Sing to me Incubus

Chapter 1: Hello Darkness

"Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains, within the sound of silence…"

I crept up as silently as I possibly could towards my target, watching the vampire as she bent over her latest victim. God I had to fight not to just jump out and blow a hole though her too large chest, but I couldn't be trigger happy right now. If I hit the victim that would completely defeat the purpose of the mission, and then my pay would be deducted. Just a little closer and…..The sound of my gunshot split the night, sending a spray of blessed rock salt into the heart of the creature. As the vampire fell to the ground I saw the victim scream and run, but that was just fine by me. Now I stood over the howling vampire I leveled my gun at her head, meeting her blazing red eyes. In a last ditch effort she lunged for my throat as my gun went off, shattering her body into ash. I hated it when they did that, now I had dead-lady all over me. Brushing myself off I collected the remains of my target into a vial and labeled it with its number, a job well done and I wanted a drink. As I turned I bumped into something that almost felt as hard as a wall yet softer then it should have been, my eyes slowly coming up to meet yet another set of crimson. Oh he was big, so damn big. All I could see was those huge wings, white/blue skin that seemed to stretch into a darker shade of purple, and lastly those blazing red eyes. In a heartbeat I was against the wall with this things talons wrapped around my throat, holding me too far off the ground. A soft hiss came from the creature as he bent forwards, licking the shell of my ear to make me shudder.

"I'm coming for you….so be ready…"



With a start I jerked awake, my body covered in a cold sweat. Wiping my eyes I couldn't stop shaking as that dream haunted me, almost every night now it has come. My end at this creatures hands, this Incubus's hands, seems to get closer and closer everyday. And he was an Incubus though I had not met one in all my life as a bounty hunter, but then not a lot of people have. Incubuses were so incredibly rare and for good reason too, not only could they drink the sexual energy from someone while feeding but they also could suck souls. And in my mind this one seemed like he was going to do just that, after he was finished with me first. Just thinking about it made me shudder and long for that drink, and I glanced at the clock on the wall. It was only 8:30 and the bars would be filled at this hour, oh what I wouldn't give for that drink. But I remembered that I did have a job to do now, no time for my own personal needs. I took a cold shower that didn't help at all before dawning my usual gear, my leather trench and my nice dusk hat.

Turning I gazed at my reflection in the mirror, seeing the haunting look that always seemed to be there. My name is Dhan, I am about 5'9, I weigh only 164 pounds, I have short black hair that just brushes my shoulders, and built like a football player. Though I look lean I do have a lot of hidden muscle from years of hunting, but you can hardly see it from under my long clothes that I always wear. In my reflection what I see the best is my emerald eyes, but they were so full of loss that the color just seemed dulled to me. Others didn't think so when they looked in them but I see the truth, I see the real me. I looked down at my beautiful babies, my four trusty hunks of cold steel.

See I had a total of four guns, three of which were my favorite type of weapons. First off I had my 'Black Rock' shotgun full of nice blessed rock salt for those baddies that needed purification. Next was yet another of my shotguns called 'Mercury', this little one was loaded with silver bullets. That'll put any dog down for the count and then I had a regular pistol. Not exactly my type but it served me good on the occasional human that decided to get in my way, so just regular bullets for that one but still deserving the name 'Silence'. I carried a dagger that easily fit in my boot holder and I named that one 'Scythe', I mostly use it for close combat and of course it was made of iron. And last….Ah last was my pride and joy, my baby among my beauties. 'Onyx' the best of the best, packed with heavy, black balls of pure iron. Now anybody with a sense knows that iron is the best defense against most demons, but in case you didn't know there it is. Placing Mercury and Black Rock across my back under my trench and Onyx and Silence each hip, I stepped out of the hotel that I had rented for the night. I had to get on the target that I was really after, no more of that dream nonsense. When the time came that if, and only if, that demon came for me I would be ready for it. Checking my description of the demon said that it was a male 5'7, about 230 pounds, had short black hair, long willowy body, pale skin, and bright blue eyes. Without even seeing him I knew that he was a shifter, and man did I hate those. They were always hard to hit sometimes, but I could manage. This one had been taking apart woman and eating only their legs, what a ladies man.

