Vampire Hunter. {Discontinued}

3

We walked back to my van in silence. Gavriel looked at my van and raised an eyebrow. I almost kicked myself. I had forgotten it was vampire proof and he couldn't get in there. How could I be so stupid?

Luckily I didn't have to think of a solution.

"I'll run alongside the van then?" He asked, even though I hadn't asked for a solution, or his input.

"Erm... Sure." I said. "Where is my father?"

"You get straight to the point don't you?" He chuckled. "Demon Hill." He quickly said when he noticed me glaring at him. He would have been dead if looks could kill. Well, more dead than he was now.

"Where is it?" I had heard of Demon Hill-everyone had. A place where creatures of the night and nightmares that lurked in the shadows were free from all that hunted them. Including hunters, like me.

"I'll show you." My heart almost stopped. Why was he being this kind.

"Why?"

"Why what?" He said curiously. I didn't even know why I had said why, until the reason came clear to me.

"Why are you doing this for me?"

"I might not have said it before, but a certain vampire named Thorn is hunting me. Demon Hill is my only escape. He can't hunt me there."

"Who's Thorn?" I interrupted.

"The vampire who is hunting me. The one who you seemed to have... Trapped?" He looked to me for confirmation.

I nodded. He stopped and stared into the night, his eyes scanning the doom and gloom darkness brought with it. "I'll run in front of the van. You can follow me."

"How long will it take?" I asked. I had enough fuel stored in my van for a long journey, but I liked to know how long it would take.

"About 4 hours, using the back roads and short cuts."

I nodded and climbed into my van. I started the engine and the moon light was just enough to pick out the lone figure, main defining details hidden in the deathly darkness. 

But I could see enough to tell it wasn't gavriel. It was the vampire from earlier. The one called Thorn.

"You are more foolish than even I thought."

I gasped. I started to call Gavriel's name, but Thorn interrupted me.

"You are all alone trapper. You thought he was going to save you? We're vampires. We don't care for petty mortals like you, especially when you want to trap us. And on the topic of trapping-I'm going to kill you know, for trying to trap me." He said, his voice a deathly cold.

"I didn't try to trap you, I did trap you." I said with a smirk and confidence I didn't have.

"You think you can bait me into attacking your vampire proof van?" He stared at me waiting for a reaction, but even so I gulped. That was exactly my plan. How did he know? "You girl, are more foolish than even I thought. I thought you humans were the stupidest things on earth. It turns out I was wrong-you are the stupidest thing on earth."

I tried to look into the distance, but i could only manage it for a few seconds. The vampire was trying to lure me out of the van, as long as I didn't make eye contact with him, I'd be alright.

I sneaked a peak at him, I was drawn to his eyes, startling red demon eyes. A feeling of this being wrong, very wrong creeped down the back of my neck, but I couldn't look away now. The feeling of just staring into his eyes was wonderful, a feeling of pure wonder.
"Get out of the car, Kelly." He said. I felt my cheeks flame up. How did he know my name? He was so powerful and I was nothing.
Another feeling of this being dangerous, unwise creeped down my spine. Yet I still gazed into his red, alluring eyes. My dad had once told me something about a vampires gaze. I tried to remember what my dad had said about looking into a vampires eyes, but I found myself past caring. Why did something my dad had said matter when I was in the presence of this powerful vampire?
"Get out of the car Kelly." He said again, impatience creeping into his voice.
"If you find yourself face to face with a vampire, never look it in its eyes. They can and will use mind control, and it can force us to do whatever we want. Thankfully most vampires aren't strong enough for it to have any massive degree of success. But occasionally you'll come across vampires who can use mind control, and those are the truly dangerous ones."

The vampires impatience had led to me breaking his control. I could see in the gloom a figure brandishing a knife, some kind of dagger. It was too hard to see who he was in the gloom of night, but I had a faint suspicion, growing stronger with every passing second that he was Gavriel. Thorn turned around in shock as the figure reached him and lifted the knife up,slashing it down where Thorn's body would have been if he hadn't shifted at the last second. The bat flapped away, blood dripping from the wound where Gavriel had nicked his wing. He wouldn't be gone for long though. He would catch up with us somewhere else. I had trapped him after all, and for some reason he was after Gavriel. I should ask him about that later, find out about it.

The headlamps picked Gavriel out at once, yet only illuminated his dark clothes, shrouding his face in mystery and wonder.

"Do you want your knife back?" He asked, like I was walking and had just dropped it, instead of him probably stealing it. I wondered how, but then I realised. He's a vampire. He can do almost anything he wants to do.

"How did you get it?" I asked.

"I saw Thorn return so I picked the lock on your van. It's a very good lock. It might be hard to replace." He stood there helplessly trying to tell me something, but not being able to.

"Replace... You broke my lock?" I said, my voice slightly louder than normal, in half disbelief and half wonder. The lock was the best money could buy. How could he have broken it?

"I wouldn't say it's broken." He said helplessly. I raised my left eyebrow.

"How would you describe it?" I asked, my voice a deathly silence. If it was even possible his pale face went paler.

"It's just in smaller pieces than it started as. Also it probably won't work as a lock again."

I shook my head. "Let me get this straight. I freed you." He tried to interrupt by saying something that sounded vaguely sounded like 'You caught me, so...' but it was vague and he had interrupted me so I ignored him. "Then you bargain so I don't kill you, which I still think I should do, and then you break into my van by picking and breaking my very expensive and valuable lock. And even enter a van you aren't supposed to be able to enter."

The vampire stares at me. "If it helps the lock was hard to pick." He says, voice calm and even.

I stared back at him. "It was supposed to be impossible to pick." I try to keep my voice even, and in my defence, for most part I do.

"Well... It put up a good fight. But the rest of what you said was true apart from a few key details which I shall now conveniently not mention."

"Why am I going to Demon Hill, a sinister sounding place which probably wants to kill me for my job and what I do, with you, a vampire that breaks the impossible-to-break lock on my van at the first chance he gets?" I asked sarcastically. I wondered if the vampire would actually answer at all, or just stare at me through those deep, onyx eyes.

"I don't know. You humans are curious creatures." The vampire said, revealing his gleaming white canines. He said it in a way that provoked the thought of him being a scientist, with his subjects being the human race I belong to.

Some part of me wanted to be offended, but most of me couldn't be bothered. Humans were unusual, and unpredictable unlike some certain creatures of the night. Vampires like him were allowed to look down on humans, because they could.