Demons are misunderstood creatures. They're not all bad. I should know I'm one of them. I was born to a shape-shifter mother and a vampire father. That mix makes me stronger than any shape-shifter or vampire alone. I am not evil. If I was evil I wouldn't be sitting here telling you this I would just eat you. I look enough like a human to get around. I go to school just like you. I'm popular and everyone loves me. I'm obviously the best student in gym. I run track and I set record speeds. But I still have problems. Since I'm half vampire and half shape-shifter I need blood and raw flesh to stay alive. I try to only eat people that continuously cause problems. Sometimes if I'm peckish enough I'll break into the local prison and eat one of the prisoners. I can be caught on tape but I move so fast they usually don't catch me.
I'm strong enough to break a ten foot thick wall but I try not to I don't like damaging property. I know cats usually hate vampires but since I'm half shape-shifter all animals like me. I can make the most vicious red-nose Pitt act like a puppy. Oh, and I can read minds. Not just animals,humans too. I know all about your deepest secrets. Like that girl your dating,Ted, I know you've cheated on her every night for the past month. You can't hide anything from me. Hell, I've even got a girlfriend myself. She doesn't know any of this. She wouldn't believe me if I told her. I know I said I'm not evil cause I'm not but I used to be. I only age one year for every five I'm alive so, yeah, longer summer vacation. But back to the point. The truth is I used to be evil I used to prey on innocent people. Lawyers, politicians, but mostly cops. I hate cops. They have too much authority. They can take someone to jail for looking at them wrong. Its not fair. But enough with the bullshiting I'm ,was, evil. This is my story.

I was ten years old but I only looked like I was two. I would hunt people, usually girls-their blood is sweeter and they have less muscle so they're easier to chew. Also I loved the sound of their screams. Oh yes, I used to eat them alive. My favorite part was the thigh because it has more meat than the rest of the body, like a giant human chicken leg. But I would only eat the skinny hot chicks. My favorite were the blond ones, they screamed the loudest. I would approach a girl and ask if she had a boyfriend, because I'm irresistible, what with being part vampire and everything, if she did then I'll say that he's gonna miss her, she asks why and I say calmly, “Because I'm gonna eat you.” They would usually say, “You're a sick person” and walk away. Then I would follow them eventually they would start running. I would easily keep pace with them. Then she would turn into a parking lot or a public park, then I would pounce I would half morph to scare off any people that try to help her, then I would slowly eat her. It would usually take an hour just because of the screams. Everytime she screamed I would take another bite and another and another keeping her alive for as long as possible. The adrenaline rushing through her only makes her taste better. I was a monster then, preying on people for sport. But there was one girl that managed to get away from me. This is what happened. I was walking down the street when I saw her. My first thought was “Man she looks scrumptious.” She did too. She looked like there was no muscle at all on her body. Where muscle should have been there was fat, soft and juicy. I decided to skip my normal routine and go after her. Instead of running she stood her ground. She punched me. Hard. Harder than any human can punch. The moment her fist touched my nose I knew. We were the same. No creature except a half vampire half shape-shifter could punch me and break my nose. It was impossible. Something else happened too. I got pulled into her mind. I've heard of things like that happening to strangers who meet their soulmate, but not me I didn't have a soul. Or so I thought. She noticed it too. “Oh my god,” she said. All I said was wow. In that split second we knew everything about each other. So we started dating. Every day I would bring her a black rose. A black rose is like an ordinary rose except its bred by demons which makes it black. They are beautiful. So we would, instead of going to the movies, hunt together. The odd thing was that she preferred girls for the same reasons as me. So we would share the bounty. Oh I forgot to tell you what animal I turned into. I turn into a wolf. She did too. We would shift and play fight to see who was faster and stronger. It pains me to say this but she was the stronger one. Everytime she would end up on top with her jaws on my throat in a death grip I had no way out so I surrendered. When I met her I looked ten years old but I was really technically fifty. Everyone we saw kept talking about young love. I wanted to shake them and shout “I'm not young I'm fifty for goddess's sake.” But of course they didn't know that. They thought I was ten. But though she was stronger I was faster. I could outrun her at any time. But sometimes I would let her catch me. We started getting really serious about our relationship. I asked my parents about the soulmate thing. They said it was called the Soulmate Principle, they said it meant that some ancient powers were being awakened. They were very serious about it. I guess its supposed to be a big deal. Why, I don't know but by my experience what they say is true. Humans aren't smart enough to know that love as they call it may be them connecting with their soulmates. My parents say that every being has one soulmate from each species: vampire, werewolf, witch, and human, and whichever you have the strongest attraction for is your soulmate forever. If you have connected with all of your soulmates the one that you have the strongest connection for will also have the strongest connection for you so you will mate forever. I think that parts bullshit, I mean who would believe that you would be with someone for the rest of your life? Its fucking crazy. I may believe anything else about soulmates but not that. Why would I want to mate with one person anyway I love having a different girlfriend every month. Its just me. I'm just like that. I would hate to have to be with one girl forever. I also had school after I turned “eleven” so I'll tell you about that. It started in August at the time I hated humans like you. My first day there were so many people. I thought, its too bad my parent said I cant eat the grownups or the kids. But the school was a mix of preschool, elementary, junior high, senior high school, and college. So there were plenty of people but I couldn't eat any of them because if I do their friends might find out and I would be exposed for the monster I was. I got