UNDERWORLD:

AFTERMATH

Written by:

David Jacob

Episode 4: Undivided

Scene 1

Four days have passed and in that time Eve had dealt with more than a few prying officers or suspicion filled friends of Kenya's. Eve had collected plenty of bodies though so immediate death was not the kindness she chose to impart on these poor souls. No these people were bound in chains in the lowest part of the yacht, the lights were removed from the room except for one in the center. That bulb did not have enough power to light up the room at all though. The faces of the captures were barely visible and they did not have enough light to see further than their own feet. They sat there chained to the floor awaiting whatever punishment the Vampires or Eve could conjure up. Eve had been a constant absence on her own ship the past few days while she combed the city for clues. It was not long before she finally found what she was after. A smell, a familiar smell. One humans wouldn't be able to pick up on from a distance, but being a hybrid Eve could call upon her Lycan like nose to sniff out the exact source of the smell.

Eve's sense of smell led her to Krystal City's water purification plant. The smell was soon just gone. Eve decided to let herself in. She grabbed the double doors and ripped them off their hinges. She tossed the doors behind her and went in. There were no workers to be seen. The many pipes and faucets made the walkable path quite cramped for Eve's comfort. She made her way towards the center of the building. She couldn't make out any smells at all now. The floor was wet as she walked further into the plant. Eve began to get the eerie feeling that she was being watched. She reached the center of the plant. There was an opening that allowed the water to flow through in two parallel canals. In between the two canals was about twenty feet of space and leading to that gap were two bridges over each canal. In the center piece a desk and a few chairs sat out in the open. There was still no one to be seen.

Eve moved toward the bridge and looked down. The rushing water beneath her had a calming effect, but it also drowned out any sounds that she might hear. The bridges were not super stable but could easily carry a humans weight. There were a few pipes facing downwards towards the water and when Eve crossed the bridge one of these pipes let out a loud horn type noise as it released some white chemical into the water. Eve went to the desk and sieved through the files and paperwork. There was nothing useful on the desk or in it, it was all paperwork for the plant. As Eve decided to give up on the desk a suppressed noised caught her attention. She didn't even feel the dart that stuck into her neck. Eve spun around to see her attacker but there was nothing but more pipes, large water containers and over head rafters. Her sight began to grow fuzzy and that's when she noticed the dart in her neck. She pulled it out and looked at it. "You'll need more than this to put me down!" -Eve. Eve yelled to the rafters as she began to transform into her hybrid form.

As Eve's bones began to realign into the her larger form, she suddenly felt her left side collapse. Her chest deflated and then her legs followed back to normal. She felt a burning pulse travel through her body and she fell to her knees. "Oh, shit." -Eve. Eve fell face first on the metal plated floor. Four figures soon appeared and carried her away. While Eve was sedated she saw glimpses of her past. The moments of her captivity in Antigen, the pharmaceutical company. Meeting her mother for the first time, meeting Michael for the first time and then having him ripped out of her life. Lycans were the enemy before, but after they killed ripped Micheal limb from limb, the Hunters became bold and a force to be reckoned with. Lycans slipped into the shadows of her mind and her hatred was pointed toward the creatures that harbor hatred for anything not quite like them. The humans started this war and she would finish it.

Scene 2

The old textile factory had taken a very different look in the past four days. Everything was set up and functional. Selene's room had been finished and as if by natural courtesy the bats went from sleeping inside the third floor to sleeping in the roof panels outside. Although most people were out and active at night Selene had changed her sleeping schedule so that she could be out during the day and not feel fatigued. Today was the day the Hunters would finally give up their camping out of Darwin's mansion. They had wanted to take him in as well but Darwin's financial connections made him pretty much untouchable. This was the proof that Selene needed that if she assisted Darwin he would be able to help her and the coven in return. She would need to kill Queen Calypsa and that would be no easy feat. Selene had a more pressing meeting today though.

As she made her way to the second floor Selene peered into Estella's room to make sure she was there. Two days ago Estella had been successfully integrated into the Hunter base under the rouse of being a Vampire scholar. Her job was to teach the potential recruits all about Vampires in a smaller more stress free zone. As opposed to having one teacher and fifty students, it was one teacher per ten students. Estella was already in her room fast asleep, tired from work. Selene closed the curtain and left. Kelvin was awake sitting on a chair in front of the door. He was carving a wooden animal with a knife he had forged. "Where are you going?" -Kelvin. "You know where. Don't try and patronize me." -Selene. Selene moved passed him and put her hand on the door knob. "It isn't going to work Selene. He is a human and not just any human a Hunter." -Kelvin. "If he won't help us I will kill him." -Selene. "And if you bring him back here, I will kill him." -Kelvin. Selene knew Kelvin was not bluffing. Kelvin had seen many of his brethren killed in battle, he was not the type to let vengeance go unpaid. Selene said nothing and left.

Selene walked to the place that Darwin told her to meet Jayce. It was the Library of Yvnosi, one of the most popular buildings in Krystal City. The Library must have been at least twenty stories high. She was very early, only a few people were here right now. She used the stairs and went up to the thirteenth floor. The subject here was ancient artifacts and tombs. The originals were in glass cases but the copies were underneath the display case. Many of these books were younger than Selene, she felt her age upon her for the first time since her first hundredth birthday. The books were diaries, logs and accounts of ancient rulers. From Greece and Rome to Egypt and the middle eastern kingdoms. Selene went back to the isle on Egypt and scanned through the books. She pulled out one that claimed to have a detailed log of the rulers and pharaohs of Egypt. She went through the index and spotted the name Calypsa between other names. Selene turned to that section in the book and began to read it as she waited.

Scene 3

Darwin's call reached Jayce the night before the meeting. Laying in his toasted bed with the moonlight reaching into his apartment through the hole. Jayce couldn't sleep. For the past three days he had focused on his physical health, like longer gym hours and tending to his bruises and wounds. He had tried to push Selene to the back of his head and completely forget about the entire ordeal, but it seems she wanted to meet him. Normally Jayce would consider this a trap and stake the place out all night until she arrived and take her out from a distance. The Library of Yvnosi was a hugely public place and was rarely ever empty. A meeting here was not likely to be an ambush. All night he was up thinking about what a Vampire could possibly want to meet a Hunter for. It was dawn when he finally fell asleep and then he slept through the set time. He woke up an hour after the meeting was set to happen.

