The Paranormal Hunters

by RoleDoesStoriesJesus

Edward Browing and Calvin Anderson are half-brothers. Edward told Calvin a secret. There are real life monsters, real magic, real evil, and his job is to hunt this evil. Edward has been doing this for 5 years, ever since their father died during the hunt. Calvin was intrigued. He wanted some excitement. All he ever does is tend to his aunt. Their lives will dramaticly change.

7. The Storm 4

The soil drank all the blood, but the bones remained. On some places bones were in piles, but then on some places there were still barely alive packs or savages, helplessly bleeding out. An occasional werewolf or a tribal. Survirvors were from both sides and had one thing in common; they were immobilised. In a small field turned crater where the battle rage. There still was one fight that was to be fought. The group stood in front of him. A very tall and very muscular, shirtless vampire, the most powerful of its kind. His medium short brown hair stayed still in the wind.

"So what is that we are supposed to do against him ?"- Molmor asks no one in particilar

Everyone looks at him.

"What do you mean ?"- Ira asks

"I mean, the most powerful guy here right now is that witch over there."- Molmor says

"It's Alan."- Alan says

"Yeah, whatever, the point is he is still more than twice stronger than you and Ira combined. What is it that we can do ?"- Molmor asks

"You do have a point. Ira what do you say ?"- Alan asks

Ira looks at Griff, thinking of what they should do for a few moments.

"We have to be attack him alone, always in pairs. He can easily kill you alone. Me and Alan will attack first, after that you and Sanox take a swing. We exchange the attacks one after another."- Ira says

He highers his fist into a fist bump. It catches on fire. Ira glances at Alan, then at Sanox. He nods in approval. Ira turns his head back to Griff's direction, then him and Alan step forward. Griff started walking forwards as well. Once they were close enough, Griff leaps forwards towards them. Both Alan and Ira jumped to their sides to avoid him, with succes. Ira shot at Griff with his signature fire attack while Alan attacked him with his lightning. They both hit Griff from both sides. This annoyed Griff more than it hurt, but it still distracted him long enough for a red and grey streaks to punch Griff. Red was Sanox and grey was Molmor. Alan and Ira leap back towards Griff, who made a flip and was facing them now. He pulls his hands up in a guard and expects to block the punches. Instead they fly around him, then bounce off the ground and kick him into his back. He again was punched by Sanox and Molmor. The whole group now circlse around Griff. They punch him from every side for about 15 seconds, with furious power and speed. After that they jump away about ten meters, each in their own direction, as they make a circle around Griff, who was in the middle of it. They then turn around and all shoot their characteristic energy. Ira shoots fire, Alan shoots lightning, Sanox shoots a blast of dark crimson energy and Molmor shoots a blast of white and grey energy. Every blast met with Griff at the same time, wich caused a huge explosion of pure energy, spherical in shape, wich threw the four attackers to the ground. There was a crater on the place were Griff stood, for third time. About ten seconds passes, during wich everyone is just laying down on the ground. It wore them off, all of them. They struggle to get back to their fee as they look at eachother from a distance.

"That should take care of that."- Molmor says loudly
"Let's hope it does."- Ira says

The area where the blast was is covered with thick smoke. Everyone starts walking in the direction of the forest after meeting up. While walking away from the crater they spoke.

"You really think he's dead ?"- Alan asks

"Do you wanna go and check ?"- Molmor says

Everyone stops and looks at Alan. There was a moment of silence. Alan returned the look and knew what they were thinking. He sighs, turns around and starts walking towards the crater. He was about half way there, when a strange cracking sound could be heard. Alan stops and everyone frezes. Suddenly, from the smoke, a small rock comes flying at Alan and hits him in the shoulder, dislocating it and making the bone penetrate the skin. Alan falls down, screaming in pain. Out of the crater Griff's figure jumps out, high in the air and lands between laying Alan and the rest of the group. Griff's face was scratched and bleeding, his stance was akward and showed sings of him being tired. Alan continues screaming and grunting in pain, while Molmor, Ira and Sanox prepare for another fight with Griff.

"How's Robbie doing ?"- Delvin asks

"Fine, he should be fine, the bleeding stopped and we cleaned up the wound with whiskey. Not sure why anyone would bring it to the battle but it sure did help."- Eddie says crouching next to sitting Roberto

They retreated into the forest and were in the middle of it. They were joined with Molmor's remaining 30 tribals. They're sitting around, not knowing what to do. Malcom argued with Caitlyn on why she even came here, while Calvin chilled with John and Mark. Eddie looks at his bag of ammo. He wasn't able to take too much, as he had to hurry, there was still a lot of weapons and ammo in the car. He stands up.

"I think I'll make a run for it to the car, there is still some weapons in it."- Eddie says

"Are you crazy ?"- Calvin asks

A tribal scoughs. Eddie looks at him.

"You have something to say to me ?"- Eddie asks loudly

"Other than that you're pathetic, nothing."- tribal says arrogantly

"Excuse me ?"- Eddie asks while turning to him

"You heard me. While we fight with our fangs and claws, you humans need your guns and weapons. Pathetic. You're useless. Look, you can't even heal your wounds properly. No use from you."- tribal continued

Eddie looks at him with anger, while everyone stay silent.

"Maybe we should make him useful."- tribal says while approaching Roberto "After all it's been a while since we drank."

Eddie quickly pulls his gun out. Tribals react by taking out ther claws and hissing with their teeth. Malcom, Calvin and others also draw their guns out.

"There is 30 of us here, you really think you'd stand a chance ?"- tribal screams

"Don't make me fucking try !"- Eddie yells

"Calm down."- a voice could be heard

It was Crudor, leading the survivors. Everyone looks at them with a suprised and sad look. Eddie opens his mouth as he was about to say something, but he closes them and stays silent. Tribal's eyes widen.

"Are... are you all that's left ?"- a tribal asks

There was a small pause.

"Yes, we are."- Crudor says

Tribals look at eachother, all being scared and sad at the same time.

"What's happening ?"- Calvin asks

"They're fighting Griff."- Crudor says

"And you're not helping them ?"- Eddie asks

"They've sent me here to lead the survirvors."- Crudor says

"I don't care what they did, you and me are going back."- Eddie says

Everyone looks at him confused. Crudor nods in approval.

"Eddie, what the hell ?"- Calvin asks

"He can help them and I still need to get to my baby."- Eddie says

"Do you really care so much about a car ?"- Crudor asks him

"Yes, I do. It has sentimental value and it has ammo that we can use. You clear the path and I'll drive it back here."- Eddie says

"Eddie it's barely drivable."- Caitlyn says

"I don't care, we need it. There is still over 250 vampires left on Griff's side, we need everything that helps."- Eddie says

"I agree. But I'm coming as well ."- Malcom says

"What ?"- Eddie asks confused

"But daddy."- Caitlyn says

"Don't you daddy me. Eddie and I will go out there, Eddie will drive the car back and I'll help them fight Griff. I can't just stand here and do nothing."- Malcom says

"Bro, I can't let you fight alone. I'll stay with you."- Eddie says

"But who will drive the car then ?"- Malcom asks

"I will."- Calvin says

"Calvin, shut the fuck up."- Eddie says

"Why not ?"- Calvin asks

"We can all see what happened to my car the last time you drove."- Eddie says angry

"Then I'll do it."- Delvin says

"No way pa, we ain't letting you go all by yourself. We're coming too."- Mark says

"Yeah."- John agrees

"Well 'course you are."- Delvin says

"Oh what, now we're all going ?"- Eddie asks

"Obviously."- Calvin says

"I'm coming too."- Caitlyn says

"No."- Eddie, Calvin, Malcom and Roberto say in the same time

"Wait, we can't leave these two here unguarded."- Malcom says pointing towards Roberto and Caitlyn

"Don't worry about them."- Crudor says and then starts speaking louder to the tribals "Because if anyone lays even a finger on them, they'll have to deal with me and Ira. Understood ?"

The tribals stayed quiet. Crudor starts walking in the direction of the field. Eddie starts to follow him.

"Walk with caution, Griff's soldiers may be coming for us."- Crudor says

"If they come.."- Eddie says then pulls out silver layerd machette "... they'll make my day."

