Hunted

*Hey arya, Gale can't turn into a full animal she just grew some huge raven wings.
I'll work with it thou. ; )*

Gale~

I went full raven, except for my butt end, went into a small wolf like form. Jackie was
having a hard time flying while carrying me. As we flew towards Jack, I noticed a giant
deformed creature heading towards the others hiding place!

"We have to do something!" I yelled over the wind.

"We have to warn the others!" Jackie yelled back. Jack started to make hawk calls,
cause he couldn't talk in animal form.

We flew as fast as we could but we got caught in the wind, pulling us back. I could feel
the wind trying to rip me out of Jackie's arms. I looked down, to see every one panicking!
Looking around I noticed Asuka wasn't tied up any more.

(Thought I should add another twist.)

*sorry about that...i'd change the part...

Asuka


It took me a while but i was finally able to freem myself from them though i cannot fully believe that. The rain was destroying their scent so i do not know whether they are nearby or not but is topped before my building waiting for my wet hair to dry.

I looked around checking if there is any sign of them. I still needed to find Theo. I patted my pants and sighed when my phone was not with me as well as my flute. I took a moment before i walked into the building.


I went inside my room and saw the Hunter inside but what took me by surprise was the boy laying on the ground. I hurried to him and try to shook him. He had no expression and i tried to check his pulse. His body was filled with wounds

"He is unconscious, Asuka?"

"What did you do with him?" i tried to said before i was thrown back to the wall.

"I just gave him something to wake up. That instrument of yours, it's really interesting..."

i bit my lip before the hunter held my neck and look closely at my face.

"But that is not what i am worying. Because of you, i hired two more people just to find you. What are you trying to do with me, Asuka. Make me a joke to other hunters. You're just lucky, you're sister told me to take care of you."

He let go of me fiercely before he left the room telling me to find Theo. I gave a narrow stare before fixed my apartment.

I sighed beofre i pull the boy into a seat while i fixed my instruments one of which was my photo of m and my sister. I lifted it up, curse him for dropping it and placed it back to where it stood.

Naomi-

She was gone. In an instant, no fight, no words. She was just gone.

"We hae to find her before she gets too far," said Deacon. I looked up and saw three shadows coming dow towards us. Jack landed first followed by Jackie, carrying Gale.

"Did you find Hinata?" I asked hopefully.

"I'm sorry Naomi. We didn't find her but there's a creature heading this way. I don't know what it is but it doesn't look friendly.

The rain stopped and the dark clouds moved over to show the blue sky. And there was the creature coming down, just like Jackie said.

Moo told me to tell you that the monster has not actually been conjured yet.
The hunters have just left to force Peyton to use her powers now!

**Whoops**

Lol no problem. I'll fix it now ;(

Peyton

Next I knew fingers as cold as snake skin coiled around my throat. I gasped, preparing to scream but another freezing hand smacked down over my mouth to muffle the sound.
"Listen, and listen good," the voice breathed in my ear, sending a shockwave of fear from the crown of my head to my toes. I stilled, my breath dying in my throat.
"I want you to conjure one of those creatures for me. I'll let you go now, and you have three seconds to make one," the voice sneered, as I spluttered when his hand gripped harder on my throat. My heart raced and thudded against my ribs with such force I thought it might burst through the bones.
With a gasp as his hand left my throat, I stood still and refused to move. The thought of having to turn to face these people in this dark alleyway make my body shake even harder.
No matter how much I didn't want to do it, I knew these people would kill me if I didn't.

*sorry I'll come back with more.*

Back for more

Peyton

"Why are you doing this?" I said in a dangerously calm voice dispite the tremours that shook me. When I didn't move for over three seconds, the man pushed me down with such force I skidded a few metres deeper into the alley way, hitting the back wall with a crack. A pain shot up my back like a rocket, but I clamped my mouth shut before the cry could escape my lips.
The man strode up to me, his female companion watching with folded arms, their cruel faces hidden behind hoods. This had to be connected to the attack earlier...
The man retracted his boot and threw it into my stomach in a savage kick that made me bite down hard on my tongue in pain. Warm matallic fluid grinded between my clenched teeth as another kick to the shins made my body cry out in an echoing, silent scream that never left my lips.
His teeth bared, the man reached down and grabbed my fair hair, spitting the words at me like every syllable was laced with venom. "Do it now, or I make this difficult, girl." The girl behind him let out a hearty laugh, her mouth spreading into a wicked grin as she unfolded her arms and flexed her hands.
I searched desperately for some way to get out of this... but I barely had enough energy to conjure something and be able to control it. It would just be like an empty hand puppet, totally useless. But it could maybe buy me some time...
Obiediantly, I waved a shaking arm in a circle on the ground, using up as little space as possible for the nightmaric beast to awaken. I didn't have enough energy to make it any bigger. Just as before, a deformed, many fingered hand burst from the ground at my command, the creature pushing it's head up through the concrete as if it were sand. It swished it's leathery wings with a snap, looking at me for some kind of orders.
My mind began to scream again, begging me to stop the nightmare and spare it the splitting pain that coursed through my head.
"Tell it to obey me, and do whatever I say!" the man spat, throwing another kick, which I managed to roll away from.
"Do what he says," I said to the creature. It nodded in understandment, blinking it's beady little eyes and turning to the man. He grinned, and petted it's head.
"Go on, use your power on it," he said to the girl. She nodded, and placed her hand on it's head, her hand glowing in the dark alley.
The creature screeched and struggled a little, and then stopped. It took a breath, a long and rasping one. The girl's feet give way beneeth her as my mind caved in, stopping the nightmare. The creature didn't die.
She had given it life...
The man caught her as she murmured sleepily, "That should be enough. It'll be hard to kill..." He nodded and turned to the beast.
"Go find the group of kids this girl came from. Kill every last one of them." The creature nodded, spreading it's wings and taking flight as the man helped the girl from the alley without another look back.
I was alone once more.