Jayce jumped off his bed and threw his clothes off. The bath tub had been put back upright and the shower nozzle fixed with duct tape. The rod for the curtain only covered one side, so he put it facing the hole in the wall so that Krystal City didn't have to see him and all his glory. While in the broken shower, Jayce began shaving with a folding razor. He couldn't shave in the sink because he had smashed it during the brawl with Mikayla. Instead the sink was replaced with a bucket to catch water. He finished as quick as possible and put on his best clothes. A pair of navy blue jeans and a button down white shirt over a white muscle shirt. His jacket was still the same black leather coat he wore while working. He left the top two buttons on his jacket open and tucked it into his pants. He picked up his gun, but couldn't decide if he should take it. What if it spooked her and she attacked. Jayce put the gun back on the broken counter and instead only packed his spiked knuckles into his back pockets.

When Jayce arrived at the Library of Yvnosi it was already filled with people. There was no way for a person to get in or out undetected. He also noticed the sun touched each and every entry point. How could a Vampire safely get into a place like this with out being burned or spotted. Jayce went up to the thirteenth floor as Darwin had instructed. What he saw had him dumbfounded. Selene was sitting at a table reading a book with the sun shining on her face and arms. Jayce slowly walked into the room looking in all directions trying to find anyone else who might be with her. Everyone else seemed human enough, but then again with her sitting directly in the sunlight she seemed human too. Jayce walked cautiously up to the table and sat opposite Selene. She didn't even look up when she spoke to him. "You're late, yet another area you seem to be inadequate in." -Selene. "I slept through my alarm. So, how did you do it?" -Jayce. "Do what?" -Selene. "The sunlight, how did you find an immunity to it?" -Jayce. "It was a gift, transferred to me through Alexander Corvinus before he died." -Selene. "You killed him?" -Jayce. "No, his own son did." -Selene. "Marcus? The original Vampire?" -Jayce.

Selene finally looked up from her book and closed it then pushed it to the side. "I did not call you here to talk about my past." -Selene. Selene reached into a pocket inside her jacket and pulled out a thick manila folder with over four hundred pages in it. She dropped the file on the table and turned it to face Jayce. "I'm here to ask you about your past." -Selene. Jayce opened the folder. It was his evaluations as a Hunter from every single year since his beginning with the Hunters, after that a list of all the Vampires and Lycans he had killed each marked with the smaller version of his badge at the bottom right hand side of the page. After that were the specific mental and physical assessments on his performance, by his previous team leader Pops and then even until recent times where pops filed with his new Commander title. This was a complete file on all the work Jayce had ever done with the Hunters. "How did you get this?" -Jayce. "Doesn't matter, I have it now and I am confused, listen to this." -Selene.

Selene randomly pulled out one of the many performance assessments of previous missions by Pops. "'Hunter Jayce Argeris exhibits extreme proficiency in dispatching Vampires. He disobeys orders and moved forward without backup, however, his actions led to the extermination of six Vampires and the rescue of two hostages.'. Lets hear another." -Selene. She pulled another one out randomly. "'Hunter Jayce Argeris eliminates sixteen Vampires and three Lycans in one night. The Vampire coven was raided by Jayce's silver rank team and the Lycans were spotted using heat sensors outside the boarders of Krystal City. They were exterminated with extreme efficiency and no injuries were sustained, except minor cuts and bruises.'. See this is the guy I want to meet, but he isn't the Hunter Jayce Argeris sitting in front of me right now is he?" -Selene. "I could kill you right now if I wanted to." -Jayce. "Why don't you want to? And unless I'm mistaken, you already did kill me." -Selene. Selene pulled out the last page in the list of kills Jayce had accomplished and it was a copy of the page the Commander had marked with Jayce's badge.

"I don't look very closely at the Vampires I kill, I must have gotten your face confused with hers." -Jayce. "Regardless, I know why you're here Hunter." -Selene. "Why do you think I'm here?" -Jayce. "After all these years killing Vampires, you're curious." -Selene. "Curious?! Curious of what?" -Jayce. "Curious as to why you have to kill us. The ones in charge, way at the top, the bureaucrats, they tell you what to do then they go back to their desks and sharpen pencils and set calendar dates. They don't know what it's like on the ground. The things you have to see, the things you have to do." -Selene. "How would you know?" -Jayce. "I was a death dealer for Viktor's army. I don't regret killing the Lycans, it was the pups that bothered me. Small and weak, crying for their parents and we were supposed to put them down with the same prejudice. You've done it before too haven't you?" -Selene. "They're monsters, size doesn't matter, they will grow up and be as monstrous as any other." -Jayce. "Was she monstrous?" -Selene. "Who?" -Jayce. "Your mother." -Selene.

Scene 4

Eve began to wake, in her drowsy condition she felt her hands bound to her side with steel. As her senses cleared she began to notice the people around her. There was a group of about six young men and one older man sitting in a chair. Behind him stood a woman a little younger than the old man. Eve was laying on the floor with an old fashioned steel bind holding her arms at her side. The bind was chained onto latches on the floor. She stood up and all four of the chains got tight. "You know this can't hold me forever." -Eve. The old man spoke out. "We know, we know a lot about you subject two." -Old man. "Damn you! You worked with them at Antigen." -Eve. "Yes I did, but not for long. See when my brother, the director, decided to use a child to farm our immunity to silver and our extended growth, I stood against it. We may be just another pack of hungry dogs, but once we had pride, dignity and we didn't go around dissecting little children. My brother saw my stance as a challenge to him so he banished me and my followers. We came here and have lived a more strained but noble life." -Old man.

