Hunted

**Well, I feel somewhat awkward writing third person when no one else is, so I'm going to switch to first from here on in.**

Deacon

I helped Hinata out of the room and down to the hospital lobby with the others, keeping one of her arms over my shoulder at all times. I felt a bit sore that she'd lied to me about her condition, but then, I probably would've done the same. She obviously didn't want any of us concerning ourselves about her physical condition as she'd see it as a sign of weakness. I could relate to that, and probably would've reacted the same way under the circumstances.

So I said nothing more. When we reached the lobby, Alucard began signing everyone out of the hospital, while I made my way to a separate desk. The person there noticed me straight away, "Ah, back to pick up the wooden swords, right?"

I shrugged, "Joke all you want, you're the one who was terrified of letting me take them inside this place. Now can I just have them back so I can go?"

The aide nodded after a while, apparently a little disappointed that I wasn't rising to the bait. Not like there was any need to get into a fight with him. When it came down to it, I wanted to leave the city as soon as possible, escape from all the pollutants in the air. He, on the other hand, would probably end up in this same hospital with some kind of respiratory illness.

I shook the thoughts away, concentrating more on what we had to deal with right now, walking back over to everyone, "We ready?"

"Yeah," said Alucard, "Let's go." I could see the tension in all the others as we left the hospital, no one wanted a repeat of the fight they'd all been in. After a short walk, Alucard glanced at his brother, "Do you smell it?" The other Dhampir nodded.

I had enough common sense to know straight away that this meant that there was a hunter nearby, and I half-unzipped my duffel bag. I tensed a lot more, ready to spring into the first fight that presented itself. Hinata gave me a weary look, as if reminding me that I had nothing beyond physical ability. Well, what did that matter. I'd still do my bit.

Violet

I struggled with my emotions, trying not to scream out in glee.

He was taking me to dinner!

I will admit that I had been incredibly anxious when Theo had suddenly said that he had had to leave. I had thought the worst. Surely the date hadn’t gone that badly?

But it hadn’t! He had liked me, and enough to ask me out again!

He had listened intently when I had told him all about myself, my family, my music. We hadn’t even had time to talk about him yet because I had spoken so much.

I sighed. He really was too perfect for me.

What exactly was there that an attractive, funny, intelligent guy saw in me?

I chose not to ponder too long on why he was with me, as I would drive myself mad if I did.

I decided to walk home instead of taking a cab, as it was still a bright and sunny day. I glanced up at the blue sky, the flying birds and the dazzling buildings.

Life is brilliant, I sighed.

I had been walking for a while, and was just nearing the hospital when I spotted a crowd of people leaving, some of whom I recognised.

One of them was Hinata. I froze as she glanced up at me, burning my eyes with her stare.


- Prospekt

Jackie

We had just walked out of central park and walked towards the hospital when we spotted a crowd of people.

"Violet?!" Peyton yelled

I looked around. Now I saw Violet turning towards us.

"Hey!" she waved walking over to where we were standing. "Do you know whats going on here? i mean i saw Hinata, but i didn't get a chance to speak to her jet."

"I have no idea. We just came." I answered shyly. "Whats that guy doing on the roof anyway?"

**I have no idea who this guy could be, so anyone...^^**

Hinata
I was feeling very uncomfortable and embarrassed as Deacon practically carried me out of the hospital; he held my arm around his back and didn’t say anything to me. I guess he was annoyed by the fact that I lied to him about my injuries. Once I had given up trying to get loose and was walking out of the hospital I saw Violet heading towards me she stared at me as if looking at me was burning her however she suddenly looked across the road and I looked over to see what she was scowling at. “Hey look, it’s Peyton!” Deacon said quietly to me.
I smirked for a moment and then directed my attention to the girl next to her; she was looking up at the hospital roof, I knew that could only mean one thing, something or someone was up there. “Deacon...” I whispered, “There’s someth-“
“I know,” he sighed, not bothering to raise his voice as everyone could practically hear him anyway, “Guys, we have company, looks like we aren’t going to get away.”
While Deacon’s attention wasn’t focused on me, I slipped away and staggered over to Peyton. “Peyton, you know that thing you did to me?”
“Yeah...” she answered suspiciously.
“We need you to put everyone near here in a dream state.”
“Why?”
“There’s going to be a fight. The less people running about, the less will get hurt.”
“I don’t know if I can put so many people under,” she said
“I DON’T CARE!” I shouted at her losing my usual air, “JUST DO IT!”
I doubled over coughing and at that moment I felt a tightening sensation around my whole body and I started to rise up. “Help!” I screamed, “someone, help me!”

