You are a hunter of dark creatures. It’s a family business and you’ve been training your kids but you’re not sure they are ready yet for a real hunt (they are only 12 and 11, 15 is the traditional age for a first hunt).
It’s Halloween and you leave to deal with a haunted house problem. The kids are left at the mansion and you tell your kids to “lock the place down.”
It turns out that this haunted house thing was a ruse by one of your enemies to get you away so they can attack the kids.
While you’re away, Megan, Queen of Vampires shows up to attack your kids as payback for your role in foiling many of her previous schemes.
She effortlessly leaps past the 3 meter tall fences and enters the mansion grounds. Since the front door is likely rigged with traps, she jumps unto the second floor window, pushes the window open with super strength, and enters.
The brother was playing video games in the living room when Megan enters, grabs him and lifts him up, her face transforming and her demonic voice telling him that his end-
The sister runs in, aims a slingshot, and fires off a marble made from Blessed Silver at the vampire.
BANG!**
There’s a small explosion and the vampire howls with pain and drops the brother. He runs to the sister and the two of sprint away. Really angry, Megan chases them with super speed-
DZING**
An enchanted cross on a wall activates and freezes the vampire in mid run. Magical jewelry worn by the vampire begins to glow with red light and this starts de-constructing the glowing cross bit by bit…
“You’re on borrowed time you little brats.”
The sister turns around and says: “Well, that may be true. Still, you’re not welcomed in this house, VAMPIRE.”
To illustrate the point, she loads a sack of garlic unto the slingshot and shoots it at the frozen vampire. The vampire howls as the garlic burns before exploding against her. The children snicker and run off.
The cross melts. The released vampire sprints forward. The children are nearly at the top of a long stairway overlooking a hall. The vampire runs and jumps, executing an unbelievable leap that would cover all the stairs in one move. The kids turn around and see Megan flying towards them-
DZING**
Yes there are more enchanted crosses in the vicinity (3 this time) and she’s frozen in mid air. The children laugh out loud.
The boy says that they need to do some damage to her before she breaks out again and they know she will (they point to her glowing jewelry thingies which are flaring up again to de-construct the crosses). The girl says that based on what Dad taught them on the unit on vampires and seeing that Megan can walk outside before the sun is completely down, and things like Blessed Silver, garlic and enchanted crosses don’t completely stop her, she must be an Original vampire amped up by evil relics. The girl then asks her whether or not holy water works against her?
To test the theory, they aim and empty a wooden bucket filled with holy water on her. There’s a few seconds delay before the hapless, soaked vampire howls and shrieks as she takes a ton of damage.
The crosses finally break down and the vampire is freed (but falls straight down from mid air due to loss of momentum). Now really really angry, the vampire jumps unto the upper level and looks for the children. Seeing the little girl running through the corner of her eye, Megan tackles but misses by an inch; the vampire crashes through an entire wall though she effortlessly yanks herself back out.
“YOU LITTLE B****!” she curses.
The brother jumps out and smashes the vampire very hard with the flat side of a kitchen skillet (turns out said kitchenware was made from Holy Iron).
BONG**
The vampire is then set alight by what looks like multiple affixed flares and dances around shrieking to high heavens. The boy looks down and sees that the skillet he’s holding has been transformed to charcoal black and now has corrosive holes (from contact with her wicked essence). The sister runs out and blasts the vampire with a fire extinguisher. Now engulfed by ice and fire, Megan trips through a window and plummets into the garden below… as it turns out, she crash landed into a mini-altar blessed by a pagan god of protection and it takes her quite a while to defuse the magic and break out of that trap as well.
When she manages that, she sees the two kids standing by the mansion, waving at her.
She sprints at them and chases them through a door but this turns out to be… yes the front door she had tried to avoid in the first place. Her legs catch a few strings and this triggers several bags to explode and cover her with anti-darkness powder. As she spins around taking damage, she steps on a switch and a plank with symbols swings and hits her hard. A flash bang goes off; she stumbles and pushes herself off a wall coated with salt.
“NOW!” the brother cries out.
The sister throws a pie; it flies from across the room and lands over the vampire’s face. The brother rushes forth with a silver stick and pokes Megan, causing her to trip over dozens of marbles on the floor and knock herself out cold.
…
You come back into the mansion with a loaded crossbow, fearing the worse since the front door is open and many traps have been triggered.
You enter and find Megan trapped inside a painted magical symbol, her magical necklaces have been switched out for a locked-in Restriction Relic. The children turn and greet you.
“Dad you’re back! You won’t BELIEVE what went down while you were away! It was amazing!”
You: “…You caught a vampire?”
“Yup.”
You: “Well I’ll be damned. This isn’t some regular vamp. It’s Megan, Queen of Vampires. HA. HA HA. This is unbelievable. Wow. … How did you two manage it?
“She attacked us by surprise. So we had to improvise. Mostly we used lots of traps.”
You: “Well. Isn’t THAT something.”
“So Dad, does this count as our first real hunt?”
You: “Yes. It absolutely does. You two have faced your first real challenge, with true hunter spirit. I am very very proud of the two of you. You’ve done well.”
…
Shortly after the above events, the children ask whether or not they can go with you on hunts and missions.
You think about it. They’ve achieved the impossible on a first day, but still, hunting can be dangerous and they are just kids. What do you say?
Option 1: Yes. They are more or less ready.
Option 2: Not yet. But maybe in a few weeks/months.
Option 3: No. They got lucky, that’s it. We should wait until the traditional age for the first hunt.
Option 4: I don’t want them in the family business. I’m hoping they can do something else with their lives despite their passion/zeal for this.
Option 5: Other
Please justify your choice.
I’d go with option 2 just to be safe. They e shown a lot of quick thinking and they did make all the traps. But I think 2 is safer than 1.