"I've never met a noble Lycan in my life." -Eve. "You aren't eaten yet girl, that should tell you one thing. We have control of our animal blood. Instead of focusing on power and immunity to silver, we have been meditating and mastering our animal side to the fullest extent. Believe me when I say, that you never would have smelled us if we didn't want you to." -Old man. "Who are you?" -Eve. "My name is Jensen." -Jensen. "Jensen are you gonna unchain me, or should I do it myself?" -Eve. "Elder, we should kill her while she is immobilized and be done with it!" -Kalibak. "Control yourself Kalibak, unchain her. We have a common enemy and she shares our blood." -Jensen. "Father I have to agree with Kalibak, she is dangerous if the rumors are true." -Allison. Jensen's daughter Allison walked into the room from behind her mother. "Allison I asked you to stay with the others." -Jensen. "I wouldn't let her loose if I were in your place." -Allison. "But you are not in my place. Kalibak unchain her now, we want peace and progression not more violence." -Jensen.

Kalibak stepped forward and began unchaining the steel device around Eve's waist. When the device was loose it fell to the floor. As soon as it hit the steel floor Eve dashed forward and had her black claws stabbing into Jensen's mouth from underneath his jaw. "Peace will only come to us through violence!" -Eve. Eve ripped off Jensen's jaw bone before anyone could move to help him. His wipe pipe kept pumping air into his lungs. Eve took hold of the wind pipe and ripped it from his body, his lungs came out along with it. Everyone in the room was frozen with disbelief at how fast Eve had gotten past them. When the disbelief wore off the six guards transformed to their Lycan forms and so did Jensen's wife. "WAIT! You have a choice, you can die here like dogs or you can join me and never have to hold back your animalistic nature! I will bring in a new age and you can die here to pave the way for it or join me and live in it!" -Eve. The Lycans didn't come forward, they were thinking about the offer and taking into account their own fear of her obvious speed advantage. The Lycans began growling and snarling, they had decided not to take Eve's offer. "Then you will all die here." -Eve.

The Lycan's rushed forward at Eve, but Allison got in the way. "Stop!" -Allison. The Lycan's listened to her and backed a few steps away. "My father was a great man, but we live in a world where our kind die like this everyday. If you have the power the rumors tell of, you can change the course of this war in our favor." -Allison. "First you must know that I am not alone. I have my own coven of Vampires and we will join together." -Eve. The Lycans snarled and began walking away not wanting to hear any of what Eve had to say. "The Vampires have killed more of us than the humans have, why would we join them?" -Allison. "Because this is the new world I offer. You can either join it happily or die. Make a decision all of you for yourselves, join me and this world will revere you as kings and queens in the new world. With both sides working together we can subjugate the humans and there will be no more Hunters. We will be the dominant species on this planet, both of us. Vampires and Lycans working together to change the course of the world." -Eve. The other Lycans ignored eve and continued to leave, but Allison stood in front of Eve and heard her words.

"Give me time and I will change their minds. You can't expect us to put an ancient rivalry to rest just because you tell us to." -Allison. "You have three days. If you can't convince them, I still want you to join me. Killing your father, that wasn't personal. I just had to take out the pillar that they believed in." -Eve. "My father was strong, if he couldn't defend himself from you he wasn't worthy of being our leader." -Allison. "Your surprisingly calm with this." -Eve. "I've been looking for change ever since I was a pup. I want to be able to run free through the forest and not fear being tracked by sensors or aircraft. I want what you want, to be able to walk out in the public and be revered not cower in the shadows hoping for an old person to come by and have to share the meal with my family." -Allison. "I will return in three days. Change their minds by then or I will have to kill anyone opposed to me." -Eve. Eve turned and jumped into the rafters above and left out an open window.

Scene 5

Jayce stared at Selene with a very dark look, one that he had adopted from torturing Vampires and Lycans. "How do you know about my mother?" -Jayce. Selene moved her eyes from Jayce's deathly glare and looked down at the file. "They documented it with the rest of your psychological evaluations. The file says that you witnessed your mother feeding on a live human in the basement of your farm home. You called the Hunters and they came for her." -Selene. Jayce remembered it as vividly as it had happened. He was siting in the kitchen when they drove up in their black cars. They ejected their vehicles quicker than a snake striking at it's prey. Their weapons loaded and held against their shoulders or at the ready if they didn't have stocks. Eight of them in total. Four circled the house to cover the rear and three prepared to enter. At the time Jayce didn't know it but it is wise to let one Hunter hang back because Vampires and Lycans are hard to pin down and they usually use the entrance as their exit.

Jayce could hear his parents arguing in their room, yelling at each other. Jayce sat patiently in the kitchen doing his homework. The three Hunters lined up at the door in basic raid formation. They kicked the door down and began yelling instructions to each other. "Check him!" -Lead Hunter. The Lead Hunter yelled to one of the others. That Hunter flashed a bright blue light in Jayce's eyes. "Clear! Back up kid!" -Hunter. The Hunter picked Jayce up off the table and pushed him against the kitchen counter and the Hunter stood in front of him with his gun toward the hallway. There was another loud crack as the other group of Hunters kicked the back door down. The teams converged on Jayce's parents room and kicked the door down. They pulled his mother out of the room by her legs and Jayce remembered his father trying to attack the Hunters. It took three of them to contain him, he was putting up more of a fight than his wife. Jayce's father reached up onto his bookshelf and pulled out his trusted shotgun. He shot the Hunter pulling his wife in the back. The Hunter was blasted away, but relatively unharmed thanks to his older model Hunter armor.

Jayce's mother crawled on her hands and feet over to Jayce and the Hunter. The Hunter kept yelling for her to back off, but she was telling Jayce something. He could hardly make out the words due to all the Hunters yelling and his father blasting away with the shotgun. All he heard was her last words. "I'm sorry I scared you, I love you!" -Jayce's mother. That was the last thing she said before the Hunter unloaded his magazine into her face and upper back. Jayce's father yelled and tried to fire again, but the Hunters were done putting up with his annoying behavior. They shot him multiple times in the legs until he fell over. Then they kicked the shotgun away from him. He crawled over to his wife's body and cried on it. The Hunter in front of Jayce pulled out the laser gun on his hip and marked her body with his badge number. Jayce's father yelled all sorts of obscenities at the Hunters but then he turned his attention to Jayce. "You! This is all your fault, get out of my house! You don't belong here!" -Jayce's father.

