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  “Nice night,” I said to him as I studied his face. I could see symbols glowing under his skin, just as Sai must have been able to see with me, when he found me in the alley.

  “Yeah, it is,” he said as he smiled at my choice in clothing, a black leather corset, black pants…tall military boots laced up.

  “Want to suck on this?” I asked him as I flipped the cigarette in between my fingers and held it out to him and he grinned and stepped towards me.

  “I don’t smoke,” he said and I grinned as I flipped the cigarette into the air, grabbed him and threw him out of the way as a black winged beast descended upon me, I smashed a white glowing glass ball against the asphalt and everything slowed except for the boy who rose up and stared at me as if he had lost his mind. I pulled out my double guns, with ‘Saigon’ etched into the sides of them, shooting straight for the heart. And trust me, I never miss…

  Part Two

  Salem

  I sat with the white glowing ball in my hand and let it roll between my fingers effortlessly. It is a funny thing to become a Hunter, I had no idea this was my destiny. I am Ava by the way, I was found, as is every hunter in the history of us. Us being a bunch of kids, dead parents, no friends…you know, loners. It’s not that we have no personality, we have tons to go around, we just chose to not share it until we awaken and then…holy shit, watch out. We talk a lot it seems.

  “Fucking hell…serious Linn?”

  I looked up as Lin, another hunter here, as she walked across the large kitchen and opened the stainless steel fridge. She pulled out the orange juice and drank it from the carton as the boy trailing her stopped and leaned in the doorway. He crossed his arms on his chest and his black hair covered his left eye. He threw a glowing ball at her and she caught it with one hand extended out to her right as she continued to chug the orange juice down. She stopped as I continued to watch the show, completely calm and entertained as always when Lin was in the mood to mess with her so called boyfriend “London”. I smiled as my recruit tried to continue to eat his cereal and ignore the noise.

  “Listen to me, if I want to go out, I go out.” Lin said as she lowered the carton and threw the glowing orb back at London who caught it and pocketed the thing before anyone would notice, well we do…hunter’s see everything, but a human eye, no.

  “It’s not a “jealousy” thing, it is a safety thing Lin.” He said and Lin rolled her eyes and walked to the table and stared at the new boy.

  “What say you new guy? Do I look like someone who should be worried about getting jumped?” she asked him and my boy shook his head no as she watched him closely, then she leaned over to me.

  “You better find his balls before you go out.”

  I laughed and he choked on his milk as he watched her leave the room and London followed her.

  I looked at him and tapped his back as he caught his breath.

  “So Salem, you ready to start?”

  He looked at me and swallowed again.

  “My name is Brian.”

  I grinned and stood up, flipping his spoon from the table, high into the air and shooting through it three times before it hit the ground. It dropped and he had scrambled up and away from me with his hands high in the air. Lin and London returned and stared us down.

  “Salem needed some training.”

  “I…my name IS actually Brian.”

  “Ah.” I said as I slowly placed my gun away into its holster and Lin laughed as she shook his outstretched hand.

  “Don’t tell me…Salem, Oregon?” She asked him as he shook her hand and glanced back at me.

  “Yes, that is my home.”

  “Not anymore Salem, you live here now.” London said and I laughed again.

  “Don’t baby him.”

  “I am not.” She added and London slapped him on the shoulder.

  “Here is the deal, you are where you wake up, do you think London was the name I was given at birth? Or “Lin”, short for Linberg or” … and then he paused. The only hunter in history ever not renamed was me and I had no idea why Sai left me hanging. I mean I guess I could take on “New York” but how odd. I just prefer to remain Ava, a name I was given and was used too. I mean I am special anyway. I am the first female hunting tracker in the history of our people and seeing that is true, I will just be me, as it probably should be.

  “So what, you were at an Art thing or something?” Salem asked me and I nodded to him.

  “Yep, something like that, all Avant-garde.” I said and I left it at that.

  As I walked out Salem followed me as he should like a puppy of sorts and I did not know until this very moment what a feeling Sai must have had as he tried his best to help me understand who I was. I guess Salem will have it easier, he will never have the weight of being a tracker on him or the dreams that come with it. I have one dream now of one person, the tracker who will take my place and that is it. My dreams will never be anything more ever again. You see a tracker is the only hunter on a timer I guess, causes us to be a bit quicker, a bit more passionate and a damn site better shot than some. I looked back at Salem as he followed me and watched my ass in my tight vinyl pants. I stopped and swung around, my gun barrel staring him in the face, long and true with ‘Saigon’ etched deep into the side of it. That is another thing I am not changing. I guess every tracker has changed the etching to their name on these guns, but Saigon will remain with me and no one has said a word to me about that either. Why should I be surprised? I mean I have been this way my whole life, even before I knew what and who I was, before he found me working in that shitty diner. I was pulled from flashes of memory as Salem raised his hands and then slowly and ever so cautiously moved my barrel from his nose and I clicked the safety and pulled it back to my forehead.

  “I am sorry, you have a nice ass and I guess I should ignore it.” He said and I sighed and rolled my eyes.

  “Great, thanks for pointing that out.” I said as I turned and started to walk again away from him. He jogged up next to me and I glanced at him and continued on.

