I saw a bright light ahead of me. I hissed at the person coming my way. I couldn't see a thing. The light was so blinding, I quickly jumped up to my feet and lunged towards the nearest tree. I climbed the tree as fast as I could. I got to the very tip of the tree and looked down. I held on tight to the tree as the wind started to blow.
"The victim?"
"Dead."
"The thing that killed him?"
"Fled."
Huh. Thing. I'm not an object. I'm a living, breathing organism! I bleed like the rest of the society. I have a beating heart. I look like all the others. Just because I have sharp K-9 teeth and I hunger for blood doesn't mean I'm a thing.
"We shall come back tomorrow, if possible. If we can't, we will come back in a week or so. There are more cases, like this one, we are very close to uncovering. In the mean time, keep an eye out for anything suspicious."
I watched as all the people agreed with the man and started walking away. They mumbled to each other and in their voices I was able to hear fear. Their eyes wide open and searching, their mouths shaking as every letter came out, their bodies... sweating as they kept on walking, their blood... pulsing faster than normal as it ran through and out their heart every passing second.
I was about to come down the tree, and then I heard a male's voice. I stopped dead in my tracks. My ears trying to figure out from which direction the voice was coming from. I searched the ground, trying to see if there was movement. Then, I spotted something.
"It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you. I just - "
"Eli!"
The male looked behind him to see another man. I kept on looking as the situation progressed.
"Eli! Are you crazy? Let's go before something happens to you!"
"Sav, I'm fine. I just wanted - "
"To die?"
My eyes narrowed as the hairs on my neck stood up and my teeth were visible. I watched, as the two men seemed to argue.
"No, you idiot! I just wanted to see the creature."
"Creature? More like animal."
"No. Creature. It's not an animal. It's neither human, but if you were to actually see one... you would know."
"I never have seen one and I never want to."
"Your loss. You will love its elegance."
"What kind of animal has elegance, Nathan? Please, tell me."
"Do you really think we are searching for some type of animal?"
"Pretty much."
"Well then, aren't you in for a surprise."
The male smirked as he walked off towards a car. The other male snickered at him as they went in it and drove off.
I came down from the tree and watched as the red lights from behind the car disappeared. I looked up to see a little piece of sky. I looked at the road. The male was on to us.
We are not animals. We are not savages. We are known for our elegance and beauty. Many people call us Vampires, but we are far from that. Many people think we are hunters, but we are the ones mostly being hunted. People also think we are the living dead, but in reality... they know nothing about us.
We are... The Unseen.
