Hiding Places

Introduction to the adventure of Chassy

The world is full of hiding places, like childhood memories could recall places like in your closet, under your bed, behind the shower curtain, and under the safety of your blankets. These places were used to hide from those who played hide and seek with you, or for your mind to roam to the idea of monsters when you laid down for bed at night, however there are places outside, in the world, where real monsters lurk. Sure, there are your rapists, murderers, pedophiles, etc., but these monsters I speak of are real. Behind the curtains I pull aside roam these night creatures that I call Lurkers, or what is more commonly known as Vampires. And I am a Huntress, or, if you guessed it, a Hunter.

Hunters are those of us who choose to see past the night light and into the myths that were usually saved for Halloween night when candles were lit and trees rustled like restless ghosts. Hunters have been around for ages, since before Christopher Columbus found america, before the Aztecs seemed to disappear from the face of the earth. We've managed to keep ourselves secret and the evil we fight only a myth or a fictional monster. 

We all have a specific reason for being a Hunter. There were only six of us in the youth group, but we'd been enough. There was Tyler, who was the oldest of us all and the group leader. When he was two, his mom was massively murdered by a group of Lurkers before his father's as well as his own eyes. His father found the Hunters and Tyler followed in his footsteps once he turned thirteen. Tyler was going to turn eighteen soon, which meant he would move up with the adults after that. 

Next was Abby. She was quiet and very soft spoken so she rarely spoke up at all, however, that girl could kick some a*s. She was left orphanized by the alpha of the Lurkers when she was fourteen. She would be moving along with Tyler shortly after he left. 

The next oldest was Marcus. He was fourteen and living the good life, the captain on the freshman football team at his school as well as in love with the prettiest girl in school who had been his girlfriend of three years. It had been an hour after a winning home game and his girlfriend was going to surprise him with a picnic on the field. She texted him and told him to turn on the football field lights. When he did, it scared off the Lurker that was ravagly feasting on her, and Marcus rushed down. She died in his arms twenty minutes later. He was sixteen at the time of this adventure. 

Then there were two beginners, Shady and Charles, the twins... or two of triplets. A couple of months before, they had a close encounter with a cult of vampires when they went out raiding warehouses. Shady and Charles escaped with scratches and bruises, but they'd lost their triplet on the way out. The next day they went back when the sun was out and found nothing but the ring that their triplet wore everyday of her life. Shady was devastated by the loss of her sister, but Charles had more of a difficult time. Shady was so identical to their lost triplet, Shadow, in every way that Charles always found himself avoiding Shady. They were both fourteen.

Then there was me. I wasn't the youngest, I was sixteen like Marcus, who was actually my partner in most missions. When I was six my house burnt down while I was at a birthday party, everyone in my family died except for my sister and myself. We were split up when we were put into adoption homes. When I was eight, I found out that my sister's home had burnt to the ground and she died. Later on that year, my house burnt down, but I was out at the park. When I was ten, my school set on fire, but I encountered a Lurker as I ran from the smoke. My memory's blurred since, but the viscous smile still haunts me. At first I couldn't believe it... vampires weren't real to me, but I came to a quick agreement that I had to believe in myself. I felt there was a deep connection. The Lurkers wanted my family dead and were going through ridiculous extents to attempt to kill me. The reason they wanted me dead was unknown, but what I'd gone through was enough to make me seek my answers and destroy the Lurkers. I ran away from the home I'd been staying at, I stopped going to school. I lived no where. I hunted Lurkers on my own for four years. 

I discovered the Hunters by accident when I was fourteen. I'd been fighting with a Lurker in an alley behind a hidden bar in New York. I was knocked unconscious and, as the story was told, I was going to be 'feasted' on when a guy named Luke came to my rescue. He scared off the Lurker and carried me to the Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is really just an old abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn. Its the home of us Hunters and there was where I recovered and was recruited in the Hunters. I easily got along with the youth group, however I didn't like the adult group, so I avoided them completely. The only adult Hunter that I got along with was my savior, Luke. He had only been promoted to the adult group when he brought me to the Sanctuary.  

I recieved plenty of care until I was able to get on my feet, and I found out that I'd been poisoned by the vampire and if not for Luke, I'd had been dead. After that Luke and I began to spend a lot of time together. He was the only adult Hunter I'd ever grown to like. 

Moving on to the beginning of the story of this adventure...

Author's Note

Please do not judge my use of any 'foul' language.