Stitch Heart--Chapter 3

Here I have my third chapter, decided to make things easier with Miss Mia and she discovers a new ability through blood drinking in container bags in a blood bank. And as a bonus, Mia meets Drake and Alexander. Please read & enjoy! --KatDon 

Chapter 3: Under the Surface, Not What It Seems 

In her dream; Mia could see herself and her best friend, Helena were laughing together when her cell phone rings. She picks it up and answers it. Mia looked at the posters but then, she heard commotion as she saw Helena walking into the street, still talking on her phone as a car is coming at her. "Oh shit!" Mia thought. She rushed over as she then thought to herself: "No, get away!" Mia called out her name, "HELENA!" She pushed her friend out of the way as the car was edging close to Mia but stopped abruptly. People surround her as Mia had blood matted her face and hair. Everything went black but before she passes out, Mia could see a boy, another one, and a girl watching her. Their faces look gloomy and sad. The girl has tears streaming down her face. "What...why are they looking at me that way?" She thought and then, the darkness enveloped her. Then, there she was who was dragged into the room, screaming and begging. She shouted that she didn’t do it, and that she was innocent, but the person in charge was taking none of it. She signaled at security to strap her into the confinements. She didn’t bother to warn her. "No, please, don’t do this to me-" Mia said. "I wasn’t the one. I know who killed her, it wasn’t me! Don’t do it!” As the fluid entered her skin, her neck started to turn slightly blue, and her veins swelled up. She gasped in agony! Mia woke up as she was scared from the dream. The next morning, she was on her laptop and begins typing it up on a new document: "I think I must be going crazy, I think I have this problem. For a writer, I am screwed up with an idea but no matter what I do; I can't seem to write down the feeling I have. You see, I write many things and I'm quite successful. But now, I haven't been on my blog since ever. My mother has been struggling with these idiots she used to work with that turned out to be jerks and my cousin's fiancee's mother is being so bossy. All these things I am witnessing, I want to write about these things. Create something out of this stress that people go through: Betrayal of former friends as well as bossy, control freak mother in laws. I have been struggling this for awhile, it feels like writer's block but it's not. I am struggling with how to write this down. I feel like I need a co-writer to maybe help me out. Oh, I'll get out of this struggle somehow. I'll try not to write any more of monsters. Maybe demons and exorcists, I watch so much anime that it drives me mad. I am a writer with an obsession for fiction than reality." 

Typing up this next part of her article, scrolled up to the top and then wrote the first thing she had in her notebook of the stories she wrote all the time: "Are people born insane? Or do they have insanity thrust upon them? After all, he had a father. He had a mother, as so many do. Once a long time ago; there was a woman who was known as Lilith Winters, she was a beautiful celebrity but underneath the glamour, she was so lonely and needed something new. Something different. That's when she met Njord Llyr, an eccentric man but he seems right for her. However in time, Lilith discovers that Njord is not all that he appears to be. He had 'friends' who were followers and claims that he was 'Prince of Peace'. Njord conspired with his followers and also had murderous intentions. Lilith was shocked by Njord's profanities towards the females he committed. ! And like every family, they had their secrets....That bastard had an affair with another woman by the name Chloris Summers, and he too abused her the same way! Impregnated her in a demonic cult shelter as Chloris screamed in terror as she claimed she saw The Devil. When he wasn't tormenting his now insane mistress; Njord took pleasure in scaring the poor sex symbol celebrity and the other females made weird gestures and harassed her a lot of her being beautiful and puts her down as a 'harlot'. Lilith was assaulted and humiliated by Njord in front of others who only laughed and jeered at crying Lilith. Things out worse when murders came out as well as Njord's identity as a water devil emerged; Lilith got so scared that she fled from him and the love that they once had. During that time after Njord's arrest and trial; Lilith discovers she is pregnant with Njord's child. After she gave birth, Lilith is haunted by visions of Njord and she tried to numb the pain with drugs. Lilith died of the overdose and the baby was now in the care of circus freaks. The child's birth name was Loren. In his troubled childhood; He was adopted by an alcoholic father and drug-addicted mother. The couple regularly fought in front of him, which he is usually hiding in fear behind the living room couch, showed him no attention or affection. One night, the fight escalated to a horrific outcome—Young Loren hiding behind the couch again--would witness the murder-suicide of his parents. His foster dad killed mom, then himself. That's when, family governance came to take Loren away  to another home, one completely different from his prior one – this home featured a compassionate family who regularly attended church. On Loren's first visit to church, while in Sunday School, she noticed on the wall a picture of The Good Shepherd. He commented that he did not know who the man was, but knew that he had to have come down from the cross—as Loren recognized the man as the one who comforted him while he witnessed his parents' violent deaths." And then wrote the next thing for her character: "It was the desert, like a western theme to it. A Preacher who is trying to save a little boy from exorcism. The preacher calls Loren and once you remove the demon from the boy's body he need to send the demon back to hell by a cool method of some type of 'holy magic'. Loren was in popular towns where there is more gambling and saloons. Mount his trusty and rely on that animal to sense out the next demon in the next town. The more souls he saves, the darker his animal becomes. When he eventually find this saloon where his animal freaks out and there is a dark figure playing cards with a bunch of drunk people that are sad and nervous. He could see one person lose a game to the dark figure and they start crying and run out of the saloon as fast as they can. The Dark figure look at you in awe and...." 