*there, we're all tied up now. You guys can have the creature attack now if you'd like.*

ALUCARD~~

I looked back at the chair and Asuka was gone. I cursed and yelled for Triston, who was of course already on his way.

"What happened?"

"The hunter escaped."

"How?"

I shrugged, "My guess is that she can control that fan thing if she is close enough to it."

"Oh..."

"Doesn't matter anyway. Tell the others I'm going to try and track her."

He ran off towards the rest of the group and I went off after her rapidly thinning trail at a full run. Triston would never cat ch me at this speed, but I was NOT going to let another person die or get used for some cruel experiment.

Hinata

I was chained up, suspended from the ceiling by my arms. One of the most basic human rights had been taken away from me, Theo was hitting me hard with a stick, getting harder and harder every time I refused to comply with hunters wishes, it took all my will power not to scream, every time I was asked if I wanted to join their cause, I refused.
I wanted to hurt Theo really badly but the room we were in seemed to neutralise my powers. It felt like an eternity had passed, when the beatings stopped. "Why?" I heard Theo's voice to my left, "Why don't you scream? Why don't you beg for mercy?"
I turned my head towards the sound of his voice, "I won't ever give you that satisfaction. Besides I've survived worse..." I trailed off.
"What?" he asked, "What were you going to say there?"
"It doesn't matter."
"I want to know."
"I don't care."
"Fine."
"What?" I asked, "You're going to give up just like that?"
"No, seeing as you're being so stubborn and you still say you're not going to join us after all that, I'm going to go and get Hunter now and he will force you to join us or kill you."
I could hear footprints heading away from me, "Wait." I sighed, "He would really kill me?"
"Without hesitating."
"Dammit," I shouted, "O.K. I will join your stupid gang, but I will never ever risk my life for anyone!"
I heard a chuckle, "Whatever."

Asuka

When the door opened i gave another disgusting sigh. The boy was no longer unconscious but wide awake though he was sill daze and confuse.

I stood up and GREETED him the way i alwasy did but when i looked at my door, he was with another girl who stood firmly beside him covered with bruises.

"theo what were you doing?" i shouted moving closer to him just before he would ask me a question on how i escape. There was a little expression of shock and confusion in his face. I gave him a grin before it deserted when i look at the girl whom i recognized as Hinata.

"interrogating her, what else...we have a new member," he said a bit amused and still shock of my appearance before i slap him in the face.

"Do not ever do that to interrogate people. I've seen other hunters do that and the one whom they interrogated ended up worst than before. Besides she'll think bad of us."

"You are bad. You attacked those two teens..." The girl said as bit stubbornly. I stared down at her before i gave her a grin.

"Yeah and what you're proof that we did that to our own accord. Hey they stubbornly fought us so we had to defend ourselves." i sighed again touching my head.

"So asuka, how did you escape?" he asked.

"I'll tell you when you come inside. And as for you," i pointed to Hinata, "I'll sort out those bruises if you would help me clean this place."

Lol Bonnie the whole chains and stick thing was a little harsh, even for Theo. He's a big softie really. lol

So where is everybody? I thought the other group of teens were in the park or somewhere outside of the hospital. *confuzzled*

**I think they were in an apartment, except for Gale, Jackie and Jack, who were looking for Hinata.**

Deacon

It was a time like this that I wished I'd had the foresight to buy myself a real pair of swords. My wooden ones could cope with a human, but this would probably demand something a little more drastic than wood. Damn, I thought, I'll have to get myself some steel ones once this is through. If I'm still alive.

"I don't think..." I said slowly, looking at the approaching monster, "That any of us can deal with that thing on our own. But maybe if we could get it into a spot too tight for it to move, we could take it out that way."

It was bearing down on us, and someone said, with a little distaste, "There's always the sewers..."

I nodded, and retrieved my swords. I knew they couldn't do anytthing against the monster, but they'd be useful against any hunters in the area, and it was comforting to have them at hand. Naomi shot a look at me, "What're you doing?"

I smiled grimly, "Well, I got no action in the last two fights, and I've been fairly useless so far, so it's about time I did my bit. I might not be the fastest, but I can do things none of you could even dream of. It won't catch me. You all go for the sewers, and I'll try to find you later."

