the werewolves returned back, and most of them were visibly excited about their wins, but some of them wore long faces, Mortica and Cassius were still hoping that somehow their children would show up before the proceed with the counting, but they were still yet to return, the rays from the sun were increasing and burning hot below on them, one of the hunters Seth approached them
"Excuse me, sir, we need to begin with the counting now, everyone seems exhausted and.."
"Why don't we wait a little, or I could go find them" Mortica interrupted looking desperate
"The sun is so hot dear, it's been two hours already, we can't keep everyone waiting"
She took a deep breath and relaxed a little "fine, you can proceed"
Seth left them and proceeded to the council, after they were done counting, Victoria's family won the hunt, they had thirty-seven parts, [enjoy your victory now, you might not have it next time] Mortica thought
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It was almost dark when they both strolled back, after an exhausting hunt, Cody and Gabriella returned to the cave with a pig in their hand, with blood dribbling down the spilled guts, they reached the entrance of the cave and stood there puzzled,
"Do you think anyone is home yet?" Cody asked his sister
"I don't know, she replied looking over her shoulder, listening for the slightest sound, someone's coming, I think is dad, she whispered, I can feel it he's probably mad about something"
Cody was astonished but didn't show it, suddenly a weight hit them both and sent them crashing, they both landed with their back, Cody still managed to maintain his grip on the pig he held
"Where are you both coming from?" He thundered visibly annoyed
They got up and looked at him, then at each other "you speak stop staring at me is all your fault" Cody yelled at Gabriella
"Err, we..are coming from the forest" Gabriella replied looking down
"Why? What took you so long, we searched everywhere for you both, I warned you both not to leave the clan, what did you both do in the forest till now?"
Cody pointed at the pig, the blood had soaked the floor they stood upon, Cassius stared at them then stared at the pig with disgust but with little hunger, "forget the damn pig, your mother is mad at you both for not coming back early with your parts, she's disappointed for not winning the hunt, you both just abandon the game and embarked on a hunt on your own, what if something bad would have happened to you both?" He asked with worry on his face
"We're so sorry father"
"Whatever, Gabby I heard about what happened to Louise, we'll talk about it later, but from now on your every movement is monetized, about what happened today, make sure it never repeats itself, you hear me?"
They both agreed passionately out of thr depth of their tormented private lives
"Now listen to me, go wash your stinky selves up and with immediate alacrity, appear in the hall room now, we have an important meeting now, they both stared at him with their eyes open, FAST!" He yelled at them and the sped off abandoning their pig behind
××××××××× back in Jupiter
Hunting for vampires was always different from that of werewolves, it was usually to schowcase their strength and their feral nature, as they were predators they made everything they usually came in contact with their prey, they were natural hunters with so much adrenaline and whenever they were hungry or cranky, whatever that is near them that gets the adrenaline back in their system becomes a prey,
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After I returned from the death mission or training that grandfather sent me, it was dark and because the hunters couldn't get anything for our dinner early enough during the day, grandfather suggested we go for a midnight hunt, it had already been twenty minutes since we hovered around the forest but we weren't able to sniff out any animal, not even a rabbit,
"Really? I asked Martin out of frustration, did all the animals go for a meeting"
He wrinkled his face at me fixing his dark gaze on me "don't ask me, am starving right now, I could even eat you"
"Whoa easy, you won't even get a litre out of me, but why didn't we make use of the animals at the livestock farm?
Martin shrugged "Don't know, guess it was your grandfather's orders"
"Tsk, grandfather, he would rather have us starve than...., I paused and inhaled deeply as my nostrils was filled with ths scent of blood, my senses came alive as the animals heart beat came closer, looking at Martin his deep red eyes and killer look portrayed clearly that he had perceived it also, hey jerk, i nudged at him, finders keepers" He smiled as we sped off in the direction of the animal, reaching them, they were two of them, one was injured, it laid on the floor and was wheezing loudly as it was pierced with a stick,
"Hey we'll share it, you take the injured and I track down the other" Martin said to me with bloodshot eyes
"Not a chance, the injured has already lost a pound of blood, it's wasted our food"
"Fine, how about we share both, deal?"
"Of course"
I stomped my feet getting the attention of the antelopes and they turned in fright, and stared at us, looking at the blood made my eye turn deep red, the injured one managed to drag itself up,
"Look like you're not giving up ehh?, Alright, I winked at it, you've got a five second headstart" they both took off, blazing with enough speed which surprised me, they kept pounding the sand as they ran, we chased them but not with full speed giving them a fair battle, we both halted when we saw them take different routes, the driffted apart from each other, and so we had to choose, I went after the injured at last, as I kept following it's blood scent, I halted and thought, the route each of this antelope took would make both of them bump into me or the both of us,
"Damn, such wise beast" I picked up the pace and went after it with much speed, the thrill of eating made me excited as all my senses were coming alive, they increased their speed and I also increased mine running at the same place with them now, as we ran, I began to hear the sound of the other antelope,it got closer, we were coming to the end of the route, I saw Martin trailing his antelope,
[How about we switch meals ehh?] I telepathed him, and as we approached each other, I immediately caught his in mid air and rolled with it in the ground, Martin clutched his and bit it's neck and began feeding on it immediately. Clawing it's neck I began draining it immediately, my that was so good, the best thing I've eaten today,
Martin dropped the antelope and burped loudly "seems it's pregnant, the blood taste so good"
"Mmhh" I nooded as I continued feeding, Grandfather came in the next two minutes,
"I bet everyone has had something to eat yeah?"
"Yeah, I think that's enough for today, am already full" I replied him
"You look wasted, Azazel said to me, cranky and pitiful, you need training from the council men, they would teach you to control your thirst" he spoke, this time referring to Martin and I
"We would sir" he replied modest, with his blood stained mouth
He looked from me to Martin and back again, I had chills wondering what he was thinking, then he now spoke, "if we're complete now, lets all race back" he suggested
Father accepted" one, two, three, and we're on"
I was about to leap when grandfather stopped me
"Not now, let's put your training to practice, you start last" he said and leaped off, gazing around, I watched as the all left, then smirking I sped off.....
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Surprisingly I raced past all of them and reached third place, grandfather first as usual, then father, Martin and I reached at the same time, so happy I was expecting an accolade from Azazel, I saw the look on grandfather's face, I was expecting a well-done look, but it was expressionless as usual,
I waved the others, it was like we were the last family to arrive, the whole place seemed so surprisingly freezing, as we got inside the coven, I had an eerie feeling, everything seemed so off and dark, grandfather approached us
"Am I the only one with this feeling?" He asked my father
"Certainly not, something is wrong somewhere" Urado replied
"Where are all the gladiators?" Urado barked
My father's drudge rushed to us, he was hurt and was bleeding, with worry on his face,
"What happened" Azazel barked at him
"We were attacked....."
"Impossible" Martin said
"I...is true..., We were attacked by the werewolves, And.....ngelica is DEAD"