The Mysterious Demon

-Nickolas’ POV-

I watched as ‘Angel’ was carried off of the ring with a smirk on my face. The pride I felt watching my sister win her fights was huge. She was doing amazingly -despite the gore- and I knew her fight with Xavier would go just as well. There was no way she would lose, not when her goal was right there in front of her.

I was preparing myself to watch the next match but was then brought back to my senses when I looked around and couldn’t find any of my gang. They were all gone. I tensed my muscles and was about to turn when I was stopped by something cold and metallic hitting my back.

I moved in an attempt to grab either the gun or the person holding it but when I did, the person moved the gun away from my body and pointed it to something in front of me, in the ring. I followed the direction with my eye to see it pointed at Dominic. This made my whole body freeze.

“Come quietly or I’ll kill her,” the guy whispered into my ear. “Don’t-” “And the rest of your precious gang members,” he carried on which made my mouth shut.

The Men of Mayhem. I was so prepared to protect Dominic I forgot what type of gang they really were. Psychology and using people’s emotions was what they did. They weren’t going to go for the person until they were emotionally scarred. It was the same here. They weren’t after Dominic, they were after the people she loved, and, they’re able to easily get to me by using my gang- my friends. People they know I can’t just ignore.

Shit.

The man then grabbed my arms, tying them behind my back and dragging me out of the bar without anyone noticing. Of course, they wouldn’t, they were too busy with the fights. Before I exited the place I looked towards the ring for the last time. Praying she’d be okay.

When we got out, he took my guns away from me and shoved me forward. I tried using that moment to spin and kick the person behind me which was successful. While he was hunched forward I hit his head down with my own as hard as I could. I was going to continue or try to free myself but two other men came from behind me, holding me down and putting some sort of cloth on my head, stopping me from being able to see.

As I kept struggling, I was still being shoved until I was hit into what felt like a van and thrown inside, crashing my head against its floor.

“Nick?” I heard something call out, making my ears perk as I tried looking around and breathing heavily. “Nick hold your breath,” the voice carried on drowsily. “Zack?” I called out but he didn’t answer. I tried holding my breath for as long as I could but it was too late and I started to blackout

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When I was coming back into consciousness, I found myself in a really cold cage. After getting over my temporary dizziness, I got up to find the rest of my gang in separate cages around me.

“Nick,” I turned to see Jake who was the first to see me awake. He looked at me sadly. Everyone else also turned to me after that.

“Is everyone okay?” I made sure and they all confirmed that they were which made me sigh in relief.

“Does anyone have anything on them?” I then asked and most of them shook their heads, rechecking anyway. Jason said he did though and bent down into his show and pulling out a small knife. “I don’t think this will come in handy right now though,” he then said so we decided to sit and wait patiently instead.

I didn’t know how much time passed but then men started coming into the room. “Well, well, well, look what we have here! Five men will die because of a girl!” Samual chuckled, encouraged by the entertained men with him. He was the one leading the group when they went against us too which was the only reason I knew who he was.

“For your information Sam, Dominic is 18 so she’s a woman, not a girl.” Zack intervened which made me grin but Samual didn’t find his joke as funny. He walked up to Zack’s cage with a glare before relaxing again and giving him a sickening smirk. “You won’t be laughing when said ‘woman’ dies now will you?” This shut the room up for a second. Suspense drifting in the air.

“What the fuck do you want from her? What had she ever done to you?!” Blake then suddenly yelled, anger clear in his voice. I understood his exclamation perfectly. It was hard for me too. The Men of Mayhem, on the other hand, looked at him with the satisfaction which made me feel uneasy.

“Even after what we did to her, she still went and found someone to love her. The girl sure does like to suffer,” one of Samual’s men then said which spiked my anger too.

“She will never stop finding people who love her and she won’t have to suffer anymore,” I growled which made Samual turn to me with a grin.

“So we have two boys who love our dear lady,” My knuckles were probably white from how hard my hands were balled into fists. My nails dug at my palm but I didn’t care about that pain. “She’s my sister you fucking skunk!” I shouted, stopping myself from going crazy or lashing out, even more, knowing I was stuck for the moment.

Before we could argue more though, there was suddenly multiple huge explosions which came from above us, causing the whole room to shake. Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

“What the fuck is going on?” Samuel asked the other guys but none of them could answer him. One of them went running up some stairs and to the door of the room but before he could open the door, he was shot dead from behind it. The door was then kicked open, light invading the room which made it hard to see for a second but once my eyes adjusted I could see Dominic standing there in all of her glory.

knives were attached to her waist, guns tied to her legs and two more were in her hands. She looked as if she was ready and prepared for the war which she had so clearly just announced with The Men of Mayhem.

“Now boys, I don’t like it when people take what belongs to me,” she stated and slowly and confidently started walking down the steps of the room.

Behind her I then saw a guy coming and pointing a gun at her, ready to shoot, “Domi-” but before I could even finish, Dominic raised one of her guns over her shoulder and shot the guys head without turned back. This shocked not only me but seemingly everyone else in the room too.

“Now I suggest that you let the boys go if you don’t want to end up dead like the rest of the men upstairs.” She threatened with hate gleaming in her eyes which made me smirk but it was short-lived since a couple of guns were then pointed at me.

“And I suggest you put your weapons down and you listen to me if you want your brother to live.” Samual then threatens back which makes Dominic look at me, the hate that was there then replaced with concern. She hesitated and I tried shaking my head to stop her but instead, she unloaded everything on her, doing what they wanted.

