The shadow of the night hunters

Second

That man in armor pointed a stake at me, after apologizing to me, in the middle of a street where all kinds of incidents occurred. I simply closed my eyes as he had asked me to do. I was to blame for having brought that stranger to my town, if I had not done so, perhaps he would not have arrived. I condemned them to die that way, and I should pay for that, but a strange sound coming from a roof interrupted my end. 

Someone was walking on top of a house that was burning, he was looking at us, with some curiosity. His red eyes could be seen from where we were standing.

The gentleman lowered his gun and turned away from me, and pulled out a small pistol of sorts. The creature without a second thought came towards us, but with an impressive speed. It didn't even let us blink.

-Aghhsaghah," he said in a somewhat terrifying manner.

The knight shot him with his pistol several times, but he was still standing and remained in front of us, his wounds began to regenerate little by little in front of us.

He was a man with red eyes, short black hair, and a beard. His clothes were full of blood, he seemed to be one of the inhabitants of this village, besides his skin was the same as the guy I had led here.

The man kept shooting at the stranger without stopping. Until he ran out of bullets and the vampire approached him, and they began to struggle.

I saw a silver bar that had fallen on the ground and I picked it up out of curiosity.

"Bury it in your heart" he shouted in desperation. He seemed to suffer with every move he made. 

I drew strength from where I had none. And I pierced him from his back to his chest. I was able to hit him in the heart at least.

The vampire stopped struggling and tried to remove the stake, but he ended up screaming loudly and writhing in pain, he tried desperately to remove the stake, but it was impossible, he spent several seconds like that. He slowly disintegrated like ash and the silver bar fell to the ground.

I went to the knight, but to my surprise. The monster's helmet had been removed and I could see his face. He was bald and black-eyed, hairless and his face was round. It looked like it had bitten him too. I could see those two holes in his neck.

"Give me that stake" he said to me, his voice weak and his hands shaking.

I gave it to him. I thought he would do something else with it, but he pointed that weapon at his chest and pierced himself. He preferred to kill himself in front of me without hesitation. I never thought that man would do such a thing. He really hated this kind of creature.

I saw his last agonizing movements trying to take it away. Until he stopped breathing. He died as a man and not as a monster, my death wish ended there. Seeing that sad sight. I preferred to leave that place to look for the man I mistakenly brought. I was heading towards the outskirts of this place to avoid meeting another knight. I only wanted to look for that person, I knew that they would try to kill me so I avoided seeing them. 

I left the town slowly, although for me it was very desolate, I saw a lot of destruction in what was once my home. I cried as I walked out of there, I walked through the streets where I felt there were no fights, no screaming people. I did not look for my parents because I had no hope of finding them alive.

I began to see things from a distance that I could not see before. I saw fights between more monsters and knights, but they did not interest me, I just wanted to meditate. My mind was a jumble of emotions that I could not handle. I wasn't a human anymore, but I wasn't a complete monster either, I wasn't thirsty to drink human blood, or anything like that.

When I was already outside the town, maybe a kilometer away. I saw how it was burning little by little, and more men arrived on horseback and surrounded the whole place. My feet sank in many areas and I was almost full of mud on my knees. My clothes were much worse than they were before.

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In the middle of the night I found a place to stay. I hid in a barn that I was abandoning, as there was nothing there. I thought they had already killed all the vampires and I locked myself in there. I no longer knew what to do with my existence, I spent intense hours thinking about what to do.

I was left without a reason to live, I had lost my family and I had no one to turn to. I had lost my family and I had no one to turn to, I was alone in the world. As much as I tried to reassure myself. I continued to cry inconsolably. In a dark and empty place. For a long time 

I never knew how long I lasted there, I didn't feel sleepy or hungry. All I did was sit in a corner and think about what I had done with my life at the age of 14. I was two weeks away from my birthday and I would celebrate it in utter loneliness.

I saw daylight again, but I wasn't able to get out, I stayed there in that barn and started hurting my body and started drawing all kinds of things that were going on with a knife that I had taken out of my house the day this whole nightmare started.

This place was quite big, it had two floors, one where food was piled up, but it was empty. The floor was made of wood and had dry straw on it. Two doors and the windows were closed. The peace I felt in that solitude was interrupted by the sound of horses, someone was approaching. I looked through a hole in the barn and I could see a bunch of horses, some stayed there and others left. For me it was something very strange, but I kept calm, I did not feel fear to have them close, but one of them began to struggle the door to the bad. He was trying to get in. 

I tried to escape from that place through the back, there was another door there, but they entered quickly. I couldn't get out in time.

One of them saw me and called out to the others.

"Hey, there's a child here"

"Really? Let's help him" said another one of them.

Two guys grabbed me by the arms and dragged me out of there. My body was exposed to the daylight. For a moment I felt like my skin was burning, but little by little I got used to it. Until I only felt a slight discomfort in my eyes.

Both men took me to the rest of their companions. I didn't have the courage to speak, I looked at them somewhat intimidating, with their weapons. They all had their armor on. Some of them were wounded, but slightly.

There was one guy in particular to all of them. He was dark skinned with black eyes, apparently he was their leader. He had a different sword from the rest, it was like gold with silver tones.

"He is not a child" he said without hesitation.

"What do you mean, look at him, he doesn't have red eyes, he doesn't burn in the sunlight, he's not a vampire at all"

He was sitting on a tree trunk and suddenly got up, pulled out a dagger and without hesitation stabbed me in the stomach. That left all his companions terrified. Several of them also drew their weapons.

"Are you crazy?" shouted all his companions, all of them seemed ready to fight him.

He ignored them while some of them tried to help me.

"You don't deserve to be the leader of the hunters" shouted one of them, he was the biggest one, with no hair and a red beard and green eyes, his look was scary.

I got up from the floor, although it hurt a little, my wounds healed quickly. It was as if nothing had happened to me. When they all saw me, they all moved away from me and just as they did with that gentleman, they took out their guns and pointed them at me. I could see fear and anger in their eyes.

"Don't kill him," he commented.

"But he's a vampire" one of them shouted.

"He doesn't have fangs so he's not dangerous, just leave him alone, we won't be the ones to blame for ending another innocent life, besides he's harmless. The vampire that bit him was strange or maybe it's something from his family. He was left in a halfway state. Neither human nor vampire"

They heeded him and put their weapons away in the scabbard, they all walked away from me and ignored me.

I felt rejected, it would have been better if they had killed me, it was very discriminating. I even thought that even the vampires would do the same to me.