Rules

1: No Out of Character Chat. (OCC) Except in important situations witch involve the story.

2: No God Modding.

3: No controling other people's characters. (NPCs are excepted from this rule.)
4: No killing other people's characters. Characters can die if the person who created the character is okay with it. (Everyone will have multiple characters so some will be expendable.)

5: Don't request to join in this thread, request in the Vampire Roleplay Prosposal thread.

6: Do not post bio's for characters. Edit your joining post in the Vampire Roleplay Prosposal thread to list the names of all your members.

7: Keep your actions in the city. Basically the city is the whole world. I'm not going to be nit picky about it but try to stay in most of the time if not all the time. Like no bringing reinforcements from out of the city. If you leave the city, like flee the city because everyone wants you dead, then the characters who flee the city will be unoffially out of the story. Not the player, the character(s).

I'll edit with more if any more need to be made.

from this point on keep it as strictly story as possible.

----------------*The Vampire Wars - Part1 - The Shadows of York*----------------

The city of York spanned for miles in every direction from Tathar's Tower. Tathar's Tower, as it is called, is the oldest structure in the city. A monument, a tourist attraction, the center of the city. The tower was thousands of years old.

The top of the tower was two hundred and fifty feet high. A park surrounded it's base, with fresh grass, trees, flowers, park benches, sculpted monuments, and three fountains. During the day it was filled with friendly citizens. An old man who fed the birds and squirrels could be seen almost daily. Children played frisby while parents walked the dog.

But at night it attracts a different host.

*****

To most of the citizens of York the war raging beneath the surface was a shadow. And the very man named after the tower did not really exist. They went about their normal lives oblivious. The occasional disapearences, murders, and spilling overs resulting from the war were concealed as muggings, kidnappings, and gang wars. It's really quite shocking how few human crimes take place. The criminal world is generally run by a more mysterious race of men and woman...the VAMPIRES.

*****

Tathar's tower markes the center of the Red Shadow's relm. Streatching out like a nova the Red Shadow faction spreads it's influence and control. Tathar, the eldest of the vampires, has led the Red Shadow for a three hundred years, back when the tower was first built. Tathar's mansion faces the tower and the surrounding park from across the street. From the tower the surrounding buildings rise like a set of stairs. Houses and shops surround the park, taller buildings surround them, and finally office buildings and skyscrapers surround those. From there the city scatters in a random pattern until it finally dies at the outskirts.

Beneath the city the metro carries people from place to place. And winding service tunnels sewers provide sanctuary for whoever would dig out a home in the damp, dark, and dirty underworld.

*****

But here in York Tathar and his Red Shadow Faction rule. Unoposed until now...

[OOC: I know we're not supposed to do OOCing much, but this thread kinda tickles me because I live near the original York....]

*York. A town of mystery. Famed for it, tourists come for the attractions of the "haunted" buildings and walks to famed sights where vampires supposedly lived and werewolves hunted.

If only they knew the real horror. But it was a group of brave men and women who held the line between normality and the city erupting into hell on earth. As vampires fed in the alleyways and werewolves howled beneath the full moon, figures atop the cathedral watched, and waited. A figure stands in an alley, biting a woman's neck. A second figure lands behind it, silent as a shadow. It smashes a bottle of water over the first's head, then watches as it melts away. It places a cross in the dead woman's hands and leaps back upward, and into the night..*

"Another one for the Neo Templars"

Deep in a certain part of the sewers of York, people occassionally hear howling and growling. Some are in fear of what lurks in the shadows. In this place, the Shadow Hunters call it home. The sewers allow the Shadow Hunters to journey around the town. They sometimes camp in buildings that are unoccupied and journey thru the streets. Conflicts sometimes occur when they meet up with other races, but someday hopes for the conflicts to end.

In the slums of town there have been an increasing number of murders. Up till now, nobody has cared, all those taken have been hobos and beggars. Until now.

The Glorious Shadows have hit it big time, capturing and killing an important werewolve. Now they have been going from one of the weakest factions to one of the more powerful. However, with this increase in power has come an increase in responsibility, and recently they have also began to fight for justice as well as pleasure.