Griff starts ripping the rest of them a part. First he punches Molmor, then he shoots a blast of energy towards Ira. Both attacks were succesful. He then procceds to throw a punch to Sanox. But his fist gets caught by Sanox. Griff was suprised that he had energy left for that. Sanox explodes in crimson blood like energy and throws Griff back. Griff stays in balance and charges at Sanox. The two of them go at it for few minutes, throwing punches and small blasts of energy. In the meantime, Ira crawls to Alan.

"Are you alright ?"- Ira asks Alan

"I'll live, hopefully."- Alan says grunting

"Are you able to fight ?"- Ira asks

"My shoulder is dislocated, you tell me."- Alan says sarcastically

"Well can't you just regenerate ?"- Ira asks

"I ain't a vamp, I don't have the courtesy."- Alan says while putting his hand on his shoulder

"Oh well. Do you have any other ideas ?"- Ira asks

"Well there is a spell."- Alan says while fighting in the background continues

"Go on."- Ira says

"Let's just say that when I strike him with my lightning bolt, it has few millions of volts. How about a natural one, in other words about a 100 million of volts. I'll need some time to finish the ritual and chanting. Until then distract him."- Alan says

"How much will it take you to be ready ?"- Ira asks

"Around five minutes, more or less. I'll need to draw symbols on the floor, then do the chanting."- Alan says while crouching down and taking a random ribcage bone from the floor.

Alan started drawing symbols on the ground. Sanox continued to fight Griff and was holding his own against him. Eventually tough, Griff overpowered Sanox. The finishing move was Griff spinning and kicking Sanox in his kneecap, knocking it out of it's place. Sanox's leg from knee down now hangs loosely, with only flesh holding it together. Sanox crouches down and is met by Griff's shin. He was knocked to the ground, face first. Griff stumbles back, noticably nudged by the fighting. He was shot by a small firebolt from his back, wich caused a small explosion. He was again more annoyed than hurt and turns around and sees Ira in a fighting stance. Griff grins and gets into a fightning stance as well. Ira leaps towards Griff and they start fighting, even tough it was very much one sided. For every punch Ira threw, he recieved three back. The fight lasted less than half a minute and it finished with beaten and bloodied Ira, who was already exhausted from before. Griff ended the brawl with a direct punch to the face. Griff stood victorious, yet again. He turns to his right and sees Alan on the floor, throwing away a bone and starting to chant something silently. Griff looks confused and takes a step towards him. He charges a small ball of energy and aims it towards crouching Alan. He was about to shoot, but then hears a loud cracking sound coming from the forest behind him. He slowly turns around and looks at the forest. Suddenly his face is cutten by Molmor. He concentrated energy in two daggers, each in one hand and with them he cut Griff. Molmor starts slashing at Griff, occasionaly cutting at his flesh. The slashing lasted for half a minute. Griff was on defensive, mostly because he was taken by suprise. The crack was Crudor clearing path for Eddie. The fight between Griff and Molmor ended with a swift punch from Griff, rendering Molmor immobile once again. Griff was happy. Nothing could even touch him. He was unbeatable. As this thoughts rushed trough his head, he remembered that it's not wise to be arrogant with his power and that he should always be cautious. As this mindset settled, he remembered the suspicion actions of Alan. Griff turns to Alan and sees him on the floor, still chanting something. "He must be doing some kind of spell." Griff thought to himself. He started walking towards Alan, preparing to finish him off quickly. He picks up a fist sized stone and throws it at Alan. It shoots Alan in the ribs. Alan gagged blood but continued chanting with grunting and wheezing, his beard now stained with blood. Griff charged another energy ball, but his back got slashed. Griff's eyes widen as the pain reaches his brain. He takes few steps forwards and reaches his back with his hands with pain. It was the leader of the werewolfs, he somehow managed to survive, buried under pile of corpses. He left three claw marks across Griff's back and even tough still in his werewolf form, he was barely standing. Griff turns to him and decides that he will be the one the ball of energy kills. He shoots it at the Alpha werewolf, but the blue-white energy ball is moved by another, dark-crimson one, preventing Alpha's death. Griff looks to his side and sees Sanox, struggling to stay on his feet, having his hand up, as he just fired the dark-crimson energy ball. Griff was annoyed beyond belief. He charges energy balls into each of his hands and aims towards Sanox and Alpha, respectively. Second before he shot them, he was kicked from his back by still bloodied Ira, causing him to fall from balance and miss both Sanox and Alpha. Both of them limbed to the ground from exhaustion. The energy balls flew in the distance and both caused explosions once they've hit the ground. Ira didn't even land on his feet, as soon as he hit Griff he just fell down like a ragdoll. Griff turns back, determined to finish Ira off, but is met with Molmor's knee. Sudden kick suprised him and he takes few steps back, covering his face. Molmor lands in front of Griff, extends his arms and screams as he unleashes all of his energy in a greyish-white energy wave that hits Griff instantly and causes an explosion. The dust raised and everything was silent. Molmor still stood with his arms extended and Alan still chanted something in the distance. Ira, who is behind Molmor at this point, grunts and looks up at Molmor.

"Did you do it ?"- Ira asks

"Silly Molmor."- Griff's voice could be heard

Ira and Molmor gasps as Griff's sillouette can be seen trough the dust.

"You should know the best way to kill a tribal. Since you are one."- Griff says

He approaches Molmor, who is now paralyzed, part due to the fear and part exhaustion. Griff gets completly near Molmor as the dust behind settles down.

"You tried I'll give you that, with all that firework, but it obviously didn't work."- Griff says as he gets face to face with Molmor

Ira crawls back and tries to get back up but he just can't.

"No, no. The best way is to destroy the hearth."- Griff says

Immediatly after he says this he punches trough Molmor chest. Molmor gasps as Ira screams "No". Griff pulls back his hand holding Molmor's still beating hearth. Griff lifts it up and sniffs it with a deep breath. He then bites into his hearth, sucking any blood that it has. Molmor's now mostly dead body starts falling down, but Griff catches him and bites into his neck. He drinks his blood and throws his dead, shriveled body on the ground. Griff takes a big breath and exhales in relief. Ira looks at him with fear and tears in his eyes. Griff smiles and starts walking towards dreadful Ira. More and more cracks can be heard from the forest. Ira suddenly felt energy coursing trough him. He looks at his hands confused. His gaze moves to laying Sanox that extended his arm towards Ira. Sanox transmited his energy to Ira, giving Ira a fighting chance. Ira makes a backflip and gets up. He is still shocked but he puts his hands in a guard. The loudest crack so far can be heard. Crudor flies out of the forest with trees falling around him and branches flying around. One branch flies towards Griff and penetrates him trough his left side of his stomach. Eddie, Calvin, Delvin, Malcom, John and Mark jump from out of the cleared forest path and quickly run to the car. Griff gasps and spits out blood as he turns around seeing Crudor. Griff's gaze turns to the broken Chevelle as he removes the branch from his torso. Crudor starts running towards Griff, while Eddie and Malcom gathered ammo and weapons from the car. Griff looks at them and charges an energy ball. Just as he shot, Ira headbutts him from behind. He doesn't miss however, instead of hitting Eddie and others the ball flew to the side and crashed head on with unsuspecting Crudor. The following explosion threw Crudor back to the edge of the forest, slamming his body against a tree. His body limbed and fell down. Delvin quickly sits in the drivers seat and turns the engine on. Eddie, Malcom, John and Mark arm themselfs. Eddie approaches Calvin.

"Listen, I know you want to stay here and help, but I need you to go back and watch after Robbie and Cate."- Eddie says while pushing Calvin

"What are you talking about ? You heard Crudor, nobody will touch them."- Calvin says

"Oh what, am I supposed to believe a vampire ? Besides, we need at least someone to live trough this. Now go !"- Eddie says while pushing him into the passanger seat

"Make me proud boys !"- Delvin yells before closing the car door

The car leaves. Griff turns and grabs Ira's face. He throws him towards the forest with incredible speed. But Ira bounces himself off the tree. The tree breaks as Ira jumps back towards Griff with now flaming fist. Griff was taken by suprise and knocked down on the floor. Ira used this opportunity and carried half dead Sanox and Alpha towards Eddie and others. He lands next to them, Sanox and Alpha falling down like ragdolls. Eddie runs to them in shock.