Just then, Mia begin to fall asleep and begins to have strange dreams: She was there when she heard voices in clouded area! "Oooh, she smells nice!" One of them said. "Come to us..." The second beckoned. The third laughed a little, "Poor girl, she's all alone. All alone.....Alone...." It taunted. Mia covered her ears and ran off. "Get away from me, you monsters!" She shouted. Then it happened; Dorian, Saruta, and Jamie  were walking on the street when they heard a scream and saw Mia pushed a girl and then a car hit her. When they came close they saw her being lead away as her eyes widen & shivers shaking. It was one of the worst and most terrible scenes Saruta had ever seen. He was really sad & worried . When he saw her, he had hoped that the monsters don't take her so she would be in a better place. As he first saw Mia getting the hit; Jamie was shocked & sad. He could almost feel the fear & pain that she was feeling when she was looking at. He didn't know what to do & he was feeling a familiar pain in his heart. Jamie was full of various feelings but what would he do when he sees it is her? Seeing her, Dorian looking at her body on the ground she felt really sad and hoped she could have survive but it was too late. Dorian couldn't help her and she felt tears on her cheek when Saruta looked at her she saw the same look in his eyes. It was so hard and terrible. Mia woke up with a start! She looked around and realized that it was all a dream. That night, Mia was on the ground as she had to watch out what was happening. She cannot make a sound or any movement yet. She watched people from her corner from where she was! Waiting, waiting, and waiting. That's when she saw something that made her gasp in awe: It was that boy from the accident she suffered in! He ran over to the ghouls as he slayed them with his thin sword called a katana, cut them in half and then he was approached by a familiar boy besides the dark haired guy. "SARUTA!!!!" A girl called out, approaching the boy as she talked to him a little. Mia could not believe it, then she saw ghouls about to pounce and then, Mia sprinted into action! She tackled them to the ground, growling like a wild animal as she teared at them with her claws ad gobbled them up. But noticed those three were staring back at her, "Do you mind?!" Mia snapped, "Trying to eat here." They turned away but they were nervous and scared by this girl. They found her! The Ghoul Eater of Sunshine Town! Once Mia turned to them and said, "OK, I'm done. You can look now." The trio turned and stared at Mia with amazement. Mia cautiously step towards them slowly as she assured them, "Don't be afraid, I will never hurt a human being. I can't eat human flesh." The dark haired boy asked, "Who are you? Are you the Ghoul Eater?" Mia nods, "Yeah. Well, that's what everyone around town call me but they don't know what I look like." She replied. However she looked at the dark haired boy and then asked, "Who are you?" The boy said to her, "Pleasure is mine, my name is Saruta. I have come to help the people in Sunshine Town deal with the ghouls around here. And I am a homosapian, a supernatural human being that's much more advanced than an ordinary human and stronger than any other creature, who cannot disobey nor rise higher against the wills and powers of God." He then offered his jersey jacket as he said, "You don't have to be scared, we'll protect you." Mia looked at the jacket as she said, "Oh, thanks?" The other boy, Jamie, rolled his eyes and looked at Saruta with a glare: "You're offering that stinky, sweaty thing again?" He snapped. Saruta looked exasperated as put his jacket back on, and Jamie was about to take off his jacket as he said: "Here, take this with...." Then he stopped and said, "You're that girl, you were that girl that those people took you away!" Mia stared back, a nervous smile planted on her face. That night, Mia starts sitting outside the house with Saruta and his friends. She talked with them. 