A plashing sound is heard from the sewers as the lizardmen come from their hunting journey. They enter a small crack in the wall and light a torch. They took the seven murdered men to the nest where they started to eat their flesh. There was screams of the lizardmen as they tore the bodies apart and ate them. The lizardmen had nothing to do with the other creatures, they just wanted for the human life to end forever. They know that they would have to fight the other species for the human lands but their population was growing hole the time and many of the workers were being trained to be soldiers.
These seven bankers were a delicious meal and a victory for the lizardmen.

In the tallest of the tall buildings, in dusty towers and decaying churches, observers if there were any could have seen a recent increase in the number of stone gargoyles that perched on cornices everywhere - bat-winged statues that basked in the sun throughout the day and vanished at night. But there were no observers yet, and those who happened to notice attributed it to York's legendary ghost population.

In reality, these stone statues were sleeping watchers, scouts. When they were not asleep, not a soul saw them, though they flew high in the sky and crept along the lowest of the sewers, investigating and observing everything. They were preparing for the coming of their leader, the dark High Priest called Black Crystal. York was to be the beginning, and the time was drawing near. The scouts stayed hidden for now, as their brethren had for centuries, but they could sense that the time for hiding would soon pass.

[OOC: Hmm, if you don't mind I might be taking on some of the outer-city types (of course I'll keep it mostly in the city)]

*On the outskirts of the city, where some brush and tree were allowed to grow. The indigious population of humans was neither aware nor hinted that just maybe the forest near the city that was creeping up ever so closer every year, had eyes and ears...*

*With in the centre of the city, a man, or at least it seemed to be walked the alley ways hooded. He needed not to care in these times, other then humans. Vampires can't turn a pagan, for they aren't human in orign.

But Lycans ((thats your guys the warewolves, just thinking it'l be better to call em that :D)), the Gargolyes and the Lizardmen, may or maynot be as equaly curious to their intentions or outright despisal.

For it was Pagans belief to not interfere with any other races affar, how ever then humans industralization, they needed to act, due to the humans poisioning their mother, Earth...*

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*The figure was on his way to find a certain stronghold, this pagan wanted something important to ask of who ever he was going to...*

When the sun slept, the moon awoke, and the vampires with it. The Red Shadow Faction has been unoposed for years, ruling the city from it's core. Perhpas that was one of their weaknesses, perhaps they were over confident being the largest power.

The Night Hawkes were a team of scouts and warriors who's job it was to keep watch over the city at night. At the moment there were no serious need for them, but the occasional Werewolf or Human hunter could not be let to roam free. For the Vampire's own survival and preservation.

Miryia, eldest daughter of Tathar, often went out with the Night Hawkes as their unoficial leader. But Sain was their leader and greatest warrior.

There seemed to be an increase in the werewolf population recently, though Tathar the Mighty took no notice Miryia wanted to be careful. She took some Night Hawkes with her and scoured the city. Tonight there would be blood shed.

The usual Silver bullets eaquipped, the Night Hawkes set off into the night. From the rooftops they observed below. There were twenty Night Hawkes out tonight, more than there have been in years. Tonight, the wind spoke of somthing foul, a begining of the war.

At one of the main sewer gates, NeoVenom escorted a group of ten Shadow Hunters. "Tonight, we will avenge those of our kind that have been slaughtered. Tonight, we shall feast on the blood of our enemies. Tonight, it is war. Move cautiously and don't attract too much attention. Sources tell us that one of our fellow companions has fallen to the hands of vampires. I don't know which clan it is, but just in case..." NeoVenom taps his desert eagle with his other desert eagle and says, "We have special bullets for them."

After that is said, NeoVenom and his group move out of the subway tunnels and enters a door leading to a local subway station.

From the center of the city Miryia dispatches her Night Hawkes throughout the city keeping an eye on every inch of it. They keep in contact with small speakers on the inside of thier wrists and earpieces in their ears. Guns ready, eyes narowing in on the crowds of people walking the night streets. From rooftop to rooftop they jump, searching in every alley and lane.

Taking sections of the city the group of twenty split up in pairs.

Matt(X), and Tais(*), a turned vampire with enough skill to have been accepted into the skillfuly demanding Night Hawkes, pair up and scout out their sector.

From the rooftops they detect no unusual activity and so they report Miryia.

Miryia's voice is heard on everyone's radio, "Everyone split up, I want one above looking down, and one on the ground checking everywhere. Keep in contact at all times with your partner."

Tais keeps to the rooftops and Matt dropps below. Matt walks along the sidewalk passing through the flow of normal people. Tais follows in an overlapping mannor, leaping a building ahead, then watching until Matt is a building ahead.

