The Demon King (The Demon King, #1) - Completed

Chapter 2 - Demons

Shauna did not shut up for the next two hours we had been locked up. I was surprised I hadn't punched her yet because I really felt the urge to knock her out. And I could tell many of the other girls felt that way too. I probably would have knocked her out if I didn't have Thomas laying asleep on my lap. I wouldn't want to wake the poor kid up.

I gently ran my fingers through his soft brown strands. The poor kid had lost his entire family and I couldn't even begin to imagine how he felt. Losing your family, especially at such a young age, is absolute torture. Emotional torture.

"Hey, how is he doing?" I heard someone ask. I turned to look and watched as Pam settled down beside me. It seemed as if I was going to make good friends with Pam. She seemed to dislike Shauna just as much as I did.

"Truthfully, I don't know. He's asleep right now so I guess that's good. For now." I stated as my gaze fell once again on Thomas. I couldn't help but feel grief for him. He was just so young and innocent and he shouldn't have to go through the pain of losing his entire family.

"Poor kid." Pam muttered before she closed her eyes and rested her head against the cold cell wall.

"Why do you care so much about the stupid kid? You all have the same fate as him." Shauna said as she sneered down at Thomas.

My hands clenched into tight fists at what she said. I didn't think it possible to hate her more than I already do but I guess I was wrong. How heartless was she? This poor kid has lost his entire family to the hands of the Demon King and she's asking us why we care so much about him. I know we have the same fate as him but at least we didn't lose our entire family like he did. And not to mention how much older and more emotionally capable we are of handling things unlike him who's only the age of five. He should be living a happy life, being loved by his family and learning new things in a safe environment. He should be out exploring this world of ours and making new friends along the way. Not being stuck here in Rovana, having his entire family killed by the Demon King. He shouldn't be here, awaiting his own death.

"I'm honestly done with you." Pam got up and stalked over to Shauna but before she could do anything, we heard the cell door being opened.

All of us turned to look at the door. Most of us gasped and moved away from the door once we saw the demons on the other side. I gasped too. There were three demons and I couldn't even begin to explain how frightening they looked.

They were really big first off. Taller than any human you'd see roaming earth, and more muscular than you could imagine. They were simply huge. Their eyes were complete pits of darkness and their teeth looked really sharp. Other than their massive size, their darkness filled eyes and unbelievably sharp teeth, they looked like any other human. They had normal human like hair, ears and noses.

The one with spiky black hair, entered the cell and we all pressed ourselves against the wall and away from him. Except for Shauna, she just stood there with a flirtatious grin on her face. I wanted to smack her a hundred and something times. One of the demons outside payed close attention to Shauna with a grin on his face. The third one just stared down at the ground, waiting.

The spiky-haired demon scanned the entire room with his dark eyes before they landed on me. His gaze lowered down to Thomas. He then proceeded towards me before he reached out to grab Thomas from me.

I screamed and pulled Thomas closer to me. Thomas woke up from my scream and looked around to see what was happening. Once he saw the demon standing in front of us, he clutched onto me tighter and started sobbing. "Please help me Izzie. Please don't let him take me to the Demon King." He cried out and I held on to him as tightly as I could.