Update

Hey guys,
    Sorry haven't posted here lately I've een busy and cant really think of a way to go in the story right now.Hopefully I'll post the next part before New Years or on New Years. Once again I'm REALLY REALLY SORRY about not posting.
                                             ~Jayfeather1997

The Hunt

The Hunt

Chapter 16

Blood Brothers

~John’s P.O.V~

They were late as usual. Claire and I were sitting in our room flipping through tv. Michael and Joey were supposed to meet us down her at noon and it was way past that.  “Maybe we should go check on them?” Claire suggested. I checked my watch, (1:37pm). I huffed, “I suppose we can.” Though secretly I was worried. They were never this late. We walked up to their room and knocked on the door. No answer so I tried the door handle. Locked. I stood there and the maid walked up the hallway. I approached her and said, “ Ma’m? My brothers and I had a fight yesterday and I can’t get into the room cause they locked me out.” She smiled and laughed alittle, “ I’ll unlock it for you sweetheart.” She walked over and slid the master key into the lock. The door clicked open and she patted me on the shoulder as she left. I walked in and heard Claire gasp behind me. They were gone. Their clothes were here and the T.V. was still on. The coffee pot was in to floor and the beds were unmade, but there was no sign of Michael or Joey. We searched around the room for clues but found none. Giving up I sat on the bed and Claire sat beside me, “ Where do you think they went?” I shrugged. “ Do you think something kidnapped them?” She asked. I stood up and checked the windows and door for forced entry but found none. “ If that’s the case then what ever it was had to have appeared out of no where into the room take out both Michael and Joey and leave again – with both oh them – and not leave a single trace.” I said. “ Is there anything that could do that?” She asked. I wracked my brain and paced the floor. Then I thought of the only thing I knew of that had the power to do that. “ Claire we gotta make a trip home come on.” I said grabbing their stuff and headed out the door.
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~Joey’s P.O.V~

I groaned.   I had just woken up and this hotel bed was so uncomfortable. My neck was stiff and my back hurt. I had fallen asleep with my hands behind me and the ached. Plus sleeping in the sitting position wasn’t helping… wait what? I opened my eyes and my head shot up. I was sitting in a chair with my hands behind me and I couldn’t move. I was in an all-white  empty room. I opened my mouth and yelled, “ hello!”  “Ouch that was my ear! You don’t have to yell it’s not going to do any good.” “Michael?” I said softer. “ No you idiot. Its Santa Clause… of course its me!” he hissed. We were sitting back to back against each other. My panic was calming down a bit, but I was still jittery. “ Where are we? What happened? Why can’t we move?” I asked him. “ I don’t know, I don’t know, oh and, I don’t know. All I know is there’s no rope binding us so it must be some kind of magic.” He said. “ So what do we do?”  He didn’t answer.  “ Who was that dude in the Hotel room,”I aksed him.  “ I don’t know. He appeared out of thin air and I jumped up knocking over the coffee pot. Next thing I know he’s beside me and when he touched me I blacked out.” “ Same. Sorta… I heard you knock over the coffee pot and got up to turn on the lights. When I got them on he’d put you over his shoulder and came after me.” “Okay so let’s see Demon maybe?”he hypothesized. I thought about this, “ could a demon knock us out by touch?” I asked. “ Hmm…  not that I know of.” He said. We both sat there and thought about what that could have been. “ I got nothing,” I said. “ Me either.”

We sat there for a while before two double doors appeared out of nowhere in the wall and a man walked in. He was wearing a white mid –sleeve shirt and black pants. He had light brown short curly hair, and dark grey eyes. He walked fully into the room and my heart stopped. Behind him protruding from his back were two large light beige-ish color wings. “ Of course.” Michael said, “ Angels.”  The man raised his hand and snapped his fingers. The pressure that had bound my wrist had suddenly disappeared and I could move.  I jumped up and Michael did the same. We uncertain looks and then turned to the man. “ Who are you?” he asked. “ My name is Zayden. I’m the son of the arch angel Gabriel and the  goddess Phobe. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” He walked closer and looked at us like one might examine an animal in a cage. Which is what I felt like knowing we were trapped here in this room with him.  As he got closer he looked to be about my age or maybe a year older. “Alright you two follow me.” He command and began to walk out the door. Michael and I followed slowly and kept looking for ways to escape, but found none.

Zayden led us to a set of large mahogany doors that towered over us by about ten feet with huge wooded door handles. He reached forward and opened the doors. They swung open lightly and I could see the people inside. There were several people sitting at a table staring at us.  “ Welcome to the Angels Den.” Zayden said and beckoned us in. He started at the end of the table and said, “ This is Trya. ( an African skinned woman with light brown eyes and straight black hair. She had s young face, but her eyes revealed her true and old age.) And this is Sable ( an Asian girl who look to be about 20 and also had black/brown hair, but had unusually purple eyes.) And Riley ( A red head with yellow orange eyes and pale ivory skin.).” Zayden then walked over to the other side of the table and said, “ This is Maliki( A man with gray hair but a young face and navy blue eyes) Raphael ( A man with blonde hair and hazel eyes.) And my father Gabriel ( The man from the hotel but here he had golden eyes) and this is the arch angel Michael.” He said gesturing to the man in the middle of the table. He had Chocolate brown hair and ice blue eyes. His red v-neck shirt hugged his body and his hands were balled up on to table infront of him. He was looking at us and I started to feel incredibly nervous so I crossed my arms over my chest.

“Okay everybody.” Michael said and the others stood and left. Michael and I were left standing in front of the doors looking at this man who had stood up out of his chair and easily stood 6’7”.  “ Who are you?”  Michael asked. “ My names Michael. In an arch angel and command the other angels in Heaven. I’m also your father.”  Michaels mouth dropped. I stood there thinking so Michael has an angel for a father. “ So why am I here?” I asked, surely they’d want to talk alone. “ Because I’m your father also Josef.” Now my mouth dropped. My father? No. “ My father’s dead.” I said angrily. He sighed, “ No Josef. I’m you father. I met your mother years ago on a beach about week before she married your father.” He paused, “ I told her the truth about who I was, what I was, and she still liked me. I spent the entire week there. She  had had a fight with you father she told me that she didn’t know if she was still getting married. And well the rest is history.”  I still didn’t fully believe him, but he seems so honest about it I was sure. “ Josef, Michael, why do you think neither of you bare any resemblance to the man you thought was your father. And why do you think you two look so similar?” I looked at Michael and he looked at me. We both realized it at the same time; how we had the same facial structure and the same body build. I look back at him, “ Wait where did my hair color come from?” Random question I know, but I was the only one with jet black hair. “ I once had black hair when I was younger. That was he only trait you caught from me that was plainly visible.”  I didn’t know what to think, but I knew he was telling the truth. I looked at Michael – my brother – to see what he was thinking. I saw it on his face, he believed it too. “ What about Sam and Kayla?” he asked. “ No they are not mine. They are you moms’ husbands’ kids.”  He turned his head to the side, then rubbed his eyes and sighed, “ I’ll be back,” he informed us and walked out looking annoyed.  He left Michael and I standing there stunned and unsure what to do. “ This is awkward.” I said.  “ You think?”  Michael snapped. I sat down in a red cushion lined bench the stood out from the wall by the door where we were standing.  Michael sat down beside me and said, “So we’re brothers?” “ I guess” He put his head in his hands and said, “ Dude that makes me feel twice as worse about that fight.”   I sat there silently, because I had no idea what to say. I was still in shock. That’s when my father and another man walked in.  “ Boys this is Ezekiel. He’s the Wings expert. Help you with your wings.”  “ Wings? What wings?” Michael asked. “ Hm… No wings yet?” Ezekiel said, “ Well this isn’t going to be fun. Come here boys.” We hesitantly walked towards him and stopped a few feet away. “Okay so we have to ‘ sprout’ your wings. You should have gotten them around fourteen but I guess since you weren’t in touch with your father it hasn’t happened yet.” He continued, “ This is probably going to be slightly painful but you’ll live.” “ How painful?” I asked. “ You have to grow two new body parts. How painful do you think?” I winced at the thought. “ Okay  oldest first I guess. Come here Michael.” But Michael didn’t move. In fact he appeared to be frozen to the spot. “ Oh for heavens sake.” Ezekiel said and walk over to him. “ It’s ok son.” Michael the arch angel said.  Ezekiel placed his hands on Michaels shoulders and they started to glow gold. Michael yelled and jumped away from him. When he grasped the edge of the table to hold himself up I could see his shoulder blades moving beneath his shirt. I gasped and started to back away as Ezekiel approached me. “ Now Josef it going to be okay.” He said but I knew better. I look around wildly for escape. Michael had fallen on to the floor and was writhing in pain on the floor. Ezikiel had grown tired of trying to approach me and snapped his fingers. Suddenly my body seized up and I couldn’t move. “ That’s better,” he said. He walked over and place his hands on my shoulders and positioned his thumbs over my shoulder blades and rubbed them in three small circles in different directions. At first nothing happened, but then I felt my back start to get warm and them burn almost like my shirt had been set on fire. My bones felt like they were breaking and popping. I could feel them slide and move under my skin. By now Michael had passed out and I was about to follow however I stayed awake long enough to hear Ezekiel and Michael talk about how long this would take. I black out after hearing it would be several hours…

~Michael’s P.O.V~

I saw my son’s on the floor and I felt guilt and regret for being the reason they were in pain.  I was going to tell them sooner but I didn’t know how. Plus they were happier where they were. But they needed me now. I walked out and found Gabriel standing outside and he said, “ How’s it going?” “ As expected.” I said. Zayden was standing behind his father  and I looked at him, “ Zayden I need you to help them figure things out.”  He nodded and walked into the room. “What’s wrong Michael?” Gabriel asked me.  “ Do you think I should have waited to tell them?”  “ I think you waited too long brother.” Gabriel had told Zayden on his thirteenth birthday. Zayden’s ‘parents’ had divorced and his mom was an alcoholic so Gabriel went down and brought him back up here and he’s  been up with us ever since. “ I don’t know. I almost didn’t want to tell them but I needed to.”  Gabriel patted me on the shoulder. “ It was the right thing to do Michael. They needed their father. They would have figured out they were different eventually.” I nodded and walked away.