Matt looks down every alley, sniffing for the werewolf scent. But finds nothing. Finally he comes to the subway station. "I'm goin in."

Tais pearches on an apartment building's roof and watches as Matt disapears into the station, "I'll keep an eye out from here, gimmy a shout if you find anything. Don't do anything stupid Matt, we're a team here."

Matt chuckles, "Yaya, I gotchya."

The subway isn't as full as it would be during the day, but there are still enough people to blend in with. Matt looks around and makes his way to the center of the station. He sniffs around a bit but doesn't smell anything...at least, not at first. His hand slowly drifts to his gun...

((OCC: Mat is (X) expendable.))

A small hissing is heard in the metro station. A large bang is heard and then the lights of a metro appear from the tunnels. The train stopped next to the station. The lights there blinked and the wires fell from the roof of the metro train. Then the doors opened with a hiss and a ripped body fell out. The humans thought it would be a human but Matt noticed it was a vampire. Four quiet figures crawled into a small sidetunnel only a ten meters away from the station and carried eight human bodies to the nest.

Two appearing to be men in long coats walked down the main street. They watched up and down only to see the figures of vampires. They suddenly disappeared into the sewers with a hiss. They reported to their groups leader and then got to the metro station as soon as they could. Ssachak(X) walked and stopped next to Matt. He drew a small, curved dagger under his jacket and stabbed Matt. The lizard discuised as a human now walked out of the station. He didn't stay there to see if the vampire was going to live or not.
The war against the vampire population was on.

Travelling thru a narrow hallway leading to three doorways, NeoVenom lifts up his left hand indicating for his group to stop. Peters(X), a turned member of the Shadow Hunters, questions NeoVenom, "What is wrong sir?" NeoVenom sniffs the air around him. He growls and says, "....Vampire". He continues to speak, "I smell another scent, but I'm not too familiar with it." He continues to walk forward until him and his group are about 10 feet from the door. "Get ready men." NeoVenom says as he checks his gun.

He approaches the door and opens it. A commotion already broke out. People running straight to the exit. Moments later, the subway station was nearly empty, except for a person kneeling on his hands and knees. Peters raises his gun and fires at Matt. Ultraviolet light can been seen out of Matt's mouth as his skin begins to diminish. NeoVenom says to Peters, "What happens if that was a human? We are not animals to be killing everyone. Go...kick his gun over here. You killed him, you get it." Peters walks towards what is left of Matt's body and kicks over Matt's gun. NeoVenom stops it with his right foot. Picks it up and puts it away in his trench coat.

Two long coated human looking men walk to NeoVenom. "NeoVenom, I presssume?" the first man spoke and got a rude look from NeoVenom's men. A hiss was heard from the other man as the other continued. "Our leader want's to make a deal with you. I believe the Vampires are our mutual enemy, so-" suddenly, a bang and the talking man fell down with a bullet in his head. His hat fell off when he hit the ground and let his lizard head to reveal. The other man panicked and hissed angrily at one of NeoVenom's soldiers that had took his gun out, like blaming him. The lizardman took his hat off a little, revealing the yellow eyes and green skin on his face. A single word was heard from the angry hissing. "Die..." the lizardman hissed and then left to the metro rails. Then he disappeared into the darkness.

Asshkar got quickly the news about his warrior. "Get me Sshaka and Hisska!! NOW!!!" Asshkar shouted and hit the table infront of him, making a loud bang. His two best friends came now to him and they made plans. Asshkar decided that he would like to meet the Leader of the werewolfs first, so he left the message to Sshaka. Sshaka left soon to the metro station and started to track NeoVenom

"Who shot him?" NeoVenom questions his men. "Peters? Did you?" he look at Peters angrily. "Not me sir." Peters replies quickly.

NeoVenom looks down at the dead body of the lizardman. "What are they? They look like lizards." NeoVenom says. Jacks(X), also a turned member of the Shadow Hunters, replied, "I heard of a clan that is filled with these creatures. I am not sure what is the name of the clan, but I heard that they also live in underground passages like we do."

"I see..." replied NeoVenom. "Come Peters. Let us take another way out. I have a feeling thru that very exit there are more comrades of him." He points his gun at what is left of Matt. Jacks kneels down before the dead body of the lizardman and puts some of the blood in a small tube. "McKain can study more of this creature's blood." NeoVenom nods.