"Are they dead ?"- Eddie asks

"Not yet."- Ira says

"Where are that Molmor guy and Alan ?"- Eddie asks

"Molmor is dead."- Ira says panting

Eddie looks at Ira with an open mouth.

"Alright, where is Alan ?"- Eddie asks

"There."- Ira says

He points towards Alan in the distance. Eddie looks at him but Griff gets up and blocks his view of Alan. Eddie looks confused.

"What the hell is he doing back there ?"- Eddie asks

"He has something that might defeat Griff. A spell or something. We need to distract Griff until he is ready."- Ira says

Ira looks to his right and sees Crudor getting up.

"Crudor, are you alright ?"- Ira asks loudly

"Ugh, yeah."- Crudor says gruntingly while walking towards Ira

"You're still fresh, I'm almost all worn out, even with energy that Sanox gave me. We have to rely on you."- Ira says still looking at Griff

"I ain't gonna be much help either. I don't like to admit it but out you all I'm the weakest."- Crudor says chuckling "What about the werewolf ?"

"He won't be much of a help either. I don't even know how he's still in his werewolf form. What we need to do is to keep him busy and in one place. I'll strike first, you follow. Eddie, you and others support us with gunfire. Now !"- Ira says

Ira leaps towards Griff as to punch him, but instead he zooms past him. Crudor does the same. Griff turns around as to not lose them out of sight. As soon as he turned, Eddie and others shoot Griff's back, while advancing towards him. As he was about to turn, Ira and Crudor jumped back at him and both punch him in the face, sending him flying back. Griff does a flip and lands back on his feet. He swings his hand backwards, sending a wave of air that knocks the hunters down. Griff turns his head back to Ira and Crudor. Ira was heading straight for Griff, but this time Griff reacted in time and blocked the punch, then kneed Ira into his stomach. Ira spat blood out, then tried to get out of Griff's grasp. But this resistance was short lived, as Griff lifted him up and slammed his back to his knee. Ira's spine broke as he opened his mouth as to scream, only there was no actual scream, just a small terror filled grunt. Griff threw Ira to the direction of the forest. Ira's now limb body slammed against a tree, with another crack. He fell down among Sanox and Alpha, lifeless. He was alive, but barely. He couldn't even regenerate anymore, at least not at a visable rate. Griff looks at them victorious. Black stormclouds slowly crept and blocked moonlight, with a few flashes of lightning. Griff looks up in the sky and looks confused. He can feel that it's no ordinary storm. It also doesn't help it's forming abnormaly fast. Just as he is about to turn around he feels a sharp pain in his neck. It was Crudor, he bit into his neck and started sucking on his blood. Griff's face contorted into angry expression. He punches him off.

"Son of a bitch."- Griff says

Griff grabs Crudor by the head and punches him in the stomach multiple times. He lifts him up with one hand and gets him closer to his face. Crudor is squinting due to pain.

"What a way to go ,eh Crudor ?"- Griff says while lifting his other hand up

While this was happening, hunters started getting back at their feet. First one to stand up was Mark, who quickly took out his silver knife and ran towards Griff, with intention of destroying Griff's hearth. He was followed by John weilding a shotgun.

"Mark wait !"- John screamed while following his brother

Mark ran towards Griff and just as he was near him, he yelled as he tried to pierce his hearth from back. Griff quickly turned, dropped Crudor and grabbed Mark's hand that wielded the knife. Mark looked into Griff's eyes. After a moment of silence, Griff's clunches Mark's arm and breaks it. Mark screams and falls down on his knees. John quickly runs to them and shoots Griff right in his face. Griff stumbles few steps back, puts his hands up and covers his face in pain. John approaches him and was about to shoot him again but his mouth got grabbed. Griff gets up slowly, still holding John's mouth shut. John looks at Griff with fear. He snapps out of it and aims Griff's still regenerating face. However, Griff jerks the hand he's holding John's face and in the process, rips out his lower jaw. John's tounge sags down as the blood starts to flow.

"NOOOOOOOOO !"- Mark screams on his knees

Malcom and Eddie run towards Mark. Eddie grabs him and starts pulling him back while Malcom looks at jawless John, as he slowly falls on his back. They run back to the edge of the forest, while Griff is looking at them and laughing loudly.

"Run all you want, but you can't hide from me."- he yells

His laugh was interupted by a kick from Crudor behind him. This made him stagger forwards. Crudor jumped over him, then with his both legs he kicked him in stomach with all the strenght he had left. This both pushed Griff back and propelled Crudor back to the edge of the forest. Crudor gets slammed against a tree and falls down.

"ALAN, WHATEVER YOU WERE GONNA DO, DO IT NOW !"- Crudor yells

Alan raises his hands up to the skies, still kneeling and with blood coming out of his mouth. He screams.

"EVERYBODY COVER YOUR EARS !"

Everybody does. Griff turns around to see Alan, then looks up to see a swirling spiral of clouds above him. He looks back at Alan as he screams screams.

"ICTU TEMPESTATI"

The moment he said this a giant lightning formed and struck Griff right on top of his head. This was no ordinary lightning bolt however. This was the real deal. It produced the earsplitting thunder wich hurt Eddie and others, even tough they've covered their ears and looked away. Griff's body falls down limbly. Alan lets himself fall to his back as he grunts in pain.

"Holy crap !"- Caitlyn says due to being scared of sudden thunder

Roberto flinches as well, but due to his wound he grunts in pain. Caitlyn crouches back down to Roberto and puts her hands on his cheeks. Delvin and Calvin arrived previously with the car as well The tribal that argued with the group earlier looks at Roberto. He slowly walks to them. Now standing over them he cuts his wrist. The blood starts flowing. He crouches down and moves Roberto's hand, with wich he was holding his stomach wound.

"What the hell are you doing ?"- Caitlyn yells

"Shut up, woman."- tribal proclaims annoyed

The tribal smeres his blood all over Roberto's slash. Roberto grunts in pain as the blood starts steaming and wound begins to heal. Once it is healed Roberto touches the place where the wound previously was and gasps in disbelief. He looks at the tribal.

"Thank you."- Roberto says

"What ?"- Caitlyn asks suprised while crouching down

"What the hell was that lightning ?"- Delvin asks Calvin

"Uhh, I don't know. I hope it came from our guys."- Calvin says

"I don't know. We should go check."- Delvin says

"And leave these two unguarded with a small army of vampires. No way."- Calvin says

"Then we bring them with us."- Delvin says while opening car truck

"Are you serious ? Robbie can barely walk."- Calvin says

"It's Roberto. And I can walk just fine, thank you."- Roberto says

Delvin and Calvin turn to Roberto and are suprised to see him walking.

"I'm coming too."- Caitlyn says

"No."- Calvin and Delvin say in the same time

"Why not ?"- Caitlyn asks

"Your father will kill us, find the way to ressurect us and then kill us again, if anything happens to you. Believe me, I know the guy."- Delvin says

"Oh, I don't care what you say, I'm going, wether you like it or not."- Caitlyn says

"We're going as well."- a tribal says

"I don't think that's a good idea. We're just going to check it out. Besides if Griff's army sees you they'll attack for sure."- Calvin says

"No matter, we'll need to deal with them sooner or later anyways."- a tribal says

"Alright then, just be careful. More than enough people died tonight."- Calvin says

A minute of silence passes as the stormclouds clear. Crudor watches the Griff's limb body on the ground. He stands up slowly. Eddie lowers his hands. He slowly stays up as well, holding his VHS rifle. Malcom gets up as well, then looks down at Mark holding his arm, crying. Crudor slowly gets up, but has trouble staying on his feet. He walks to Ira, who is laying face first on the ground. Crudor turns him to his back and checks if he's breathing. He looks to the side and sees Sanox and alpha werewolf laying as well. The werewolf slowly gets up, standing on two legs, while the hands look disproportioned to the rest of the body. Somehow he still had strenght left in him. Ira opens his eyes, he tries to move but fails. His spine regenerated, but that didn't save him from pain. He just lays there, bloodied and beaten. So does Sanox. Alan gets up and starts walking towards Eddie and others. After a bit of walking he is met by the Griff's laying body. He walks in front of it and looks at it for a bit. He then spits on it, then slowly turns around and starts walking away.

