Mateless and Home Bound

Chapter 50: Deja Vu

"Freeze," he pointed his gun at the bearded man. It had taken him a while to get there, but these hunters had apparently set up camp, and weren't looking to leave. They were too cocky for their own good.

"What are you going to do?" he raised his brow and smiled. "Shoot me?"

"Yes," Snake answered. What was he supposed to tell him? No? That this was all just a game of water tag and this was just his toy gun?

Humans sometimes.

"I would have thought that a vampire had other means than just a gun," his voice was like a slick cat trying to keep one of it's nine lives. "Don't you have more enemies in this forest than little old me? We weren't even trying to kill you."

"Is that supposed to be a good thing?" he asked, keeping the gun pointed at him. "I'm not here to attempt to settle a supernatural feud, Gideon Flint. I'm here to keep you all from killing the innocent."

His hunch was proven correct. The markings that were on some of the hunters all symbolized which group they were from. It just so happened that he finally traced it down to this man in particular. Gideon Flint was a supernatural hunter that had made it pretty big recently. His work in finding the strongest beasts was how he jumped up the ranks in the hunting community. Now he was the leader of hundreds of people, all willing to follow him to Hell and back.

It seemed like Snake was going to have to be the one to test that.

"You should have taken my men's offer to help, Snake," Gideon smiled. "Maybe it would have made you better at assessing your situation."

"My situation?" he asked. The hunters that he had brought with were all busy with the werewolves that had shown up to fight. Their weapons were powerful, but he knew that this pack could take it. He was more worried that he hadn't seen the wolf that howled anywhere. He could always recognize that howl. It sounded so familiar to the one he had heard so long ago.

"You think we don't know about you?" Those brown eyes looked at him as if he were a prized gem. "It's a shame that it has to end like this, Snake. I was rather enjoying the hunt."

He moved just in time to avoid a dagger in his back. To think that humans could be this confident in something like this when he had much faster reflexes. He knew that they had hunted vampires before, but they must not have gotten ones that were as old or experienced as him. The fledglings were always the easiest to catch. But the master ones were only for the most experienced. Not some hot shot trying to show off.

Did he think this was some movie or something? What was he going to do next? Make something explode?

It would be entertaining, he'd say that.

"I've killed plenty of you to not know your tricks, Gideon," Snake put the gun towards him again. "I doubt you know much more than my name, either. Perhaps you should look into the prey you're trying to hunt rather than going in blindly."

"Oh, I know my prey," he gave him an evil smile. "You're just going to be icing on the top of the cake. I'm sure these knives are going to love piercing through your flesh."

He shot right when he said that. It was the first time he missed his mark that whole time he was in the forest. The hunter had somehow avoided it, using a smoke bomb to slip into the trees.

When he said explode, he wasn't exactly thinking smoke.

"Should we go after him?" Dakota asked. Him and Glinda just made it at the tail end of the battle. Snake frowned as he looked in the direction the man disappeared into.

"Ye-"

"Eric!" he heard someone yell. He turned to see the Alpha racing into the building that was in the middle of the clearing.