DISCLAIMER: NOT MINE, ALL STEPHANIE MEYERS!


I walked over the cold, deserted sidewalk and tried to look as vulnerable as I could. I could hear the light steps of the vampire that followed me. This was too easy.

I let myself be herded into a small, dark alley that smelled of blood and garbage. I listened to the vampire rush at me. I twirled around as she came within two feet of me.

She sunk her teeth into my neck. I barely felt the venom as it found it's way inside me. I pushed her off me and slammed her against the wall. My hand held her a few inches off the ground. This was the first time I got a good look at her.

She was Mexican, about 17 when she was turned, about 5.3 in height. She struggled to get free, but she quickly gave up when my hands tightened on her neck.

"Y-Y-Your strong f-f-f-for a-a-a-a h-h-hu-u-uman." She garbled out, drunk off my blood.

"You don't recognize me do you, Nettie? How's this?" I whispered.

I shivered and let my cloak change from a snug, leather jacket to a black, cotton cloak that fell to mid-calves and had a silver flame in the middle. I blinked a couple times until the contacts came out and showed my family's trademark silver eyes. I smiled as the last of the disguises that hide who I was from everyone else fell away.

Nettie gasped and whispered, "No. it can't be true. It's only a myth. Maria says you don't exist. No human is strong enough to."

"Hate to break it to you Nettie," I told her, "But we are real and we aren't completely human either. Now, where is Maria? I hoped she would come to witness the end of your life. And maybe her's too."

"End-d-d-d m-m-m-my l-l-life?" she stammered, "W-W-W-Why?"

"Yes Nettie. For your crimes: killing humans, starting a newborn army; that led to the lost of human lives, being what you are."

"B-B-B-But t-t-t-that was-s-s-s a-a-a-a l-l-lon-n-n-n-ng-g-g t-t-time a g-g-g-go."

"It doesn't matter. You Will Die."

With that I pulled a lighter out of my jeans pocket and turned it on. Nettie's eyes grew wide when she saw the flame.

"N-N-N-No-o-o-o-o-o."

I threw the lighter into a pile of rags and wood scraps. It lit quickly. I grabbed one of Nettie's arms and ripped it from her shoulder. She screamed, almost too high pitched for me to hear.

"Where's Maria, Nettie?" I taunted as I threw the flailing arm into the fire.

When I ripped the other arm from the socket, she started to dry sob. She kicked at me and I caught her right leg and yanked it. Soon, all that was left of her was her head and torso.

"Where's Maria?"

When she didn't respond, I reached for her chin to rip her head off. Faster than I could see, Nettie latched on to my hand. I swore and pried her mouth open with my other hand. My thumb hung from the bone. I growled and ripped her head off. I tossed it and her body into the fire.

I watched her burn. As I got ready to leave, I heard the dainty steps of another vampire.

"Nettie?" I heard the other vampire say.

I hide in the shadows as she walked into the alley.

"Nettie?" she repeated.

I recognized this one. She was Maria's next in command, Lucy.

"Where's Maria, Lucy?" I asked as I stepped out of the shadows to confront her.

"No." she whispered when she saw me.

She turned to run. I grabbed her hair and pulled off her head. It joined Nettie's in the fire. I dismembered her quickly. When this was done, I took a towel out of my bag and wrapped my hand. I climbed up the side of the alley and onto the rooftops. I pulled the small silver phone out of my pocket and called back to base.

"They are taken care of. I'm coming back. Please have the doctor ready when I get there." I said into the phone.

"Nice work Mellissa. Come home."

I ran over the rooftops. I did good today. The minimum was one, but I had gotten two. I grimaced as pain racked my body from my ripped up hand.

Unfortunately, we were nowhere closer to finding and destroying Maria. That was one of the top goals in this mission. In any mission in this part of the world.

I might get a big mission now that I had broke the 2,000 vamps mark though. I had now killed 2,001 vampires since my first kill when I was five. I was close to one hundred and fifty years now.

Sadly, I was also nowhere closer to finding my love. He disappeared over 80 years ago.

I loved the ability that came with what I was. I could run for miles and not grow tired, I could lift more than a normal human could, and all my senses were heightened. I lived for much, much longer than any human could, without the side effects of immortality.

We also, unfortunately, had some of the other, less wanted side effects. Every few centuries, some of us developed the need for blood. Most of us drank if we had a medical reason. I had it after every time I was bitten or I was seriously injured. I was not looking forward to having some when I got back.

This was all in the territory that came with what we were. We are vampire hunters.