"…And in restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone. 'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp. When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light that split the night, and touched the sound of silence…"

Walking around downtown I picked up tips that this male was always at the North-West bar, which made my day a lot happier. It was so cold after the rain had come, but that was to be expected now. It rained a lot here but I ignored it just as I did every other element, and continued down the street to find my target. There were a lot of people walking around at this time, most of them drunk men with scantly clad woman attached to their arms. When it starts raining again I'm going to laugh, they'll start scattering like pigeons. I was tempted to just go up to one of the hookers that dotted the corners for a night after my hunt, but naw I don't think so. I must be desperate to want one of those girls, but man I needed to get laid. I saw one cutie on another corner that winked at me, but it made me do a double take. Now I really needed it, and not by one of those hooker girly dudes. Striding away I shook my head and looked for the bar, suddenly remembering that drink. I found the bar by accident really, it was a little old place squashed between two other stores.

But the sudden flash of light caught my eye as the sign blared to life, then dimmed just as quickly. Yep here it was the North-West bar, and inside was probably my target for tonight.

I slipped onto the bar stool and glanced around the room, no one meeting my emerald eyes. My target should be here at this hour, but so far id didn't find one that fit the description. The bartender was the best for his customers, he didn't even need to ask my choice of drink. He just slid a nice shot of Scotch my way, my favorite no less, and proceeded to survey the crowd for any signs of unrest. I raised my glass to him and took a sip, just like I like it all nice and strong. A slight shiver ran up my spine and I glanced to my right, nearly jumping out of my skin at the sight of someone not a foot from me. Was this my target? He had long black hair that seemed to reach past his shoulder blades, ivory skin, tall as all hell, but had a strange feminine quality yet masculine at the same time. Bu no he didn't quite fit it, he had to be about 6'3 (which towers over my 5'9) and the strangest goldenrod eyes.

"Hello, what are you doing in a run down bar like this hmmm?"

Was he hitting on me? I mean seriously?

"Excuse me? I think you need to back up a step buddy, I'm not here to be entertained."

He just tipped his head slowly till it was cocked, just watching me with those piercing eyes.

"Perhaps you should be entertained, after all isn't that what a bar is for?"

Okay he was hitting on me, and I didn't take that well.

"Look man I don't know what you're going on about but I-"

I cut off suddenly when I noticed that my real target was already picking up a woman to kill, so now I had to watch them carefully.

"Suppose that is your girlfriend over there hmmm?" I had almost forgotten about my annoying bar companion, but for some reason I felt good and at ease. I shook my head and took another sip.

"Nope, don't know the girl at all." He watched them with almost the same intensity as he had to me, guessing again.

"Guy owes you money?" I laughed at that, it was kind of true.

"Not exactly, try again."

"He your cheating boyfriend?" Now that was uncalled for.

"Hell no! I don't swing like that man, try again." He held up his hands in mock surrender, silently laughing.

"Okay, okay don't burst a vein." He tapped his nail against his bottom lip, thinking. "How about he pissed someone off?"

"You're getting close."

"So you know the guy?" I mulled that around in my head a bit, that was kind of true.

"Sort of, I know of him."

Again he tapped his nail against his lip, and I found myself staring at them. His lips were full and looked so soft yet firm, what would it be like to kiss them? Whoa time out where did that come from? I don't swing that way! I realized that he had asked me a question, and by the knowing look in his eyes I had given away some of my thoughts. "Uh what?" He chuckled and shook his head.

"I said are you a kind of cop?" Now that was closer than anything to the truth, of course I couldn't just tell him I was a demon bounty hunter and I came to put a hole in this guy's chest. Saying that would be really bad and not a great thing in conversation, so I just smiled and said nothing. That in turn earned me a kind of sultry smirk, and it kind of made me feel good. I don't know what it was about this guy but I liked him, it was kind of hard to get on my good side usually. I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye and saw my target walk out the back with that girl on his arm, that was my cue and I downed my drink as I turned to my companion. "See you later man, catch a drink with you again sometime." He raised his glass to me in a salute, giving me a wink.


"I'll be waiting…" Maybe I had too much to drink to think that there was a double meaning to that, but I didn't stick around to find out. I had a shifter to waste and a girl to save, and then maybe I would go back for that drink. A choked off scream tipped me off to the direction they took, and the shifter already had her on the ground to take a bite out of her. I pulled out my iron shotgun and aimed, but I had to wait for the right moment.

"Hey ugly, you can do better then that!" Both their heads whipped around to look at me, the shifter lifting his lips and growling.

"I am not ugly I'll have you know, you pig!" Can we please have a moment of silence for the woman's stupidity, thank you.