my first girlfriend when I was “eleven.” She was pretty hot, well as hot as a eleven year old girl can be. I was with her for two weeks before I got tired of her. She was always so dramatic about everything so I broke up with her. She cried. I got another girlfriend the next day. No girl can say no to me. Even then. I was too irresistible. They always said I had perfect features but I never believed them till then. My second girlfriend wasn't really dramatic at all, but she loved kissing me. A little too much. That relationship only lasted three weeks.I got another one the next day. By now you might be wondering why I was going out with human girls. Well, that's because I wanted to look as human as possible, but also I wanted to learn more about humans. How they talked, walked, etc. That's why I had a lot of friends that were in the popular cliques in school. Also knowing I can't get cancer I smoked cigarettes. Also I can't get addicted to anything. If I smoked reefer, yeah, I'd get a high just like you, but I wouldn't develop a physical dependence for it even if I smoked it everyday for a year. That goes for every drug. I only smoked cigarettes because my friends smoked. Same with reefer. My friends did it so I thought it was okay, at least until my father caught me with reefer and yelled at me about how drugs will just kill me faster. I argued back that drugs cant hurt me cause I was half vampire. He said he was sorry and that he's been around humans for too long and he's started acting like them. I said that I understood. He told me to just be careful not to get caught by the cops. I told him I'd just lead the cops to a park and eat them, but he said just don't let them catch me smoking anything. Even though I can break out of jail, they would still have my picture on record and they would search for me till they found me. I said okay I wouldn't let them catch me. So I went to school the next day and my girlfriend was mad that I'd been smoking reefer so I said, “Its not like I'm addicted to it.” She said, “I don't care I want you to quit or I'm breaking up with you.” I said, “You don't have to break up with me.” She said, “So your gonna quit?” I said, “No, I'm breaking up with you.” She said, “Fine, be an asshole, but I'm gonna tell all my friends not to go out with you.” I said, “Whatever.” The next day I asked her best friend out. And she said yes. Take that Carrol. And when she found out her best friend was going out with her ex she was PISSED big time. She took back the BFF ring she bought for Christine. Christine was so sad and I felt bad that she lost her best friend because of me. So I apologized to her. She said it was okay and that Carrol was such a bitch sometimes. She said she was glad that she wasn't her friend anymore. I asked her if I told her something about myself that may seem impossible would she believe me. She said that she would believe anything I told her if I had proof. So I said, “I'm half vampire and half shape-shifter.” She said, “No way you're shitting me.” I said, “Nope I'm dead serious.” I showed her my retractable fangs and took her into the woods and shifted for her. She said, “Oh my god, I should be scared but I'm amazed you're so beautiful.” I shifted back. She said, “But how do you keep your clothes on when you change?” I said, “When I shift my clothes turn into fur, I've never really understood how that works.” She said, “Well anyway I think its cool.” “Really,” I said, “You don't think think I'm a monster or a freak of nature?” “No,” she said, “If anything you've been given a gift. What else can you do?” “Well,” I said, “ I can move things without touching them and read minds.” “Really? Well what am I thinking now?” “Um,” I said, “I really don't want to say it out loud.” “Just say it.” “Okay, you think I'm hot, you want to be half vampire and half shape-shifter just like me, and you wanna, wait you wanna do what with me!!!!” “Oh you weren't supposed to know that part. So can you change me?” “Um I'm not supposed to.” “Please, nobody will know.” “Okay but if I do you have to be my girlfriend for as long as I like and don't ever ask to have sex with me, even in your thoughts.” “Okay.” So I let my fangs grow and I bit her. I could see the change happening. I've never seen someone change like that before but it was amazing. Her features got more defined she got even more beautiful than she was. When she was fully changed I said, “You get to pick what animal you change into but once you pick you're stuck with the choice forever.” She said, “I wanna be a wolf like you.” I said, “Okay, picture a wolf in your head and you'll shift, then to shift back picture yourself, some shape-shifters have the power to change into more than one animal, after you shift back into a human we're both gonna try to shift into other animals and people too.” “Okay,” she said. She shifted into a wolf and back into a human. “Now lets try a bear, if we can shift into that, we can shift into any animal.” So we tried it. It worked! “Now lets try people. Shift into someone that you know a lot about.” So we tried that. It worked too! “Alright, try to extend your fangs.” That worked too! “Alright, that stick over there in you're mind and then picture it flying through the air and smashing into the tree.” She did it. “Well I think that's enough lessons for today.” We went home. My dad must have smelled the scent of a newborn on me because when I got home he started yelling, he said, “Why did you change a human into a fucking half breed! What are you trying to do start a gang of half breeds! You're grounded for a week! Go to your fucking room now!” I started thinking about what he said about starting a gang. Actually it was a good idea I could make the rules and kill anyone who left the gang. The next day I went to school and asked my friends if they wanted to become part of a half vampire half shape-shifter gang. They said if there was such a thing then hell yeah they would join it. So I changed them. But me and my girlfriend were the only ones who could shift into any human or animal we wanted. I made up the rules. Rule 1: No hunting without my permission. Rule 2: Only hunt people who don't have a lot of family. Rule 3: No hunting teachers or fellow students, no matter how mad you are at them. Rule 4: No hunting animals. Rule 5: Finish eating the person that you were hunting and dispose of any carcasses that are left over. Rule 6: No hunting in public places, always lead the victim to a secluded area where nobody will find you. Rule 7: No shifting until you are in the secluded area and only your victim can see you shift because you're gonna kill him anyway. Failure to comply with these rules is punishable by death, if you try to hide from me your death will be slower and more painful.
