The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
The coven

After she walked from the bunker Charlie roamed the city for a while, what the hell was going on, how had she not noticed that she was beginning to have feelings for a human, it had been over 400 years since she had feelings for anyone but it could not happen again, love was a weakness that she did not need, she could not face the king and have to worry about anyone else.

Charlie was so angry that she hadn’t noticed her feelings for Jack and she was also angry at what Amy had said to her, she couldn’t carry this anger aroundwith her, Charlie knew she had to expel it and the best way to do that was to fight, the coven she thought if she could replace that killing them would certainly help, Charlie walked around in the shadows trying to replace the coven, it did not take her long but she needed a plan to get in before they realised that she was there, Charlie cut her hand and put in on her neck so that blood was running through her fingers and walked straight through the front door, were they really that stupid she thought

“please help me, someone bit me” Charlie said

“come in and let us help you, my name is Michael” one said

“thank you” Charlie said being led to the centre of the room

“wait” shouted a woman

“what is it Kayleigh?” Michael asked

“she is not one of us” Kayleigh replied

“no, she is human, one of your men attacked her and she will soon be one of us and need our help” Michael replied

“no, you idiot” Kayleigh said

“what?” asked Michael

“she is not human” Kayleigh replied

“oh” said Michaeil

“damn you found out” laughed Charlie moving her hand away from her neck and standing up straight and facing the woman that had spoken

“why do you laugh? Do you know who we are?” Kayleigh asked

“I would not be here if I did not know who you are and as you said I am not human” Charlie replied

“then why are you here?” Kayleigh asked

“to relieve my anger” Charlie. Replied

“how?” Kayleigh asked

“by fighting” she replied

“how will that help?” Kayleigh asked

“by killing all of you here, I can release my anger through every swing of my sword” Charlie replied

“there are fifty of us here, how do you expect to kill all fifty?” Kayleigh asked

“I only count fortynine but it does not matter, I will kill you with ease if that is all there is of you but you, I will leave till last, I have some questions that you will answer” Charlie said pointing at Kayleigh

“if by some miracle you do manage to kill us, the Kings fiercest warrior is here and she will kill you” Kayleigh said

“and who is that?” Charlie asked

“her name is Amy” Kayleigh replied

“Amy is his fiercest warrior, she is not the best, she has too much of a wild tongue” Charlie replied

“she is and how would you know that, she is one of the best” Kayleigh replied

“because I met her earlier” Charlie replied

“and you lived?” Kayleigh asked

“I did, I sent her back to your king” well her head anyway” she added with a smile

“what” shouted Kayleigh

“did you not hear me, I sent her had back to the king” Charlie said really slowly so that she could understand what she had just said

“kill this piece of trash” Kayleigh shouted

“that’s nice isn’t it, I have only. Just met you and you are calling me names and threatening to kill me, I feel so hurt” Charlie laughed drawing her sword

“it was not a threat, you will die” Kayleigh snapped

Charlie had already decided that she would not use magic against these monsters, it would be a hard fight but it would also be fun and give her some practise for what was to come, for nearly an hour Charlie fought all the vampires, so much came back to her of how she used to fight, although a couple did get close they did not get close enough to hurt her, it had been a long time since she had faced this many at once but at last she turned and it was just her and Kayleigh left

“it looks like it is just me and you left” Charlie said

“who are you? “ Kayleigh asked looking really confused that Charlie had managed to destroy the coven

“your worst nightmare” Charlie replied

“I don’t have nightmares, why did you come for us?” Kayleigh asked

“as I told you, I needed to relieve my anger and calm down, I also want to know more about your so called King” Charliereplied pacing around the room and her

“I will not be so kind as to tell you about him but I will send you to meet yourmaker” Kayleighsaid

“you will tell me” Charlie said

They began to fight and Charlie was holding back after all she wanted answers, she would have to keep this one alive to get them, a dead vampire cannot give answers.

