A breath of 'fresh' air...

[Beta 112]

Salanim breathed in deep, the air smelled fresh, free of smoke and human scents. There was peace here, well sort of, if you ignored the ghosts, zombies, and various other unmentionables. However, there were few peaceful places for Salanim to go now, Vampires probably wanted his head worse than they wanted blood.

Salanim rested the barrel of the long 8 gauge on his shoulder, holding it in that comfortable position. He shook his hair back, and took another breath, nobody better try to kill him today, he was in such a good mood. Salanim started to walk, downhill towards the endless hills of gravestones, his face cheery and smiling...

[Animebella]

Katsumi sat on one of the tallest gravestones perfectly still. It was odd to see another being aside from something dead around these parts. What could this one be up to? She watched him as she sat there noticing the gun that lay nestled onto his back. Born killer perhaps? She better watch herself around this one, that being said she wasn't going to go easy on him. He smelled strongly of blood and yet he wore a smirk on his face, almost peaceful looking, he must be hiding something. She growled lightly to herself wondering how a killer could be so happy.

Kat tensed slightly as she heard a twig craxking from somewhere behind her, not about to moved she closed her eyes in hopes of whatever it may be wouldn't attack. Knowing this she opened one eye to peek at the man who was still moving towards her. She wondered if he had heard the noise.. knowing it was probably one of the walking dead, it was so difficult to keep them down once they had risen again.

[Beta 112]

Salanim stopped, hearing a slight crack somewhere to his left. He had thought he sensed a malevolent presence near him, he though as his eyes lighted on the undead body wandering blindly towards him. Salanim smiled.

"The dead should stay where they are" he said simply as he flipped the shotgun from it's comfortable position on his back, and held it one armed towards the beast.

There was a clack as the safety was turned off, followed almost immediately by a ear splitting bang. Briefly a flurry of sparks could be seen at the end of the long barrel, and Salanim's arm was shot upward, almost out of control, but Salanim restrained it. The beast shot backward was the solid silver shot hit him full in the chest, falling ungracefully back in a mist of vaporized blood. He did not move again.

Salanim pulled back on the forearm of the gun and the shell was ejected, clipping off the stone of a nearby tombstone and falling somewhere behind it...

[Animebella]

Kat jumped as the man had his gun in position in a matter of mear seconds, a shot fired, ringing through the trees and her ears, she covered them but soon lost her balance. As soon as the shell hit into the tombstone she was already falling. She hit the ground with a loud thump. "Ouch." She squeaked as she landed akwardly, her wings had gotten caught behind her, one twisting in a very uncomfortable position. She knew then that it was pretty close to being broken.

She moved slowly, not able to move so quickly after a fall like that. She slowly sat up knowing she would have the hunter jumping to conclusions almost as fast as she could take her first breath. She had no choice in the matter though, her heartbeat was speeding up as she twisted into a sitting position. Everything seemed to be fine but her left wing.

Running a light hand over it she twitched, "Da**it" She mumbled as she moved it slightly, but it only hung there limply. She figured she needed to call out to the hunter so he wouldn't jump to conclusions. "E..excuse me sir.." She called out in a small voice, she'd be able to turn on her cuteness once he found her. Less of a chance of him killing her. She stood gingerly and chanced a peek around the tombstone, noticing at once the dead, truely dead body the lay in the way of her and him.

[Beta 112]

Salanim was surprised when he heard the thud. He was suprised for two reasons, for one he was suprised he could hear it over the ringing in his ears, and second of all, how had he missed a second presence?

Salanim froze, prepared for the ambush that must follow. But nothing, he regained his composure and used his thin magic skills to find out what was near him. Ah. A devil. Nothing to worry about, no wonder I didn't notice, too busy finding the zombies and vamp's...

Salanim pulled the guns forearm foreward again, loading another shell into the chamber. He paused for a moment, reaching in his pocket for a replacement shell for the one he had fired earlier. He slipped the new shell into the gun's magazine, flipping the gun back over his shoulder he strode on.

