My Predator System Vol.2

Chapter 3

He pushed his chair aside to approach the man no one seemed to notice. Chupacabras had the ability to shapeshift into anyone. But it took one to know one.

"It's gonna be a bloodbath tonight." The beast chuckled ominously. "How can you stand around all these people, these deserts?"

"I don't hurt people." Sam said. "I'm human just as they are."

"And you're a beast, just like me. You starve like a monk and perish or feast with me and live like a king." Miguel offered.

"I'm sorry but I promised not to take risks so."

His pupils constricted. "You dare reject me? All these people will die and it will be on your head...hero."

Sam held out his fists and the man lunged towards him and vanished.

Sam fell over when the invisible force slammed him to the ground.

Maks, Artemis and Harley noticed the pandemonium.

Sam tried to punch the creature and Miguel hit him from all sides.

He coughed blood and his eyes were starting to bruise.

Sam growled and he morphed. People started to disperse screaming at the mangy beasts.

"Sam's under attack." Maks said.

Artemis retrieved her ammunition from the car. She shot at the few from a secluded location. Long range.

Harley calculated distances and opened portals to round the mangy chupacabras like sheep while Maks gored some.

Sam blocked his hands over his face but his arms were starting to numb from Miguel's blows.

"Give up! The risk is not worth taking."

"It isn't worth taking people's lives." He said.

Maks closed his eyes and his irises turned yellow.

[ Animal strength: Chameleon

Sub-skill: camouflage]

His body blended in with the environment and his tentacle rounded a few to toss them into the vendor's shop.

Artemis shot at them like target practice, their bloods splattered across the bright pink wallpaper.

Harley watched Sam struggling. "I wish Fei didn't have to take my powers, I could have sent them right into the null void. Ha!"

She reached into a pocket sized portal and grabbed a sword and shield blocking a sharp claw.

She kicked it by the knee and stabbed Its neck.

One came from her blind spot and Sam elbowed it away.

Sam clutched his numb shoulder and grunted. He couldn't feel anything.

"Give up, human! You're with us! Monsters or awakeners."

"I didn't ask to be this way!" Sam said.

"You've got spunk for an amateur!" Miguel said standing on the roof of a shop.

"Last time I checked, you don't employ amateurs!" Sam said.

Miguel froze and he barred his teeth. "Well played."

Harley opened a portal and Maks shoved him in.

Miguel shouted grabbing his foot.

Maks kicked out of his shoe and it fell in with Miguel.

Artemis blew one's brains out and took up her goggles. "Is that all of em?"

Sam sighed. "Thanks guys."

Harley watched the bodies disappear like dust.

Maks faced Harley. "Where'd you send him?"

"Really?"

"Well I lost a shoe thanks for nothing."

"My powers are volatile, so anything can go wrong." She said. "I don't know where I sent it."

"Well at least they're gone." Sam said beaten to a pulp and he fainted.

Maks held him up.

"We better go."

"Good thing you're not home Sam." Artemis said putting her gun in her holster.

"Right, you don't have parents to deal with." He said and she clenched her teeth.

Sam forgot her parents were a touchy subject.

Artemis exhaled, he was hurt and needed recovery.

Maks arrived after helping Sam to disinfect his wounds.

"How is he?" Harley asked.

"Recovering, what I'd give for healing factor." Maks said looking at his one pair of shoe. "Great."

Harley stood akimbo.

"Thanks for saving my ass out there."

"You're welcome."

He frowned. "You could have stopped Dom from hurting you by the way but you're too busy counting on me as your saviour right?"

Harley bit her lip. "This is what it's about isn't it? You're still angry about that stunt."

Maks clenched his fists.

"I thought we put this behind us. You were acting like everything was fine! I tried to help!"

He had no way to counteract that. "I didn't ask you to leech my bully for my sake."

"I tried to help but it's too bad your ego gets in the way. You could have died."

He pursed his lips. "What am I supposed to do, thank you?"

"Yes!"

"Well, are you trying to hurt me?" He said.

"I saved your life you asshole!"

"Calling me names won't solve it."

"You want me to apologize?" Harley folded her arms. "Fine, I'm sorry."

He fumed then quirked his eyebrow. "I'm sorry too."

Somewhere in Prescott...

Miguel fell through the portal and collapsed into a tree. The branch snapped and he fell to the ground. "Oof!"

He lifted his head and he spotted the shoe. It was Maks's shoe, the male must somehow be affiliated to Sam. He grimaced at the shoe hoping there was no funky smell.

He sniffed the shoe getting his scent. "I will find you, Sam and you will join me."

Miguel Hernandez was bitten by a Chupacabra when he was 15, he shuddered trying to power through without telling anyone.

He was a reject.

"Hey, Miguel, do you want to come over to my place?" His friend Stacy crumbled when he walked away.

He walked away from him. "Not now Stacy."

The venom spread threatening to take over his entire being. He tried very hard to suppress his abilities but it wasn't easy to hide his emotions, he needed someone to share it with.

He climbed into Stacy's room. "Hey, Stacy, I have something to tell you."

Stacy sat up. "What's up?"

"I'm...a Chupacabra."

Stacy laughed. "Nice one."

He winced in hurt at that, hoping to try again. He morphed into a beast and Stacy screamed.

"No, don't shout!" He covered his mouth scaring him even more.

"Stacy, what's going on!?"

He heard his mother padding to his room.

Miguel looked up and he couldn't get Stacy to stop shouting. He wouldn't hesitate to reveal his identity.

Miguel leaped out the window and his mother ran in to check on him.

He was asleep.

She woke him up. "Stacy wake up, it's time for school. Did you call Miguel?"

"Who's Miguel?"