A strong hiss was heard. It came closer to NeoVenom and his men. "Sstop!" a sound shouted and some of NeoVenom's men turned. Then Sshaka dopped from the roof and turned back to his own skin. He walked towards them. "Massster NeoVenom, I am terribly ssorry about the incident. Our Leader wantsss to meet you..." Sshaka hissed and stopped. He continued: "...only you" and pointed at NeoVenom.

"Only me?" NeoVenom asks. "How can I trust you?" His men looked upon Sshaka angrily as they pointed their guns. NeoVenom motioned his men to put down their guns. He took steps closer to Sshaka. "How do I know this isn't a trap?"

"We lizardmen have allways been a peaceful population. We dont want anything but the human to die" Sshaka said and bowed. He noticed a soldier pulling the trigger and drew a dagger from his coat and it found it's way to the soldiers head. Sshaka looked at NeoVenom. "Masster Neovenom, you can take two of your mosst reliable men. As a treaty of our peace, you may take your weapons with you" Sshaka said and started to walk towards the tunnels. He then stopped and looked back if NeoVenom would come

"Alright. Zeno......Draco, follow me. The rest of you return to base." NeoVenom, Zeno, and Draco followed Sshaka as the rest went thru the very same door in which they arrived at the train station. "Alright, we ready to go." NeoVenom says as he puts away his desert eagles. Zeno and Draco puts away their guns aswell.

Sshaka nodded. "My name iss Sshaka, by the way" Sshaka said and led the group throught a small crack in the wall and into a dark hallway. Then a light came from the end of the hall and two yeallow vested guards came to Sshaka. "Sir, Asshkar has been waiting for your arrival. He is awaiting in the palace" the other guard said quietly and looked at the strangers. Sshakar hissed something on their own language and led the werewolfs to a large hall. They kept going and then entered a beautiful gate into the palace. Sshakar walked first to Asshkar. "Sir, Masster NeoVenom wouldn't come without his guns or two of his men" Sshakar explained and Asshkar nodded. Sshakar walked to the werewolfes and told them to go forwards. Asshkar looked the group coming closer

"I've came with my guns and two of my men for my safety." NeoVenom said "As you already know, my name is NeoVenom, leader of the Shadow Hunters. You have request to see me, so here I am." NeoVenom slightly bows his head to show respect to Asshkar. He then stands up straight and crosses his arms behind him awaiting for Asshkar to speak.

Asshkar hissed something to the guards and then looked NeoVenom. "Sso, Masster NeoVenom, I wanted to talk to you about our mutual enemy, the Vampires." Asshkar leaned forward, revealing his sharp teeth and red eyes. "Both of us would need each others information and connections. We have a large network of spies and tunnels under the city. You might need our maps..." Asshkar explained and walked towards them. "You want our help?"

[ooc: Sorry, but notice that Asshkar speaks English better(no double or triple s's). So you might like to notice that when you speak to him...]

NeoVenom nods and says, "Whatever helps us avenge my kind is useful." Looking around, NeoVenom continues to speak. "I don't know if you heard, but one of my kind has fallen to the hands of a vampire. Do you have any information on who did it? As I sign of our truce, you may want to study this." NeoVenom walks over to a table and places a spare gun of his on it. "It's bullets contain Ultravoilet light, a very deadly element to the vampires."

Meanwhile, Peters, Jacks, and the others arrive at Dark Shadows, the headquarters of the Shadow Hunters. Jacks heads off to the room in which McKain is in. "Sir, I have something for you." Jacks places the small tube from his coat on the table. McKain picks up the tube and taps on it with the tip of his nail. "Interesting....what is this?" McKain questions. "It's blood from those Lizard creatures. One was killed, so I obtained a small portion of it's blood. I thought you would like to study it." Before McKain spoke a word, Solnina barged into the lab. "Where is my husband?" Solnina demanded. "Lord NeoVenom is meeting up with the leader of the Lizard creatures." An expression of worry crosses Solnina's face. "Alone?" Jacks replies, "No, with Zeno and Draco. I think he is planning an alliance with them."

*The cloaked Pagan reaches a Lizardmen stronghold. Standng only to the west of it. He waits.*



*Meanwhile, at the other side of the city, two other pagans also cloaked, stand in the shadows of an alleyway, with their backs agenst the brick wall. Around the corner was a tower that was ran by the Neo-Templars, a stronghold most likey.