The shifter threw the woman to the ground and rushed me, changing itself into some kind of reptile. Great. I leapt back as those claws came slashing down, and I had to block it with the body of my gun. Once I pump this sucker full of iron he won't be slashing at anyone anytime soon, but these guys are damn fast. I have him a good boot in the chest to get him off me, coughing and stumbling back as he clutched at himself. I aimed my baby and fired. "Ah f*&# I missed!" Damnit I just can't hit them from afar, this is why I hate them. But I peppered his shoulder and sent him screaming to the ground, but not before he caught that tail around my ankle. I hate tails, I want to cut all of them off. I would have caught myself but that damn tail yanked too hard, and I cracked my head on the ground. Seeing stars but I could still hear him scratching around, and I needed to get up quick and finish this. I stood up as fast as I could but there really was no need for my haste, the shifter was cowering on the ground behind a dumpster. Blood was starting to drip out of his mouth now, his whole body shaking with pain. With enough of this in him he would be dead in no time, but I wasn't about to wait around now.

At point black range there was not missing this time, and a nice hole appeared in his chest. Shifters, like a lot of demons, decompose rapidly but all I needed was part of a rib bone. After I got my prize I wanted that drink more then ever, but nature was against me today. A deep growl accompanied me as I turned and coming from somewhere above me. My hands shot up to point Onyx at the creature, just to get a pot plant to the head. Luckily there wasn't anything in it but the effect was the same, and I toppled backwards. I expected to crack my head open on the pavement once again, but it never came. Instead I was caught by strong arms about my shoulders, and on instinct I tipped my gun upwards to fire at the new offending person.

"Please don't shoot me, I really hope I didn't do anything to deserve it." I froze at the sound of the familiar voice and as my vision swam back into focus I saw my drinking buddy, his head forced up by the barrel of my gun in his lower jaw. I gave a nervous laugh and lowered my gun, relaxing a bit in his hold. He helped me stand up but I swayed a bit, getting him to put a hand on my shoulder to steady me. "Being a little over cautious, do you always carry and army of guns on you?" This time I did give a hearty laugh, thumping him on the back.

"Gotta protect myself man, can't be too careful." He just shook his head and looked me up, grinning.

"Protect yourself from pot plants? I see your man got away from you, or did you already get him?" I couldn't just tell him the guy I was tailing was decomposing behind the dumpster not three feet away from us, but I told a little of the truth.

"No I got him but he still owes me money, I'll collect it later though." At least once I turned his remains in to the order, but it was still the truth. He gave me a warm smile and I should have been unnerved by the intensity of his gaze but I wasn't, being around him just made me feel good. I grinned back because I just couldn't help it, and patted him on the shoulder again. "I'm really up for that drink, but I hope you're buying!" He chuckled and nodded while he led the way to the back door, and I was feeling like this night was going to go really well.


"…And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand maybe more. People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share, no one dare. Disturb the sound of silence…"

When I walked into the bar with my new buddy there had to be like a hundred people in there, and the weirdest thing was that it was silent. The only sound was the scooting of chairs, the clink of glasses, and the jukebox playing music that no one's listening to. It was almost disturbing but I really wanted that drink, noise or no noise. Me and my buddy sat down at the bar and I ordered a Scotch and he ordered and Irish Cream, which peaked my curiosity. "Hey, what's your name?" He looked at me and grinned, his head tipping like he was pleased that I asked.

"My name's Regin, but more people just call me Jackal." Jackal huh? I wondered about the significance of that, but I'll ask him later. I stuck out my hand and he took it, and I noticed his nails were black and oddly shaped.

"Hey my name's Dhan." His grip was firm but his hands were soft, kind of like puppy fur. That was pretty cool I guess.

"Dawn? Like morning dawn?" I shook my head and went back to my drink.

"Naw, Dhan. D-H-A-N, sounds the same but spelled a little different." I looked him over again, he sure was unnaturally pale. "Where do you come from, like where were you born?" He gave a deep chuckle, looking away.

"If I told you, you wouldn't believe me and I wouldn't blame you."

"Come on, I'll believe just about anything. Where were you born?"

"Egypt." I just stared at him for a minute, not blinking and barely thinking. He just sat there sipping his drink like nothing was different, like he hadn't just said the more outrageous thing.

"Egypt? You have got to be kidding me, you're so….so…"

"Pale? Yeah I know I am from Egypt but I just don't tan, not in my make up." I blinked again, okay…

"Dude you are going to have to buy me more drinks, I need more to believe that." He just laughed and downed the rest, then ordered another round.