"How impolite."- a voice could be heard

Alan turns around and he watches with horror, as Griff is getting back up again. Ira and Crudor gasp. Malcom and Eddie open their mouths in an aw. Alan is petrefied and not moving. Griff gets up and walks to Alan. He grabs him by the neck and lifts him up. Eddie and Malcom reach for their guns, but Griff throws Alan towards them, knocking them both down to the ground. Griff stumbles back. He is in a very bad position. That lightning beat him good, but it wasn't enough. He raises both of his hands and motions his army to march forwards. The remaining 250 of his soldier starts to run towards the remaining few of Ira and his now almost completly fallen army. Crudor and alpha werewolf get into a fighting stance, while Malcom and Eddie draw their guns. Suddenly out of the forest, the remaining 60 vampires of Ira's army jump out, with them Caitlyn, Roberto, Calvin and Delvin. The four of them run to Eddie and Malcom. Delvin is suprised when he sees Mark sitting on the floor, holding his hand and crying. He runs towards him and crouches down.

"What wrong boy ?"- Delvin asks his son

Mark stays silent, not being able to even make an eye contact with his father.

"Mark ? Answer me."- Delvin says

Mark just continues crying. Delvin looks around.

"Where is John ?"- Delvin asks

When he heard the name of his dead brother, tears started flowing even harder. He points with his shaking hand, towards he field. Delvin turns to the field and sees his son, laying there, jawless. Delvin stands up, takes few steps and then falls down to his knees, hearthbroken.

"Dad ?"- Mark asks

Delvin gets up and looks forwards to the approaching army.

"Stay back boy, your dad has some unfinished business."- Delvin says

"What the hell is she doing here ?!"- Malcom screams at Calvin and Roberto

"She wanted to come."- Calvin says

"I don't care, she's my daughter and she has no buisness here, what the hell were you..."- Malcom yells at Calvin

Malcom continued yelling at Calvin and while he did so, Roberto slowly got behind Caitlyn. He looks at the back of her head. He raises his rifle and hits her with it, knocking her out cold. Malcom and Calvin both look as she falls to the ground. Everyone else turns as well and stays completly silent. Malcom's face filled up with anger and he was literally considering to kill Roberto, due to all the rage. His feelings quickly return to neutral, when he sees Roberto slowly lifting Caitlyn up from the ground, being incredibly gentle while doing so. Now holding her, he walks up to the forest. He looks at a tribal and motions him to come closer with his head. The tribal approaches him.

"Take her into the forest, as far as you can. Just make sure she is save."- Roberto says

"Sure thing."- tribals says

"And don't even think of doing any kind of harm to her. Because you'll regreat it. Big time."- Roberto says while handing Caitlyn over to the tribal

"Of course."- tribal says

The tribal runs in the forest with Caitlyn. Roberto turns to the field with a serious expression and walks forwards. Him and Malcom exchange looks and Malcom nods. Eddie steps forwards and crouches down. He starts shooting the approaching army with his VHS rifle. Malcom, Delvin and Roberto join him, as they fire more precise shots with their new hunting rifles, aiming for the heads. Only thing Calvin had was the old winchester shotgun, so instead of it he used his trusty 9mm gun. Eddie tries to shoot Griff as well, but he created a shield around himself, protecting only him. Usually it would be penetrated, but they were all out of silver bullets and had to resort to regular ones. Still, the bullets did their job and they've weakend the remnants of Griff's army. By the time Griff's army reached Griff they were already damaged enough for them to be easy opponents to what's left of Ira's army. Griff's army marched forwards, passing their master and providing him with protection. Just as they did, a ball of fire flew over hunters' heads. It flew towards Griff's army and it explodes right in front of them. It was Crudor's, he threw it at an angle, causing the debris to mow a large part of the army down. Crudor then jumps forwards.

"CHARGE !"- Crudor yells

His scream was followed by the rest of the army cheering and running from the woods. Eddie and others watch as Ira's army charges around them to Griff's army. Eddie takes out his silver machette and follows them. Delvin follows suit. Malcom and Calvin pause for a second, then run as well. The remnants of two armies clashed once again, but this time they were joined by the hunters, who bravely marched in the middle of battlefield, fighting the monsters. As they rip eachother a part, Griff stands there in the middle of it, watching the ground. In his head, he analizes the situation. He lost. Even if his army manages to win, there is too few of them for his plan to work. To defeat the humanity in it's enirety and enslave them, making him the ruler of Earth. Slowly realising this, his rage starts to grow. Anger, hate, disappointment and sadness all mixed up. While everyone is fighting amongst eachother, Griff grabs his shoulders and charges his power into his hands. Dark crimson aura surrounded Griff, as he gathered all his strenght. Ira, who is still laying in front of the forest next to Sanox and Alan, sences this.

"Crudor, watch out !"- Ira yells as loud as he could

Crudor and Alpha both turn their head to Ira, then quickly act. Crudor grabs Delvin and Eddie, while Alpha grabs Calvin and Malcom. They start running away from the battlefield. Alan quickly gets up and extends his arm. Griff screams and extends his arms towards the skies and releases the energy he gathered, in a giant blast of energy, that killed both Ira's and Griff's soldiers. Alan managed to conjure a shield, but it wasn't effective. Still it protected Crudor, Alpha, Eddie and others from a direct blast. The blast they expirienced threw everyone to the ground. Even Ira, Alan and Sanox were thrown back few meters, even tough they were far away from the center of the explosion. Griff stands at the epicenter of the energy explosion that killed or injured everyone left standning on the field turned into a crater. The explosion threw everyone away from Griff as he stood in a flat and naked circle of earth. There was a ten to fifteen seconds of silence. Griff lowers his hands and staggers forwards. That attack drained him of most of his energy. He looks around him and sees piles of bodies. Looking at the forest he sees some bodies start to move. Alpha digs his way out and looks at Griff. The two of them keep the eye contact going for ten seconds or so, then Crudor as well as Eddie find their way out of the pile of corpses. They're all hurt, badly, but so is Griff. Eddie stands up, with one eye closed. His shirt is ripped and he's bleeding. He has two cuts on his chest and one down on his tigh. Also his left arm is hanging and bleeding. Malcom follows the trend and finds his way out of the pile. Eddie walks up to him and helps him get up. He was hit in the head and is bleeding from his forehead. Griff grins. He lifts his arms once again and few bodies start to float.

"Stop him !"- Ira screams while limbing from the forest

"Ira ?"- Eddie says confused

"He'll absorb them all. You musn't allow him."- Ira yells

"Why don't you just do it before he does ?"- Eddie asks

"I can't."- Ira says

"Why not ?"- Eddie says

"I'll explain later, right now we need to stop him."- Ira says still limbing

"Crudor, can't you just blast him or something ?"- Eddie asks

"I'm afraid I can't. I'm almost all worn out."- Crudor says

Eddie looks down and sees a machette. After picking it up, he walks up to Alpha. He pats him on the shoulder.

"Looks like it's up to us, wolfie."- Eddie says

Eddie and Alpha get ready to charge at Griff. A loud sound is heard in the distance. Everyone is silent. Griff looks forwards with confusion. There is a high pitched noise of something falling down from the sky. Griff looks to his right, up in the sky. Everyone else looks in that direction as well. Griff squints as he sees a trail of smoke up in the sky. His eyes widen when he realizes that there is a dark object on the end of the trail and that it's coming his way. Griff turns towards it and jumps backwards with his hands crossed. The object hit the ground and it exploded, sending Griff flying back. Shrapnel cuts into and trough him. His arms and chest got burned and showered with hot metal shrapnel. Eddie and others are stunned and thrown to the ground. They use piles of bodies to hide. Four shapes appear at the start of the crater, crouching. Malcom squints then realises.