“Good girl,” Samual said and started walking towards her, putting his hand on her shoulder which made my muscles tense again. “Ton, Jean, bring the two over here.” he then instructed and the next I knew, my cage was opened and I was dragged out and thrown in front of Dominic, kneeling helplessly. My body was too weak to get up. Blake was then also thrown next to me, in the same position. Behind us, ‘Tom and Jean’ had guns pointed at our heads.

“Now I know you want your happy ending but I can’t have that happen. One of them will be killed- by you.” He circled around us as he said this. “I’m giving you the option to choose though. Kill your loved one or kill your brother,” He made it back to Dominic and leaned in closer to her ear. “Choose.” He ordered whilst placing a gun in her hand.

This made her physically freeze and she looked down at us with pained eyes.

“Dominic kill me.” Blake suddenly said which made me whip my head to him in shock. “You only just got to find your family and that comes before everything else. Let him live.” He carried on which I could tell was hurting him, even though he was scared. I stared at him and decided,

“No, Dominic, choose me,” I said firmly, making Blake look at me with a questioned look. “I may be your family now but you can have a future with Blake, have a new family in the future. So kill me.” I said and she kept looking between us, even more, pained than before.

Dominic then looked down at the gun in her shaking hands before, slowly, raising it. I watched her movements and then my eyes widened when she put the gun up to her own head. “Dominic!” “Dominic Stop!” Blake and I yelled but she cut us both off,

“You want me to choose?! Choose between the people I love?! Is this how my life will end up?! Endless suffering and pain?! I might as well end all of my suffering here and now!” She shouted and shut her eyes closed.

My eyes teared up as I watched her release the safety lock on the gun.

Around us, the remaining members of The Men of Mayhem had grins on their faces as if expecting this all along. My own friends looked back as panicked as I was. I let my head drop in defeat.

“-Is what you thought I’d say, right?” She then suddenly said and I looked up to see the grey eyes open and a grin played on her face.

A second hadn’t passed when the guys behind me were shot by her hand. As was the rest that was here before she turned to Samual.

“I will end all of my suffering here and now,” she said, repeating what she said before except this time with a calm and almost murderous voice. She pointed the gun at him.

“You wouldn’t actually-” he tried arguing, walking backwards in fear but she didn’t stop approaching him. “Oh, I would,” Dominic answered and shot him in the shoulder which made him shout out in pain. “That was for my stepbrother,” she then shot both of his legs, causing him to fall, “that was for my adoptive parents,” she then walked close to him and pressed the gun against his heart.

“And this…” she looked him in the eyes and said, “is for me.” “NO!” The last gunshot was heard and we all watched as Samual’s body dropped lifless on the floor.

The silent room was then filled with our cheers in celebration and happiness. I was about to get up but we were all silenced again when- “Sis!” we heard someone call and we turned to see a man run up to Dominic, as if ready to hug her.

This made me stand as quick as I could and Dominic was just as tensed as I was since she raised the gun at him, stopping him from his advance 2 metres away from her.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

“Domini-” “Who the fuck are you?!” she screamed at him but something told me, something gave me the feeling, that this wasn’t a stranger.

“Sis, it’s me… It’s Arthur!” I heard Dominic gasp and I myself stood in shock. Her stepbrother? He was supposed to be dead. “I don’t believe you,” Dominic replied but her voice broke in between. I knew she could tell. “You have to! I swear, it’s me! Remember the necklace? Remember when I started teaching you how to fight? Remember-” “You fucktard! You made me believe you were dead! You killed our parents for fucks sake! Don’t you dare take another step towards me!” But as she shouted these words, her hand shook and tears streamed down her face.

I picked up once of Dominic’s guns that were on the floor and stood behind Dominic in support. Blake did the same thing after letting the rest of the guys out of the cages.

“Dominic, I would never intentionally do something like that to you, you know that. Listen to me! They had me confined until I agreed to join their gang and do what they wanted. They said they’d kill you if I didn’t join. I couldn’t let that happen!” Arthur tried to explain and after he was done, Dominic’s hand dropped, letting go of the gun in the process. I then looked to see her hand twitching, telling me she wanted to go up to him. She turned to me, asking for permission though her eyes.

I looked back at Arthur for a second. His eyes had tears in them, he was genuine, I could hear it in his voice. So, I nodded back at Dominic. I watched as she broke into a smile and ran up to Arthur before jumping into his open arms. He laughed whilst spinning her around.

I turned away and instead looked at my gang. Zack walked up to me and swung an arm around my shoulders. “Jealous are we?” he whispered and I scoffed, “No way. She’s my sister. Nothing comes between blood… except a bullet.”

I was then going to turn back around when I was suddenly hugged into a larger chest. Arthur then pulled away from me whilst grinning. “Thank you for looking after Dominic,” he said and I nodded with a smile of my own, hoping he never finds out I bullied her for three months at a point.

He walked back to Dominic after that and fished something out of his pocket. “I believe this belongs to you,” he says and hands her something. She looked at it slowly and gasped, “my necklace!” “Correction, my necklace,” “whatever.” The lads and I grin at each other seeing them bond and seeing her happy-

“Dominic!”

I quickly turned to my sister. There wasn’t a wound but she collapsed onto the floor.

“Sis!”

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