my own eyes, they exist,” Vulcan said over the crowd, silencing them.
“Then you must agree with us, Dominus Vulcan, that this is a danger to all of us,” Thonyn said.
“No, I don’t. If there is one lesson I have learned in the past few years, it is that life has a way of adapting itself to survive. You think of this as a bad thing, but what if this is the next step in evolution, what if this was the future?” Vulcan asked him, and Thonyn went blood red at that.
“How did they come into existence?” someone from the crowd asked. Oh crap its slum dog time.
Chax turned to look at me, and I picked up on the clue. I straightened myself and addressed the crowd, “One of my human friends was injured badly in a demon fight. In order to save his life, I fed him my blood and he changed into a half-breed fallen. The rest were the same; only when their lives were in danger did we give them our blood,” I stated. The crowd went quiet, you could drop a needle and hear it fall.
“The deserter!” one yelled.
“More, there is more than one!” Jules yelled behind me.
“You have doomed us all!” another yelled. Okay, here we go, give me your best!
“Humans don’t fight demons!” Thonyn yelled behind me and I turned to look at him.
“Oh, they do. There are humans out there fighting just like all of you. Regardless of the fact that they don’t have our abilities, they are still trying to save this world. Not all humans tuck tail and run away. Mankind’s history is filled with people who went beyond the call of duty. They share the same cause as us!” I yelled at him. How dare he say that?
“They are cowards, they run. We have seen it over and over!” Jules pitched in.
“No they don’t! Tell me why do you serve?” I asked, looking at both of them.
“It is our duty to serve, our penance for our betrayal,” she replied, her face full of disgust.
“So, you do this to get a ticket into Heaven?” I asked, smiling at her. Her face was about to explode, but she didn’t answer me, so I turned to the crowd.
“Do you serve because you want to gain access to Heaven? Or do you serve because you want to, because it is in your heart to?” I challenged them, and silence greeted me. The few eyes that had shown aggression now looked to the earth, shamed at the conclusion of my challenge. They serve themselves, for their own cause. They are not here because their hearts tell them that this is the right thing to do.
“These humans are out there every day, fighting to eliminate the demons, and they do this because they want to. They do this because it was their free willed choice to do it. You speak about honour and love, yet all of you are only doing this for yourselves!” I was pissed off, talk about hypocrites!
“Not all serve for that reason; there are some of us that serve for a peaceful existence, to look at children and know they are safe from demons. To walk on Earth and hear the sounds of the night without the poison of demons, to see love and not lust,” a man’s voice came from behind me. I turned to see who it was, and found Astin and a huge group of his fallen standing behind us.
“Astin, what are you doing here?” Jules asked, but he ignored her and walked up to me with Annabelle at his side.
“Welcome back, hellhound. I see you brought us a present,” he said, greeting me in the fallen way, our hands bracing the arms of the other.
“Is it true, did you create half-breeds with your blood?” Annabelle asked, greeting me as well.
“Yes,” I answered, a little thrown off balance with their greeting. Why were they not going ballistic like the rest? Her eyes lit up with excitement, and she looked at the new fallen standing with us.
“Amon, is that you?” Astin asked, walking over to Amon.
“You know me, wouldn’t miss a fight with the council,” Amon replied and greeted Astin.
“You are
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