I went in to the throne room of my Father and kneeled down. Father? I thought.  Yes my son?  The reply came. Did I do the right thing?

 That depends.

 On what?

Are they happier? Are you?

Yes. I’m happier with them here and I don’t know how they feel.

My son, you are a father of two children. I am a father of many. I think I can sympathize with your fear for  them, but if you are happier then chances are they will be too.

Thank you, father.

I stood up and walked out. I went back to check on my children and seen that they were sitting up on the floor breathing heavy but they had their wings.

~Joey’s P.O.V~

“Extraordinary!” I heard someone say, “ I’ve never seen wings grow that fast! It was what twenty minutes? Insane.”

“Oooh,” groaned. My head was pounding and my shoulders were sore. Growing wings was a painful job. I pushed myself up on to my elbows and sat up. My vision was blurry and I felt sick. I looked around and seen Michael sitting up a few feet away from me. His shirt was torn and barley hanging on his torso, because of the large, white feathered wings that had grown out of his back. The lights in the room made them seem to glow and looking at them hurt my already throbbing head. I looked away and seen Zayden sitting on one of the chairs looking at us. Ezekiel was still going on about it happening so quickly. Zayden looked at him and rolled his eyes  then stood up. He walked over  to Michael and helped him up. Then me helped me up. I stood up and room spun. I blinked a few times and tried to regain my balance.  Zayden handed me a shirt and I looked down. My shirt was in the same condition as Michaels and was about to fall off. The shirt Zayden handed me was equipped for a person with wings. “ Try spreading your wings. They won’t be as cramped. There’s a mirror over there if you want to see them. One of a kind I’d say.” I  walked over and looked in the mirror. I couldn’t see them well since they were folded against my back so I tried to move them. Nothing happened. I concentrated on trying to control them and I felt them move. I took a deep breath and moved my sore new wings apart. They had about a nine foot wing span and were jet black, like my hair, but the last row or two of feathers were a dark almost bronzy brown. I turned around and realized that. The Michael had walked back in. “They suit you.” He said. I didn’t look away from the mirror, but I saw him walk up behind me. “How do they feel?” I didn’t know how to describe it. They felt odd, but also in a way they felt good. Like I’d always had them but never knew about them. “ They feel… perfect.” I responded. “Good.” He turned and walked over to talk to Michael. I continued to look at my wings and move them to get the feel of them.  “ Ready for a test run?” Michael asked. I turned and he was standing by the door with Michael. Yikes that would take some getting used to.

I walked over and we followed our father out of the room. “ So what should we call you?” Michael asked. “ Um, well I am you father, so I guess you could call me father. Or dad. Whichever you prefer. Or I suppose if that was too uncomfortable you could call me Michael. But that might get confusing.”

“ Okay, dad.” Michael said. We exited the building and walked outside. The place we had been in was the size of a castle. It had several towers and the highest one went above the cloud line so the top couldn’t be seen. “ Well, lets get started.” Our dad turned towards us. “ When I was just learning how to fly millenniums ago I learned that it was best to go at it at a run then once you’ve built up speed try to push off and catch air to fly.”  He stepped out of the way and instructed one of us to start first. Michael looked at me and then took up a running stance. He sprinted forward and ran several feet be for jumping in to the air. He spread his wings and hovered for a minute before falling forward on his face. “ That was good son. Next time try pushing with your wings more. Joey. Your turn.” I swallowed nervously and then with out hesitation I zoomed forward. I ran for a few moments and then jumped up. Unfortunately I had the same pitiful results as Michael. I had gone up for a moment then fell back onto my feet and stumbled some before falling on my hands and knees.   I stood up and walked back over to the Micheals. “ Okay. Watch I’m going to fly to the top of that tower there. Meet me up there okay?” “ Okay.” We both said. Michael took of in to a run and then leapt into the air. He spread his wings out the moment his feet left the ground and then thrust them a few times to gain altitude. Michael and I ran forward at the same time and copied his steps. We jumped up and spread out our wings. Instantly I felt a jerk and push upward with my wings. I stayed up in the air and looked at Michael who had also managed to stay up. He nodded at me and we thrusted our wings to meet our dad on top of the tower. We few higher and higher until we hovered slightly about the tower then brought our wings in and lightly touched down on the roof. “ Very good. I knew you had it in you.” He said proudly. “ That was amazing.” Michael said. “ I know.” Dad replied. We spent the rest of the day flying around  the sky and hanging out with each other.

After a while we got tired so we decided to turn in. Zayden lead up to a room that was huge. It was easily half the size of John’s entire house and had two four poster beds with white bed linens. In the back of the rom there was a giant flat screen tv and by the windows there were two wardrobes against the walls. I walked over and opened one and seen all the clothes were my size. I looked at Michael and he looked at me. We both randomly started laughing so much I doubled over out of breath from laughing. We finally stopped laughing and looked back at each other. “ Can you believe it?” Michael asked. “ I don’t know, dude. This is a whole new level of unbelievable.” I said. “ Ya, but still it seems pretty real. Do you think we’re hallucinating or something?” He asked. “ No… I think this is real but, wow who’d’ve thought.”  I said. “ I know. Us brothers. No offence but I’d have never thought that.” He told me.   “ Me either.” I confessed. “Wow. I guess we’d better go to bed cause I’m exhausted.” He said. “ Wait! What about John and Claire? We just left them there. They’re probably worried.” “ I forgot about them.” Michael said. “ Me too.” I said guiltily. “ I guess we’ll talk to Micha– Dad in the morning about going back.” I agreed and changed in to night clothes. I laid down and processed todays thoughts; A new dad, an new brother, and wings. It was almost too much to process in one night. I didn’t know how I felt about Michael being my brother. Did that make Sam my half sister? I wasn’t sure. I laid there and thought about Kayla. How was she? Could my dad fix her? I decided to ask him in the morning.  I heard Michael’s breathing slow and I knew he was sleep. I closed my eyes and drfted in to a dream where I was flying and soaring through the clouds with my dad and Michael. Maybe I hadn’t lost my family after all.

 

~Authors Note~

Yay! Two updates in two days! I’m on a roll. Lol. Anyway OMG the secret it out. I  hope you like this one I was so excited to write it. I’m really happy with this one and was so into finishing it that I was working on it nonstop for hours. Well hopefully I’ll have another chapter in a about a week!

                                      ~Jayfeather1997

Top 6 Songs I listen to while writing!

When I write I usually listen to music so I can fully concentrate on writing so here are the Top Six I listen  too  . ( In no perticular order) P.S. chapter 15s under this vvvv

1. Lullaby - Nickleback
2. This Means War - Nickleback
3. Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
4. Eye of The Tiger - Survivor
5. One Last Breath - Creed
6. Gives You Hell - All American Rejects

Those are basically all I listen too when writing :) All are linked to the youtube video for the song!



The Hunt

                                        The Hunt

                                                              Chapter 15

                                                              Sold Souls

I woke up as the phone beside the bed rang. “Hello?” I asked groggily. “ Wake up call.” The woman said. “ M’okay. Thanks.” I mumbled and threw the covers off. Michael was still fast asleep and John was laying still with his eyes closed, but I knew he was awake by the way his eyebrows moved occasionally. “ Michael wake up!” I yelled and when he ignored me I shook him a few times. “ Go away!” he yelled.  I walked in to the bathroom and got a towel. I ran it under the cold water and brought it back it, “One last chance Michael.” He gave me the finger and I tossed the soaked towel at Michael. He Jumped up and gasped, “ What the Hell, Joey!” I dodged Michael as he walked toward the bathroom trying to shove me as he walked by. “ Do you two have to start so early in the morning,” John complained as he rolled of the bed. As he stood up he stretched and then grabbed his jacket and said, “I’ll be back.” While Michael was in the shower and John was gone I quickly changed in to a navy t-shirt and black jeans. I combed my messy hair with my fingers and looked in the mirror. Over-all I was satisfied with what I saw, however I could see the faint outline of the bandages John had forced me to put on last night after the fight with Michael had reopened old wounds.  Finally Michael came out dressed in blue jeans and a red long sleeve shirt. We grabbed our bags and walked outside to find John. He was leaning against the car and when he seen us coming he straightened up and got in the car.

Once we were in the car John started talking, “ Okay, so most likely you’re going to get suspended for that fight. If you get lucky and they don’t then DON’T. I repeat DO NOT. GET INTO ANOTHER FIGHT. Got it?” “ Got it.” Michael and I said in unison.  I wasn’t to happy too be going back to school after yesterday but ii knew I couldn’t avoid it.  As we got to the school Michael and I got out and walked in. I walked in to the cafeteria and found Natalie, Nichole, and Cierra.  “ Hey,” I greeted them. Nichole looked up at me and said, “ Hey your alive!” “ Ya. Why wouldn’t I be?” I asked puzzled. “Well,” She explained, “ rumor has it you got the shit beat out of you yesterday by your brother and he nearly killed you.” I sighed, rumors spread fast around her, I thought. I was about to respond when I heard the principal on the intercom say, “ would Nick and Sam Dawson please report to my office immediately!” I picked up my book bag and cast a sorrowful glance at my friends before walking to catch up with Michael.

