1 Volume I The Hunted

A light flickered on the street corner allowing the darkness to attempt to swallow the shopping corner before being dispelled away by the sudden flicker of light, A slim figure quickly turned the corner entering the light for a brief second before exiting it again. The light breeze picked up the figure's hair off of its shoulder and pulled it back almost as if begging for the person to go back, trash was slowly blown down the empty street. No car's and no people dared to step foot outside for fear had taken hold of the people in this dreadful town, a newspaper was blown towards the figure as the figure bent down to pick it up and stepped into the circle of light provided by a street lamp, the headline read as follows 'Ability hunters have been issued as legal by the senate-' a Feminine sigh rang out as the individual threw the newspaper to the side and shook their head, This person was in fact a female with long dark hair and bright eyes. She wore a long black skirt with a red top and some high heels. What a woman of her stature was doing out on this side of town was a mystery all together, headlights of a vehicle broke through the darkness as she looked up to observe a van barreling down the vacant street at a moderate speed. She of course didn't think anything of it until the sound of breaks grinding together broke the silence that had once engulfed the street as the vehicle came to a halt, the Slide doors on the darker colored van slid open. And then a collection of voices filled the soundless neighborhood "Hey there pretty lady" they spat towards her "What are you doing here all alone? With all these ability users out wouldn't you want to be inside safe~ maybe we should protect you", she didn't respond but rather put her arms on her chest in a X formation and looked down to begin walking forward away from them. Suddenly she could feel the rough dirty hands of a man grab her and rip her away from her path of freedom "Where do you think you're going huh?" He asked her pushing her up against a wall next to the sidewalk "We just want to have some fun is all", she had no time to protest as she clenched her eyes shut. She could feel his hand slowly treading up her thigh as he pulled on her shirt ripping the individual fibers, but he suddenly stopped "Get your fucking hands off me punk" the voice from before said, she couldn't help but to find herself opening her eyes to whiteness a hooded figure grabbing onto the Rapist to be's wrists "Can't you see she doesn't want That" the hooded figure said with anger in its voice. The voice was very man like and now that she observed his figure she could tell he was a man as well, he wore a dark hoodie with dark colored jeans and what seemed to be converse high tops "Why don't you mind your own business punk!" The man from the van yelled out trying to rip out of the hooded man's grip but ultimately failing. "People like you make me sick..". A soft sizzling could be heard as the smell of burned hair and skin entered her nostrils. The man from the van screamed out collapsing to one knee as the man wearing the hood let go. The man's wrist was red and the skin was bubbling up "Your a..a ability user!" She screamed out stumbling backwards, The man would shake his head as he stepped forward reaching a hand down towards her while pulling his hood down to reveal medium length black hair and winter blue eyes that matched his pale skin "Well I saved you didn't I?". Before she could even open her mouth to say anything multiple men came barreling out of the van and wrapped a black cloth around his face and slammed a flashlight over his head as his body went limp and they dragged him into the Van. One looked toward her as he looked back at the van "What do you do about this one?" He had asked "Just take her too, for all we know she could be a ability user too", the man seemed hesitant at first but turned towards her "I'm sorry" and with that she could feel the hard metal collide with her skull and her vision go black.