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Soul Eaters Chapter 78
Johnny stopped eating and looked from her to the food a few times as if trying to figure out what to say. I put my hand on his arm to draw his attention to me. "Answer her, sweetie," I prompted him.I felt slightly guilty for forcing him to interact with her since he so badly didn't want to. The look he gave me did not help that feeling. He nodded really quickly then shoved the rest of the cake in his mouth as if he were afraid someone was going to take it away from him. I gave him a smile to let him know that his answer was perfect even if it wasn't a verbal one."Cynthia, did you grow up here in town?" Craig asked reaching for a plastic covered cupcake. I barely managed to stop myself from jumping at the sound of his voice having forgotten he was there. She pursed her lips together and her green eyes hardened once again. Her stubborn reluctance to answer a simple question was unbelievable. She tried to stare him down and intimidate him. Still, Craig's attention centered on the cup
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Benjamin pumped his fist behind Erin's back and gave me a grateful look. Anger darkened Craig's eyes and told me I was in serious trouble for accepting Erin's offer. The boys came running up excitedly to Benjamin talking at once telling them about all the junk food they had eaten. With the patience only an older sibling would have, he listened to their animated prattle and still manage to make the right noises or comments. Finally, when he mentioned going to the store the boys begged to go with him. They all looked at me with big pleading eyes. Even Erin was addled enough to seem to want to spend some time with my sugar crazed children. "Are you sure about this?" I asked them both. "You know I love hanging out with the kids," Benny insisted. "I'd love to play with them," Erin reassured me. "I haven't seen anyone else in days.""Please, Mom. Please, please, please," Marcus and Johnny begged in tandem. "Alright, alright. Benny, take the boys up and show them where they'll sleep. Boy
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One of the women that we had met earlier raced in front of us holding her hands out to us pleadingly. "Please! Don't kill her. Please!" she begged. "She's my daughter!" Craig immediately lowered his weapon. I let out an odd sigh of relief. I had saved this young girl's life by forcing Craig to hesitate and stand down."Fine!" he growled and kicked the ground in frustration. "You just need to take her and lock her up!" "She was! She got out when I was trying to bath her. She always loved her baths," the woman began to mutter as if she was speaking to herself. "And when I got back, I couldn't find her until-" she choked off and tears fell from her eyes in torrents. "Until…" I promoted gently. Clicking noises echoed throughout the compound. We all stilled and looked around trying to spot it before it came after us. The girl on top of the jungle gym answered back with a loud scream as if she were telling the other one that it had prey. The mother whimpered and began to cry in loud gut
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We held a twilight vigil for the three we had downed that day. With everyone's help, except Gerald who was still whining about the gash on his arm, we had their graves dug and the people properly buried. It was heartbreaking knowing that the world was holding fewer and fewer people these days.We left that graveyard with a newfound sense of comradery. We had all lost someone close and we all had our own demons to fight. Real or in our heads, it is all a battle just the same.The night fell eerily silent after all the commotion of the day. I had just put the boys down and was getting ready to crawl into the bed next to them when a light tapping came on the door. I let out a silent aggravated sound wondering if murder was still illegal as I quietly stomped to the door. "What?!" I whispered harshly jerking it open. Tom was on the other side of the door. He had a serious look on his face that told me he wasn't going to be swayed by my grumpy anger. "I think it's time for you to sit down
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There was whispering around the room that had my gut tightening. Not only did they not believe me, but they were doubting my ability to continue leading. "Look." I clapped my hands to get their attention. Everyone's eyes snapped to me, and I could see the skepticism shining like little beacons of doubt haunting me. "I don't know how this is going to end. But I'd rather try and fail than sit around doing nothing. My husband is one of those creatures and I'll be damned if I let my boys get taken as well. If you don't believe me, then fine! I don't need you to believe me. I'm just asking you think twice before actually killing one of those things in hopes that we can change them back. That's all!" Silence blared through the room again and I didn't know if it was because I got through to them or if it was because they decided it was best not to argue with a crazy person. I didn't know and frankly, I didn't care. With all the excitement from earlier and then this little fun get-togethe
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"Look," I started slowly thinking about each word carefully before I said it. "I don't think this is a good idea. It's a long and dangerous road and as you can tell it's not an easy trip. I don't want any more lives put in danger." "We know it's not gonna be easy. That's why we figured you could use two more sets of eyes and hands to help," Cynthia said being rational. I opened and closed my mouth trying to think of a different excuse. I could think of a million reasons why I didn't want her to come along. She was shady. She was rude. She was so arrogant, thinking she knew everything. She didn't believe that this journey was going to work. On and on the reasons went round and round in my head. But there was not a single reason that didn't apply to someone else in the group as well. "But… umm…" was all that ended up coming out of my mouth instead of a valid excuse. "You already know I'm a good shot. I could be useful. Not to mention if Erin's going then you have no choice. I'm goi