Jayce ran passed the Hunters and ran outside where the lingering Hunter stopped him and held him until the others came out of the house with his mothers body wrapped in a UV proof bag. The lead Hunter walked up to Jayce and knelt down next to him. "You did the right thing kid. That monster in there wasn't your mother, she would have killed you both without a moments hesitation. You shouldn't go back in there, your father is convinced you are some sort of traitor. You can come with us, to a place where you will save lives and protect the weak from these monsters. You can be a Hunter like us. What do you say?" -Lead Hunter. Jayce took a look back at the farm he had grown up in and he nodded to the Hunter in agreement. "Alright, the other guys call me Pops and now so can you." -Pops.

Selene snapped her fingers in front of Jayce's eyes to get his attention. "Where did you go?" -Selene. "Nowhere, don't put your fingers in my face again." -Jayce. "You loved your mother didn't you? Even after she turned." -Selene. "Don't think you can analyze me, I've been through some of the worst forms of torture just during an average nine to five work day." -Jayce. Selene looked deep into Jayce's eyes and decided to take a leap of faith. She knew that pushing this Hunter too far could result in negative repercussions for her coven, but if she didn't push he would never change in his heart. "You're just another lost kid. You lost your loving mother and were left with an abusive father, so you grabbed onto the first thing that had substance to it." -Selene. "What are you talking about?" -Jayce. "They told you, that you would change things, that you would be protecting people, kill the dangerous monster to save others." -Selene. "How do you know?" -Jayce. "Because it's the same bullshit lie I was fed. Have you heard of the Death Dealers?" -Selene. "Yeah, they were Viktor's personal army." -Jayce.

Selene looked down at the table. "Do you think I knew that at the time? Six hundred years I spent doing his biding. We aren't so different Hunter. You follow this path because you think it's your way of making up for what you did. You think that through the protection of others you are preventing anyone from going through what you went through." -Selene. "It's the right course, Vampires and Lycans are dangerous." -Jayce. It seemed as if Jayce was simply repeating something he had read in a book. "What about your mother? Was she dangerous? Did she deserve to die like the others? The feral mindless bloodsuckers and wild dogs." -Selene. "No, no, No. I made a mistake !" -Jayce. Everyone on the floor looked over at Jayce who had stood up. "I was wrong about her! She would be alive now if it weren't for me! This, this means nothing!" -Jayce. Jayce grabbed his file off the desk and tossed it across the library at the wall. "Because no matter what I do! I can't bring her back..." -Jayce. Jayce walked away and went down the stairs to leave the library.

Selene stood up and ignored all the people watching her as she collected all the papers back into the manilla folder. She walked down the steps after Jayce with haste. He was already at the parking lot structure when Selene finally caught up with him. He was standing right in front of his car door with the key out. Selene stopped at the front of the car. "I didn't just betray her, I killed her. If there was one Vampire that deserved to live, how can I be sure that with all the others I've killed some weren't just as deserving as her?" -Jayce. "You can't let your past actions stop you from continuing your life. Instead you should let it define how you go on from here. This, I don't care about this either." -Selene. Selene held up Jayce's file. She turned to the nearest trash can and dumped the entire file into it folder and all. "It doesn't matter who you were, it matters where you go from here." -Selene. Jayce opened his car door. "I'm going home." -Jayce. Selene moved closer and closed his car door. "I want your help. I need your help. I have a coven and we don't feed off of people, we use blood bags of donated blood." -Selene. "Find someone else." -Jayce.

Jayce opened his door again, Selene closed it again. "Don't do that." -Jayce. He opened his door again and she moved to close it, but Jayce grabbed her wrist and twisted her arm behind her and pushed her away from his car. "I said don't do that." -Jayce. "You're fast for a human." -Selene. "It's the martial arts training makes us quicker than normal humans." -Jayce. Jayce got into his car. Selene moved to the door and grabbed it before he could close it. "We have kids that turned so they could live passed their thirteenth birthday." -Selene. "Let go." -Jayce. "If you change your mind, meet me here tomorrow. If not, stay out of my way and don't come looking for us or I will kill you." -Selene. She let go of his door and he shut it and drove away. Selene stood standing in the parking lot watching him drive away. A passerby walked up to her. "I can give you a ride home, I know how tough break ups can be." -Passerby. "I'm too old for you." -Selene. She went walking out of the parking structure and back to her coven taking the route over the roof tops to make sure Jayce couldn't have anyone follow her.

Scene 6

When Eve returned to her yacht she was not in the least bit surprised to see Hunters snooping around the area. They wore red capes, meaning they were ruby rank. They were scanning the area and searching for something. When Eve approached them they took out their badges, the shiny red badges had all their information on it. "Ruby rank Hunters ma'am we are searching for missing peoples last reported in the area. You wouldn't happen to know anything?" -Ruby rank Hunter. "My mother is ma'am." -Eve. The Hunters partner spoke up for him. "Sorry miss, he's an army kid." -Second Hunter. "You know now that you mention it I have seen some suspicious activity. You see that yacht right there?" -Eve. The Hunters looked over at the large yacht. "Yes we see it." -Ruby rank Hunter. "It's mine and sometimes when I drive by at night I see that the lights are on on the inside. Of course I just passed it off as a crew member forgetting to turn off the light, but what if it's something more important. What if I'm in danger?" -Eve. The Hunters looked at each other and then through facial expressions spoke to each other. "We'll check it out for you miss, wouldn't want you to turn up missing." -Second Hunter. "Oh thank you, you're so nice." -Eve. The Hunters began walking toward the yacht and Eve smiled with a devious happiness.

The electronic bridge was already extended and they walked over it onto the yacht. The pool was cover with a thick non-clear glass. Eve followed them, but she was sure to leave a reasonable distance behind them. "In there. That's where the room is." -Eve. Eve said while pointing at the door leading to the lower levels of the yacht. The Hunters pulled out their pistols and got into a single file. "Stay back miss, we'll make sure it's safe." -Second Hunter. The Hunters opened the door and descended down the steps, Eve followed them at a distance and shut the door and locked it with a key. They reached the lower rooms and were almost completely engulfed in darkness. They pulled their UV lights off their belts and held them up near their guns. Eve quietly descended down the steps without making a noise, she could easily see in the darkness. The Hunters began walking down the hallway without knowing Eve was right behind them. Using her superior speed Eve dashed passed the Hunters and pulled their guns right out of their hands.