When we walked in to the office the principal, Mr. Perry, was standing there waiting for us. As we walked into his office and sat down. “ Boys this fight went way to far. So you wanna tell me what this is all about?” Michael looked down and said, “ I’m sorry sir I just kinda lost my head. To much… recent stress.” The principal folded his hands on the desk and said, “ I’m sorry about your parents but Nick that’s no reason I try to kill your brother.” Michael nodded and I sat there quietly.  The principal sat there for a moment and then said, “ Well I’m going to go easy on you guys, two weeks after school detention. I’ve already contacted your brother so he know you’ll be getting out later than usual.”  After that he dismissed us and we went to class. By the time I finally got to gym I had explained what had happened a dozen or so times. I stood in line for roll and seen a crowd had formed around an unusually quiet Michael. “ Come on Nick! Tell us!” I heard people begging him. I found Nichole and Natalie had already started walking. I hurried over to them and they both looked at me. “ You didn’t get suspended?” Natalie asked me shocked. “ Um, no just detention for two weeks,” I explained. “ Well then. I guess that’s lucky, huh?”  I shrugged and said, “ I guess.”   The rest of the class, who had participated in gym, finished their warm ups and the  gym teachers said we were going outside to walk the track and play soccer. We walked out of the side door and traveled over to the track behind the school. We walked around the big red oval track for the rest of the period. We mostly talked about random things like school, favorite music, and television. I was listening to Nichole talk when I asked, “ you’re a fan of supernatural, right?” She looked at me, “ Ya, why?” “ How do you kill a Shtriga?” “ According to supernatural you’d have to shot it with an iron buck shot while it’s feeding on a person.” She looked at me through narrow suspicious eyes, “ Why? You know they are not real right?” I waved it off and said, “ I know just curious.”  She looked at me, but didn’t respond. The air around us became awkward and tense. Suddenly I noticed that the rest of the class had left and it was just the three of us and the two people behind us… wait those two aren’t in our gym class! I whipped around and smelt the strong smell of sulfur.  They were a about fifteen feet away and looking at me. “ Guys,” I whispered to Nichole and Natalie,” When I say so run to the school find Nick.” “ Why Sam wha- whats wrong with their eyes?!” Natalie exclaimed. “ Demons. They’re real?” Nichole whispered. I glanced at her through the corner of my eye. “ Ya they’re real.”  The demons advanced quicker to catch up since we were still walking, well rather backing, away from them. “ Okay,” I said, “ Now!” To my surprise Natalie ran but Nichole stayed put. “ What are you doing!” I yelled. “ You’re gonna need help.” She stated.  “ how are you going to help me, your just gonna get in my way,” I snapped.  “ Try me.” She retorted. I shook my head and stopped walking as did Nichole.   The demons were right infront of us now, barley five feet away. “ Well? What can you do?”  Nichole stiffened and said, “Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, et secta diabolica.” I was shocked but I remembered to continue, “Ergo draco maledicte et section. Ergo draco maledicte et legio secta diabolica” I heard a male voice behind me say, “Ut Ecclésiam tuam secúra tibi fácias servire libertáte, te rogámus, audi nos!” The demons’ eye’s got wide and they all opened their mouths but to our surprised no black smoke came out.  That’s also when I realized they weren’t attacking us. “ Why are you here?” Nichole asked. “ What do you think we are a ghost?” the blonde demon sneered, but continued,  “ think about it what better place to make deals than a high school full of young, impulsive, naïve, and hormonal teenagers?”  “So that’s it?” Michael asked, “ Deals?”  “ Yes,” she said very slowly as if teaching him a new word. “ Why?” “  Because dear boy, not as many people are making deals anymore sadly. But then the master had the idea of targeting a, uh, younger audience.” Nichole spoke up now, “ What do you tell them? Surely people here don’t wanna make a  deal with a demon this young. If what I know is true then they get what ten years? That mean at maximum they get around thirty years.”  “ Twenty nine actually.” The other demon said with a British accent, “ if you were right about the ten year part. However it actually twenty five.” Michael gave Nichole a look that said be quiet, then turned to the demon, “ Don’t you think people would notice a string of deaths like that. People from the same school all dying around the same age.”

“Doesn’t matter to us. Either way people will still make deals or others ignore the fact that we exist.”  

“ Well if you’ll excuse us we have to get going, deals don’t make themselves you know.”
“You not going anywhere,” Michael said though he didn’t sound too sure. “ Oh and who’s going to stop us? You, Michael? With what Joey and some high school sophomore?” She sneered. “ Michael? Joey?” Nichole asked. Realization shown on the demons face and she said, “sweetheart did you really think their names were Sam and Nick? No this is Michael and this ,”She paused and looked at me, “is Joey.”  Nichole looked at us like she wasn’t sure who to believe.  I stood their silently.

Suddenly the demons face changed and she was no longer looking at us but past us. A man had appeared behind us. He was tall with brown hair, ivory skin, and yellow eyes. His lips were pulled into a tight frown and his eyes showed his anger. He walked towards us and stopped a few feet behind us. He looked the demon in the middle in the eye and said, “abstulit daemon retro ad infernum, in quo est super vos non faciunt me et indicabo tibi iterum.” The demon looked like she would argue, but seemed to have lost her confidence. The demon said something in  a low whisper and then they all disappeared including the mysterious man. Michael and I exchanged glances, but neither of us knew what just happened. “ Another demon you think?” he suggested. “ No,” I replied, “It had yellow eyes. Demons have black or red eyes.”  Michael looked back at the spot and said, “ Also a demon usually leaves traces of sulfur but,” he walked back to where the man had stood, “ There isn’t anything here.” I heard someone harshly cough behind me and I remembered Nichole was still here. I looked at her and they only thing I could think to say was, “ How did you know that exorcism?” “ I watch a lot of Supernatural and just happened to remember it.” She said annoyed.  “Oh.”  “Oh?! Is that all you have to say is oh?” She yelled. “ What do you want me to say?” I asked calmly. “How about who the hell you are Sam or should I say Joey?!” Michael walked back over and said, “ calm down don’t make a scene.”  “ Calm down! You want me to calm down?” Micheal ignored her and turned to me, “ I texted John, he’s on his way.” “Alright lets go and wait for him upfront.”  I started walking with Michael when he turned around and said, “ Are you coming or not?” Nichole gave him an ill-tempered glare, but followed.

We walked to the front of the school and I checked the clock. “ We only have ten minutes until school gets out.” I informed them. John pulled up a few minutes later. Michael and I walked up to the car and said, “ okay get in.” While looking at Nichole.  “ Um, excuse me?” She she stuttered. “ Get in” Michael repeated. “ Hell no! I don’t know you or you.” She said while looking at Michael and them me. “ Okay look,” Michael started and took his hands off the car door – which he had opened a moment ago –  and pulling them on his sided, “ I’m not in the mood for this. I’ve had a really long stressful week and I don’t wanna add kidnapping to my list of problems so GET IN THE DAMN CAR!” Nichole scowled but walked to the car and opened the door. She hesitated but when Michael started to walk around the car she hurriedly got in and slammed the door shut. I got in the back beside her and she pressed herself against the door away from me.

The ride back was awful. Nobody said a thing and tensions ran high in the car. Michael stared out the window and John constantly muttered to himself and occasionally glanced back at Nichole who looked at all of us with a mix of suspicion hatred and fear. Finally we got back to the hotel and walked back to the room. Nichole was the first to speak, “ Okay so who the hell are you people?” She demanded.  John ignored her and asked, “ What happened?” I started by saying, “ We were walking the track in gym and I noticed the two people following behind  us I’d never seen in there before so I slowed down and as they got closer I could tell they were demons,  so I walked faster  and told Nichole and Natalie to run back to the school and get him, but when I told them to go Nichole stayed.” Michael took it up from there, “ I was in the gym sitting on the bleachers when some chick ran in and looked around then she ran towards me and said, ‘ Sam needs you!’ I asked for what and she said she didn’t know that there were a few girls following them and Sam was pretty freaked out. So I decided to go back out and that’s when I seen these two trying to preforming an exorcism but it failed.” “It failed? How?” John asked. Michael shrugged, “ beats me, I heard ‘em say it and it was perfectly said.” “ Hello! I want some answers!” Nichole yelled. She looked at me and I looked at John and then said, “ Okay where to start where to start, um, ok  so we’re hunters and those were demons, um,  I’m Joey this Michael and John.” I quickly informed her. “ Hunters aren’t real. Demons aren’t real.” She said slowly. “ They are both very real.” John said.  She turned to him and said, “ your all crazy.” Michael took a step towards her and she jumped back. He ignored it and said, “ You explain it then. Who were those people? Why did they disappear? You seem to know enough about the supernatural world so explain in the rational world.” Nichole opened her mouth to respond but nothing came out except, “ I can’t” Michael leaned forward and cupped a hand behind his ear, “ I’m sorry, what was that? You can’t? Can’t what?” “ I can’t explain it!” she snapped. “ Thought so.” He said. Nichole rolled her eyes and crossed her arms with a huff. “ Michael! Stop that this is serious.” John said.  Michael glared at him, but said nothing. John started pacing the room. “ Okay so we know they’re making deals. So first we  gotta find who all has been making deals.” He said. “How?” Michael asked. John looked at him, “ I don’t know.”  “ Great. We have demons making deals and we have no way to find out who’s already made deals.” Michael complained. “ It wouldn’t matter. There’s no way to break a demon deal.” Nichole said. Now John looked at her, but she didn’t flinch.  John looked grim and nodded to show she was right, “ they’re all gonna die, but at least we could warn them or something.”  “ What’s the point?” He shrugged. John walked over and sat on the bed and looked out the window. “Now what?” I asked. “ Nothing, I guess. There isn’t much we can do, except get rid of those demons.” Michael told him, “ Theres no point in going back the mystery man took care of them. I don’t think they’ll be back.” John looked intrigued and asked, “ what mystery  man.”  “ The man that got rid of the demons. He said something to them and they disappeared.”  “ Hmm.  So I guess we pack up. Oh and Claire’s awake.”  Michaels gasped, “ What? We have to go see her.”  “ Later.” John said. “ First wehad other business to take care of.” He looks at Nichole. Nichole met his eyes with a look of determination and fear. “Don’t worry we won’t hurt you.” He assured her. “ I just need you to promise me you won’t tell anybody what happened. Not for our safety but for yours. Bad thing seem to attract to people who have associations with hunting.” “ Don’t worry. I’m going to pretend I don’t know any of you.” She said and looked pointedly at me. My heart sunk a little with guilt. 

