Two birds of a feather

"Derex, who do you work for?"

"I can\'t really tell you that... Because honestly I don\'t know, and your not allowed to know..."

We both sighed as I got up and said, "But, uhm, I\'ll be seeing you around..." I walked out of starbucks, got in my car and drove off.

I headed up to wal-mart going in the store I grabbed a cart. As I was about to walk towards the produce, I noticed a young woman standing in the middle of the ventilation where you picked up the blue baskets.

Her hair was black and her body looked like it was decaying. There was red tattoos all over her body. I could see part of her bones like she was dead. She had on scraps for clothes and I could see her heart beating and her lungs expanding and compressing. It seemed like I was the only who noticed her though. There seemed to be a green mist surrounding her body.

It almost made me vomit looking at her. And I took a step back bumping into someone, "Oh, I\'m sorry."

But then I realized it was Jaston, "What the hell are you doing here? Are you stalking me?!"

He shushed me as people started to stare at him, "You\'ve got a stalker."

"What the hell are you talking about the only stalker I see here is you-"

"The woman behind you," he interjected, "This will be your first assignment.. Find the necromancer and put a bullet in its head."

And by the time he finished saying that everyone in the store was frozen.

"Necromancer? You mean someone who raises the dead?"

"Yeah, and I hope you brought your gun."

The woman slowly moved forward towards us on unsteady feet. Her hands were crossed on her chest and her fingernails grew longer like claws.

She started to run towards us and she struck out at the air as Jaston pulled out a beautiful dagger to deflect it.

The dagger looked like a silver feather that was at least two feet long. The hilt was gold and looked like the beak of a eagle. He pulled out another dagger as I took off running.

I heard him yell, "Dont forget the blood!"

"Blood?" I asked myself as I walked up the left side of the aisle\'s close to meat section. Walking around the store with everyone frozen was so cool, but wierd at the same time. I waved my hand in front of someone\'s face. As I laughed to myself I noticed a woman near the far end of the store near the dairy products. She stood stock-still like everyone else but her clothes is what really caught my attention.

She wore a blood red cloak with a hood over her head and I could only see her eyes and they were violet.

I noticed the blood that was on the floor dripping from her hands.

"Blood..." I whispered as her eyes moved meeting mine. She ran taking off fast like she wasnt even there in the first place.

I followed suit following her hearing gunshots off in the distance. When I got to the end of the store someone was pressed against her throat. Holding her up by the neck. The man tore off part of her flesh wiping off the blood on his sleeve leaving no trace of it behind; and when he caught sight of me he just smiled.

The smile was radiant showing a full set of teeth and his fangs looked like daggers as they slowly receded to normalcy. His eyes were amethyst and he looked like an aristocrat. His hair was black and red down to his shoulders. He wore a black trench like mine that had the feather on the back with the number 16 over it. He wore leather pants and a white muscle shirt that was now blood splattered. He stood to a height of six foot two, and his shoulders were broad. He looked like a killer someone who\'d do it in a heartbeat, well maybe it was just the blood splatter.

As the female started to struggle he pulled out a black desert eagle that had the number 16 on it also.

He put it to her head and pulled the trigger twice. A moment later he let her go as she slid down the wall leaving a blood streak. And then a moment later he was gone.

I could hear footsteps running up behind me and it was Jaston along with a woman.

She was beautiful: long black curls with with brown streaks in them, her eyes freakishly red. She had on a black long dress that went down pass her knees and one side was longer than the other,and had a slit in one side for better movement. Her resemblance reminded me of that man so much that they looked twins. Her heels were black also and she looked like a model. She carried a long red kunai in one of her hands that was at least 18". When she looked at the woman her face fell in disappointment. Jaston\'s eyes met mine and he seem to ponder the look on my face.

The woman walked over to me shaking my hand, "Hi I\'m kira, it\'s nice to finally meet you." She smiled as I looked into her eyes showing a full set of teeth and just like his teeth her fangs were sharp like daggers. "That was Xavier by the way and I\'m his sister."

As she walked towards the corpse the smile faded as she looked at her brother\'s handy work. She seemed sort of unamused like she was use to this.

"I will meet y\'all at the compound... I\'m gonna call the cleaners, you guys head to work..."

Jaston and I headed outside we got into my car and as I started I asked, "Where to?"

"Head towards downtown, and I\'ll tell you where to go once we get there..."