Tasting Drakness

Chapter 14 “

Darius can be a dick; he will settle down,” Zac said. I stare at him, confused. He almost seemed normal, nice even as he slid a tray of food over to me. Zac sits across from me, grabbing another before digging into his food.

The man beside him is a huge burly-looking man with a short beard and dark hair, and he taps my tray. “Eat; if your training with us, you will need it,” he says, and I looked down at the tray to find it has scrambled eggs on it.

“I’m Satish, that’s Zac as you know, and that one is Deacon,” The other man waves; he had blonde hair, a boyish face, clearly the youngest at the table, I think. It was impossible to tell the actual age of full-blooded Demons; they could be hundreds of years old or precisely the age they appear.

“And that one at the end is, Lyle,” The man nods, but his lips are pulled back in a snarl. Note to self stay away from the unfriendly one. I go back to my food, scooping up some egg on my fork.

“So Darius and the others don’t eat down here with you?” I asked. Zac snorts and shakes his head.

“No, this place belongs to Darius; he owns and runs it,”

“So he brought it then,” Zac shakes his head before leaning back in his seat, “You don’t know much about them,”

“About Darius and the others? No, only what I managed to hear on the radio or see on the news of their killing sprees,”

“Darius grew up here, and this was his home. Darius turned it into a dark arts training facility; they are all teachers in a way, who better to teach dark magic than the demon king himself,” Zac answered

“So you all like it here?” I ask, glancing around at the table, wondering if I could get an idea of where here was.

“Well, we all volunteered, so yeah. We may be demons, but we want to catch the ones responsible for releasing that plague, and taking over the world also sounds promising,” Zac answers, and I nearly choke on my food.

is

with a shrug. Suddenly an alarm blares loudly, and everyone

I follow Zac, dumping my half-eaten breakfast on the bench where everyone else did as they

accident. I hiss when I feel my toenail bend back. Zac stops looking back at me, and I look down at my sock, blood staining the toes. Sighing, I rip the sock off quickly, knowing the tugging will make it annoying. I pressed my lips together

have really pissed him off for him not to give you shoes,” Zac says, tugging me toward the door leading out. Excitement bubbles in me; this could be my chance to escape. That thought instantly died down when I stepped outside and saw vast

up, Tobias doesn’t like tardiness. The first lesson is with him,” Zac explains, and I nod, trying to keep

my disappointment at not

and the tracks,” Zac says, and I

fighting combat?” Zac looks at me like I have grown two heads before he

is why it is called hand to hand,” he

easy on you,” Zac says, and I let a

many men

men,” I waited for him to tell me Darius was joking about there being no women, but

is really no other woman

you are the only one, lucky you aye,” He says, tugging me to an empty place on the field, men start getting into different stances, and I look around nervously. A few were stretching, and some

to show me around, but I am glad to see he is wrong about you,”

all,” Satish says, clapping a hand on my shoulder. I look over my shoulder at him, and he takes a stance behind me when I see Deacon move to my

Zac, he has a smirk on his face. “What?” I ask, my voice trembling, suddenly feeling uncomfortable

her face that we would make her miserable, and yet

the heck just happened. But they were nice a few seconds ago. Satish sniffs the air deeply, and I spin to

myself up onto my hands and knees only to be kicked in the stomach. The air leaves my lungs in a long wheeze. I could hear them laughing and braced myself for