Chapter Four: Dark Aura

The rain slowly stops as I sit in my truck. Nobody is outside because of the storm and the slippery roads. The grocery store sits in between two brick buildings that are no importance to anybody. It just sits there, the town construction workers have other things to worry about than those two abandon brick buildings. The dark clouds still cover the sky therefor giving the street a dark aura. My fingers grasp my phone and my wallet ready to go inside of the store. The truck beeps as I press the button to lock the doors. The bottom of my shoes squeaks against the slippery wet concrete that leads me towards the grocery store.

Before I could enter, the sound of groaning and yells come from beside the building. Me being the nosy person I am slowly walks over towards the noise. My back is against the wall as I hesitantly move my head to look where the noises are located. There I see four men, three of them surrounding one as the man in the middle is on his knees. I move quickly to the other side of the wall trying to hide in the shadows hoping they don't see me.

"P-please! L-Let me go!" The man in the middle pleads. They all scoff while shaking their heads no, but one chuckles.

"Now why would we do that?" The man that chuckled questions with a sadistic grin on his face. Anger rises in side of me, no one should be treated like this. My body reacts on its own as I step out of the shadows towards all the men.

"Let him go!" I exclaim with rage and hatred, all of their heads snap towards me snap . My phone and wallet are no longer in my grasp as they drop to the dirty concrete floor. But one of them look familiar, the man pleading is Ben. My eyes are wide as I stare at Ben, his eyes are bloodshot while tears are rolling down his eyes. He has scratches all over him while his knuckles are bloody red.

"Sage! Leave! Run!" Ben shouts towards me, the men with the evil grin stalks toward me. He chuckled again, the way he's stalking towards me is like I'm his preys and he is the predator.

"Leave him alone!" I shout again while walking up towards the evil man. He has tattoos all over his arms with long brown hair and malevolent brown eyes. I ignore all of Bens shouts as I stand my ground. Soon, the man is standing in front of me, both of us staring into each other eyes. We're so close that our nose are almost touching, my hands slowly turn into fists.

"Let Ben go." I order him, he was standing in front of me but in a blink of an eye my wrists are held behind my back by a large hand. A groan escapes my lips as I try everything to get out of his iron grasp. The other men just look down at Ben, Ben looks so damaged and hurt as he stares at me.

"Now your going to watch what happens next little girl." The malevolent mans deep voice whispers in my ear. I open my mouth to scream for help but his other hand closes my mouth as my scream comes out muffled. Doubting no one will be able to hear me I stop. My teeth dig into the mans hand, he quickly moves his hand away while groaning in pain. But his grasp is still not letting me move, I've tried kicking him but nothing is working.

"Feisty, I like that. Sorry sweetheart that's not going to work. Now watch." He whispers into my ear, I am able to imagine that sadistic grin on his face. Ben is grabbed by his arms to stand on both of his feet. I don't know what they did to Ben but he is not able to stand on his own causing him to lean on the guy standing behind him. His head is moved to the side reviling his neck, I raise an eyebrow wondering what he's going to do to Ben. The guy standing behind Ben makes eye contact with me.

He stares at me as his once blue eyes turn into a dark red color. And his pearly white teeth now have fangs. Ben shakes his head towards me, still pleading me not to do anything.

"Tell my family I love them." Ben whispers lowly but my ears were able to catch his broken words. My breath is caught in my throat but somehow a scream escapes my lips while the mans teeth dig into Bens neck. My struggles of running towards Ben and helping is no use. Blood drips out of his neck while he groans from the pain.

Soon, Bens lifeless body is dropped to the dirty concrete of the alleyway. Salty tears stream down my face as loud sobs are heard. The evil mans iron grip is now released, immediately I run towards Ben. Cradling his head in my lap I plead for him to wake up. But he doesn't, he just lays there lifeless. My eyes wonder up to the murders to find them all staring at me. I stand up to my feet quickly wanting to leave the scene and get help. But they know my intentions so they stalk closer to me.

"Where do you think you're going?" One of them asks, his voice is very deep while they all stare at me. I back up more and more not wanting to be near them. My back hits something, before I could turn around to see what the object is. A weird white cloth is placed over my nose and mouth. Breathing in the chemical fumes from the cloth it makes me want to sleep or close my eyes.

I will not be taken by these murders, my brother needs me. And I need him. He is slowly turning back to his true self not an alcoholic. He needs guidance and I still need my one last family member. All I can do is hope that this is all a dream and I'll be hope with him. My fingers try removing the cloth but the person holding it won't let that happen. The floor underneath me sways back and forth as everything becomes blurry. It feels like the world is spinning and there is nothing I can do. My eyes lids gradually drop, before unconsciousness can fully grasp me those light green eyes are all I can see. Then unconsciousness drowns me in darkness.