I told everyone the rules and they signed a contract saying they would follow them. I was in charge and Christine was second in command. Every night we would meet and they would take turns fighting me in human form so they learned what to do if a human fought back. Then on the seventh night I gave them a victim to hunt and they did exceptionally well for their first real hunt. And they followed all the rules. During the day we would go up against street gangs. The first one was a small group of Crips. We walked up to them and made sure the leader memorized our faces. I said, “You mother fuckers are on Wolf turf, I think you should leave now.” The leader said, “Oh,yeah you gonna make us.” Every Wolf growled in unison. I gave orders, “Wolves attack, but let the leader live so he can tell his O.G. Not to come on our turf.” Every Wolf shifted at the same time. One minute the gang members were looking at a bunch of teenagers and the next second they were staring at a pack of angry wolves. The look on their faces was priceless. They started shooting at us. If I didn't see the guns, I would have thought they were throwing pebbles at us. The bullets were just bouncing off of us. Then we attacked as one. We went for the throats. After his homies were dead we shifted back. I said, “Now you go tell your O.G. What happened here and hope that he doesn't put you in a mental ward.” He was so scared he left the car and ran, looking over his shoulder every few seconds to see if we were gonna come after him. The car was blue, but our gang color was blood red so we took it to a car shop and had it painted. We saw some Bloods and they tried to run us off the road into a ditch. I screamed, “What the FUCK.” The leader said, “We heard that you're the new gang around here and we gonna show you who is the boss round here. We got out of the car and I said, “This is our fucking turf.” “Prove it,” said the leader. I told my gang, “We gonna do to these guys what we did to those Crips.” Then we shifted and attacked. But the leader was so scared he shit himself then got a gun and shot at me, but when he saw it didn't hurt me he looked around at his dead gang and shot himself. I guess he thought that we were gonna save him for dessert.
The next day Matt broke some of the rules. He shifted in public and killed ten people. He said he was tired of following the rules. I called a meeting in the woods. Matt thought that I was gonna forgive him, but instead I tied him between two trees and forced my way into his mind. I broke right through the barrier he put up. I'm not saying that it was a weak barrier. It was as strong as plexiglass, but that's how mad I was. I broke through like it was just a cotton barrier. I made him change into a wolf but stopped the transformation halfway between wolf and human. Then I shifted. I told the others to shift and dig in. The truth is that between the transformation is when we are the most vulnerable. Now there was only six of us left. Then one day we were just walking around and acting like normal teenagers. We were “fifteen.” 20 human years had passed since I had to kill Matt. We gained another member right after I killed Matt. His name was Tommy. We were known by every gang as the Wolf gang. So like I said we were acting like normal teenagers. Looking at womens' asses and whistling at the really hot women. Then all of a sudden we saw a lot of different colored flags. I said, “Oh, shit, the gangs have merged and they're coming for us.” We got out our phones and called every vampire, shape-shifter, and witch we knew. They were there within minutes. The cars pulled over and all the gang members got out there was at least one hundred maybe two. There was fifty of us. Everyone got ready to fight. The shape-shifters shifted and the witches started blasting energy. The vampires used their speed to their advantage. The gang members only killed one vampire and two witches. Then it was over. Just like that. So we went back to walking around. The rest of my gang decided that they were tired of not having girlfriends so they picked a girl and asked them out. But me? Well I already had Christine. Oh, I forgot to tell you that the half breed that I told you about was killed by a stake through the heart. That's why I started seeing human girls. But anyway, me and Christine decided to get serious. I'm not going into details. So the gang decided to live “normal” lives for a while. My parents bought us a house so we could have privacy. They payed for the utilities and the rent. We hunted together. We did everything together. I even started smoking reefer again, and guess what, she smoked with me. I said fuck the Soulmate Principle I'm happy with Christine. Then it happened. Since she was human once the universe decided that since we've been through so much together it will let her be my human soulmate. And I'm thankful for that because it was hard to talk about my past but now I don't have to. I proposed to her. She said yes, of course. We were so busy getting the wedding ready. We hired a caterer that makes human food and one that makes other food. The other food is off limits to humans. They wouldn't want it anyway. She got a dress but wouldn't let me see it. “You will see it when we have the wedding,” she says. I got myself a blood red tuxedo with a maroon tie and maroon shirt. It was really nice. Then, a week before the wedding, a new gang showed up. It was something we never seen before. It was a gang of ghouls. The only way to kill a ghoul is to burn its heart to a crisp.


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