Hunted

Jack

"I'm always catching you" I said to Gale as I caught her and punched the man who was attacking her.

"and you said those boxing lessons were a waist of time" Gale said smiling. Before I could remark I felt a force feild fling me back as it did Gale, I crached into the side of the alley and fell on top of a dumpster. He smiled at me as I got up and was about to attack me when I transformed into a mouse and jumped down into cover. I quickly sprung so up and into a cheetah quick crached into him as we when through the air I transformed back into a human and caught him by the collar if his shirt, I punched him twice before an incredible force hit me out of no were. I was flung backwards and crached through a wall.

"dam that hurt" I whispered to my self and pulled my self out I the ruble.

"I swear to god if another shapeshifter or vampire thing comes at me I'm going to kill it slowly" The man I had been fighting said, I guess this wasn't his day.

ALUCARD~~

I pushed triston out of the way and I dover to the closest wall. If there was going to be ant chance of me surviving this than it would be near that wall. The side he had collapsed came towards us with lightning speed. Dust filled the room, and when it cleared I was propped beneath two walls of stone. I shivered and began to squirm out from where I had fallen.

When I was free I focussed my mind on my brother. I knew he was alive, but I couldn't tell where. I knew he was safe, but I didn't know about the girl. I ran upstairs to an undamaged part of the building where my room was and grabbed the pistol off my dresser. Most monsters wouldn't be harmed by a bullet, but this guy was human, and he was mortal.

I ran over to the window right as he said, "I swear to god if another shapeshifter or vampire thing comes at me I'm going to kill it slowly"

I yelled, "Well, I hope you can make good on that promise in hell."

Then I shot. He turned towards me and threw up a forcefield, but he was too slow. The bullet deflected from his head and hit him in the shoulder. He screamed and fell to the ground.

The Male shapeshifter ran at him but was pushed back by another force field. I pulled the hammer back and aimed it at the man again.

Asuka

My mobile phone rang and i asnwered it.

"Asuka, here, oh hi, sir...what do you mean he's injured?...oh come on, sir, i don't want to do all the bussiness...but...yes, sir..." i gave a sigh before i turned the phone off in annoyance. great, ithey should have not fought them now everyone will know what will happen.

I stare back at the guy who lay unconsciously before me. He was interesting, a shape-shifter, common in this city but first time that i caught one. I placed him by the cage and locked the door heavily tight before i went out.

I sniff and i can smell the scent of the three girls but i needed to helped them. Would they do without me. I ran off along the street before i heard the slightest sound of a fight. BINGO, i went in...

I opened the door and saw him standing furiously before me. A guy was going out of teh rubble and along with him was a girl.

"Shapeshifters, a common sight in NY," i said as the man turned to face me.

"Asuka, what do you wnat?"

"Boss, told me to help..."

"I don't need help here,"

"Brag all you want but i do want a fight." i moved before him and stood face the shapeshifter. "Save your soul kid, you'll die even before you'll get out here."

"And what are you?"

"What do you want to know?" i replied and suddenly a cat sprung up to me into my face. iI moved back before the kid punched me by the stomach twice. I moved back twice before he did it repeatedly so strong liek a bear that the corner wall crack and smoke covered the wall.

"Gale, you okay..." i heard the girl speak as the kid held me by the throat with my face bloodied.

"What are you?" he ask but i only grinned. Soon after i held his arm and placed my nails into it that he screamed and back off. He stared at me with surprised as my face became normal again.

"Save your wits kid, you won't give me a mark that will less ten seconds. So what say you? be dead fighting or come with us?" i warned them as i took out my fan and placed it by my side.

* i was talking to Gale

So who attacked you Jack or Gale? You do know Gale is a girl right?

Gale~

For a moment it seemed like we were going to win, but then this chick walked in. She
started to argue with the man who had attacked us. That's when Jack attacked her. I felt
so useless I could barely move, let alone fight. I was pretty sure my arm was broken,
and morphing when it's like that would only mess it up even more.

