Hunter & Manager

The wind whistled rather eerily as the night welcomes the first night of summer. Four figures concealed by the shadows of the night, stood observant of an abandoned building across from where they stood. Paying attention to any subtle movement as if the slightest movement could cause a tremor. Despite the serious tension in the night, one figure was busy with his phone.

"What are you doing?" the only female of the bunch, nudged the older male, "You're gonna give away our position, oppa!"

"Oh.. right right," The male immediately squats down and facing away from the other three, "I'm just checking my phone for updates on the girls."

"Give it a rest, Gray," The second oldest male in the group, their leader, "They'll be fine, these talk shows usually ends late at night and we'll wrap this up quickly."

"Speaking of wrapping up quickly, we got movement on the second floor," the youngest male in the group, who was keeping watch while the other three chats, informed his partners.

"Let's get to work," the leader cracked his knuckle, "Like we planned, Gray you'll go with Loco while I'll go with Sooyeon."

"Let's get this over with," Gray pushed his back into his pocket and ziplocked it, before fishing out two blades from under his coat. Under the moonlight, it glows threateningly bright. "Let's bust some Vampires."

Being different in physique after their initiation ceremony, Gray and his three comrades are completely different than average people. They can run faster, jump higher, endure longer and hit harder than anyone, but those abilities doesn't always guarantee their safety in missions. Their chances of coming home are always on a 50/50 scale, but that still depends on what kind of Vampire Class they are up with. Equipped with black shades, they can see as clearly as day but at the same time determine  Class of Vampires they are dealing with.

Upon approaching the blind side of the building, Their leader asked, "Loco what are we dealing with".

"We are dealing with 5 C class Vampires, we can finish this in 5 minutes," shrugging his shoulders at his theory.

"Split," the leader only needs to say one word and in that instant they run apart from each other. Gray and Loco went to the right side of the building while Sooyeon and the Leader scours to the left side. With ease all four of them are able to jump to the second floor balcony of each sides of the building.

"Switch to T Scope," their leader whispered through their wireless coms. Tapping on their shades, the lenses turned a blue shade of color. T Scope's function is to detect a temperature change in the air and color of tracks left behind. These vampires' temperatures are cold enough to literally send chills down one's spine if one were to ever get close to one. "Advance," the leader commands.

"Hey, do you think you can get me an autograph from Seulgi?" Loco whispered to Gray as they gently crept slowly on the second floor whilst following the information their scope gave them, "I'm a big fan."

"Get me one from Hoody and we''ll call it even, cool?" Gray offered a fist to Loco to which her returned immediately.

"Stop.." the leader's voice becomes cautious, "I think they got people inside." The four comrades stopped across each other and between them is a big two door room. Andt true enough as Gray and Loco listens closely , they can hear muffled squeals and cries from inside.

"Jay," Gray looks right at Jay, their leader, and receives a nod.

"Now," Jay gives the command and Gray responds by kicking the door open. But what they found were more than just 5 Vampires but at least 2 dozens of them.

"Shit," Loco adds before the four stormed into the room. Gray sliced down the first two vampires that reacted to his door breaking action and impaled another vampire with a throw of his silver knife. Those three vampires disintegrated into ash with wails. Jay two twin swords from his coat and sliced down 5 more just as easily. Sooyeon stayed back with two customised glocks and firing any vampires that tries any funny ideas on sneaking on her comrades. While Loco jumped in the middle with equipped barbed silver gloves, silver barbed kneecaps and silver blade tipped boots. The 4 of them mowed down the first 15 with no problem until Gray's phone rang.

"What?!" Gray complained as his knife impaled one more as it crumbles into dust. He double tapped his ear piece as it switches to his phone's bluetooth. "Hello?" Gray called out rather too loudly as he slides down to avoid a jumping vampire at him.

"Ow that's too loud... Oppa where are you?" A girl's voice answered his reply.

"Oh... Hi! Chungha," Gray flipped a vampire on it's back with a little krav maga and stabbed his knife between it's eyes. "Sorry! I'm at a club," Gray cursed under his breath as he answers the worse way possible, "what is it?"

"Oooh! Can we join  you??" Chungha replies rather cheerfully.

"Wait no! Umm this is like umm.. a Club for males only," Loco who was across Gray stopped to give Gray a weirded out look to which he mouths a reply 'Whatdya want me to say??'

"Oh..." her voice turns into a rather sad one, "We are done shooting our episode oppa, can you pick us up? We are also starving."

Gray dodged left and right when a vampire tries to claw his face out with inhuman speed. Thanks for his almost 10 years of experience, this was a walk in the park. With one last dodge to the right, Gray swiped down his legs and toppled the vampire on it's back to land another knife stab on it's chest. "Oppa you there? What was that scream?" Chungha's voice called out again.

"Ohhh uhhh... someone accidently slipped while dancing," face palming himself before ending the call, "I'll pick you up soon, 10 minutes."

"Ok oppa, see you there," Chungha replies before the line went dead.

Gray puts his phone back into his ziplocked pocket as the second last vampire crumbles into dust. The last one is pinned on the wall with two knives pinned on it's shoulders while Sooyeon keeps her glocks on it's face. "You seriously need to work on your excuses oppa," Sooyeon keeps her eyes on the creature while voicing out her thoughts.

"Cmonnnn.. We were fighting..." Gray holstered his knives into his coat.

"Gray!" Jay who was absent in the room called out farther back from the big aparment and his voice was urgent, "Come here quick!"

Gray rushed to where Jay was calling him. Once he arrived, Jay was unlocking a cell door and inside are at least 6 or 7 people. Their hands binded together above their heads while their eyes are covered with blindfolds. Judging by their condition, they are unharmed except for one who is laying still and only moving slowly while the others shifted away from the sound of the cell unlocking.

