Blackout

[Jasper Nam]

"I am from Los Angels I am making my way to Hazleton to find vampires." He laughed, "But I guess they found me." Jasper was traveling by car from what he heard Hazleton was the hub of supernatural activity. Jasper wouldn't call himself a hunter he just wanted answers.

He noticed as Kihwa looked over his shoulder and heard rustling he looked in the same direction, "Did you hear that?" He whispered, his body tensed up as the sound came closer.

Jasper needed to over come this fear of vampires that haunted him his whole childhood. But over coming seemed to be a bigger feat. He only read about how to kill a vampire he had never killed before and he wasn't sure he could.

[Jeon Kihwa]

"Hazleton? For.... vampires?"

Was Hazleton famous for them? Really, Kihwa was only familiar with places that were famous, like LA or New York. As far as he knew, vampires weren't real but this guy seemed totally serious. Kihwa let out a nervous laugh.

"L-let's hurry."


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"Wh--wha..."

He was breathless and he couldn't get the words out but he kept turning and looking over his shoulder as they ran off and headed to the other man's room. Kihwa didn't like it; he shouldn't be alone with another man in his room. He had a boyfriend. A loving boyfriend. One of whom he missed so, so badly.

Where was his phone when he needed it?

He left it back in his room. His heart thumped erratically as he moved further into the room. He turned, just barely reaching out to fumble-grab the bottle tossed toward him.

"What--?" Holy Water. He mouthed the words to himself. Holy water. Stunned, he watched as the other man readied himself for apparent combat against vampires.

He's crazy, he thought but he was too nervous not to follow him out of the room and into the hall. It was better to be with him than to be alone right now... At least... he hoped so.

Brandishing his bottle of holy water, Kihwa swallowed hard and he prayed in the back of his mind. He willed himself to remember his boyfriend. He wished he was here so badly. All he wanted was for him to come and save him, as pathetic and childish as it sounded.

The sound of something stirring from behind them caught his attention and with his heart in his throat, Kihwa immediately spun around and let out a shout.

[Steven Won]

Stevy was eager to get to the hotel and fight. He had been training with his papa it was now time to see if the training paid off. Storytelling was something Stevy looked forward to, his papa shared with him is past hunts when he was younger.

The stories helped Steven connect with his papa and there was a lot to learn. The thing with Stevey and his dad is they did a lot of talking there was never a quiet moment. They missed out on so much time they made the best of any other time they had.

"How old were you, Papa when you had your first vampire hunt?" He was nervous but he knew his papa had his back and nothing would happen. As soon as Steven found out his papa was a hunter that's what he wanted to be. His mother kept him away from his dad but she never broke his spirit of becoming a hunter. He was going to carry the Won name proudly.

Pulling up to the driveway of the hotel they could see all the lights were out, he looked at his papa with big eyes, "Looks like they are hunting." Grabbing the large duffle bag he put it up front for him and his papa to weapon up. He tried his best not to look nervous he gave his papa a nod before the stormed the entrance.

Walking down the hall he saw something moving in front of them he nudged his papa," Looks like we got two up here." His steps became faster and he right behind one of them when he shouted in his face. Steven jumped he didn't expect it to be a human let alone a vocal on, "Shit, what are you doing out here?"

Jasper heard Kihwa shout he spun around and was faced with two others that looked to be hunting as well. "What are you doing out here?" Jasper questioned back brandishing his blade.

[Won Ki Jun]

"Older than you," he said, because he had just passed through his rebellious teen years when he stumbled through the whole hunter thing on his own. At least Stevey had somebody to help him through it all. And not to toot his own horn or anything but he had one of the best to help him in the form of his father.

Entering the hotel with weapons at the ready, Ki Jun calmly took in the situation. His gaze slowly moved around the lobby before they began walking the halls.

Definitely here. He could feel the dark crawl of the vampire's darkness. It ate at him, spread under the skin like an infection.

Unlike Stevey, he expected to meet others in the hotel. Maybe other hunters but probably victims.

These looked like victims, from the looks of it. At least, until he saw what they were holding.

"Holy water?" he asked, arching a brow. "You two little kids are hunters?"

[Jasper Nam]

They seemed to be hunters these others that Jasper and his Kihwa bumped into but the old man was an ass,"No! I am more of a researcher" Jasper barked back, "Are you, hunters? The power went out and I heard a scream so I left my room and that's when I bumped into him." He pointed over his shoulder with his thumb to Kihwa. "That's when we decided to check it out we knocked and a little girl answered and to our horror, she was a vampire with another one feeding on someone." He explained to them they could use the help Jasper was in over his head.