Naomi-

I ran over to Hinata. She had just suddenly doulbed over and feel to the ground.

"Hinata? What's wrong?"

She just gasped for breath as though she were suffocating.

"Naomi! Watch out!" someone screamed. I turned but then was flung back into a tree by a force field. I groaned and sat up. I hate those things so very much.

A cracking sound quickly ensnared my attention and I felt the tree lean in towards me. I stared in horror, ignoring the searing pain the shot through my side. Everytthing changed into slow motion as I saw the tree continue to lean in my direction. Without thinking, my legs took off as the tree crashed to the earth.

Violet

I looked at Peyton with distain. Why did she always have to appear where I was? Had she been stalking me?

I walked away from her and Jackie and over to the crowd of people in an attempt to find out what was going on. I recognised most of them on closer inspection. As far as I knew, they weren’t all friends. So what were they all doing here?

I heard Deacon worriedly say; “We’ve got to get out of here.”, and I knew that something awful was going on.

Suddenly, I felt someone sprint past me, almost knocking me off my feet. He was wearing a hoodie so I couldn’t see his face – it was obvious he didn’t want to be seen.

I looked over to see where he was running to. Suddenly, there was a crash as a tree fell over, nearly hitting Naomi and Gale. Then, Hinata was gone.

I glanced over at Deacon and saw an expression of horror in his eyes as he realised what had happened.


-Prospekt

Hinata

‘I can’t breathe!’ that was all I could think; I barely even registered it when Naomi was sent flying out of my field of vision. As I collapsed I glanced up at Peyton who was looking at me in shock and backing away. “HELP ME!” I screamed at her.
She just backed away, shaking her head, tears trickling slowly down her cheeks. I turned my head over to the main group. They were distracted by Naomi, who, it seemed was in some sort of trouble. ‘So,’ I thought dumbly as my mind started to drift off, ‘Is this how I’m going to die?’ As my lungs felt like they were about to explode and I was about to lose consciousness, I was dimly aware that I was being carried, but that didn’t matter, I no longer cared.

Peyton

It all happened so fast. The whole scene was like a car pile up on the motorway that happened in seconds. Except this time the carnage kept coming.
"Do it now, Peyton!" Hinata was shrieking like a deranged soul from behind me.
"Hinata I can't make this a dream! It can only be a nightmare!" I didn't wait for her response after Naomi was sent reeling into a tree, dissapearing among the jagged splinters with a crack.
Hinata's final distant scream was enough to make me take action.
I squeezed my eyes shut, and thought of the first thing that came to mind.
I enveloped the whole area in a nightmare.
Ragged, twisted limbs suddenly burst from the ground, screeches of anger bursting from its contorted mouth.
The twisted, slimy, foul breathed creature rose from the earth, saliva dripping from their tangled, splinter like teeth.
Everyone stopped to face the beast with horror in their eyes.
The creature was the puppet, and I was in total control. I could make it do anything I wanted, grow ten feet taller, have poisonous breath, anything. But conjuring something as powerful as this made it impossible for me not to let out a scream of total agony as my head felt as if it was being slowly crushed. The creature mimiced my move, sending webs of spit into the air as it threw back it's head to release a harrowing roar.
One of the attackers stopped, looking at the creature with interest in her eyes, tilting her head to the side.
"Attack," I whimpered to the beast, as it flew forwards obediently with a scream. It's many limbs slammed and raked against her skin. The more blood it drew, the more I screamed.
It crouched over the now limp body of the hunter, again mimicing my screams as blood gushed from it's gnarled mouth.
I cried in horror when the girl got up again, covered in blood but yet uninjured.
"Peyton send one of those things for the hunter that took Hinata!" came a yell.
Obediently, I waved a trembling arm across, and another beast arose, screaming and twisting out of the earth as this time, huge leathery wings sprouted from it's back.
"Find Hinata, bring her back," I ordered it. It nodded once and took into the air.
I then focused all my strength into keeping with thing alive as it burst through the barriers of the nightmare, roaring in triumph as it flapped over the buildings of New York.
The last thing I saw was the callous eyes of the hunter before I hit the ground with a smack, the explosion of agony dying as the nightmare ended.
I closed my eyes and let the blackness ingest me into its freezing abyss.