Hinata

I looked up “So, you saw what happened to my parents.”
Payton gasped in horror. “What did you do to my sister?” she asked.
“Violet and I were attacked by a supposed ‘lunatic’. He tried to kidnap us and grabbed my shoulder, that’s what happened to my shoulder” I said to Deacon, “I broke that mans legs and got away with Violet. She seemed traumatised so I thought it would be better for her to forget it all. I cut away that memory.”
Peyton looked furious and, all fear forgotten, “You... you tampered with my sister’s brain?” she hissed and then she screamed, “I WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THAT!”
My head started to swim and I was enveloped in darkness.
10 YEARS AGO.
“Daddy! Daddy! Can we go to the park please?” I asked.
“I’m sorry Hinata, we can’t. I’ve got a visitor coming today and I have to be here to welcome him, but I tell you what, why don’t we play hide and seek until he comes!”
I could tell that something was wrong. But as long as my father was there I felt safe. “Ok Daddy let’s play hide and seek! I will hide!”
As he closed his eyes and began to count I ran in behind the screen in the living room and waited, peering through the crack between the panels. Once he reached seven the living room window smashed in and my father came rushing in and looked around. Something jumped on him from behind and started savagely tearing at his throat with its teeth. I was frozen on the spot watching as my father’s weak legs gave way and he fell into a fit on the floor. The figure that had attacked my father then spat on him and said, “Be sure to give your wife and child my greetings, the same way that you did to my family.” The monster chuckled and then leaped out of the window. I sat whimpering on the floor watching my father. An eternity passed. My father got up and sniffed. He then slowly crossed the room towards me. He grabbed the screen and swiped it away revealing me. His smile was that of a mad man. And there was one major difference. He had fangs.
I was covered in blood and scratches my father’s body lay below me in a pool of blood. I was crying. That was when my mother came in. She was humming when she saw the room and then she started screaming. When she stopped she started gulping in air and sobbing. She Stammered, “What are you?”
I walked towards her looking for comfort, but she screamed, “GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU MONSTER!”
I was puzzled. I wondered why my mother was terrified at me, why she called me a monster. I went back over to my father to get him up I shook him. And then I felt a searing hot pain in my back. I screamed and turned around my mother collapsed on top of me, dead. I wriggled out from underneath her and having used up all my tears. I just stared at the pair of broken bodies below me. Then everything went dark again.
I found myself back in New York again. Payton was shivering and Deacon was looking confused. I turned to Deacon and said, “one other thing, there was a Japanese woman who claimed to know the man who attacked me. She said that she was a psychiatrist but I think she was lying. She called herself Ms. Hiruna. When she left it looked like she was looking for someone. “Why... why are you not even fazed by what I did?” Payton asked, “I just trapped you in your worst memories... and you act like nothing happened.”
“You have no idea how many times I have went over that day in my head. How many times I have had nightmares about them. One day I just got up and said, ‘no more,’ and dealt with it. I don’t have the time to antagonise over something that happened 10 years ago. You should go and see your sister now and remember, my intentions were good.”
I watched as she turned and tensely walked back to her sister. Then i turned back to Deacon and asked, “Is that all?”

Deacon

He shrugged, adjusting the bag on his shoulder, “Maybe.”

As much as he liked peace and quiet, he knew he had to do something here. If Hinata and Violet were attacked because of Hinata’s power, then surely someone would be coming after him sooner or later. And Deacon knew that it would be best to deal with it now, when he could do so on his own terms, rather than later.

She scowled a little, “What do you mean, maybe?”

Deacon grinned a little, “Well, someone’s gotta do something about this stuff. Can’t just have teens going and getting killed. Are you girls sure you don’t want any help with these people?”

Either way, he knew he was going to have to keep an eye out for that ‘Miss Hiruna’ woman. Hinata had made it clear that the man who had attacked her and Violet was dangerous. But the so-called psychiatrist was more so. If she didn’t go straight for her targets, but analysed them first, then that would give her an edge that her friend would never have. Even if Deacon was completely certain of his physical capabilities, he didn’t want to fight someone who seemed to have a mental ability.

so sorry...i got confuse...okay, i was fighting with Jack

Asuka

It took no time and it happened so suddenly. For one instant i was talking to my collegue and the next i was being attack by some wolf. I drew my hand forward for defense and from it i can see the wolf's fangs biting into my arms before he jumped down to teh ground growling.

"How many times, do i have to tell you, kid? You won't leave any mark that will last ten seconds. But if you do want to fight," i took out my fan and pointed at him as my arm began to heal itself,"Be my guess,"

My fan opened and a pointed chain wcame out of it. It struck Jack by the forepaw and he moved back growling more. The chain went back to my fan and looked at my colleguae.

"Can't believe that you took a hard time with these guys? What are you?"

"Heh, lucky that you can heal..."

