Amanda lay in her bed; it hurt too much to sleep on her back so she lay on her stomach. She thought of her new friends, she thought of the danger they would be in if they knew of her. She had to end their relationship, Annie was too nice and kind to suffer, and Fi had so much going for her. Their loyal servants already tried once to get them and failed. They would try again. Perhaps she should tell them; perhaps she owed them the truth. She drifted to sleep before she could think any more.
The chains tugged Amanda on her wrists to her new master. She was quiet and never said anything to any of these monsters. She was a mortal; in their eyes she was a mortal that would serve their every waiting. Their master didn't want her anymore so she was taken to a new one. One who was lonely and old, she knew he would want more then she could give. They threw her into a room it was dark and filled with shadows. She kept her stone face on so that the creature wouldn't sense her fear. 'Hello my dear…Amanda is it?' Asked a low voice. He emerged from the shadows, pale and hideous, eyes glowing red, long thin fingers. He was tall and thin; she prayed she was not next on the menu for his dinner. 'So you are the mighty Night Hunter that was caught? Not so mighty are we now?' She walked around her taking in her figures. She looked strait ahead, not daring to meet his gaze she knew the tricks of these monsters far to well.
'You are smart, not looking at me. You know of your fate.' He sneered; he smelled in a piece of her dark hair, her stomach lurched at his sudden closeness to her. She prayed that someone would come and leave her of this torture. 'You belong to me young one, you are of my keeping now, my property…' His mock voice faded off into the distance.
Amanda awoke the next morning, sunlight poured inform her window. She looked at the clock next to her bed. It read ten thirty. She knew what she had to do; she got out of bed and dressed.
As she drove down town to run some errands she caught Annie and Fi along with the boys walking along the sidewalk. A group approached them. Amanda put her car in park and watched them from a distance. When they moved she got out and followed. She recognized them. They stopped at a CD store and talked out side. Amanda decided to make an appearance.
As she rounded the corner, she saw Annie nudge her head to one of the boys. He was very handsome, but a certain evil was about him, the boy that was with him was the same. The young girl as well. All dressed in black, even in the bright sunlight. She stopped in front on them waiting for them to move.
"Amanda Parker?" Asked one of the boys. Threw her dark sunglasses she looked at Annie and Fi, they looked at her with confusion.
"Aaron." Amanda said and smiled.
"It's been awhile." Said the girl.
"Not too long. I take it you all got my message?"
"With the wonderful advances in technology how could we not?" The other boy said
"Time out! Who are you guys really and how do you know Amanda? And what is with the black?" Fi demanded, one of the boys looked at her and smiled.
"Is there a place where we can tell you and not have wondering ears?"
Eager to know her self Annie told them that Molly was out. They could go over to her house. They all made their way taking Amanda's and Carrie's car.
"Okay so what's going on?" Fi asked once they were all seated in the living room.
"We are a group called the Night Hunters. We hunt at night, we hunt the creatures that walk the night and plague your streets. It is our job to be rid of them." Said the girl. Amanda took off her sunglasses and put her head in her hands.
"Nikki, shut up." She said cutting of the girl in mid sentence.
"To put it simply, you town has got some vampires running around and it is our job to stop them. You asked why they go after only those that are seventeen to twenty one. Well during that age the sex hormones are pretty wild and they are easy prey." Amanda said looking up at them. Annie noticed she as looked very tired, her eyes were red, her body sagged. It looked as if she hadn't had a decent sleep in days.
"We are bound by blood, we each share a gene that makes a Night Hunter. Our parents were so no we are." Said Aaron.
"What are your names?" Jack asked getting to the thing that was missed. Aaron took the liberty of introducing everyone.
"I'm Aaron, that is James, that's Nikki, and of course you all know…Amanda." She said. Aaron was tall and thin, he looked like a punk, with his piercing, and rings and necklaces. His hair was spiked and colored red at the tips. James was dark skinned and tall, his dark hair was pulled back into a ponytail. He had several piercing as well and tattoos, his chains and rings looked as if they weighed him down. Nikki had long black hair like Amanda but she had green highlights, she had piercing too.