We took Nichole home and drove to the hospital. The sunny day had turned in to a rainy evening as storm clouds crowded in to the sky. We walked in the quiet hospital that smelled of sick people and antiseptic. Everything was white; the walls, floors, ceilings, even the chairs in the waiting room where white. We approached the front desk and an old woman with blonde curl hair that was in a messy ponytail and thick cat eyed glass wearing yep you guessed it white scrubs. “ Can I help you?” She asked. “ Um ya were here to see Claire Johnson.”  John said remembering the name Michael and Cassidy had given Claire the night they brought her here. “ Room 319” We walked over to the elevators and pressed the third floor button. The doors closed and the elevator rattles a shook all the way to the third floor. When it spotted I quickly jumped  out and breathed a sigh of  relief. I hated elevators, with their close metal walls and unstable cables that could send you plummeting to your death. John lead the way down the dim corridor towards Claire’s room. 313,315,317…319. We walked in and seen Claire standing in a hospital gown and looking out the huge glass window into the parking lot below. “Hey,” She said without turning around.  “ Hey. How are you feeling,” John asked “Okay. Except I don’t remember what happened.” She turned around and I was surprised she look perfectly healthy. Her skin was glowy and  her hair had a sheen to it that a sick person normally wouldn’t’ve had.  She smiled, “Michael.” She ran over and hugged him. Shocked but happy Michael embraced her in a tight hug. John and I stood there and waited. She broke away from Michael and turned to John. “ How have you been?” She asked and hugged him as well. I stood there and waited for my greeting sine we had been close before. I was shocked when she turned to me and said, “ Who are you?”

So it seemed that the last thing Claire remembered was everything that happened the day before I first met her. The doctor said it was unusual but there was nothing they could do so they discharged her. In the car we tried to prompt her memory but to my avail. Michael seemed to enjoy having Claire back on his arm again. “ I was so worried about you,” Michael told her and Claire giggled. I sat in the front since Michael wanted to sit with Claire. We got back to the hotel and John said, “ Okay we’ll hit the road in the morning, but until then we’ll have to rent an extra room for Michael and Joey.” “ But we always share one room.” Claire said slowly. “ Ya, but we have four people so we need two rooms.” John replied. “Oh.” She said.

When John came back and handed us the other door pass, Michael and I walked up to the next floor and to our room. It was exactly the same as the other room except reversed since it was on a different side of the hallway. I claimed the bed next to the window and Michael took up a spot in a chair by the coffee pot. I laid there on my stomach and flipped through channels before settling on Hell’s Kitchen. I closed my eyes and remembered how the last time I watched this show my life changed.

I must have dozed off because the next thing I knew Michael was waking me up and said something about getting my shoes off the bed so I didn’t ruin the sheets and have to pay for it. In the dark I blindly sat up kicked my shoes off and crawled under the covers. 

I woke up to a loud crash at about 4:30.  I stood up, shuffled across the room, and groped for the light switch. My fingers finally connected with it and the room was instantly floored with bright yellow light. I almost screamed at what I saw. A buff man about 6’5” dressed in a white shirt and jeans had Michael slung easily over his shoulder and had turned to me. What bothered me most was no broken window and forced entry though the door. However it appears Michael had still been awake and had knocked the coffee pot over to alert me or possibly in a struggle against the man. I suddenly remember it was the same man from earlier on the track. In an instant he was beside me and I attempted to run out the door.I had undone the latch when the man put his free hand on the back of my head and said, “nighty, night kid.” And everything fizzled out….

***Hours Earlier***

~Unknown P.O.V.~

He slammed his fist down on the table and said, “ This is outrageous. They almost killed each other, and you just barley stopped them.”  I rounded on him, “ I was following strict orders. Maybe you should try it sometime.”

“And what did he  have to say about this?”

 “Nothing really useful.”

The large white double doors swung open and another man walked in. He was taller than the other two with chocolate brown hair. He walked up to the table and looked the other man, “ Out.” He barked. The man scowled at him, but disappeared. He then turned to me. His icy blue eyes met mine and he said only one command before disappearing, “ Brother. It’s time.”

I knew what he wanted, and I disappeared to fetch them.

~Authors Note~

OMG it took me a month to update?! Sorry!! I’ve had writers block for this chapter since I really really really wanted to write the next one. I’m so excited for chapter 16!! Yay!!! Anyways I hope you like this one. I’ll try to upload more often but sometimes I get severe writers block and become completely useless at writing lol (>.<) Anyway. Who’s the mystery man? Any Ideas? All will be revealed in the next chapter!

                                  ~ Jayfeather1997

The Hunt

The Hunt

 Chapter 14

A Normal Life? Not a Chance.

“Rise and shine boys!”

 I opened my eyes and seen John leaning against the hotel door. I blinked a few times and at up. Beside me I heard Michael groan and the bed creaked as he pushed himself up off his stomach and into a sitting position. He yawned and rubbed his eyes with his right hand. “Man what are you doing here so early? It’s like 5:45.” “ I took a plane cause someone took my car.” He stated pointedly at Michael. “So how long have you been here?” I asked. He turned his attention to me and said, “ A few hours.” “Do we have a job to do?” Michael asked and John shook his head. “ Okay then I’m going back to sleep,” he stretched and then plopped back down into the bed. I sat there barley keeping my eyes open when John said,” you might as well go back to sleep to Joey. I’ll see if I can find us a job I guess.” Laying back down on the soft while pillow was the last thing I remembered.

 I opened my eyes a few hours later and looked at the clock, 9:57. I sat up and looked around; John was  sittng at the table and Michael was still asleep. “Morning,” John said, “ I found a job for us so get up and get ready.”  Throwing the covers off and standing up I walked into the bathroom and got in the shower. After I showered I got out and dried off quickly and walked into the main room and seen Michael was now up watching TV and John was writing on a notepad with a serious look on his face. I walked over and sat down. John motioned for Michael to come and sit down. “So what’s up?” Michael asked as he pulled out a chair and sat down. “ I found a group of demon’s,” John said. “And? Your point?” Michael asked. “They are in a local high school, so we’re going to go in undercover to find them.” Michael leaned forward slightly and rested his head on his chin, “ As what?”  “Well…” John started, “ By us I mean you and Joey and by undercover I mean…” he hesitated as if he was unsure we’d like this idea, “ you going back as students.”  Michael’s jaw dropped and she looked at John, “ We’re what?”  “You’re going back to school. Don’t worry its only temporary just until you find the demons and get rid of them.” Michael and I exchanged looks and I shrugged,  “ how bad could it be?”

Worse question ever. How bad could it be very bad. I guess I better track though to later on that day when we went shopping to get some stuff since our other school like supplies were back in Morgantown. We both got a Black backpack, a few notebooks, some pencils, and a few pairs of normal clothes since John thought walking around in all black everyday might be a tad suspicious, plus all we had were the few clothes we had took with us to hunt the vampire. Then the next day we got up and got dressed, then went down to the school.  We walked up the building of Sandy River High School and entered the school. The schools hallway was decorated in the  school colors with were blue and yellow. We walked down to the principal’s office and walked in to the small room that had a few chairs and a counter in front of the desk. “ Can I help you? The secretary asked. “ Um ya,” John said, “ these are my two brothers and I need to enroll them in school. We recently moved.” She walked over and smiled, “ Where are your parents?”  John frowned and sadly stated “ Dead.” The secretary frowned and said, “ Oh I’m sorry. Are you there guardian.” “ Yes mam.” She handed us two enrollment forms and we sat there and filled them out then took them back to her. “ Okay so give me a minute and I’ll have your schedules. John walked out to the hallway and we followed.” Okay guys,” he whispered, “ you two have to act like brothers got it? Here I got you guys cell phones in case you need me and don’t get in trouble, k?”  Michael and I nodded and walked back in to the office. “ Here you boys go.” I looked at them and seen that I had Algebra2, Chemistry, and Gym  with Michael and I had Photoshop while Michael had Drivers Ed. “ Okay boys you had second lunch and if you need anything you know where to find me.” I smiled and Michael said, “ alright lets go Joey.” “ You call your brother Joey?” The secretary asked. “ Ya it kind of an inside joke. Isn’t that right, Sam?”  “ Ya.” I told her.  We walked out and I said, “ really Michael really?” He smirk, “ I’m sorry my names Nick not Michael.” I huffed and  started waking to class which me and Michael shared.

 We walked in and showed her out schedules. “ Alright let me get you two books and take a seat. Everybody this is Sam and Nick Dawson” She handed us two pretty beat up Chemistry books and started teaching again. “ Okay so let’s talk about Ions…” I sat in class zoning out and thinking about the last ime I was at school. It’d been only a month or two and yet it felt so foreign to be sitting here in the school. I jumped when the teacher called on me and the sudden movement sent a pain through my shoulder and chest. “ Um. What was the question?” I asked. “ I said what causes an Ion to form?”  I looked at the teacher and said, “ions form because neutral atoms become charged by the losing or gaining an electron.” She looked a little taken aback at the fact I knew the answer. I sat there staring at her and she turned around and started writing on the white board.

