All Chapters of The Shadow Pact: Bound to the Demon : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

22 Chapters

Chapter 11- On a Healer's Doorstep

Noah could feel and hear, yet couldn't at the same exact time.It felt as if his senses were covered by a fog only letting little slivers through.The occasional slimy warmth at the back of his throat and the feeling of it pouring out his mouth onto himself, he felt it.He could also feel Kael pace round the room, Kathleen's warm hand on his skin and, though muffled, the sound of their argument."We need to get him to a hospital now, why can't you understand that" Kathleen raged, her hand squeezing the sofa so tightly the fabric wrinkled beneath her grip.She understood she can't fight him off and make a run for it with an unconscious, constantly vomiting Noah. She needs his help to move Noah but for some reason he refuses to help her take him to the hospital.Kathleen made up her mind, consequences be damned, she needs to get her friend to the hospital.She rubbed the tears away from her eyes and grabbed onto Noah to hoist him up but as she did so more blood gushed out of Noah's mout

Chapter 12- What Should not be Spoken

Mama stood over the man laid out on the table before her.A chill crawled up her spine, raising goosebumps along her skin.Something about him was wrong.Deeply wrong.Her gaze flickered to Kael.He sat hunched over, face buried in his palms, his foot tapping relentlessly against the floor.He looked like a man barely holding himself together, like one more push would shatter him completely.She exhaled slowly.Her beads and chains clinked softly as she lifted her hands in quiet surrender. The sound was almost melodic… as if something unseen acknowledged her decision.“I’ll heal him.”Both Kael and Kathleen snapped to attention, relief flashing across their faces“But,” she continued, her tone sharpening, “I need to protect myself first.”“Protect yourself?” Kathleen frowned. “He’s unconscious, he’s not- ”“What’s wrong?” Kael cut in, his voice tight. He shot Kathleen a warning look before turning back to Mama.Mama didn’t answer immediately.Her eyes lingered on Noah.“Tell me exactl

Chapter 13 - A Sight to Remember

Silence.Not just a sound but a feeling as well. All Noah could see, could feel.The darkness stretched on and on and on, Noah felt himself going insane. The charred herb scent he had clung to had long faded with the light.He felt truely alone.The sound of his heartbeat was the only sign he's still alive but as time went on he began to doubt if it is even real.He had let the darkness take him. But a gut wrenching cry broke through the silence and his ears perked up, desperate, following the sound.He found himself on the group, bleeding. His body felt battered, his voice broke as he screamed, his throat felt dry and sore but he cried out anyways.The dust of the earth flew erratically due to the biting wind, flying into his eyes and down his throat the sky looked red as if it might rain blood.All he could do was watch Kael get dragged in to the mouth of a portal by a man he couldn't see.Each time he tried to reach out to stop the man, he felt a hot sensation in his throat. He fe

Chapter 14 - As the Mind Shatters

A heavy, exhausted silence covered the room.The room smelled of burnt sage and copper. It felt heavy, it clung to the skin like a dumbbell.Kathleen arguably, felt the most weight. Nothing made sense but did at the exact same time.Mama had long stood up to clear up the room whilst Kael and Kathleen sat on the floor in silence.But unlike Kael's fixed, stern gaze, Kathleen's was erratic. She didn't know what or whom to focus on.She pushed herself off the floor, her legs trembling so hard she had to grab something to stabilise herself."Explain it," Kathleen said. Her voice didn't shake, but it was thin, like a wire stretched to its breaking point.Mama didn't look up from the clean up she was doing. The rhythmic gentle sound of her broom against the wooden floor boards was the only sound in the room. Kael, however, flinched. He was slumped against the far wall, his knees drawn to his chest. To Kathleen’s new eyes, he didn't look like all that calm ; he looked like his was a step a

Chapter 15- Weapons Out

The evening sky, a beautiful sight to behold.The setting sun, the golden hour. The neon lights being turned on one after another.A beautiful combination of rush hour and the beginning of the rest period of the day.It's calm and rewarding after a long day, that is except Kathleen and the rest currently sitting in her truck. The rickety truck cranked and groaned as it drove through the highway on it's way to Noah's apartment.Kathleen's brows were furrowed, her hands gripping the steering wheel so hard her knuckles turned white. Each time the truck shook and her eyes panned to the back where Noah and Kael sat, her eyes hurt.The energy around them was so strong and dense now they sat close to each other.She sighed and rubbed her brows wondering what her life has turned into.Noah on the other hand felt uncomfortable, his brain felt wrong. Like there's something he's forgetting.At first he passed it off as a side effect of falling into a coma but as he looked at Kael that nagging