*come back with Theo in a sec*

Violet

I surveyed the scene in horror.

It had all happened so fast.

In an instant, Hinata had vanished.

And then, just as suddenly, Peyton had conjured up a nightmare of a terrifying monster, forcing it to chase after a… monster.

That’s the only thing I can think of to describe the terrifying creature that had appeared. It looked human, but it had stared at me as if it… wanted to destroy everyone who was there.

Peyton appeared to be unconscious now, worn out from creating the nightmare, but at least she was breathing.

I didn’t know what else to do, so I lifted my cell from my pocket and called Theo…


- Prospekt

Theo

Hinata's screams died slowly in her throat as I sprinted from the scene, jumping across rooftops without much effort by using my telekinesis to propel myself upwards. It was only when my lungs began to burn and scream for oxygen that I stopped, dropping the limp body at my feet and lying back on the hard concrete, my gasps loud and rasping in my ear. I cursed to myself intensely, thinking of Violet's horrified face as her sister dropped to the ground with a screech of agony. Of course, screams were just part of the job, but something about that look of shock on her face bothered me.
I turned my head to the side a little as my breathing slowly returned to normal, watching the girl in silence as she lay still on the ground, her body twisted into an uncomfortable looking position.
I looked up again, this time to the darkening sky as a deathly cold wind ruffled my fair hair.
I didn't even have a chance to yell in horror as the most revolting, contorted being launched itself onto my chest, hollering as it immediately drenched me in its burning saliva. It was only then I realised I was facing a beast straight out of hell.
With a yell, I propelled it as high as I could into the air with a force as much as I could muster, straight away armouring myself with a full body shield, jumping back as the thing hit the ground with a crack, it's seemingly perpetual amount of limbs slashing the air in anger.
I tripped over Hinata's body, as the thing came zooming towards me with such a speed it was an unrealistic movement.
I caught it by it's jaws, pushing the snarling screeching beast back from my face, then wrenching them open as wide as they would go. It screamed in agony as a loud crack ripped through the air, its jaws going limp in my hands.
Again, I threw it from me with another powerful push. The hell beast caught the buildings ledge, looking up at me with it's blood red eyes.
Without missing a beat I stamped down hard with my foot on it's gnarled fingers. It fell with a harrowing howl, falling to the street below, thrashing and hollering as a bus crashed straight into it.
With one final growl, the creature turned to dust.
I spat down onto the street below, surprised to feel that my clothes were dry and free from the beast's spit.
It must have been a conjuration of some sort. I frowned deeply. Whoever had made the thing had a powerful gift. It must have been one of the others still at the hospital... I had never encountered one like this before.
My phone buzzed impatiently in my pocket. I removed it quickly, perplexed at the caller ID.
Violet Anderson calling, it read. My thumb hovered over the green button, but I couldn't bear to answer it. I suddenly felt... remorseful for pulling Violet into all this. It angered me; I was a cold blooded hunter and I was supposed to fell no mercy or lament when it came to victims. Angrily, I shoved my phone back into it's pocket, my mind aching from the sheer power of the shields I had to conjure today.
I lifted the girl again, and continued on my way.

Jackie

Peyton was lying on the ground-unconscious.

I forgot all about the man on the roof and stared at her.

"Peyton?!" I panicked. my first friend in NY and already I was bringing bad luck over all of them?

Had to do something. Not just stand there. Something inside me snapped. My wings, those things i had never sworn to use again, opened wide.

They were white, big and gave me an angelic look. Except, I wasn't anything near to an angel...

I could feel people staring, but for once I didn't care.