The bell finally rung and we walked out. I looked for Michael but didn’t see him, so I continued on to the gym. I walked in and put my backpack on the bleachers next to everyone else’s and seen Michael standing among a group and girl. Figures, I thought.  I found the teacher, Mr. Parker and   gave him my schedule, and he told me to go stand in line. I stood there as he took roll and then we went in to the locker room.  The locker room had baskets full of clothes in a side room and a bathroom and in the main room there were slabs of concrete on tile which were elevated off the ground that the students sat on. I sat down and Michael plopped down beside me, “ hey.” “ Finally pry yourself away from your fan club?” I asked sarcastically. He smirked and said, “ your just jealous. So how’s your shoulder?” “ I’m fine. It’s just sore.”  We walked back out after the others finished dressing and because it was our first day and we didn’t have clothes Michael and I sat out. I followed Michael to the top of the bleachers and sat down. Another boy came and sat down beside us and said “ Hey, I’m Josh.” “ Sam.” I said. Michael looked at him and said , “ Nick.” It felt weird lying about our names since my whole life I’d gone by Joey, but never the less it was easy to remember to lie about it. Josh and Michael spent the rest of the class talking about the which girls were hotter and how weird the quiet girls were.

I looked around and seen that some rather larger girls walking along the floor on the other side of the gym. I noticed the girls behind them talking at looking at them and occasionally they would snicker. One of the girls seemed to notice but the other seemed completely oblivious to them. I stood up and Michael said, “ where you going Sam?” I ignored him and walked over to the two girls. “Hey.” I said the taller one smiled and said, “ hi.” The other girl looked at me suspiciously and kept walking. I walked beside them and talked to the taller girl -  Natalie- about all kinda of things from music to television. I noticed the other girl had fallen slightly behind us so I fell back as well and said, “ What’s up?” She looked at me with hints of distrust in her eyes and said, “ What do you want?” Normally I would think she was crazy and leave her alone but I felt this was a challenge so I said,   “ seriously chill I just wanna talk.” “ Okay fine talk.” She snapped. “ I smiled slightly enjoying this argument, “ So what’s up?” “Walking.” She told me. “You don’t say. So what’s your name?” “ Nichole.” “ Cool I guess. I’m Jo– Sam.” “Joe Sam?” She asked. “Sam. Just Sam.”  “ Whatever you say Joe Sam.” I scowled and said, “  So why are you walking?” “ I  hate gym.”

“ Oh me too.” I said trying to sound friendly. I had a feeling this girl didn’t trust me because she thought I was trying to making fun of her.  I was about to say something when I heard the girls behind me snicker again. I said to Nichole, “I’ll be back.” Then I fell back farther to walk beside the group of other girls and said, “ Do you guys have a problem?”  One of the girls who had curly brown hair a little surprised but said, “ Why are you walking with them?” I’m usually not that sensitive about people’s opinions of others but the way this girl put that infuriated me. “ What do you mean?”  “ Well there not exactly your type. I  can read people, and someone as handsome as you shouldn’t be hanging out with someone as socially out casted as them.” I smirked at her and said, “ is that so sweetheart? Well let me tell you something your reading people skills suck. I’ll walk with whomever I please, because I’m not a shallow witch like you I see past peoples outside and choose looks at the way they act not the way they look.” Then I picked up the pace and caught up with the two girls, but I wasn’t really paying attention to them because before my parents died those girls are exactly the type of people I would’ve normally hung out with. I couldn’t help but realizing how shallow I was and all the hurtful things I’d said to people. How I has treated outcasts before I had become an outcast myself

The bell finally rung and Michael walked up to me. “ Um… Who?... What?... Why?”  I ignored him and walk to the cafeteria. I seen the girls from earlier sitting at a table with this other girl who had long brown curl hair that was pulled up and I walked oer to them. The taller girl from the gym was telling the new girl about the ‘new guy’ and the other girl was attentively listening to every word she said. Nichole sat there and looked incredibly irritated by the other two girls babbling. I heard her tell Natalie, “ Seriously I don’t see why you’re going on about him?”  I walked up and sat my stuff down and said , “Well obviously because I’m so incredibly awesome.” Natalie seemed happy to see me but Nichole not so much. She groaned and looked back down at her phone.  Natalie suddenly turned excitedly to Nichole and said, “ I seen Supernatural last night!” “ Really? It was awesome right?” “ Ya! Especially when Dean tried to kill Sam. I freaked.” I jumped in, “ Impossible. Dean would never kill Sam, that’s his baby brother.” “ You watch Supernatural?” Nichole asked. “ Yes. Sometimes.” I used to be a fan of the show until recently when I left to find the Shtriga. “ What’s? Sam and Deans parents name?” “ John and Mary Winchester.”  “ What college did Sam attend?” “ Stanford.” “ What was the monster in the first episode?” “ A woman in white. And the girls name was Constance.”  “ What did Dean say John wanted him to do?” “ he wanted them the pick up where he left off, saving people, hunting things the family business.”   She smiled and nodded. The other two girls were looking at us like we were crazy and then Natalie said, “ Geez your both obsessed with that show.”

The next week or so went by like that. I went to school with Michael and once we got there we went out separate ways; him with his friends and I with mine. I spent Gym and Lunch with Natalie, Nichole and Cierra( The other girl at the lunch table) and things were over all pretty uneventful. Then one day after the final bell rang  was walking with Natalie and Nichole out of the school and when I said goodbye and they walked towards the busses I seen a face I thought I’d never see again. Leaning against a tree was Eric. Last time I saw him he was possessed by a demon outside of John’s house. I stopped and stared at him and realized he was staring at me too. He started walking over to me and I turned around and walked away fast looking for Michael. I weaved my way through crowds of people and then came upon Michael Making out with some random girl. I ran up to him pulled him  back, “ Nick we–” “ What’s your problem Sam!” Michael angrily yelled. I was about to explain but I couldn’t with the crowd of people  who had gathered around up.  “ Nick we need to leave. Now.” I stated. “ I’m a little busy.” He informed me. “Nick really we need to go and – ” “  You just jealous cause I gotta girl and you don’t”  “ What?” I asked. Where did that come from? I thought. “ You think just cause you stole that one girl from me means you can steal any girl from me. “ Are you still on that?” I yelled, “ Get over it! This is kinda important you self-centered idiot!”  Michaels narrowed his eyes and said, “ You’ve been a pain in my ass ever since you showed up!”  That’s when it started. Michael leapt forward and punched me. I reacted instinctively and grabbed my check where his fist had met my face, but weeks of training with him kicked in and I dodged aside. Michael stood infront of me and kind of had a half smile in his face. I took a step forward and lunged at him. His eyes widened in surprise and we landed with a thud. I sat on his chest and punched him a couple of times before he grabbed my wrists and flipped us over so our position was reversed. He punched my side a few times and then his eyes lit up and he raised his fists above his head. That’s when I realized what he was doing He brought down his hands on my chest where I still had scratches from the vampire. I screamed and shoved Michael with all my strength off of me and rolled away from him onto my stomach. My chest burned in a fiery pain where the remains of the scratches were. I gasped and looked up to see Michael standing over me. He smiled wickedly and lifted his foot about to finish the fight. Fear went through me and the need to get away was strong, but I just laid there. “ Alright that’s enough!” Michaels face changed and the anger went out of them. The principal ran up to the crowd and grabbed Michaels  arm. Behind the principal was a very angry John whose arms were crossed across his chest and his eyes were full of fury. The principal pulled me on to my feet and drug us over to John and said, “ Get them off of my school yard.!” She shoved us toward John and walked away. John turned and got in the car slamming the door. I got in the back and Michael the front. John drove the entire way back to the hotel in silence and parked the car. He got out of the car and walked to the room with us following suit. When we walked in and shut the door John turned to us and said, “ What the Hell is wrong with you?” Neither of said anything. “ Joey I think your scratches are bleeding go get cleaned up.” I looked down and see a dark stain on my shirt and felt the stinging of the scratches. I grabbed some clothes and went to get cleaned up.

~Michaels P.O.V.~

“Sit!” John commanded and I sat on the bed. “ Michael, what were you thinking! You could’ve killed him!” I looked away guiltily and said, “ I know.”  “ If you know then why did you do it?!”  “ I don’t know what came over me. I was just so mad.” John sat down across from me and said, “ Michael I know you and Joey don’t always get along, and a school yard fight is one thing I can handle, but killing him is another and not something I can just brush off.”  “ I know.” I said softly, I was ashamed of what I had almost did. Sure i didn’t get along with Joey but I never wanted to kill him, did I?  “ Would you have done it? Would you have killed him?” I sat there and thought about it for a moment, could I have killed Joey today? Surely  not. I’m no murderer I was just mad. “ No I don’t think so” I admitted. John sighed and said, “ maybe its best you two don’t go to school anymore.”  I looked at him and asked, “ what about the demons.” “ We’ll figure out another way to get them.” Joey walked out of the bathroom without saying a work and laid down on the bed across from me where John was sitting. We had been taking turn alternating between the beds and the pull out spare mattress the staff had brought up for us. “  How bad are your scratches Joey?” John asked while still looking at me. “ I’ll live,” He said quietly. John stood up and went in to the bathroom. Joey and I were left in an awkward silence  until I heard Joey softly snore. I looked at the clock (4:36pm) I looked over at Joey and thought about this after noon. I stood up suddenly and walked out of the room and in into the woods beside the hotel. I walk for a few minutes and then sat down behind a tree. I felt tears slide down my checks and thought about the look on Joey’s face when I was about to bring my foot down on his head. I remembered the fear in his eyes and the fight went out of his face. He just laid there waiting for me to do it. I closed my eyes and tried to tell myself that I wouldn’t have done it, but a small voice said you would’ve done it. I pushed it away and wiped my face off, and stood up. I wanted to go back but just being around them made me feel guilty so I wandered around the woods for a while.