"Tsk tsk, if you mock me i won't heal you're-" Jack strike me and for an instant i defend myself with each strike with my fan. Each strike the kid shapeshift to anotehr animal before i strike my fan to the ground allowing my chain to surround him. He dodge it but i did not target the kid but the girl. It took no time for me to capture her. SHe moved around before i pointed the tip of my chain in her face. She stopped.

"So what now, wolfie, you want her to be injured or what?" the kid stopped and looked.

"LEt her go!"

"And what? kill me, you're funny. Hey, James, you want to help me or what?"

i can tell he felt dissapointed by this but i grinned.

"So what now, puppy?"


*i don't know who attack Gale and JAck so i call him James

He's called Theo... I posted his profile on page three or something.

Naomi-

I was walking down the street when an odd noise came from the side. It sounded like a scuffle. Probably just a little fight. Was someone being mugged?

"And what? Kill me? You're funny. Hey Theo, do you want to help me or what?"

"Whatever," someone muttered. I looked hard and saw a girl hanging onto another girl with a guy on the ground and another guy standing near.

Help or don't help, help or... oh whatever! I took off in a run and as quick as lightning planted a fist in the girl's face. The other girl dropped to the ground and crawled to the guy. They must've been related.

I felt something push me back and I landed in the wall.

"Another one Asuka!" the guy called. He must've been the Theo guy the girl was talking to.

"Really? I had no idea after she freaking hit me!" said Asuka angrily.

I pulled myself out of the wall, but felt another type of force field push me back hard.

"If you want to try that again, be my guest," said Asuka. "No mark lasts."

I gritted my teeth and pushed the force field, but it wouldn't move.

Theo

Gasping and yelling as the bullet tore through his shoulder, he stopped and stared at the little scrap of metal as it landed with a plink on the concrete. He turned around so fast, the movement looked inhuman.
Facing Auclard like an enraged dragon, he made a spinning movement with his finger. The gun in his hand flipped, so that it know pointed to Auclards chest. He then, made the motion of pulling a trigger with his index.
A mighty sound like thunder shook the alley again, as Auclard took the bullet in the chest. He toppled off the rubbled mess of the apartment, landing with a dull thud on the alley.
Everyone stopped for a second, fists poised in mid air as Auclard groaned, rolling onto his back as blood gushed from the hole in his chest. Dhampirs were strong he knew; but to survive that was something unusal. He didn't even have another second to ponder over this.
Jack jumped at him again, this time as an eagle with talons extended for his eyes. This man was a fool for shifting into something small. He would crush Him with ease.
Ignoring the intense fire in his shoulder, he used both hands to smack the bird into the ground, reverting it into a mess of feathers.
Behind him, Asuka would going head to head with the imperfect and the new comer to the battle. She was lucky; it was almost impossible for her to sustain any kind of life threatening injury. But by the way Theo's t-shirt was now sodden with blood, he guessed he didn't have long left before he passed out.
Suddenly, a voice from somewhere above them called out to the hunters. They stopped and looked up at The Hunter.
"Fall back," he said in a low husky voice, before the figure was gone.
"Asuka!" he yelled, beginning to back away, following the hunters orders with reluctance.
He managed to get one final hit in. He enveloped a car in his force field, throwing back his good arm and flinging the silver mass at the teenagers.
He didn't turned around to see what happened. The large boom and rush of air behind him was enough for him to guess.
He staggered away from the alley, onto the threadbare street as black spots swam in front of his eyes. He didn't know how long he walked for, he just kept moving in rhythm to the little dripping noise that seemed to follow him.
He collapsed in an alley, blood smearing down the side of the wall as he sunk to the floor in a crumpled crimson stained mess.
He would die here.
He sat up slowly, running his hand through his hair which was now sticky and covered in warm blood, compared to it's usual golden colour.
He thought of his family again. He would probably see them soon... that was, if he ended up where they were. Did he even believe in Heaven and Hell? Not really. You're born, you live, you die. That's how it worked. And he was on the latter stage now...
Things were different now. He did wish there was something after this life... so that he could see them again. Then that ache in his chest would finally go away, and he could just be Theo again.
A black mist seemed to close in on his vision, freezing his limbs and making them stiff.
He squinted as he heard footsteps, and a black shadow blocked out the little light that creeped into the dark space.

