INDEFINITE by Erick Stearns (different ereaders txt) 📕

“Are you alright? You look like you have just encountered an Asmodeus.”  She chuckled and blushed a little, I realized I looked like a fucking buffoon and said “m-my name is Cornelius, it’s nice to meet you, what are you doing out here?” Her face turned stern and she asked “I could ask you the same thing, but if you must know… I was hunting down that male you and your brother tore apart, it had taken me a few hours to lure him back here away from his group so I could feed. “She put her hands on her hips showing she was upset she didn’t get to have her meal. “Although I must say that was entertaining watching you two play with him like that.”  “Thanks, my brother Damien and I are good hunting with each other; we both have our own techniques. “Seeing how you and your brother ruined my dinner I will be on my way, oh one more thing.” She came right up to my neck and took a slow deep breath which sent a shiver up my spine that I found sensual, then whispered in my ear “Next time you find a wanderer make sure he’s not mine or we will have problems, I will see you around Cornelius.”

             I didn’t want her to leave I wanted to become acquainted with her “Camellia wait, would you like me to accompany you on your hunt? I have nothing better to do right now” even though I knew if I didn’t get back to the cove soon I would have more than double the training to worry about, especially if father knew why I was late. Camellia looked at me curiously she said “Sure why not, I haven’t hunted with anyone in a while.” On the inside I was excited to finally be able to meet someone outside of our cove, but I showed little enthusiasm as we took off into the night.

Chapter 3

I looked at the sky noticing that I had been a sleep for a while and was hungry; I made my way back down the Ishi Giant with one thing on my mind, time to feed. The night air was cool and smooth against my face as I rushed to town, I could hear animals rustling around as I glided through the forest. I was coming up on the creek that led into town when I stopped dead in my tracks, I had an ominous feeling. I felt the hair on my body stand up and got a blood rush to my head which was tingling; my adrenaline was pumping my fingers tingling, and my sense enhanced. Only I was tense and ready for whatever was coming, I jumped to the nearest branch to see what was coming, but I wish I wouldn’t have. I was gripping the tree so hard at this point I could feel my fingers sinking into the branch almost snapping it in half, my heart dropped into my stomach, because what I had foreseen was an Asmodeus.

                The Asmodeus was an archfiend that was the only thing known to be able to actually kill one of us, his teeth were long with bright red tips that were sharper then obsidian, thick black claws which were stronger then Graphene, their skin was dark brown and almost impenetrable, he had black greasy mangled hair that hung down on either side of his muscular body. There was a cult of trained assassins, father use to tell me about them, they would harvest the hide of the archfiend, as well as their teeth, and claws to make weapons to exterminate us. The assassins were a lot easier to fight compared to an Asmodeus, but usually we would hunt in groups knowing that we had a better chance at overthrowing our attacker. Unfortunately I was going to have to take him on myself; damn I was hungry and knew I would run out of energy soon. I took a deep breath and honed my adrenaline knowing this would be a gruesome battle that I may not make it out of         .

He sprung towards me and I quickly evaded his attack by jolting to the ground. I noticed when he landed on the ground he wasn’t leaning on his back right leg, I presume his leg was wounded from previous battles.  I took the first strike trying to smash one of his eyes but just missed and slid into a tree, he was already hurdling at me with his mouth gaping trying to take a chunk out of me. I quickly rolled to the side, his breath smelled like death, I countered his attack by hitting his ribcage, I heard a few of his bones split; he let out a roar of pure agony, I laughed out loud and said “You should have minded your own you imprudent beast.” I jumped onto his back digging my nails into his neck trying to hit one of his arteries. “Damn I didn’t realize how strong there skin really was” I thought to myself while I put almost all of my strength into making a fatal injury so I could end his merciful life. I barely got my fingertips in before he bucked me off, I flew and hit some boulders alongside the creek, my head hit a sharp rock, I could hear the water flowing with the sound owls hooting nearby, then I felt the warm thick liquid run through my hair and down my back. By the time I got up, the blood had stopped flowing coming to a little trickle. I turned around to prepare for impact when I came to found that the archfiend was nowhere in sight. I looked around frantically for my opponent, I was bewildered and thought to myself “Ok how the fuck did a creature of his stature vanish so fast? He must be around here waiting for me to put my guard down.” After searching for a little bit I decided to continue up the creek cleaning myself up making sure I was aware of my surroundings knowing that after my encounter with Damien earlier, and now the Asmodeus I would perish if I had another encounter if I did not replenish soon.

