Claws to a knife fight.

The road she pulled into had was a one-way road with shrubs and wild plants on each side. Alex did not enter the shrubs but walked fairly close to it. If anyone should be approaching, I could take cover in them.

He did not yet know what he was hunting, so he had on him a sharp combat knife, a normal gun, 3 throwing knives, and a few other small and hidden weapons/tools.

He didn't know what he was hunting, so he treated it as though he were hunting a super enhanced dog with human intelligence.

He followed the trail slowly and quietly. A journey that should have taken 10 minutes on foot took him 30.

Finally, he came to a farmhouse. It had the car the girl had been driving parked in front. There was a bit of noise coming from the house. It sounded as though they were having a party.

He crotched down slowly and gently merged into the bushes. Using trees and hays about as cover to go around the house all the while observing and making educated guesses about its layout and occupants.

He was careful to be downwind of the building. These monsters could have a great sense of smell.

"What the fuck is wrong with you Jacob? Why would you bring another one?" shouted one of the people inside house.

Inside the house there were 4 people. 2 men and 2 women. One of the men and women appeared to be in their middle ages. Whiles the other two were in mostly likely in their late teens or early 20s.

The two men joined by one of the women where in the kitchen having an argument on the presence of the other woman.

"We don't need her we have enough to last us for a long while." Shouted the woman at one of the men.

"The police are all over the town looking for them. Now, is the time to lay low. You could attract hunters if not careful. If that happens we would have to go on the run again." She added shouting.

"Your mother is right. What you did was reckless." The man agreed.

"You need to stop, this girl is the last one. Do you understand?" He said menacingly.

"Why are you so worried? We have the shell necklace, no one can connect them to us. We barely spoke to them." The boy, Jacob defended.

"And what's wrong with what I'm doing? I am just trying to find my mate is that so wrong? You guys have each other while I have no one. It is not fair."

This started what sounded like a fierce argument off which some was heard by Alex.

This was good for him the more they argued the less his chances of getting caught and the more information he got. He did wonder what creatures they were as they didn't really give any solid clues and he also wonder what this shell necklace was that allowed them to evade the radar of the police.

Behind the house he saw two doors on the ground against the building that probably lead under the house. It was poorly hidden behind loose straws of hay.

 It had a padlock on it. However with his lockpicking skills he made short work of the locks. He entered room. There were steps that led down. When he took the first step, he caught a familiar metallic and rusted smell.

It was blood.

A somehow enough of it had been shed for it to stink up the basement.

He feared the worst, that the missing kids where dead.

Slowly he descended the stairs. The room was dusty and a cobweb were in almost every corner. He heard wheezing and groaning.

When he got to the end of the stair he saw that view of a large section of the room was blocked by a thick dirty stained black curtain.

He approached the curtain with caution and moved it out of the way to take a peek at what was behind it. His movements were slow and steady he was careful, in case the was an energy behind the curtain. Even if it would be Illogical. The doors were lock from the outside, why would the lock their own down here? But perhaps there was another exit he was unaware of.

He peeked behind the curtain and what he saw both relived him and worried him.

Behind the curtain he saw 7 individuals, who were most likely the 7 missing kids. They were chained to collum and it seemed that they were getting there blood drawn from them. They was half filled blood bag above each of them. They looked exhausted, pale, and dirty. Their lips were dry and their eyes sunken.

These were terrible conditions to keep people.

But at least they were alive.   

He quickly approached them to help. When they saw him they mistook him for one of their kidnappers and started to get agitated and struggle and cry for help but they had no strength to do so.

He got to the closest one and went to unlock their chains.

But before he could he had the door the shed behind flung open.

Jacob opened the door angrily. He had just being chastised. The girl Alex had followed was with him, standing just behind Jacob a bit scared at how he was acting. He then grabbed the girl by her hair and proceeded to drag her down the stairs. Completely disregarding her screams of pain.

Jacob got to the black curtains and went through, dragging the screaming girl in toll.

*SNIFF* *SNIFF*

He paused he smelt an unfamiliar scent. Before he could even make any guesses. Alex who had taken shelter in the shadows run at him from behind with a combat knife in hand.

Jacob shocked at the sudden turn of events forze. This gave Alexander all the time he needed to grab the hand Jacob held the girl with and cut it clean off.

"Aghh." Jacob screamed.

But fuck if Alex was going to give up this opportunity. This foe was faster, stronger and better than him, the slightest mistake could cost him his life. And his pack or group or friend or whatever probably heard his scream.

Jocab saw that Alex was about to attack him again. He panicked extracted his claws and made a desperate attempt to claw at him.

But his inexperience was showing. You should never so easily offer your hand to someone who cut the previous one effortlessly.

Alex gladly welcomed his offer, use his free hand to grab Jacob's hand and held it still. Then in a skilfully and beautiful move used his knife to slice though his hand.

"Aghh" Jacob cried falling to his knees clutching his two now stumps to his chest.

But it wasn't over Alex was quickly moving in and so were Jacob's gang probably. Seeing Alex approaching Jacob started to crawl back with his stumps all the while never taking his fear-filled eyes off Alex.

"No..NO…NO. Please stop. MUM. DAD." Jacob cried.

The doors of the shed were flung and torn from their hinges.

*BANG*

They were here.

Alex wasted no time rushing behind Jacob to get a better view of the entrance. Grabbing him by his hair and tilting his head offering himself a clear view of Jacob's neck. Alex raised his knife high. And like lightening brought it down.

"NOOOOO!!!" screamed a woman.

As an almost glowing blade of steel slide through the neck of Jacob. Detaching his head from the his body.