~Joey’s P.O.V.~

I woke up to the sound of the door closing. I sat up and looked around and seen that Michael had left. I put my shoes on and walked out of the door and seen Michael heading into the woods. I followed him for a few minutes before he sat down and I heard him crying. I stayed hidden for a while he walked around, then I decided to approach him. “ Michael?” He turned around and  said, “ what?” “ Are you okay?”  He turned back around, “I’m fine.”   He sat down and I sat down beside him and said, “ Would you have….” I trailed of not wanting to really say it. He looked at me and I could see his eyes were red and puffy, “ I… I don’t know.”  “Oh, Hmm.” I said. “ I’m sorry Joey. I don’t know what came over me. I couldn’t control myself.” I awkwardly patted his shoulder and stood up. Then I remembered, “ Michael! I seen a demon today at the school!” he looked at me, “ What? Where?” “ When we were leaving the school. That’s why I came to find you. It was one of the ones that was with Amy. It was Eric.”   “ Did he see you?” He asked. “ Ya I was kinda running away from him and he followed me.”  “ Maybe he was the reason I couldn’t control myself.” “Can demons control someone without being in them?” “ I don’t know, but they can radiant anger and affect the people around them,” he said, his face lit up and he said, “ that means I wouldn’t have done it otherwise!”  I was sorta happy to hear Michael wouldn’t have killed me, sorta. I was also a little surprised.  “ I looked around and realized it was dark and I said, “ maybe we should head back before John gets worried.” Michael stood up and started walking back to the hotel with me following. We got back and John was sitting there waiting for us. “John I wouldn’t have done it,” Michael exclaimed happily. John gave us a puzzled look and I explained to him about the demon. “ It makes sense that he was able to control your emotions I guess.” John commented. “Well I guess there’s nothing we can do about it tonight so we better get some rest.” John laid down on his spare bed and I laid down in the bed I was sleeping on for tonight, Michael went to take a shower. The last thing I heard was the shower turn on and then I fell asleep.

 

~Unknown’s P.O.V.~

I watched the fight from a far. I knew Michael would’ve killed Joey had someone not intervened. I also knew He would not be happy about this. I waited quietly at the table for him to arrive. The door opened to the giant room and a man walked in. He was tall muscular and he had thick chocolate brown hair. “ Well,” he questioned, “ What happened?” “ The demon affected him, he almost killed Joey.” The man walked closer to the table and leaned against it. He sighed and said, “ it was bound to happen eventually. It’s in their blood.” I sighed, “ I suppose your right. Maybe its time?” “ Soon. My friend, soon.” With that the man turned and left. I too left the room and went back to watch over them.  I promised to protect them, but how do I protect them from each other?


~Authors Note~
 Okay so I'm not really sure about how well this chapter is. I know some of it was a little scatter  brained. I just really wanted to get this up today I hope who ever reads this likes it. The Next one should be up next Sunday hopefully (^.^) Once again I'm sorry if this chapter is alittle scatter brained but  I think its okay for now.
                 Thanks,
                          ~ Jayfeather1997

Character Picture!!!

The Hunt Character Pictures
Josef Fox (Joey), 17
NOTE: This was the closest I could come to findng a match for Joey the only problem the eye color is wrong.

Michael Lester, 17

John Vandal, 20

Claire O'Brian, 17

 

 

 

 

Sam Lester, 13

 

 

 

 

 

Kayla Fox, 15

 



So these are mostly what I picture the characters like when I write.
Also the car they drive it below

The Hunt

Chapter Thirteen

Lucky Thirteen

            I woke up, and Claire was gone…again. My head still felt foggy. Mid-day sunlight shone through the window. I remembered what Claire told my last night with what happened between her and John, but I was having trouble believing it. I got up and changed clothes in to a pair of new jeans and a forest green short sleeve t-shirt. The house was quiet as I walked down the hall to the kitchen and seen Michael leaning on the counter drinking coffee. “He lives!” Michael said as I walked over to the table in front of him. I looked at the clock and it read 11:34am. Wow, I thought, I hardly ever sleep past ten. “Where is everyone,” I asked. “Well they’re outside getting in some practice before our hunt.” I nodded then said, “ Wait what… did you say our hunt?”  He looked at me and said very slowly, like teaching a child, “Yes Joey. Your first hunt. You’re a hunter so therefore you will hunt.”

“I’m not stupid Michael. What are we hunting?” I asked.

“A vampire.” Michal replied curtly and walked out the door. I followed him out and seen Claire and John practicing the defenses in the grass. They saw us coming and broke apart. “Joey,” Claire squealed and hugged me. I was shocked so I just stood there. She pecked me on the check then glared at Michael as she walked past him to get to the car. “Um…” I went to explain to Michael. “ Just get in the car he said, while getting in the passenger side. I just sighed and got in behind John with a feeling this was going to be a very long car ride.

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I was right it was the longest car ride of my life. I spent most of the time looking out the window. The tension in the car was so heavy and uncomfortable you could’ve cut it with a knife.  Outside the window the sunny day had turned into a cold and foggy day. The rain fell heavily on the car and the sound of it was putting me to sleep. I rested my head on the window and closed my eyes.

I was dreaming we were back at the house, only it was just Michael and I. We were in the kitchen, I was standing by the door and Michael was at the sink. Suddenly Michael whirled around and looked at me with extreme angry in his eyes. “You stupid, worthless, sorry, ungrateful, son of a gun!”  He snarled at me, “ What right do you have to steal my girlfriend after all I’ve done for you!”

“ All  you’ve done for me?!” I asked. Michael walked towards me and I could see fleck of spit fly form his mouth as he said, “ I saved your freaking life!”  That again, huh? I thought. “ How long are you going to hold that over my head?”  I countered, furious at how much he used that line against me.  I knew he had a point without Michael I’d probably be dead now, but still that doesn’t mean I own him my happiness. “ As long as I have to to teach you your place!” he responded. “You know what Michael I think its you who needs to learns  your place,” I said pointing my finger at him. “ Just stay away from Claire, or else.”

“Or else what?” I asked. He narrowed his eyes at me and said, “ You’ve been warned.” I was a bout to respond when John woke me up, “ We’re here.” I blinked and looked to see where “here” is. It was dark and we were at a rundown motel who’s sign was barley lit so I couldn’t make out the name. John steped back to let me out of the car and said, “Claire you go get the room keys, I’ll get dinner, Michael Joey get the bags out of the car.” I sighed and walked around to the trunk and waited for Michael to open it. He inserted the key and the trunk popped open. I grabbed a few bags and set them down and turned to grab another bag. As I reached down to grab one but Michael  had to gotten rest out and was looking at me. “ What?” I asked. He shook his head, “ Nothing,” and grabbed the bags and followed Claire to the room.

We stopped outside of room 213 and 214, John handed Michael a key and said, “ Okay, so since there are four of us (Sam stayed behind) we have to get two rooms. Me in Claire in one room and you  and Joey in the other.” Claire looked at him, “ why can’t I stay with Joey?” John looked at her and said, “ Because I don’t trust you two…. Alone.”

Michael unlocked the door to 213 and put our bags in the room, and I took Claire and John’s bags to their room. When I came back in Michael was sitting on the bed closest to the bathroom in nothing but his jeans. “ Dude really?” “Don’t like the view don’t look at it.” I rolled my eyes and sat down by the window. I surveyed the layout of the room; there were two bed and in between them was a nightstand, in front of the two bed was a TV stand and dresser, past that was the bathroom. Beside the door were a window and a table with two chairs and a lamp against the wall. I sighed and looked in to the bag that john had given us containing our food. It was a hamburger and fries from some local diner and a few bottles of water. We ate in silence; me sitting at the table and Michael lounging on the bed flipping through thirty channels of crap TV. He settled on the local news.

“ In other news another body has been found in a local wooded area last night.” The blonde news woman reported. “ The body of nineteen year old Candice Grey was found in a shallow grave by two teens walking in the woods. The pair discovered the body after one tripped over the protruding leg that was sticking out. The two immediately ran home and called authorities. Police have yet to release a statement but those on the seen reported bite marks of the girls neck eerily familiar the ‘Vampire’ killing that started last week in Burketsville.”  Michael sat up and said, “ I don’t believe it that vampires moving faster than we thought it would.” I scooted forward, “ what do you mean?”

  “Well we figured we had a day or two to plan a strategy before the thing got here to Smithsfield. I guess we were wrong.”

“So now what?” I asked. Michael stood up, put a shirt on, and said, “come on lets go talk to John.”  We walked out of the room and knocked on John’s door. John answered and rubbed his eyes, “What?” 

“ We were watching the news. The vampire here in town, It’s already killed one girl.” “ Damn. Okay lets get ready it’s…” He looked at his watch, “ 11:25 so we’ll get nap and start looking for this thing at sunrise so about six-ish. Okay?” Michael and I nodded and walked back over to our room. “ Dude why are you shaking,” Michael asked me. “Wha-.” I realized I was shaking. “ Your nervous,” Michael said with a chuckle. “So?” He smirked and laid down on the bed. I sighed and laid on the other bed. I probably should change my clothes, I thought, but decided it wasn’t important to do at the moment. I heard Michael start snoring and I followed suit…

I screamed when a large weight crashed down on me, and I started trying to punch my attacker but my hands were pinned beside me. I opened my eyes to see Michael staring down at me, “ Are you going to get up and get ready or should I tell John you chickened out?” I looked over at the clock and seen it was five o’clock.  I groaned and said, “ I’m up I’m up.” Michael let me go and I sat up rubbing my face and yawned. Getting a new change of clothes I walked in to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. I looked exhausted and my hair was sticking up in many directions. I peeled off my dirty clothed and turned on the hot water. I stepped into the shower and let the water run over head and down my back. I grabbed the soap and lathered up my body. I rinsed off and washed my hair. Stepping out of the shower I grabbed a fresh white towel and dried myself off. Getting dressed I put on a pair of black jeans and a black shirt since it would blend in better with the woods and the night. I walked out and sat on the bed to put my shoes on when Michael sat down and started to tell me some of the factual lore about vampires.

Once I knew everything he thought I should know got up to gather the weapons. “ Here,” Michael said as he threw me a small 9mm “the bullets are coated in dead man’s blood and vervane. It won’t kill a vampire but it will slow ‘em down long enough for you to stake it.”