I lifted Peyton into my arms and flew away from the hospital.

I set her down in central park, and leaped up into the air to fly back to the approaching battle.

*Sorry. My ideas are so terrible lately.*

(Im not sure if the hunter that was attacked was Iscica but I'm going to say it is)

ALUCARD~~

I motioned silently to Triston and he ran after the man who had taken Hinata.

I myself went after the fallen hunter. her wounds were slowly closin and she was struggling to her feet but I kicked her in the face and she fell back to the ground, unconcious.

I threw her over my shoulder uncerimoniously, holding back the urge to bight her and drain her of every drop of blood. When I was back at the group I tied her up with strips of my shirt and put her in the trunk of my car.

I ran back to the group right as Tristan got back. He didn't have the girl.

"The monster thing, it's stench covered the guys smell, I couldn't track him."

I nodded and turned to the group, "Ok, we need to go now. Hinata may be gone, but we know they operate in the city and we can bargain to get her back, but we need to go NOW."

Hinata

When I woke up again, I was on a roof. I turned around to see where I was, there was a tall boy in a hooded top. He was sitting up and was looking at the sky. “Why did you bring me here?” I asked, “What do you want with me?”
“I’m confused...” he trailed off.
I laughed and he looked up at me, I caught a glimpse at his face for a moment, I memorised it as well as I could. “What?” He asked sounding slightly irked.
“Is that the reason that you brought me here?” I asked, “Because you’re confused, do you have any idea how much trouble you have caused not only for us but for yourself and whoever your boss is?”
“I am well aware of the consequences.” He spat at me, “and you’re one to be talking. Do you have any idea of the consequences of hanging around with two Dhampirs?”
“Don’t tell me you suddenly care about what happens to me bearing in mind that you tried to suffocate me earlier.” I scolded him.
“Forget it,” He said, “you’re hopeless.”
“That’s what everyone says, Theo. Well take me away, it’s not like if you use me as bait it will work. Nobody would come for me, those guys aren’t that stupid.”
“We will see.” Theo chuckled quietly.
“No we won’t.” I said getting up, “ever since I killed my parents, I promised myself that unless I really needed to, I wouldn’t kill anyone, but I don’t need to kill you. Goodbye Theo.”
As Theo slumped over I looked over the edge of the roof and sighed, I knew escaping wouldn’t be that easy there was no stairs or ladders off. ‘Damn it’ I thought. I knew I need to get off the roof before any others came. Suddenly a huge shadow appeared from behind me. “Hinata. Were do you think you’re going and why did you knock Mr Greenwood out?”
I couldn’t turn around, my whole body was frozen. “Hinata,” The voice seemed to callously say my name in a sing-song voice, “You’re going to be a valuable asset to my collection. Why don’t you come with me now and I will welcome you into your new family.”
I wanted to run away, I wanted to jump of the roof, anything to get away from that thing but in the end, my body wasn’t my own and I ended up going over to pick up Theo and unexpectedly, I managed it. The shadow was talking to someone else, presumably on the phone. “Get over to the base now Asuka, I have the target, we need to work on her right away. Oh and once you do get back we need to go over your discipline, when I phone you, you answer.” The voice turned in my direction, “Let’s go now Hinata”
I had no choice. The shadow lowered me down slowly and then, with no command over my body I began to walk to my destination.

I thought we had asuka tied up in the trunk of my car...

Gale~

We all nodded and followed Triston to where he last caught the scent of Hinta. As we came into an alley, Triston stopped, "This is where it stopped." he informed Alucard.

I sniffed the air to see myself, and found nothing, that's when some girl that was with Peyton earlier came back. She had wings?! That's when a thought hit me. "We could search from the air." I suggested shyly figuring it was a dumb idea.

"That might work." Deacon replied as she looked at me. "But only. . ."

"Jackie." the girl replied as we turned towards her.

"Jackie has wings." Naomi finished for him.

"I might be able to get wings. And Jack can morph into a bird." I added.

"Okay go for it." Alucard said with interest. I focused for a moment before growing a pair of raven wings. . .

(Yeah I'm having bad ideas to. . .but I just wanted Gale to get back in the story.)