  “So, do I get one of those?” he asked and I stopped and looked at him.

  “Well, yes. All hunter’s get two.”

  “Oh sweet.” He muttered as I continued on to the room he would soon come to know all too well.

  I slammed the doors open and many hunters were already here, all chatting away, some wrestling a bit like high school kids and some just stood looking cool, like it was their job or something. I stepped in and the chattering slowed and went to a low hum. I turned to Salem and smiled.

  “You get your guns today.” I said as he lit up, I had had him here with us for a good 2 weeks already and he had asked me many questions, all of which I did my best to answer as vaguely as possible. Call it irritation or a mean streak. Honestly it may be me trying my best to allow him to learn and function on his own. I seriously am not very motherly, except to my kitty, which I had retrieved and brought here to live with me. My cat is a dick anyway; no one even messes with it. Hell I would not either; the damn thing likes to play the’ look at my tummy’ cat game and then boom, cat claws and biting. Asshole, but it cracks me up.

  “So, where are they?” he asked me and some hunters laughed who were closest to us. He looked around and then I shook my head at him.

  “You get to go get them Salem.” I said and he narrowed his eyes as everyone looked upward as a large cage was lowered with what seemed to be a demon inside of it, not any regular demon though, an upper level piece of shit with the ability to transform from its nasty form right this moment to anything it would like to be, a trickster, something I knew all too well and what had taken Sai from me, I mean from everyone. Why you may ask that we choose this one for a hunter to be broken in? Well, because if you cannot do this, then go home. You will not survive and we would never allow the beast to kill one of us here anyway. BUT, we would allow a hunter to go back to humanity if it was absolutely impossible for them to step up and do what they should be able too. We will se
e with Salem, I mean I found him, but I would not bet money.

  “Twenty bullets, he gets his ass handed to him.” London said as he leaned into my ear and laughed. I shook my head and looked at Salem, who was looking like vomit may be making its way up his throat as the demon lowered in front of everyone and screeched in the cage.

  “I don’t bet.”

  “You are just worried that your recruit will fail.” London said and I looked at him.

  “Fifty bullets you prick.”

  He smiled and nodded to me to look at Salem who was getting paler by the minute.

  “Fuck.” I said as I walked to him and grabbed his shirt and pulled him along with me, he tripped up a bit and I kept us going. I stopped and let his shirt go and he shook his head and kept glancing at the demon.

  “Listen to me, the guns are up there.” I said as I glanced upward and he did too, noticing a box on the ledge of rock, shining from the sun filtering in from the glass far overhead.

  “You have to get up there and get them, they are loaded...once you have them shoot that cunt in the heart and you win your place here, got me?” I said.

  “I thought I was just a hunter already?” he asked me as the demon banged inside of the cage and yelled out again, spitting venom which sizzled on the floor.

  “You were born with ability, it is up to you to accept it and become it.”

  “Suck ass, Ava.”

  “I prefer to not do that, I am sure it would taste awful.”

  He laughed at me and forgot the task at hand for a second and then the demon did what demons do and dropped down, folding its black wings around itself and it shuddered slightly as it transformed from demon to female, a beautiful one at that. Bones cracked and reformed, one black wing wrapped her naked body as she stood up and created a black lace dress, form fitting on her and she was shoeless of course. The other wing flipped up and become her hair, transforming into long black strands, she was stunning and of course Salem was mesmerized as she placed her hand to the cage and smiled, she was released as the glowing symbols fade on the thick bars and the game was on. Fifty bullets in the line, this boy better deliver. It takes quite a bit of time to make bullets here and we all make our own, specially infused with spells and incantations making us lethal to whatever demon we encounter.

  The demon stepped out, looking a bit frightened and then spotted Salem and grinned, quickly putting that sinister expression away. I stood there and gritted my teeth fingering at one of my guns as all of the other hunters in the room stepped back as far as they could to allow for the fight to begin. London called out to me and glanced at him as I should have removed myself too but instead I was firmly planted next to Salem as if this was the world and we were battling together. I looked at him, relaxing my hand slightly and taking a breath.

  “This is up to you now.” I said as I stepped back and Salem watched me with a slight bit of panic in his eyes.

  “Umm, Ava, it would have been awesome if you had shown me anything at all, I mean what the fuck do I do here?” he asked me and I wanted so badly to tell him anything that would help but that was so against the rules and if one thing is certain, an initiation is not true and binding if a hunter does not survive it alone. I cannot interfere here, I just can’t or he fails automatically and I don’t want that. Bullets bet or not, I just don’t.

  Salem held his hands up in front of him and nervously smiled at the beautiful woman walking towards him.

  “Well, nice day huh?” he asked her and she tilted her head and watched him, licking her bottom lip slowly and I knew what it meant, she was hungry and if this went badly I could be watching Salem just as I had watched Sai, with a gaping wound and no way back to mortality.

  “You are pure it seems.” She said almost with a hiss to her voice and Salem smiled at her.

  “Oh no, I mean I have felt a boob or two.”

  She cracked a grin and a tongue flicked out as if snake like. He eyed it and then quickly looked back to her eyes.