The Hunters were astounded at how fast she had disarmed them. She put both guns together and grabbed hold of the two barrels. She snapped the guns into four pieces and laughed. The Hunters pulled out their knives and braced themselves for martial combat. More laughing started to break out in the rooms of the ship. The Hunters began waving their flashlights from one door to the next. Eve was not the only danger on the boat. Eve threw one of the gun barrels at a Hunter. It hit him in the face and he stepped backwards. The other Hunter charged at Eve with his knife. Using his training he first slashed for her face, she moved her head back. He stabbed at her chest, then her stomach and last her upper thigh. Eve stopped each attack simply by swatting the Hunter's hand. He jumped up and kicked Eve in the face. Eve pushed him away sending him rolling down the hallway. The two Hunters regrouped and decided to attack together. One slashing high, the other going low. Eve fought the two Hunters alone and with one hand. She wasn't concerned with whether or not they could actually hurt her. Although they were trained well her speed was well beyond the level of a normal Vampire or Lycan so she could see their movements and stop them with ease.

Eve slowly began to break down the Hunters. First, she broke one of their wrists, then she cracked ones leg and poked one of their eyeballs out. It was sweat revenge for Eve to watch the Hunters suffer as they had made her father suffer. She grabbed the protruding femur bone and yanked it out of the Hunters leg causing his left leg to go completely limp. The Hunter screamed in pain and tried to back away. The other Hunter was still trying to see out of his one good eye. Eve lightly tapped him on the shoulder and he swung his knife at her, she dodged and stabbed her hand into his stomach and pulled out a chunk of his flesh. The Hunter swung his knife again she ducked and stuck three fingers into the side of the Hunter. Her fingers were between his rib cage. She then pulled down on them and cracked the man's ribcage off without extracting it. The Hunter fell to the floor, unable to scream or breath because his lungs had been compromised. Eve laid down next to the Hunter as he gasped for air. She picked up his UV light and shined it on his partner who was crawling away towards the stairs.

Eve put the light down on the floor but left it pointing at the other Hunter. "Watch this." -Eve. She walked over to his partner and stood him up. He tried to fight her but she was too strong. She turned so the dying Hunter could see his face. Then she stuck her claws into his sternum and ripped his body into two bloody pieces. His blood and organs flew across the room and reached as far as his dying partner. Eve began walking back towards the other Hunter, she dropped his two pieces one on either side of the Hunter. "This is my world now and no one can say otherwise." -Eve. The other vampires finally came forth from the other rooms. "We don't have to fear them. Eat, feed! Lick the blood from the walls!" -Eve. Her Vampires did as she commanded, licking the blood from the wall like cats and ripping the Hunters apart like hyenas. "We are the monsters!" -Eve.

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Jayce drove into the parking lot of his apartment complex and parked in his spot. He took two deep breathes and then he started punching the steering wheel as hard as he could, each time the car let out a honk as if it was being hurt. He threw open his door and got out. He started kicking the steering wheel from outside and when he felt the car had had enough he slammed the door shut. As he walked to the elevator the vampire teens were watching him like he was crazed. Jayce passed them and went to the elevator. He came back though and started yelling at them. "Why can't you put your own shit in the trash can?! Are you fucking stupid or retarded?! And don't eyeball me!" -Jayce. Jayce went back to the elevator and entered it. The teens looked between each other like they had just witnessed the most hilarious inside joke ever. After that they couldn't stop laughing. When they left though they didn't leave behind their sandwich wrappers.

When Jayce got up to his apartment he dropped his keys on the broken table and shut the door. The sunlight was still shining into his apartment from the hole in the wall. Jayce went over to the hole and looked out at Krystal City. It was still midday, he wasn't sleepy, but he was tired. Jayce took the picture of his mother off the sink counter and he sat on the broken toilet. "Would you forgive me?" -Jayce. Jayce put the picture back on the broken sink side and went back out into the living room. He dropped himself to the floor and started doing his push ups. When angry or frustrated putting that energy into a positive activity is the wisest course. As Jayce was doing his push ups he could hear his Hunter radio sending off possible alerts from inside his closet which had frag holes in it.

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Selene returned to the factory with no good news. So instead of going in she sat outside in her stolen car. She had pushed Jayce too far and if he didn't show up she would likely have to kill him. Even if he did show up he might show up with a whole team of Hunters. Selene sunk into her seat, she would rather be alone right now than in the company of her hopeful coven. How does Kelvin do it? He has seen so much death in his long life. How does he keep having a neutral demeanor. Being a leader was not something Selene had ever asked for, but the times called for it. Michael was very supportive of her leadership. She didn't feel like a good leader at all. Many of the decisions she has made have resulted in the trouble. Somehow the coven stays true to her. Even when Eve offered to take them away they remained. Selene got herself together and headed into the factory to tell her coven the not so good news.

When the sun rose the next morning Selene was laying in bed looking out the high windows watching the light. She had been unable to sleep all night. The thought that her actions could put her coven in danger again was a lot of stress for her to bare. This was her job though to make the tough decisions and weight the cost and benefits. She was not going to let one Hunter ruin the happiness and comfort that was flowing through her coven. The kids were happy and the older ones were content to stay here. Selene got out of her bed and picked up her leather trousers which were folded right at the side of the bed. Her shirt was folded right next to her trousers and her boots were at the foot of the bed. Selene got dressed with no haste at all. As she strolled down the stairs everyone was getting into there rooms getting ready to go to sleep. Everyone except Kelvin who was sitting next to the door again crafting his wooden animal which looked like some sort of large cat.

Selene was expecting a speech about what she should do but Kelvin just looked at her and kept carving his wooden animal. "You've been alive for almost a thousand years and you have no advice?" -Selene. Kelvin stopped carving his animal and looked up at Selene. "Do what you have to do. And I will do what I have to do." -Kelvin. Selene realized this was all she was going to get out of him this morning so she left out the door. This time she was going to take her stolen car. When she arrived at the library she parked in the parking structure, across from where Jayce had been parked last time. Selene spent awhile in her car looking around at all the other vehicles and the people walking into the library. No one seemed suspicious, but then again that is their job, to blend in. Selene got out of her car and went into the library, she walked up the stairs to the top floor and broke the lock that kept people from going up to the roof. From here she could see everyone coming and going, even the cars. Selene sat up here and waited to see if Jayce would show up.

