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coming from vampires,
not human soldiers. Three of them as far as I could tell. They were
headed in our direction and not far away at all. Feminine laughter
rung out above the others and then a few male chuckles of lower
volume.
    My hand went to my holster
automatically. I knew what was going to happen, we had a crap ton
of human blood pumping through this alley, there was no way that
those vamps weren’t going to catch the scent of us.
    Closer now, “Wait, do you smell
that?”
    Crap. Well, there were more of us than
them. Should be no problem.
    “ Yeah,” the feminine voice
whispered, “I do.” She inhaled deeply. “There are more than one
too.”
    “ Come on,” one of the
other vamps demanded in a low voice.
    I nudged Alice, who was in front of me
and signaled that they were coming. She reached up and as silently
as possible, drew her swords from their sheaths. Her face serious,
and a bit scared, she gripped one in each hand, ready for whatever
she had to face.
    Christina already had a huge knife in
her left hand, but the rest of us opted for guns, even
Anthony.
    “ This way,” one of the
male voices directed the others.
    I was at the rear from where they were
coming from, so Anthony was going to have to initiate the kills. I
just hoped he wasn’t going to screw us over and would actually do
it.
    The vampires were silent
as they approached the alley, trying to be a quiet as possible so
that we wouldn’t hear them coming. Most vampires didn’t assume that
two dhampirs and a full blooded vampire would be hanging out with a
bunch of humans, and they never expected any of them to be a Hunter.
    Anthony pointed his pistol at the
opening of the alley, waiting for the enemy to find us.
    One of the males was the first to
show. He rounded the corner cautiously, but without a weapon that
we could see. His blond hair fell down into his face, covering one
of his bright blue eyes. The moment those eyes fell onto the humans
among us, the one we could still see flickered and turned red. The
sign of blood lust.
    “ Do not move another
inch,” Anthony ordered. The barrel of his gun was only about a foot
away from the vampire’s heart.
    The blond vampire flashed his gaze
over the entire group, taking in the details. With the weapons and
the mix of humans and vampire, he put it together pretty quickly.
He stepped back, slowly raising his hands into the air just as the
others entered the alley. “Whoa, hold up, we aren’t going to hurt
anyone.”
    “ I find that hard to
believe,” Anthony told him. “You two,” he waved the gun toward the
other vampires who had halted abruptly when they saw that their
plan had not gone smoothly, “hands up.”
    Drew marched forward, a gun gripped in
each hand. “I’ll take care of them.”
    “ Wait,” I hissed, moving
around the others until I was next to him. “You can’t. We should
try to do this quietly if we can.” I was already fitting the
silencer onto my gun.
    Too late. The idiot vampires took the
moment of distraction and used it to their benefit. Everything
happened quickly. The first vampire reached out and grabbed the
barrel of Drew’s left gun, pulling him forward and then punching
him in the face.
    “ Son of a bi…” Drew’s
curse was cut off by scream of the vampire when Anthony pulled the
trigger and shot him in the heart. The vampire released Drew’s
weapon, letting it fall to the cement with a dull
clatter.
    The female vampire screeched and bared
her pearly white fangs at us. She was promptly rewarded for this
with one of Christina’s knives in her chest. Her screech was cut
short when the large blade buried to the hilt in her heart. Only a
gurgling sound released as she choked on her own blood. A few
crimson drops slid out of her mouth and over her lips. She fell to
her knees, her red eyes wide, clutching the handle of the knife
with her right hand. Her left hand tried to move up and join the
right one, but she didn’t have the strength left.
    The other