With that, I swung myself out the window and raced up the steps on the outside of the building, arriving on the roof just as the creature reached the apartment block. I picked up a brick and hurled it, hitting the monster on the side of the head. It looked at me with a snarl.

"Well, come on then, ugly!" I shouted, internally cursing my own 'heroic' stupidity. "See if you can get me!"

I started back down the stairs, praying that the others were going out the front door. There was a sickening screech above me as metal was twisted by the demon slamming into the stairs. Chips of brick showered onto me as the stairs were pulled free of the building. I swung myself over the side, pitching myself across to the other side of the alley, kicking off the opposite wall and then the falling stairframe. I repeated the motion over and over, landing on top of the stairs just after they hit the ground.

My pursuer stood in the mouth of the alley, and looked at me for a moment before charging with a bloodthirsty roar. Knowing that I would be better off running than fighting, I chose to run, kicking over myriad objects as I wound through the alleys, seeking to disturb the creature's passage. From time to time, I'd send the lid of a garbage can or some such object flying back, keeping up its rage.

When I finally reached one of the covered manholes that marked a sewer entrance, the beast was still some distance away. Lifting the heavy steel cover took little effort, I was stronger than nearly anyone, the only exceptions I could think of being the Dhampirs and Naomi.

A hard throw sent the heavy metal disc spinning towards the creature's head. It's wings snapped out behind it, launching it upwards. It managed to avoid being hit in the head, but I still heard a satisfying crack as a few ribs broke.

Then I was through the manhole, safe for the time being from the creature and its masters. On the other hand, I now had no idea where the others were. Nor, for that matter, where I was.

Peyton

The horror of what I had just down hit me like a bus. I had pratically sent a creature out to kill my friends...
I lifted myself up from the dusty floor as soon as I had reassured myself the hunters were gone. I had no time to waste, I had to find the creature, and fast. Before it...
I shuddered violently at the thought of how much blood that creature could draw with one hack of it's twisted claws.
I sprinted out onto the street, ignoring the throbbing in my stomach and shin. I called their names aimlessly in the crowded streets, pushing and shoving others clear from my path and returning the way I had come.
I stopped dead in the street, my breathing stilling in my throat.
A single, blood curdling roar tore through the evening air like a knife.
I began to run as fast as my legs would take me, towards the danger. There I saw it; the creature's dragon like form slipping into a whole in the ground, a manhole which was cracked in two lying nearby.
I took a deep breath and sprinted to the whole, eyeing the abyss below and jumping as screeches and roars echoed upwards from below.
I had to fix this. I took a deep breath and let the darkness below devour me.

Theo

I watched Hinata and Asuka leave, cursing at myself silently. The thing that made me even angrier was the fact I actually had no idea why I was cross with myself. I wandered around the dark halls, greeting the other hunters with a grunt and taking in the musty air.
I suddenly felt compelled to call Violet. As to why, I wasn't sure. But I was already subconciously reaching for my pocket before the thought had even registered in my mind.
I waited for her to answer, and when she did almost immediately I had to contain a laugh.
"Hey," she said nervously on the other side of the line.
"Hello. I'm just returning your call, I'm sorry I didn't pick up, I was busy."
"Oh, it's fine really. I was just having a..." she paused and for some reason I flinched. I knew why she called me; in panic for her sister and Hinata. "Just a bad day you could say."
I leaned against one of the walls in the narrow corridors. "Will you still be okay for tomorrow?"
"Of course!" came her eager reply and this time I actually laughed.
"I know a nice itallian restaurant. How does that sound?"
"That sounds great. I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Looking forward to it. See you."
By the time the conversation had ended, the anger had ebbed away and for once in my life... I almost felt content.

Naomi-

I could barely think as Deacon ran up the stairs to the roof.

"Naomi?" Jackie asked.

I shook my head, trying to grab hold of reality. "We need to do what he says. Everyone get out of here!"

Everyone ran, especially harder when a terrible shrieking roar came from the top of the building. We all ran out to the street and found a manhole cover. I slipped my fingers under it and lifted it like styrofoam.

"Everyone get in!" I shouted, tears trickling down my cheeks. No one bothered to argue, especially when another roar came from the building. I jumped in last and fixed the manhole cover, causing the light to be put out.

Gale pulled out a cell phone as did Jackie, me, and Jack. The little blue lights from the phones didn't put much of a dent in the darkness, but they still helped.

"Ew, it reeks down here," Gale complained.

"Would you rather be back up there with the creature?" Jack asked. Gale frowned at her brother. I looked to Alucard and TRiston.

"Is he going to be alright?"

"I don't know," answered Alucard.

"His power is increased strength," Triston offered, but it didn't help my concern. I shuddered at the thought when suddenly a large whiff of the sewer hit me in the face and my inhanced smell multiplied it ten fold.

"Oh! Ew! Gross! Agh!"

**I thought it would be okay to put in a little humor.**