Nightly Shadows

Call me the Shadow Hunter

 Herc landed on the side street lamp with a light clang. He took in his view of the street and noticed nothing out of the ordinary. He glanced down seeing no one below, so he dropped to the sidewalk and began to walk. He kept his eye out for any suspicious activity. 

He walked for several minutes till he noticed a group of grown men following a teenager decked in all black with a bookbag over her shoulder. She was pale with black hair, and slender. She was busy on her phone, too engrossed to notice the group of men behind her.

Herc sighed heavily as one of the men grabbed her elbow and spun her around, knocking the girls phone to the ground.

"Hey! You fucking ass!" she yelled as she picked up her phone. The man that grabbed her elbow kicked the phone and grabbed her hair, yanking her into the adjacent alley. When they disappeared around the corner Herc followed them across the street and hid behind the corner. He looked both ways and started to climb up the side of the building with his vampire abilities. When he climbed around the corner he looked down and noticed something strange. The men were circling her and chuckling making sexual jokes to each other, but that wasn't the strange part, the girl wasn't scared. In fact, she looked bored. When one of the men noticed this he furrowed his brows in confusion.

"Are you done?" She asked in a bored tone. 

Herc couldn't contain himself and barked out a quiet laugh. The girls eyes suddenly found his and she smirked at him. Herc winked and crossed his arms watching the show. The girl let out a megawatt smile and giggled.

The men around her looked on in confusion. 

"Hey girl you're supposed to be scared shitless right now!" one man with barely any teeth yelled.

"Oh really?" She stated and started to shake. She then fell to the ground and covered her head. the men around her came closer thinking she really was scared and started joking with each other again then one of the men raised his hand to punch her. Her hand shot out and grabbed his hand, squeezed and crushed it and did a back hand spring into the shadows completely disappearing. Herc watched in obvious entertainment as each of the men fell unconscious one by one. Then the girl reappeared grabbed her book bag and looked up at him.

"You can come down now." She said smirking.

Herc let go of the wall and gracefully landed in front of her. He smirked at her and she looked at him in question.

"Who are you exactly?" Shadow girl asked.

"I am with a secret organization that defends against supernatural terrorism across the globe. I came here to recruit you for a mission. One that my superiors believe is extremely volatile." He explained.

"OK, but why do you want me?" she asked.

"Your ability could prove usefull, and i think i like you kid." Herc said smiling at her, his bright white teeth gleaming in the moonlight.

"Well, I'm flattered, an old man likes me." She replied nodding.

"Hey, not cool, i resent that." Herc said making her chuckle.

"How do we get there?" She asked sounding interested.

"I can only tell you that if you agree to join up, you'll be given free access to roam the entire facility. We're kind of like the supernatural CIA." Herc clarified.

"Then I will come with you, I've got no family to worry about anyway." The girl said walking beside him toward the chopper.

"Sure, I will be honest with you, the boss man is reaaaally uptight." Herc explained rolling his head.

"Anyone tell you you're a reaaally weird creature?" She asked raising an eyebrow at him.

"Maybe once or twenty times... I lost count."  Herc said.