The Hunter Chronicles - The Beginning

Chapter 14

I'm aware that I'm dreaming...

A young man with black hair and few piercings drives down a dark highway in the middle of the night. He is listening to some metal songs. He spots a beautiful woman with dark hair and a white dress walking on the side of the road. He stops to ask her if she was having car trouble. She turns to him and tells him to take her home. The man immediately agrees and she gets in the car with him. He asks her where she lives and she replies at the end of Hummingbird road. He nods and starts driving then asks her if she had just come from a party. She doesn't reply. The man warns her that she shouldn't be out alone at night. She looks at him and spreads her knees then pulls the dress up off of her knees and says that she isn't alone that she was with him. The man grins and she leans over to stroke his cheek with the back of her hand asking him if he thought that she was pretty and if he would like to do home with her. The man smiles and tells her yes then starts driving faster. They reach an abandoned farmhouse. He stops the car and asks her if this is really where she lived. She tells him that she could never go home. The man gets out of the car but when he turns the woman is gone. He looks around frightened and walks up the five steps to the front of the door and peeks through one of the windows. Something suddenly moves in front of the window and the man screams and falls backwards. He gets up and runs to his car. He starts driving away as he looks in his rear view mirror he sees the woman in the backseat and screams.

I can't see what happens next. I only hear his terrified screams and scream myself awake.

"What's wrong?" Jared asks panicked holding me tightly against him.

"I had a nightmare and this one I can remember clearly." I tell him what I dreamed about, he sits next to me motionless thinking I assume then gets up and grabs a laptop from the table.

"What are you doing?" I ask. Maybe he is going to google mental illness.

"I don't think you've changed.' He replies deep in thought.

"And how is the laptop going to help us?"

"I'm not sure yet but let me check on something." He says and begins typing. I watch him search the internet but I have no idea what he is looking for.

"Got it!"

"Got what?" My diagnosis.

"Look." He says turning his laptop to show me what he has found. There on the screen is an article about strange disappearances of both men and women stretching over twenty years.

I gasp, "It's real?"

"Looks that way." He replies lost in thought.

"Now what?"

"We can always go and check it out?" He suggests.

"And do what?"

"Help the humans."

"Wait, are you saying we should kill whatever it is?" I ask in disbelief. Why?

"If we need to." He replies staring at the article. "If it's killing humans then they don't deserve to exist."

"Okay." It's all I can say I feel very uneasy about what he is suggesting.

"We will leave when the sun sets."

I'm still not sure how I feel about this.

***

We reached the town a few hours later. He stops when we reach the bridge and see a few police cars with their lights on. "Have you ever acted?" Jared asks me with a small sly smile.

"No." I answer wondering what his plan is.

"Follow my lead." He says getting out of the truck.

I feel very nervous. What Is going to happen if we get caught?