I received the coordinates last night saying to come to the old town square.

I left Crystal at the house. Very rare does a human female get attacked by a marrius.

Lucky!

I walk past the garden area and up to the fountain. Lights are changing the color of the water from green, blue, purple, red, yellow, and then back to green.

I have the ring on my finger.

"John I don't like this." Jezebel says from inside it.

"Neither do I, but I must have information." I say looking at her. "My questions need to be answered."

The ring starts to vibrate and all the lights in the city go out.

I raise my hand and produce a small blue orb of light around it.

I see a girl walk into the light.

Tall, slimming, brown hair, developed a bit too well, and dark blue hazelish eyes, and looks to be around my age. And cute, very cute.

"Well I'm here."

She smiles and says in a sweet tone, "I see."

The voice of hers would put angels to shame!

"So tell me, what's this about and when will I see your queen?"

She holds out her hand.

"Give me your ring first."

"What if I don't."

I see a couple more girls step into the light.

"We would have to kill you." She says, then she struts to me, " but you see, we like you. I mean you're just too perfect. I thought I'd never see a man I would fall in love with." She places a hand on my face and she looks at me with a glisten in her eye. Any other man would have probably fainted on the spot. I just stare at her in shock. "I'm just glad you're a fighter." She finishes.

"So am I," says the second. She is shorter than the first. She is a bit less developed, but truthfully I don't care. She has blonde hair, and green eyes, and looks to be about eighteen.

"You're not like those cowardly men I've faced before. I think you're my dream."

I turn to the third who looks taller than the second yet shorter than the first. He looks to be about my age too. Shorter than me, the first one is the closest one to my height. She's about the same to the second one except she has black hair and hazel eyes.

She brushes my cheek and then kisses it.

"Mmmm, and the sweetest I've tasted." She says. "Why not come with us to a hotel to get..." she leans in closer and whispers, "more acquainted."

"No, I just want some answers."

"He is a fighter!" The blonde says.

"We'll just have to invite more friends won't we?" The black hair says.

"Oh wait," the oldest one, and the closest to me, says, "they're already here."

I shoot the orb up and it lights about thirty yards of the area. I'm shocked. There's at least two hundred girls here and they're all wanting to crowd me.

Oh no.

The three grab onto me all of a sudden and push me back onto the grass. They are on top of me either holding me down or hugging me. I hope it's holding me down.

"By the way. I'm Ayrlissa." The burnet says.

"I'm Rose." The blonde sighs.

"I'm Ruby."

"H-Hi." I say nervously. "I'm-"

"Johnathan." Ayrlissa sighs.

I think she likes me the most and it's probably gonna kill me.

I try to get up but they have me pinned down.

Why me?" I mummer.

"Because, you were the strongest. The only one who was strong enough to survive." Ayrlissa says. "You have more power than imagined!"

"What do you mean?"

"Well I could tell you," she says seductively, "if we met at a hotel. We might let something slip.

I start to get up with them still clinging to me.

"No." I say. "Please just answers."

"Aww. Pwease." Ruby wines. " You won't be sorry."

She moves a bit closer.

I don't know what I should do. Things are going from bad to worse. I can't hit girls. Marrius in their attacking stage but now? NO!

I get them angry I might not stop them all. What did they say about more power than imagined? Well lets see what I can learn in one night.

"I think I might join you."

"Really?!" They gasp in amassment.

"But first tell me what I want to know." I then say gently. "Then we'll have fun."

"Anything!" They smile. Ayrlissa smiles the brightest.

"Tell me about my powers." I say. "How they work and how I can control them."

"Simple! First about what we meant when we said ' your more powerful than imagined'. Yeah, you're practically a power house!" Ayrlissa says.

"Yeah. And how you can control them. It's all about emotions. If your mad, and I'm talking about P.O.ed, you have more power than anything! How you control your emotions is how you control your powers. Simple huh?" Rose says.

"And how you can make them work. You have to feel the energy. You have to feel where you want it to go and what you want it to do. Like that small orb of light. It's just a minor sample of what you can really do!"

I look at my hand.

"So what else can I do?"

"You can make things levitate, kill anything with a beam, you can fly! You can do anything!"

I smile thinking of the endless possibilities.

"Anything?" I ask. "Hypothetically, I can kill all of you without trying?"

