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The Contract Valley Chronicles	By : vampyrevidia Category: My Chemical Romance > General Views: 803 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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It was a little weird for her to be back here again. Persephone Bryar hadn’t been here since the fire that had destroyed the little town had taken the lives of her parents, her siblings, her husband, and her child. She had spent all the time she could as far away from this place, this living hell. But she had a job to do and it had led her here.

She pulled her car over to the side of the road and got out, looking around the deserted little town, and went to her trunk, pulling out the duffle bag at that held the tools of her trade. She strapped the shotgun onto her back, secured the handguns in their shoulder holsters, and made sure the knives at her wrist and back could be removed from their sheaths at a quick speed.

Decked out in black leather and weaponry, she looked like a female version of the Terminator, eerily accurate considering her occupation. She looked up at the sky and decided to have a look around before the sun set and she would have to get to work hunting down the creatures that lived in this town. It was tragic really. Those who got out of the town were either the normal human beings that they had always been or changed, having enhanced abilities. Those who were killed instantly were lucky in the fact that they no longer had to see their friends and loved ones and the monsters that the ones let had become.

She walked up to the nearest shop and kicked in the front door, letting her eyes adjust quickly to the darkness. Skeletons littered the ground, but she had been expecting as much. There was no telling what kind of creatures were around here and what they ate, not to mention that there had to be unclaimed bodies from the fire that had been here for a while. She threw her senses out into the building and found nothing, exiting and doing the same to the next building, and the next, until she came to the center of town and the large hospital that set there.

The sun was setting fast, which meant she needed to clear the hospital and be back in the open within 15 minutes. Cautiously, she slipped into the four story building and began a sweep of the first floor, finding nothing but more charred corpses. The second and third floors produced the same thing, with the exception of a bloodless body found at the foot of the stairs between the floors. As she reached the fourth floor, she felt the presence of something and knew deep inside that it wasn’t human. It wasn’t dark enough for any that she was hunting to be out, so it had to be something else, possibly something worse, though she wasn’t sure if that was possible.

She moved in silence through the floor, shotgun at the ready, and went from room to room, finding nothing. As she reached the last room, the thought that she wasn’t alone became all the more clear as the obvious presence of others came to her. She moved closer to the door and could hear people talking inside. “Have you locked up the building yet?”

“No. I was on my way to do it now. Do you think they’ll try to get in again?”

“They always try to get in. It’s their goal in life to kill us, remember?” Persephone moved closer to the door and hit a can, cursing at herself as the voices stopped altogether. She tried to back away from the door, but it opened before she could react. She had lifted her shotgun and had it pointed at the face that showed in front of her before her mind fully registered it.

“I’ll fucking blow your brains out if you try anything.” Her gun faltered at the face in front of her, but she quickly recovered, knowing that there was no way he was alive. “Mikey?”

“Persy? Oh my God! I thought you were dead. What are you doing back in Contract Valley?” He made no attempt to move toward her, whether seeing the change in her or thinking that she was one of them, she didn’t know.

“I heard that several locals were killing travelers. You wouldn’t happen to know anything about that, would you?” Persephone kept her gun trained on her older brother’s chest, knowing that if he made a move toward her, she would pull the trigger. But it wasn’t him she had to worry about at the moment.

“Um, Persephone, honey, I know you’re probably here to help the travelers who have gotten into the path of the vamps and demons, but if we don’t lock the front doors up right now, they’ll be on us in minutes.” Frank Iero poked his head around the corner, concern on his face. He looked as he had the day she had watched the fire take over her home, except for the slit pupils and sharp fingernails. She moved so that he could get through and gestured for him to go lock the doors, though her eyes remained on Mikey Way.

“What are you and Frank doing barricading yourself up in the hospital, Mikey?”

“When the fire took over the town, we were trapped in a type of purgatory. Frank and I escaped but were changed, though not into the creatures you’re hunting. We were turned into something different. We kept our general personality and appearance, for the most part. We’re not evil, Persy. I swear that to you.”

Mickey never swore and, even if he had been changed, she had always had a special bond with her older brother that made her sigh and lowered the shotgun. “What are you, Mikey? And why didn’t you try to contact me?”

Mikey let out and audible sigh and relaxed against the doorframe. “I didn’t try to contact you because there are no working phone lines around here. And I’m some form of lycanthrope. I think a leopard or something. I may have to change into an animal once a month, but I keep my human mind.”

“What about Frank? What’s the deal with him?”

“The deal with Frank, as you so eloquently put it, is that he’s a dragon half breed.” Frank came around the corner and locked the door behind him before flopping into a slightly burned chair in the corner. “What brought you back to our Hell, Persephone?”

Persephone sighed and put the shotgun in the holster on her back, though she didn’t move farther into the room. “I’m here to kill those who have been killing others. It’s sort of become my occupation.” She watched Frank out of the corner of her eye but turned her attention to Mikey, who looked like he was about to cry.

“I thought you were dead, Persy. I had given up ever seeing you again once we crawled through the portal. I thought you were trapped down there with us.”

Persephone had taught herself in the five years since the incident not to show emotion, to avoid the urges of her heart, but with her brother standing there looking like he was about to burst into tears at the sight of her, her teachings were null and void. She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his waist, laying her head on his shoulder. She felt his arms go around her and sighed, feeling safe and at home for the first time in five years.

She pulled away as she felt the sun started to go down. She brushed a few stray tears from her eyes and pulled the shotgun back out. “I’ll come back for you when I’m done, guys. I just have to get this job done before morning.”

She kissed her brother on the cheek and walked over to Frank, bending over and doing the same thing, giving him a quick hug too. “I missed you as well, Frank.”

“Thanks, Persy.” Frank returned the hug and his normal softness came back to his face as he did so. She started to head toward the stairs and he grabbed her hand gently. “Stairs are locked up, as are all the doors going down. You’re stuck here.”

Persephone looked around the room and walked to a far window, looking out the broken glass at the four story drop below her. She smiled behind her shoulder at the guys and shrugged. “Or not.” Before either of them could react, she jumped from the window, landing softly to the ground far below.

Looking up at them, she smiled and called up. “You’re not the only one who has changed over the years.”

“There’s something you need to know about the leader, Persy! He’s …” She lifted her shotgun and disappeared into the surrounding darkness to the sound of their protests, missing the most important thing he could have told her.
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