We walked over to John and Claire’s room and knocked on the door. Claire opened it this time and let us in. John was sitting on one of the beds. Michael and I sat on the chairs at the table and since the coffe pot was there we each got a cup of coffee. “ So here’s the plan, we investigate the forest around the crime scene in a five mile radius. I doubt the thing is staying to far from the site since it seems all the attacks in the other area were with in miles of each other. So we’ll split up in to two pairs and call the other if we find something. Don’t I repeat DO NOT try to take this vampire on alone. Everybody understand?”  We finished out coffee then walked out to the car. Nobody said anything as we got in the car and drove down the road about ten miles and pulled over into the woods behind a line of oak trees. Getting out of the car John walked around to the back and opened the trunk. “Here you and Michael be careful call if you find anything.” John said handing us each a sharp wooden stake.  Grabbing two more and taking one for himself and handing the other to Claire he shut the trunk starts walking off into the woods in the direction toward the front of the car. Michael and I started walking in the opposite direction. It was hard to see since it wasn’t quite morning yet so periodically one of us would trip over a twig and weeds or walk into a branch. “ Damn,” Michael said several times while walking which gave me a hint when an obstacle was ahead of us. We walked for about an hour or so and finally the sun was up far enough to where we could see our surroundings. We walked for another hour before Michael said, “let’s stop here for a minute and rest.” I sunk down on the a fallen log beside Michael, “ it’s gonna be a cold day today don–…. Did you hear that?” I whispered. Michael held up his hand to shush me. We both stood up and we heard a twig snap behind us and turned around to see a man standing off in the distance. He was wearing blue jeans and white shirt stained with dry blood, he had dark brown hair and even from a distance you could see his piercing ice blue eyes and his sharper then natural teeth. He smirked at us and let off a screech so loud I thought my ear were going to explode. He suddenly rushed forward almost as a blur and punched Michael, knocking him out. Before I could reach my gun the vampire tackled me and straddled my chest pinning my hands above my head. This is it. I’m gonna die today. I hope Kay’s ok… I thought closing my eyes not want to see what happens. “ No hunter  look at me. I want to see the fear in your eyes before you die. Look at me!” He commanded. I peeked my eyes open to see him looking down at me. His wicked smile showed his lateral incisors and canines were razor sharp  and I could smell the blood from his victims caked on his shirt. His nails were sharp like claws and dug into my wrist. He looked to be about twenty three and had fair skin that was flawless. He started to bend forward and a loud bang interrupted him. He turned around and hisses at a barley standing Michael who was prepared to fire again. Suddenly the vampire stood up and ran off in to the woods barley making a sound at all. “Joey! Are you ok?” Michael holstered his gun quickly and ran over to help me up. “ I’m okay. I’m just shooken up.”  Michael pulled me up and then wiped the blood the ran down his cheek ,from the vampire, on the back of his hand. We heard someone approaching and both of us drew our guns. “ What happened we hears gun fire?” John yelled and we put our guns away and flopped down on the log again. John and Claire appeared behind us a moment later . “ We got attacked by the vampire.” Michael told them. Claire dropped down beside me and wrapped her arms around me. I was still in shock so I let her lay my head on her shoulder and closed my eyes. “ What’d it do?” John asked.  “ It knocked me out briefly and when I woke up it was second away from making a meal out of Joey. Had him pinned to the ground and was about to bite him, but I was able to shot it. Then it ran off into the woods.”  John rubbed his chin and said, “ Okay well lets head back to the hotel and get you two into some dry clothes and then we’ll come back out.” I noticed after he said that that my back was damp from remnants of the morning dew on the cold ground. I looked at Michael and seen he too had his shirt sticking to his back. We stood up and walked back to the car it took us some time but finally we reached it and we headed back to the hotel.

 

 

Dmitri’s P.O.V

 I almost had my second meal of the day the a fiery pain exploded through my shoulder. I turned to see the other hunter aiming what appeared to be a small normal hand gun. Dead man’s blood,  I realized. That’s when I knew I had to get out of there. I ran off faster than their human minds could ever comprehend. The pain I felt was excruciating, but being a vampire my body started to heal and stopping to drink the blood of that dear had sped up the process so now an hour later I was fully healed.

I pulled out my phone and called Martin.

“Hello?” he said in a sleepy voice.

“ I thought you said there were no hunters in Burketsville.” I snapped

“ There weren’t when I was there.” He responded.

“ Well apparently there are now and I have a bullet in my shoulder to prove it!”

“ Damn it Dmitri you’re in the town for a day have already left a trail for a pair of hunters to follow.”

“ I’ve been trying to cover my tracks, but its kind of a little hard to bury a body in nearly frozen ground!”

“ Okay Okay, calm down. … You know I honestly don’t know what to tell you. Just be careful and at night fall get the hell out of there.”   He hung up and I slammed my phone shut.

I tried to sleep but I could stop thinking of getting revenge. Then it hit me. I got up and ran out to the county line where the fair grounds were. At the fairgrounds there was a complex maze of bushes or a labyrinth. I lifter my hand to my nose to catch a faint whiff of the blonde boys blood from where I broke skin from punching him.  I easily caught their trail and followed it back to a hotel. I walked up to where the sent came from, room 213 and looked in the window throught the sight area in the curtains that weren’t fully drawn. I sniffed the air and sure enough caught the sent of the other pair of hunters I had seen leave with them. Sneaking around to the back I silently opened the bathroom window and slipped in I cracked the door slightly and listened to the man talk to the girl. “Claire I don’t know what’s going on between you and Joey and Michal. Quite frankly I normally wouldn’t care but since I rely on all of you to keep me alive and vice versa I can’t have them at each other’s throats. Or worse letting the other die.” She was about to reply when I appeared be hind the man. I grabbed a vase that was in the dresser and said, “ Nighty night.” I bashed it over his head an he sunk to the floor. The girls eyes got big and she quickly reached for her gun and a stake but I was quicker. I ran over to her and grabbed her wrist she looked up at me and I back handed her across the face hard enough to knock her out. She slumped over and I slung her over my shoulder then walked out the door.

 

 

Joey’s P.O.V

Once we got back I changed and so did Michael. We turned on the TV and waited for John to call and tell us it was time to go again. Two hours passed and we were still waiting for John’s call. “ Come on Joey lets go over there.” Michael said after his repeated attempts to call John had failed. I stood up and we walk over and knocked on the door…. Nothing… we knocked again, harder this time…. Nothing. “Keep watch.”  He said and kneeled down. He pulled a thin wire out of his pocket and started to pick the lock. “Got it.”  He announced and turned the doorknob. We walked in to the room and seen an unconscious John laying on the floor with bits and shards of a broken vase around him. Some pieces of glas had become embedded on to his skin and he had dried blood caked into his hair on the back of his head. Claire was nowhere to be seen.  I hear Michael swear and he said, “ Hear help me get him in the car we’ve got to take him to the hospital.” “ What about Claire?” I asked. “Dammit I forgot about her. Um, I guess we’ll have to… ah I got it.”  He pulled out his phone and  dialed 911. “ Um yes I just discovered a man lying unconscious in a hotel room. Room 214. My name?  Its Calvin Perkins.” He shut his phone and said, Okay let’s get out of here but first grab the guns and stakes. Don’t want the police getting ahold of that.” After we gathered everything we got in the car. A moment after I shut my door a cruiser and an ambulance pulled up and rushed up the stairs to the second floor. “ And that’s our que.”  Michael said.

We pulled out onto the road and we drove off toward the area we seen the vampire. I looked at the clock and it said 3:15 . By the time we got to the site where we  parked to car last time it read 3:55. Getting out of the car I grabbed the stakes I had thrown in the floor and reached back in to the console for my gun. I threw Michael a stake and walked around to the side of the car. “Well what now?” I asked him. “ I don’t know I guess we start walking until we find a trace of it.” We started walking in the direction he took off in. We didn’t say a word while we walked, we simply listened for sounds of the vampire. However no matter how hard we listened we heard now. “ Wait Michael look an old barn.” I pointed out to Michael.

 In the distance there was an old barn than had lost almost all of it paint, had broken windows, and part of the roof was missing. We approached it with quiet caution and slowly opened the door and walked in. As soon as we walked in we could smell the strong stench of decay and see the carcass of a dead dear in the corner of the barn. We also seen a hammock, dirty clothes, and a note book sitting on a shelf. Slowly we approached the hammock, but it was soon cleat that no one was there. Michael grabbed the note book and flipped through the pages, “ Look it’s a journal. He talks about being turned and recently and about all the people he’s killed. Listen March 15, 2012 ‘ I feel the power of being a vampire flowing through my  veins. I think of the fear scent coming off of my victims when they feel my hot breath against their skin, just before I bite down and end  their lives. Like that sweet red head I found hiking in the woods yesterday.’” I scratched my head, “ wow sounds like this guy was slightly off his rocker.” Michael shook his head, “ Nah. All newly turned vampire are like that. Hey look at this last entry.” He handed my the book and my blood ran cold.

  I looked up at Michael and then down at my watch. “Its 9:39 that’s only two and a half hours.” I said. “I know we better hurry,” Michael said grimly. “ Where do you think he is?” Michael opened his mouth to reply but nothing came out. He shrugged and hung his head, “ I don’t know.”  I thought about all the possible place a vampire could hide as we walk out of the barn and into the woods. It was about 9:58 when I stopped in my tracks and said, “ The maze. Michael! I got it. When we drove through here this morning I seen a sign that said Burketville Labyrinth.” Michael and I ran back to the car as fast as we could. When we got to the car the time was 10:27.  Michael turned on the car and sped off towards the county line. It took us about fifteen minutes to get there. We walked up to the entrance and right at the beginning was a map of the labyrinth.