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"So, what do you wanna do, boss?" Craig asked. I raised my eyes at the boss comment but didn't correct him. "Any ideas on a safe place to bed down tonight?" I asked them. Craig opened his mouth then snapped it shut again. He gave a sly look towards Cynthia before he answered. Cynthia looked deep in conversation with Erin and Benjamin, but from her body language I didn't believe for one second that she was ignorant to our conversation. Mouthing the word 'later' both men fell silent and didn't comment on it.Tossing around several ideas we ended up rejecting more than we considered. "What about that?" Gerald piped up in the conversation for the first time. His voice caused me to jump a foot in the air. Last, I had seen he was still sleeping. We had given him a pain pill for the wound on his arm and he had passed out shortly before we had hit the Four Corners. Like a beacon of safety, a large outcropping jutted skyward practically screaming that it was the perfect solution to the si
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He was still too far away for my liking but a quick glance around showed no imminent danger. So, I forced my pent-up breath out and turned to Marcus who had yet to get out. He was sitting quietly looking out across the flat sandy landscape as if he could see something in the darkness that I did not. "What's up, Marcus?" I asked quietly. He didn't budge, didn't answer. It took me a moment to make sure he was still breathing. I reached over and gently shook his shoulder causing him to jump ten feet. If he had been a cat, he would have been on the roof. "Are you okay?" I asked him worriedly. The panic painting his gaze slowly melted. Too, slowly. But the uneasiness and fear did not. I looked over and caught Benny's attention then pointed to where Johnny was still using the brush. Benjamin nodded immediately. I slid in next to Marcus and wrapped my arm his tiny broad shoulders. Sometimes it was easy for me to forget his age. Seven was way too young to act as old as he did. He ha
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Soul Eaters Epilogue
The sunlight shined through the gossamer curtains and hit my face. I awoke gently, blinking several times as my eyes tried to adjust to the light. As the window became clearer and clearer, I couldn't place it. I sat up trying to remember where I was. "Vicki?" said a deep voice from behind me. I turned and behind me were the sleep hazed eyes of my husband. Everything hit me at once and I began to shake. He wrapped me in his arms as he had done every morning since our return. We got back to that tiny shore side town to find Craig, Erin and Marcus had been waiting for us at the edge of the pier. They had greeted us like heroes, and I hadn't been able to stop holding Marcus or checking him over to make sure he was okay. Other than the rope burns he seemed physically okay. There was a haunting look in his eyes, but he refused to talk about what had happened while he had been an Eater. I had been forced to let it go after a while, but not before I made him promise to talk to me when
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I laid the ruby on the ground and brought the solid rock down on it as hard as I could. The ruby shattered instantly and the shockwave from the power being released hurled me back to the ground again. A bolt of light shot to the sky and little lights sped out of it so fast that it looked like one light if you weren't as close to it as I was. Souls. I thought. Souls were being freed. They streamed at light speed towards the sky and as soon as they touched the storm they shot off in all directions. So many souls that the sky began to light up like it was noon instead of almost midnight. The roar of the souls leaving their prison was so loud you could hear it for miles. A loud scream from the circle snapped me out of the hypnotic state that the light show had put me in. She was beating against the field still, but this time it wasn't it anger it was in fear. "Let me out! Let me out! She's gonna kill me! Help! Help!" she screamed frantically. I jumped up to go help her, but Jenevive
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Avamarie gradually stood up and wiped the blood off her mouth as she chuckled weakly. "You're right, Mother. You did teach me to duel, and I never did defeat you," she said softly. I watched her closely my gut telling me she was up to something. My gaze flew between the two women trying to figure out what was happening. Avamarie couldn't be giving up that easily. Jenevive was indeed enormously powerful, but it was becoming obvious that Avamarie was truly quite powerful in her own right. Movement behind Jenevive caught my eye. A large boulder that had come out of the ground began to quiver then slowly float up. I glanced over at Avamarie trying to see how she was doing it. One finger was lifting, but the hand was pressed so tightly to her side that from where Jenevive stood she wouldn't be able to see. "Look out!" I screamed. Jenevive spun around just in time to be plowed over by this boulder. She flew across the clearing until she landed brutally on the ground, bouncing once
