Shawn Black: Vampire Hunter

By Ardy

Ten years before the events in Akeldama: The Field of Blood, the Reverend Kirk Black rescues his young nephew Shawn from a Vampire attack. After training the boy to be a hunter, the two of them travel to Hidden Valley, New Mexico where a new coven of Vampires threatens to destroy the city. They meet up with Dave Reilly and Dimitri Milton to battle the new threat and Shawn established himself as a true hunter. With appearances by Maria Romanoff, LaCai Milton, Sophia, the Dwarf, and Midnight.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ardy
• Release date: Jun 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476145402

Ardy

I live in Northern New Mexico. My biggest influences include Stephen King, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Frank Peretti, and Trey Parker. I write mainly fantasy, science fiction, and horror, often with a Christian slant.Some of the things I write are just for fun, like most of my free short stories, which I will continue to produce as long as these interesting, and sometimes quite messed up ideas keep popping into my head. Some things I write because I feel that they are important. I don't intend to be preachy and try not to insert messages into my writing unless I forewarn the reader that they'll be there. My main intentions with my works are to entertain the reader, make the reader think, and sometimes just to give them a good little scare.Two things seem to creep into my writing often. One is my faith. The other is my proclivity for horror, which even rears its ugly head in my Christian pieces.Check my blog for special coupons and discounts that will be available exclusively at smashwords.com.I appreciate any review, and please be honest.

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Shawn Black: Vampire Hunter

Ardy

Published by Ardybooks at Smashwords

Copyright 2012

This story takes place ten years before the events in Akeldama: The Field of Blood.

Chapter One

Shawn Black was just a typical teenage boy before that knock on the door changed everything. It was a dark night, just a few days after his fifteenth birthday, and he was at home watching television with his mother. He would never forget that night. Ironically, they had been watching a rerun of Buffy, a show his mother hated but Shawn loved.

Sitting on the table next to couch was the birthday card that Shawn's uncle Kirk had sent him. He missed his uncle. Kirk Black was a Baptist minister, but he had no church. He would travel from place to place, speaking at revivals and tent meetings, often leaving his home in Rochester, New York for weeks at a time. Though he didn't live with Shawn and his mother, he frequented the house quite often. Shawn had never met his father. His mother referred to him only as that bastard. Shawn never even knew his name. He had run off shortly after Shawn's mother had gotten pregnant and she had never heard from him again. Uncle Kirk was the only father he had ever known.

Kirk had written a little note in the card, which had come with a silver crucifix on a leather cord. Hate to miss your birthday, Kiddo, it read. Be home soon. God Bless, Uncle Kirk. Shawn had placed the card on the end table so he could look at it every time he missed his uncle, and he wore the cross necklace. The gift had upset his mother for some reason. Shawn knew that Chrissy Black wasn’t as religious as her reverend older brother, but she did go to church and she had raised Shawn as a Christian. He couldn’t figure out why the gift of a cross necklace should anger her so. Maybe it was because it was a crucifix. Baptists didn’t usually wear a cross that had an image of the crucified Christ on it. Kirk always wore one though, and as Shawn fingered the cross while watching Buffy turn a Vampire to dust, he felt close to his uncle.

Uncle Kirk was off on what his mother had called a business trip. He had told Shawn that he had to preach at a church meeting in Chicago and would be gone for a week and a half. That had been three weeks ago. Kirk had called a few days earlier to tell them he would be late coming home. He hadn’t told Shawn why, but when Chrissy talked to him on the phone after he apologized to Shawn for missing his birthday, the boy overheard his mother’s side of the ensuing argument.

Chrissy and Kirk didn’t know that Shawn often eavesdropped on these fights. They spoke in hushed tones and the boy couldn’t always hear everything, but what he did hear usually left him confused. He knew that adults often used code words when discussing things that they didn’t want the children to know about. Uncle Kirk and his mom apparently had one of these codes, but for some reason it involved words like monster, hunter, and Vampire. He never asked the grownups what they were really talking about. To do so would have revealed that he had been spying on them. But ever since he was a little kid he had heard those words used in quiet arguments between his mother and his uncle. It was a weird code to use, but so