She sits on an old metal fold out chair, her head hung low as she struggles to breathe. Blood and spit drip from her mouth as she looks up at me and smiles through red-stained teeth, half chuckling at the things they were doing to her.

How could someone do such things to a child, she was only eight years old for god's sake.  For a person to tie a child to a chair like that and beat her to submission is a whole different breed of human. I look at her assailants, five strong including their own servant, and I wonder what the hell happened in their lives to give them the ability to cause such harm to someone so young and innocent.

"She won't give in, boss!" One says as he holds her head back by her hair, looking into her bruised and puffy eyes.

"Hmm...she's stronger we thought! Where is the catalyst girl!" Boss says. He takes a taser off a cart beside her and drives it into her leg sending a shock through her body. I can't bear this anymore, watching her convulse from the voltage is killing me inside. The urge to rip them all apart limb from limb is eating away at me with each beating she takes. But they have made it perfectly clear...one move and she dies...so do I. She has become my kin, a large part of my life that I will never let go. If she dies then my purpose here was for nothing.

"Stop it! You sick bastards!" I shout, they only laugh.

"You'll watch your master die today! Then you will die with her." The boss says.

Then a laugh from her interrupts us all. She cackles and whales long and hard. Then she speaks through blood and strained vocals.

"What you don't know is that none of this matters, what you don't know is you are already dead. Starving me was the worst decision you've made yet!" She cackle's again. Then sends me a quick thought.

"You are the best servant a master could ever ask for. You're my brother, you have cared for me and defended me when I needed it the most. But I need to do something now, I need to kill these men. I only hope you can still love me after."

"What are you talking about? I don't understand."

"I am, not what you think I am. I need you to bring me back. At the end, you will know when I'm finished, bring me back, link our minds and bring me back to you!"

"I...don't understand..." I reply, but her focus is no longer with me, it is with the servant who is sharpening her blade beside her, ready to cut the command seals out of her right hand.

Master laughs at her.
"It is time to show you." She says.

Their leader chuckles, "Show us what little girl?"

"What I really am..." She whispers.

"What does she mean?". In the past few weeks she has only been a sweet eight year old girl to me. Although I did find it odd she never went to school and knew more about literature and mathematics than I do. I also found it odd she avoided sunlight like it was the plague and never ate, not one morsel touched her little mouth.

"Bring me back." She says in thought.

I nod at her acknowledging my mission and she gives me that childish grin she always does. I smile nervously back at her.

Her assailants hold down her right arm preparing the operation site. Master lowers her head and closes her eyes.

Her chair begins to shake and clang together, the lights flicker and a low growl erupts from her cynical grin.

"What in the..." The servant says.

The lights flicker out for a few short seconds, the only sound is the clanging of rope on a metal chair. The room comes back to its normal state, but my master is not in "her" normal state.

Blackness is seeping down from the roots of her hair to the tips, her cheeks are filled with black spider web veins and every wound given to her has disappeared. She growls again clenching the sides of the chair. She crushes the chair arms in her palms and slips out of the rope.

" What the hell are you doing?!!" The servant snaps.

"Kill her now!" Their leader says with a look of sheer terror in his eyes.

The servant raises her blade and the rest of the men pull out their pistols. They all attack at once, firing bullet after bullet. But my master had already broken free of her restraints and rose to her feet. Everything seemed to slow down in this moment, as I watch her transform into something inhumane, something from nightmares. Like an unseen force the bullets stop just in front of her and the servant backs up cautiously.

Master opens her eyes slowly, but they aren't her eyes anymore, they are black holes filled with hunger. Her mouth opens to an unusual size, brimming with needle tipped teeth. Her head twitches to the right, and every bullet in the air drops clinking against the cement floor.

There were gasps from everyone in the room except for my master. She laughs in a two toned voice as the lights flicker on and off again repeatedly . Then like a shadow in the night she was gone. The only sounds were death screams, panic, and bodies being torn apart through menacing shrieks.

With each flicker of light another assailant becomes a puddle of blood and body parts on the floor. After the servant is taken and every other man in the room, the lights go back to normal and I see my sweet little master in the middle of the room drenched in blood hovered over the servant. Her mouth was folded over her entire neck sucking the arteries on either side. She mumbles and grunts as she feeds hungrily.

"M-master?" I whisper.

She stops feeding and growls. Her head twitches up causing me to jump back. She shows a toothy grin and the lower half of her face seems to disappear. I swallow back my fear. I need her back before I'm next on the menu.

"Master it's me! Come back!"

She slowly rises to her feet above her dying prey. Her hands have become long black talons dripping with blood, she raises one towards me and shrieks.

"Stop master! Come back to me!" I shout in her mind. I draw my weapon ready for her attack.

Thankfully she stops, she blinks and shakes her head. The color comes back to her eyes and her hair turns back to normal color.

"Master?"

"Yes it's me." She whispers looking around at the carnage she has caused.

I let out a long sigh of relief.

"So.....when were you going to tell me you were a demon?" I ask.

She laughs. "I don't wanna to talk about it ...Wanna go play some vids?"

"Uhhh....k...." I reply, knowing better than to question a blood sucking monster.

And we leave the room.