Venator : Devil's Moon

X : I GET ARRESTED !

Richard hurried towards the door. But before he could get there, a snake grabbed his foot. He fell with a thud. The snake tightened its grip and slithered over him.

"No. Please." He begged as the snake made its way towards his face. But what good would begging to a snake do? However, the snake stopped and slithered back. Richard rose up , terrified and confused, again managed to come closer to the door. But then a monkey jumped on him and started banging his head against the door. After a few minutes, the monkey left too leaving a bloody Richard. Richard again tried hard to get to the door, wiping blood off his eyes. However, perhaps the animals had decided a go wilc party. This time, a dog slipped beneath him and grabbed his calf. Richard shrieked with pain. Then his senses blurred due to blood loss and his ears could hear a munching sound. He was being eaten alive!

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[ Laura ]

A month had passed since I'd gone on my first job. Over the past weeks, Sebastian and I had gone on a few more jobs. We went on vamp hunt, ghost busting and hunting some weird mythical creature - Kitsune. But this time, Sebastian was quite keen to ensure that I didn't participate in the final action. Though I somehow managed to save Sebastian's ass during the Kitsune hunt, he still insisted that I wasn't suited for this life. We even went on a B class job. It was about stopping a summoning ritual and though I didn't get to participate in the action, I got the opportunity to read a thick old scripture describing demonic rituals and marks which, as you shall see, greatly helped in my near future.

Then on one job when Sebastian really would have died if it weren't for me to jump in, he finally started recognising my growth. About two weeks ago, he started giving me training. But I turned out to be a bad trainee. Yes, I did feel attach to swords
but even after he having taught me how to hold a sword for almost a week now, I still held it pretty badly.

Now, we were heading to Sebastian's uncle. According to him, his uncle was the only person who would know why demons were after me.
But before we could meet his uncle, something so terrible happened that it convinced me I was far from being normal.

"Where are we now? I mean, aren't we supposed to be at your uncle's?" I asked.

"Yeah. Unfortunately, he's busy somewhere else so we gotta spend this week." He replied.

"So we are working a job, right?" I asked excited. Somehow, hunting down the evil interested me, leaving apart the risk of dying of course.

"Not we, it's just me who's gonna solve this case. This one's pretty off limits even for me. You obviously can't come. " Sebastian replied.

"You know what kind of girl I am. No matter how many times you shoo me away, I'll still find a way to ..."

"Fine!" he sighed making me falter my voice. Actually I was surprised. Maybe he was just trying to shut me up.

I got up, took a shower and returned.
Sebastian was now watching some TV show - Two and a Half Men.

'Come on, it doesn't even have a plot!" I complained.

"What, this? No, it's a quickie. Waiting for Friends." he answered.

Friends was obviously one of my favourites so we watched it together. It was quite weird how a hunter who went after the crazy all his life was interested in Friends.

"So, I presume you have already been to Aber Cafe." I said.

"Yeah but there are not many missions over there. There are only S class and A class, both I can't take. But this one's just happened, just before we came in town. So we are taking it."