"It's the hunters. Some of them survived."- Malcom says

"And it looks like they've brought the howitzer you were talking about earlier."- Eddie says

Only six hunters were left, four of them came to aid while the remaining two stayed back and are now firing the howitzer. Another shot can be heard as Griff falls on his back. He stays on the ground breathless. He inhales deeply. By the time he got his bearings another projectile was already heading his way. Griff quickly reacts and gets into a pushup position. He pushes himself off the ground and into the air, propelling himself upwards. The projectile falls and explods right beneath him, sending him flying even further upwards and showering him with shrapnel once again. After being thrown into air, Griff accelerates down and falls right on his back. He lays limbly on the floor. Another shot is heard. He is barely conciouss and squinting. But, anger compelled him and he grabs a head of a half dead vampire next to him. He screams as Griff rips his head off. He gets up and scans the sky for the projectile. Once he found it, he throws the head at it. Head met the projectile and it exploded in mid air. Griff grins, but the grin is quickly removed due to a bullet penetrating his shoulder. The four sinpers at the beggining of the crater started showering Griff with bullets, as another shot could be heard in the distance. As the projectile neared, hunters stopped firing. Griff stood akwardly, filled with holes from sniper rifles. He looks up with his right eye closed. He jumps up and with incredible tenderness spins the projectile around and redirects it towards the four hunters. They tried to move out of the way but the explosion got to them. Griff lands down and hears another shot. His face swirled with anger as he sees another projectile heading his way. He charges two energy balls, then throws one at the projectile. It explodes and Griff throws the other one as well. He manipulates the ball as to follow the smoke trail back to it's source. The ball explodes in the distance. Griff waits for a few moments to hear if there will be another shooting sound. The silence was the answer he was hoping for. And he got just that. Silence. Griff's hands are still extended forward. They are shaking and he himself is shivering, due to the energy he used. The relative peace is broken when two of his fingers on his left hand are cutten off by a machette. Griff screams in pain. It was Delvin, he made his way to Griff and tried to take revenge on his son. Delvin laughs while Griff screams in pain. Griff looks at him with anger in his eyes. He slashes at Delvin, cutting into his face. Griff then uppercuts him into his stomach and punches trough him. Delvin gasps but is quickly grabbed by the troath and lifted up. Griff uses the same hand on wich he lost his fingers. Eddie and Malcom gasp in disbelieve.

"NOO !"- Eddie screams and starts running towards Griff

However Eddie stops when he sees Delvin's hand motioning him to stop. Griff looks at Delvin's face with confusion. His chubby face made an ear to ear grin. Delvin punches his side as hard as he could. Confused, Griff looks lower at Delvin's side. He sees a grenade with no safety pin attached to his belt. Griff then looks at Delvin's hand and sees a safety pin in it. Griff then looks Delvin's face as he quietly says with a smile.

"Go to hell."

Before Griff could throw Delvin away, grenade exploded. It blew off Griff's left arm completly up to his shoulder and a good portion of his face was turned into a bloody pulp. Only his right eye and mouth remained untouched, but he was still alive. Delvin was not that lucky. Most of his torso was blown out and he died instantly. Griff falls on his back, almost dead at this point. His visions started to get blurry. Griff, even tough being mortaly wounded, smiles.

"Well damn. Who would've thought guys like these could bring me into this position. Welp, taking the last measurement then."- Griff says

Griff points his index finger to the sky. Out of it a red beam of energy shoots upwards. Once the beam reached a high altitude it explodes in a blinding red light. Eddie and others cover their eyes. Meanwhile Calvin, Alan and Roberto found their way out of the corpse pile. Calvin's face is bloodied and his shirt is completly ripped. Alan is still bleeding from his shoulder and ribs, while Roberto is heavily bruised on his face. They all look towards Griff. From the direction where Griff's army used to be, a figure ran on all fours. It was a shirtless pack, that had a box strapped on his back. It ran to Griff and stopped next to him. Griff opened the box. It was the same box he took from the mosque before. In it there is an old looking curved dagger. Only the blade wasn't metal, rather a dark brown claw, wich is connected to a wooden handle with old rope. Griff takes the claw and gets up. Ira and others look at Griff, who is missing his left arm completly. The blood is dripping out of the gap where arm used to be.

"You know, I'll enjoy killing each and every one of you."- Griff says

Griff extends the dagger towards them and then turns it around to himself. The four legged vampire continued running towards the forest. Eddie and Alpha prepare to fight the vampire. The vampire jumps into the air towards the crowd of survivors. While in air an arrow finds its way to vampire's neck. The vampire spits blood out and starts falling down towards the group. Eddie takes his machette and spins around just in time to slice the falling vampire's head in half. Everyone turns to the forest, the direction from where the arrow came. Caitlyn slowly walks from within the forest, holding her bow and an arrow in her hands.

"Oh, no."- Calvin says

"Goddamnit."- Roberto says

"You have got to be shitting me."- Eddie says

Malcom turns around and sees her daughter. His face turned into one of sadness. This didn't last, because it then morphed into pure anger. He clenched his teeth, then started screaming.

"ARE YOU FUC-"

Malcom screams but is interuppted by a loud explosion behind him. It was Griff, he pierced his hearth with the claw and exploded in an outburst of red energy. The claw was a remnant of a demon called Ziminiar. He was a powerful demon who walked the Earth many years ago, but was banished to hell, so his physical body he had was destroyed. Most of his body was destroyed but the pieces that weren't possesed incredible power. Such as this one. Griff used it and took that power. By piercing himself in the hearth he has effectively made himself into a demonic vampire. His body extended into a red liquid like state, dozens of metters in the air. He became a giant, with a viscous lava like body. His body was in fact more of plasma in a way. This plasma extends forwards like lava, towards the group. Eddie gasps. Crudor grabs Sanox and Ira, while Alpha grabs Alan and Mark. They jump up on a tree. Eddie quickly runs to the trees and motions Caitlyn and Malcom to come closer. He connects his hands to give a levarage to Malcom. But Malcom pushes her daughter first and she climbs up. She is followed by Malcom and Roberto. Malcom and Roberto pull Eddie up as well. The red lava like plasma expands trough the field and engulfs the bodies and half dead vampires. Once it reached the forest, it stopped for few moments and then retreated back. While it was retreating back it left only the naked ground, no grass, no corpses, nothing but dirt, only exeptions being weapons that the hunters dropped. All of the bodies were sucked into the plasma. The lava like nergy is now retreating to it's center. Once it returned it united into a shape. It was Griff, he was more powerful than ever. From the trees, the ten survivors watched in horror at the eerie sight. A lone figure in the middle of a field, where the blood was shed. Griff just stood there, with wide eyes. Crudor looks at Ira, then Ira looks at the other tree where the hunters were. He exchanged a look with Eddie.

"Got a plan, anybody ?"- Eddie asks

"I don't actually. We've used all of our aces. I've got nothing."- Crudor says

Eddie remembers the spear.

"What about that spear Sanox told me about."- Eddie says

"Oh yeah. Somehow I completly forgot about that."- Ira says

"Well, what about it ? Can we use it against him or what ?"- Calvin says

"I don't know. It doesn't really come with a manual, it's just a spear."- Ira says

"And you expect it to kill it ?"- Crudor asks

"I don't know."- Ira says

"And that's your trump card ?"- Alan asks

"It was the only thing Griff feared, so it has to do something."- Ira says

"Where the hell did you even get it ?"- Alan asks

"Rain forest of Brasil. In a cave to be exact. From a ww2 vampire called Jack."- Ira says

"Dude, what ?"- Calvin asks

"It supposedly gives you power, but it doesn't work if you are unholy."- Ira says

"And what the hell does that mean ?"- Crudor asks

"If you're a vampire, a witch or anything like that, you're out."- Ira says

"So only humans ?"- Crudor asks

"Yes."- Ira says

The vampires look at the other tree where most of the humans were. Eddie looks at the wasteland and sees some weapons on the ground.

"Alright, it's up to us then. I'll take the spear, Calvin you take my rifle there, it has one clip left. Distract him with Malcom and Roberto while I sneak around him, but be careful and keep your distance. He's a demonic vampire now and we don't know how powerful he is."- Eddie says

Eddie turns to the tree where Ira and others are.