"…'Fools' said I, 'you do not know, silence like a cancer grows. Here my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you.' But my words like silent raindrops fell, and echoed in the wells of silence…"

It was about four a.m. when we stumbled out of the bar holding onto each other for balance, we were laughing and not caring that we were loud enough to wake the dead. "Man you are drunk! You are so drunk that you can't even walk right!" He was giggling like mad and shook his head, pointing at me crookedly.

"No I'm slammed, and you're the one who's drunk. I can walk just fine, I just don't want to walk." We almost toppled over when I burst out laughing, but he was a strong man so we regained balance. I looked around dumbly as my thoughts were a little slow, squinting up into the still dark sky. "Hey we should get to my hotel, yeah that would be a good idea. I think I need to sleep, or barf or whatever comes first." He laughed and gave me a nudge.

"You implying something, wanting to take me back to your hotel to have your way with me?" I snorted and grabbed his hair, which was surprisingly soft, turning his laughing face to me.

"Hey I said I don't swing that way, but if you were a girl I'd date you. Hell you're hot enough to be one, you sure you're a man down there?" He teetered sideways when he started laughing again, almost making us run into someone.

"Okay now I know you're trying to get into my pants, by the way I do swing like that!" I was about to come back with a stupid comment, but then I heard this random guy yelling something. "Fools you do not know, there is evil among us! Demons! There are demons here in town, living, feeding among you. Do not let them fool you with their beautiful faces or sweet lies or they will have your souls, they will suck the breath from your lungs!" Whoa what a revelation, total buzz kill. I nudged Jackal and nodded to the guy, whispering to him. "I got something to tell you my man, but you can't tell anyone else or I'll get in trouble. I'm a hunter, I hunt the things that go bump in the night."

He started giggling so hard that his chest was shaking, whispering right back.

"Well if you're a hunter then I'll be your demon, you can hunt me all you like." I laughed at that and swatted him on the shoulder, nearly knocking us both over.

"Stop hitting on me man or I'll start hitting you!"

"So you're going to hit on me now?" I socked him in the arm as I laughed again.

"No hitting, I'm going to hit you harder next time!" This time he did fall over and took me down with him, me landing on his chest as he landed on his back. "Ow that hurt, you okay man?" His eyes were closed as he held a hand to his forehead, hid dark brows pulled together.

"I think I brained my damage." Then he started giggling again and making his whole body shake from the force of it. Because I was lying on his chest that made me vibrate, which I sort of liked lying there. A firm chest was a nice different feeling unlike a soft female body, yeah I liked lying there. But man I did not like where my thoughts were heading, but by his contented humming he didn't mind at all. "Not that this isn't nice and all but I really don't like lying in the dirt, though we can pick this up once we get back. Which reminds me…" He looked up from where he was, glancing around. "Where are we exactly?" Sliding his hand off my back, when hat it gotten there? Allowing me to push up off of him to stand up. I helped him to his feet as I too looked around now, a frown crossing my face.

"I don't really know, um let's see." While I thought he turned in a circle, tipping his head slightly.

"Hey what is the direction to your hotel?" I cocked my head too and searched my fogged brain, then I gasped and pointed. "To the South!" It grew rather quiet all of a sudden, then a cricket chirped somewhere.

"Um Dhan I think that way is West." I frowned again, my brain momentarily shutting down. "Oy, my hotel is like a few blocks from here." I looked in the direction he was pointing, and then nodded.

"Fine we can go there and crash for the night I guess, but don't think this is a pickup line or anything."


"…And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made. And the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming. And the sign said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls'…"

As we stumbled along we saw some people dressed like nuns and bishops kneeling to a glowing shrine of Jesus, the fact that they kneeled in the dirt and oil made me pause. "You know," I said to him, "You can find a lot of places that are tagged with 'Gods truth is among us' written all over the walls. Kind of strange isn't it?" He just shook his head and gazed at me with those intense golden eyes, making me squirm in his hold.

"If you think that's strange, then you haven't seen anything yet my friend." I made a face, where had that come from? So I looked up and grinned as I pointed at the building.

"Hotel ho!" He laughed and pulled me thought the doors and into the elevator, going up to the 5th floor. It took us three tries and both of us holding the key to get the door open, but when we did we just crashed on the bed. As I drifted off into a much needed sleep I heard the TV playing a song I knew once.

"…And whisper'd in the sounds…of silence."*


Okay kittys that was my first publish!

I hope you liked it, but I'm going to need a little help.

Please review and give me ideas, I need songs!

If you have a song that you think would be good in a chapter then send it to me,

please please please!