Then, she told them about the beach and everything that happened: The horribly scarred people of bleeding stumps and exposed bones were brought into a van as it said 'EMERGENCY' on it but in the light, there was something underneath that said, 'EXPERIMENTS ONLY'.  And the doctors arrived in scrubs and protective gear managed to 'help' the people but Penny knew something was off about them and was about to leave when she tripped and fell in the water, which caused what happened to her face and body. When she woke up, she saw she was hook up to a drip and she tried to escape. They managed to capture her again and spent many hours studying her, using very un-delicate methods. She watched them and made no attempt to hide her feelings, however her only goal appeared to be to try to figure out a way to tell Lord knows who about them. There were three subjects were males, 22, 23, and 29. The subjects also swore to secrecy. The chemical was successfully administered to all three subjects. Within the first hour, all three of them started screaming in agony. After sedation, each subject had his left arm cut open with a scalpel and his right arm shot by a weapon. When the scalpel penetrated one of the subjects’s skin, it reacted with a dark amorphous solid substance filling the cut almost as fast as the skin was opened up. It sealed so fast that the scalpel was stuck in his arm. The injury caused by the blade was sealed by the dark amorphous blood within three seconds. After 84 hours, all three of the subjects started to act unusual. Instead of using the entertainment around them, they sat in their beds and groaned, as if they were sad or ashamed. After 110 hours, One of the subjects passed out. Blood tests could not be run because the blood was solid and amorphous. The only thing that was determined was the poison in their blood, which was at 5, was far more acidic than usual. The subjects were escorted to the test room. The three subjects looked far different from the beginning. The skin had turned to a shade of grey, and their skin looked noticeably thicker. Their eye colors have changed to pure black, and they were bloodshot. The experiment will continue as planned, but the chemical must be remodeled before repeating the experiment. Before opening fire on the subjects; the subjects showed inhuman strength. They immediately pounced on their attackers and used their teeth as a most effective weapon. Six armed men lost consciousness as their attackers touched their teeth to their skin. One’s arm was devoured by the subjects. Mia told them about what happened to her: She was lying on the autopsy table of the surgery, the surgeons told her that they were going to keep her awake. They were cutting into her and then, they pulled out the parasite in front of her! Ignoring all the beeping and flashes from the machines, Mia became dizzy and she fainted. She begins to suffer from painful sensations felt in the abdomen area that can occur and the pain ranges from dull and annoying to severe and extreme. Pain in the lower back and thighs, nausea, vomiting, sweating, and dizziness. Now, the four of them were going to find out who was responsible for this and then they will exposed them for the trouble that caused for so much people! 

"So, if we're staying, where are we going to sleep?" asked Jamie. Mia thought for a moment, "Hmm...I think we've only got one spare room, but it's pretty small for all four of us." She mused. But Saruta spoke up, "I've got space at home, including spare rooms. If you guys would like, you can live with me." He said. "What?!" gasped Jamie. "Will you really?" asked Dorian. "Sure." Saruta said with excitement, "This is gonna be sweet!" Dorian noticed Mia looked a little disappointed so she walked over and said, "If you want, you can come with us. It's OK, I wouldn't mind crashing your place." Mia smiled back at her, "Thanks!" She said. Later in the day, Mia went back to Tirnanog and she was then called in by Austin that Elissa needed her. When Mia got to the room, she was surprised to see that Elissa had a cache of blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation or collection, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. There was a bunch of people that were homosapians that had supernatural abilities that Mia could use--Without eating flesh. The blood bags in the cache had labels of names so Mia decides to test it out. As soon as Mia took a sip of bleed from the cub from the blood bag she squeezed in; she begin to absorb the powers of others such as Dorian, Saruta, and Jamie. She discovered their abilities of exorcism, calamity embodiment, and death whisperer. For exorcism, The user can forcibly remove possessing entities such as ghosts and demons from the body, object or the location they are possessing or haunting. She discovers with the calamity embodiment power that the user of this power can embody calamity, the concept of the damaging disastrous event. The user can even cause damage on a cataclysmic level with maybe considered an act of misfortune. And learns with the death whisper gift, she realizes that the user is able to connect to a supernatural network that broadcasts messages about the deceased or dying, which gives them the capability to hear the voices of people who were murdered or previously died. They can gain advice from the dead sense/predict the coming death of a person. She discovers more abilities through the blood bags! Soon she was absorbing the powers through drinking them. As she absorbed the powers of the blood bags of people, Mia discovers their dark pasts and secrets of their lives. Abusive parents, bullying, a lover killed, people judging or criticizing. Murder. Torment. Once she no longer use these powers after absorbing them, Mia decided to take a break and come back tomorrow. The