"Yes," Ayrlissa says. "Anything and anyone. But be careful. You need energy to use these powers. But maybe you might just be the guy who can over come that."

I look at my hand then close it.

"Are there any other facilities?"

"No. But there is a secret." Rose says.

She hands me a slip of paper.

"That's the formula that made you what you are right now."

"What are you saying? I'm not human?"

"You're like us." Ayrlissa says. "You look like a human but you're totally different. You're an experiment. And we don't mean like the ones that are for little scientists who hate to get down and dirty. You came from those who were playing with some very dangerous stuff. The immortality doesn't come from that ring you posses, though it does contain a certain power. It came from the liquid that you were submersed in that status tube. Enjoy it. You're more advanced than any human! You're more advanced than human race! You're just like us. So close to being exactly like us."

I look at the many numbers and symbols on the paper and then I put it in my pocket.

"I will do what I must then."

"What do you mean?" Ruby asks.

"I must send you three away for right now."

"What for?" Ayrlissa asks.

"Something you don't want to see."

Ayrlissa gets it then walks up to me.

"Don't you like us?"

I stare into her longing eyes. It feels like I'm being sucked into her grasp but mine only return sympathy.

"I never said I didn't. But you may stay if you really wish to. But I warn you it won't be pretty."

I can see her eyes flash with a want. But I see something else. Like she isn't just and ordinary marrius. In fact I think she's like me. Attached to them some how but really hates them. She is a marrius, but isn't affected to stealing the souls of men for a living. She wants to live like a human but in the very same way she can't.

"Rose and Ruby you have to go." I say but I'm still locked on Ayrlissa's eyes.

Some how I just can't pull away from them.

"But what about-"

"That will come later on. I promise."

They look hurt but accept it. And they leave.

I turn to the other two hundred marrius and then look at Ayrlissa.

"Ready?"

"Do it. I hate them anyway."

"You hate it all?"

"Yes. So just kill them."

I turn back to the two hundred. "As you wish."

They seem to get what's going on and they change forms.

"We have a traitor amongst us!" One hisses.

They look like their going to jump on her and rip her limb from limb.

"And if you dare wish to touch her you're gonna have to kill me!" I shout at them.

"Silence weak human!" They snap.

I'm, surprisingly, insulted by the 'human' a bit.

"I'm not human." I growl.

They start to charge.

I channel a power into my right hand. As my adrenaline starts to pump and my anger rises I can feel the power increasing.

They look at me and start charging faster.

"Uh, John? Let it out now." Ayrlissa says.

I wait. With my adrenaline pumping faster and my anger rising faster I plan on making them dust.

They are five feet to us.

"JOHN!" Ayrlissa screams.

One lunges out at me and that's when I fire it.

A huge blue beam shoots from my hand and the blast hits them all dead center. I keep it going until Ayrlissa shouts, "JOHN THEY'RE GONE! STOP!!"

I let it stop and it vanishes instantly. I look a head of me expecting to see two hundred dead bodies on the ground but there's nothing there! Not even a speck of dust. I look at my hand in awe.

"I've never felt so much intense power." Ayrlissa says. "Let alone see someone produce a wave of energy as powerful as that!"

I look at her and she looks at me.

"Come with me if you don't have a place to stay."

She steps closer to me and places a hand on my chest touching the collar of my shirt.

"Thank you for ending that for me. I was beginning to think I'd never get out of that life style."

She leans up and kisses me. She pulls back and looks at me with the same longing eyes as before. I look down at her and she suddenly wraps her arms around me, and places her head on my chest with her eyes closed and tears trickling her face. I can only put my arms around her. All the while my ring is vibrating like mad. But I don't care. For once I don't think I will kill every marrius I see.

We go to my green Ford F-150 and we get in.

"Where would you like to go?"

"Let's get something to eat." She says. "You won't mind if I call it a date?"

I smile. "Nice try."

She smiles sweetly. "A girl can only try."

I start the truck and drive away from the town square.

We are going down a main street when my phone goes off.

I pull it out and see that it'sCrystal.

I flip it open. "Hello?"

"John?"

"Yes."

"Where are you?"

"I'm about to get something to eat. You want something?"

"No I made something here but I would have made more if I'd known you were hungry."

"It's okay. I'm just gonna grab something to eat and then come back."

"Okay." She sighs. "See you then."

"Okay." I sigh. "Bye."

"Bye."

