8 Chapter 8 The Judgement Of Corruption

Everyone that was yelling rebukes stopped beating at the gates. Everyone arguing and laying blames approached the cell doors. The audience is gathered.

"... It's our savior." Someone says suddenly. "He's come to redeem us!"

"Redeem?!" Another calls. "He has come to exact our vengeance on the world for their damnation on us! We have don't nothing wrong! It is the world that is wrong!"

"No! None of that makes any sense! The world has done nothing to or for us, but we have cast aside our own sins to use innocent people when we could have just asked the priest all along!"

"The priest was the one who damned us!! He abandoned us and decided to ascend without us instead of cursing the fools that tried us!"

Fucking hell, I'm starting to remember that I never did stand any of them to begin with. Why the fuck did he take me here to see them when they've already dug their own graves.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!" I shout. The room goes silent again. "... She really meant it when she said they weren't even part of the family to begin with. Their not even worth being seen as betrayers."

"B-betrayers!?"

"Don't you fuck with us! We have been forever faithful! Who betrayed who here!?"

"All of you fell from the true nature of this family of blood and have since commited sin after sin upon the innocent with the pretence of using my lord for your own selfish acts saying she will bless you. Don't give me that crap! Your faith feel the moment you stopped listening to your priest. What makes you think you are not betrayers? The fact that you would use harmless children and innocent women as a means to wash your own sins is in every way a sign of lost hope. None of you are fit to be forgiven and my lord has already completely lost any hope for you all. None of you have the right to call yourselves blood."

It's quiet yet again until one of the beggars speaks up. "Please no. Please don't abandon me! I didn't want to atone! Please forgive me!! I have already seen the error of my ways!! I beg of you please!"

"Hey stop!"

"No!! I knew! I knew what we were doing was wrong even the priest gave us that look of defeat and hopelessness! He gave up on us and left us because we have been abandoned for our sins! I don't want to be abandoned! I don't want to lose the only thing I had faith in to live! Please!! Please..."

Markus Roverren. One of the more timid members. He and one other were always sceptical of things and had a habit of coming to me for questions about what they were all doing what they did for? I always answered the same way with a sigh of anguish knowing he wouldn't listen to me since his feelings of obligation to the church overpowered his faith in his own patience. The thing I would alway say to him and feel bad about was, 'ask you fellow brothers that question.' Since most of the choices were made without me.

"... Please. I beg you forgive me..." Markus pleads as tears fell uncontrollably from his eyes.

"... Let him out." I tell Edward. He hesitates at first then opens the cell door and cuffs Markus's neck and arms. Markus then staggers out obviously scared out of his mind and is forced to kneel before me. He was always a nervous wreck. He once even had a manic panic attack when they made him kill an infant for the first time. "Markus Roverren." I say subconsciously. Everyone gasps at the sound of his name when no one spoke it once while in my presence. He looks up to me in shock from hearing his name. "I want you to answer me honestly."

"... Yes. Yes of course." He answers. I kneel next to him and begin to whisper in his ear.

"What were your sins? Do you know them?"

"Yes. I have killed... 23 infant children, and 1 woman." Wow. He even kept count. I'm impressed.

"Do you wish to repent for these sins?"

"Yes! Yes I'll do anything! I give my own blood if I have to!" Whoa! Slow down, pal. Love the enthusiasm but chill for like two more seconds.

"Where is your faith?"

"M-my faith... Should have been with the god of blood,... But I don't know. I don't know.." He's crying again.

"... Lend me your shoulder. This will be your punishment and redemption."

"Eh?" Before he had the time to react, I bite into his shoulder just under his main artery and drain him. He gasps and lets out a loud enough cry that could blow an eardrum. He grips my arms but stays completely still from the shock of the pain. He finally stops screaming and all of his blood is gone. The second I realize this I feel a pulse and the blood rushes back again. This time I refill his veins with blood until I can feel most of it out of my system. The feeling was unbearable and nauseating as the last of it pulses like a racing heart until it was all back in his system and he gasps and chokes from the sudden reawakening. I can finally release him.

I pull my teeth out of his skin and he falls to the ground gasping in anguish as tears flow down his face. It's hard to breath. I think this has to be a once a day thing because i feel like I was the one getting drained.

"Look! his head!" Someone else calls out from their cell. I look at Markus with everyone else and a trail of blood runs across his forehead and splits into three and form a cross. The cross of blood like the one on my chest. She must have forgiven him. He finally calms down enough to breath steady again and for some reason falls asleep. "The cross of blood?"

"Was he forgiven?"

"That can't be... Are we really sinners?"

"I don't want to be damned as a betrayer! I want to be a brother!"

It got noisy again. Fuck my head. "Shut up!" I shout. "...Put him back in his cell."

Edward does so quickly this time and sets him down gently in his cell and removes his cuffs. I look to Markus one last time. He looked at peace for once in his life since I've seen him. Leferal said I would be able to see the corruption in their blood. I take one last glance at everyone and focus. Everything is still now. I can see the difference inside them. The color of their blood looks different to me. Markus was a soft white color now compared to everyone else that I see who all have almost black color to them. Only about three? No. Just two had a pure red color in them.

When I drained Markus, I couldn't taste anything. Not even the normal metallic taste of blood. If I'm gonna do this, I better test something. Let's take the darkest one next.

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