Sorry guys this turned out to be a kinda long chapter but I wanted a lot to happen in this chapter. Hope you like it thanks to replying and giving me hints that will make this easier to read. I hope to go back this week and clean up the past chapters. Enjoy! and Review!
Abby watches as King sat in the Denny's. She'd thanked god that it was opened all night. King was thinking about everything they had discovered. It was a lot to take in . vampires were alive, worse Asher Talos was alive. King's nightmare wasn't over. Now his nightmare was playing out in his hometown. If Asher or Jarko Grimwood found out that his family lived here Abby knew they'd use that against him.
Hannibal King looked up at Abby. Hew knew that she was worried about him. hell he was worried about himself. he thought back to tonight, to Asher and Jarko, to meeting the Dallas Nightstalkers, and finally to Annie. Had she gotten herself mixed up with vamps. He cringed inwardly. It would all make sense, the new attitude, the new style, it all made sense. Oh god, he thought, my sister's a familiar.
"We need to get armed." Abby said suddenly. "And we need to get a place." King said. he thanked whatever being had sent Abby to him. She would know he was emotionally screwed up about this. she was his voice of reason.
"Question is do we got the new group?" Abby couldn't bring herself to call them the nightstalkers. "No, not yet at least." King answered. "Do you have your toys?" King nodded. "We'll have to go get Zoë." Abby said. "No. She doesn't need to be around this yet." King said. "King she's defenseless. King looked at his coffee. Abby looked at him, "What did you give her?" King paused, "Couple of blasters, couple rounds of sun dawgs." King answered. "King!" Abby wasn't exactly surprised. "You don't expect me to leave my girl helpless. Besides she asked." King rationalized "So you did it. Abby asked. "Don't I always give her what she wants." King flashed Abby one of his shit eating grins.
Abby stood the next day in the gun shop. It was a seedy, hole in the wall. Looking at the arrows she noticed on thing. "You have a lot of silver tipped arrows." She looked at the guy. he was greasy with a hollow look to his face. "Those are specialty points. For hunting things of the nocturnal variety." He said. Code word for vamps, Abby knew then this guy was a friend. "What's a guy gotta do to get some Lucky 7's." King asked. He stood behind Abby. "Scooter." The guy yelled. King tensed till a young man about 24 came in, in a wheelchair, threw the back door. "He had black that was spiked and dark eyes. "Yea Mick?" he asked. "This guy wants some Lucky 7's." Mick said as he walked to the back.
"Lucky 7 huh? Not from around here are ya?" Scooter asked. "Hannibal king. " king held out his hand. "hold shit. king, as in from L.A. That would make you Abigail Whistler." Scooter looked surprised. "You know us?" Abby asked. " Hell sweet cheeks, everyone know you two. Name it it's yours." Scooter answered. Abby looked at King, he nodded. "Here's our list. Sun dawgs, knives, the usually." Abby handed him the list. "What no liquid silver?" Scooter asked. King and Abby looked at each other. "What you two don't know?" Scooter asked, "Hell I would've thought Storm or Jezebel would've told you. It was discovered that with the cure Asher found vamps became susceptible to liquid sliver nitrate. We took the hollow points of a sun dawg filled it with these baby and came up with this." He reached under the counter pulling out a clip, "We call them Silver Knights. Works a little slower but pump enough of these babies in a vamp and its painfully dead." Scooter said. King looked at Abby with a wild smile. "We want 12 clips." Abby said. "When do you want them?" Scooter asked. " Tonight." Abby answered. "Done." Scooter said.
Abby watched as King loaded his gun, "Have you called her?" she asked. "Tried, no answer." He said sliding the magnum into his holster. "you don't know the story king." Abby started. "It's the only thing that makes sense Abs, Annie's a familiar." King said adjusting the holster strap. "What are you going to do?" Abby asked. "Capture, EDT, then I'm gonna kill her." King answered. "Where to first?" Abby asked. "Hunting." King answered.
The men were sleazy here but usually harmless. The manager had moved from New York and had hired Jezebel to keep the vamp population down in his club. Storm and Tex stood point guard watching out for trouble. Rumor had is Jarko would be here tonight. The familiar they'd captured last night had said they'd made mention of it before last night's rave. She spun on the pole as trouble walked threw the door. Jarko was alone. Damn, Jezebel thought. She'd had hoped to get her hands on Asher tonight. She watched as Jarko and a group of vamps were seated close to her. She knew Storm had already informed the manager. She was about to make her move when the front door crashed open and the ashes of a vampire flew there behind him stood Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler.
"Hello Princess." King said looking at Jarko. "KING!" Jarko roared lunging at him. All hell broke loose he sensed Abigail moving behind him as he fought with Jarko. Out of the corner of his eye he noted the Dallas Nightstalkers had moved into action. In this moment of distraction Jarko grabbed his though pinning him to the wall. "I'm gonna enjoy this King-Fuck." Jarko bared his fans leaning towards him. He felt a jolt as something hit Jarko.
