happening on her back and placed her hands back there as two giant wings extended and began flapping uncontrollably.

“What the hell is happening!” one guy asked.

“I have no idea!” another said. “Hurry! We have to get out of here!”

Suddenly the four guys started backing up, still staring at Sarah who was changing quickly into a vampire. They couldn’t seem to take their eyes off of her but knew they had to run away.

“Guys! I can’t move. My foot is paralyzed. I think I cut the nerve,” the guy said, whose foot was now bleeding uncontrollably.

She zeroed in and before she knew it she had snatched the guy up in her arms and started flying with him into the air above the other four guys.

“What are you doing? Give him back!” the guys started yelling up at her.

She couldn’t answer because all she was focused on doing was sucking his blood. She first started by hanging him upside down by his feet as he screamed for his survival.

“Please don’t. Please. I’ll do anything,” the guy said as Sarah started licking the blood of his feet and legs.

A second later, she flipped him right side up as they hovered in the sky and started sucking his fingers that were full of blood. Then, she chomped down on one of his fingers and with her giant fangs, bit it off of his hand and started chewing it.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” the guy cried. “She ate my finger. SHIT!”

The blood started pulsing out of his finger and she continued to bite off all ten of his fingers sucking the blood from each and discarding the bones.

“HOLY HELL!” the guys yelled down from below.

Sarah started to feel rocks hitting her body and looked down distracted from her first feed. She saw the four guys throwing rocks and sticks up at her to get her to stop.

“You’re next!” she yelled down. Then, she opened her hand and cast down a large net that trapped the guys below her.

“What are you doing? They yelled. “Where did you get that net?”

“Don’t ask question now. Even if you had the answers they wouldn’t be useful once you are dead,” Sarah said with a cackle.

She saw one guy take out his cell phone and begin to dial. She pointed her finger down at him and struck him with a lightning bolt. The phone jumped out of his hand and shattered into a thousand pieces.

“This is it!” another guy said.

“We’re doomed!”