                   “She could be in any of these clearings!” Michael said in frustration. “ I think she’s in that one,” I said pointing in the one in the upper left hand corner. “ Why? How do you know?” Michael asked. I looked at him and explained, “ think about it. It’s the one that’s farthest away from the entrance.” We stood there for a minute while Michael debated whether or not my reason made enough sense to risk it being wrong.  I looked at my watch and it read 10:59. “ Michael we really don’t have time for you to think to much about this.” I informed him. He huffed and said, “ I know. Okay upper left corner it is.”

We started in to the maze and slowly made out way around the first circle. I remembered a fact I read on the internet and told Michael  to follow the right wall. We pain staking made it through the pitch black maze by gripping the right wall. I looked down at my watch and it said 11:34. “ only twenty six- minutes.” I whispered. He didn’t say anything but I heard him pick up his pace and I did the same. I was so focused on listening for the vampire that I didn’t realize Michael and I had gotten separated. I looked up to say something and realized I could no longer hear Michaels foot steps ahead of me. “  Michael!” I yelled frantically trying to turn around and make my way back to the last turn we made. The onlygood thing was we had been walking in the dark so long I sold see the faint out line of everything. I yelled again, “ Michael!” Nothing, no response. I was panicking now. Time was running out and I had lost Michael. “ Joey!” I heard a voice yell in the distance behind me. Turning around I ran towards it “ Michael?!” “ I’m over hear –” I heard him yell, but he was cut off. I heard him yell and I ran faster. As I followed to sound I got turned around and didn’t know where I was. Finally I rounded a corner and almost tripped over Michael and the vampire – Dmitri – fighting on the ground. Well more like Dmitri on top of Michael about to finish him off. In all the commotion they had not heard me approach. I looked around and seen the stake Michael had dropped when Dmitri ambushed him. I quietly shuffled over and grabbed it. I turned around in time to see Dmitri sink his teeth in to Michaels neck. With no more time for stealth I ran up behind him and yelled, “ No!” I seen the vampire’s head shoot up and look at me with glowing red eyes. I brought the stake down into his chest and I heard his hiss of fury fade into a gurgling sound as he fell over where I pushed him off of Michael.

“ Michael!” I knelt down beside him and felt his wound, it was gushing blood. I took off my jacket that I had worn and pressed it against his neck desperately trying to stop the bleeding. “ Come on come on come on.”  “ Joey?” he whispered. I breathed a shaky sigh of relief, “ ya it’s me. Are you okay?” “Ow. I will be please tell me you staked that blood – sucking S.O.B” He said setting up. “ Ya I got him.”  Standing up he said, “ good now come on he told me where she was. “ Was I right?” “ Ya according to him you were.”

We ran towards the corner and finally came to the last turn as we rounded it we seen… an empty space. “ What?” I asked confused. “ That thing lied to me!” Michael yelled, outraged. “ The center.” I whispered. “What?”  I looked at Michael, “ The center that’s where Claire is. It’s the last place we’d look since there were so many other options.”      “ Bravo Josef.” A voice said behind me. It was Dmitri. “ but times run out. Now say good bye to your precious Claire.” And with that he disappeared around the corner. “ I thought you staked him!” Michael said. “ I did!” I yelled. “ There must be more than one.” Michael said. “  Great. The more the merrier.” I snapped. We took off running through the maze. We had rounded several corners when we heard Claire yell. “ HELP!” We picked up our speed. Finally we came around the last hedge and seen the most horrific sight I’d ever seen. Dmitri smiled wickidly as he presses his bleeding wrist to Claire’s mouth. Claire reached up and grabbed his arm sucking on his arm and completing the transformation. “NOOO!”  Michael and I both yelled together and dashed forward. We both tackled Dmitri at the same time and pinned him against the wooden pole I drabbed the rope and tired his hand and legs together and then to the pole. Michael kneeled beside Claire and I heard him sob. “ Claire?” he chocked out. Beside me Dmitri started cackling. Michael jumped up and punched him not that it affected him much. Though he did stop laughing  he said, “ You hunters think your so much better than everything else.  You act like your God’s gift to Earth,” he spat, “ but really your just filthy insects that pollute this planet. You all say we’re the monsters but really you should be looking at yourselves.” I heard the ropes snap felt his body slam into mine. I hit  the ground hard and lost my breath. I gasped for air and struggled against him. I felt his body dip and I jerked back in time to hear his teeth snap together beside my ear.  I gasped and he growled in frustration. I felt his body lean forward again, but this time I felt his teeth connect with my shoulder. I screamed in agony as his teeth broke my skin. I could feel the blood pour out of me and in to his mouth. I seen black dots at the edge of my vision and started to close me eyes. Then Dmitri suddenly jumped up as if in pain. I looked at him and his eyes were wide in surprise and he gripped his stomach in pain. That’s when Michael came up behind him and with the swipe of a blade cut Dmitri’s head clean off. Dmitri’s head fell  to the side and then his body crumpled where it stood.  I sat up and seen Michael gripping a machete. “ Why didn’t you do that sooner!” I yelled. “ I forgot I had it.” He stated. I sighed in frustration. “ Let me check your wound,” Michael said. I pushed him away and said, “ I’m fine.” I crawled over to Claire and pulled her onto my lap. “Maybe it didn’t work I.” I said almost crying. “ I doubt it. Vampires never fail at this. I held on to her for minute longer and stood up. I took barley a step when my legs went out and I fell forward. “ Whoa whoa whoa come on Joey don’t pass out on me now.” Michael said reaching out to catch me. I tried to respond but blackness over took me and I lost consciousness.

 

 

I woke up from the worst nightmare  I’d ever had. In it my parents died my sister almost died and monsters were real. Then I fell in love but she died. I opened my expecting to find the comforting navy blue walls of my room, but I was looking at the cream beige colored walls of a strange room. I sat up fast and gasped as a sharp pain shot across my shoulder and chest I looked down and seen white bandages going across my shoulder and under my arm. I was in just my jeans. I lifted my head to look around the room despite the pounding headache at my temples. “Agh.”  “ Hey look who’s up.”  I stared stupidly at the blonde boy about my age that stood in the hall near what I guessed was a hotel bathroom. It was the same guy from my nightmare. Then I realized my parents  were dead, Kay was dying, Claire was probably dead, and Michael was real. It wasn’t a dream it was the sad reality. I sighed and swung my feet over the bed an walked to the bathroom after I relieve myself I walked back out to the hotel room. I noticed that it was a different hotel then where we had been before. “ Where are we?” “Beckley, Wv.” “ Where’s Claire?” “ She didn’t ingest enough blood to make the change so we took her to the local hospital.” I breathed a sigh of relief. At least she was still alive, and human. Just then the door opened and a woman walked. “ Here I brought you guys dinner,” Cassidy said as she set down a bag that smelled of Chinese food. “ What is she doing here?” I asked Michael. “ Nice to see you to Joey.” She said. “ Well you passed out on me Claire we out cold, and I knew I couldn’t get either of you back without leaving one of you behind cause I’d never find you again so I called for help.” Cassidy smirked and said, “ If it weren’t for me either  you or Claire would be dead.” She turned to Michael, “Well I better get going I have demons to hunt, monsters to kill, and idiots to find.” “ Okay, Bye.” Michael said locking the dead bolt behind her. Michael sat own beside me and handed me some beef and broccoli. “So what happened after I passed out?” “Not much I tried waking you but you wouldn’t wake up so I called Cassidy and waited. She showed up and I carried you back to the car and she got Claire since she was lighter and easier to carry. We checked in here and she fixed our shoulder. What I want to know is what happened before you passed out.” I swallowed the food in my mouth, “what do you mean?”  Michael sat his food down and said, “that vampire reacted to you as if it had swallowed something poisonous.” I thought back to the vampires reaction my me and I shrugged, “I don’t know I was just as surprised as he and you were. Wait where’s John.” “ John’s fine he had a minor concussion and should be released later tonight he’s going to get a car and meet us here. Then we’re gonna wait for Claire to get better and head home. But for now me and you are kicking it here tonight.”

 I finished my food and asked Michael if I could take off this bandage yet to shower. He told me he had extra and he could rewrap it. I took of my jeans and stuff and then started un reveling the bandage from my torso.  I had a big bite mark that was still swollen and long scratch marks his nails that went from the top o my left shoulder beside the bite mark across to my right side that ended just below my shoulder. They didn’t look deep enough to cause any real damage.  I didn’t even remember him scratching me but I must have been more focused on the pain in my shoulder. I got in the shower and scrubbed of the dirt and grime the had coated my body and the grease that was in my hair. I took a clean washrag and carefully cleaned the scratches and bite mark with warm water and soap. I got out of the shower and leaned over the sink to peer into the mirror I had bags under my eyes and a small scratch un my right cheek. I closed my eyes and pictured the vampires face after he bit me. I seen the pain in his red eyes and him grabbing his stomach. I finished drying off and walked back out to the main room. Michael insisted on wrapping my shoulder again just to be safe even though I told him I was fine. Eventually I gave I and left him do it. Afterward he turned on the TV an started flipping through the channels.“ Hey look The Vampire Diaries,” he teased. “ I think I’ve had enough vampires for now.” I retorted. He laughed and turned the channel. I looked out the window and  by my estimate we were on the seventh floor. I then got a drink of water and laid down. I was still exhausted even though I had just woken up this evening. After looking at the clock which said 9:15 I rolled over and watched TV with Michael who had settled on Godzilla. I watched as the giant monster destroy Tokyo in black and white until I drifted off to sleep.

 

~Authors Note~

Woohoo! Chapter 13  finally after 4 months!!! (^.^) This one is extra long (9 Pages instead of the usual 4 or 5) I hope you like this and I’m sorry it took so long to finish. Thank you for reading this. Hopefull the ext update won’t take so long. In fact look for an update every Sunday. P.s. it like 11:40pm so I this is an unedited  but I will look over it tomorrow 10/07/2012 so if you see mistakes I will fix them then. Thanks!

                                                                  ~Jayfeather1997