next day, Mia absorbed the powers after drinking more blood bags, she then mix few abilities and drank it from the beaker: She learned that the user is able perform a legendary form of magic that allow the user to cast magical spells feats through ice. In Cold regions or the cold season the user is capable of utilizing unlimited magical powers unless removed from the cold region or the cold season as passed. Most people who use this power is called an ice magician. She discovers she can take control over motor functions of humanoid forms, whether living, dead, or objects, as if they were a marionette. She can release waves, spirals, rings, pulse, blasts, balls, and bursts of energy and use them to damage, push, bind and/or paralyze people. She can send energy through any form of matter creating ruptures, and create a pulse energy that can go through anything, and depending on what the user want it can either be harmful or harmless. Mia learns can create and manipulate supernaturally powerful winds that are able to cause disproportional amounts of damage. The users can even use all of the capabilities that wind manipulation can do but more powerful and supernatural like. Dark wind doesn't just blow away, it suffocates all things and can even turn normal air into vacuum. She can manipulate the esoteric side of the air/wind that has magical properties, and are able to use it for various purposes, such as enhancing ones physical condition, and teleportation. She can shape earth to generate pillars for attacks. They may be able to guide the pillars, effective in both offensive, defensive and even trapping the targets in combat. And she can create walls of earth from nothing or by shaping the existing minerals, they can shape the wall to any shape they want, but afterwards the walls are unchanging and immobile.

For the time being, Karen had research the company's profile and background for her job. She starts by looking into their future goals and plans. She also conduct the interview with this in mind will make you seem like a good long-term investment. She was dressed professionally means wearing a smart knee-length skirt suit in a dark color, along with sheer, non-patterned hosiery, closed toe shoes and subtle makeup. She then shows courtesy to everyone during the interview. Surprisingly, Karen was hired by Madame Hulda and asked why. Then Madame begin to tell her as she walk around a little: "Life was hard. I felt as though life had thrown a lot at me, and was contemplating surrendering. Life being very hard and to continue the idea that I found it difficult to go on living. But one day, someone helped me find true love. Now I have the strength to go on…Even when I'm not there with you physically, I am always there with you in spirit. If you wanna see it not as abstract, if you give me a call, I’ll always be there. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. Whether you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right!" Madame Hulda said, she looked over at Karen and smiled at her: "So, Karen Woode, I like to say you are one who triumphs over, you shall surely know There’s so much honor and integrity and beauty in being able to be who you are. It’s important to be brave because by doing that you also give others permission to do the same." After she was hired, Karen was happier when she arrived home and her mother was happy to see her happy: "You're in a good mood." remarked Hestia. Karen beamed, "She promised to feature me more this week of the job." She answered. Hestia smiled back, "Well, she certainly should. You've been there long enough and you're the most dedicated worker in the company." She answered proudly and encouragingly. But what happens next is going to be unbelieveable for poor Karen. Because things with the madame are going to be stressful! Madame Hulda is being too nice! Her co-workers start rolling in late and blowing through deadlines, and Karen doesn’t get the feedback she needs. It could cost her a raise if she spends all year being praised only to find out at her performance review that she’s not all that impressed with Karen's work. She’s just nice. Then; her boss has no idea what her job is, or how to be a manager. So when she jumps in and tells you you’re doing everything wrong. Well, she wasn’t. The madame was alienating staff and customers. She can’t use Blind Carbon Copy. She can’t lead a meeting. She says things like “Let’s email it on the social media network.” She’s embarrassing. In awhile, things change in the madame: Madame Hulda was hurting Karen's career  by failing to provide feedback and direction and giving her negative performance reviews. Madame Hulda can be managed, manipulated, and massaged to her advantage. Madame Hulda wants to read every email she send. Madame Hulda doesn’t want her to carbon copy her—she wants to stand over her shoulder and dictate. She typed a schedule for washing coffee cups. She has strong ideas about the how toner should be replaced. She is driving Karen insane. Madame Hulda has no idea what any of her direct reports do for a living. Karen couldn't help but ask her a specific question about what she should be working on, and the madame replies with vague platitudes and off-the-wall suggestions. Stupid Madame, she has no idea what this job does. One of the staff members has a brilliant new idea, and Madame Hulda told her that the others can implement it by next week. Karen will do all the other projects as well, of course. She was just “fit it in,” maybe take lunch at her desk, and it’ll be fine. That's how the madame sees it. And when Karen makes a mistake at work; Madame Hulda takes the pleasure as she had told the whole office about it, loudly. Karen feels as if she is getting ulcers and losing her grip from the stress. And she is certainly not getting a raise.

