The speakers throughout the school project a loud voice.
“There have been several casualties already. Surrender within the next five minutes or Margret Bryant will be the next one to die,” Legion demands again.
5 minutes? Why is everything 5 minutes with him? Other there any other denominations of time?
I want to move but, no matter how hard I fight, I’m trapped here. I’m bound by Damien’s energy.
I’m so angry with him right now. How could he do this to me? There is more blood on my hands because of him.
“Let me go,” I say. “We can’t let this go on any longer. I have to save Maggie. I don’t care what it costs.”
Legion targeted her because she’s my friend. I won’t let her die for me.
“This is my failure,” Damien says. “I’ll fix this.”
“Just let me go,” I beg. He doesn’t pay attention to me. Does he even care?
He goes over to his two allies. He quietly tells them to protect me while he’s gone. “I’m going to end this,” he says.
“Wait,” our teacher, Mr Davidson, says. “I don’t understand what is going on, but I can’t let you go out there.”
“You don’t have a choice,” Day says.
Mr. Davidson turns to Officer Paige, “Tell him he has to stay here.”
“I can’t,” she says. I don’t think anyone can make Damien do anything.
He leaves the room to fight the Legion incarnations. Up until now, Day has been held back by the fear of Legion massacring the students. But once Maggie dies, Legion’s going to start going through the classrooms looking for me and people are going to get scared. Some will fight, some will run, but many will die. Day puts on a mask and starts searching the halls for Legion.
As Day fights, I’m still trapped here. I try to move, but I can’t. Maggie’s in trouble and I’m powerless.
I know what I have to do. I try to clear my mind. I need to slow the beating of my heart. I can’t be afraid. I can’t be angry. I can’t be anything but calm.
It’s time that Legion found the Sword of God.
The world starts to fade away. I am the light. Nothing can hold me.
I stand up.
As I embrace the light again, I realize something very important. I can feel them. I can feel Legion. All over the school, with their little guns. They’re weak. I can wipe them all away. I can kill them from here.
There are other demons here of course. I’d have to kill Mike. I can another one of Damien’s allies in the halls. She’d have to go too. Damien would likely try to stop me but even he’d fall to my light. Officer Paige is a human, but maybe I’d kill her for good measure. If I embrace the light, I’ll kill everyone who’s trying to save me. I don’t want to be that person.
I need the light to stand and do what needs to be done, but I can’t let the light define me. I think about Maggie and our friendship. I think about Day. I think about my mother. There’s so much in this world that I love. I need to let that love define my light. I can control the light. It will give me strength.
I start to leave the room.
“Stop,” Paige says. “It isn’t safe out there.”
She tries to get close to me, but I stop her and I keep walking.
The Demon tries to stop me too, but he can’t do anything in the face of my power.
Both of them promised Day that they would protect me, so they do the only thing that they can. They walk along side me as I go to the main office to surrender.
There will be no more bloodshed because of me.
It’s time to break the cycle of violence.
It’s time for me to die.
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