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Jayce had fallen asleep late again and woke up late. This was odd for him to be late twice but then again nothing about what he was doing was normal. Jayce took a shower again in his broken shower and decided not to shave his face, he only had a thin layer of five o'clock shadow. He got dressed and rushed out the door. Halfway to the elevator he stopped, went back to his apartment and got his gun. He also grabbed his full set of Hunter armor and left holding it. He dumped the armor into his trunk and got into the his car and drove to the library. It was still relatively early in the morning which meant that Jayce would have the sun advantage so Selene couldn't have a plan that would involve her Vampires. Jayce parked in the exact same spot he had used last time. He looked around and didn't see anything suspicious. It was dark in the parking structure but with the few rays of sunlight no normal vampire would risk attacking. Selene was no normal vampire though.

Jayce got out of his car and scanned the area again. A family passed by him and noticed his gun holster, they started walking away faster. It was hard for Jayce to remember that not every one in Krystal City was aware he was a Hunter. He let them get far ahead and then he headed in. He took the library one step at a time watching carefully to see if anyone seemed out of place. But of everyone, a man with a gun slowly walking around was the most suspicious. Jayce got to the thirteenth floor and it was nearly empty. He walked up to the table where he and Selene had sat last time and he sat down. He turned around and noticed the large windows were right behind him at a perfect angle for a sniper. He let out a sigh and just waited for whatever would come.

About an hour later Selene walked into this section of the library. Jayce was staring at the groves in the table. Selene sat down across from him and as soon as she was seated she heard the click as Jayce pulled the hammer back on his gun. He was holding it under the table and had been doing so for some time. "I didn't think you would try to kill me all alone." -Selene. "How do you know I don't have backup?" -Jayce. "I saw you arrive and I've been watching you ever since." -Selene. Jayce finally looked up at Selene. "you have to show me." -Jayce. "Show you what?" -Selene. "Show me that the ones with you aren't like the others. If they aren't, if they are just like people. Then that means that they're victims just like any normal person, just suffering the consequences of the others. But you have to prove this to me by letting me see them." -Jayce. Selene looked down at the table for awhile thinking if this was at all a good idea. Jayce pulled back the hammer on his gun and released it to it's safety position. Although this showed a sign of faith, it truly meant nothing because an automatic gun pulls the hammer back with a simple pull of the trigger. Jayce holstered his gun.

Selene stood up. Jayce leaned back to stay out of arms reach. "Lets go then." -Selene. Jayce stood up and followed her down the stairs. Once they got to the parking structure Selene stopped in front of Jayce's car and went behind it. Jayce thought she wanted to get in the back seat but as he went to open the door she pushed him against the cement wall and pulled out his gun. "What are you doing?" -Jayce. "You have to trust me, or else how can I trust you?" -Selene. Selene opened Jayce's car door and threw the gun in on the seat. "Knife?" -Selene. "What knife?" -Jayce. Selene stared at him until he pulled out the knife in his boot. She threw the knife into his car and began pulling off his jacket. "Careful with that I can't afford another one!" -Jayce. "Quiet, you're too loud." -Selene. She tossed the jacket into the car too. Selene turned and stared at Jayce. "What?" -Jayce. "Arms up." -Selene. "What? Why?" -Jayce. "You know why." -Selene. "You think I'm wearing a wire?" -Jayce. Jayce put his arms up because he knew full well he wasn't wearing a wire.

Selene pulled up his shirt to his neck. She saw that his body was riddled with scars. Burns, bullet holes, scratches and strange puncture marks. Jayce noticed her staring at the strange large puncture marks. "That's what happens when a Vampire sticks their hand into your body." -Jayce. Selene pulled down his shirt and pointed down. "Aw come on I'm not hiding anything in my boxers." -Jayce. She crossed her arms and waited. Jayce began unbuckling his pants. "This is one heck of a trust exercise." -Jayce. He pulled his pants down to his knees. Selene looked to the left and put her hand in his boxers. "Ouch, that's not a tracking device." -Jayce. "Yeah it's much too small." -Selene. When Selene pulled her hand out a couple was walking through the parking structure to their car. They were snickering to each other. "Turn around." -Selene. "You know I don't really want to see that bad I'll just take your word for it." -Jayce. Selene turned Jayce around and pulled the spiked knuckles out of his back pockets. "Hey, you don't have to take those they aren't really weapons." -Jayce. Selene threw them into the car and shut the door. "Pull up you trousers you look like an idiot." -Selene.

Jayce pulled up his pants up and moved to the trunk of his car. "What are you doing?" -Selene. "If you won't let me take any weapons the least I can have is my armor." -Jayce. Selene came to the trunk and personally searched every piece of Jayce's armor to make sure they weren't laced with tracking devices. When they were finally done, Jayce locked his car and Selene led him to her car in the opposite parking spot. "Wow you really were keeping an eye on me. How did I not notice that?" -Jayce. Selene got in the driver seat and Jayce got on the passenger side. They didn't say much during the drive except at a red light when Jayce asked Selene a question that was really bothering him. "You were just joking about it being smaller than a tracking device right?" -Jayce. "Shut up or I'll put you in the trunk." -Selene.

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At the Hunter's base the case of the missing Hunters had become a top priority. The silver rank team was put in charge of locating them or whatever was left of them. While Jayce was out of duty Brick was left in charge. Lady and the rookie did not prefer having Brick telling them what to do, but they put up with it because the job demanded it. Once they arrived on scene they were not to surprised to see they were near the docks where the group of Lycans had been less then a week ago. Their instant assessment was that the Hunters stumbled across the real Lycan den. With Brick taking the lead and the other two close behind they combed the docks over and again. There was no luck and no clues. The pier was empty, no yacht and no sign that anything out of the ordinary had happened. When they regrouped under the shade of a shed's awning, they had all decided to head back. There was no evidence here even if a crime had been committed. They watched as a yacht off in the distance sailed away from Krystal City. "I'm hungry." -Rookie.

