The Hunter Series: Aginst New Threats

Chapter 30

Chapter 30- Claimed

I woke up as a thunderstorm hit, realizing I was in my room, Alison snuggled up to my neck, my arms wrapped around her. 

I carefully got out of bed, and was trying to remember how the hell I got back home, but nothing. 

I shut my bedroom door, hearing Alison shuffle around in the bed. " Mommie?" 

I opened the door and she bolted for me. I picked her up and headed downstairs, finding the house completely empty. 

I sat the girl down on the toilet as I tool her bloody dress off and then sat her in the tub. 

After cleaning her up and put one of my old dresses on her, I sat her in the open doorway and looked in the mirror. 

My eye color was the same, but all the other demonic traits I had were gone. 

I felt completely human, which definitely wasn't normal. 

" Mommie, I'm hungry." Alison whined. 

" Let me get a quick shower and I'll fix something ok?"

" I'll get something for her." Yagari said after cocking his shotgun. 

I jumped. " Christ Dad!"

He appeared from the basement, sitting his shotgun in the open closet, then shutting it, shifting his gaze to Alison. " Don't go in there." 

" Kay," She chirped. " Guessing you're my Granpa?" 

" Lucky me." He said, shifting his gaze to me, a worried look in his eyes. 

As he rummaged through my frig, I went ahead and closed the door as Alison started to ask one hundred questions directed towards Dad. 

I stripped, showered, then dressed, opening the door to Alison wrapped around Dad's right leg as he moved around the stove. 

" I didn't say you had to cook for an army." I told him, grabbing onto the wall as those dark red eyes appeared and disappeared in a flash. 

" Sit down." Dad ordered. 

I plopped down on the sofa, my watch buzzing. 

I opened it, a report that all demons had been handled. 

" How many days has it been?" I asked.

" Only one. Your brother's and True Cross Academy pulled the majority of the weight, along with Dante the Devil Hunter." 

" Makes sense. Are you seriously cooking vegetable soup? It's ten o'clock." 

He didn't answer. 

I rubbed my forehead as I turned through the tv channels and landed on Spongebob.

" I have to head in." Dad said, giving Alison back to me. 

" I'll be fine." I told him.

" Take the day off." 

" I'm planning on it." 

" Mommie, what's this?" 

" A classic." I said as Dad got his shotgun and left."

As Alison ate her fourth a bowl of soup, I went outside, seeing if I could make my idea become real. 

I focused, hard. Knowing, feeling I could do it. 

There are dimensions out there were people needed help. I could feel it.

Come on... NOW!

I cut the air with my sword, opening up a dimension, then was grabbed by a disfigured hand and I was burned. 

Another hand grabbed the elbow of the same arm and pulled it away, those dark red eyes looked at me as his shadowed body darted into the slowly opening crack.

It closed as I looked down at my arm at the awful burn.

" Mommie!" Alison yelled as my watch started buzzing. 

I disarmed the rescue and got up. " Come on, we're going somewhere." 

" Is it to get ice cream?" 

" Maybe later." 

I pop into the True Cross Academy's infirmary, causing Shiemi to jump, terror filling her eyes when she saw my burn mark, instantly yelling for Yukio and Rinas I sat down on a bed. 

" Whatis it Shiemi?" Yukio asked, then I caught his eyes. He knelt down on his right knee and looked at it. " When did this happen?" 

" A few seconds ago." I said as Shiemi distracted Alison.

" I don't recognize... what?" 

I looked down at it as the burn started healing itself. " How is this happening? I don't sence your demonic DNA."

" I have an idea." I exhaled as Yukio turned my arm, revealing a black band around my elbow. 

" That's..." Yukio started. 

" Yeah."