  “Boob.” She said as she laughed at him. “Are you 12?”

  He shook his head and backed up a bit, while eyeing above him and to the side.

  “I wish! I mean twelve was awesome right? No bullshit and stuff, you remember 12?” he asked her and she stopped and looked him over.

  “I remember 369, not 12.” She said and Salem smiled and looked her over.

  “Damn, well I have to say you look awesome and shit.” He said and she fluffed her hair like demons tend to do when complimented. Vanity is a weakness they surely have and how Salem knew that is beyond me. He watched her as she looked at her nails and grinned.

  “I enjoy your words, continue.” She said, still slightly hissing under her breath.

  “Well, your titties… just superb. Honestly, I mean top notch right there.” He added and she giggled. I crossed my arms on my chest and watched as he started to play a mental game with her that I did not expect from him at all. She stopped laughing and looked up at him.

  “And?” she asked him and he smiled and looked at her hair and then her legs.

  “Great hair, and your legs, smoking hot.”

  “Do tell.” She said as she waved at him and grinned and he nodded.

  “Yep, I mean I have had my share of pussy, but damn.” He said and she stopped and looked him over.

  “Liar.” She hissed at him and he looked back at me.

  “No…no.” he said as he backed up some more away from her.

  “I can smell it.” She said and he stopped and looked upward.

  “Smell what?”

  “Your dick.”

  He looked at her and blushed slightly.

  “What?”

  “Your dick it is clean, you have had no one.”

  He started to laugh and looked around the room as London raised an eyebrow and Lin covered her mouth.

  “Come on now, you are lying.” He said and she shook her head ‘no’.

  “Oh this I am speaking truth, you are a virgin and I find that quite intriguing, in fact…as I eat you I will fuck you and make it worth your while.”

  Salem rubbed his neck and stared her down.

  “Wow that just sounds like a lot of fun, how about we just not do that.” he said and then she lost patience with him and lunged forward as he jumped over her, so high I was even impressed and flipped once into the air, doing a twist at the end and landing without any problems. My mouth opened a bit and he winked at me. The demon slid to a stop and looked back, hissing louder and a bit of spit landed onto the floor, smoldering a bit and smelling of putrid stench like burnt hair.

  “I think it is time you understood who I am.” She said and with that her dress started to move and fold out from herself again and turn into a large wing, her other wing removed itself from her head and became a wing also and she stood there, naked, without nipples to adorn perfect breasts and her pussy? Well, there was nothing there but skin, as if she was of no sex whatsoever. He looked her over and shook his head.

  “Well that is alarming.” He said and she flapped her wings.

  “What is you meat sack?” she asked him.

  “I mean…” he waved at his crotch and she looked down and grinned, then looked back up at him as a large cock formed and hung between her legs.

  “Oh fuck.” He said as she watched him closely.

  “Listen, I am all cool with that sort of thing but I am just not about the dick and stuff.”

  “Too bad.” The demon said as its voice lowered and it lunged again, only this time when he tried to jump it caught his foot and slammed him back down as he cried out and rolled to the right. The demon slammed its foot into the floor, clawing the wood as its toenails became longer and sharper. Salem rolled again as the demon slammed a fist down and he scrambled between its legs, avoiding the very large dick dangling down towards him.

  “No…” he said as he raced out and tried to run but just as he did the Demon started to pursue him, snatching him up with its feet and rising from the ground. The
y climbed higher and higher as I watched them and it was then I pulled my guns. London ran to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. I looked at him and watched the expression on my face.

  “This is his fight, without this he is nothing.”

  “He is something to me.” I said as I broke free and ran to the side of the wall, placing my guns into my holsters as I jumped high and grabbed onto the rock protruding from the side. I dangled for a moment by one hand as I pulled a gun and trained it on the beast as it rose higher with Salem in tow. Then as I started to squeeze the trigger the demon dropped him as Salem bit into her nasty foot and spit out as it burned his lips with the venom of its blood. He looked down as he fell and reached out, hitting the rock along the side and the demon dove after him. I aimed and would have fired if I had not been pulled back down by London and Lin, all three of us hitting the floor and rolling as I looked up and the demon screamed, so high pitched it made me cover my ears as well as everyone around us and then the glass busted in overhead and 5 more demons descended upon us as Salem fell, looking as if he and the demon were battling it out, rolling in the air. I watched as they hit the wooden floor so hard that it caved in and then more screaming, including Salem and then a shot rang out and the demons overhead stopped and screamed too as Salem climbed from the hole in the floor and trained his gun he must have grabbed when he hit the wall up high and he shot, one after the other, tagging two more demons up high before they and the other three retreated quickly, I blinked a few times as this vision was clear to me, I looked back and saw London and Lin as I had in my vision and then back to Salem who I realized I had seen too before all of this, before Sai left us, before I became what I am today.

  The end of his barrel was smoking as he lowered it in his steady hand and he looked back to me. I stood up and ran to him as I saw the one scar on his lip from demon blood burning into it. I touched it and my fingertips glowed slightly at his skin, the other symbols beneath his skin started to glow a bit and it was then that the hunter awoke in Salem, making him as he should be now and forever more…