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Eve walked back into the water purification plant with caution. She knew the Lycans didn't like her. Allison was sitting at the desk in the middle of the plant. Eve went up to one of the bridges and yelled over the water noises. "Did your people make their decision?" -Eve. Allison got up and walked across the bridge. She motioned for Eve to follow her as she walked back towards the doorway. "You know it really is different without my father here. Now I have to run the plant and the boys are all reverting back to their old ways. I want to believe that you can offer us something more, but right now you have only proven that you are willing to kill a king of the shadows in the shadows." -Allison. "What does that mean?" -Eve. "It means we need to see you are serious about striking back against the humans." -Allison. Eve thought about this for a moment. "What did you have in mind?" -Eve. "The boys know a place, it's in the Lowlands. The blue rank Hunters go their often to drink and party. A lot of them all gathered in one place. The boys want to see you tear this place apart. If you do this you will have earned all of our respect and we will follow you." -Allison.

Eve pondered this idea, it seemed fine to her, except she hadn't really planned to make her big debut so soon. "What about you? Will you be coming to watch?" -Eve. "It's tempting, but with my father gone I have to teach the pups how to control their inner wolves." -Allison. "Where is this place exactly?" -Eve. "The boys will take you. Let me go call them out." -Allison. Allison took one step away from Eve and whistled in a very high pitched tone. Three of her companions came out from different doors in the water plant. They were not to happy to see Eve but they were always willing to listen to Allison. "Kalibak, take her to the place you told me about. She agrees to show us her mettle." -Allison. Kalibak chose to put his own anger aside to fulfill Allison's wishes. The other two Lycans simply followed Kalibak's leadership.

Kalibak drove Eve to the Lowlands as he was supposed to. He parked in the parking lot of a dirty restaurant. "Is this the place?" -Eve. "No, this is where we will be watching. The place is across the street you can't miss it." -Kalibak. Kalibak and the others got out of the car and left Eve alone inside. The men went into the restaurant and sat at a both near a large window facing the opposing street. Eve got out of the car and walked to the sidewalk. The place was instantly recognizable, it had many of the Hunter logos and insignias that the younger Hunters used. None of these insignias existed back in the Frontier Days so none of the older, high ranking Hunters ever showed up here. Eve made her way across the street towards the place. A drunk Hunter walked out of the bar barely able to walk. It looked like her had been here all morning. He was so drunk he puked into the street and almost fell on Eve. Eve grabbed him and leaned him against the wall, then she smashed the side of her hand into his throat crushing his wind pipe. He silently died against the wall as Eve entered the bar.

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When Selene and Jayce drove up to the factory it was as dead calm here as it always was save for the wind that bent the palm trees near parallel to the roads. Selene parked the car around back near the truck. "Okay, before we go in. Don't do anything stupid, there's plenty of us and just one of you." -Selene. "Yeah you don't have to remind me how seriously out gunned I am." -Jayce. "Is that a penis reference?" -Selene. "What?! No. Now lets do this thing." -Jayce. Selene and Jayce got out of the car. Selene led Jayce to the door. She took a deep breath before she opened it, she actually hoped everyone would be asleep and she could just creep through the factory unnoticed. When she opened the door the coast was pretty much clear, everyone seemed to be in their rooms and Kelvin was not sitting next to the door. Selene spent half a minute staring in the doorway making sure no one was awake. "Okay lets go in." -Selene. When Selene turned around Jayce was not there. She look around the parking lot but he was gone. "Well, shit." -Selene.

Jayce had sneaked away when Selene first opened the door. This was a standard Krystal City factory, which meant it was three stories high and they always have pipes running along the hidden side of the building that go all the way to the roof. Jayce quickly and silently shimmied up the side of the pipe and made it to the top of the building in no time. Jayce had done this many times before. He quietly walked across the roof and went to the glass windows that line the top of the factory in a prism shape. The windows had been blacked out to prevent sunlight so he quietly lifted the window and dropped in. His landing however, was not quiet. The floor cracked under his weight and the crack echoed through the building. Jayce stood quiet in the center of the room, listening to hear any movement. When he heard nothing he looked to the right and then to the left. It was a severely empty room with only one bed and a few metal pipes stuck in the wall and used as hangers. Jayce's gun belt was hanging on one of these pipes. He went to it and took it down. It felt so good to have his guns on him. But when he turned around Selene was right there. He fell back and shouted. Selene covered his mouth and whispered to him. "Shut up. How did you get in here?" -Selene. Jayce nodded to the glass prism in the ceiling.

Selene took her hand off his mouth. "You should have stayed with me." -Selene. "Behind you!" -Jayce. Jayce pushed Selene to the left and he fell to the right as one of Kelvin's Knives stabbed deep into the wall where Jayce's head had been. Kelvin was standing in the door way of Selene's room. He pulled another knife off his belt but Jayce drew his right side revolver at the same time. "I'll put this knife through your skull before you can squeeze that trigger." -Kelvin. "You think you're the first to try and kill me or the hundredth?" -Jayce. The two stared each other down, but Selene got up and got between the two. "Jayce put your gun down!" -Selene. "Yeah as soon as Rambo drops the machete." -Jayce. "Kelvin put your knife away!" -Selene. "I told you not to bring him here. I told you I would have to do this. Why didn't you listen?!" -Kelvin. "He's not like the others Kelvin, he can help us." -Selene. "How can you be sure?" -Kelvin. "Because your not dead yet. He drew his gun faster than you pulled your knife." -Selene. "Maybe I don't want his help." -Kelvin. "Kelvin my only goal right now, my only purpose is to keep this coven safe. Do you honestly think I would choose to forsake you?" -Selene.

Kelvin threw his knife into the floor, it pierced through the cement and stood standing from it's blade. Selene turned to Jayce, he opened his gun hand allowing the revolver to flip over, then he holstered it. "I trust you Selene, but I don't trust him. If you don't turn out to be as useful as she thinks I'll impale you to the side of a wall and leave you there to bleed out." -Kelvin. "How thoughtful of you." -Jayce. Selene ushered kelvin out of her doorway. He backed up but stayed close enough to watch Jayce. "Are you coming or not?" -Selene. Jayce walked out of the room close behind Selene. The glare that the two men gave each other as Jayce passed by Kelvin was enough to start a national forest fire. Kelvin went into Selene's room to pull out his knives. As Selene and Jayce were walking down the stairs to the second floor Selene saw that everyone had already gathered in the middle of the second floor. The commotion had woken up everyone downstairs. To Jayce they looked like a group of village people waiting to be told that Kelvin had succeeded in slaying the monster.