Peyton

She walked back into the cafe, deciding it best not to mention anything to her sister. Violet was a worrier, and she didn't need anything on her mind with the death or their mother traumatising her as well.
He walked back into the cafe, expecting to see her waiting for her by the counter. But the seat she had been sitting on was now empty.
She frowned slightly, her head reciprocating as she scanned the customers, expecting to see her sitting amoung them. But Violet was no where to be seen.
She shouted into the kitchen. "Pierre, I gotta go. My sister had dissapeared, she needs my help." Without waiting for an answer, she took off her apron and ran out the cafe door, joining Deacon and Hinata again. She couldn't let anything happened to her, not with that lunatic stalking the streets.
"Looking for someone?" Deacon asked.
"Violet is gone. I need to find her," Peyton managed to babble. Deacon kept quite calm dispite Peyton's apparant delerium, and said whilst putting a hand on her shoulder, "We'll help you look, don't panic. Now, which way would she have gone?"
She eyed the many New Yorkers as they moved in all directions, trying to get her bearings.
"This way, heading for home I'd say."
Deacon nodded as they set out for that direction, dodging the many people and making their way through the thick crowd in their search for Violet.

- Violet

I stared blankly at the coffee before me, desperately begging my memory to return.
“What has happened to me?” I thought to myself. I’ve never forgotten anything before. I can even remember everything that happened when I was a baby. So why can’t I remember what happened to me earlier?
I glanced up at Peyton, who was busy with a customer. I swiftly got up and almost sprinted out the door in an attempt to leave the café before Peyton noticed I was gone.

I had managed to walk a couple of blocks before I spotted a tall, dark figure slumped on the ground in an alleyway. I forgot everything I had ever learned about safety in the moment it took me to run over to him to see if he was okay.
I gasped in horror when I noticed that his head and shoulder were oozing with blood. I grabbed my cell from my pocket and dialled 911.
“911, what is your emergency?”
“It’s my friend! He’s bleeding from his head and right shoulder! I need an ambulance immediately!” I cried out. I’m not even sure why I called the boy my friend, but it seemed like the right thing to do.
“What is your location?”
“Uh, an alleyway on East 32nd at Lexington ave.”
“Thank you, we’ll be there ASAP.”
I put my cell back into my pocket and glanced again at the mysterious stranger. He had sandy blonde hair that looked as if it would have been lovely, had it not been soaked in blood. I took off my jacket and held it against his gaping wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
I noticed he opened his eyes slightly and looked at me with bewilderment.
“Hello?” I asked him. “My name’s Violet. I called an ambulance for you. They um, should be here shortly.”
“I’m… Theo.” He managed to choke out, before he became unconscious.
I couldn’t help but start sobbing, as I realised that there was a strong possibility that Theo could die before the ambulance got to him.

It could not have been more than a few minutes later before I heard voices shouting for me.
“Violet! Vi? Are you there?”
I cursed inwardly. Peyton.
“I’m over here!” I yelled reluctantly.
I looked over and saw the faces of my sister, a messy-haired guy I had never seen before, and… Hinata?

A flash, and suddenly I see a dark figure, and I hear a loud snap as the man falls to the ground. And then, as quickly as it began, it’s over.

I stared at Hinata in shock. What was that?
I didn’t have much time to dwell on this however, as the ambulance finally arrived as soon as I had gained any composure.
The paramedics lifted Theo into the ambulance, glancing at us briefly, before saying; “Are any of you relatives? We only allow family to travel with our patients.”
I swiftly looked at the other two before saying, with an attempt at a smile; “I’m Theo’s girlfriend.”

- Prospekt

Hinata

Violet was looking at me strangely, even when she helped the paramedics lift the blood soaked stranger up into the ambulance. ‘That’s fine I thought. If she’s edgy around me she won’t pester me anymore.’
The paramedics asked, “Are any of you relatives? We only allow family to travel with our patients.”
Violet stepped forward, barely glancing at us. “I’m Theo’s girlfriend.”
At this Peyton looked like she was going to have a stroke. Once the ambulance was gone she got a determined look on her face and haled a taxi. I think she went to the hospital. “so..” Deacon said turning to me, “Will you need my help?”
I snorted, “I don’t usually get myself involved like this, I hardly know those people and even if we were all best friends, I don’t think it necessarily would be us that need your help.”
“Meaning?” he asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Meaning,” I speculated, “That judging by your appearance, and the fact that you carry around those overrated sticks with you. I would say that you rely on physical, not mental power, mental being telekinesis etc.”
“What’s your point?”
“You cannot defend or counter mental attacks. If I were your enemy I could kill you now and you wouldn’t be able to do a thing about it. It is not only I who needs you for obvious reasons. You also need me.”
“Well, you got me.” He chuckled, “but regardless of who would be using who, will you join me?”
I had to think for a moment. “I think staying with you could be just about my best chance of staying alive. Just don’t be expecting me to risk my life for some stranger.”
“I suppose,” Deacon sighed, “I couldn’t ask more from you.”