Jezebel tuck-and-rolled, she hadn't really been thinking when she took Jarko down. Hell she didn't even have a gun. She stood on her feet as Jarko stood. "Belle." Jarko said. "Why don't you play Hide-an-go-fuck with Asher jack off. You'd have more fun." She said. They were both caught by surprise as an arrow planted itself in the wall between herself and Jarko. They turned to see Whistler taking aim again at Jarko. "Next time bitch girl. Asher wants you back and it'll just be a matter of time." Jarko jumped threw the window. Jezebel looked around, King was starting to get up with Abby's help. Tex, Storm, and Robyn had taken care of the rest of the vamps.
King looked at Abby he never saw the fist coming as Jezebel knocked him on his ass. "WHAT THE FUCK!" King yelled as he grabbed his jaw. he looked up to see Jezebel rip-off her blond wig, "You stupid fuck!" she yelled at him. Stand in front of him was his Annie. "you could've gotten yourself killed." She yelled at him. "Annie?" he was in shock. The woman in front of him in a crop top and cargos was his sister. His sister wasn't a familiar she was a nightstalker. Tex came up behind them, "We lost him Jez." Tex said. "Surprise, surprise." Belle muttered. King stood up. "Wait your Jezebel?" Abby asked. "Yeah." Belle looked at Abby. "Belle, as much as I hate to break up this reunion cops are on their way." Storm said. "You drive 'em." Belle said. "I'd probably throw his ass out of a moving vehicle." Belle turned following Tex and Robyn out of the club.
The ride to the Dallas Nightstalkers headquarters' was too long for King. Hr tired to get information from Storm but he'd been tight lipped.
"Welcome to the Bat cave. I'd expect an ass kicking. Belle's already here." Storm said as he punched in a code to enter the building.
"You told them where to go! Dammit Scooter, if you weren't already in a chair I'd put you in one." King heard his sister yelling. Walking into a kitchen Annabelle King stood fuming at Scooter. King and Abby now knew why Scooter had known them. Bell drew back her fist to hit Scooter determined to knock the smirk off his face. "Hey, hey. Can't have that." Storm grabbed Annabelle's wrist. "Scooter go fix the Stake Shooter. it jammed tonight and nearly got Tex fanged." Storm said.
"What the hell do you think your doing Annie!" King exploded. "You think this is some kind of fucking game!" he was furious, his sister had endangered her life, "What the hell am I doing? Go sit on a pole and rotate King." Belle yelled.
"Back to your corner Belle." A voice said. King and Abby were shocked to see Kelly Sommerfield walk threw the door in a lab coat. "Kelly! Where's Zoë?" Abby asked. "Asleep in her room." Kelly answered. "What make you guy think your ready to this? What makes you think that you know what's going! What the in the BLUE HELL make you think you can handle vamps?"
"For starters," Belle started. " I use to be one." She pulled down her pants to show an identical marker as King's. It sat taunting King in the same spot. "Do I get my secret decoder ring?" Belle pulled her pants back up. "Oh god I'm gonna be sick." King said sitting down on a bar stool. "I'm gonna take a shower." Belle said. Picking up the trash can she shoved it in King's stomach. "You toss your cookies on the floor, you clean it up." She left the kitchen with out looking back. Storm reached up for the bottle of scotch. "You look like you'll need this." He placed it on the counter in front of King with a glass. "Kelly." Storm nodded to Kelly Sommerfield and followed Belle. "Sit down Abby, I'll explain everything." Kelly said.
"We call ourselves the Nightstalkers. Belle choose it ironically. Most of us were family members of a hunter of some type. You might recognize Scooter, when he could walk he and Hedges met once a month to switch ideas back and forth. Storm's family was killed by vampires that were after his brother who hunted them in New York. Tex was the son of a cell member from Austin. Mac and Robyn were the brother and sister of a hunter in Oklahoma. When my sister joined you after her husband was killed she was working on the EDT cure. I knew enough about it to be in danger. She agreed to join on the condition I was allowed to join. We found Belle about six weeks after you were found King. I won't go deep into it. That's her story to tell. But when Dallas' original cell went down we were brought here. Robyn and Mac are medical specialist, Scooter does weapons, Tex is a computer wiz, Storm and Belle are our main hunters. We've been hunting in packs lately because of the surge of vampire activity but usually those two prefer it to be just them. Less people to worry about." Kelly looked at the two L.A. Nightstalkers, "It's a lot to take in I know. Why don't we set you up for the night." Kelly said standing up. "I wanna see Zoë." King said. "Follow me." Kelly nodded.
King sat on Zoë's bed. Her eyes fluttered open. "King?" she said. "Hey munchkin." He smiled. "You found me!" Zoë sat up hugging his neck. "Always darlen, always." He held her close kissing her forehead. He held her till she had fallen asleep, he'd deal with everything tomorrow. For now hell's hounds couldn't have pulled him away from his girl's side.