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"You had everything inside you to make it here. And look you did," she finished with glee.Her reasoning's were horrifyingly simple, terrifyingly easy. She used me plain and true, and I had made it so easy for her to manipulate me."If you hadn't meant for me to save the world, then why did you give me this stone that would save me and keep me safe?" I asked angrily throwing the shards from the stone at her feet.She bent over slowly and picked them up petting them tenderly as if they were the sweetest flower, she had ever seen. She looked down at them with a strange curiosity that held a tinge of regret in her eyes."I gave it to you so that you could bring it back here. I knew Mother would never give me this stone and it was the last piece I needed to complete the spell. A pure soul for sacrifice," she said softly. Then fury boiled up as she turned it on me. "But you! You, selfish bitch! You couldn't help yourself. You had to use it on every bleeding soul that you came across, didn'
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In anger and disbelief, I confronted her. "NO! You're lying! It is you! You killed your own daughter! You sacrificed her to seal your pact with the Daemon!" I yelled at her. She dropped her head and I nodded at the acknowledgement of her guilt. "You're right. I killed my own daughter," she admitted despondently. I straighten my shoulders feeling justified in my anger. She was trying to mess with me to keep me from my goals. Well, she would have to try harder than that. By the end of the night, I was going to have my children back. "But not for the reason you think," she interrupted my thoughts. "And you have no reason to trust me, but I sacrificed her in hopes that I could save her before she finalized the pact with the Daemon. What I didn't know was that in doing so I, myself finished it. Because I took the last piece of good that was in her and sealed it in a stone known as the Black Star Sapphire." She pulled a necklace from under her dress and showed me a stone that was
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The dusk was approaching harsh and rapidly when I dropped in front of a tree wasted. Panting, thirsty and starving. I was lost and had long ago ran out of will power to keep going. My body itself was refusing to keep walking. I had been coaching the exhausted lump of skin for the last few hours just trying to keep going and now my feet finally gave out on me leaving me sitting against the tree. The little nudge inside of me had grown into a constant tightness of the gut. I knew I was getting close and didn't want to give up. Looking around I tried to spot something anything that looked familiar to me. I pulled up the image that Avamarie had given me in my dream trying to find a clue. The cabin was desolate and run down. The area looked like a million other areas that were in the forest. The only thing that stood out was a few odd wooden wind chimes.Wait… wind chimes. Immediately I closed my eyes and tried to slow my breath so that my pounding heart didn't override every other soun
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We waited until we were far away from the shore before beginning to bombard Gerard with questions. "How did you find us?" Was mine. "Why did you come back?" Benny asked viciously. Gerard raised an eyebrow at him. "You're welcome," he replied sarcastically. "Something told me that you guys needed me. So, I found the nearest non-crushed rig and following the carnage. You guys left a lot of banged up rigs behind." He gave a short chuckle as if he could see the image of the wreckage in his head. "Where is everyone else?" he asked changing the subject abruptly. Benjamin and I looked at each other hoping the other would tell the story not wanting to verbally rehash it. I couldn't think of Marcus laying tied to that bed thrashing around reaching for someone to try an ease the hunger inside of him. Just the thought of not wanting to think of it brought the image to mind and my breath left my body in a whoosh as if I had been struck in the gut. "I left him," I whispered heartbrokenl
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The Eaters let out a scream rocking the walls then went straight for Craig and me. I tucked my head down around Marcus' shoulder waiting for the hands to grab me. Two loud thuds then nothing. My ears were ringing making it hard to hear anything more than the pounding of my heart over them. An eerie silence reached me when my ears finally opened again. Glancing over my shoulder into the room I found Benny standing there staring at us with a smoking gun in his hand. Erin stood next to him gripping his arm tightly and horror darkened both of their gazes. Marcus was making clicking noises in my ear and then I heard a response in my other ear. Panic consumed me as I struggled to get free realizing that Craig had been turned as well. Something slammed into the front door before any of us could make a move to free me. It slammed over and over again until we could all hear the wood on the door splintering. "Get him off her," Benjamin order Erin before booking it out of the room. Erin
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"Let me take Marcus," Craig offered. I gave him a grateful look and traded him. Johnny jumped on me wrapping his little arms around my neck with a strangled grip and I felt the wet rain of his tears. My own silent answer fell from my face as I walked behind Craig watching him carry my screeching Soul Eater son in his arms. I felt like a failure, worse than I had when I thought I had lost the world to this epidemic. I had failed to keep my son's safe and now one had been turned. Benjamin opened the door as he saw us approaching. "Oh shit," he whispered. Erin popped out the door with a smile of greeting until she saw Marcus. "Oh, God! No!" she cried racing towards us. "Stop!" Benjamin demanded grabbing her to keep her away from us. She spun in his arms and hid her face against his chest sobbing. Craig pushed passed them and took Marcus to a little room in the back of the house. "What happened?" Benny demanded. I had to swallow several times before I could speak and even
