Chapter 12: The Untold Story

Linda was doing her best to calm Nina down. "Leave him alone, it's okay."

Nina kept shouting, "This demon needs to die."

Linda put Nina in her room and took my arm and dragged me back down into the kitchen. She sat me down next to Jack and started to wipe my tears. She was trying to make me feel better and giving me that same smile but…

"Don't you hate me? Aren't you mad at me? I wasn't able to protect your child and led her to die."

They looked at each other and looked at me shaking their heads.

"No." Linda said, "It wasn't your fault."

I was so frustrated. I could not understand what she meant by that. There is no way it can not be my fault. There was a small mirror on the counter of the kitchen. I grabbed a hold at the handle and looked at myself. These are not my normal eyes.

"What is this?"

Jack immediately responded, "The eyes of a demon. AKA demon eyes."

I started to remember flashbacks of the demon having this similar glowing eye color and iris pattern with a vertical oval pupil. "So Nina wasn't joking around. I am a true demon."

Jack proclaimed, "Yes." There was a pause as Linda and Jack were situating themselves.

He then asked me, "Do you know why you were sent to the school that you were randomly transferred to?"

I was confused, "They told me the school scouted me out and offered me to come in."

Jack took a deep breath, shaking his head to disagree, "Sixteen years ago, one of the biggest demons was eliminated. Assassinated and killed. He was in the highest ranks. He had two beautiful kids at the time and they were three and ten years old. The demon we killed was named Lykos and his wife, who was supposed to help him, did the bravest thing a human can ever do. We thought she betrayed mankind but we were all shocked by her sacrifice. Before Lykos died, the wife named Mary tried to take her kids and free them from the demons' dirty work. She didn't want her kids to grow up like their father and do more destruction to this world.

I replied, "Sounds like a wonderful mother."

Jack nodded and then continued, "When she fled there was one problem. The ten-year-old was already too cold and brainwashed at that point of age. There was no turning him back and the ten-year-old boy killed his own mother for realizing that the thing she is doing is betraying the demons. He was smart and strong enough to kill her, unfortunately. The ten-year-old ran back to his demon home. Where the demons thrive and get stronger. While leaving the three-year-old on his own. A wise man soon found the three-year-old. He was a dragon and he didn't want to kill the child. The wise man didn't know where this child came from but he noticed something different with this child. He took care of him for years and tried to teach him to take care of himself. Though it only took a few years until the demons found out that he was taking care of the three-year-old. The demons made it their main mission to hunt him and the child. He made sure that the child was safe and will never be found as the demons search to kill him. The dragons were trying their best to save this child. They were the ones to find him first. But the demons found him hidden in the school where the staff kept him. We decided to get him to the school that was the elder's granddaughter as she was the strongest of them all. She served her duty well."

Why did the story sound so familiar? I remember in my past life, an elder teaching me the ways to cook and clean. I remember the school that put me in my own room and locked me in there with books to read, games to play, and tons of healthy snacks and drinks to eat.

I immediately held off everything, "Whoa whoa whoa are you guys talking about me. Am I the three-year-old child!?!" Jack and Linda looked at me in silence.

I then asked, "So if I am the youngest child. I should have a brother. Who is my brother?"

Jack reassured, "Of course you were too young to even understand the world around you."

Linda jumps in, "Which makes us unsure from the beginning about you being that child."

I explained to myself, "Unfortunately, I only remember an elderly taking care of me at a young age though I don't know where he went. He sort of disappeared on me but after hearing that story. I feel… terrible."

Jack exhales, "Now I have no doubt that you are the one and your mother was Mary. Your brother's name is Ryan."

"And Ryan killed my mom."

"Correct."

"Oh my God." I slouched down on my chair

"Please Shadow calm down. It's okay."

When he said that, my frustration just got worse. "How can you say that? She knew I was a demon and still took care of me. She knew one day this would happen and I was attracting death right into her. And she said nothing."

Jack fired back, "You don't understand it was her decision and her duty to stay and protect you."

I fired back at Jack, pissed, and raised my voice, "Then why didn't she tell me? Why didn't Katy just teach me how to use my magic more if I had it inside me all along? Why didn't she just leave me and keep on living her life?"

Jack sighed, "Because… she fell in love with you Shadow. She didn't want to tell you that you were a demon so you don't have to live in that fear that she was living in."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing, this alone made me want to leave the table, "why are you guys talking like Katy's death means nothing to you? She died because of me. Her mission was to protect me and now she is gone." I was not pacing myself correctly. My breathing was almost irregular, and I was completely defeated at this moment. I just sat down on the couch and could not believe how badly losing this one battle could be. One real life battle and my consequences show. That's how I felt.

"Sweetie." Linda walks towards me and kneels in front of me, takes my hands, and puts them together with hers. "She isn't gone, Shadow." She places a finger on my chest where my heart is, "Katy is right there."

That made my heart- I mean Katy's heart to skip a beat. I tried to hold back my tears. I was shaking my head, not wanting this to be true. Wanted this entire nightmare to end. Hoping it is just a nightmare but it's not. Jack tells me, "Stop beating yourself up. It was her decision and her full willingness to do such a task. You don't have to blame yourself."

I could not sit here anymore, hearing this made me sick. I needed fresh air. I wish I could just run away up in the mountains somewhere and never hear another human life ever again. Though my human body is too unfit for the task that I wanted to do. I settled to sit in their backyard and hear the birds chirp. The clouds cover the sun and the scent of the flowers smell refreshing. I sat down near their pool, close to the man-made waterfall. There was a layback chair, so I took a seat myself and laid down. I had to think. A lot of things must've happened when I was gone for a year. What happened to all the students that I was also trying to protect? Where did they all go? How many students have died on that die other than Katy? I needed time to think. What can I do? What should I do?