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this is my short story called half human.  We will be making it into a short film.  All of you grammar loving people out there point out all mistakes, there are probably lots of them so let me know!


HALF HUMAN
WRITTEN BY CHRISTIAN (playwithfire)

I paced the cell over and over again looking for an exit.  There had to be some way to get out of here, to escape this horrible fate.  A few weeks ago I would’ve been worried for myself, but not now there were lives much more important than my own in danger.  Like the girl right next to me.  Violet.

    You see, I’m not human; I’m a half demon.  Why Half?  My mother was what you would call a “pure soul.”  You see, our kind is created when a Half Demon kills a pure soul as Full Demons can’t walk the earth.  A pure soul is someone who is destined to do great things.  Someone who is supposed to live a long and beautiful life.  So when they are killed by a Half Demon, the act is so evil that another Half Demon is born somewhere else in the world.   So sure I look like a human, talk like a human and walk like a human but believe me I’m not.  I have many other talents… I can run extremely fast, I can lift impossibly heavy objects, and dare I say it? You won’t like me when I’m angry.  Sure this sounds great, but it all comes at a price.  I must take a soul from a human, one a week at the very least.  Now, this isn’t an issue for most of my kind for they are truly heartless, guiltless monsters. But I have something they don’t; a conscience. Believe me it will drive you to the brink of suicide.   Speaking of suicide, I forgot to mention another “power” that half demons have.  We cannot die.

So now I kill because if I don’t, I will lose control and kill someone anyway, and when I lose control, more people tend to lose their lives.  I’ve tried finding ways to not kill, some way to not have to, but it always ends badly.  Now as I mentioned earlier I’m not the only half demon in Vancouver; there is an entire pack of them. The “Alpha Male” of this pack was Morgan, a Half Demon if I ever saw one.  Now you might be thinking; Morgan… isn’t that a girl’s name?    Maybe he’s a jerk because his name’s so stupid.  But anyway as leader Morgan sent us all looking for pure souls.  If we found a pure soul and killed them then another Half Demon would be born.  Every week he would send us after “good” people.  Most of the time they tended to just be good people, but at other times they actually were pure souls. Either way you would have to kill them, because if you didn’t then the pack would send someone else to kill them… and some of them liked to play with their food.  They might also use “The Punishment.”  But that was only used in the most severe cases, and it had never been used before.  Lucky for me I’d never met a pure soul.  I didn’t want to be a father of another monster… I didn’t want to be a monster.  At least I wasn’t as bad as the other Half Demons.  Unlike them I also tried looking for alternative “food” sources. I had tried animals but that was impossible, they didn’t have souls like humans.  Another reason that I was different was because I was the only Half Demon that could feel love. 

Anyway you may be wondering why I’m sitting in a cell right now.  This all started when I was sent to kill a 43 year old Man.  I was walking down the sidewalk to get to his house when I heard a scream come from an alleyway to my right.  I spun around and saw a man towering over a girl around my age.  He was licking his lips.  “Come here pure soul” he said.  “It’s eating time”
It was Morgan

And by the sound of it, he was about to create another Half Demon

I ran at full speed down the alleyway, sprinting towards them.  The girl looked at me and her eyes widened.  Morgan spun around, but not in time, I slammed his head into the alleyway wall and continued running towards the girl.  She stared at me and I was surprised at how beautiful she looked even with tears streaming down her face.  Her blue eyes drowning in a pool of emotion.  I picked her up and ran down the rest of the alleyway, trying desperately to get as far away from Morgan as possible before he got up. 
But I wasn’t fast enough
Something hard slammed into my back, and it took all of my concentration to not drop the girl in my arms.  I kicked backwards and felt my leg connect with something.  I heard Morgan curse behind me as I sped down the rest of the alley.  I sprinted faster than I could possibly sprint, running straight into the forest and through the trees until I was so far away I wasn’t even sure I was in the same city.  Then I put her down, she was shaking.  “You saved me” she finally managed to say, and then she fainted. 

When she finally awoke again we were in a hotel room.  She opened her eyes and looked around the room.  Finally her eyes flickered to me.  “Where am I?” she said.  “We’re in L.A.” I said.  She looked puzzled.  “How, did you save me, how did you move so fast?” she asked.  I thought for a moment, but I decided that after what she’d been through, what she needed was the truth.  When I Was finished talking she asked “How did you fight off a half demon?”  “Because I am one” I said.  She looked at me, studying me.  “Then why aren’t you taking my soul,” she asked.  “I was born this way,” I said “That doesn’t mean I can’t try to be good.” She stared at me and smiled.  “I’m Violet,” she said.  “Xavier,” I said.  “Thank you,” she said.  “For everything.” As she finished talking an ear splitting scream pierced the sky, I picked Violet up and sprinted for the exit but was blocked by Morgan’s right hand man Dante.  He smirked at me, but it was not friendly, it was full of hatred.  Morgan walked in and looked at me.  I protected Violet behind me.  He smiled because my stance told him enough.  He was going to get to use “The Punishment.” 

And now I’m here locked in a cell with her.  They’re slowly waiting for me to become a monster and take her soul.  She tried to comfort me but whenever she got close I would feel intense hunger pangs, and I would long to take her soul.  I was hunched over, covered in sweat from fighting the hunger.  I groaned and pushed myself farther away from Violet, into the corner of the room.  My head was swimming; it was difficult to focus on anything for too long.  She was as brave as ever.  I was beginning to learn more about her.  For who knows what reason, she didn’t hate me.  She felt pity for me.  She tried to help me even though I was a monster.  I pounded against the wall trying to escape from my prison.  Screaming at Morgan to let her live.  I cried silently in the corner, tears rolling down my face.  There was nothing I could do.  She was going to die at my hands.  She got close to me to comfort me.  I looked into her eyes, beautiful blue eyes.  I had never hated myself more than at this moment. 

ENDING 1
<Lighting reveals he is stroking the hair of the dead girl (violet), laying on the cot next to him…and starting to grow mad from hunger> But I did it!  I fought the desire, I fought the madness.  I can live in this cell forever without killing. I became more human than demon, and they can never take that away from me! <Screaming> Never! Do you hear that Morgan! Never!!

ENDING 2
She leaned in, my heart was pounding, her face was very close now, much too close, it wasn’t safe, but suddenly we were kissing.  Half Demon and Human in love, was that even possible?  Then something even more impossible happened.  I felt as If I was feeding off of the kiss.  At first I was worried I was taking her soul, but she was absolutely fine.  I felt different, as if souls weren’t tying me to this earth anymore, she was.  Her love was keeping me here.  As long as she cared about me and I cared about her everything would be okay.  With a sudden burst of energy I smashed the wall open.  2 feet of solid concrete crumbled before me.  I brought her close to me and whispered softly in her ear.  “I love you.”  She looked at me and smiled a nervous yet relieved smile.  “As I love you.”  Together I knew we would be okay.  Monster and human working together… weirder things have happened.

Last edited by PlayWithFire (2010-03-10 21:37:10)