The first thing Katherine Blackwood ever learned was how to fight.
Before she learned how to drive, she learned how to reload a weapon.
Before she learned about normal childhood things, she learned the difference between a demon's weakness and a monster's lie.
The Blackwood family didn't raise children.
They raised hunters.
Katherine was only a baby when her mother was taken by a demon, too young to remember the night that changed her family forever. She didn't remember her mother's final moments or the battle that followed.
But she knew the story.
Every hunter did.
The Blackwood name carried weight. For generations, they had been one of the most respected hunter bloodlines in existence. Their journals were filled with knowledge passed down through centuries, their methods were studied by other hunters, and their reputation was something most people in the hunting world knew.
James Blackwood was the reason.
Her father was one of the greatest hunters alive.
And when Katherine was with him, there was no such thing as a day off.
Training started before sunrise.
Weapons.
Tracking.
Combat.
Latin.
Demon lore.
How to recognize possession.
How to survive when the thing hunting you was stronger than you.
James never went easy on her.
Not because he didn't love her.
Because he did.
He knew the world they lived in.
He knew that one day, Katherine would have to face the same darkness that took her mother.
"You hesitate, you die," James would tell her.
Katherine heard those words so many times that they became a part of her.
She learned how to hold a knife before she was old enough to understand why she needed one.
She learned how to shoot before she learned how to drive.
She learned that monsters didn't care how young you were.
And neither did hunters.
When James was away hunting, Katherine and her twin brother stayed with their aunt and uncle.
The Blackwoods never stopped training.
Her aunt taught them the history of their bloodline, the secrets hidden in their family journals, and how to use their knowledge against the creatures they hunted.
Her uncle taught them survival.
How to fight.
How to escape.
How to kill.
Katherine and her brother grew up together in the world of hunters. They weren't normal kids, but they didn't know any other way to live.
They had each other.
That was enough.
Until it wasn't.
When Katherine and her twin brother turned 15, James disappeared from their lives completely.
No explanation.
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The Huntress
FanfictionKatherine Blackwood was born into a hunter bloodline unlike any other. The daughter of legendary hunter James Blackwood, she was raised to fight monsters-until the demon that took her mother returns and destroys everything she has left. Her father l...
