Chapter 5: Damien on the run

Peter Pan was the one and only family pet, they've had him for almost as long as they've had Damien and Cecile the two picked the cat out themselves. Years ago when they were young the two kids were two very hyperactive children, Damien was always running around the house wearing a cape pretending to be superman as he tried to save his father's coffee mug from falling off the counter top emphasis on tried. Cecile was a sneaky little brat disappearing from plain sight scaring the crap out of mom and dad tying her black hair in uneven and very curly knots she loved to do that, there is no telling why she stopped doing that after a few years, she never actually tied her hair back again, she barely let it grow out she keeps it as low as her ears. Their parents had a struggle keeping their children contained, Rebecca their mom did not like and could not stop Damien from running around the house breaking everything except his dads coffee mug. She also did not like her little sneaky daughter running through the house literally or figuratively, and stealing every hair tie and rubber band she could find, to stop their children from destroying the house they decided to try and get a pet for them to play with and spend their time with. After taking them to the pet store down the road the pet store that closed down for a random reason and never opened up again, the kids looked around for a pet they liked, Cecile wanted a lizard and Damien wanted a monkey, as a sidekick. After not seeing what they wanted they wanted to go home until they looked in the corner and saw a gumball machine, they turned around and begged their parents for quarters but they didn't have any, but the children heard the sound of a coin hitting the floor looking around from where it came from they saw a single little cage with a little black kitten with a quarter to the left of it while it was playing with another one, he slid the coin around the floor back and forth the children looked at it and adored it with its little green eyes. It stopped playing with the quarter and looked up at the children then looked down at its two toy quarters then looked back up at the children, and slid the quarters out from under its cage and to the childrens feet. They both at that moment decided what pet they wanted, they purchased the cat and went home with two calm children and a loving cat in the back seat with them. As soon as they got home the children cleaned up the whole house and made sure that the cat could not be injured inside the house, ever since then their cat has always loved them, whenever they came home from school their cat was always there to greet them with joy, whenever they were sick the cat would keep watch over them, from a safe distance, when they went to sleep the cat would help put one to sleep and then put the other one to sleep and then kept guard of the upstairs area for the whole night, and whenever one of the children would begin to cry the cat would come to them and dry their tears with fur and sit with them in their time of need, and thus they named him after the Disney character from their favorite Robin Williams film.

Damien runs through bushes and trees and runs over fences and through yards of every single house in front of the trail of smoke. There is no other sound he can hear besides sirens, fire, and running fire hoses, he runs like he is in a horror movie being chased through the woods except the monsters are the police and other people. He continued to run until he reached the starlight tower he hid in the tower while the police continued to run around searching for him until he heard barks from a ways away, they were using tracking hounds. With his cent being all over the bodies of police officers it would not be long until they picked up his trail he knew he needed to run as quickly as he could but as far from the police as he could but they were everywhere on the ground and he believed that he could hear footsteps coming up the stairs. He tried to think as fast as he could, short on options he went to the edge of the tower and leaped from the wall into the tree, probably not the best idea considering the sound of rattling leaves and breaking branches attracted the attention of the officers on the ground. Without thinking they started to shoot three shots into the tree, one of the bullets scratched Damiens arm once again in pain Volkar revealed himself once again and looked down,

"So many mortals with strength, such a feast." Volkar said quietly,

"No wait there's to many of them we'll be shot and killed." Damien replied.

"We? Since when did you and I become we? Never mind you are correct while this feast will fuel me for weeks now is not the time to be revealed."

"What do you mean, revealed?" Damien questioned but he was shut out by Volkar climbing to the top of the tree setting it on fire, and jumping to the next one and swinging down to grab one of the officers holding him up and chomping into his neck ripping out his throat. Sadly the officer is still alive to endure this pain but barely, he then purposefully joking himself with the chunk of neck he ripped out and throwing up on the officer to cover him with his cent and saliva that will slowly melt his flesh away and then evaporate, he climbed to the top of the next tree and threw the officer in one direction and ran in the next hoping to confuse the hounds with the officer covered in his sent. He quickly lost the police officers while also losing Volkar thanks to his skill of quickly warming up to the pain he then finally reached his burning house or what's left of his house. He is searching from a safe distance for his family then he finally finds them but before he tries to run to them he saw his mother and father comforting each other while Cecile is in tears and holding something she turned slightly in Damiens direction but still enough for him to see what she was holding, she was holding the body of peter pan. He is in such shock he doesn't even speak as he falls to the ground in tears realizing it was his fault nonetheless he is still in great pain from the loss of his loved cat, so as was expected Volkar quickly took over.

"I don't care what you do now it's to painful I can't stop you."

"And yet I still cannot attack your family members, it's still not enough but it will be soon."

"I don't know what your saying but I don't care, why does it hurt so much."

"I couldn't tell you, i still don't understand how you mortals work but I know how you feel, there's a reason I feed off of pain, I know it the best but don't worry it will be over soon"

"Will it hurt anymore?"

"Only a little but nothing lasts forever, who knows maybe if you accept it then my rein will be over soon, proving that nothing lasts forever."

"I'll accept it just promise me you won't hurt Angelina please promise me, Volkar? Volkar!" without answering to Damien he ran off heading for downtown, towards the large building, towards hundreds of people, hundreds of snacks.

Angelina sits on her bed thinking about the choice she made to leave Damien, holding the necklace he gave her all those years ago still being in good shape as she remembers everything they did together she begins to shed tears for him until she looked out her window in the direction of Damiens home and sees smoke, she turns on the news and sees and hears the news anchor reporting not just a fire of Damiens house but they also report bodies of many officers found on the street and in a small path leading to what's left of Damiens house and Damien is still on the loose and is considered a threat to everyone in the area, and there are reports of people seeing what appears to be some sort of human animal heading downtown. Angelina slowly starts to believe what Damien said but she is still upset about how much Damien has changed but she doesn't care because she still loves him no matter what demon is possessing him Damien is still in there and she can get him out.

She knows that there is no way in heaven or hell that she would convince her parents to drive her towards the fire so low on options she runs out the back door and sprints towards his house it was within walking distance from her house, and once she gets to his house she is very out of breath and while she's catching her breath she sees Cecile in tears holding the body of peter pan.

"Oh my god I'm so sorry." said Angelina with little breath,

"It wasn't his fault, why can't I accept that, he didn't start the fire on purpose why is it so hard to accept?" Cecile asks in tears.

"I honestly don't know I'm still sorry."

"It's ok, before this is over we're going to bury him, I know Damien is in trouble but peter pan deserves a funeral."

"I agree but it should be over quickly there's still no telling how many people he could kill while he is still out there."

"Please let this be over soon, please let no more lives be taken."

Not long after the fire was put out, Cecile, her parents, and Angelina were at a pet cemetery dressed in black with a neat clean and redwood coffin with peter pan resting in it, as they buried him the soil around him was watered with the tears of Cecile and Angelina, the tombstone set up above him read:

Here lies peter pan there is no way to describe how meaningful he was to our family only that he was named after a character who never grew old, and while he did grow old he did bring never ending joy to all who loved him.

And Damien wasn't even there to see him one last time or say goodbye.

"Let's finish this, and get Damien back, for peter." says Cecile cleaning her tears as her and Angelina looked towards the town still not knowing where to go or what to do all they knew is they have to get Damien back and they have to make Volkar leave, or die.