Naomi-

I gave a quick glance at the guy who shot Theo, but his force field was down and I dropped to the ground. As quick as I could reclaim my sanity, I ran over to the shapeshifters and picked them both up carefully.

We all needed to get out of here, and that Asuka girl wasn't going to make it easy. There was a shout overhead which drew the attention of both hunters. "Fall back!"

I took the advantage and ran the two shapeshifters out of there. When I had set them down and ran back, the alleyway was empty of everything but a few specks of blood on the ground. Where did they go?

"You needing something?" a girl asked. I recognized her from school. Everyone talked about that wierd mark on her neck, or so I've heard.

"Um yes, do you have a phone?"

"Why?"

"I found two people and they're hurt really bad. I don't know what to do."

"What's going on?" a guy came up from behind.

"Please I need to call an ambulance. These two are really hurt and..."

"It's okay. Show me where they are."

I led the two to the girl and her brother. Thankfully they shifted back into human form so they just looked like two bleeding people. If that's something you can be thankful for.

"I'll call 911," said the girl. She smirked grimly at the guy.

"Look Deacon, two ambulance calls in one day."

"You want to explain how this happened?" Deacon asked. I gulped.

Peyton

"Follow that ambulance!" she yelled like a banshee, going a little red as the cab driver flinched away from the loud sound.
The cabbie pulled away from the curb and began driving behind the brightly coloured ambulance, the sirens blaring and screaming up the busy road.
Why in Hell's fire did she do that? she thought to herself, imagining the bloody guy on the alleyway again. Violet was usually wary of others, usually not getting very close to anyone. Heck, she doesn't even think much of her own sister. Well, that was what Peyton thought about it anyway. She barely even spoke to their father anymore since the new girlfriend moved in. That, she could understand. Peyton didn't have a problem with Ellen, she'd been nothing but kind to the both of them. But then, Peyton could barely remember their mother... it was just different for Vi.
She sank back into the leather chair as they tailed the ambulance. Besides, this guy was passed out. It's not as if he could hurt Vi anyway...

Hinata

Just after I agreed to stay with Deacon, a girl that I recognised from school approached us cautiously. I scowled at her, “you need something?” I asked.
I made an expression on my face that I made every day, it was my go away and leave me alone face. It didn’t work. At that moment Deacon thankfully came over and took over. She said that her name was Naomi and that she had found two people really badly injured. She led us to them. I offered to call 911 and with a hint of black humour said, “Look deacon, two ambulance calls in a day.”
While we waited for help, Deacon started asking Naomi questions like “Do you know what happened here?”
I didn’t really pay attention to her but I caught the gist of their conversation, there had been a car crash, she had helped them out of the car and came looking for help. Even from hearing as much as that I knew she was hiding something. I dropped it, Deacon didn’t; just when he reached round to get his backpack and I prepared to stop him. We heard a gasp of pain and we all rushed over to the man, he was in really bad condition. His breathing increased and he looked like he was holding back a yell. Naomi started crying and saying to herself, “He’s going to die, isn’t he?” over and over again.
Deacon was shaking him and shouting at him, it was getting too noisy. I would make it stop. I knew i would regret this, I would feel it for as long as that man would. However, it would lessen his pain, and make those two shut up. I summoned up my most commanding voice. I would have to do this before more people came. “BE QUIET YOU TWO!” I roared.
They both looked up at me in shock; I didn’t have time to explain. I looked at Deacon and said, “I need you to catch me if I fall.”
I didn’t know why I trusted him, I just did. I didn’t know why I was helping this man, but I was. I don’t know why I hugged Violet, I... I... didn’t know what was happening to me. I still haven’t figured it out. At that moment I just wanted to help that man; no matter what.
I held my breath and focused my concentration, seeking out his pain and then letting it in. When I got to his chest, it was like there was an abyss of pain and I tried to control it, but it pushed open the gates to my nerves and I couldn’t stop it. It was too powerful. The last things I can remember before loosing consciences is a pair of gentle hands holding me up as my body screamed in protest, I remember something gushing out my mouth, it tasted of metal and I can remember hearing under my own ragged breath and the hands owners protests, I could hear that the others breath was peaceful again. It felt like my face ripped open a thousand times as I tried to smile but failed. I closed my eyes and let myself be enveloped in the bliss of unconsciousness.