The Hunted

A Glorious Abode

The bright headlights of the 1969 Mustang blear through the window of an average hotel in a small town near Georgia, USA. The rumbling of the stationary beast stops, after a while the door opens and the young man, Orion, steps out carrying a duffle bag filled with a couple of things that clanged around as the bag swayed with his slow steps towards room 12 of the hotel block. He reached into his pocket and sighed deeply. The keys weren't there, the keys to his room. He dropped the bag with a thud and pulled a lock picking set from the back pocket of the pants. After some slow picking and little clicking noises the lock gave and the door opened, he picked the bag up after putting the tools away, stood up straight, sighed again and walked into the room and turned on the light revealing the blood covered clothes he wore and his blood covered hands. He dropped the bag next to his right foot under the small table provided by the hotel. He turned and shut the door and as he swiveled back around his eyes were met with the barrel of a gun, an AMT Automag V to be specific, special edition made with a personalised carving done in the handle, one of a kind.

"I almost shot you" a girl's voice said from behind the gun.

"Yes but you didn't did you?" Orion replied with a put on smile.

"You know sometimes I wish I could shoot you, you smartass, little........... uhhhhhhhhh........ douchebag!" the girl said back, cheeks going slightly red with annoyance towards Orion.

"Nice one, you uh really got me there, cuts deep" Orion said sarcastically as he grabbed a beer from the little crappy hotel fridge and then sitting down on one of the two small wooden chairs that came with the table. The girl's name was Astrid, she was also a hunter. Together they were partners, hunting and killing the world's monsters together. It's better for hunters to have partners (basically meaning that the other hunter can help deal with the crazy shit that goes on in the world).

"Yeah well I hope it does!" Astrid answered back defensively, sticking out her tongue.

"Ha! You are such a child." Orion said back smiling with a slight laugh then smiling while drinking his beer.

"I am not." Astrid said fake smugly, then throwing a pillow at him. The pillow hit him and he jumped.

"Hey! Watch the beer!" Orion said protectively over his beer.

"Hehe sorryyyyyy..." Astrid said innocently blinking a lot faster then normally, indicating she did not mean it. Orion put his beer on the table slowly stood and looked at her, she looked back with a slightly confused look. A grin slowly appeared on Orion's face

"Come here you cheeky little...." he said, his voice raising slightly as he said it. He ran at her and tackled her to the bed and began tickling her.

"HAHAHA! NO! AH! STOP IT! ORION! HAHAHAHA NOOOO!" she screamed with laughter as he tickled her on her bed, her body fidgeting around as he did it. She rolled onto her back so she was looking up into his eyes as his muscular looking body loomed over hers. Orion had stopped tickling now as they were caught in a single instant, their eyes met, and they stared intently into each other. Orion moved his head down towards hers slowly, leaning in, closing his eyes. Astrid moved her head to meet his, her eyes closing as well. Their foreheads touched first as they met in between each others bodies slowly going to press their lips together to share a first kiss that had been waiting for some time now. Their lips meet in an intense moment of pure feeling, nothing else in the world mattered, the only focus was this, not the monsters or the people and friends they had met over the years, the people they could not save...... They parted, opening their eyes and staring again, both smiling softly at each other. The moment lingers, neither of them saying anything, there is no need.

"SMASH! CRACK!" a sudden fury of violence erupts in the room as a monster comes flying through the window of the hotel room and another kicks down the door. Both show faces of anger and bloodlust, and teeth... very sharp teeth baring, a hissing sound comes from them. Vampires. Orion and Astrid are already mobile, Orion rolling off and running at the one who came through the window, running into him and slamming him against the wall in a fury of muscle fighting to live. While Orion fights the one that came from the window the other comes for Astrid, crawling across the floor to try and get to her own bag filled with monster killing tools in the bathroom. She reaches the bag and opens it but fails to grab the machete inside as she is dragged away on her stomach by the vampire from the door. She rolls onto her back to fend of the vampire as it attempts to rip out her throat. There is a struggle her hands pushing the vampire's arms away from her so it could not get a grip on her, the adrenaline starts to run through her but the vampire is too strong, it almost has her. "SCHINK!" blood sprays down across Astrid and the floor beneath her as the head of the vampire comes rolling off onto the floor and then into the bathroom until coming to a stop. She shoves the now limp corpse off of her and sees Orion standing over her covered in blood himself, he holds out a hand to help her up, she grabs the hand and stands up.

"Thanks for that" Astrid says as she looks over to the other vampire now headless lying on the floor next to Orion's bed.

"No problem, you hurt?" Orion asked as he leans down and wipes the blood of his machete onto the dead vampires shirt next to Astrid.

"Nah I'm all good, you know if you think about it vampires are kind of like land sharks that suck out your blood instead of just tearing you to pieces." Astrid said with a unconvincing laugh at the end.

"Haha, yeah but I think it would take more than a machete to cut of a shark's head" Orion answered back with a slightly happier tone then Astrid.

"Shut up smart ass." Astrid said looking at him slightly irritated.