THE FANG

Karen's POV Two races both at the brink of extinction were at war and we are losing. We were outnumbered, Overpowered, and easier to kill. It wasn't fair, they were faster than us and stronger than us, we were just no match for them. Well most of us weren't a match for them excluding me. I'm a purger, not just a purger, but one of the best, at least that's what people say about me. Karen, One of the best purgers in Evedale that's what people say when they see me. Purgers are warriors who are trained to fight against vampires thus avoiding the extinction of humankind. We however don't seek to find and kill vampires they came and hunted us down. We are like the protectors of Evedale, the main guard of Evedale. Any time Vampires attacked the village we protected the people and we fended the vampires off or kill them. I started training to become a purger around the age of 9 which was 5 years earlier than when people started training. I know what u are about to say WHY? Because I lost my parents. There was an ambush that happened late at night when I was young. This ambush took a lot of lives and my parents' life happened to be one of them. This happened about 10 years ago. Some said this event happened because our numbers were less, that within a few years we would reproduce and be more populated than the vampires but know no, they could increase their numbers easily and faster, thus making us lesser than them. At the age of 8, I was left completely alone with no one to protect me. Then I realized that I need to get stronger. I had to be strong enough to protect myself. I trained for years till I knew I was strong enough. It wasn't till I was thirteen I knew that waiting to be attacked by vampires wasn't my thing. I couldn't just let another ambush like that of when I was young happen once again. I wanted to be the hunter, not the hunted. The hatred in me consumed me I want to seek revenge for what they did to me. So, the next day I left the village and set out with no plan, nothing in mind all I knew was that I wanted to hunt down and kill vampires. I managed to find a vampire more like it found me, it nearly bite put I managed to kill it by stabbing its heart, it sounds easy but it's hard because they are fast. There are only three ways to kill a vampire:a stab to the brain, heart, and decapitation. After killing the vampire a part of me was telling me to turn back and go to Evedale and tell my tale of bravery and adventure to get praises from the people. But my other said kept pushing me to keep going. Afterall all I had to do was to keep walking and wait for the vampires to find me like the first one did and kill them. I was convinced that the vampires were scared of me. That's what I thought until I started to hear screams. And I stood still upon hearing the scream, then I ran towards the area I heard the scream. It was only when I saw the source of the scream I stopped, unknown to me that what saw will haunt me for the rest of my life. There was a river, wide in length, and across the river was a small village. In the river were many dead people, the water which was once blue is now red from the blood of the people inside. And low and behold it was dozens of vampires that were throwing bodies in the river. My senses finally kicked in and I quickly ran and hid behind a tree before they spotted me. But it was too late I had already been spotted, my senses disappeared I started running which was a very dumb thing to do because I can't outrun vampires. As I ran to the tree and turned back my eyes met with those of the vampire this brought my heart to a stop and all I could be its cold stare and the blood dripping from its mouth, it was trying to pin me to its tree. When I saw its blue eye color I released it wasn't just any vampire it was a beta, they are higher in level and strong than basic vampires. The vampire took one look at me and laughed. It underestimated me because I was a young girl, I was furious because I hated when I was downsized and not taken likely by people not to talk of vampires. "You should join your friends in the water he said as it was drawing closer to me as it brought its fangs to my neck, I waited patiently to feel its fang on my neck knowing that they are most vulnerable when feeding. As its fangs sank into my skin, I didn't hesitate I grabbed a dagger from my pouch and stroke the dagger into its skull, it screamed before it died. I retrieved my dagger and started running without looking back, already the scream had will attract more vampires. A hand suddenly grabbed my shoulders and pulled me. My back hit yet another tree and I turned to look like it was a vampire before I could even blink, The vampire was stronger and faster and the color of its eyes was blood red. I knew it was a Quinx, it worked just below a Quincy which happened to be the most powerful and must fear vampire. The Quincy is the ruler of all vampires and if anyone adds any or Little chance of defeating a Quincy it was Quinx, And with that knowledge in me, I knew I was already dead. The Quinx grinned at me before putting its fangs In my neck and sucking hard. I didn't even get a chance to fight back because my body felt paralyzed. Just as my life began to fade it instantly stopped, it looked like someone had tackled the Quinx. I fell to the ground, my eyes were blurry but I tried to focus my vision and see the being who was fighting it, to my surprise it was another vampire. With the speed and strength, I knew it was a vampire. What was rushing through my mind at that moment was that a vampire-fighting another vampire could only mean one thing it was THE SLAYER. The Slayer is a vampire who