Red riding hood: ReVamped

Chapter 10: an army

Culter and Red's grandmother had been waiting for a couple hours now for the pair to return home. "Something must be wrong, it shouldn't take that long to hunt. I'm going out." Culter stated, immediately heading for the door while Red's grandmother watched, unsure of if she should stop him.
As Culter reached the door, he feels his phone vibrate and out of instinct, checks it to see news from the supernatural committee of Allie Hall's return from Germany. Culter shakes his head and opens the Door to leave, he sees Red and Stan coming out from the forest. Red is also dragging Isaiah with them. 'Well I guess he's here now' Culter rolls his eyes and waits for the group to reach the door.

"Oh thank you Culter, I was luckily able to find blood. Just took a lot longer than expected." Red exclaimed as she strutted in, Stan was right behind her and had a very tired expression. Culter could for the first time truly see Stan's age showing. "Well it's good you guys are back, and I see you brought along the kid?" Culter stared at Isaiah.

"Yes we did actually" Red said cheerfully, she had now wrapped Isaiah in her cape to keep him warm. Culter gave Stan a look and Stan simply threw his hands up. "It wasn't my idea" he protested.
      Red scoffed and turned to her grandma. "Are you alright?" Red asked in a very innocent voice. Her grandma nodded as she walked slowly into the living room to sit down. Meanwhile, Isaiah was glued to Red's side because she refused to let him wiggle out of her cape. He could still see blood stains on her lips and the thought that she may get hungry again began to terrify him.

"Uh, hi...um Red? I....I think I'm warm...enough" Isaiah mustered out, his eyes were wide and he kept darting his vision across the room. Hoping someone would come to his aide. It was wishful thinking.

"No, you said you were getting cold outside so I'm gonna keep you until you warm up." Red responded, her tone wasn't hostile necessarily, Isaiah did notice that her more cheerful demeanor had disappeared though. Stan shook his head, he walked over to the table and took a seat.
"Listen guys, instead of acting like love birds." Red gasped at the hunter for assuming such a thing. "OH MY GOD! I DON'T FUCKING LIKE HIM!" Her voice blared across the house. Everyone had to cover their ears at her yelling, Stan shot daggers at Red.
"As I was saying, Vortex will assuredly have people by his side to aide in any attack he attempts. What exactly is the game plan?" He looks at Red, seeing that the idea of this "team" was hers. Red blushes in embarrassment, knowing she hadn't really thought this through.

     "Um yea...about that." Red scratches her head, flustered. Culter chuckles at her incompetence, Red hisses at him and finally lets Isaiah go from her cape as she ponders a strategy. "Well I am a vampire, I can definitely be the muscle." She started before Stan immediately cut her off "Vortex and Abe are both far more powerful than you, so if you're gonna try to just brute it out, well we're all dead then." Stan's expression didn't even change as he destroyed Red's hopes and dreams.

Red glanced around the room at who she had to work with, it wasn't the best lineup: an aging hunter, a disgraced zombie and a high school boy. Red frowned upon realizing this would be extremely difficult to pull of, she turned to Stan in defeat. "Ok I'm out of ideas, what's your idea?" She asked hopeful. Stan scoffed and rolled his eyes while Isaiah tiptoed away from the group. Culter noticed this and decided to follow as Stan mumbled something toward Red.

     Isaiah walked down the hallway and looked up at the many pictures that littered the walls, he could still feel his heart beating fast. He didn't know what he had gotten himself into but he wasn't sure if he wanted to be apart of it. A vampire that he was convinced was only keeping him around in case she got hungry, a hunter who was against him knowing about this and a zombie who already tried to eat him. Isaiah continued to stagger around the house when he heard a footstep behind him. He jumped and turned to see Culter, with a blank expression on his face.