Again another surprise, the demon dried out to him, in a light almost childish voice. Salanim stopped, level with the females position but still about five feet away. One of her wings hung limply, she was very young, and looked quite delicate. The part of him that was 'a dirty old man' stirred...

"Me?" he said pointing at himself, gun still resting on his shoulder.

[Animebella]

Katsumi flinched as she heard the hunter load in a second bullet, hoping it wasn;t for her. Relieved to find him slinging the gun over his shoulder again. He looked much older than herself as she looked him over this second time. A better look at him being closer and at the same level.

The moonlight hit him off to the side and she could see the man clearly, she wondered what he was doing here now, but was almost afraid to ask. Once he turned she tensed a bit more but nodded slowly. "Ye..yes." She said shaking herself of her fears, they were stupid and why she she be afraid of someone like this guy? Aside from the matter he was probably a born killer and all.

Still she came out of the shadow of the gravestone and took a step towards him, closing the gap, but also giving him a good look at herself. "I..I well.. your shot scared me. I seem to have fallen on my wing. I do hope that wasn't aimed at me." She said looking him over again and seeing as he looked more happy than anything, someone like this kills for fun? Or maybe it's all a ploy? Something or confuse his enemies? Or perhaps she was over thinking this like she normally did.

[Beta 112]

Salanim slung the gun, and looked at her with a studying stare. She didn't appear to be strong, perhaps too young to fight, or perhaps she fought in other ways. Salanim decided she was no immediate threat, she couldn't even run from him effectively with her wings like that.

"Well, Miss I am at your service, song long as what you ask does not conflict with my current goals" he said with a smile, now that she was closer he could see how much smaller than him he was.

Salanim slung his rifle, he personally preferred to carry it so that he was ready to use it at a moments notice. But while Salanim had no children, or anyone to have children with, he still had a sort of fatherly impulse for the devil. So he kept his shotgun where he would seem scary or threatening to the child.

[Animebella]

Katsumi stopped where she was after a few seconds, seeing as he started to fiddle with his gun again. She gulped slightly wondering why all of this was getting to her just now. She had, had many men falling at her feet before, granteed she was a bit downsided considering her wing was out of use for the time being. She swallowed her pride and continued to stride up towards him. Stopping only a foot away.

Kat sighed lightly, "Sir, I don't think you wish to treat me with such childish means." She said regaining her courage, even though she was slightly shaken. "I understand your age teeters over my own, by by the looks of you, you seem. How shall I put it... ah yes, weak to any woman. I'll follow your rules, so far as the means of killing me. That much I won't allow." She paused, "Might I add, the matter of me being an obvious devil and all, i'm not that easy to kill." She wasn't testing him, least she wasn't trying to.

She took a hesatant step closer and looked up at him, "You won't hurt a pretty girl now will you?" She asked curiously wondering what his intentions were anyways.

[Beta 112]

Salanim sighed as the girl spoke, he was looking at the sky by the time she was done. In fact Salanim hadn't understood half of what she had said, Salanim knew he wasn't the smartest of people, but still, was that even in English?

Salanim looked down, she was awfully close now, and her tone had changed. It was coy and seductive, he looked at her face closely. She looked a lot like the person he was trying to find, his nine years missing sister. A vampire most likely, and probably trying to kill him too. Salanim didn't claim to have been overly close to his sister at the time that she was attacked, but he had been persueing her for some time now and the simple sight of her face would be dear to him.

"You know what?" he asked the girl putting his hand on her head, able to palm it "You remind me of someone I used to know..."

[Animebella]

Kat could see that he wasn't even listening to her, only when she stopped talking did he look back to her from gazing at the sky. She sighed, a typical guy, could careless of everything around him. Oddly enough that included her, strange... she'd never been treated that way before. Perhaps he was playing her, but he seemed completly serious. She tilted her head to the side and watched as his eyes swept over her.