fights who it wants to and whatever it wanted to fight be it a vampire or a human. And now it decided to fight Quinx. I thanked my star that it came at this exact moment and time The Slayer wore a black suit with a white mask covering his nose and mouth area, this made sure his face is always covered. People feared him more because he was a mysterious being, no one as seen his face nor know who he is or where he came from. On seeing the way he fought, he fought like a knight. Instead of using his bear strength, he used a sword, even watching the fight made more frightened by him. I saw another vampire sneaking up on the Slayer. I gathered strength because I was already slowly recovering, and grabbed my dagger and threw it at the vampire. It managed to hit its heart and the vampire dropped to the floor, he had already killed the Quinx by stabbing it in the heart. I couldn't see his face but he could see mine, my heart was racing and the thought running through my head was that I saved a vampire who saved me. He looked at me and said with a deep voice"You just saved yourself, He said "he was planning to kill me after killing the Quinx, but he couldn't kill me again because I killed the vampire and he owed me a favor. I thought he wanted to save me that wasn't even his intention. he turned around and picked my dagger from the floor and threw it towards me. It hit the tree very close to my face. He said he doesn't like being in debt so he would give him some information in exchange for the favor. He pointed at the village that the vampires raided and said the vampires are coming for all the villages one by one, from small to big till they have eliminated every human, so I should go back and warn my village. He said Rather than coming out in one I should come in groups, rather than training to attack when we are attacked we should train to attack first. Because if we continue acting the way we do we would end up like the village. I looked at him still trying to process what he was saying when he looked at me and said I should Leave his site before he changed his mind. I wanted to prove myself to the purgers that I was strong enough to be like them, that I was fit to join the scout so I would be able to come out with them and kill vampires and I knew this was the only way to do it, if I killed the Slayer I wouldn't just get praises from the people I will be treated like a real purger. I may have been 13 years old but I could do more than a 13-year-old could do. I gathered strength and stood up, took my dagger, and threw it at him expecting the dagger to hit its leg but the Slayer dodged and it just went behind him. As I pulled my sword out he said, "Do you know there are still vampires in the village I replied by saying they hate you as much as they hate me so we are both at risk. The Slayer laughed devilishly and trapped his sword," just don't scream too loud when I stab you. The Slayer leaped at me first, focused on the way he moved his sword I kept deflecting his attacks but I could not find an opening, no matter how I tried he kept coming back at me. it started taking time and I was getting tired but he wasn't even phased at all. I know no matter what I did I will end up losing the fight, so thought of a plan that might just work, this idea might even kill me but it was my only choice. I started retreating and moved to the side of a tree, I lost grip of my sword and it fell, I immediately bent and screamed before he could stab me. "It's the Slayer I screamed at the top of my voice. The slayer was startled and he looked in the direction of the river to know if any vampire was coming. When I noticed that he took his eyes off me I leaped and gapped, removed a knife from my pocket, and positioned it at his heart. I whispered to his ears that if he tried anything I would kill him. He moved very fast that I almost lost grip of my knife, And when he suddenly stopped I fell to the ground. he removed a sword and drew it about to strike It fell on me and he started groaning, to my surprise it looked like someone threw a dagger at his hand. He looked in the direction where the dagger came from and standing there was Alex with a couple of guardians. Another dagger was thrown and It hit The Slayer's ribs escaping its heart, he moved at super-speed and retreated. At least the Slayer knows when to fight and when to retreat. Unlike me. Alex approached me and offered a helping hand and I gladly took it. " Are you mad?" he said furiously Karen said to Enoch the chief commander of the purgers; What in the world were you thinking when you left without telling anyone. This was the first time I snuck out without telling anyone. How're a 13-year-old be so reckless. I yelled at him screaming I got skills after all have been training for 4 years now. You won't join the purgers if you kept acting as this Enoch replied and I mean it. I tried my best not to say anything that would make matters worse I just nodded and waited till I got to the village before explaining what happened to me outside the village. The sight of the neighboring village which was destroyed killed everyone's disbelief about my story and they listened. A special force was created: The Hunter Purgers which people called the HP. They were purgers who went regularly but not every day to find and kill vampires. We only hunted around our perimeter, because it wasn't like we were strong enough to defeat a Quincy. We didn't know where he was we only knew that Quincy was in a village called Mobi with his head vampires; Quinx and supremes. Nobody knows the exact location but we knew it exists. At least killing vampires in our perimeter was progress in this war.