     "This isn't exactly where the crowd is, what are you doing here?" Culter asked sternly, Isaiah wasn't sure if it was worth entertaining this zombie or not. He wasn't overly fond of Culter and Isaiah knew that Culter would eat him if he got hungry enough.
"I'm fine dude, just exploring the area." He lied, Culter rolled his eyes. "Whatever man, I'd like you to come back to the room with the rest us please."
Isaiah sighed and obliged, returning with Culter against his better judgment. When the two returned, Stan seemed to have figured something out.
     "The kid goes as bait, Vortex will likely not pass up a free meal, as he attacks Culter comes in from the side to divert his attention. I'll provide covering fire for him, Red you will take on any lower level supernaturals that come with Vortex. We lure him in with Red's scent at the edge of the forest heading out of town." Isaiah looks Stan explain this idea with some level of concern, hoping he wasn't going to literally become werewolf food. Red decided to interject before he could.
    "It's a solid plan if only Vortex shows, but I assume that Abe will come with him this time after we injured him last time. I think if anything Culter and I should take Vortex and you take Abe, any other supernaturals won't mess with us if we can eliminate them quickly." Stan scoffed and began to argue with Red over the best scenario for Vortex, Culter and Isaiah watched in silence as the two went at it. Neither exactly rushing to jump in with ideas.

     "So the full moon is tomorrow, if we want to kill the traitor and Red, tomorrow night would be the best opportunity." Abe announced in the court room to ten supernaturals between goblins and zombies. Vortex stood by watching, planning. These supernaturals were the most powerful ones he had in his following. He could only hope they'd actually help in a fight. Abe motions to Vortex to come to the podium to discuss the plan, Vortex slowly walks toward the podium and addressed the small crowd.
     "We have a threat to our business bigger than any other time I can think of." He lied, he'd come much closer to being caught or killed in his past, but he needed to sell the danger. "This vampire may be young, but she will destroy us if we allow it. Her desires are death to us all, I'm calling you all to help save our way of live from this invading monster. I do not call her that lightly, she is an evil that must be ridden! Her friends are joining her in this crusade, we will crush them too." He finished with a fire in his voice, Abe looked at him wide eyed. Vortex just called this vampire a threat to their lives. Abe shakes his head at the statement, Vortex was taking this too personally and Abe was growing concerned that his friend was falling apart.

    "So that Allie girl is back? What's so important about that?" Red asked Culter in a empty hallway, she wasn't sure what Allie had to do with anything but Culter explained. "She's arguably the most powerful supernatural in the world and not just that.." he paused "I think that maybe that kid might be related to her." Red laughed in Culter's face "related? Really? Come on dude, he's a human there's like no way he's related to her. She's also like 700 years old or something." Red giggles again and Culter shrugs "I'm just saying, I have a really weird vibe coming off that kid, there's no way you don't sense it." Red rolls her eyes.
    "Sure he's got a unique aura but I don't think it's because he's a relative of a vampire, it's likely just slightly higher sensitivity to magic than most humans." Red turned from Culter and headed back to the living room, done with this conversation.
She arrived to see Stan and Isaiah sharing ideas of the coming conflict, Stan glanced over at Red and decided to fill her in.
"Alright, so the kid and I were talking and I believe we have the best plan we can muster given the circumstances." Red gave a look of amusement and as Stan continued, Culter walked in.
"I will hide behind a tree in range of Vortex when he inevitably tries to attack Isaiah, I'll take the shot on him, hopefully it weakens him enough that Red can handle him, after that we turn our attention to Abe." He finished, Red nodded in approval and Culter shrugged. Isaiah still wasn't comfortable being bait but there was little else he could really do against supernaturals.
      The others agreed the other supernaturals likely wouldn't continue a fight with their leaders dead, so less attention was put to them. After about an hour of deliberation, the plan was set.

"I must say, seeing that the bastard staked me, I am going to very much enjoy killing him." Red grinned, which Stan noticed and quickly checked her.
"Remember not to attack until I've shot Red, I can promise you as angry as you may be, Vortex is stronger than you. Proceed with caution." Red rolled her eyes at the remark, she was still a vampire and that meant she was dangerous. Who cares how old Vortex is? She was going to show Stan she wasn't just some baby vamp. She leaned back in her chair and became lost in her thoughts, somewhere between excitement and terror for tomorrow nights coming clash.