Amanda looked around; she noticed Fi's laptop open. It was on a site, and very peculiar site.
"Doing some research Fi?" Amanda asked.
"Yes I was." Fi said. Amanda reached forward and shut off the computer.
"Hey!" Fi said standing. "It took me hours to find that sight! I don't even remember the name of it!"
"And that's the way it should be! I told you to stop you investigating! You are in way over your head Fiona Philips!" Amanda stoop she look at the girl strait in the eye, her stair was so cold and cruel it made Fi cower for a moment.
"You think I haven't seen it before? What so you think that your parents are dead that you can just boss every one around? I got news for you, my dad's dead to and he passed on to me something just like you!" When Fi was done with her speech Amanda turned to her.
"You think that I don't know of the adventures you've been on? You think that I asked for this? Fi I have seen things that you can't even see in your nightmares, I have heard inhuman screams, not of a ghost but of something that is not living or dead. I have heard the undead feed, and suck life from the innocent I have seen their lairs I have been there. I have seen it with my own two eyes. My father was not killed in a car crash. My father was attacked off guard one night, then turned into one of those blood-sucking bastards. I had to kill him; you think losing your father is bad? Imagine seeing him feeding off the blood of the innocent then stabbing him in the chest with a wooden steak. And you pray the gods, that it's all a dream. You pray that right before the stick hits him you're going to wake up and be in your bed. And you'll be able to run into his room and hug him. But it doesn't happen, and then you are cursed to follow in his footsteps, you see that day every day in your mind. You see it in your sleep; you see it when you look at old pictures. Being what I am is not what I want it is something that I have to do. I will not rest until I kill the monster that turned my father into one of them, and then I will kill him. You believe what you want, but I am telling for you own safety and to keep you life. Stay away from them, don't try and find out about them." Before anyone could utter a word Amanda left the house.
"How does she know so much?" Annie asked her voice quivering.
"One night when her father was taken she was captured and taken as a slave for them. She worked for them for a year. Sleeping there with them, following their orders. The daughter of Joseph Blade is that one blood they crave." Aaron stated.
"Why did they let her live?" Fi asked.
"Because that's the way they are. If they capture you they will not harm you until you think they are not interested, when you think they wont that's when they will. They taunt you with fake sympathy, they make you fall under their spell so that you think you love them and will do anything for you. Take you words to heart Fiona, stay away from it. Don't get mixed up in it, if you are taken you put everyone you know in danger. The blood of a virgin is something they crave." With that James left with the others.
Carrie was quiet threw this conversation letting it all sink in. So there was much more about Amanda then did meet they eye. He watched them leave, he watched Annie and Fi go up to their room, and he saw Fi take her laptop. He watched Jack and Clue leave into the kitchen. He sat there for hours on end just thinking and watching.
Annie came down around six and noticed that he was still there.
"Did you notice." He started signaling her to sit down.
"Notice what?"
"She didn't mention anything about her mother."
"Yeah now that I think about it. Why do you say that?"
"Because she knows her mother is still alive."
"What?"
"The best I can think is that she was turned into one just like her husband. And from I can tell from all the horror movies I've seen is that her mother is the one that turned her father into one."
"Carrie you don't know that for sure."
"Your right I don't, but come with me." He led her to his house and into his room. He turned on his computer. Annie wondered what he was doing; his fingers flew over the keyboard. After a while he told her to look. She read the article on his screen.
"The sudden disappearances of Christina Blade and her father Joseph Blade have been reported. The investigators say it is odd to find that the mother Laura Blade had the same fate. The sudden disappearances of the Blades have no leads although their house was found to have furniture thrown in what appears to be a struggle. The police can only conclude that they struggled for their life." It then cut off.
"Where did you find this?"
"In Fi's room. Aaron said that the daughter of Joseph Blade is the one blood they crave. Why would they crave it so much? Because of what she is, it will make them stronger. And she knows that, James also said that they trick you into thinking that you can trust them. From what they said she must have gotten away before they did anything to her. Now they want her back, and I think they will do anything to get her." Carrie's voice was one of concern. Annie knew he felt something for Amanda. It was plainly obvious.