"What about you ? Does anyone have any energy left ?"- Eddie asks

"I do, but I don't think I'll make any difference since it's not a lot."- Crudor says

"I could summon another lightning, but it will not be as powerful as the last one. Not even close."- Alan says

"I might be able to do something."- Ira says

"Ira don't be ridicilous, your spine was broken twice. I don't even understand how you're able to speak."- Crudor says

"Don't worry, I'll use my energy reserves. I don't have a lot, but hopefully I'll be worth it."- Ira says while standing up

He puts his hands in a praying postition and inhales deeply. He opens his eyes as he exhales. He recieved an energy boost, wich only makes him a little bit stronger and faster than a regular human. They all come down from the two trees. Mark lays next to a tree with Sanox. Alan sits next to them and starts drawing the symbols on the ground again. Calvin and Roberto sneak-run into the field and collect the weapons. They bring them back and arm themselfs. Crudor and Alpha step forwards, followed by Calvin and Roberto. Eddie goes with Ira, searching for the marked tree where the spear is. It doesn't take him too long to find it. Malcom stays back and discusses with her daughter. He insists for her to leave, but she refuses. So they make a deal. She will stay in the forest, but will provide support with arrows, with the company of her father. Both Calvin and Roberto take their separate ways, Calvin on Griff's right and Roberto on Griff's left. Griff is still just standing there, not moving at all. Roberto and Calvin put their guns up, while still approaching Griff. Crudor had grabbed two large branches. He wanted to use them to kill, or at least damage Griff. Crudor, Alpha, Calvin and Roberto continue to approach Griff, all be it at a slow paste. They should've started attacking already, but there was the primeval fear that held them back. Roberto finally broke the steady flow and shot Griff with his hunting rifle. The bullet blows of upper left quarter of Griff's face. The shot was followed by Calvin showering Griff with bullets. The wounds weren't normal. As soon as the bullets penetrated his skin, there was no blood, just red like plasma floating from the wound. Crudor also joined, by throwing the branches at Griff. They penetrate his left tigh and his right shoulder. Alpha then slashes at no one, sending a three clawed sharp air wave, towards Griff. The air wave was so sharp and precise that it left three claw slashes deep across Griff's chest and stomach. Calvin stops shooting and they all look at Griff. After a pause that lasted few moments, there was a small crimson energy ball that flew between Crudor and Alpha, towards Griff. It hits Griff and causes a small explosion. When the dust settles, Griff's body is barely even scratched. Everyone turns and looks backwards. They see Sanox standing next to a tree. On his left side there is a tree, against wich is Mark laying in pain. On his right there is a shriveled up vampire corps, laying on the ground. It was the vampire that carried Caitlyn to safety. She broke herself free by stabbing him with a silver layered arrow near the hearth. He managed to crawl back and when he saw the weakend Sanox and Mark, he wanted to have a quicky, wich would give him a power up, allowing him a safe escape. But his plans were foiled by Sanox and Mark, who tricked him. In the end Sanox was the one that absorbed him, this gave him a small power up. It was not really a strong one however. Everyone turns to Griff. His face hasn't even remotely changed it's expression, not even one. He just stood there, wide eyed. After few more moments of silence, the blood like plasma retracts back into his wounds and the skin sealed right up. He was now completly healed. Griff looks at his fists and smiles.

"You would all love this feeling."- Griff yells still smiling and looking at his hands

There is a moment of silence.

"The power, it's beautiful. Coursing trough me."- Griff says

The silence continues.

"You feel it too, we all do. The fear that awoke in every one of us. It is not irrational. We can all feel it coming, the dark. That's why so many of our kin were so willing to rally and fight in this war. They wanted to be close to eachother and to have a strong leader. One that could fight the dark. Here I am. Let's reunite and fight together, against the oncoming darkness. I didn't want to use it at first due to ristk, but now, with this new found power I have a chance. What do you say my brothers ?"- Griff asks loudly

The silence continues as Crudor and Sanox exchange looks.

"Brothers ?"- Ira says while coming from the side "Should we just ignore the fact that you slaughtered over 6000 people this night, just because you wanted to be on top. Come to think of it, you'll probably just kill us and absorb our power to make yourself stronger. Because that's your true nature, selfishness."

While he was saying this, Calvin noticed Eddie. He was sneaking and going around Griff, holding a spear. Calvin realises the plan.

"So thanks, but no thanks."- Ira says as he comes about ten meters behind Crudor and Alpha

There was yet another silence, in wich Griff's face changed from a blank into an angry smirk. He raises his hands.

"ALRIGHT, PERISH THEN !"- Griff screams

"AFTER YOU, BITCH !"- Alan screams

Two small bolts of lightning hit Alan, but it didn't hurt him. He redirects them in one large bolt. Griff swings and literally punches the lightning away like it was nothing. Everyone , especially Alan, looks with shock. The lightning ends up hitting somewhere deep in the forest. There is a pause that lasts for about half a minute. In that period of silence, Griff scans his opponents from left to right. He smiles.

"As I was sa.."- he says but is cutten off

The reason behind the sudden ending of his speech was an arrow. Caitlyn's arrow, that found it's way into Griff's right eye. There is another ten or so seconds of silence, in wich Griff's mouth was opened wide in a suprise. He makes an angry hiss like sound as he clenches his teeth. Griff slowly raises his hand and removes the arrow from his eye. His right eye remained closed.

"So, silver still stings."- Griff says to himself

He drops the arrow on the floor and smiles. Crudor gets into a fighting stance. Calvin and Roberto start shooting again, but the bullets never reach Griff. Instead they float in mid air, stopped by Griff's telekinetic power. They stop their fire and the bullets just fall down. They are then thrown to the ground by an invisible force. Crudor charges at Griff, but when he was only few meters in front of him, Griff snaps his fingers and Crudor gets thrown to Griff's right side. He was thrown so hard, that he nearly reached the end of the crater. Crudor was now at the place where the four living hunters were. Alpha charged as well. Griff snaps his fingers again and sends a shockwave towards Alpha. When he is met by the wave he isn't thrown back, because he provided resistance against it due to him charging at it. Instead, most of the bones in his body cracked. Alpha stumbles back in exhaustion. His hair slowly starts retracting and his body mass starts to get smaller. Alpha transforms back into a human. He is a middle aged man, with long light brown hair and a beard. He falls down unconncious. Crudor slowly looks up and sees that Griff didn't kill all the hunters. Two of them were laying down, holding their wounds in pain. Crudor gets up and one of them reaches out.

"Help. Please."- one of them says

Crudor smirks and prepares for a quick snack. Griff stands pleased. He extends his arms.

"So if that's all, I'll be killing you now."- Griff says as he prepares to snap his fingers

Eddie, who slowly but surely got behind Griff, throws the spear at Griff. But Griff acctualy noticed him and just wanted to give everyone some false hope. As the spear flew towards Griff, he turns around, sending the spear to the ground with an invisible force. Eddie looks shocked. Griff laughs at him, but his laugh is stopped by an arrow piercing his left chest. He turns around with anger and spots Caitlyn in the forest. Just as he was about to snap his fingers and in the process her neck, he hears running from behind him. He turns around dodges the spear that Eddie tried to stab him with and throws him and spear in the air, sending him flying all over to the edge of the forest. As Eddie fell, his ribs got cracked and spear got thrown to the side. Now everyone exept Crudor, was at relatively close position to eachother.

"And now."- Griff says as his body stars to radiate crimson plasma like energy "To kill you all at once."

Griff starts levitating up in air. Around his body an alternative body started forming. The new body is made out of the same plasma like energy. The new body made out of energy had Griff himself in its torso as a source of its power. Everyone looks at the monstrosity with fear in their faces. Eddie gets up in pain.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't do it."- Eddie says to Ira

Calvin and Roberto get up and start shooting again while backing up. They back up all the way to Eddie and Ira.

"Are you alright ?"- Calvin asks Eddie

"I'll live."- Eddie says

"Now what ?"- Calvin asks Ira

Ira stays silent.

"I don't know. I-I have nothing."- Ira stutters

"We have to use the spear, but we can't get to him, not even near."- Roberto says

Crudor suddenly appears behind Roberto, holding the spear.

"It's not him that we should stab."- Crudor says

Right after he said it, he stabs Roberto in his lower back. Roberto gasps in pain. Eddie, Calvin and Ira both gasp in suprise as well. Roberto yells softly. Crudor releases the spear and it stays in Roberto's back. A yellow energy starts spreading from the stabbing point and Roberto starts screaming in pain.