I hear a click then I hang up.

"Ooh John, are you cheating on me?" Ayrlissa teases.

I smile.

"Now why would I do that to someone who isn't even my date?"

She chuckles.

"You wouldn't," she smiles. "But some how I think something might change."

"You sound certain."

"I am," she says. Then after a bit she gets a worried look on her face. "John please take off the ring."

I look at her.

"What?"

"Take off the ring," she says. "Now!!"

At that moment I feel a pain shoot throughout my body. Some things killing me on the inside. And I can't figure who or even what!

The truck starts to swerve a bit.

"John!" Ayrlissa shouts.

The truck swerves into a ditch, glass shatters and cut me in my head and also stab into me. The ring slides off my finger and the death pain leaves my body in an instant.

I look over at Ayrlissa and she's okay but knocked out.

"Ayrlissa." I say.

No reply.

"Ayrlissa!"

Still no reply.

I reach over and undo her seatbelt and I also undo mine. She falls into my arms and I try to open a door.

I finally get it open and we fall out of the truck. My back hits the grass but I use myself to help block Ayrlissa's fall.

Once we hit the ground she wakes up and looks at me. She sees the many cuts and stabs in my face and torso.

"John. Are you okay?"

I'm breathing hard from the pain but I will enough energy to reply. "Yes. Are you?"

She places her head on my chest and she blacks out once more.

I lay there and several cars pull over on the shoulder and a driver comes and helps us up.

"You okay?" He asks me.

"Yeah. Yeah I'm fine."

"Oh my gosh it's John!" He shouts to his companion.

I look up at him confused. "You- know me?"

He looks a little sheepish. "You could say that," he says. "I made fun of you."

I look at him.

"It's me John... I'm Cameron."

"From high school?"

He nods. He looks at me. "But you need help. Come on and I'll give you a hand."

"Thank you."

I look over at Ayrlissa and see that she's unharmed except for a hit on the head, but no cuts or blood.

Good. She's unharmed and well, but what did the ring do to me...

I think about that in the moments that I'm heading to the car Cameron owns. As we walk up to it I see a girl in the passenger seat. He signals her to open the back door. She gets out and opens the door.

"Cameron, where are you taking me?" I ask.

"To the hospital," he tells me, "you need help."

I slip out from his grip. And step back a few feet. I look over to see the man, who came with Cameron, helping Ayrlissa, stop and look over at me. I look back at Cameron and see him staring at me surprised.

"No thanks Cameron."

"What do you mean."

"I mean, I don't need to go to the hospital. I'm fine walking to my house and helping my companion there as well."

"John that crash must have done something to your head."

I shake my head. "No, I don't need help."

"John for the sake of your health please stop fighting!"

"I don't need the help Cameron!"

I go to the person who has a hold of Ayrlissa.

"Your help is no longer needed so please let me help her."

I place her arm over my shoulder and we start to walk away from them while Cameron watches me leave.

"Good luck to you John!" He calls out.

We walk for about a couple miles when she smiles. "You can stop now John."

She looks up at me with a smiling face and a worn out look. She then move out from me and starts walking on her own. She walks a couple paces away and then back.

"See, I'm fine."

"That's good."

She comes back to me and places her hand in mine.

"Thanks for caring though." She says. She then leans up and kisses my cheek.

"It's my nature so it's nothing new," I say to her. "In fact it used to be my job."

"I know."

I turn to her and see her smiling still with her eyes staring into mine. They show a longing in them, not that it's unusual. She walks up to me and places a hand on my upper arm when my phone rings. I pull it out and see that it's Crystal. I flip it open.

"Hello?"

"John! Oh my God. John you need to get over here now. The marrius are trying to get in. They have black eyes and fangs, claws too. John please, get over here." Crystal says crying. "John please I don't want to die."

"Crystal, head into my room and grab the shotgun."

"John, their busting in, please hurry."

I hear a bang and hissing.

"JOHN!!!!!!" Crystal screams.

"Crystal. Crystal!! Crystal, answer me! CRYSTAL!!!"

The phone hangs up and I hear nothing more. I hang it up with my anger turning to rage. My powers rising to the point Ayrlissa starts to back away. I aim my hand at the ground and I let out a blast of light blue energy ten times bigger than the one at the square. I stop after a minute to see a crater going down into the earth. Darkness fills up the hole so I can't see the bottom. I breathe heavy and look at Ayrlissa who comes over to me with a worried expression on her face.

