Hunters of Reality

Chapter 1

         I had just woken up and looked at the time. "8:37 pm" it said. I groaned to myself. "not again"  i said in my head. A new con has been created. Con of time. It was the number one rule in the rulebook. You can't mess with time. But no one really followed the rules anymore as far as i was concerned. "The hunters will get to it soon". My dream has always been to be a hunter. I have always been to young but with the most recent amount of crimes the age keeps lowering. Before you had to be 21 then 18 then 16. I'm 13. The reason i want to be a hunter is because when i was 8 my mother was killed by a con. 

5 years earlier

        My throat was very parched, it hadn't rained in 4 months. Mom and I were driving to the town hall to sit outside and wait for water. But we had slowed to a stop at a guy holding a sign. It read, "Water for sale. Price: 5 dollars a bottle". It was too good to be true. But we were desperate. He didn't look sketchy either. He wore nice clean jeans and an old faded t-shirt. My mom got out of the car and bought his whole stock of water. We were so happy we would be crying except for the fact we didn't water to spare for tears. She quickly packed it in the trunk and drove away just in case he changed his mind. We pulled into our driveway, and mom got the water and took the first sip to make sure it was safe. Then all of the sudden her eyes went wide and she spit water out of her mouth. She was choking and her face turned purple. She eventually withered to the ground and shut her eyes for the last time. I screamed for help. No one came.  

        I woke up on the ground next to her. I didn't get much sleep. A picture of the mans face haunted my dreams. When I looked at the case of what we had thought was water I was shocked. It was a shiny grey and looked solid. I realized it was metal. We had been hearing about these things called "cons and deceptions" something about the "hunters trying to get rid of them". I never believed it until now. That man was a con. He made the liquid metal look like water and when my mother drank it she died. It only looks like metal now because it wore off. 

3 years later

        I sat watching the news in the living room of our house, the bills hadn't been paid in years. But no one checked to make sure they were anymore. I gasped. Cons have been made legal as long as you abide by some rule book. 

1. Don't mess with time

2. Don't do anything to harm yourself or anyone else

3. Don't mess with currency's of any kind

I didn't think something like this would ever happen. Then again I didn't think cons would be happening either. I was horrified. 

Present time

        I got up. Made a cup of coffee. Sat on the couch to watch the news. I screamed when i saw the headlines. "Age lowered to 13 for hunters". I was so happy. I watched intently on how to become a hunter. Pulled out my phone and went to look at training dates. The soonest was one week later. I made myself some scrambled eggs and got dressed. All i could think about was becoming a hunter. Then, i heard a knock on my door.

To be continued...