Chapter 16 - Silence in the Middle

Noah stood still, letting the lukewarm water from the showerhead pour over him.He tilted his head back, eyes open, letting the spray sting his retinas and fill his mouth.His taste buds struggled to categorize the flavor, metallic, flat, like old pipes and city chemicals but he made no effort to wipe it away. He just wanted to feel something that wasn't the dull, magnetic thrumming in his chest.He sighed for the nth time, trying to let the feeling out.Finally, he stepped out, the bathroom air feeling unnervingly cold. He glanced at the man in the mirror.Sunken eyes, pale skin. He looked like a sketch of himself draw by a blind five year old.Another sigh threatened to rattle his ribs.He knew Kael was sitting just on the other side of that thin wooden door. He could feel him. A heavy, localized pressure that made the air in the bathroom feel heavy.The apartment had become a tomb of awkwardness after the police had finished their sweep and left them with a broken door and a millio

Chapter 17 - Morality and Loyalty

"Good afternoon detective"Duke didn't even grunt in response, nothing felt good about the afternoon not the day.The afternoon sun cast a harsh glare on him, as if it wanted to burn away the part of him that chose Mitch over what was right. To strip him of every excuse he had left to justify Mitch's actions.He clenched and unclenched his hands as he walked up to his cruiser.The steering wheel of the cruiser felt like lead in Duke’s hands. He didn't start the engine. Instead, he sat in the dim, flickering light of the precinct parking lot, watching the heat rise up from the asphalt, the sunlight bouncing off cars into his eyes. He didn't know how long time had passed but all of a sudden it was drizzling. A poor miserable attempt to drive away the heat. It looked like tears on the face of a man who had forgotten how to cry.In the passenger seat sat a manila folder. It was thin, containing only a few grainy stills from a neighbour's Ring camera and a redacted dispatch report from t

Chapter 18 - The Noise Behind the Static

“That’s all for today” the lecturer announced signaling the end of the class.Noise erupted inside the lecture hall as students were either preparing to leave the lecture hall or were already skipping out the door. Noah wasn’t ready to leave yet, he wanted to wait for the hall to be empty so that he can try and talk to Kael. The silence bothered him more than he would like to admit, he missed what they had before and wanted it back. But Kael wouldn’t let him, as he was arranging his words Kael had already made his way to the door.Noah had no choice but to follow lest what happened in the previous class occur again. But that didn’t stop him from trying as they walked out.“Can we just-” Noah started, his voice, though echoing off the sterile concrete walls of the hallway, was getting drowned by the hustle and bustle of students around him. The speed Kael walked and constantly bumping into other students didn’t help one bit. Noah had to push through and run up to Kael before he spo

Chapter 19 - Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

It was a canopy of sounds around Noah, from the sound of the door being broken from its hinges to the angry shouts and reprimands of the staffs of the bar to the screams filled with fear and finally the sirens and noise brought by the law enforcement officers. It was all a blur to Noah, the bustle reduced to background noise as his mind ran in circles.I saw him. But I saw him. It can’t be, he was alive just now.Over and over again, his brain sang it like a mantra. Trying to preserve his sanity yet at the same time doing exactly what it sought to prevent.“Hello? Are you still with me?” A police man snapped his fingers repeatedly in front of Noah’s face and brought him back from the sink hole of his thoughts.The night had become colder and because of the open door, the cold seeped in causing Noah to tremble. The journalist had begun to arrive, the snap of their cameras forming a perfect harmony with that of the examiners on site.One of the detectives on site cursed upon seeing the

Chapter 20 - REDRED, BLUEBLUE

“Dispatch we’ve got a confirmed DOA at a bar. Requesting backup”The rain lashed against the window of Duke’s car. The wipers fighting a losing battle against the downpour. Each rain drop sounded like stones were being thrown at his window, threatening to break through the windows.Duke sat inside the car and stared blankly out the windshield, his grip tightening and weakening around the steering wheel his knuckles turning pale white.The radio crackled again, the static biting through the quiet gloom of the patrol car. Duke started at the dashboard but didn’t answer the dispatcher immediately.He couldn’t.Inside the small, confined space of the cruiser, the ghost f his argument with Mitch was still screaming at him, the guilt he tried to bury growing each passing second. Duke exhaled, the sound shuddering in the cold air. He wanted to scream. He wanted to drive the car into a wall, or better yet, drive until the city lights were just tiny specks in the rearview mirror.But then,

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