Demon Hunter

by The Dude

Chapter 4

"Hit him again!"

The hoof struck me in my face, sending pain throughout my skull. I could taste the blood leaving my mouth, probably exciting the vampires before me. I looked over at Brave seeing one of the vampires striking him down with their hoof.

I wasn't really thinking about dying. When you're getting beaten in the middle of the woods by vampires it's hard to think of anything else but now the thought was slowly rushing to my head. Maybe I wasn't going to see Twilight again. Maybe I wasn't going to be able to take a nice fancy shower again. Maybe I wasn't going to make it out tonight.

"You called me Princess?" I stood in the royal hallway looking at Celestia at her throne. She called me early this morning so I was a tiny bit cranky since I didn't really have time to have breakfast or have one of my fancy showers.

"Oh yes Iceheart, I have a job for you."

I had to raise an eyebrow at this. Usually she would send a letter to Twilight if she needed us fo any demon hunting she needed so this seemed a little important.

"Apparently i've heard rumors about a club in Canterlot I need you to check out."

I looked at her in confusion "You want me to go clubbing?"

"No. According to a reliable resource this particular club is only occupied with vampires."

When I heard the princess say vampires there was a small part in the back of my head that was jumping, breaking furniture, and kicking my cerebellum in excitement. I loved vampires. Around my teenage years when my schedule consisted of masturbating and resenting my parents I fell in love with vampires. Everything that included vampires I tried to get, books,movies, anything. Except this one book, I can't remember the title but it was about some whiny mare in high school who falls in love with some sparkly vampire. The only thought that was in my head while reading was "WHERE THE HELL IS BLADE WHEN YOU NEED HIM?".

"So you want me and Twilight to go investigate a club in canterlot filled with vampires?"

"Not Twilight. It's too dangerous for somepony without combat training like you so you will get a temporary partner." She looked to one of the doors with her horn and opened it.

"Meet Orange brave."

Out stepped an light brown colored unicorn wearing a high class leather jacket and wearing glasses. His mane was a stunning was a combination of bright orange and dark black.

He turned to me and put out his hoof,"Pleasure to meet you Iceheart." I shook his hand surprised by his soft fur and tight grip.

"Nice to meet you too." I said as one thought rushed to my head I turned to the princess. "Wait how does this club work anyway?"

The princess turned to me in confusion."What do you mean?"

"Like how does it run. I'm probably gonna run in guns blazing and I want to know I i'm gonna tell the difference between normal and vampire ponies. If there are any normal ponies I think they would see it would be weird if a two crazy ponies kicked the door open and killed half of the club."

The princess gave a slight smile. "Its not a regular club Iceheart. It's actually an underground club, and no normal pony goes into it because it's hidden."

"Then how are we supposed to find it?"

"I will have arranged someone to take you there. You will need to meet him at a small record store. Just ask the clerk for Jack Skellington."

"So when are we going?"I asked her. "And where is the record store? And why are you not giving me information until I ask?"

"Tonight. Brave knows where this record store is."

"Alright I guess." I turned to Brave. "So do you want to meet me somewhere when it's time to go?"

"I was thinking you and me could go have breakfast or something. I would like know a little about the person I am gonna go fight supernatural creatures and might even die with." He gave a slight chuckle at the end of his sentence. I gave a small smile too. Like we that was going to happen.

"Do you want to sit in or outside?" I asked.

"Outside."

We found a small table for two on the back porch. We were at a small restaurant in Canterlot called "The Hungry Pony". Twilight told me she ate here all the time with her friends when she came to Canterlot and she said it was pretty good and I usually don't go out to eat much so I'm just gonna take her word on it.

We sat down at a small table outside of the restaurant around some unusual Canterlot ponies. Unusual meaning most of them didn't look like they had their fancy heads up their ass.

"So" I turned to Brave trying to break the ice " you're a demon hunter?"

He looked at me and gave a small slight nod.

"You seem more like a college professor then a fighter of terrifying creatures that give filly's nightmares."

He smiled and looked down at the table. "Yeah i've heard that a couple times before." He then gave a small glance at my coat. "Nice outfit Photo Finish."

I gave a small laugh at his comment. I then remembered the reason we came to this establishment. "So what are you gonna order?"

"Probably a croissant or a muffin."

"MUFFIN!" Said a gray pegasus suddenly popping out of the bushes a few feet away which me and Brave had to give a surprised look and then awkwardly confront each other again.

"Uh....I think all get pancakes." I said trying to restore normalcy to our conversation.

"So how do you fight." Asked Brave

"What?" I muttered.

"Well I want to know what you use to fight so I can figure out how this is gonna go down."

"Well I'm skilled in hoof-to-hoof combat but I can use my sword and my guns."

