'This makes four Hunters who have died on my watch, how am I supposed to revolutionize hunting…if I can't even keep the hunters who call me for help alive?!' My thoughts are practically snarls that would challenge Enid for beastlyness, as feelings and thoughts of doubt worm their way through my head and heart.
coming up along the side of a forest green ford explorer, I see two kids both boys in the backseat both looking to be between five and nine years of age and both have what looks to be blood staining their mouths, and then I see their true faces, which are fox like, I pull Equalizer from it's underarm holster cock the hammer back line up a headshot on the closest boy and squeeze the trigger, the gun rocks slightly in my hand, the bullet drills both windows and both boy's heads splattering their brains in the back of the suv.
The woman in the driver's seat screams so loudly I can hear it even over the wind while looking into the backseat the woman doesn't seem to realize her vehicle is drifting off of the road, the suv slams into a tree, my left foot smashes down the breakpedal I barely remember to put the truck in park before hoping out of the driver's seat and into the empty roadway, dashing to the suv.
Just as the female Kitsune kicks the door ten feet from the wrecked suv, putting away Equalizer, I draw Bobby's silver Bowie knife charging her with the intent to get up close and personal, "HUNTER, YOU WILL SUFFER FOR KILLING MY LITTER!!!" The Kitsune woman screams at me with her claws coming out as she lashes out at me with both sets of claws, moving to one side while stepping backwards, completely dodging her frenzied attack while burying the knife in her gut.
"No Bitch, you're going to pay for killing my friend!" My words are little more than a snark, as my left fist connects with her nose crushing it flat while I twist the knife in her gut, her pained roar brings a smile to my face, I keep punching her in the face ignoring the feeling of her claws slicing through the flesh of my chest.
Pulling my borrowed silver bowie knife from this Kitsune bitch, dropping it onto the ground as I thrust my hand into the hole and slid it through her guts, gripping her heart, and pulling, ripping the still beating organ from her chest.
I thoroughly enjoy the sight of the light leaving her eyes, as I bring her heart up to my lips and bite into it, the hot sticky blood bursts into my mouth, the flesh sweet and chewy, 'This tastes gooood.' At my own thoughts I feel a deep intrinsic sense of disgust, and begin spitting out the flesh and wiping the blood from my face with the sleeve of my hoodie.
Lifting the dead Kitsune from the black top I carry her to the suv, place her back in the driver's seat, and then move the vehicle and corpses to my pocket dimension, returning to the stretch of road to find Tessa standing there looking around for something.
"Did you happen to see where the souls of the Kitsune wandered off to?" Tessa asks me and I shrug my shoulders.
"No idea whatsoever." I offer with a shrug, trying to push down the feelings of disgust with myself at taking a bite out of a fresh humanish heart.
"Hmm, I suppose another Reaper more experienced with Purgatory could have come to collect them." Tessa hums softly.
"I did not see another Reaper appear here…I did dispose of the bodies and the wrecked vehicle using magic…if that helps in locating their souls." I offer Tessa trying to help her out.
"I see thank you for this information, you know it is rather disconcerting to communicate with a living…I'm uncertain if you can be considered human…either way it has been my pleasure to speak with you on this day." Tessa says before she vanishes from the roadway.
'Huh, Missing souls…that is rather strange…is it because I took their corpses into my pocket dimension before they could leave their dead bodies?' An idle question passes through my head, but I shrug off the mental question, climb into the cab of my truck and begin heading back to Bobby's, feeling more than a little heartbroken by Zoey's death, the question of whether I can really change anything and make the lives of Hunters better plagues me the whole way home, ruining the peace driving the open road usually brings me.
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"So…" Enid says in a soft questioning voice.
"Enid, not now." Wednesday mutters sourly, Enid has been bugging her since Matthew left.
"Come on, Wednesday…we're sisters…tell me why you got naked, sat on his rock hard abs, had the opportunity to lose your virginity alongside me but didn't take it." Enid whines softly, and Wednesday lets out a humph of hot breath from her nose.
"If I tell you, will you cease this petulant pestering and help me research using Matthew's handbook and the reference materials?" Wednesday fires right back snidely.
"Yes, tell me…tell me!" Enid cheers happily.
"You know how my mother…can see certain futures?" Wednesday asks for clarification purposes only while Enid bobs her head up and down, "Mmmhmm, Mmmhmm."
"Mother saw…me with who I assume is Matthew, when I was little more than a day out of her womb and told me of him, told me to let him in…to offer my heart to him…and that he would guard and protect it and me and those who I hold dear." Wednesday explains softly which makes Enid's eyes widen.
"I-I had a dream about him…fourteen days before our confrontation with mother's juvenile fling while looking into the crystal ball mother gave me…I saw my first time with him and…you were not a part of it Enid." Wednesday murmurs and looks away from Enid who is all smiles and vibration with energy.
"Tell me everything!" Enid practically tackles Wednesday which just makes Wednesday roll her eyes at the easily excitable blonde.
"I would rather not talk about it…" Wednesday murmurs as her face and ears burn red, which draws a giggle fit out of Enid.
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