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Chapter 20 - The Prey

Once Ryoa opened the door to one of the staircases a looming sense of danger began to lather Kyle's but this was nothing compared to what he got from Ryoa. And the fact these two types of dangers were about to collide only meant one thing for Kyle's developing vampiric heart. 

As Kyle and Ryoa began to make their way to the lower floors. Christian and Michael were now about to leave the 12th floor and they were moving faster than the other two groups because they didn't need to stop for blood. 

*Thub Thub Thub* The AG members rushed up the stairs, only following the sound of gun shots once none of their members were reporting any bodies. rushing up the stairs, it was obvious by the sounds they made while going, it was a large group. 

"Can you hear how close they are? We need to create some distance.." Christian asked as he picked up bullets from the man laying on the ground. 

"There in front-" Michael was knocked back by the door as some of the AG members suddenly kicked it open. 

Michael was knocked to the ground and laid there as Christian ran into one of the hotel rooms. There were two standing in front of the door with a suit similar to the assistant, both of them had name tags on their breast pockets. They were able to see a glimpse of Christian's foot go into the room before making one of the members go to get him. 

 Once that member stood in front of that room, a bullet suddenly flew through his head and splattered his brains on the door behind him. Then you heard footsteps head further into the room.

"Holy shit, okay." AG Justin thought as he saw the AG member drop to the floor before he saw an ANM member laying "lifeless" on the floor.

Michael stayed as still as he could, to make it seem as if he was dead. It was working, he just needed to wait for the right moment to attack. He saw one of the AG members standing across from him. 

 

"Surround the wall, the room should end about right here. Start shooting all around this wall." AG Willis said as he knocked on the wall just about 20 feet away from the door.

Once AG Willis walked away from the wall, all of the AG members that were a part of their group started firing at the door until they ran out of bullets. 

"Go check for his body." AG Justin said as he made two of the members go to the room.

However, just like the one before, both of them were quickly shot in the head. Almost instantly.

AG Willis signaled for half of the group to start shooting through the room again while the other surrounded the door.

They walked over Michael not paying any mind to him, thinking that he was already dead. 

"Come out! We know you're in there. You should've never come to New Jersey, now you're here alone and your partner is dead!" AG Willis said as he started walking into the room, cautiously. 

"Is he?" Christian asked which made the AG member stop just a couple meters in front. He had no idea how close Christian was to the door so he stopped right there. 

"Yes he is." AG Willis asked as he signaled for some of the members to bring Michael into the room. 

"I don't need him to kill you idiots." Christian said as he laid on the floor in the closet that was just a couple feet away from the door, only peeking through a small crack under the closet.. 

The members who shot through the wall were now surrounding the door with the others as they waited for two of the members to bring Michael to the room. But they weren't paying attention to that, they were more focused on the room as they didn't know when Christian would pop up again. 

Michael saw this as two of the members were holding him up by each of his arms, he quickly planted his feet on the ground and landed a kick on the member who was holding his left arm. Michael kicked his shin and pushed it back which made the members drop to his knee, just as he fell Michael pushed his knee into the middle of his face. The member passed out from the hit and let go of his arm, then he grabbed the members hair and pulled it down to the left as hard as he could and broke his neck. He was able to do this in less than 10 seconds.

The AG members still had their backs turned to Michael so he was able to sneak up behind one of them. A member who was behind all of them had this distinct feeling that someone was standing right behind him and tried to turn his head but just as he did, a knife went through the temple of his head. 

As the member collapsed two other members noticed, though Michael was able to quickly stab both of them in their throat. This only led to more members noticing that there was another ANM member on the floor so Michael quickly pulled his gun out.

"There's 11 left." Michael said into a small mic in his mask before he started shooting two of the members that saw him.

AG member1 immediately looked in surprise towards the back of his group as the gunshot was unexpected, though he didn't see what happened unlike the rest of his members because Christian popped out of the room and pushed the blade of his knife through the temple of his head. Catching them off guard, Christian also started shooting the members. 

They were able to kill all of the members by sandwiching them between the bullets. However a loud scream was heard from the other side of the floor, a toe curling scream that was unbelievably loud.

"Is Drey and Melissa using their guns?" Michael asked as he started searching the bodies for ammo and other weapons. 

"I doubt it." Christian said as he started searching the bodies. 

*SLAM* Melissa shut the door as she followed Drey to the next floor. 

On the 11th floor there was another member with a name tag on his left breast pocket, with a dozen AG members by his side. They were taking cover in the room waiting for Ryoa or one of the ANM members to come through the door. 

Every hotel room was opened as they were waiting by the door. Unfortunately it wasn't the ANM members that were coming for them. 

"Can you hear them?" AG member1 asked as he looked across to the other room. 

"Shut up and just listen." AG Christopher said as he stood beside the hotel room's door.

*SLAM* AG Christopher immediately went into the hallway to start firing but the moment he stepped out of the room. He was staring deep into Melissa's ruby red eyes. 

For only a second was he able to stare into her eyes. The next second, he felt the very need to get away from her but he fought it and tried to raise his guns to shoot her. 

Melissa fist crushed his head into the wall, almost as if she was using a hammer. Something deep inside as if it was forgotten, maybe it was her humanity. Nonetheless she felt sympathetic towards the man, towards his powerlessness, she pushed away those feelings to complete Kyle's orders. 

She could smell that there were 2 more members in the room and quickly ran into the room as Drey went into the room across from her. 

The other AG members heard the noise coming from the two rooms and quickly moved to them. Wondering why they didn't hear any gunshots coming from those two rooms as they saw AG Christopher laying on the ground with his head crushed and brains splattered all across the floor. 

"What the hell." AG member2 said as he krept up to the room Drey was in. 

Every light in the hotel room was dimmed almost completely and with the fact there is a group that threatened them, the way they are moving. It's something everyone feels in certain moments, that inescapable feeling as if you were the only person in there to witness what was about to happen. 

These AG members, as if they were animals who've been in the jungle their whole lives, sensed the danger of walking past those doors. So they stopped and waited silently 'til someone came out, with their guns trained on the door like robots. 

Reduced to cornered rats, these AG members had every right to wait by the rooms because Melissa and Drey were waiting. They were leopards or lions waiting for their prey to turn their back to them. 

"Their playing these stupid fucking games with us. Move." An AG member said as he pushed through the group. 

Impatiently, he couldn't wait any longer and walked in between the two rooms. He saw the red glares from the corner of his eyes, not knowing which one to react to, he froze. Although they were red like flames the feeling he got from them was as cold as death. 

He felt something grab and pull his shoulder, it made him turn around. The first thing he saw was Drey's eyes, clearly as the bullets broke his visor. Not even a few seconds after, his head was about 2 inches away from the ground. 

The AG members quickly started firing. Pulling their triggers until they heard the clicking sound. Unfortunately for them Drey is a vampire that is only weakened by his master's humanity. Although his durability was weakened, he was still much more durable than a human.

So when the AG members saw Drey just there as if he wasn't there at all- They didn't have any time to think about that at all because Melissa rushed out of the room and started charging. 

No time to reload, so they resort to knives.