He had thought it would be easy to expose vampires for what they are and bring light to humans but this was a war he couldn't fight on his own he was now learning. Maybe these hunters could help Jasper and his quest? "We only ran into the two, I think for the most part people are staying in their rooms but the vampires might be picking them off. But I know nothing I was just staying here for the night as I made my way to Evermore." Where Jasper had planned to set up shop, his plans were to hire a few others and film them and then expose the vampires.

Bad on Jasper's part to bring attention to the group with all his small talk a group of vampires moved in on four of them. Jasper was as ready as he was ever going to be it was time to fight for his life.

[Won Ki Jun]

"Yup." He was a hunter, all right. But these two... They really took the cake. A researcher, huh? And some quivering little sidekick? The two of them were the most inexperienced pair he'd seen in a long time. Knowing about the supernatural put them at risk now, however. Somebody was going to have to take these kids under their wings and train them, if not to be a hunter to at least know how to fend off creatures of the night and such.

Ki Jun already had his own son to mentor; he didn't necessarily want more of them. He loved his kid. Other kids, not so much.

This frickin' kid, for example. He didn't shut up. He just kept talking and talking and Ki Jun raised a hand to his temple momentarily. Just as he was about to tell him to can it and tell them his life story later, vampires began to circle around them. Ki Jun sighed and turned, letting loose a bolt carved into a stake. It struck one of the vampires in the heart.

If it weren't for awakened sensitivity to them, he might have just killed a random woman.

"Enough chatting," Ki Jun said. "If you want to live, you might want to actually fight."

[Steven Won]

Steven didn't have much room to talk he was new to hunting but these two looked like a joke. He rolled his eye at the one for calling himself a researcher. He did happen to catch him saying he was heading to Evermore so there was a chance they would run into him in town.

While Steven was analyzing the two he was caught off guard a vampire came in and grabbed him. He swung his arms trying his best to get free and maybe injury it with his bat that had 10-inch nails protruding from it. Before he knew it he was out. They had chloroformed him, the bat slipped from his hand and hit the floor. They moved in fast and Steven didn't have a chance.

Jasper was frantic but the adrenaline helped his fight off his attackers. Or the big guy scared them off Jasper was unsure but they seemed to back off pretty fast. He was unaware that they had taken one of them he was kinda looking out for himself. "That's right! Bitches run off." Jasper shouted with his blade held high.

[Won Ki Jun]

One of the vampires was dust; Ki Jun killed it with a stake to the heart, shot from his crossbow. Grimly, he looked to the children as he started to reload... and then realized with a start that one kid was missing. And that the one kid missing was his son.

"Where did he go?" he demanded.

The one with the holy water looked at him with wide eyes and said in a startled voice, "I... I... I think they took him."

"Who?" Ki Jun stepped in close to the kid, who quailed under his intense stare.

"I d-don't know! The... vampires."

Ki Jun let out a frustrated sound. "Where? Which way?"

"I don't know."

None of them knew. Ki Jun swore under his breath and stalked down the hall, banging on every door as he passed, shouting out to the vampires. No time for subtlety. They had his son!

[Jasper Nam]

Jasper followed after him, "Why are you doing this?" He asked as he caught up to him. They took the kid yeah he knew that but why call them out to kill all of them in the process? "It looked like they were after him they didn't take him by chance. So why do they want your kid?" Jasper was now curious to why they would want this particular guys son. Maybe he should stick around him if he was someone the vampires feared.

He joined in and started to pound on the door's calling for them to come out. He didn't want to run and hide from what he had been chasing all this time and he thought he could learn a few things hanging around hunters so he was going to hang around as long as he could. Safety in numbers, right?

Some doors opened, others didn't some were frightened humans but a few fleeing vampires as well. "Hey!"He shouted at one of them as he ran after him with his blade in hand ready to kill the fucker for taking the dude's son. This was the first time he ever wanted to kill something so much in his life before, he now had a reason to kill, he had to save his son. Jasper knew it, this was his calling he had been waiting all this time for this to happen so he could help. No, Jasper is not made he just needed a reason to kill otherwise he wouldn't kill even a vampire.

His heart raced, his breath was heavy, his body wanted to stop, but his mind told it to keep going. He pushed himself to ran, ran as fast as he could to catch up. But the vampire had its speed and got away. Jasper's mind now agreed with his body he could not run anymore. Collapsing to his knee's short of breath and tired like ready to pass out. He felt like he failed, why couldn't he catch the vampire and got him to tell them where they took the kid, why? Why did he couldn't he catch him why did he have to be so slow?

"I'm sorry," he said as he looked at the floor. He started to become angry with himself. Clenching his fist as he sat on his hands and knees. He tried to regain his strength so he could get up. He was embarrassed that he got winded running. He got to his feet but his legs were shaky "Man, I am really sorry." That was all he could think of.

