Vampire Hunter. {Discontinued}

2

I closed in on the trap, and the hairs on my neck prickled. Somehow I knew I'd caught another vampire, and I was only 10 minutes away from the trap. The forest was unnaturally silent as I walked through the path I had made previously. When I reached the trap I saw the vampire.

He was crouched over, like he had given up on the world. He was faintly breathing, barely alive. Good. I could decapitate him fairly easily then. I walked over to him, till I was two metres away. He looked up and stared me in the eye.

"This is your trap then?" He asked, his voice as smooth as silk.

"Yes." I replied.

"Would you mind freeing me?" He was politer than the other vampire, but that could be a ruse. I would not fall for any ruses again. Not since last time.

"No." I said firmly. I just needed one more vampire to collect the bounty, then I would have enough money to stay somewhere warm, not Britain.

"Why?" He asked, curiousity lining his smooth voice.

"Because I say so, that's why." I knew I shouldn't be sharp around a vampire, but I was annoyed. Most vampires were actually unconscious when I reached them, yet now, I had two who had resisted in one evening. This evening was not boding well for me.

"Oh really?" He said, a small grin forming on his face. "What's the real reason?"

"You actually want to know?" I asked, astonished that this vampire would care. I was letting my guard down, and I had to stop it. This vampires conversation was only to unnerve me, so the vampire would have a better chance of getting free and escaping.

"Nah, I just want to know the real reason why I die by your hands and not someone else's." That'll be the reason. I knew he didn't care. He's a vampire. What else can anyone expect?

I debated telling him for a second. But the I realised, this was his last request. So what the hell? "With your death I can claim a bounty, then have enough money to move somewhere nice and warm. Spain or France say."

"So your comfort is more important than my life?"

"Since I don't know you, yes." I was blunt. I knew I shouldn't be, but what the heck.

"I'm a dead man anyway. Apart from the fact I am literally dead, there's another vampire who wants to kill me over the matter of a small murder." I could hear the smile in the edge of his voice. Another vampire who wants him dead? This one is even more interesting than the last vampire.

I raised my eyebrow. "Small murder."

He shrugged like it was no big deal. To him it probably wasn't. He turned his head to look somewhere in the distance. His stance became more defensive and I was aware of another presence, another vampire. I turned around and realised it was the vampire I had freed earlier. If only I had killed him. This wouldn't be happening, and I could have just gone away, and I wouldn't even have needed to come here, I could have just swapped the vampire for the bounty tonight.

He looked surprised to see me here, but faintly amused. He probably didn't expect me, as it was dark, and proffessionals vampire hunters never hunted in the dark, and most vampire hunters didn't hunt alone, but there were a few like me who did. Solitary vampires usually caught less vampires than groups of vampire hunters, but vampire hunters typically fell out over the bounty of the vampires.

"I wasn't expecting to see you this soon, trapper." He said, his voice smooth and unnatural. "Perhaps you want to be bitten and die, or you just have a death wish." He turned to the other vampire, the one caught in my trap. "I wasn't expecting to see you here. Perhaps you too want to die."