I raised my hand. Allowing all my energy to flow down and gather in my palm. I waited for the right moment. It was three feet away from me, but still I waited. Two feet away. I concentrated on making this shot as lethal as I foot . I released the energy and it exploded out in a straight line. Like a heat seeking missile it found it's target easily and quickly. It hit the monster square in the chest forcing it back into the building on the opposite side of the street. There was a crash as the demon's colossal body collided with the brick of the wall, and glass rained down around it. I turned my back on the demon and started walking away.
"is that all" I heard a low growl of a voice behind me and stopped in my tracks.
"so your not dead then" I said calmly, turning to face it and placing my hands on my hips. The demon stood on unsteady feet and stumbled forward. I sighed and raised my hand again.
"one more should do it" I concluded, but before I had chance to attack I heard two gun shots from behind me and the demon disappeared.
"you know a girl like you shouldn't be out alone" I turned to see, the demon hunter I had been tracking, he replaced his guns and smirked at me.
"the names dante, it's a pleasure babe" he said walking toward me, I sighed, unhappy that he'd taken the demon out before me, but glad he was actually in and not off somewhere else.
"I'm Kayla, thanks for the help" I said not bothering to tell him why I was here at all, I walked in the door of his office leaving him to follow after me.
"you know this is my office" he said slightly annoyed.
"oh really, I hadn't noticed" I said sarcastically, I sat in the chair opposite his desk and leaned back. He followed suit and sat in his chair. I grinned at him.
"I suppose you're here because you wanted to see me" he said leaning forward on his desk, I nodded, and his smile grew.
"I have a favor to ask of you, or more like a job really" I said reaching into the bag at my waist.
"I'm being followed by a demon, and I need you to help me catch her" I placed a picture of a young woman my age on the table, he studied her crimson red eye's and dark ebony hair.
"this is a picture of you." he said confused.
"no its not me, it's the demon that's following me, her name is katherine, she's been following me for a few weeks now"
"And you want me to kill her?"
"no, capture not kill, she's…..my twin sister" I said finally returning the picture to my bag, he looked very interested now.
"your sister really, so that's why she looks like you" he concluded rather stupidly. I nodded.
"but she's a demon and she's your sister you must be a demon as well" he said leaning back.
"no, im human. Well at least I am mostly human" I said he looked confused but I could tell he was just acting stupid to make me explain.
"my mother was human, my father was a demon, making me half and half" he didn't answer so I continued.
"katherine is a fully fledged demon. She was fine up until a few months ago, she told me that she was going to kill me then ran away from our home. I have been tracking her ever since, however I'v never been able to catch up to her. Then about three weeks ago I noticed she was following me everywhere I went she was there. But I have no clue why she's following me."
Dante listened intently, taking it all in and nodding at the appropriate times.
"and you want me to help you catch her right" he said.I nodded.
"so will you help me or not?" I asked leaning on the desk.
"you know I don't come cheap" I sighed and dropped a bag on the desk in front of him.
"will this cover it?" he looked surprised when he opened it, inside there were thousands.
"this is awesome" he said grinning.
"I'll do anything to help my sister" I said.
"Dante, this place is a mess" a voice from the door echoed in the empty room, I turned round to see a young girl around 13 standing at the door hands on her hips, dante sighed as the girl ran up to him, glaring.
" this is patty" he said finally patty looked at me and grinned.
"hi I'm patty nice to meet you" she said politely, I bent down to her level.
"hi there, I'm Kayla, nice to meet you too" I shook her hand before standing and turning to dante.
"is she your's" I said holding back laughter.
"WHAT? No she's not she's my cleaner" he said, which caused patty to punch him and walk away. I laughed.
"I think I'm going to like it here" I said looking around the place.
"wait your not living here" dante said standing.
"your not going to throw a beautiful young girl out in the cold are you dante" I said stepping closer to him, he looked down at me. He stared into my eyes trying to break my concentration but it didn't work and when it failed he sat back down and sighed.
"fine" he said leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes.
"I'm going to take a nap, make yourself at home" he said without looking up. I grinned.
"I didn't think it would be that easy" I said looking at patty.
"he'll do anything for a pretty girl." she answered grabbing a bag to put the rubbish in.
"oh really, I'll remember that" I said, it would come in useful later.
"hey I need to buy some things, do you want to come with me, I don't know my way around this town very well, I could use a tour guide" I said grinning at her, her face lit up at the idea.
"I would love to" she said gleefully, grinning widely.
"we should let dante know where we are though" she said fetching a piece of paper and a pen.
On it I wrote.
"gone shopping be back soon, patty and Kayla"
"that should do it" I said placing the note on his desk and looking to patty.
it was when we were sitting eating strawberry sundaes after spending all of two hours shopping that I thought about Dante.
"why was he thought of as the greatest demon hunter in the world, he didn't look anything specail, from what I could see he's lazy and easy to annoy. how in the world can this moron be the greatest hunter, its impossible. besides he was human, humans never had much luck killing demons. every one of the human demon hunters ive met have died in battle" as I thought this through in my head I slowly ate my ice cream, patty sat opposite me smiling she hadnt bought anything but I could tell she was just happy to have another female to talk to.
"where to now?" I asked her finishing my sundae, she shrugged her shoulders.
"how about we go to the arcade huh" I smiled, standing.
"yeah that sounds good" Patty grinned it was easy to forget she was as young as she was, she acted so mature for her age. we walked away from the ice cream stand after paying and headed to the arcade, it was only a few feet away and it took less than five minutes to reach it. Patty stared around as if she had never seen an arcade this big before. I spotted the dancing stage and grinned.
"lets try that" I said pointing to the dancing game, Patty grinned fllowing me to the game.
after an hour of dancing and playing games I decided we should leave, it was already late afternoon and it would be getting dark soon.
"shall we get back?" I said as we left the arcade, Patty nodded linking her arm with mine.
it was when we left the mall that I realised there was something wrong, the air around us felt heavy with anger. I tightened my grip on, Patty pulling her closer to my side. she looked up at me confused.
"whats wrong?" she asked seeing the serious look on my face. I didn't answer, I was transfixed on the carpark ahead of us. Patty followed my gaze and froze when she saw what I was looking at.
"don't worry" I reassured her loosing her arm and pulling her behind me.
"stay behind me, you'll be ok." it would be harder to fight if I had to protect Patty as well however I had no choice I couldn't leave her alone. the demon started towards us, I stiffened and raised my hand, but before I had a chance to attack the demon spun round and focused on something behind it. I felt Patty breathe a sigh of relief behind me.
dante stood before the demon his sword leaning on his shoulders, a smirk on his face.
"why don't you pick on someone your own size" he said, I folded my arms.
"what's he going to do?" I asked myself shaking my head and waiting for him to ask for my help, of course he had no way of knowing who I really was, he couldn't have known how strong I was and if I could handle this alone.
dante swung his sword down on the demon with one hand and fired his pistol with the other. the demon fell, and disappeared.