Then, it got even worse week by week later, Madame Hulda files a freedom of information request seeking the balance in the district's account. Because her family spends away money in such an account, she assumes that the school district does the same thing. She wants to approve every news release issued by the school district, and wants final editing rights on the school district newsletter. She votes to assign members of the board to district classrooms for the purpose of evaluating other workers. Madame Hulda begins her tenure by telling cooks what to serve in the work lunch program. She spills all the details of an executive session on negotiations to the union. She also requests a master key so that she can randomly visit rooms and offices at night and weekends. Even helping those special needs kids is where she doesn't show her kindness for them--As she claims she has a 'soft spot' for them: She shows little concern for the children, denies the existence of the child, blames the child for thei problems in school and the parents for raising them. She asks staff and caregivers to use harsh physical discipline if the child misbehaves. Madame Hulda sees the child as entirely bad, worthless, or burdensome. She demands a level of physical or academic performance the child cannot achieve. And looks primarily to the child for care, attention, and satisfaction of emotional needs. Even Karen notices the children are changing by the abuse and oppression that Hulda has done them: They show sudden changes in behavior or school performance, they not received help for physical or medical problems brought to the parents’ attention, they begin to have problems of difficulty concentrating that cannot be attributed to specific physical or psychological causes. They are always watchful, as though preparing for something bad to happen and lacks adult supervision. They are  overly compliant, passive, or withdrawn, they refuse to come back to that place. Madame Hulda rarely touches the children or looks at them, the relationship entirely negative and states they don't like her. In the meantime, Elissa remembers her memories more of her childhood: Where her younger self begins to test her powers even more! She struggled with them at first but after she practiced more; Elissa got the hang of it. That night, Elissa begin to notice that there was a ship and she used her gravity powers to fly over  to the ship and took a peek of what's going on. Looks like a celebration! Then, Elissa could recognized one of them--The boy she rescued from his brutal torment! Elissa felt content to watch these people. "Hi there!" A voice said. Elissa gasped, startled and turned around to see Waylon, Dennis, and Hermod. "Quite a celebration, huh?" Waylon asked. "Shh! They'll hear you!" Elissa whispered. She glanced over but luckily, nobody could hear them. Elissa grinned enthuastically, "Wow! I never seen such people so....Happy. It looks like fun, doesn't it?" She asked. "Ah, I do too like the sights of friendship." sighed Dennis, then he realized something: "Oh! Where are my manners? My name is Dennis and these are my friends--He's Waylon and that's the thunderhead yet daydreamer name Hermod." That's when a storm came in and Elissa flew away from the gravity powers and could see that the gang on the ship were in trouble. The ship was falling apart! So, Elissa used her song to save them all. "Darling won't you come and play? With my heart, and won't you stay? I'm your love, and don't you see? How happy that us two could be? Overcome with willful desire, only I can quench the fire. Never gone!" That made everyone get to safety as they all wondered who was that singing. Then, Elissa learns about the trio's miraculous surviving stories that she never dreamt that would happen to them.

