24 Monster? (1/2)

Celina was not born in the Dark City, but her father brought her there young, so she never remembered leaving the city.

It wasn't the best, but she led a happy childhood in it, made friends, enjoyed her youth…

But then, the war began, and everything became a nightmare. During the first year of the war, soldiers of Nevaria camped the city, which was under martial law by then.

But even after they left, refugees arrived. Criminality rose, and gangs such as the Red Scorpion Gang appeared. Celina's father, Robert, joined the Red Scorpions and was given a high position because of his strength as a previous mercenary.

That's when her relationship with him started deteriorating. At first the gang wasn't much different from the others, they robbed some people and fought other gangs. But when they became the last remaining gang, after having absorbed all the other ones, the Red Scorpion leader became greedy and wanted the city for himself.

Although she never saw him, Celina still disliked Red Scorpion for what he did. But then there was his father. She knew what he did over the years. The innocents he killed.

She wanted to leave, but she had nowhere to go. She was trapped in this city because of the war. Then, she met Hughes. He was handsome young man with whom she fell in love quickly.

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When her father first learned of their relationship, he was against it. Celina thought it would get better but he began chasing Hughes everytime he saw them together.

So they began seeing each other in secret. And after a year, she wanted to marry him, she knew he was the man of her life. But then, it all crashed down.

The Butcher arrived. He killed Hughes. Then he showed her Hughes real intentions, and her father's mistrust. The anger and disgust she had for her father's actions for the gang only fueled her hatred, and she collaborated with the Butcher.

Until she stood in front of her father, she never had faltered in her belief that her father must die. But when she actually saw him, when she saw his scarred face, her resolve had been shaken.

She then actually hesitated. But she knew she had gone too far, and that if she wanted to live, she needed to kill them. So she crushed the pill.

Unfortunately for her, she never realized she got played, because the moment she crushed the pill, it exploded.

Her body exploded along, body parts flying everywhere. As for Robert, although he was a superhuman, the pill exploded less than ten centimeters away from him.

The explosion sent him, as well as the other two Stingers, flying, injured to different degrees. Before they could even land, the other two Stingers had their throat pierced by a dagger each, dying without even understanding how.

Dorian appeared from the shadows, checking on the corpses. He was surprised to see that Robert was barely clinging to life.

Dorian approached him, and Robert growled ”You… What did you do to her…” Dorian lowered himself next to him, and broke his neck.

He didn't want to talk to him. Because he was already feeling guilty enough. Dorian saw the multiple green glows from Robert's body, but he didn't pick any. Dorian had a bottom limit, and the other two Stingers would be good enough.

Dorian still sprayed some of Robert's blood on his robe, until the evolution requirement turned to two.

He then went for the two other corpses, and did the same with their blood, turning the requirement to four.

He looked back at the explosion's origin. He had gone too far. Dorian felt the regret overwhelm him. Dorian looked away, but images of Celina's body exploding kept flashing in.

When he first killed, he didn't feel anything.

When he decided to use her, he didn't feel much.

When he made the plan, he didn't feel anything.

When he created the pill, he didn't feel anything.

When he gave it to her, he didn't feel anything.

But when he saw Robert's panic-stricken appearance, when he saw the two hug, and when he heard Celina's sorry, he felt it. The pain. He didn't know where it came from, regret? Pity? Self-hatred?

He didn't know, all he knew, was that by each passing moment, he felt pain.

He didn't even have the heart to loot the two other Stingers in the end, he just left.

He wanted the night to pass. At a moment, he thought about using Celina's house for the night. And the pain got ten times worse.

He sat straight in the snow, and tried to meditate, but he couldn't. The images of Celina's face, her exploding body wouldn't disappear, and he couldn't calm his mind.

So he tried to sleep. But he couldn't close his eyes.

He buried his face in the snow, and that actually seemed to work in cooling down his mind. He once again tried to meditate, and the pain seemed to slowly go away.

Dorian kept meditating until he couldn't feel the pain anymore, and finally opened his eyes. The sun had risen. The rooster was crying. And the pain came back.

But this time, it was different. It didn't get worse with time, it just sat there, at the back of his mind, and everytime he was about to forget it, it would stab his heart, reminding him of it.