Erica McKenzie walked casually down a dirt road, looking over her clothes, Brushing dust off them in places...It was a nice warm evening, Kind of humid for her tastes, But nice overall in her opinion.
She walks tward the small-ish village she has lived near for the last 30 years, She knows how she must look, Not older than 22 and covered in dust, Her long stright red hair hanging down to her hips, Slightly tangled...As if she had run a ways and fallen at least once...Her eyes are a reddish brown in color, As if the whatever gods there are had added a few drops of blood to standard brown eyes, A light dusting of frekles across her nose, Contrasting oddly to her pale skin, Skin far too pale for haveing lived in South America for 30 years.
She sighs to herself happily, Thinking of the 'meal' she just had, A large black panther...She had removed her clothes so as not to ruin them then went out, Looking for some wild beast too bold for it's own good...Her acute hearing had picked it up, Heard it trailing her, She was ready for it when it finally pounced down from the trees, With years of practice she deftly lept aside and pounced back, Quickly biteing the poor creature before it could fight back, The pain and slight intoxication from her bite holding it still long enough for her to finish it...She rubs her arms as if cold for a moment upon remembering that feeling herself...She was stupid to go out that night so long ago, She contenually told herself every night, And yet every night she would also find herself appriciateing her 'immortality' a little more...
A slight breeze ruffles her clothes, She suddenly freezes upon realizeing the sudden lack of any sound around her aside from the breeze, She glances up at the sky first then cautiously around herself at the surrounding forest before hurrying tward her little house 'if you could call it that' she thought to herself with a snort, It's little more than a crude little cabin with the windows boarded up...Roomy enough for at least 3 people though, And she should know, She had killed them for it...
She hurries on again, Shakeing her head and letting out a small laugh to shake those thoughts from her mind...
Less than 20 feet from her front door she hears off to one side, Something...Quiet, Barely withen hearing, Even for her...She glances up at the trees again, And looks closer, All the while thinking of all the storys of 'Invisible Devils' the towns people ever told her about, And the tales of fierce 'Predators' her Sire told her, The townspeople claim they live in the forests and keep to the trees...She looks closely, Trying to find the sorce of the small sound, But she sees nothing but faint breezes ruffleing the leaves.
Mentaly slapping herself for not thinking of it sooner the closes her eyes and listens, Hearing that same small noise again, High in the trees infront of her she tilts her head up ever so slightly, And sniffs the breeze hesitantly, And again...She opens her eyes and looks to the trees again, There IS something out there, She can smell it! And she has before...Over 200 years ago, But she KNOWS it is the same...Faintly oily but mostly sweat-like, Almost human, But not, Stronger but not in a bad way...She sniffs again, 'Not in a bad way at all...' though she thinks about all the warnings her Sire gave her about thies things, The 'Predators', Never-the-less she takes a few steps tward the trees, Extending her claws slightly.
She looks up searching for the way to find them, Trying to remember how her Sire told her to look for them...
There! A shimmer, Almost like a reflection on water, Then gone. Quickly she climbs the nearst tree, Searching for that tell-tale shimmer, She fully extends her claws, Both for safety and to aid in climbing...She quickly gets over to were she had seen the small shimmer and sniffs the branch, And then leans back against the tree trunk, At a loss...She turns around and she sees a bright green smear on the tree trunk, It is glowing faintly 'so it IS one of them! and injered as well...' she thinks as she reaches out and touches the bright green 'blood', She rubs it between her fingers and glances around for the tell-tale shimmer. Then looks back at her hand and sniffs the strange 'blood' and is starled to find it smells 'real' enough...Almost human...Aside from the color, And something else she can't quite place...She hesitantly brings her hand to her mouth and licks some of the blood and is REALLY startled when it stings...But in a fermiliar way, Like that of -really- strong alcahol when she was alive...
She sighs as the warmness spreads, But she turns arouns and looks behind her quickly, That itching between her sholder blades is also too fermiliar, And her suspicions are confermed when she loooks down at her chest and sees three red glowing dots in the shape of a triangle, 'Lazer sights' she thinks to herself as she does a quick backflip out of the tree a split second before the spot she had been standing was what she would call 'vaporized'. Upon landing, She quickly glances in the derection the shot came from and takes off tward it as fast as she can, Dodgeing back and forth between trees, She takes a quick look up and acually sees it, 'Impressive' she thinks as she jumps up and latches onto the tree and quickly climbs it, She is watching it the whole time, Even though it...'hmm...now that i'm closer, 'it' is deffinately male...heh...not surprised, my Sire said the ones that come to earth allways are.' She thinks to herself as she reaches the top of the tree with it...him...