"What the hell did you do ?"- Ira asks angerly

Crudor just looks at him, then starts running for the forest. Ira motions Calvin and Eddie to follow him. They do so. Roberto's screams grew louder as the yellow energy spreads trough his whole body. Once it reaches his face, his eyes and mouth shoot out three beams of light up into the sky. Calvin, Ira and Eddie came to the forest where they were met with Malcom restraining Caitlyn. She is crying and wailing her hands, wanting to go and somehow help Roberto. As Roberto is still screaming, his whole body becomes, for lack of a better word, human lightbub. His body shines in blinding yellow glow. Everyone is blinded for a moment, including Griff. After the flash, everyone looks at Roberto. But there was no more Roberto, at least not completly. Where he once stood now stands a tall, shining man in a gold and white armor. He's holding a spear in his right hand and a shield in his other. There is a gold and white helmet on his head, so his face is not visable. Griff's new plasma like body forms a face, and that face is filled with anger.

"What the hell just happened to Roberto ?"- Malcom asks

"He became a monster of God."- Ira says

Everyone looks at him with confusion.

"He obtained power of the spear. I don't know if all of it or just a fraction of it. Whatever it was it was enough power to corrupt him as a human. All that power took away his humanity and he is now a monster, even if he is a holy one."- Ira says

"You did this to him you son of a bitch !"- Caitlyn says

"Of course I did, I had to."- Crudor says

"No time for talk, we'll discuss it later."- Ira interrupts

Roberto starts walking towards Griff, and vice versa. Roberto is glowing a yellowish white energy while Griff is glowing a black crimson one. Roberto stops and stands his ground but Griff continues to charge at him. Griff gains momentum and puts all of his energy into a charge. Roberto spins his spear and lunges it into ground, sending a blast of energy from his body towards Griff. When Griff is met with the wall of energy he too goes all out. Now two walls of energy, one golden white and another black crimson, clash in the middle of the field. They go high up in the sky, pushing against eachother, but never crossing their respective boundaries. The two energies continued to clash for a solid minute. Then both Griff and Roberto went over their limits, putting off more energy than their bodies could handle. In a blinding flash, everyone, even in the forest, was thrown on the ground. It was so savage that it knocked almost all of them out. Only Ira, Crudor and Mark were left conciouss. The dust settles and there is a sight to be seen. There stands Roberto in his armor, still crouched down and holding his spear that is in the ground. But he isn't shiny anymore. His armor lost almost all of it's color, his skin went grey and it has cracks on it. Griff was no better, he now has a brown tone to his skin, wich is also cracked and dry. He stands, but just like Roberto, he's barely alive. Griff realises that there really is no hope, not anymore at least. He turns around and tries to walk away. The time it took for him to make one step was enough for a normal human to make dozen of them. As he's trying to walk away, skin on his face cracks and small part of it falls off. He makes three steps. When he was about to take his fourth, a bullet penetrates his left shoulder. He gasps and uses the momentum of the bullet to turns around. He sees Mark, standing about 10 meters away from him, holding a gun with his left hand, due to his right being broken. Mark has a smirk on his face. Griff clenches his teeth and widens his eyes, wich are filled with small red blood vessels. He realises that he is dead, but his instinct cause him to try to flee instinctively. He turns around in pain faster than before. He starts limbing away.

"That was for my bro."- Mark says as he's walking towards Griff

When he's at the optimal distance, Mark shoots Griff's right leg, right at his kneecap. Griff falls down, screaming in pain.

"That was for my pa."- Mark says

Griff turns to his back. Mark walks over to him and points the gun right at his head.

"And this one's a personal gift. Enjoy, bitch."- Mark says

Mark then shoots Griff point blank in the head. Griff's body limbs to the ground. It is almost done. Mark crouches down and takes out his combat knife. He stabs him with all the strenght he had left, right in his breastbone, breaking it. He moves the knife up and down, opening the wound wide enough a hand can fit in it. He then drops the knife and puts his hand inside of Griff's chest and after some digging, he finds his still beating hearth. Even tough it was hard, due to him being a rightie, he finally grabs hold of the hearth and rips it out. He stumbles back, still holding Griff's hearth. He looks at the hearth and smiles. The smile on his face turns into a giggle, as Mark's eyes get wide and his pupils dilate. The giggle then turns into a full on laughter. The feeling he is feeling, as he's holding the hearth, is almost orgasmic. His pupils dilate even more, as his vision gets more and more dark. The darkness envelops his sight as more and more small blood vessels of black pop into his view. His histerical laugh continues as most of his eyesight is now pure darkness. Just as the last bits of light were dissappearing from his view, he heard a voice, that shook his very being. A deep, ominous voice spoke.

"Embrace the dark."

As soon as he heard the voice, a primeval instinct awakes and he throws the hearth he held in his hands. Mark stumbles back as his eyesight returns and the darkness disappears. Mark then collapses due to fatiuqe. Ira was watching the whole ordeal from a safe distance.

"He did it."- Ira thought to himself "He's finally dead."

Ira notices Roberto, still crouching and holding his spear. Ira immediatly starts walking to him to help Roberto. As he's walking, he hears a thundering sound behind him and before he could turn around a fireball flies past him. The fireball flies forwards and hits Roberto's back. Roberto's new form was powerful, but the fight with Griff's newfound demonic power wore his body out. The fireball explodes most of Roberto's back off, killing him at the spot. After observing the fireball burning Roberto, Ira turns to see who it was that fired the shot. As he expected, it was Crudor. Others woke up just in time to see Crudor use his last bits of strenght to kill Roberto. Caitlyn opens her mouth in a sad aw. Her eyes tear up and she collapses.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO ?!"- Ira screams

"Don't pretend to be ignorant Ira."- Crudor say

"What ?"- Ira asks confused

"He became a holy creature, he would've killed us as soon as he had the chance."- Crudor says

"He was a friend !"- Ira says

"Oh please, don't think you've fooled me. I know that you don't really care about them."- Crudor says while pointing to the Eddie and others

"Crudor, where did you get the power to kill Roberto ?"- Ira asks

There is a small pause. Everyone looks at Crudor with mixture of confusion and anger.

"Some hunters survived, I drank them."- Crudor says

Malcom gasps.

"And there are still some humans left for us to eat Ira."- Crudor says while turning to the surviving humans "Let's go Ira. We can drink them and we can rule over the vampires that are left. What do you say ?"

There is few moments of silence. Ira just looks to the ground. Crudor turns his head around.

"Ira ?"- Crudor asks as he's turning to face Ira

As soon as he turned, there was a slash. Crudor gasps and so does Eddie. Crudor stumbles back a few steps, holding his stomach. He lowers his hands in exhaustion and his guts fall out. His dead body follows suit. Everyone is suprised that Ira just killed Crudor in a brutal fashion. After some more silence Malcom crouches down and hugs her crying daughter. He didn't like Roberto, but the emotional hit Caitlyn recieved due to his death left him feeling unable to help his daughter. All he could do is hug her and be there for her. Eddie and Ira exchange looks.

"I'm sorry."- Ira says

"Just take that Sanox guy and leave."- Eddie says

Ira stays silent. He stumbles toward the small group of survivors. The battle took a toll on him. He was walking, but barely. After walking to the tree where Sanox was laying against, he crouches down to see if he's even alive. Luckly he was. Ira picks him up and drags him to Crudor's body. Ira wanted to feed Sanox with Crudor's blood while it was still fresh enough to drink. He shoves Sanox's head into Griff's neck area and the vampire instinctively bites into his neck. Sanox feeds with Crudor and he gets up. The meal did not make him any stronger, in fact he was still tired. Sanox looks at Ira and he nods. They both walk off. Eddie and Calvin walk to Mark and carry him to the forest. Meanwhile Alan walks into the field to the naked man laying in the middle of the field. It was Alpha in his human form. Alan walks over him.

"Are you good ?"- Alan asks him

"I was dragged into a fight because of a debt I owed. This fight killed every single member of my pack and effectively 95 % of my friends. On top of that every single bone in my body is broken."- Alpha says "I'd say I'm just splendid."

