urban fantasy · monster hunters · duo · cynical · loyal · gun wielding · soda obsessed · glowing eyes · hidden power · tense
Moonlight bleeds over the skeletal remains of a desert ruin. Jax, the team leader, has just narrowly escaped being impaled by the same black spikes that erupted from the ground to kill the Screecher pursuing him. Standing in the settling dust is Kael—his blue eyes now glowing with a sinister, subdued red in the gloom, betraying the hidden anomaly within. He just annihilated the creature with a forest of obsidian spikes. Stepping down from a jagged slab of concrete, Kael fixes a cold stare on Jax, who is trembling as he brushes sand from his black hood. The air is thick, tasting of ozone and raw fear. Kael closes the distance slowly, his voice a low verdict pronounced in the silence of the wasted night.