by SaveYou on Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:31 pm
The scream echoed all throughout the upper levels of the castle as the young woman scrabbled on the floor, trying to regain balance so she could run. No dice for her. A grey hand wrapped itself around her ankle and dragged her back into the darkness, where her scream gave way to nothing but a crack as two hands grabbed ahold of her face and turned it sharply to the left, snapping her neck. She fell to the floor, motionless, and Ethan sighed. That was the fifteenth; and he still wasn't back home.
Thankfully, he could shapeshift, but only a little; most of his powers had been drained being so far from hell, and he was sick of this Erath - it had been going to shit when died in a WW2 explosion, it was still going to shit now.
It was then he picked up on something downstairs; had someone come in? Crap. Rapidly shifting into his human form, he left the West Wing to greet his guest. Hopefully they'd be far more "pure" than those he'd killed so far. He could only get back in if he killed a true innocent, and none of the others had exactly been stain free.
He ran a hand through his dark hair, and deep green eyes darted around, looking for a hint of the people he'd killed; nothing. Thank God. He came to the staircase leading into the lobby of his temporary home, and smiled as she noticed the girl below. Something about her was different; his supernatural senses were on overdrive. He'd have to talk to her and find out what she was.
"Can I help you?"