“What happened to your face?” Aaron asked Mandy as the group reunited after the long Christmas break.

    “It’s called a sunburn.” Jeremy remarked as he loaded up the sports utility with their hunting gear.

    “I had trouble figuring out how to turn it off.” Mandy explained.

    “Maybe it’s defective.” Evan tossed her a spare. “Use this one instead.”

    “I think it’s Mandy that’s defective.” Jeremy poked fun. “Are you guys going to help me load up or what?”

    “Right.” Mandy pushed off the vehicle and helped with the loading.

    Clan Eileen loaded up in the car, and double checked their gear.

    “Ready?” Rodney asked. As soon as they all had voiced in, he started the car.

    They suited up in the back alley, then went their separate ways.

    Jeremy, Mandy, and Evan went to the front door of the apartment. Rodney and Max climbed the fire escape to the window.

    As soon as the group was synced up, Jeremy kicked open the front door while Max climbed in the window.

    The stench was unbearable. Mandy rushed down the hallway away from the scene gasping and gagging, til finally she puked. Jeremy held his arm up under his nose, and used a flash light to look around the room.

    Max pulled a gas mask over his head, and walked to the back bedroom.

    There was a loud thud and bang as Max was thrown through the wall back into the living room.

    Jeremy froze and looked through the hole from where his friend had come. Two shadowy figures stood in the back of the room.

    Evan rushed forward, his turtle neck covering his nose and mouth. He tossed the light ball into the room and it lit up with a blinding flash.

    Jeremy watched still frozen as he saw the two clearly. A woman in her mid twenties, with greying blonde hair. Her eyes were that of a corpses, her skin was pasty white with an almost blue tint. Her companion didn’t look much better, though his skin looked slightly more alive than hers, his eyes less cloudy, and pitch black hair.

    The woman pulled the boy out through the window to escape.

    Jeremy’s body burst into action, he rushed to the fire escape, but he was not in time.

    The woman had Rodney cornered near the far ledge. Her companion turned around and now was face to face.

    “I didn’t believe him.” the black haired vampire spoke. “I thought he was paranoid, yet here you are.”

    “Don’t touch them!” The woman screamed suddenly. Then stepped away from Rodney, “Catholic Child of God, tell me when you pray. Do you pray for the likes of me or my kind? Do you feel any pity for us at all?” she seemed to be taunting him.

    “Don’t answer her!” Jeremy commanded hoping to draw her attention away.

    The woman took in a deep breath, “You’re just children playing Hunter. Like a child with a gun, a danger only because the gun may go off in your hand accidentally.”

    The black haired vampire moved back toward the female and the two jumped over the railing.

    “You both had weapons, yet neither of you raised them.” The woman called back up to them.

    “I did.” Aaron let his arrow fly, it struck the male in the chest.

    The vampire looked shocked as it fell in an instant to the ground lifeless.

    The woman fled quickly before he could line up his next shot.

    After a while the group gathered around the dead vampire.

    “Well, I know who this one is. The other ones are dead inside. What I don’t know, is who is the female.” Max looked at the others as he held his chest.

    “What did they hit you with?” Jeremy tried to look at the bruising.

    “It was too dark to tell.”

    “He was talking about someone paranoid when we were in there.” Evan remarked.

    “What are we going to do about all those bodies?” Mandy spoke up.

    “Call the cops.” Rodney opened the vehicle’s door. “Anonymously.”