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The Scarlet Hunter	By : naturechild02 Category: +S to Z > Vampire Hunter D Views: 2103 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own rights to Vampire Hunter D or any of Hideyuki Kikuchi's works. I do not make any profit/monies from this story. This a fanfic written merely for the enjoyment of myself and others.

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The sun was sinking lower as they left the boarding house for the mine. Townsmen had indeed moved the giant lizard blocking the entrance but the creature was so long they had to cut it to pieces. The air stunk from the carcass and many people who had been spectators at first, were now headed indoors to escape the smell and the dangers of the coming night. Katie made herself ready again and looked at the entrance to the mine. The once ten-by-ten foot hole was now a huge chasm; the ground around it unstable and crumbling in.
“I’ll be headed inside, myself,” the sheriff said. “I’m no Hunter and I wouldn’t be caught out here tonight for sure.” He regarded Katie for a moment. “The townspeople are calling you the Scarlet Hunter on account of your hair. If you live through this, I’m sure the name will stick and your reputation will spread. Good luck, lady.” And he walked away down the now deserted street.
“Shall we go then? Or would you rather stay out here where it is safe?” Katie winked at D. His reply was jumping straight into the hole. Katie tested her rope and then followed.

Darkness.
It swallowed them in seconds. When Katie heard D land she squeezed her gloved hands around the rope gently to slow her fall. She landed and immediately made ready her bow. She closed her eyes and listened for D. She could hear him breathing beside her.
“You can’t see, can you?” he whispered.
“I do not need to.”
She heard a sound. A small groan from her left. She listened, aimed, and let an arrow fly. It found its target and the angry scream that followed verified that it was indeed a vampire. Suddenly, she could hear them all around. There were many more than the sheriff had suspected and the Hunters were soon surrounded. Katie began shooting them as they moved but the sounds were becoming confusing. The echoing cavern made it a difficult to pinpoint the sound of their hearts.
“Don’t move,” D said and was gone in an instant. She obeyed and listened as he struck down five vampire zombies in a few seconds’ time. His blade was so fast, she would not have been able to see it move in broad daylight. But she could hear it slicing through the vampires and the sound was beautiful to her ears. D stood beside her again and she opened her eyes.
She sensed a presence, something beyond these other puppets. Something that radiated a miasma so thick with evil, she felt she could reach out and touch it. She slung her bow over her shoulder and slowly drew out her sword as she tried to find the location of the master vampire. “Feel that?” she whispered.
“Yes,” D murmured as he lopped off another head. “And you shall see him soon enough, I dare say.” This demonic aura was making Katie’s skin crawl. She knew the vampire cast such a miasma to strike fear in their hearts. But she was not afraid. The chill running up her spine thrilled her.
“A more worthy opponent,” she mumbled to herself, but D heard her.
“Stay sharp, this is a much older vampire. He’s not like any you have fought before.”
“How dare you wake me from my peaceful slumber!” The voice was all around them, each word coming from a different location. At first Katie thought it was merely bouncing off the jagged rock walls but when she looked around she sucked her breath in quickly. She could see his glowing eyes to the left of her, then behind, then above. He was checking them out, moving so fast that what she saw was only an after-image. She could not hear him moving.
“You’re in over your head, girl. Leave and I may spare your life. For now.”
She scoffed at him. “If you think I am afraid then you are mistaken. If I die here, so be it. But not before I take a piece of you with me. Now stop dancing around and fight!”
D hadn’t moved a muscle during this exchange, but he was now unconsciously moving closer to her. Hunter or no, she was still a woman and his instincts told him to protect her.
“Ha, ha, ha!” the deep voice boomed all around them. D knew the sun had just set and their prey would be trying to make his escape soon. And in a flash, he came at Katie from behind. But she was prepared. He went for her throat, but she ducked and threw him over her. He faded into the darkness.
“Coward!” she yelled as she stood up.
“He’s just toying with you; testing you,” D said.
“Ha, ha! Tricky, tricky, girl. Not quite human, not quite vampire. But not a dhampir like your friend here, either. Are you one of the great God’s experiments, perhaps?”

“You are special Katherine…”

The voice from Katie’s memory sounded in her ears, but this wasn’t the time to reminisce. A rage began to fill her, burning her insides. “I am no damn experiment! I am a Hunter. Now show yourself!”
“Introductions first my dear, what is your name?”
“They call me the Scarlet Hunter, but it is a bit late for formalities.”
Suddenly he appeared before them, his red eyes like laser beams in the dark. “I am Pseudo. It is a pleasure to meet someone so young and full of spirit.”
“Pseudo? What sort of a name is that?” Katie asked.
“One who is deceitful. You are not who you appear to be?” D asked.
“Precisely.”
While they were talking, Katie was pulling a small object from her inside shirt pocket. Her secret weapon. Now, she clicked a button and rays of ultraviolet light filled the cavern. She could suddenly see the other vampire zombies that surrounded them, watching. The light caught Pseudo off guard and he hissed and shielded his face but not before she got a half decent look at him. A beautiful body clothed in dark blue with piercing eyes and a pointed nose.
That was all the opening D needed. He surged through the air, focusing his sword on Pseudo’s heart; victory only a second away. But it went horribly wrong. Something came swiftly from the shadows at D, something that had been hidden to them before. Katie saw it and realized D could not turn from his present course in time. The thing’s mouth was opened to rip D’s head off. Time seemed to slow down as she saw what would happen and what must be done.
She leaped high above the thing with lightning speed and brought her foot down on its jaw. It missed D’s head completely and tore his arm instead. Katie’s leg was nearly crushed as the thing slammed her into a wall. D heard a crack as her head hit. All of this took place in the span of a few seconds. The last thing D saw before the light went out was the Noble smiling at him wickedly from the thing’s back as it flew up toward the entrance of the mine.
“Go after him.”
Katie’s voice sounded weak but he did as she said and bounded up the wall, leaping from one side to the other higher and higher until he was out. His beautiful form, his face that seemed to put forth its own light in the dark, leaping straight out of such a hideous hole in the ground must have been quite a sight. But there was no one around to witness it.
D searched the skies but there was no sign of them, nor could he feel the Noble’s presence. They had vanished. A vampire’s cry broke the silent night around him and he turned back to the mine. Katie was still in the place she had fallen, but she was fending the vampire’s lackeys off with her bow. The majority had been killed but D came and took care of the rest. He then crouched beside Katie and felt of her injured leg. The bone was shattered from her knee down to her ankle. She shrugged him off.
“Tend to your arm, I will live.”
“That wasn’t necessary. I would have been fine.”
“But you would be injured and at a disadvantage. Perfect time for the vampire to kill you.”
“I heard you crack your head against the wall. I’m surprised you have not passed out.”
“Well, it will not be long now,” she tried to chuckle but it ended in a wheeze.
“Should I carry you out?”
She wouldn’t allow him to touch her face and he could swear he saw a small red glow in her eyes. “Just… give me a minute. Was that a dragon? A young one perhaps?” She was trying to stay awake but was swooning.
“Yes, kin to the creature you killed earlier. Come, you must see a doctor.” And he lifted her up and out of the mine.
“Next time, look before you leap D,” was the last thing she said before she passed out.
“He, he,” his left hand cackled.
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