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The Taste Of Blood

Chapter 3

Dark clouds covered the sky and thunder boomed over head. The tree that stood over a dark lake rustled in the cold wind and the lake stirred restlessly.

Sherry felt her knees hit wet grass as the spell Brago landed on her ended. She let out a gasp for air and began coughing again. She spit out some blood that came flying into her mouth and said a silent curse to the damage that boy had done to her.

Brago landed beside her. He stood up and looked around with his hands in his pockets. He wore an annoyed look on his face as he set eyes back on the Mamodo world.

Sherry forced herself to stop coughing and swallowed the blood that continued to invade her mouth. She looked up at Brago who stood beside her. “I’m sorry.” she said. “It’s my fault your back here.”

He shot her a dark look and shook his head, “your stupid. Its not your fault.” He growled and took a couple steps towards the cave and scowled.

Sherry stayed silent for a while after that. She looked around at the Mamodo world Brago had sent her to.

She wasn’t surprised to be here, seeing as she had been here in Brago’s memory when she fought the time Mamodo.

Brago’s memory…

Sherry looked back at Brago. He seemed uneasy to her, like he was keeping an eye out for something, or someone.

“Brago.” She whispered and spit out another liter of blood. “Is your sister here?” she asked the demon Mamodo.

Brago seemed surprised that she knew that he had a sister but he didn’t show it. He looked back at her, still wearing his scowl. “I don’t know.”

Sherry felt lightheaded now. she didn’t want to bother Brago anymore so she didn’t mention it. She swallowed some more blood and closed her eyes. She collapsed.

Inside the cave Brago pulled out a jar of yellow colored medicine that sat in a crevice in the corner of the cave.

He had kept medicines like these here for when his sister beat him hard enough he felt the blood stream out of his mouth.

He gently lifted sherry up with one hand while he made her drink the liquid with the other.

Sherry winced at the terrible taste and held her bloody hands to her neck as the yellow medicine washed coolly down her throat. She let out a moan and Brago gave her more.

“Hmph, so you came back without a crown huh?” a voice said from behind him.

Brago shot a dirty glare at his older sister, Yazan as she stepped out of the shadows. Instead of short hair like Brago she had longer hair and a much eviler look on her face. So evil it looked twisted.

“You bastard! How dare you come back if you aren’t king! I knew you were weak!” Yazan snapped and glanced darkly at the girl in Brago’s lap. “And on top of that you bring a human here?” she hissed and walked closer.

Brago bared his teeth at his hated sister. “Haven’t you died yet, you rotten princess.” Brago sneered.

In a blink of an eye Yazan landed a kick in Brago’s face. But Brago was able to dodge the hardest part just in time. “DON’T YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT!” Yazan shrieked and turned to Brago who was now just outside the cave, with Sherry in his arms.

Brago placed his Sherry against the side of the cave and got up to ‘talk’ with his older sister.

Sherry opened her eyes. her coughing had stopped all together and she was feeling much better. Until she saw the two Mamodo fighting inside the cave.

Brago and his sister were snarling and lashing out at each other. Brago had the disadvantage because he was so small compared to his older sister but he was putting up a good fight.

Sherry’s eyes drifted to over to the cave’s walls. What she saw made her stomach turn. Rows of heads lined the top of the wall. The heads were of other Mamodo, and what sherry could tell were of the same family of Brago’s because they still had the same black markings and hairstyle as Brago and his sister. “Oh my god.” Was all she could conjure up. Some even had the flesh still decaying on them.

There was a loud bang and Brago had hit the tree over by the lake. Yazan had her hands rapped tightly around his neck. She was pushing on his chest with her elbows and was biting his only free hand.

Sherry ripped away from the heads and got up as quickly as she could. “DON’T!” she screamed and ran over to the two Mamodo. “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO DO? KILL HIM?” she screeched and attempted to tear away Yazan from strangling Brago.

Brago was nearly losing conciseness his sister was holding him so tight.

Yazan kicked the human hard in the stomach and the girl went flying backwards. She turned back to Brago and laughed, “The weak human suits a loser like you!”

Sherry had the wind knocked right out of her but she didn’t give a damn, even though she was now feeling the blood back in her mouth. That could always be fixed now, because of the Mamodo medicine. She turned back to Brago and his sister and with everything she had, flung herself onto the evil Mamodo’s back.

In annoyance the dark Mamodo let go of Brago who was nearly unconscious and ripped the girl off her back. She then threw her over and into the lake with a loud splash.

Brago got up off the ground, rubbing his neck and glaring at his sister.

Sherry gasped for air as she broke the surface of the dark lake. She climbed out and both she and Brago glared at Yazan.

Before anything else could happen Brago called out to sherry and pointed inside the cave. “There’s a Mamodo sword in there, get it!” he growled and then turned back to fight off his sister, who was on her way to the cave as well.

Sherry got there first and started looking for the ‘Mamodo sword’ Brago had told her about. She found it just under the row of heads.

It was stained with blood, the blood from the heads sherry was certain. She turned back to the two siblings and with everything she could muster, flung it at the dark Mamodo who was over powering Brago.

It hit Yazan straight through the back and out to the front. Brago ripped the sword out of his sister’s back, and the Mamodo still had some bite to her.

Yazan knew that she wouldn’t make this out alive. She dove at sherry and with her hardest swing slashed the girl’s neck in many places. The human crashed to the ground and Yazan looked at it satisfied.

With anger in his eyes from what he just saw, Brago roared in furry at his sister “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?” He screamed and ran at Yazan with all his might, the sword grasped in his hand. “You’ll pay for what you did to sherry! YOU’LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO EVERYONE!” and with that said he cut her head off with one powerful swing of the Mamodo sword.

Brago dropped the sword to the ground and it hit with a clank next to Yazan’s headless body.

Brago ran to sherry who was lying bloodied up, on the ground. “No, not again!” he cried and poured a purple colored liquid over Sherry’s red, shining wound. “Sherry, I know you’re a strong human! I know! So don’t die!” he shrieked to her lifeless body.

With the wound healed he needed to get her to breathe again. But how? But how?

Brago gave his human the kiss of life, that’s how.

After words he and Sherry stood in the rain for hours, watching the blood wash into the lake…

The End

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