[Won Ki Jun]

Why did they go straight for his son? It all seemed far too convenient to Ki Jun now. Somehow, the bastards must have learned that he and Steven were going to be checking out their little hideout in this hellhole hotel. They must have arranged this ambush. It was far too fast and far too thought out.

So who was the rat? Who told the vampires they would be here? Ki Jun's blood boiled at the revelation that one of his hunter contacts could be responsible for this.

His fists balled up and he kept moving, kept shouting out but the anxiety was rising and threatening to undo him.

Steven was his boy, his son. When he came to him asking to learn how to hunt, Ki Jun's heart swelled with pride. He couldn't wait to show him his world, to bring him into his life the way he'd imagined he would if he and his wife stayed together.

That wasn't how it ended up, though. She was right. He had thrown Steven into harm's way by letting him hunt with him.

"Who are you?" Ki Jun asked the kid on the ground, then looked at the shaking one with the pillow shield.

[Jasper Nam]

(if you don't mind I don't)

"Jasper," he answered. "Jasper Nam." He looked up from the ground, disappointment heavy in his eye's. He read about this stuff he only in his wildest dreams did he think he would be right in the middle of it. But in the dreams, the vampires didn't get away. It was a big let down to know his first attempt he failed. It wasn't really the time or place to have a pity party. Jasper pulled himself off the ground and stood up, dusting himself off.

Jasper looked at the man and with little thought, he spoke. "If you'll let me I will help you look for him." He didn't have much to offer but he felt responsible in a way. And he wanted to help, plus the guy seemed to know what he was doing and Jasper could learn a few things.

[Won Ki Jun]

"We're not only going to look for him," he said. "We're going to stake every single vampire we come across."

This was war as far as he was concerned. Whatever just happened, he had the unsettling feeling this was all a trap. The vampires didn't normally hole up here, did they? They just let the information circle around until it found the ears of a hunter, then stole what he loved most.

Unacceptable!

Sliding one of his crossbow stakes out, he handed it over to Jasper.

"Well, Jasper. You're learning a few new things tonight."

He looked at the other boy.

"And you?"

"I... I'm... Jeon Kihwa-ssi, seonsangnim...."

"You... just stay back." That one looked like he was about to crack and it was bad enough they had to cart him around.

"Let's go."

[Jasper Nam]

Jasper looked at the stake as it was handed to him and grabbed it, "Okay~" He said half scared half excited.

"Stay safe kid," Jasper patted Kihwa's shoulder. "Aha, okay," He stuttered, he froze for a second then ran to catch up with the big guy.

"So, what's this talk of learning new things?" He followed like a lost puppy starved for attention.

This was good, he was sure of it. He had to be otherwise this is a death wish.

[Won Ki Jun]

"If you don't learn something new tonight, you might not survive it," he said bluntly. Which was exactly why his ex-wife couldn't stand him. At the beginning of their relationship, they argued a lot but it turned into a passionate affair. Then as things fizzled out and she became more serious about living a real life, far away from monsters and things that went bump in the night, they really grew apart.

Sometimes, Ki Jun still missed her--it was natural, since he'd spent such a long time with her. He even still loved her, although he certainly was no longer in love with her.

And he loved his kids, too--fiercely. Now that they'd stolen his son and there were these kids crawling around this hotel, he would have to take them under his wing and treat them much the same. He glanced back at the one he'd told to stay back. Maybe keeping him at the back was a bad idea, in case they were attacked from behind.

"You know what, kid? Stay close to me," he said to him, gesturing for him to come toward him.

Just as he did, two of the hotel doors opened at once, unleashing a vampire from each one. They were bloodied--it was obvious they'd just feasted. With his heart in his throat, he lifted his crossbow.

"Take the one on the left! Aim for the heart!"

[Jasper Nam]

Shit! There were vamps still here and they looked like they were still hungry, Gripping the stake tightly he went after the one on the left. He missed the vampire was much faster, he fell to the floor on his hands and knees. Be pushed himself back up.

The vampire was toying with him. Jasper narrowed his eyes and ran at the vampire again. "Die, you piece of shit!" He yelled putting all of his weight into staking the vampire. The big guy made it look so easy.

Plunging the stake as deep as he could the sound it made was sickening. He did it, he wanted to be proud but he wasn't sure how he felt about killing. They might be dead but it still felt wrong.

He looked over at the big guy with ghostly eyes he felt sick to his stomach he felt like he was going to ralph. "I killed it," he said in a surprised tone. It was going to take some time for him to get over the fact that he was a killer, human or not it still didn't sit well with Jasper.