Angel stood in the shadows watching hungrily as the group of laughing young college kids came toward her down the alley. The group was made up of four guys and a girl. The girl was hanging all over one of the guys and it screamed how badly she wanted to get in his pants. Angel's smile broadened with the knowledge that if she took the girl into her brood she would want in the guy's pants for a very different reason.
Angel could smell them. Not just the overpowering odors of their cologne, the booze or the sweat that they had worked up on the dance club floor, but the delicious smell of their blood flowing through their veins. She could hear their hearts working to push that blood throughout their bodies. They were so young, so vital, and she was so hungry. The urge to gorge herself on their fine, young, blood filled bodies was overpowering her and with each passing second she found it harder to keep her position in the shadows.
The girl suddenly realized where they were and said with a slight alcohol induced slur, "What are we doing? People have been disappearing from this alley. We need to go back and take a cab to the Stratosphere."
"Aw Laney, the people that have been disappearing have been by themselves, not in a big group like us, we'll be fine." The guy she was hanging on replied dismissively.
'You're a smart girl Laney.' Angel thought to herself. 'It's a convenient thing for me that your guy and his friends aren't quite as cautious.' Angel heard one of the other guys pipe up,
"Yea, with all the running coach Reid has been having us do at soccer practice lately, if we can't beat them we can sure as hell out run them!" They all roared in drunken laughter.
Laney had a cold feeling in the pit of her stomach that said she should run because any second something bad was going to happen. She fought hard to control the urge to flee the alleyway.
The group had drawn up even with Angel's hiding place and she burst into action. With inhuman speed she moved through the group like a cool breeze and all four of the guys slumped to the alley floor unconscious.
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