Monster Academy - The Blood of Humans - Chapter Twenty-Two

Castle of Legends:
Alex stared at Darren's unconscious body, her hand cupping his face. She felt terrible...probaby as terrible as he felt drinking blood she thought. Alex wasn't full siren or even half but the nymphs were closely related to them so some special ones were born with the gift, Alex just had happened to be one of them. She shivered remembering when she had found out what she could do.

It was during class one day when she was around 9, she hadn't ever dreamt of singing, her older sister Rose who had to baby sit her sometimes telling her about her and her siren friends luring men to their death, she was scared something might happen so she never sung, but that day she was told to. So she did with a heavy heart, nearly everyone in the classroom had fallen into a trance, facing towards her with misty eyes. She kept singing but when she saw them, she screamed. Interrupting the sick sweet melody.

They all then were a little foggy, but the music teacher who had actually dealt with these rare cases before looked at Alex gravely, she had taken her to the side and had said she must never sing again. Ever. Saying it was dangerous to possess a gift such as that. So she never did until that day.

Alex's throat felt dry and scratchy, her stomach a pit of butterflies, she wanted to throw up. "Oh Darren.." She ran her fingers down his face."

Small branches could be heard broken off from the side, a groan also heard. "Ugh...what happened?" Diana asked as she stood up walking up being Alex.

"I knocked him out...help me take him back to the dorm." Diana nodded, she was going to ask something else but seeing the look in the fish girl's eyes somehow made her stop, so Diana grabbed his legs and Alex his shoulder. Leaving the body in place, left to be found in morning. It looked absolutely shredded. If Darren was lucky maybe some other animal would take it, Alex shivered at the thought though, thinking of the poor girl. She sighed.

When they got back to the dorm, they layes Darren down on his bed. Diana looking at him one last time. "God this day was messed up" and left with that.

Alex just stared at him, sitting down beside him, running her fingers through his hair. She stayed there for the rest of the night. Only leaving when she knew he was close to consciousness.