The Blutengel - A Halloween Terror

Note: This is going to be a short story with just a few chapter for this Halloween Special. I might continue it next year for another Halloween special. in the mean time please enjoy.

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Kenny flipped the crossbar end over end in his hands. He glanced over at the group around him and raised an eyebrow with curiosity when he saw Peter Grayson take off his silk shirt and neatly fold it on the seat of the van they had used to travel to this remote location.

"Don't want to get it ruined" Peter answered Kenny's unspoken question, "Birthday gift from Sara. She would kill me if it got stained." Peter loaded the AA-12 auto shotgun with a magazine filled with slugs instead of buckshot and saw Kenny nod. "You sure you don't want a gun?" he asked.

Kenny nodded and said, "I feel more comfortable with this, Doesn't run out of ammunition."

"I see movement" they heard Zack. he was lying prone on top of the van as he looked through the scope of his HK416. "looks like some of the eggs already hatched."

"What is it" Sean asked and he strained to see something in the building a couple of hundred meters away.

"Alien spawn," Zack added climbing down from the roof of the van, "We got to hurry and finish off this nest now before they leave."

"Where is Jace? And Mason?" Patrick asked as he looked around hoping to see their missing team members arriving.

"I saw him and Mason getting distracted with some really busty girl at the gas station back in Iron Falls," Sean said.

Peter just shook his head and sighed, "Well, we can't wait for them any longer."

"Can we really do this?" Patrick asked.

"Yeah, we can do this. Right?" Sean said patting Zack's shoulder

"Not our first time around you know," Zack said as he shared and knowing look with his battle buddy. "Stick close to us and make sure nothing sneaks up behind us."

"All right. Let's roll!" Peter said, "The faster we burn this nest down the faster we get back to our girls."

The group quickly trotted down the lane. They had to reach the building, kill the hatchling, and burn the nest down. Hopefully this time they could catch _Blutengel _and kill it before he managed to breed another batch of hellspawn eggs with some poor girl. Or at least find a clue as to where it had gone.

As they approached the doorway they each briefly reflected on how they had arrived there. Peter had been the first to come across horror when someone he knew had gone missing. When they found her she was dead, with the eggs or pods around her. The police had scoffed and called it all an elaborate hoax to cover up a **** and Peter had briefly been a suspect, something that had hurt him deeply. It had ended when the body and eggs or pods had disappeared while Peter and his closest friends were in jail and under surveillance.

That had made him start tracking down the killer. He had barely caught up with _Blutengel _in Duskville where he had found his dead friend and the hatching eggs with the help of Heather Ravers and Zack Ravers, a police officer at the time.

That was the closest they had come to catching it. Over the next few years, Peter and Zack had tracked it down across the country and had picked up the rest of the team along the way, Kenny came from "Greenwall", Sean from "Honey Hollow", Jace was from "Amethyst Shore", and Mason from "Iron Falls. " And their newest member Patrick, hailed from "Big Lake."

_Blutengel _they called it. The word was German and it meant Blood Angel. Nikki had first noticed the position of the dead woman and the blood stain on the floor. They were spread out like a snow angel but blood red instead of snow white.

And it was an "IT". Not some crazy serial killer with a strange fetish on top of everything. A horrifying thing. Most of what they knew about it was that it could change its shape, a shapeshifter like a doppelganger, and it always took the form of a handsome man. It seduced women and impregnated them with its eggs. They didn't know if it killed the woman to pull out its nightmarish brood or if the eggs grew too large and burst out on their own, Alien style. They hoped it was the former.

'I wish it were some crazy serial killer' Sean thought, 'Then Zack could lock him up forever.' He checked his gear again and hoped his girl was safe back at the place they had rented, or rather Peter had rented. Or Heather. He didn't keep track of those details.

Patrick was still a bit nervous. Yes, he had spent the last few months learning how to shoot a pistol and a rifle but they only trusted him with a pistol, a Glock 19. 'Well,' he thought 'this is my first time with them.' He glanced at his teammates once more.

Peter was their leader although it seemed to Patrick that he really didn't want the position. He guessed that the role had fallen on him since he started with everything. Next to Peter, he saw Kenny with his hard eyes focused on what they were about to do. Kenny sometimes scared him. The first time he had seen him Kenny had been covered in gore and swinging his crowbar like a berserker and now with his new grown beard he sometimes reminded him of Butcher from the TV show. Zack and Sean worked well together like a well-oiled killing machine, like mirror images of each other. The duo was on a mission to do or die. Jace and Mason were the other two members of their team and formed a really odd couple. Jace was constantly distracted by beautiful girls with big tits, the bigger the better. It seemed that not much could swing him away from his cheerful mood. Mason was the exact opposite and he wondered why. Patrick still couldn't understand their friendship.

"So how are we going to do this?" Patrick asked