Chapter 3: New life...New problems

*Damian's P.O.V*

Everything had calmed down but I didn't…I was still nervous and not to my greatest surprise Laura paid for the surgery there and then and she even decided to stay behind and wait with me and then I actually began to have second thoughts about this relationship there might be a chance that I'll take things serious later on..

"Why didn't you tell me about all these issues?"…she broke the long silence that had been present ever since they rushed my mother into the theatre room

"Well I didn't want to be a liability to you and---"

"Don't say that Damian…you're not a liability…you're the man I love and I'd do anything to make you feel loved and happy…"…little did she know that I didn't exactly feel the same way but I'm sure that if I give it enough time I'd eventually catch feelings although that's not one of the main things I'm faced with at this point in time…Ciara stirred in sleep and finally took my head off from my shoulders…

"In fact let's transfer her to my hospital…I take over things from here and I'll make sure she gets maximum treatment and attention" she suggested and I found absolutely nothing wrong with it…and in a few hours she signed some documents with the hospital and the next thing we were in an ambulance and we were headed towards her hospital and immediately we landed they took my mother in and started doing whatever they could do to save her life and Laura urged me to go home with her to cool off and we did but Ciara decided to stay behind and watch after our mother...….

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I still pondered on this new transformation and my anxiety had already hit the roof most especially the fact that I had no idea on what was going on with me…I now look fine…alright…but then my body has been acting a bit weird…and I guess it's high time I figure out what was going on with me…*ping!!*…my phone notified me and I picked it up…it was a message from an unknown number he sent me numerous photos of dead bodies and then the unknown number began to type and then seconds later…*ping!!*… "Those are your members and their family"…*ping!!*… "We're coming for you next…you're the last one…" and then the number blocked me and then I couldn't even see the messages and neither was it in my gallery…and since it wasn't there I shrugged it off besides...I've been using this phone since middle-school…a lot of viruses have gone in and out of my phone and I literally see a naked woman at the bottom right of my phone screen every day just like I'm seeing right now so I shrugged it off once again and then I decided to sleep...I woke up the next morning and Laura was already dressing up…

"Well I guess I'll be following you on your way out" I said as I got up from the bed…

"What's the problem? Don't you want to stay?"

"I'd love to but you've got work to do and I also have…important things to take care of…" to be honest with myself that unknown number shit has been bugging me no matter how I tried to ward off the thought of it…it always came back and I had to make sure that everything was alright…and I had to make it to the gang underground hideout as soon as possible…she pouted her lips in defeat as my words ate deep into her mind…

"Oh well better get ready I'll be off in like ten or twenty minutes" she blurted out kinda sad though…then I got up and hugged her from behind and she purred in satisfaction and grabbed my arms that were around her waist…

"Don't worry I'll spend all my time with you" I cooed out to her and she smiled and with that I hurriedly freshened up and then I tied my hair into a ponytail and then we moved........

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I had made it to the abandoned house and then gone under to the underground hide out…normally when we knock someone opens up the door and I did but no one was at the other end…I knocked again and again but no one answered I decided to pull the bull by its horns and I barged through the steel door and low and behold all their bodies were lying on the hallway covered up in their blood….I began to get frantic and then I began to feel uneasy because I felt someone's presence and then I turned back only to receive a heavy hit to the chest that sent me to the other side of the hallway…I ignored the splitting pain and stood up immediately and I got another one to the face which made me to stagger back a bit but I recovered quickly to see a figure in black combat pants and black hoodie coming towards me at an insane speed that I found it hard to keep up with…it threw punches at me but I ducked and swerved through all of its attacks but then it kneed my torso grabbed my head under its armpit and pounded my back till I began to vomit blood and then when it was done with me it flung me and I tumbled to a stop…my eyes were heavy and I could taste my blood…I was losing consciousness and real fast...….

"Next time….you choose the type of people you mess with…remember the informant you killed last week? Well sad news…we value our puppets so…."…I heard blades switching and then my heart raced real fast…I groaned in pain as I felt the coldness of the blade pierce through my heart…right now I wasn't scared of dying…ever since I joined this gang after high school due to lack of opportunities…I knew that dying early was my fate…but now what I was scared of was my family…I was the only one who could protect them…I was the father, brother and son at the same time…so I had to stay alive but I was long gone…everything was waning away real fast and then everything turned black…...

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I woke up and everywhere hurt real bad…I was surprised I wasn't dead! I stood up quickly but I's sure that I weighed as heavy as a bag of cement…my head banged real hard and then my stomach grumbled…now wasn't the time to be hungry…I had to survive for my family…I staggered through the hallway and for some reason I couldn't do without imagining drinking the blood that was oozing out from those carcasses…at some meters close to the door my legs gave up and then I fell and some blood was smeared on my face and weakly I licked it off my face…and my tongue mistakenly grazed through my long canines…I became frantic as I got a clue on what has been going on with me for the past few days….sadly there was nothing I could do….I drank all the blood I could take from the floor and I felt like a blade never ran through my heart…I couldn't even see the mark anymore and with that I sped off.....I was running at a very inhuman speed…everything was so slow as I ran…and it felt like I had time in my hands, it was very wonderful…and in no time I was back at the house but the house was empty and it was already midnight but the house was still...empty.. 'Hmm that's strange…Laura should be waiting for me by now…'…I then zoomed off to my house and it was also empty… 'Maybe both of them should be at the hospital…'…I said to myself and in seconds I was at Laura's hospital and it was silent…I walked up to the security post and the guards we're sleeping…I went to wake them up but as I shook them their bodies fell lifelessly to the floor….they were dead!! I quickly rushed inside the hospital…and the first person I saw was Laura well…..she was dead too.....her hand was pointing to the theatre rooms and so were the other dead bodies that's were aligned to create some kind of 'sign' to the theatre room…I wanted to barge into the room where my mom was but…my hand didn't just…it was like I already knew my faith….but I still had some hope left in me.....

*Author's P.O.V*

Damian stood at the entrance dumb founded at the scene he's seeing right now….the whole room was a mess and his sister Ciara was hanging on the wall by a knife by her stomach and his mother…was on the floor beside the bed with her intestines pulled out chopped and arranged in a manner that spelt 'The Hood'…Damian wanted to yell till morning thrashing himself on the floor…crying till dawn but it wasn't going to bring them back neither was it was going to turn the hands of time…he just fell to his knees and cried silently…

"What did I do to deserve all this?" he muttered under his breath as he shook his mother in an attempt to wake her up but to no avail she didn't wake up…then suddenly Ciara coughed out blood and he jolted up and rushed to her side…he ran his shaky hands through her body and she smiled weakly…

"I…I…I tried to stop them…b...b…but they were too strong and---" she coughed out blood again and Damian gently pulled out the knife from her belly and her caught her in his arms and gently laid her on the bed…he covered her stomach and she began to cough continuously…. He pursed his lips as he contemplated on what to do and finally an idea came to his mind and he didn't like it but he just had to…besides it was his only choice if he wanted to save his sister… 'She's the only one I can save even if it means doing it….' And with that he bit his lips hard enough for blood to ooze out swiftly and then...he...…kissed.....Ciara…....