Bounty

Chapter 1
The sun’s black rays

It was dark. Darker than the usual lack of sun would have normally allowed it to be. This level of darkness was the kind that seeped into certain people’s skin and sent that creepy tingly feeling up their spines and made the hairs on the back of their neck stand at attention. Therefore alerting said “certain people” that danger was near.
Or in Alexa’s case “danger was here”.
The brunet blocked another savage blow from the sharp and bloodied claws of her attacker, grunting when she realized that though she had stopped the blow enough so that it didn’t slice her in half, she had not been quick enough to stop it from scraping her skin and leaving thick bloodlines on her abdomen that ranged from just under her left breast to the opposite ribcage.
The night air was brisk and cold and made her newly acquired wounds sting when the wind touched them. She only gritted her teeth and set her jaw, determined to not allow any pain to showcase itself on her face. Dark eyes set on the creature before her. A Solaris demon, bred from the sun but ironically enough allergic to its rays. Much like a vampire if this thing was even grazed by the UV heightened rays of the earth’s sun it would burst into flames and no longer be a threat.
Alexa seemed to like that scenario a bit more than the Solaris did.
Presently it was only about ten thirty at night and the sun wouldn’t make its appearance for quite some time now. So unless there was about to be a freak sunrise in the dead of night, Alexa was going to have to pull this one off the old fashioned way.
The never dying art of decapitation suited itself well in her mind, and the broad sword in her hand made it applicable to her body as well.
Alexa swung hard towards the thing’s body first, throwing him a blow she knew the demon would counter thus leaving him open for an attack that would prove to leave him headless sooner rather than later. Just as Alexa expected the Solaris demon moved for the block, which Alexa took in stride, allowing its claws to make as much contact with her sword as they wanted to. The impact sent a mid-evil sounding shing through the air and the heavy vibration that was sent through her sword rattled her bones and made her teeth click in her mouth. But though the vibrations made her hands go numb for a fraction of a second, she never lost any time at all, pushing upwards with her sword and causing the demon to stumble backwards. Taking this to her full advantage, she followed, stepping forward with a level horizontal swing of her weapon, ushered on by the assistance of both hands clasped tightly on its hilt.
With a sound that was as quiet as the wind the Solaris demon’s head popped right off like it had never been meant to be there in the first place. The cut was so precise that it never even drew blood. Alexa watched the severed head of the demon roll away onto the grass before hearing the thud of its body crumbling to the ground.
The smile that tugged at the female’s lips was more than cynical.
When you were in the business that she was in you had to learn how to enjoy your job. Either that or it made you crazy.
Alexa sheathed her sword in its rightful place in the sheath at her left hip and mounted her black and red Harley Davidson before looking back over her shoulder and surveying the mess that she had made that the sun would clean up for her. On the ground lay eight Solaris demons, an unlikely hunting pack thwarted by this twenty year old.
Alexa knew, as she revved up her bike, that crazy got you no where when it came to being a bounty hunter. No where but dead. And that was one place she wouldn’t let her prized bike take her.