Hellhound by Rue Volley Read Free Book Online

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    “Yes.” Gunner said as he walked into the room and looked at everyone. “She will be fine. This is what she felt most comfortable with and so it is what she will be wearing.”
    “I remember when we just fought in what we died in.” Finna said as she half laughed.
    Gunner looked at her. “Things change, Lucifer changes the game as often as he wishes to. I don’t control it.”
    “I never said that you did.” She said as they watched him walk to the wall and he pulled two axes. He came back and tossed one to me and I caught it a lot easier than I thought that I would. It felt as if it weighed nothing and yet I knew that it had weight to it.
    “Perhaps she should start with a lighter…” Dorin started to say and Gunner held his hand up to him.
    “There is no reason that she should not be able to battle with whatever I give to her. She is branded.”
    “I know but…”
    “Dorin.” Gunner said as he turned and stared at him. His expression was hard. Finna shook her head and Ari laughed.
    “Fine.” He said as he stepped up and held his hand out to him.
    “What?” Gunner said as he held the ax.
    “Give it to me Gunner, you are the hardest opponent in the house, she should at least have a chance her first time around.”
    “She needs to...”
    Dorin took the ax from him and for a minute they both stood there like a fight may happen. I held the ax and watched closely, not knowing what would be happening next. Gunner then stepped back and waved a hand as Dorin nodded to him. He turned to me and smiled as I saw his teeth, two pointed ones and it was then that I realized that he was in fact a vampire. Shit.
    He leaped into the air and twisted above me as I swung my ax upwards over my head. The fact that I did kind of shocked me. I mean I had never had a weapon in my hand before the knife I shoved into Travis’s face. I was not a fighter by nature, but as Dorin landed behind me and I spun on one foot, my long red hair swinging out to my side and the ax following with a serious swing, I started to think that maybe I was a warrior. Maybe something had laid dormant in me forever and this was why I was able to take that knife to Travis when I knew it was him or me. Of course I did not know at the time that I was fucking dying, but whatever. I killed him just the same. Dorin then laughed as he darted to the right and my eyes were able to follow him, I adjusted my footing as he darted to the left and then he was on me and swinging the ax like a maniac as I bent back and arched my back. My head almost touched the ground as I saw Gunner watching me, which was a fucking distraction. I came up just as Dorin reared back and hit me in the nose with the butt of the ax and I stumbled backwards, reaching up to touch my nose. I pulled my hand back to see blood but it was not red, not at all. It was now black and the sight of it bothered me, giving Dorin another chance to strike at me but as he leaped above me, I brought my ax up and held it in both hands and stopped his ax just a fraction of an inch from my eye. I stared at it as he grinned and showed off his vampire teeth. I shook my head and then pushed him back from me as I yelled out.
    “I never liked vampire movies; they never got it right once the fucking teenagers got involved.”
    Gunner laughed as did Ari and Finna as I spun around and swung my ax as hard as I could. It came within a sheer fraction of an inch from cutting his throat, as he leaned back from me. I then kicked him in the stomach and he flew across the room and hit the wall, quickly sliding down as he laughed out loud. 
    I stood there, my chest rising and falling as Dorin stood up and then he nodded to me, a smile curling his lip up at the corner of his mouth as he looked me over.
    “It would seem that you are capable of handling yourself.”
    “Thank you.” I said as he approached me and looked down my body. I straightened up as he grinned.
    “If you would ever like some company I would