Nightmares

Why would you go out in the woods, don't you know how dangerous it could be if you go out there? Lisa said cleaning her hands on a cloth.

I....I don't know how I got out.

How I'm I supposed to believe that? Your bones are in place, not a single scratch from anywhere if at all you were dragged outside, how do you explain that?

Dracel searched for saliva in her mouth with her tongue but there was no way she was salivating, her whole system seemed dried like she would die from dehydration.

Water, she asked stretching her hand.

Five of my men were found dead and there's no cause of their death apart from their skin been ripped out of their body, now we can't tell if it's an animal attack or something, and you going into the woods....are you trying to escape or what? Do I look like I bite? She shouted in fury.

Dracel dropped her hand as she could see Lisa wasn't paying attention to her, her damp hair were all over her face as she looked at the floor, the dryness she felt within her was like that of fire tornado reaching out to her brain and she couldn't help but feel weak. Lisa kept on talking but Dracel could not listen anymore, she started hearing a call from within, the voice kept calling her name and it sounded like little echoes in her ears. As she listened to the source of the call her undying thirst started calming down and unusual fast breath became normal but her eyes started burning, she scratched her eyes with the back of her palm but it worsened, meanwhile Lisa was still venting out her frustration, Dracel stretched out her hand again but this time another vision flashed before her eyes as she saw people coming after her.

Was it not water you wanted, Lisa said dropping a bowl of water at Dracel's front as it splashed on the ground, drink to your full, she said and walked out.

Dracel couldn't tear anytime she felt pain and that wasn't a new thing to her, right from her birth a tear had never fell from her eyes which everyone found abnormal, had she been a normal child from birth things would have been more easy for her.

Hello cry baby, a voice ringed from her head.

Who .. who's that, she said in sudden fright.

It's me.... You know who I am

I don't know you, why are you sounding from my head? She said looking around.

It laughed and continued, I'm that you that wants to be free, I'm that you that was born out of chaos, I am that you that hungers as much as you, I am you Dracel, we can't run away from each other.

Will you stop quoting lines and tell your name, I've been confused enough for the past few days, don't make me go crazy!

It sighed, you can't lie to yourself Dracel, you feel me, you know me and I'm in you, I'm your darkness, your chaos Dracel, I'm that part of you that crave for every human blood that flies past your nostril, I am you.

Immediately pictures flashed past her eyes, from the incident of the slaughtering of soldiers down to the missing men in the camp. She broke down immediately, her whole body trembled as she was in great shock, how could she not realize it has been her all along, how would Lisa feel if she knew she was responsible for the death of the men.

No...no that wasn't me, it can't be me, I'll never do that, while she was in denial, the memories came flushing down her head, from when she sucked life off the soldiers, the thunder strike, the deep slumber and a call from within that woke her up, the time she passed out (which she didn't) and took the lives of the missing men.

Now you don't need a seer to tell you any of these, you know fully well that you did them, you can't run away from it, the thirst would keep coming and coming, you can't help it....

Stop! Stop it! you're saying nonsense! how can you say such a thing whereby in my own conscious state I won't dare to think of such!

As pure as your heart is myself, we can't run from each other, I would only come up to do your task if you freak out and faint, I can't watch me die Dracel, I can't let us die, it said with a scornful laugh.

Don't worry my dear, soon, soon you would get a taste of it yourself, I won't have to take control, you'll feel it yourself.

Feel what! What are you talking about! She yelled.

And who are you talking to? Roddico said walking in, who is here with you? He said drawing out his dagger.

No one, I wasn't talking to anyone, she said adjusting herself, but fear was visible in her expression.

You were talking to someone and I heard you from the door, who are you talking to! Are you a snitch! What's your mission! Who sent you here!

No one! Dracel shouted fuming in anger.

You've got some gut's girl, he said in surprise at her reaction, you dare shout at me?

It's no one! I said it's no one! You all are messing with me, messing with my head, telling me things and making me feel like I'm crazy, why in heaven would you still keep me here!

Is she a psychopath, Dracel heard him say in his heart. Apart from seeing visions of the future, she could hear the thoughts of every man in their heart and it was audible as their voice.

Who in the world, where you talking to? He asked and this time he was looking around and Dracel could read his mind that his next move would not be of any good.

No one, just an imaginary friend, she said clenching her fist by her side, she was inhaling deeply and the veins on her neck were popping like they were been stressed and would run out of her skin in no time.

An imaginary friend it should be, my eyes are on you, I knew from the day you came you were going to bring badluck, I have my eyes on you, he said and left.

Dracel breath in deeply and continued inhaling and exhaling to calm her nerves, her hands were shaky and so we're her breath.

Nice try Dracel, the voice came up again, you can try but it won't last long, it will only make you weak, drain you and make you go wild, a bite can save the day, it said slowly.

What...what have you done to me, what are you doing to me, she cried in between her teeth. Slowly she fell into darkness again passing out to meet another mental trauma.

For what seem like a sleep, she saw herself walking on a dry desert, immediately the dessert sand stated swirling round till it became a tornado. It came after her and she took to her heels with screams escaping her mouth, bit unluckily for her she got caught up in the tornado and was chocking in the sand, after few minutes of struggle everything went back to normal, dropping her on the ground like a log of wood.

She coughed badly and held her neck, she looked at the environment and saw she was no longer in the dessert, she was now in a basement, she looked at her front and saw a cage tied with chain. She walked towards it as it called on her, she became hypnotized as it called sweetly on her, as she got to the cage she saw a clear picture of a man, but he was all covered in black apart from his eyes, they were blood red and when they locked eyes, Dracel could sense it's pain, agony, sorrow, hate, revenge and many negative energy around it.

The time is now, he said softly, let me take it from here, he stretched out his hand and touched her chin.

Take it from here? What do you mean?

Give me your soul, he said as he started sucking energy from her with his hand on her chin.

Please, she cried and groaned in pain, I have ... I have not known myself, she said and a tear fell from her eyes and he withdrew his hand.

She fell down to the ground weak and exhausted but ended up bouncing into reality.

Do you always sleep like you're dead?