Slender Woods

Young killers

I smile as I look upon the sleeping couple, lit with an eerie blue glow from my eyes. Really convenient in the dark, unless you
are hiding. I have my whip ready, my finger twitching with
excitement to press the button. In my other hand is the couple's hose. Grinning, I hose them down. They get up with a start, confused and scared and soaping wet. If only they knew. If only they knew it was their time to shut down.

"What the hell of a joke do you call this, kid?" An angry man asks me.
"I'm afraid you will have to be shut down." I answer him,smirking.
"What is wrong with your eyes?" The soaked woman asks. I've had enough of them. I beat them hard with my whip, with the button pressed. I watched the electricity and water mix do its work.

Within minutes they are dead. Any knife could have killed them faster but, well, it is really funny to watch men and women convulse with the voltage inside them. At least for me. And that is why they all called me Volt.

They had no children, so I quickly move on to the next house. I was about to get in, when I heard it, a shriek of a woman from a house down the street. Who would just get up and scream at this hour? Really, I had no choice but to investigate.

Another scream, and this time, I also made out desperate cries.
"No! Please no! I've had enough!"
A softer voice would answer
"Oh, but we are not even half way through yet. Now how about right here."
A scream of pain. The window the sound was coming from was dark, but I could barely make out a man, nailed up to a wall. A man nailed to a wall? The softer voice was of a masked female.

This girl was probably about my age. She had shoulder length blond hair and kinda small. Her attire was a red sweater and short shorts, her half-mask concealed the top half of her face. Though I am a killer, I was kinda grossed out to see that she had these swirls and curving lines carved into her body. At least, I would guess so because they were on her legs, and the back of her hands, and on her arms, and pretty much any area large enough with exposed flesh. The cuts were weird, and gross, but also in a way, beautiful.

She finished off her victim while I was gaping, and now all eyes are on me. The glow of my eyes threw off my cover. She just stares at me, and I stare back, both killers who could easily mess each other up.

Finally, she makes a move, an unexpected one. She reached behind her, dropping the hammer she just brutally tortured her victim with, and removed her mask. I was now looking at a girl with unearthly violet eyes. I have seen this girl before. I have seen her around.

Katherine was commonly picked on for her eyes. She only had two friends ever, both now gone. Erika was her best friend. I don't really know what happened to her, it was just like she just disappeared without trace. Her other friend, Cody, had a worse fate. He was nailed to a wall, and beat to death. No one ever found out who did it.

"Seth?" Katherine asked. "I thought you moved out for good."
I grin "Well, I'm back. Missed me?"
Her expression hardened. "Not one bit."

Out of the blue, she just smacks me on the side of the head with her hammer. Before I could even think I pass out.

I wake up with piercing pain in my hands and feet. Katherine glares up at me.

"Now explain to me," She orders me
"Explain what you are doing at this time of the night, without your glasses, and with this crazy thing."

She holds in her hands my electric whip. I struggle to get off the wall, but there is no way to do it without being hit by Katherine again or going through a lot of pain.

"First of all," I growl
"You are letting me go after your answers. I see you are now a serial killer. Congratulations, for guess what? I'm a killer too. That 'thing' you hold is my weapon: an electronic whip with high voltage. I would be careful if I were you.
I don't wear glasses because I'm not blind anymore. It all came with being electrocuted. Can I go now?"

She thinks over my answer, then reluctantly gives in.

"Fine. Here you go." She pulls the nails out of my hands and feet, then takes some steps back.

"You can go now."

I start to go, but hesitate. What will happen to Katherine? For some strange reason, I feel different about her, like I shouldn't leave her. Also, who knows? She might just hit me again and torture me on the wall.

I ask. "what about you, Katherine?"

She gives me a weird look, then puts on her mask again.

"I'll just be on my way, killing people, sleeping where ever, eating what I find, and so forth."
"Can I come with you?"
"What?"
"I'm a killer too you know."

She stops to think again, then

"Okay then, Seth. But just so, I am Kat, not Katherine."

I smirk. "Yea, okay. I'm not Seth, Volt will do."
"Yeah, whatever."

She jumps out the window and I follow. We are now two young killers, I guess, wandering the world to be rid of humanity. I will have to kill her to, eventually, but at the time being she could keep her ways.