Meanwhile; Saruta injured himself as he took to the extreme as he was trying to fix Mia's car. "That's what you get for not being careful." remarked Mia. Saruta rubs his head with a free hand and laughs nervously. "Are you OK?" asked Dorian with concern. "I'm fine." assured Saruta but he flinches as he said, "J--just a painful scratch..." Jamie stared at him in disbelief, "'Just a painful scratch'? Saru, you nearly cut your entire arm off! Be careful next time!" He said. As Dorian started bandaging his arm, Mia came up to the gears and said, "I'm going to continue fixing any bugs. You just sit down outside and heal that arm." Saruta wanted to protest but Jamie and Dorian made stopped him. They helped him, while Mia sorted out any gears he'd loosened and bloodied. As she worked, Mia begins to remember how she saw her mother happy with a new man: It turns out that the man married to her mother is her stepfather and her biological father was an abusive man with drug addictions. Boy, the way he treats her like last week's dog crap. When she was younger, Mia did not want to put her mother to go through this. She told her mother to leave while she still can. "I know you must love him but you don't deserve this..." After she was done, Mia begins to write in her journal about a scary paranormal experience she suffered in order have more ideas for her stories: "When I was a kid, I once sat at the table near the window. I can't remember what I was doing but I can tell you one thing, I will never look out the window at night again however I will only look cautiously. Anyway, I was just sitting there bored when all of a sudden, I saw something passed by. Someone wear a peach colored dress or robe. I was startled, my mom and dad who heard me gasped asked me what was wrong. I told them that I saw a ghost, they try to ask me and I told them what I saw. My dad looked around outside--There was nobody there! My mom try to comfort me, she suggest that maybe I saw an angel. However, I got so tearful and thought maybe it was Grandpa Andy, my mom's father who passed away from lung cancer. Maybe he came down from the afterlife as a way to be passing through. I was a kid at the time and as I grew up and sat back to remember that night, I wasn't sure what I saw. Was it an angel? A ghost? Maybe a spirit haunting? Whatever it was, I will never look out any windows at night ever again. Never." She also vents her anger over the angst over Jocasta under the name, Phaedra. The first paragraph she wrote: "She cares not for your taste, interior decorating or wedding-planning choices, and for one simple reason: Hers are better. She’s done this before, she knows what her son likes, and you, well, know nothing. Or so goes her logic, as she 'molds'  you. Over time, her sins accrue, stoking your quiet inferno. First, these unwelcome bits are meant to be sweet—like when she tearfully bestows upon you her dusty and not-quite-your-taste wedding veil." In the second paragraph, it says: "She’s gone beyond doling out advice and whipping up window treatments. In fact, she’s got a hand in everything, from your honeymoon plans to your bank account. She’s memorized your social. She finagled a key to your house. And if you invite her to be part of your wedding planning, she’ll take over." And in the third, it was written: "Her soon to be fiancée's her baby, and she is the devil woman as she will not get in the way of the very, very special bond she shares with her little boy. When you first started dating him and she told you hilarious stories about how he called apple juice as a toddler, whilst dusting off his sixth-grade soccer trophy in his old bedroom, still as it was before he left for college, you should have run. But now, you’re in love with the man."

After drinking the blood at the cache; Mia could see the memories inside of her head: Prospero finds out that all his memories and relationships, that his entire existence is fabricated and that in reality, no one actually knows him, that he’s a stranger even to himself. Cyrus’s adoptive father and most important person in his life passes away, leaving him alone and with a task. Elias has been afraid of letting anyone get close to him since his teen years, knowing only harm will come to them… and when he eventually does allow others near him, they are constantly put in harm’s way. Johnny was orphaned at a very young age after the death of both her parents, and likely never had any friends of her age since she was hospitalized for an illness before being taken in by the red clan… and a few years later, once again, she loses the two people whom she’s the closest to. It’s made pretty clear that these strangers she didn't meet person to person are mostly all isolated from society due to the fear their powers create in people, and although all these people find themselves part of a group of people, it’s a bittersweet and fragile bond that could be broken at any time. Mia felt emotional as she has sympathy for all them. Those people, they were suffering so much. She ran away to take a walk however, she bumped into some people and looked as she saw Saruta, Dorian, and Jamie. "Oh. Mia! Yo, so what's up?" Saruta said, along with his friends beside him, who waved at Mia. "Saruta..." She couldn't hold on with her feeling, and finally burst to tears. "Whoa.. whoa.. why were you crying? D-don't cry!" Saruta said with surprised, he didn't know what to do. Then hugged you tight and wiped your tears. "I--I--" Mia  told everything to Saruta, She just felt that he's the only one she can trust now. "Don't worry, I'll protect you. And I'm gonna go get them for sure. Also, you can come and join us." Saruta hugged her tightly. Mia finally stopped crying, and then smiled at Natsu. The brightest smile you ever had, "Thank you Saru." She whispered. "Awww! You both like each other...." Dorian said while she giggled. As she was better from today; Mia begins to write things down such as a horrible comment from a former friend, who was a mean girl name Parisa: "The truth is the reason why you don't talk much, is because all you talk about is anime, there's more to life then just anime. That's the reason why we drifted apart. And your religious views and your beliefs annoy the shit out of me! I was only nice about it because you where in the same state as me and I was willing to look past it in hopes we could do something in person. Your not that open minded, I can't stand talking to you for a long time because we barely have anything in common. So same way you said 'trust me, it's me not you'. Trust me, it's me. Not you. You're fine on your own path, just I never saw much hope or value in our friendship. I just saw the love for anime. That's all we have in common." That's when, Mia had a memory-vision inside of her head: A scientist was experimenting on strange looking fishes he kept in luminous waters in their tanks and he was getting quite bored of it. That's when his life changed one day when he discovers a raven haired, pale faced beauty stark-naked and skinny dipping in the water when she accidentally hits her head and drowns. The scientist revives her back to life somehow with methods of raising the dead but then, this Snow White beauty was now a zombie as she comes to life and to pounce the scientist. To this day, the scientist was never heard from again. Years later within hours of the tanker accident, it started happening. The animals had gone crazy, they were scratching and biting the clean up volunteers. They said that it was an adverse effect to whatever was in that tanker. Rescue workers were still trying to get the crew out of the ship. They could hear screaming inside. Screams to open the doors. But that’s when it all went to hell. As soon as they cut the door out.