I made it to the town making sure I was hidden from what humans roamed the streets, perching myself at the top of a strip club. I could hear the loud obnoxious music blaring out into the streets every time the door was opened, followed by the laughter of all the drunken beings that I would soon isolate one to sink my teeth into their throat, letting that warm succulent blood flow into my mouth to satisfy my hunger. I had to be careful though because they had assassins that patrolled the area, knowing this was a popular place for feeding. I hunted here because blood had a sweeter taste after the victim had been drinking; also I got a buzz from the blood which was enlightening. The first couple that came out was tipsy, the lady had long blonde hair with braided hair and was holding on to her partners shoulder mumbling something I couldn’t make out, the man was tall with broad shoulders, bald head with a scar on his face from his eye to chin. He was holding her up saying let’s get you home, I could tell he was healthy and could kill them both quickly with a quick snap of their necks, but I wanted a stooge that was drunk and vigorous. I enjoyed playing with my meal before killing them to get their blood flowing, not to mention their reaction when I reveal to them I was going to cleanse their body of their blood while they looked into my hollow eyes I could see me drain their life from them until their eyes rolled into the back of their heads.

After I watched a few more mindless humans fall down, and stumble their way out into the street and up the brick road, I saw my victim stumble out with his group of goons, he was approximately 215 pounds, between six and six and a half feet tall, he looked like a professional fighter. I was going to kill him but had to wait until the right time. I sat back watching him push them around saying “You guys are a bunch of pussies; I don’t know why I even come here with you pathetic little bitches, I could take you all on right here with both of my hands tied behind my back.” I knew he was considered their superior; two of them out of the six looked at one another laughed hysterically and said “Is that so Josh” with sarcasm then ran towards him to prove him wrong while the other three stood by looking around as if he hadn’t just called them out. The two men tired hitting him several times but they both missed repeatedly, I could see all of their flaws until Josh jumped over the one so he was in the middle of the two; he then jumped again and kicked them both in the chest. I was actually impressed with his technique even though they were all intoxicated not standing a chance against me. Josh laughed with his victory saying “when will you dumbasses learn I’m the fucking best, no one can beat me not even an immortal!” This made my blood boil I jumped off the building into an alley and walked into the street acting like I was drunk myself. After watching drunken individuals for years I had a decent understanding on how to act. I slurred my words saying “I feel like I’m on tup of the wrld, I feal indrztructble.” I knew josh would hear me and sure enough he turned his head eyeing me up. I said to him “whhat you l-looking at, why don you take a picur it will l-last longer.” I saw his face turn red he looked at the 3 who were still standing and said “You guys better take off so you don’t have to witness of this. Make sure you grab the other 2 bitches and take them with you. They all looked at each other shrugged they picked up the two who were groaning and walked off towards the bar probably to get a few more drinks before coming out to meet up with Josh.

Josh was pissed I could see his temple on his head pulsating while he clenched his jaw tightly and said “Do you know who the fuck your talking to? You should learn some manners whether your drunk or not.” I smiled at him and said “I was never drunk I just got bored of watching you fuck your boys up even though it was entertaining. How about ill whoop your ass with my eyes closed.” He smiled at this he held his stomach and threw his body back saying “ Don’t make me laugh” then le lunged at me, I stepped to the side while he swung and kicked all. When he got behind me I kicked his knee backwards and heard a pop, I knew I broke his leg. As he fell over