"Haha, maybe all your bones are broken but your sarcasm isn't. Don't worry, this makes us even."- Alan says

"It sure does."- Alpha says

"Now how the hell are we going to move you ?"- Alan asks

"I don't know and I'm not sure if I want to."- Alpha says

"I have an idea."- Alan says while reaching into his pocket

"What, carry me ?"- Alpha asks

"Yes actually."- Alan says

"Don't know how you're gonna do it, judging by your bleeding wound in shoulder and ribs, but alright."- Alpha says

"Inhale my child."- Alan says as he reaches a handful of herbs to Alpha

"What the hell is.."- Alpha mumbles while drifting into sleep

The herbs made him go to sleep, allowing Alan to pick him up without any pain. At the moment anyways. Alan walks to Eddie and Calvin, who are holding passed out Mark.

"So I guess we're done here."- Alan says

"Yeah, it seem so."- Eddie says

"What are you going to do now ?"- Calvin asks

"Good question. I'll probably go and recruit some newcomers and teach them witchcraft. I am the leader of the witches in this area, but if there's nobody to lead then I ain't that much of a leader am I ?"- Alan says

"What do you mean ?"- Eddie asks

"Well I kind of killed most of my followers to get more powerful. The ones I didn't fled this part of the USA."- Alan says

"Damn."- Eddie says

"I guess I'll go and recruit new apprentices."- Alan says while leaving

"You know we can't let you do that."- Eddie says

Alan turns around and looks at Eddie and Calvin. Eddie has his left arm hanging downwards and bleeding from his shoulder down. With his other hand he is holding his broken rib. His right eye is closed and his face is filled with blood. Calvin has his right eye shut and black as well. His shirt is ripped and he has small cuts from multiple places. He's in better shape than Eddie, but he's still hurt badly. Alan then looks at Caitlyn and Malcom on the floor. He then looks blankly into the forest.

"I know. But there's been more than enough blood spilled tonight. Let's leave it for another day."- Alan says as he walks away with Alpha on his back

Calvin lays Mark down against a tree. Eddie walks over to Malcom and Caitlyn. He looks at them with a sad look. Calvin approaches them as well. Malcom gets up and helps Caitlyn get up as well. Caitlyn let's go of her dad to cover her eyes. Malcom takes a step back. Eddie turns to Calvin and nods her head to Caitlyn. Calvin walks over to Caitlyn and she hugs him and starts crying into his chest. Calvin hugs her back after few moments of hesitation and the crying turns into soft sobs as soon as Caitlyn felt the comfort of the hug. Eddie turns to Malcom.

"What will you do now ?"- Eddie asks

"Probably lay off the hunting for some time."- Malcom says

Eddie nods. They both turn to Mark.

"What about him ?"- Malcom asks

"That's a good question."- Eddie says

"Well, our car is not far from here. If you help me carry him.."- Malcom starts but is interrupted

"Nah. Take Caitlyn and go. You've been trough enough today. Me and Cal will take care of Mark."- Eddie says

"Alright. Damn, that boy lost everything. His brother and his father."- Malcom says

"Yeah. Even worse is that he doesn't have anyone to return to."- Eddie says

"Maybe he can hang with you two."- Malcom says

"I highly doubt it."- Eddie says

"Alright. Thank you again. Stay in touch."- Malcom says

Caitlyn and Calvin break their hug and Caitlyn leaves with her father. Calvin takes few steps forwards holding his head, then falls down against a tree. Eddie follows him and sits against the same tree, but on a different side.

"Is it too late to give up ?"- Calvin asks

"Yup."- Eddie says

"That was the kind of question that shouldn't be answered directly."- Calvin says

"Well you ain't getting that shit from me. Don't turn into a bitch on me now. Besides, even if you were to quit right now, the memories would still stay. So what's the point of quitting ?"- Eddie asks

"Yeah, I guess you're right."- Calvin says

Mark grunts slightly.

"You awake man ?"- Eddie says

"Ugh, yeah."- Mark says

"You alright ?"- Calvin asks

"No, not really."- Mark says

There is an akward silence.

"Um, hey. I wanted to ask you something."- Mark says

"Shoot. whatever you need man."- Eddie says

"I wanted to ask you if the three of us could maybe hunt together ?"- Mark asks

Calvin and Eddie look at him with confusion.

"I, uh, of course."- Eddie mumbles

"Thanks."- Mark says

There was a solid five minutes of just sitting in silence. Calvin finally broke it with him getting up.

"Ok, I'll look around and see if there are any weapons left around."- Calvin says

"Sure. I just want to lay in bed and sleep."- Eddie says while slowly trying to get up

Calvin walks to the start of the field. He picks up a hunting rifle that he presumed to belong to Delvin. He looks in front of himself and sees another rifle that belonged to Roberto, since it was at a place where he was stabbed. Calvin walks up to it and picks it up. After looking at it his view goes to the center of the field. There he sees his old friend. A man in the purple suit with a greyish hair stood in the middle of the field, with the distinctive impossible ear to ear smile. Calvin gasps and takes few steps back. But then he remembers. It's all in his head. There is actually no one there. It's just him being tired, or the stress of the fight that is getting to him. Calvin closes his eyes then looks at the aborition again. He too smiles an arrogant smile. The smile disappeared from the Smiling man for a moment. Then it returned as he started laughing. Calvin still smiled calmly. The laughing from Smiling man grew into a hysterical earsplitting wheeze filled mess. Calvin tried to stay calm but he started sweating and he gulped while taking another step back.

"Calvin, who the fuck is that ?"- Eddie yells from the edge of the forest

At that moment Calvin's eyes get wide. The realisation overcame him and he started breathing quickly.

"Eddie, It's him. Help !"- Calvin says with a clear fear in his voice

Eddie speed walks to Calvin and looks at the Smiling man. His mouth hangs in an aw. The laughing stops.

"Who the hell... What, the hell are you ?"- Eddie asks while taking one of the rifles from Calvin's hands

"Oh, If you only knew."- Smiling man says

"Tell me right now !"- Eddie says while aiming at him with the rifle

"I am the reason of fear for all those monsters. I am, the child of dark."- Smiling man says

"You're what ?"- Eddie asks

"You heard me."- Smiling man says

"Whatever. Why are the monsters so afraid of you ? You don't look anything special."- Eddie says arrogantly

"So, I guess I have you fooled as well."- the Smiling man says

"Yeah, yeah, so intimidating. Just answer my damn question. What are you exatcly ?"- Eddie asks

"We're the children of the dark. As I said. We've been here for as long as there were creatures that would be afraid of us. We were the original monsters. We crept in the dark and in the dreams of mortal beings for centuries. But then, these mortal abominations replaced us. We were never truly gone however, most of us retreated deeper into the dark. Some of us stayed. Their presence is almost unknown, only traces being the vocal campfire stories and the ones passed on what you would call, the internet. But now, we're finally in a position to take back our rightful place, at the top of the food chain. We succesfully turned the most powerful monsters in the world against eachother, and they've effectively killed themselfs. You know first hand how powerful they got. Shooting energy blasts and similar nonsences. We could've fought them directly, but this way is way less messy. Now the only real threath left is the witches, and they are killed of by my bretherin as we speak, and of course, you. The hunters that is. Personally I don't see a threat. You're still just humans, only difference being is that you know that we exist. It doesn't change anything. I'm supposed to kill you but hey, where is the fun in that ? No. Instead, let's play a game. I call it, get to aunt Rose before she's brutally murdered by one of us that is trapped inside her house."- the Smiling man ends his expositional onslaught

Eddie and Calvin look at eachother. The laughing starts yet again. Eddie and Calvin slowly returns their gaze to the Smiling man. The laughing is stopped with a gunshot from Mark. The Smiling man evaporates into a black mist. Eddie and Calvin turn to Mark.

"God, does he ever shut up."- Mark says

"We got to go."- Calvin says after a small pause

Calvin starts walking towards the car in the woods. Eddie soon follows.

"Hey Calvin, I have to tell you something."- Eddie says while following Calvin

"What is it Eddie ?"- Calvin says not stopping

"You're my brother Calvin."- Eddie says

"Yeah no shit."- Calvin says

"Calvin."- Eddie says "You are my brother."