Chapter 5 A Friend In Troubled

• Damian charged against the two beast-like creatures, and when they collided, their impact was so great that the earth trembled and quaked. Damian threw one of the beasts away, but the other clawed him hard and deep on the face. Its long, sharp claws ripped Damian's face off, and the force from its strike sent him flying in the air, landing hard on the ground.
• The two beasts then had him surrounded, roaring and grinding their teeth as they drew closer. Damian gradually got up on his feet, and his damaged face started healing up very quickly. One of the beasts charged at him, wanting to bite his head off, but Damian was very fast to duck. He then grabbed hold of the creature by the leg and spun it around in a 360-degree rotation. He threw it hard towards the other beast charging at him with much strength, and the collision of both beasts sent them tumbling down a hill.
• Damian was really vexed and charged up at this point, so he went after them as they tumbled with his claws and fangs out as he jumped on them. Clawing and biting as they tumbled down, he was winning the fight with the beasts. But soon enough, the number of the beasts became advantageous to them, and they finally rolled down to a plain suffer.
• Damian had broken one of the beast's legs, leaving it crippled. He then faced the other, wanting to kill it. They engaged in a struggle, and finally, Damian had the creature where he wanted it, with both his arms firmly around the beast's neck, ready to apply the killer bite. But unknowingly to Damian, the wounded beast's leg had healed up, and it jumped on Damian from behind, biting off his head and then spitting it out of its mouth. The beasts were victorious against the monster, or so they thought because as they walked away, a new head grew back on Damian's body, and the old head turned into dust, then vanished completely.
• He stood up alive again. “Ouch. That hurts,” he said smirkingly.
• "ROARRRRR!" he charged at them.
• Damian charged at the beasts in lightning speed, colliding hard with one of the beasts' stomachs with a pointed elbow. The force sent the beast flying backwards, and it smashed hard against a mud hut, making a huge hole in the building. The other beast pounced on Damian, coming at him in full speed with its claws fully extended and its mouth wide open, hoping to chop off Damian's head with a bite. But Damian let himself fall halfway to the ground and, using the beast's force and momentum against it, he catapulted it up into the sky with his legs.
• "ROARRRR!" Eric Damian roared as he went after the other beast he had sent smashing through the wall.
• At this point, the beast was slowly getting up to its feet when Damian landed a hard and painful kick right in the creature's ribcage, creating a cracking sound. Like a soccer ball, the beast flew vertically upwards, crashing hard into the roof before landing back on the floor. The creature groaned and whined in agonizing pain, and Damian loved every bit of it. He was enjoying the pain he was inflicting on the creature. Holding the beast by its tail, he dragged it out of the hut.
• The other beast stood close by, watching as Eric Damian dragged the almost lifeless body of its friend. Damian could sense the fear in the onlooking beast, but he knew it wasn't going to back down; it was ready to fight till its last breath, and Damian would have it no other way. Throwing the beast he held by the tail to a tree, like it was nothing, even though the tree fell over because of the immense weight the beast had.
• “Come get yours,” Damian said, daring the onlooking beast to make a move at him.
• The beast moved in circles, around Damian, growling angrily and measuring him while Damian just maintained his position, waiting for the creature to make a move, while still keeping an eye on the other beast he had thrown against the tree.
• “ROARRRR!" The beast finally made its move, pounding on Damian with its claws completely stretched out, but Eric Damian dodged it by rolling over on the ground.
• They repositioned themselves quickly, facing each other eye to eye, with Damian in a crouched position. Damian huffed, the beast growled, and then they charged at each other again...
• The other beast had slowly started recovering; it was strong enough to stand. It looked to catch Eric Damian by surprise again, just like it did the first time when it chopped Damian's head off, but Damian was alert to its scheme this time around. As Damian charged to meet one beast, the other lurked behind him, waiting for the right and perfect time to strike... which he saw. Thinking Damian wasn't aware of its presence, it punched.
• Eric Damian made an attempt as if he was going to jump head-on to the beast, but instead, he slid on the ground, and both beasts collided with one another in a horrific manner. He then extended his claws fully, stabbing one of the beasts straight into its chest, with his claws reaching for its very heart. The beast howled in great pain as Damian held its heart from inside its body. All he needed to do was pull it out, and the beast would be dead...
• Unlike Damian, the beasts could only heal wounded flesh, but they weren't immortals, so if vital organs like the heart or their head were to be removed, they wouldn't be able to grow back. They would most definitely die.
• Eric Damian squeezed its heart inside its chest, causing the beast to howl even louder, and the other beast tried to come to the aid of its friend, but he pinned it down by stepping on its head hard to the ground. He could feel the heart of the beast beating on his palm, and he was ready to pull it out... but then he stared into the eyes of the beast. Looking past the scared and defeated look, he saw something that made him refrain from killing the beast, and for some reason, he withdrew his hand away from its chest, sparing the creature its life. The beast went crashing down to the ground, breathing weakly, then it transformed back to a man, back to one of Damian's friends, Christopher.
• Damian also removed his foot from the head of the other beast, staring at both of them for a while with a look that lacked any expression. He turned around when his ears caught the sound of something, and his nose also picked up the scent of the same thing: humans. Humans were coming in his direction, but instead of Damian going to kill them all, he sped off to the other direction and vanished into the night, never to be seen or heard from again.
• With that, Mathias ended his storytelling.
• “Wow! What an incredible tale," Clara said, clearly following along with the story. "He must have realized that the beasts were actually his friends; that's why he spared their lives."
• “You may be right, but vampires don't have a heart. It's not in their nature to feel pity, so it was really a strange act by him," Mathias said.
• “But what really was the cause of the girl's death that led to Eric being cursed?” Clara asked.
• “According to my grandfather, it was discovered that the girl was bitten by a deadly spider, the black widow. That's actually the cause of her death," Mathias narrated.
• “Poor girl, it must have been a painful death... but since Eric Damian was never seen or heard from again, it means the two werewolves didn't have to fight against anyone again, right?” Clara asked, curiously.
• “That was not the case. You see, it was later discovered that those people Eric had bitten but didn't kill caught up with some kind of fever that made them scream in agonizing pain. Then they all died, but after a few minutes, they all woke up. Every single one of them was no longer human; they became bloodsuckers just like Damian. The two werewolves had to save the village again from this set of new bloodsucking demons, but surprisingly they found it much easier to kill this new set of vampires. They were not as strong as their maker Eric Damian...” Mathias narrated but had to stop talking when some students who looked like bullies came up to them.
• Clara noticed that Mathias all of a sudden looked scared, and she knew it was because of the four boys. Three of them were huge and big, while the fourth one was a normal-sized teenager, but surprisingly he was their leader and spoke like a man.
• “What do we have here? Mathias is actually talking to someone. A girl?? A very pretty one at that," he said, checking Clara out with lustful eyes.
• “W..What do you want?” Mathias said in a scared and shaky voice.
• “Funny you ask that question. How about you give us your lunch money, and we spare you the embarrassment of walking home without your pants on?” the boy said in a threatening way.