He looked at me puzzled. "Guns?"

"These." I took my hoof out of the sleeve and showed him my two pistols and a glance of my sword.

"What does it do."

"Basically I press a button and a small piece of metal comes out and hits whoever I point it at."

"Cool. But why haven't i ever heard of it?"

"Celestia told me that if this was released in the public she's afraid that people might use it to kill other ponies."

"Oh." Said Brave.

"Are you two ready to order?" I turned my gaze away from Brave and turned to see a frowning blue pony looking at me holding up a notebook and a pencil with her horn.

"Yeah I'll have pancakes."

"Alright." She turned away from me writing in her notebook. She turned to brave,"And you?"

"I'll have a croissant."

"Ok then." She said, "I'll be back in a minute." and she walked away.

I turned back to Brave and prepared myself for the rest of our breakfast probably talking about the weather or at some awkward point or sex lives.

Brave and I stood outside a record store called "Blackberry records" in the downtown part of Canterlot. I opened the door and we both went inside. The floor was just hard wood and the walls colored a nice calming blue. The register was on the left side and behind the register was a pale pink mare with a black straight mane.

"Uh can I help you?" The mare asked Brave.

"Yes" He said "Were looking for Jack Skellington?"

She smiled,"Hold on." She turned away from us and from a tired looking customer heading towards the register. After a minute of waiting she came back with a black colored pony with a gray mane and dark red eyes.

"Are you the guys I need to escort? "

"Yes." I said.

"Alright lets go." He said before turning away from us and went out the door. Me and Brave followed him outside and followed him.

It was 10:09. Only a couple of ponies were out at this time. I looked down an alley way and saw a couple of teenage colts smoking cigarettes, and giving me a stern look like we are gonna call the police on them.

We walked until we stopped at an old bar. Jack held the door open for us as we walked in. The bar was dark and dank with only a couple of sad patrons drinking away their sadness after realizing how much they hate themselves. Jack nodded to the bartender which was returned by him and walked to the other side of the bar. He then opened a door and led us in. Behind the door led a small stair case. I walked down first and after a second I realized there was a couple of other staircases at the end all leading to a small door at the end. We walked down all the stair cases until we reached the door. Neither me or Brave opened the door unaware of what was on the other side. Jack then came down and opened the door and revealed to us the lair of the vampires.

A dance club.

I walked in and tried to observe what was going on. It was dark and there were bright colored lights. They were playing very loud techno music. I could see there were at least 1 hundred vampires just jumping around. Some were literally kissing against walls and even fucking. It was just all around chaos. A combination of loud music, Bright lights, and sex.

Suddenly the music stopped.

Suddenly they all turned to look at us.

"What do we have here?" Said the dj who stood on a giant stage. I looked at him. He was a pale white stallion with dark blue eyes. "You guys aren't vampires." He said. Suddenly he smiled, "You guys are hunters aren't you?"

Neither of us responded.

"Well i'll just assume you guys are." The dj boasted. "Well I think I need to play a little something for all my friends to TEAR YOUR INSIDES OUT!" He yelled while pulling out a record and playing it.

The loud techno bursted from the speakers.

They rushed at us like hungry dogs. The first one tried to jump for me but I was able to pull my sword out and cut off its head. The second and third ran straight for me, I sliced one of them in half and then quickly pulled out my sword and stabbed the other one. Then one tried to go for my hooves but i jumped back and when I landed I quickly sliced it twice in half. I was able to get a quick glance at Brave and how he was fairing.

I saw him grab one of the vampires and rip them in half, he then punched one in the face so hard the head exploded. Apparently super strength was his thing.

I looked away from him to see 4 vampires jumping for me. I quickly slashed my sword at each of them and their bodies dropped to the floor. I looked unto the crowd of vampires rushing towards me.

Fuck it I thought as I took my sword in hoof and flung it at the vampires as hard as I could. It flew towards the crowd spinning until I saw it had stabbed 3 vampires in the head and sent them flying back until my sword stuck itself in a wall.

I pulled out my guns and started shooting at the crowds of vampires shooting me. Many fell but they just kept coming. Finally one jumped for me and I jumped to dodge then planted my hoof on its face and preceded to jump over the crowd of flesh craving monsters. I tried shooting some while I was in the air, but I was only able to kill two.

I landed a few yards away from the crowd and I sprinted towards my swords. As I ran I could hear the hoofsteps of the group of vampires behind me. Luckily all my training had made me pretty adequate in the cardio department so they weren't able to catch me. I finally reached my sword against the wall with 3 vampires impaled on it. I grabbed it and pulled out of the wall and turned back towards the group.