"I called back up, they'll be here in 5 minutes," Jay informed as he gently unfolded one blindfold from a girl in school uniform. She was about to scream before Jay covered her mouth with his hand, "you're safe okay? You all are," he addressed everyone in the room, and their tensed bodies began to relax at his words. Gray was about to approach the one that was moving slightly but Jay grabbed his hand and shakes his head. "we'll handle this one, you can go now."

"You sure?" Gray was about to persuade his leader but he knows he can't do much anyways. Jay nods and that was answer enough for Gray.

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"Chungha-yah, I'm at the parking lot," dropping honorifics after a year being with them definitely makes a few things even more comfortable. Gray became their  head manager the first year they debuted with the single "Peek-A-Boo". At first it was all just between manager and artist with no connection what so ever, but after months passed by, things changed. The girls became more and more comfortable around him and he was like wise.

Royal Crown, a girl group that debuted late 2016 under Big Hit Entertainment. The group consists of Chungha, the leader and main vocalist, JiU lead vocalist, Seulgi main dancer and lead vocalist while Lisa the youngest is the lead dance and main rapper of the group. Each girl gives off their own charm and Gray, at first, finds it hard to socialize with them beyond the manager and artist circle. The girls, however, were nice and sweet enough to continuously make him feel comfortable. Gray being 32 years of age sees them now as his little sisters, and the girls looking up to him as a their big brother as well. Being the only girl group from groups like BTS and TXT, who debuted just last year, they are taken care of well by the company. After 3 years of hard work, their group earned a big dorm.

"Ok oppa, on the way," Chungha replies before hanging up. Gray stretched his tired limbs after his mission for the night. It has been 10 years since he moved to Seoul and leaving his family in the US. Growing up from a family of hunters, his life wasn't exactly normal even when his parents tried so hard to make him feel other wise, but at the end of the day at age 17 he was able to go toe to toe with a Vampire and killed it in an instant. Deemed a prodigy, in the hunter world his name is renowned and very well respected. He chose to move to Seoul to grow his own wings to which his parents supports very much. He's been daily contact with them even after they became the chieves of the North American branch. Gray himself is on his way to become the new chief of the Seoul branch. Though with such position waiting for him, he always recommends someone else to take point on a mission. Despite his efforts in trying to make other seniors like himself, stand out, he still becomes the number one candidate to become the new and youngest chief ever record in history. He is beloved and respect by the Seoul branch due to his hard work and relentless selfishness to help others.

Gray was staring at the car ceiling reminiscing when someone knocked on the van's window. It was JiU, the second oldest in the group. Gray was about to open sliding doors when he noticed the a gleam on the side of his eye, his knife, "Shit.." Gray shuffled to grab the knife immediately and slides it into the dashboard. Then opens the door before his eyes widened. He just remembered that Chungha usually keeps her snacks in the dashboard and at this hour she usually snacks. It was too late when JiU entered.

"Hi oppa," she plopped onto her seat and sighs a little too loudly, behind her Seulgi the oldest in the group follows suit and takes the back seat. Laying on her back, Seulgi yawns while stretching herself. Lisa entered the last and shuts the door before mirroring JiU's action. Chungha, after making sure her members all entered the van, opens the front seat next to Gray. She sighs and leans back to the seat after putting seatbelts on her self.

"Ready?" Gray asked as the car engine starts, the girls all replied in unison with a loud 'Neh'! With that they are on their way to their favorite junk food restaurant, McDonald's. The drive was smooth usual until Gray noticed from the corner of his eyes that Chungha was about to open the dashboard.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!"  In order to avoid the crazy mishap, Gray screamed at the top of his lungs which woke everyone and shocked Chungha, "We're here!" Gray arrived right at the drive through, much to his relieve which means Chungha won't go for the dashboard again.

The girls who were both shocked are about to complain until Gray mentioned about arriving at McDonald's. Their once tired and weary selves are back to their energetic selves at the mention of food. "Alright what are your orders?"

"Lisa?" Gray asked first as usual when they are having these types of cheat meals since she is the youngest of the four. Lisa moved to the middle of the van and replied, "I'll take the cheese burger, fries and cola please?" Gray relayed her order.

"Chungha?" Despite being the leader of the group, she is actually the second oldest in the group. Chungha hummed and grins, "I'll have some chicken hot wings with McFlurry Oreo." Gray once again relayed the order.

"JiU?" Gray  asked JiU as she leaned her against Chungha's head rest and points to Lisa. "I'll have the same as Lisa." Gray relayed her order.

"Seulgi, what about you?" Gray turned to Seulgi this time to which she replied with one simple sentence, "I'll have the usual oppa." Her usual consists of two chicken with rice and fries on the side plus a cola.

The order barely took 10 minutes and it was already with the respective owners of the dishes they want. The girls were about to start to opening their food but Gray interrupted, "Oh no no... not in the car, at the dorm," Gray wags his finger as he keeps his eyes on the red light. They are just one block away from the dorm.

"But oppaaaaaa," all four ladies chorused at the same time as i occupied the car, "We're hungryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy."

"Oh boy here we go again," Gray chuckled and shakes his head, "nope just a little bit more and we will arrive." The girls grumbled but listened to their manager all the way. The red light was for another 40 seconds when Gray's phone buzzed.

With his brows raised in curiosity, he fishes out his phone to read the text. The girls were back bein busy with themselves and talking to each other so  it was alright if Gray reads his text. Opening his text, he was even more curious as the text reads

From: Jay

When you're done with the girls, come to the base. There is something I want you to see. 

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