Mia was walking one day when she came across a ghoul whose feet of flesh was peeled and she was hungry but then, Mia took down the beast and ate the flesh of the ghoul! Then, a male ghoul had scarring around his chest as he try to grab Mia but failed as Mia was too fast for this creep. Knocked him to the ground and ate his flesh too! There was a screaming female ghoul who try to kill Mia but she too met the same fate. Even a ghoulish girl with no cheeks and teeth were only left was attacking Mia! Once that was over; Mia begins to have flashes of memories in her head: One of the college students came out after her feet were dipped in the shallow waters of the beach. She emerged from the ocean to say, "Guys? There's something wrong with this beach." To prove her point; the skin of her feet was melted off and her bony toes were exposed. Worst, the salty water was burning and kids cried at how painful it was. Parents comfort their children but they are horrified when they discovered the burn against their skin. It all became chaos: People screamed, their arms thrashing as there was melted flesh, bleeding stumps of where hands and arms used to be, and bones were exposed. The medics arrived but they didn't look like any medics, they took all those with damaged bodies and others who didn't suffer the same effects. The people with no damaged skin try to escape but they were knocked unconscious. A man was in pain as metal bars against his chest yelled out and grimaced. A woman was screaming and blabbering something incoherently as needles were being injected into her. A female scientist bent over as she placed the jagged blade on the side of the patient's cheek. Slowly, she began slicing into the patient's right cheek. Blood drizzled down the patient's neck as the scientist did it. The side of her teeth began to show after about ten seconds. As the saw went lower on the patient's face, more of her teeth began to show on the side. Blood covered almost the entire right side of her face. She eventually got to the bottom of her jaw bone, and sawed a tiny piece off of it too. Her cheek fell to the ground with a small thud, and the scientist put the saw in her lap and looked emotionless. Then, the poor patient screamed in extreme pain. She screamed, and put her hands over her now absent cheek. She continued to scream in agony for about ten seconds. She pushed the patient back on the autopsy table as the scientist then raised the saw up to her right shoulder, and began cutting just as slowly as last time. Mia was sickened by what was going on of the memories, she then felt nauseating and threw up in the toilet after rushing to the bathroom. She held her hair back and spew every stomach contents before flushing the toilet's handle. She went to the blood cache and then, she found two blood bags. One blood bag was labeled 'DRAKE' and the other was labeled, 'ALEXANDER'. Then, she saw their pasts after sipping away at their blood. Drake's past was a dark one. Drake and his sister, Tertia, lost their parents as Drake had to take care of his sister. It was his first day in freshman that he was trying to find the one person who was his friend. But ran into the nerdy boy that he first met on his first day who is annoying but nice. He finally found his friend, Shancai, who was talking to a bunch of people Drake did't know too well. Shancai introduced him to these people and talked about things that did't involved him. So, Drake was stuck in the orientation speech and then, it was lunch but then, Drake was looking for a place to sit at. He was an outsider as he didn't know what to do. He had sat with Shancai but has nothing in common with his friends. However things changed when he comes across a guy in his class who sits with him, "Nice pants, you're Shancai's friend right?" He said. Drake had a strange feeling about this guy so he talks with him. But in the end, the friend he knew was troubled and he caused a school tragedy that awakened Drake's half-homosapian roots. He became skilled with a gun and joined Kora's team of ghoul hunters. And he accepts! 

