Monster Academy - The Blood of Humans - Chapter Seventeen

Castle of Legends:
Darren couldn't believe how fast he was running, normally he was not the athletic type, he was normally the Stay-At-Home-Watching-Rick-Grimes sort of type, but he was moving faster then a car.

Trees whizzed by him, animals stopped to stare as he was there the one minute then far off into the distance in another, he'd never felt more free then that moment...and he'd never felt more disgusted with himself. Alex had trusted him and he'd fed off her.

She must hate him for what he did, her screams still echoed Darren's mind...and the taste of blood still lingered on his tongue. He'd loved it, it was like he had been walking in a desert for hours without a single drop of water...and then he had found the oasis of Alex's neck and drunk from her ruby red blood...it was so good, so addictive.

And it had made him want to throw up.

How could vampires live like that? He understood that the blood would keep him alive...but the taste...the feeling of it going down his throat...he had hated every minute of it and yet he hadn't been able to stop himself from drinking it...it was as if he couldn't control his own body.

Darren suddenly realised his breath was becoming hagged with exhaustion, he slowed his pace till he came to a full stop, leaning against a massive dark oak tree. Darren's body felt weak all of a sudden...as if all the energy he had consumed when drinking Alex's blood had been melted away from the sheer task of running so face had left his body with little energy to spare.

He fell to his knees in front of the tree and sobbed silently "Oh god...what am i going to do..."

And suddenly he heard it, a low growling sound coming from the brush.

He slowly turned, his eyes darting along the bushes, it was a deep guttural growl, not human....almost wolflike.

He stared at a random point at the bush, his back pressed firmly against the tree and a cold sweat running down his back as he watched a pair of glowing, yellow eyes open and a lip curl back, revealing a long row of fangs.

"Oh god"

And the werewolf pounced.