Early the next evening, Elena stopped by the warehouse she and the guys had purchased and were using as their base of operations. She waved at Jake, who was seated at his usual spot in front of his computer, and then headed towards the workshop area in the back. She nodded to Max, who smiled and nodded back as he worked on some new item.
"So Elena, how'd those new bolts work in the crossbow?"
"They worked great Max. Even quieter than your last ones. Tagged another one last night. What are you working on now?"
Max grinned and tossed her something that looked a lot like a black baseball. Elena turned it over in her hands, looking at it closely, noticing nothing unusual about it other than a red circle on one side, then looked at him and shrugged.
"Ok, I give. What is it?"
Max chuckled. "That, my friend is a sun grenade."
She looked at him in surprise. "You mean you finally got this thing to work??"
Max smugly smiled and nodded. "Told you I would figure it out, and there it is. That little baby will put out enough light energy to fry any vampire within 20 feet of it, without harming any normal humans in the area. Just press the red circle and toss it. Only has a 2 second delay so it'll go off quick and it just pops open, so no explosive to injure anyone."
Elena laughed and hugged him. "This is awesome!! Way to go Max!"
She felt a sense of relief and of renewed purpose now. One of her biggest concerns was that she had never dared go after the vampires in any real way before now. She had always had to try and catch them alone as she had no way of taking on more than one of them at a time. With these new grenades, Elena now planned on taking the battle to them.
Jake hollered at them "Hey, what's the occasion??"
She laughed and shouted back "Max got the grenades to work!"
Jake walked into the workshop area chuckling. "Told you he would. The egghead always figures it out in the end."
Max grinned and shook his head. "Egghead?? That's funny coming from you, Captain Calculator."
Elena smiled as she listened to her two friends trading good natured insults back and forth. She thought about them for a moment and considered how much harder her life would be without the two of them. She smirked at the thought as she considered how hard it was anyway.
She watched the two men banter as they always did, amused as always at how different they looked, yet how alike they were. Jake was tall, broad shouldered and looked like the trained athlete he was. With his sandy blond hair and rugged good looks, he looked as if he walked out of a GQ magazine. No one who saw him would ever guess he was a wizard with numbers, could calculate advanced equations in his head and held PhDs in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics both.
Max, on the other hand, could easily be identified as a techno geek. While he was reasonably good looking with his dark hair and tanned skin, he was never without his iPad and laptop. Constantly looking up the latest tech gear or new ideas coming down the pipeline, it was about all he liked to talk about most of the time. Still, Elena and Jake had worked on his social skills and he could now carry on a decent conversation in a social setting. A brilliant young inventor and tech head in his own right, Max was always in his element when he was working in his lab.
Thanks to Jake's financial genius, they had plenty of funds and could devote all of their time to hunting vampires. With Max's techno savvy and creative building skills, she had weapons that gave her an edge over her undead opponents. Still, it wasn't easy. Elena had barely survived on more than one occasion and had learned hard lessons on several occasions.
She was always methodical and cautious in her hunts, scouting out potential nightclubs, listening to rumors while hanging out in potential vampire hunting grounds. She always made sure to dress and look older when going into such places on her forays, as most vampires who hunted in such places were always looking for younger, more attractive prey.
It was a predictable weakness in the male vamps.
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Elena left the warehouse that evening just as the sun was going down. She moved into a shadowed alcove overlooking the entrance to the nightclub, using her special optics to look for vampires as people began heading into the club. She knew where one vampire hunted, one or more others would inevitably show up as well.
She was scanning several groups of people moving towards the entrance when she spotted the two vampires heading towards the alleyway. She cursed silently, hoping that she wouldn't have to try to take them both on at once, even if she did have a couple of Max's new grenades to use. She was even more aggravated and concerned when she saw one of them go into hiding near the entrance of the alleyway and the other turn and head back towards the entrance.
"What the fuck is going on?" she wondered. "It's almost as if...oh shit!"
It rapidly dawned on her that the two male vamps were setting a trap, and three guesses as to who they were waiting for. Somehow, they knew someone had killed their fellow vampire the night before, and now they were here to try and catch whoever did it.
She switched the magnification sight on her optics and zoomed in to look at both men. The one going into hiding was short and wiry looking, with a lean featured and rather attractive looking face. He wore jeans, sneakers and a black muscle tee. His partner was large, built like a bull, with a blond ponytail and average looking features. He wore jeans, biker boots and wore a denim jacket over a shirt.
"Hmmm, no offense boys but neither of you look like the type to think this little trap up. I wonder who your Master is?" Elena mused silently to herself.
Every instinct she had screamed at her to bug out and disappear pronto, but she had a sinking feeling that she knew what they were going to do to lure her into their trap. She was standing there thinking of her next move when she saw the big blonde vampire come strolling out of the nightclub, a dark haired woman following him docily along.
"Shit, I hate being right." she thought, being thankful at least that the two vamps weren't overly imaginative in their trap and that she knew exactly where they both were ahead of time.
Having scanned the area very carefully earlier, she was very certain that the two men were the only vamps in the vicinity, so hopefully she could pull this off. She'd already discarded the idea of trying to take them out one at a time, as the other one would know what happened before she could dispatch him too. She was well aware of the fact that she could not go toe to toe with a vampire and could only strike them when surprise was on her side.
Muttering a curse and a prayer that she wasn't signing her own death warrant, Elena left her vantage point and began circling around to the other end of the alleyway. She had one chance to maybe pull this off and hoped like hell Max's new toy worked like he said it would.
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After making it to the opposite end of the alleyway, Elena stealthily peeked around the corner. She wasn't really surprised to see the dark haired woman on her knees, hungrily sucking on the big vampire's cock. Elena couldn't help but wonder what it was with male vamps. Couldn't they at least take their prey to a motel and screw them properly one last time before draining them? Give them one last bit of courtesy instead of fucking them and killing them in an alleyway? Ugh.
She knew it was a morbid thought, but after hunting the undead for the last several years, most of her humor was of the gallows variety. It was hard to maintain anything remotely resembling a sunny outlook on life when that life revolves around hunting what are basically serial killers after all. She mentally shrugged, palmed one of Max's special grenades, took a deep breath and then slowly and silently moved into the alley.
The blonde haired vampire, who went by the name of Alexi, was enjoying himself, his eyes on the raven haired beauty as her rosy red lips slid up and down his throbbing cock. He had spotted her in the club and simply had to indulge himself, even as he knew she was just bait to bring in this supposed vampire hunter. He knew his Master believed that Michael had been slain by one, but he still found it a little hard to credit.
There had never been a vampire hunter in this city as long as he'd been undead, which was nearing 30 years now. He had heard of one showing up in some of the major metropolitan areas of the world over the years, but they were very rare. Still, the Master was never wrong about anything as far as he knew, so Alexi kept his senses on alert, even as he thoroughly enjoyed the hot, wet mouth of the mindless slut on her knees before him.
He grinned and ran the fingers of one hand through the woman's hair, thrusting his hips back and forth as he fucked her mouth. He loved using compulsion on women, using them as his fucktoys before he drained them. Alexi watched the brunette beauty lavish his cock with her tongue, but concluded that while he was thoroughly enjoying her, he couldn't wait to take out the vampire hunter.