"Someone you used to know?" She asked really looking him over know, was he pulling her leg? No.. he was serious, but she hadn't ever seen him before in her life, she was sure of it. She wouldn't admit to it though, but what if she did? She was unsure of how to respond to that matter, it could go bad either way considering he didn't know whom he was even talking about. She bit her lip for a second, drawing a bit of blood before she spoke again, "I..I'm unsre of whom you speak of, but in my defense I have never seen you before." Taken for granteed it was dark out and perhaps she was wrong in the matter.

[Beta 112]

"Of course you haven't, only it's just you remind me of my sister, of course your not her, if you were you would be much older and a vampire." he smiled at her, taking his hand from her head.

So long since he had seen a face like her's, so long since her trail had led somewhere. So long since he could look upon her likeness and not fear the eventual fate that would come, his killing of her.

"My your bleeding, here, I have something..." he said as he reached inside his deep and heavy pocket.

He pulled out a small container, sealed tightly it contained a thick cream, he offered it to her "Here, this will stop that bleeding no problem" he said with his simple smile.

For now, I don't have to kill you, but perhaps I can pratice for the real thing on this one...

[Animebella]

Katsumi shivered slightly as he took his hand from her head, "Vampire? But you see theres the thing. I'm no vampire.. I..I donno what you have against your sister but.." She paused tasting the blood in her mouth, clearly she bit down too hard. She cursed herself in her mind as she looked to him wondering what he had up his sleeves.

Backing away slightly as he reached for something that was deep down in his pockets only to reveal a smallish container. She looked at the container for a moment before looking up at him. What is he planning? She wondered, knowing she never trusted anything a stranger gave to her, she had been hurt too many countless times before than to trust a stupid human. She narrowed her eyes and backed off. "A bit of blood's not going to bother me." She said bravely, almost tempted to take a swing at his hand that held the container.

She looked up at him for his reaction, something didn't seem right. He seemed too calm, almost as if it was a sinister sort of calmness. She shivered but shook it off, her eyes never leaving his as she waited to see what he would do or say.

[Beta 112]

"Of course it won't, but years of fighting the blood-suckers have taught me to keep the blood in the body as well as possible" he said, smiling and then he saw it, a undead beast wandering far too close to them, just over the girls shoulder.

Salanim lifted his shotgun from his back "stand still miss" he said pointing the gun over her shoulder and firing.

This time Salanim fired with both arms on the gun, and thus it was more controlled, but that didn't stop the noise. He slung the gun back over his back.

"Annoying little bugger's aren't they" he said secureing the gun in it's position "Loud isn't it?"

[Animebella]

Kat shook it off, she wasn't about to take charity from a complete stranger. She shook her head, "No..it's fine it'll heal soon enough." She said looking away slightly until she heard it herself. She shivered as he had the gun aimed and ready, telling her to stay still. Though seeing the gun aimed pretty much at her she couldn't help but cringe.

The shot sounded, almost sending her backwards with the sound as it echoed through the trees yet again. Thankfully it missed her, but something behind her wasn't so lucky. Tears came to her eyes hearing the thing up close, she shook it off, she wasn't about to let it get to her especially when he could see.

She chanced a glance over her shoulder and noticed another dead thing laying there. Looking back at him she wondered again why he was here, and yet she didn't even know his name. "I.. might I ask what your doing at a place like this?" She asked, knowing it would be fired back at her as well, but it was worth knowing.

[Beta 112]

"Oh, well you see there was supposed to be a rather large meeting of these things called vampires" said Salanim as if the girl had no clue what a vampire was "And you see I wanted to go to the meeting as well. But they don't appear to be here do they? Maybe they heard me, I have been rather loud haven't I?" finsihed Salanim, looking down at the devil.

Wind swirled around the two of them, flapping Salanim's heavy clothing "and might I ask why you are here, little girls should stay away from dangerous places like this, see you've already hurt your wing, I don't know how to fix it, but if you would care to follow me I'm sure my brother will." added Salanim looking around for a brief moment and then focusing back on the devil.