Erica watches it closely, Circleing around the tree tward it...Waiting...She scratches the tree trunk lightly as she fininshes walking around the tree and she glances at him, Curious what he will do, He raises his hand and throws something small at her, She has a second to think it looks dart shaped before he quickly turns and jumps tward the next tree, Briefly destracted by the pain from the dart as she rips it out of her sholder and drops it, She is a second late, But never the less, She leaps after him, She catches him just as he is about to jump again and she digs her claws into his sholders and pushes, Knocking them both out of the tree, As they fall she feels a searing pain across her back and feels her blood again being lost, She glances down at the ground quickly speeding at her all she has time to think is 'oh shit! that's a fuckin' spike in the ground...this is gonna hurt...', She has her claws dug into the Predators sholders and thus they both fall onto the 'Devil Trap' the villagers set out, 'I'm going to shread someone for this' she thinks before passing out from the pain...
Erica quickly regains conciousness and rolls over with a scream of pain, And she glances down and notices the top half of the 'it might as well be a fuckin' LANCE!' sticking out if her chest, just below her brestbone, She staggers to her knees and glances at the Predator as she does so and snorts 'same damn place on both of us', She reaches down and exhales quickly and tears out the stick and tosses it aside with a pain filled screech, She falls forward on her hands and knees and edges over to the Predator, Who is still out cold 'still breathing though, And thusly still alive...' she thinks as she rolls him onto his side, Barely noticeing the weight, She snaps off the stick at his back and rolls him back over and grabs ahold of the stick and yanks it out quickly, Causeing him to wake up with a bellow of pain, Thinking fast, Hopeing her bite does the same to Predators as everything else, And to some degree not careing too mutch due to pain and her renewed hunger, She swiftly pins him and bites into his sholder...
She finds herself again a few moments later, And she quickly draws back, Afrade she might have done irripareable harm to him, And notices he is still breathing, She giggles, Feeling that same warm sensation sweep through her whole body, She wiggles briefly as the warm sensation sweeps through her body, In time with her heartbeat, Happy with the feeling and then leans down and softly licks the bite mark, Savoring the flavor and feeling of his blood, She giggles and crawls off him to lay on her back in the dirt, She gazes up at the stars for a few seconds and then staggers to her feet and looks down at her chest "heh, all better now" she states with a smile, She looks at the Predator 'I can't just leave 'him' here, the villagres might find him and it is too close to morning right now for me to have a choice...sigh guess you're comeing home with me for a while...' she thinks as she leans over and half lifts the predator, Staggering under his weight untill she gets a firm footing then she slowly makes her way back to her house, Giggleing occasionally when she stumbles a little.
Upon reaching her door she opens it and turns and draggs him through the door and sets him down then goes and gathers all her spare blankets and furs and quickly makes a cozy 'nest' in the 'liveing room' and then carries him over to it and lays him down. 'Wounder if my blood will heal him like it does humans?...And no way in hell should I turn him, Nor could I!...Well, I should at least try an heal him...I didn't mean to hurt him -this- badly...' Erica then sets to removeing all of his unnecicary weapons and setting them in a trunk in her room, She then rolls him over and finally notices the injery he had apparently had from the beginning, A handfull of long deep scratches across his sholders, Erica sets to licking the wound clean and then scratches the palm of her left hand and sprinkleing a small ammount of her blood on the scratch and watching it carefully...It takes a little while longer to heal than on a human, But it eventually does, So she re-opens the cut on her palm and after 'cleaning' the puncture from the lance like thing she presses her palm over the wound and rubs at her wrist, Getting the blood to flow a little more, She then rolls him over and repeats the process also heavily coating the places were she had clawed his sholders, She also searches out a few other minor scratches and heals them as well, Watching with complete facanation.
'I feel almost...high, or drugged...' she thinks before finally passing out next to him, She snuggles up and puts one arm across his chest to be shure she will wake up the second he does and is lulled to sleep by the sound of his breathing...