I rushed at the vampires as fast as I could run with my swords. When I first made contact with all the vampires I slashed my sword cutting off the heads of every unnatural creature I could see. I kept blindly slashing my sword against the vampires until I reached the other side. I quickly looked back at what I just ran through and saw tons of vampire bodies hit the floor. Only 4 were left.

I ran up to one and stabbed my sword through it's skull and pulled my gun for the other 3. I shot 2 but one of them quickly dodged my bullets and jumped to bite me. I dodged to the side and quickly planted my hoof into it's skull making it stumble before I ran to it placed my gun against it's head and pulled the trigger.

As the body of the vampire and the vampires around me fell I looked back at the bombus DJ.

"Oh shi-" He tried to say before I planted a bullet firmly in his pony brain.

I finally looked at all the vampire blood I was covered in. Buckets full. After that realization I gave a quick look at Brave to see him ripping the head of his last vampire enemy. I gave him a small nod then walked over to him.

"Are they all dead?" I asked him.

"Well..they were all dead before we came."

"Ha ha ha."

Brave then looked at me with wide eyes like he just had a revelation, "Wait wheres Jack?"

I took a quick look around only seeing the cut up corpses of vampires,"I don't know. I just wanna go home man."

"I'm over here." I turned to the exit seeing the black pony they called Jack Skellington.

"Ok. Lets go Brave." I said.

He looked at me and nodded and both of us walked to the door. Jack closed the door behind us.

I had the thought in my head how I was gonna go outside covered in vampire giblets when I saw Jack strike Brave with a lead pipe knocking him out cold.

"What the hell are yo-" Was all I got to say before I could feel nice lead pipe collide with my skull.

And thats what happened. My situation was that I was on my knees on the middle of the woods being beaten by vampires. I could look over to my left to see Jack leaning against a tree. The bastard. Me and Braves hands were tied so we couldn't do anything.

"HARDER!"

Another hoof struck me in the face with the force of a steel train. Now my mouth felt like a giant blood water park.

"Oh Alizarin let me taste him."

I looked up too see the voice was coming from the girl behind the counter. Her black mane blowing in the wind. She apparently was talking to another pony, a gray stallion with a dark blue mane.

"Fine." Said Alizarin.

I wasn't able to think another thought before the vampire behind the counter put her lips to mine. This would have been nice and erotic if I wasn't being beaten in a forest at midnight by vampires. Then the kiss faded to the mare sucking the blood leaking into my mouth from the beatings. After 30 seconds she took her lips away from mine.

"Oh god, it's been to long." She said.

"Don't worry we have our feast soon." Said Alizarin. He then walked up to Brave. "Anything thing you want to say before you die?"

What happened was something I never expected. I could see Braves horn glow for a flicker of a second until I saw Braves mouth open straight wide. Then something came out of Braves mouth and went right through Alizarin's face. I can only describe what went through his head was this, It looked like a bunch of muscles twisted together with an eyball in the center. At the end of the eye muscle was a sharp blade.

"What the hell!!" Screamed the mare vampire. She ran at him ready to eat his flesh but was interrupted by me tripping her with my hoof. I stood up and looked at the vampire mare. I immediately aimed for her head, I jumped on her and landed my hooves straight down on her skull,it crushing beneath me.

I turned to Jack to see him realizing that the ponies he just screwed over were free. His face turned from boredom to anger as he rushed to us. I tried to punch me but I leaned back far enough to dodge his punch and brought my forehead to his sending him to the ground. He stumbled back rubbing his forehead before being interrupted with a round house kick to his skull.

He was flung to my left and landed hard on the ground. I looked to see him realizing he wasn't going to win this fight and quickly stand up and run in the opposite direction before being interrupted by a nice hard punch from Brave in the stomach then sent his intestines flying out of him like some sort of meat pinata.

I turned to see Braves face, black eye, blood leaking out of his mouth and muzzle. I wondered how I looked before realizing one of my teeth was swirling around in my blood waterpark of a mouth, I spit it out on the ground then turned back to Brave.

"How did you do that?" I asked.

"Oh you mean the eye ball blade coming out of my mouth?"

"Yeah that."

"Oh. Thats just something I picked up over the years."

"You've learned to spit out a blade with an eyeball in the middle into your enemies and just ponies you don't like?"

"Pretty much."

"Uh." I said. "Should we go to a hospital?"

"Maybe. I don't know if we should go to a traditional hospital, they might get a little suspicious. You know anyone who might have medical experience?"

Twilight opened her door. Her eyes were barely open and she looked as though she seemed pretty annoyed somepony was knocking at this hour. "What is it? Its almost 1 in the..AHHHH."

"Hi Twilight." I said rubbing the back of my head. "Do you know anything about fixing broken noses?"