100 Theme Challenge #39

S: Hitman

39. Wrath

The streets were quiet tonight, not a cat in sight. It seemed everyone got the word to stay inside, that a lone wolf was here to get vengeance. Wise choice. Blood and screams I'd spill before the return of the dawn. My strides were fast and sure, my hands ready to draw my guns at any danger. Creatures were hiding in the shadows, and I was making sure nobody was following me at every corner.

I reached the church, high decayed building resting in the midst of modern, eclectic ones. I barged in, eyes scanning the area.

"I know you're here, demons. Show yourselves!"

The first one tried to sneak up on me from above, but my senses were quicker. Its corpse fell before me with a sickening, wet sound; a hole smoking from its deformed skull.

"Killian, what a surprise." A form quit the shadows, approached me.

"You really though I wouldn't seek vengeance? After what you've done, after you killed my husband?"

A chilling laugh left its dead mouth, its bloodshot eyes showing nothing but cruelty.

'My kin needs to eat, and human flesh they feast on. It was unfortunate your mate happened to be... the main dish."

I saw red. I shot it out, but it had disappeared before the bullet had time to reach it. Other creatures ran at me, and I took care of them. That was exactly its plan. I felt its cold, putrid breath on the back of my neck before I was shoved in the wall, face first. I coughed dust and dirt.

"You poor thing. Blinded by vengeance, it shall be your undone."

I gasped in pain when it bit into my neck and drank like a man lost in the desert for forty days,. It took it a while to realize something was wrong, but then it was retching all over the floor, red bright against the wood. I panted, ahnds pressed agaist my wound, and retrieved my dagger with the other. I took the opportunity of its crouched position to sint it deep in its beatless heart.

Its skin turned to ashes, as its insides, and the last thing I saw of that creature was its brazen eyes in mine, promising me a thousand years of pain he would never be able to fulfill.

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