When the kids caught sight of Jayce in his Hunter armor they screamed and ran in all different directions. After years of being taught to fear the Hunters one had once again come into their midst. The older folks who had caught wind of Selene's plan did not panic quite dramatically, but they did start to murmur nervously. Jayce looked up and saw Kelvin watching him from the top rail of the stairs. Kelvin ran the back of his knife across his own neck and Jayce couldn't help but snicker. "Calm down!" -Selene. Selene yelled to the kids who were still trying to get everyone else to run away. "I know we didn't talk about this much, but yes this is a Hunter." -Selene. The kids started running around and yelling again. "No calm down, let me explain. This is Hunter Jayce, his mother was a Vampire until he killed her." -Selene. The kids started yelling again. "No that's not what I meant!" -Selene. "Really smooth." -Jayce. "I don't need your criticism right now." -Selene.

When Selene finally got everyone in a calm state she asked every one to sit on the floor. The kids sat behind the adults and watched from behind their shoulders. Jayce sat on the stairs and Selene went into not so well spoken leader mode. Although she was a fierce warrior, she was not a good public speaker, especially when the actions she was attempting to justify were just her gut feelings. When her impromptu speech was over the Vampires were still not comfortable with Jayce's presence but they trusted Selene enough to ignore him, except the kids who hid in the basement together. Selene walked back to Jayce. "Well what do you think?" -Selene. "I think I won't be asking you to narrate your autobiography." -Jayce. "I'm serious. We aren't like the other Vampires you've seen are we?" -Selene. "Apart from him. (Jayce pointed up at Kelvin) Yeah I guess these Vampires don't seem as monstrous as I was led to believe." -Jayce. "Come, let me show you where we store the blood packs we use for feeding and don't reach for your guns." -Selene. Selene could see that Jayce's hand was hovering over his gun belt.

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Eve's presence in the Hunter's bar did not go unnoticed and when the killing started things spiraled out of control really fast. When you mix booze, high powered guns and a hybrid trying to kill you things get pretty crazy. The bar became a total war zone as the Hunters unleashed their large machine guns and blew holes in the walls of the bar while trying to hit the evasive Eve who was dashing from Hunter to Hunter ripping them to bloody pieces. When the bullets hit Eve they sent her flying across the bar and crashing to the wall. The large caliber bullets still couldn't break Eve's bones. They did a pretty good job of riddling her with bullet holes though. The dimly lit bar was transformed into a flashing light show every time a Hunter thought they caught sight of her. The best of the Hunters were hold up behind a flipped over booth set, with their guns facing every direction. The less experienced were trying to locate her in the dark. These were the first to go. Eve ripped their limbs off and threw their pieces at the hold up Hunters just to mess with them psychologically.

The Hunters would unleash a barrage of bullets in any direction a limb came flying from. When Eve ran out of body parts to throw she vanished into the darkness. The Hunters did not leave their post though even with no sign of here. They felt pretty safe until Eve forced her arms through the wall and ripped the barrier down with her hands. They tried to turn and shot at her but their guns were so large and heavy none of them turned fast enough to avoid Eve's nasty black claws which she used to rip their throats out. In the distance sirens could be heard but no one arrived in time to save the Hunters from this bloody massacre. As Eve walked back towards the restaurant she could see Kalibak and the other Lycans laughing their asses off at the demise of the Hunters and at Eve's extremely bold style of attack.

All of it was over in under seven minutes and the Lycans were happy to drive Eve back to the water plant. She was covered in blood, both her own and the Hunters. Her white leather outfit looked like a hodgepodge of rips, tears and holes. Kalibak and his friends laugh nearly the entire way back. It was obvious they had accepted Eve and this was good news for her, because now that she had made her first public statement the Hunters would be gunning for her personally and she would need the extra muscle. Eve relaxed in the back of the car. It felt good to get some true vengeance for what had happened to not just her father or her friends, but to all the immortals that fall under the category of her family. Both Lycans and Vampires. She would be the one to unite them under one cause and lead the revolt against not just the Hunters, but all of humanity. Why should the weak lord over the powerful?

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Although the day was mostly filled with Jayce watching his back and making sure Kelvin didn't try to impale him. Jayce had learned much about Selene's Vampires and their different ways. But even knowing that many of her Vampires couldn't fight, Jayce felt uneasy about being here when the sun was setting. Selene agreed to take him back to the library. She felt the day was a success. But when they got in the car and Jayce turned on the radio, what they heard just blew everything they had just experienced out of the water. The newscaster was reporting a public, daytime attack on a popular Hunter bar. The evidence according to the radio looked both Lycan and Vampire. People were being ordered to stay in their homes and to report any suspicious activity. Hunters were reportedly being stationed all around Krystal City with extended hours and even regular police were stepping up patrols. "Friends of yours?" -Jayce. "No all my people are -" -Selene. "What? Do you know who did this?" -Jayce. "I can't be sure." -Selene. "Just take me back to my car." -Jayce. Selene seemed lost in thought listening to the grisly details of the report. "Selene take me back now!" -Jayce. "Don't yell at me!" -Selene.

When she started the car and drove out of the factory parking lot the two didn't speak. What was there to say? The prospect of nonviolent Vampires was only an idea she could communicate to Jayce if there was no violence. She knew his Hunter instincts were taking over him again. He wanted answers, he wanted justice and he wanted blood. Selene knew all to well the feeling when comrades are murdered in an inglorious way. When Selene stopped her car in the library parking lot she finally broke the silence. "You aren't going to tell them are you?" -Selene. "I am 'them'." -Jayce. Jayce got out of her car and walked to the driver side of his car. He opened the door and unbuckled his gun belt and threw it in. he walked back to Selene's car window. "When I decided to take this job. I didn't do it so I could kill bad guys or be a hero. I did it because I wanted to help people who couldn't help themselves. I trusted you, now you should trust me when I say I won't tell anyone about what I saw today." -Jayce. Selene didn't say anything, she just drove away.

End Episode 4