“what are you? Humans cannot fight like you do” Kayleigh said

“something you have never seen before” Charlie replied

“you are one of us, why do you kill us?” Kayleigh asked

“I am not like you, you foul beasts do not belong on this earth” Charlie said

“if we do not belong here then neither do you” Kayleigh replied

“I do not and once your king and all your kin are dead, I will end my life so only humans exist as it should be” Charlie replied

“but why? When you could rule over them” Kayleigh asked

“I do not wish to, it is not the way of the world, anyway you have had your questions now, it is time you answered mine” Charlie replied

“I told you already I will not answer your questions” Kayleigh replied and began to attack Charlie but she was not good enough and Charlie had her in handcuffs and chained to the wall before Kayleigh could get anywhere close to her and because it was her handcuffs Kayleigh had no chance of getting free

“who is your king?” Charlie asked

“I will not answer” Kayleigh replied

“look I don’t want to have to make you suffer, torture is not something that I do but I do not have time to mess around so, you will answer me and then you will die, who is he?” Charlie asked again

“I will not tell you” Kayleigh replied

“fine if that is what you want, then so be it” Charlie said taking one of Kayleigh’s fingers and bending it ack until it snapped, Kayleigh screamed in pain

“he is a man” Kayleigh said

“well that is obvious or he would not be called king” Charlie said

“I don’t know” Kayleigh said

“really” said Charlie and took another finger

“I don’t know” Kayleigh said again

“you do and you will tell me” Charlie said and snapped the finger that she was holding, Charlie continued to snap all of Kayleigh’s fingers trying to get the answer she wanted, it seemed that she really didn’t know who the king was

“how can you follow someone when you do not even know who they are?” Charlie asked

“because he is the best and oldest of us” Kayleigh replied

“how old is he?” Charlie asked

“over four hundred years old” Kayleigh replied

“that is old for a vampire, I still do not understand why you would follow him even if he is the best of you” Charlie said

“it happened before I was turned, as a vampire I am only fifty-six years old” Kayleigh replied

“what happened?” Charlie asked getting really annoyed, all she wanted to know was who he was and all the vampires ever did was beat around the bush and not tell her

“I only know the story” Kayleigh replied

“you do not seem to know a lot really, do you” said Charlie

“I know the story” Kayleigh snapped

“then why don’t you tell me” Charlie said

“I can only tell you what we are taught” Kayleigh replied

’so, you do not even know if the story is true” Charlie laughed

“it is” Kayleigh snapped

“tell me them” Charlie said

“the story that we are told after we are turned, is that before he was the king he was known as the Dean and he had one hunter that would not leave him alone, it is said that he hatched a plan to catch and destroy that one hunter, the Dean knew that this hunter was human and that she had a love interest and that would be her weakness, the Dean captured the man that had her heart, well he didn’t capture him, he went to the Dean, the Dean knew that she would then go to him to try and free the man she loved, when she turned up she was shown that the one she loved was now a vampire the one thing that she hated and spent her whole life trying to destroy and she was forced to fight him, she had no choice but to end his life, whilst she was mourning his loss the Dean drained her of all her blood so, ending her miserable life” Kayleigh said

“I know that bit, that is all anyone will tell me, I want to know what happened after that, I want to know who he is” Charlie said

“it took the king ten years after that night to rid the world of all the hunters that remained, after their fiercest had been killed they all went into hiding and would not fight anymore” Kayleigh said

“rubbish, a hunter would not hide from a fight” Charlie snapped

“well they did” Kayleigh replied

“fine, if they went into hiding how did he replace them?” Charlie asked

“he had to search high and low for them, he even had to torture a few of them, that was something that a hunter was good at he gave them a tasted of their own medicine, the Dean torture a fair few hunters before he finally found the last one” Kayleigh said

“what about the children, they were always kept in secret” Charlie asked

“he dealt with the, as well, the king knew that the children were kept in secret, he knew that they were trained from a very young age and even with no one to train them, they would still be better than any human and he knew that he needed to stop any of them coming of age and being able to fight” Kayleigh replied

“how?” Charlie asked

“how what” said Kayleigh

“how did he manage to replace them, only the person in charge of all the hunters would have known their locations” Charlie said

“yes, the king found him, he was a man called Paul Andrews. It is said the king tortured him weeks until he finally gave up the locations of all the children” Kayleigh replied

Charlie stood there staring at what this woman had just said, had her father really been tortured for weeks to give up their locations, she had not thought about her father at all because the last words he ever said to her was that if she had been turned, he would kill her, she had always imagined that anybody that had been in her life then would have died of old age not being tortured, how many more of her friends had been tortured and killed by this animal all because she had run away from the world, this animal was going to die a painful death when she made it to him.

