Val’s Struggle

Chapter one

It was a cold night in the city, and the brown hedgehog Val was walking through the streets, his black coat was wrapped tightly around himself, he shivered against the cold night air that blew against him.
As he looked at the wall, he suddenly saw a Wanted poster, in the light of the street lamp he could see what it was, it had the pictures of him, a female beautiful young black cat and a female white wolf, his eyes narrowed as he read the large poster.

WANTED
Valour the Hedgehog
Jasmine the Cat
Devina the Wolf
Murder, Robbery, Grievous Bodily Harm,
The public is advised not to approach, as they are very dangerous Mobians, last seen at the Death’s Palace Nightclub on the 16th of October.
Wanted Dead or Alive
Reward: $10000, 00000

Val shook his head, “no wonder people are desperate to look for us! With a reward that big!” he ripped the poster from the wall and began to walk on, as he did, he saw something in the shadows of a dark alley, he squinted his eyes to see clearly, then saw some large red eyes.
Val reached for his sword on his back, “who’s there?” he snarled, showing his fangs, he then heard a giggle, he held his sword higher, “won’t you come out and fight” he snarled again. The eyes stared at him for a while, then they shut and disappeared into the blackness.
“Obviously not” he thought, he put his sword back under his coat and began to walk away from the alley, he then began to run down the street towards a dark alley back to his house. As he ran back he wondered who is was who was in the shadows. Meanwhile unknown to him, the eyes appeared again and watched him, then they disappeared back into the alley.

At Val’s house, Jasmine the Cat and Devina the Wolf were sitting in the living room on a large leather sofa watching the news, Jasmine shook her head as she watched. “Another Mobian has been found dead in his house, drained of his blood with two teeth marks on his throat” said the newsreader.
“The victim also appears to have two deep stab wounds on his body, meaning he must have been stabbed before he was drained, so far the police are yet again baffled by this mystery murder, although some police and locals believe that the killing was by the crazy murderess Devina the Wolf”
“CRAZY!” cried Devina “Crazy!” “Well you are a messy eater” said Jasmine; “messy?” cried Devina looking at Jasmine, “moi?” Jasmine nodded “sorry Devina but it’s true!” she looked at the T.V again and saw Devina’s picture come up along with hers and Val’s.
“Devina” said Jasmine “can’t you be more careful when you hunt? You attract enough attention as it is!” Devina was just about the say something else when Val appeared through the door, “hi girls!” he said as he walked in, throwing off his coat and putting his sword on the banister.
He then strode into the room and threw the wanted poster on the front table, “I don’t believe it!” he said “wanted posters!” Devina and Jasmine looked at the poster and sighed “we’ve been on the news too” said Jasmine, she pointed at the TV where the newsreader was listing the different murders that had happened that week.
Val looked at Devina who just stared at the TV, “your killings attract far too much attention!” said Val, Devina looked up at the brown hedgehog, “me?” she said “I’m a vampire what do you expect?” Val sighed “yeah! But you could be tidier and not leave such a mess afterwards!”
Devina sighed, “I’m already running out of places to hide the bodies, I’ve dumped them in the sewer, the river and buried them in the fields…” “well find more places then!” said Jasmine rubbing her forehead. Devina then stood up, “well, you can thank me for one thing though” “what?” sighed Val.
Devina smirked and walked over to her leather coat that was hanging on the banister, she then reached into the pockets and pulled out a three thick wads of cash, and a wallet. Jasmine’s eyes widened, “where the hell did you get those!” she said “One victim I drained was a millionaire” smirked Devina “after I killed him I searched his clothes and found all this”
“Wow!” said Jasmine taking the wads of cash and walking to the cupboard, she opened it and pulled out a large biscuit tin, she then opened it revealing wads of cash, she put the cash in it and closed the lid. Val sat on the sofa and began to read through the cards in the wallet.
“Wow” said Val “Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, there’s go to be a lot of money on these!” Devina and Jasmine smiled. “So where have you been anyway?” asked Jasmine, “just out to clear my head” said Val leaning back on the sofa, “really?” asked Devina “did you see anyone suspicious?”
Val then thought back to when he saw the eyes in the alley way, “I remember being confronted by these eyes in an alley way” he said quietly, “I didn’t know who they belonged to, but it must have been one of our enemies” “The Clan?” asked Devina “I dunno” said Val, “or what about the Covenant?” asked Jasmine, “I have no idea, I pulled out my sword and challenged them, but they didn’t come out, they just vanished”
“Weird” said Jasmine, “you can say that again” said Devina, “I wonder who or what it was” “no idea” said Val, “but they sure didn’t want to fight” “Cowards” said Jasmine, Devina nodded. Val looked out the window at the full moon and began to think more about the eyes, and who they might have belonged to.