"John?"

Sweat mixes with tears on my face, both fall and hit the ground. My lip never quivers my face doesn't turns red, but tears drip from my eyes and hit the ground. My teeth are grit. She looks at me with a fear I thought never existed.

"They killed her." I say.

She looks at me and doesn't say anything.

"They killed Crystal in my home," I growl. "I promised her it wouldn't happen."

"John I'm sorry."

"I'm gonna kill them, none will live."

She looks at me with more fear flowing into her eyes as my rage rises. But looking into her eyes I start to lose that anger. I hate seeing fear in allies or friends..., enemies, I wish they could feel the power energy I have.

She starts to walk up slowly to me as if the power energy were a force field. As she draws near my rage turns to sorrow and my powers recede. I turn away from her as more of my tears fall. Again my face is straight, but they won't stop. She stands in front of me so I face her. I look up and she places a hand on my cheek.

"John," She starts, "I'm extremely sorry about this. I can't say I know how you feel, but I can tell it's hurting you a lot. I wish I could fix it, but I can't."

"Let's go find the damage and then start from there."

She nods but looks hurt by what I said, and how I said it. But we start walking to my house.

About an hour later we walk to the street sign in front of my house. The door is busted down and has scratches up and down the length of it. We walk inside to see everything torn and shattered. The couch is against the wall, upside down, the chair isn't there, the lamp is broken, sparks fly from the broken T.V., blood covers the wall. I look at my feet to see an M-16 on the floor with bullets around it. We walk up the three stair flight to the hall way. The blood trail leads to my room. I look down there. The door is shut and the light is off.

"Crystal?!" I ask aloud.

No answer. As we move closer I hear a faint moan.

"Crystal," I call again. "Crystal are you here?"

But only the moaning is heard.

"John I have a very bad feeling about this." Ayrlissa points out.

I nod in agreement. But reluctantly I keep moving. I reach my door but stop.

I don't want to see what's in my room. I don't want to. Cause if I do it's gonna make me kill every living thing on this earth. I really don't want to look.

I reach my hand out and open the door. I flip on the light and see my computer in the wall. My mini fridge missing and my desk turned over. My bed is a wreck. One thing I notice is the moaning was abit louder and then it stopped.

"Crystal?"

A head look out of my closet holding a small handgun. It'sCrystal, She's bloody, her shirt is torn in some places and a scare on her cheek. She looks crazed with fear. She spots me and smiles.

"Oh John thank God you came."

I jump a torn mattress and help her over it. She looks at me with relief beyond imaginable.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes I am. Thank you for coming."

I look around and see no shells on the floor. But the fight must've happened in another room.

"I'm glad you're safe." She says.

"I'm glad you're safe."

She starts to lean up to kiss me.

"Stop!" Ayrlissa shouts.

We look at her.

"John, who's that?" Crystal asks.

"That's a friend who has asked for protection."

Ayrlissa gets in between me and Crystal shoving us apart.

"Ayrlissa what are you doing?" I demand.

She looks at me. "She's not Crystal."

"What,"Crystalsays. "Of course I am. John what is she trying to do?"

"Do you really think you can fool your own kind?" Ayrlissa shouts at Crystal. She turns to me. "John look at her neck."

I look there to see two puncture marks that look like something bit her. That's when it hits me.

Oh no. They stooped that low as to turn her into one?! That's just devilish!!

Crystal sees that I've stopped believing and grows angry.

"You promised you wouldn't let this happen John." She growls. " You left me here to die while you flirted with some marrius!"

I look and my anger rises. She notices this. Rage comes to me when I remember the call from her. That creator was nothing compared to what I'm gonna do now. She looks at me and I look at her. What has to be done will be done, but I can't kill her.

"Crystal I'm going to offer you a choice. Come with me and get cured or die." I growl.

She walks up to me as I wait for the answer. When she reaches my face she places a hand on it.

"John..." she starts. Her eyes show a caring glitter in them but that leaves and she claws an X on my left cheek and a slash on the other.

I smile as the blood drips down to the floor. "Fine."

I raise my hand and my finger goes to her head. She looks at me.

"I'm sorry Crystal."

A light blue beam shoots out of the back of her skull and she drops to the floor. I look down at the dead corps and then turn away. We leave this house forever.