“did he kill them?” Charlie asked

“if you mean the children then yes, he did, he even killed their mothers’ Kayleigh replied

“monster” Charlie said

“no, he is our hero, he rid our world of them” Kayleigh said

“our world, do you not see that it is not our world but theirs, it is not our place to control them” Charlie said

“why would we be made better? If it was not the intention that we should rule them” Kayleigh asked

“you think that we are better than them?” Charlie asked

“we are” Kayleigh replied

“we are not and never will be, better is them being able to walk in the sunlight and feel it on their skin, better is them being able to create new life when we cannot, without them you would not be here” Charlie said

“we do not need them” Kayleigh said

“I do not but you and your kin do” Charlie replied

“why do we need them?” Kayleigh asked

“without them, you would not have the one thing that you need to keep you walking this planet” she said and Kayleigh was staring at her “blood” Charlie added

“we are superior” Kayleigh said

“we are not” Charlie said and turned away

“I will tell the king of you” Kayleigh said and Charlie laughed “why do you laugh?” Kayleigh asked

“you think that I am letting you go” Charlie replied

“I do not have the answers that you want” Kayleigh said

“you do not but that does not mean that you get to walk out of here, I told you earlier that we do not have the right to live in this world and I will make sure that none do” Charlie said

“so, be it” Kayleigh said and closed her eyes

Charlie turned from the spot where she was standing, with her sword in her hand, swinging as she turned taking Kayleigh’s head and slowly walked from the room looking at all the bodies that she had left in her path, at least there was now a few less of them in the world, she was no longer angry and felt a sense of peace.

Charlie walked from the coven and back to the safe house where Jack was, what she did not realise was that she had left one alive, she had only counted 49, the 50th had been out on a hunt and had come back and hidden in the shadows as the fighting had begun and watched in horror as all his kin were slaughtered, he knew that he could do no good against whoever this person was, so waited and watched and was going to take news back to the king, just as the sun began to rise Charlie walked back into the bunker

“where have you been?” Jack snapped

“I was calming down” she snapped back

“and how did you do that? Did you walk all night?” Jack asked

“no” Charlie replied

“what did you do then?” Jack asked

“I took out the coven” Charlie replied

“what” exclaimed Jack

“I killed everyone in the coven” she said

“you said that there were fifty vampires in there” Jack said

“and” she snapped

“on your own” Jack said

“I had a lot of anger that I needed to get rid of so, yes on my own, I am a monster after all” Charlie said

“you should have let me help you” Jack said “and just because you are different that does not make you a monster” he added starting to pick up what few bits he had with him

“you have no idea what I am and you never will” Charlie snapped and took her sword of her back “if you say so” Jack said

“I do” she snapped and put the sword down next to the bed

“I could have helped” said Jack

“how? You are human” Charlie said

“I can fight” Jack snapped

“barely, I do not and did not need your help” Charlie snapped

“it is nice to know where I stand, is there any point in me being here?” Jack asked

“not really” she snapped

“where are we going next?” Jack asked

“I saw another village last night, if I remember right it is called Baren, we will head there after I have had some rest” Charlie replied laying on the bed

“why rest?” asked Jack

“because I say so” she snapped back

“let’s go” he said

“I told you I need to rest, I am tired” Charlie snapped and turned over

“I wonder why” he snapped

“I need an hour to regain my strength” she said “if you had not taken on the coven on your own then you would not need to rest” Jack snapped and threw his bag down and sat on the bed, he could also do with some rest as he had spent the night pacing up and down the bunker waiting for her to return, he was angry that she hadn’t even mentioned what had happened the night before, she had not even said sorry for storming out .

After about an hour rest Charlie jumped up with a start for the first time in 400 years she had, had a nightmare, Amy’s words the previous night had brought back so much emotions and so many memories that Charlie was replaceing it hard to clear her head so, that she could rest properly, Charlie got up and woke Jack up, she picked up her bag and walked from the bunker with Jack close behind, they continued their journey having to be more careful now, as the king would start to send hunters soon to kill her, they walked in silence