If that was't bad enough, Alexander's was bad enough as well: Like Drake, he too lost his family in a tragedy and lived with someone who adopted him in the care. Alexander had seen terror around him in his life. Lying in his bed and looking straight at the ceiling. He was quite scared actually. Firstly, a dead body he found in his neighbor’s home, then meeting an earl and his creepy butler who seems like he could be the murderer and every crime commit with the same smile on his face. And now that letter, as if all of that wasn’t enough. Alexander found it under his pillow and he would't be sleeping tonight. "I will get you. It said. Alexander was so scared, "Where is he now?" He thought. Whoever he was, Alexander will be ready. Then, one day he was almost killed and shot the murderer but was shocked to see that it was the earl that adopted him! He rushed out to find the butler but was horrified by this discovery, the butler was dead and Alexander's half-homosapian powers awoke as he was part of Kora's team. Then, Mia begin to sense trouble was ahead and then she found the ghouls attacking someone. As soon as she tries to fight the ghouls, all of them are lying on the floor with whatever color blood they have oozing out of them. She looked at their lifeless corpses and begin to chew away at them as she was so starving! "Damn" A voice said. Mia turned around, blood staining her lips and she smiled back: "I know, I know, I'm so strong." She said. Tertia tackled her to the ground and try to kill her but then, someone interfere: "Let her go" Another young man said from behind Tertia, which made her froze and blush red around her cheeks. Mia could see that was Alexander. Mia landed on her back but got up quickly. "Hey, leave her alone" Alexander said. Tertia snarled and him and dropped her. Mia winced when she hit the ground and Drake came to her aid. Alexander walked over to you to make sure you weren't hurt, then to Tertia he looked at her before he spoke. "Why did you do that exactly?" He asked. Tertia looked down in embarrassment. "I'm not sure. I won't do it again" She said. Mia thought how she was so close to punching her in the neck that if she said anything else she would. Drake watched her leave, scowling at her. "Don't touch her again sis! We need her!" He said before she left entirely. Mia brushed herself off and went for the door. But more ghouls came and they all took them out. They managed to escape the horde to find themselves in a house and Mia was allowed to stay in for the night. Mia went upstairs and fall asleep looking at the sunset from the balcony. In her sleep, memories were displayed in her mind: At the stroke of midnight, a scream originating from a room that had ghouls who are loitering towards the humans. The ghouls look hungry as they find the ghouls and the people who are trapped as the ghouls got closer as they are not willing to let them live. A few minutes later, the room was now filled with large portions of skin and muscle. Lungs, hearts, and other organs scattered the floor. Rib cages ripped open and seen with maggots feasting on the meaty matter of the body. Mia woke up and she fought off the nausea of throwing up again. 

However, Mia then had a vision inside her mind when she had a drink of some sort of blood that seemed untouched and pure. That's when she discovered from the blood of the secrets to homosapians' greatest saviors known as The Seven Sons! The seventh son of a seventh son is a concept from folklore regarding special powers given to. The legend states the 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' is the unborn one in the poetic sense, 'He' being preordained by his birthright too be a 'Maker of Things' endowed with gifts of 'second sight' 'predicting the future' 'healer' 'lucky' and a 'devil may care attitude' being referred to as the 'Divine One' or the 'Chosen One' who has a 'special purpose in life' for the 'Lord of Hosts' who is also cursed by the good & evil forces battling for his eternal soul. He is a person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. Not all the gifts of the seventh sons of a seventh son are so benign, however. According to one superstition, the seventh son in a family of all boys is prone to fall victim to a curse that would turn him into a luison. In the original story, the luison is said to be the God of Death and had a horrendous figure. His face was long and pale, and much of his body was covered with long dirty hair. He also had frightening eyes and had the stench of death and decay around him. One of the former seventh sons did and his name was Luka Belleross. Then, Mia finds out who are the Seventh Sons because she met them! Saruta, Dorian, Jamie, Drake, and Alexander! Even if she was a girl, Dorian was a Seventh Daughter as the rules change for a bit. Mia felt her heart beating in her chest and went pale. Drake noticed she didn't look so well, "Can I get you anything?" He asked. Mia shook her head, "Nah. I'm fine...." She muttered. But she knew that her life was going to change for good. Not as a ghoul eater, or a protector, but also to find the truth about all this.