They wait before attacking...*

[ooc: Scar, like you would be near the Lizardmen stronghole... First, it is a nest. Second, the Lizardmen live in the tunnels beneath the metro and the city. And for third, no Lizardman qould let you get that far, not even if the stronghole would be underground...]

Asshakar nodded and the guards came to escort the men out of the nest. The guards stopped next to them. "We are most happy to have you as our allies. Let it be a good one. Now, we have many urgent plans to activate, so sorry, but you must leave. I shall send all my data to you when he have copied everything neseccary for you" Asshakar explained and let the guards open tthe doors and lead the wrerewolfs out.

Sshaka ran down a corridor, collecting any urgent data about the latest spottings of the Vampire's. The lizardmen's assault team was allready mobilized and on the move to hunt the scattered vampires from the slums.

((strong·hold ( P ) Pronunciation Key (strфnghld)
n.
A fortified place or a fortress.

A place of survival or refuge: one of the last strongholds of an age-old tradition.
An area dominated or occupied by a special group or distinguished by a special quality: a feminist stronghold; a stronghold of democracy

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((DAMMIT! LF ATE MY POST))
A group of Glorious Shadows vampires explored the area around the Red Shadows' stronghold. Some of them were carrying a big bag. The rest were gaurding them. They set up gaurds surrounding the group. Finally they arrived at the tower, they waited to be noticed.

High above the clouds, a group of shadowy winged shapes rides in on the wind above York. On a deserted rooftop, nine gargoyle scouts wait expectantly, looking at the sky. Single gargoyles perch on the roof of each nearby building, all also looking towards the sky. One, the leader of the scouts, Rasserk [***], speaks into a wristband.

Rasserk: Everything is clear. You may approach.

A stream of shadowy winged shapes flies from the outside, passing high over city borders and into the dark York skies.

Backtracking a little...

Matt stands in the center of the train station. All around him are people, but none of them seem dressed in the wherewolves manor or smell of the sewers. Matt reports to Tais that there are no Werewolves.

Before he heads up he hears the train comming and decides to wait. But as the train grinds to a halt there doesn't apear to be anyone on it. Suddenly a dead vampire falls out of a door and Matt notices somthing scurry off in the tunnels. "Somthing's in the tunnels," He reports into his wrist's speaker.

However the people's screams drowned Matt out and Tais repeatedly tried to get a reply, he heard only screaming on his end, and Matt could not hear Tais because of the screaming.

Caught in the crowd of running people Matt couldn't move.

When they finally started to clear Matt suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back. He dropped to one knee and clutched at his painful stomach which had been peirced through from behind by a blade. Matt's hands were covered in blood but he still tried to get up. Turning around he saw a cloaked man walking away.

Matt hissed showing his vampire fangs as he sat on his knees in the middle of the empty train station.

*****

Tais leapt off the rooftop and headed into the street which was filling up with people as they fled the train station. Trying to push his way through the crowd Tais eventually made his way down the stairs and into the station.

Just in time to see Matt take a bullet in the chest. Tais' jaw drops as he sees his freind suffering on the blood painted ground blue ultraviolet light streams burst out of him and become wider until they vanish. Matt lays motionless as a partly disintegrated carcas.

Tais moves behind the wall so not to be seen. His sorrow turns to anger and he clenches fanged jaws. Taking out his Walther P99A (http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Psylis/th_Walther_P99A.bmp) he vows vengance.

Tais contacts Miryia with his radio. "I've found the werewolves and some other hostiles, send the rest of the Night Hawkes here now." He's careful to keep it a wisper so that the werewolves do not hear.

"We're on our way." Comes Miryia's reply.

Glancing around the corner Tais sees the werewolves talking to two other men. Their guns are amied and Tais' rage gets the better of him, he blasts one of the men in the head and ducks back behind the wall. He doesn't care if they come after him, he would welcome the fight. But they don't even seem to notice, so Tais slumps to the ground and lets go of his rage for the moment.

*****

After some waiting the first pair of Night Hawkes arrived and knelt behind the wall with Tais. "Ah, Max(X) and Lester(X), glad you made it, Matt is dead and the werewolves will pay." Both Max and Lester were pureblods.

"Hold on Tais," Lester cut Tais off, "We should wait until Miryia's command before we attack."

Tais hit him lightly, "You fool. By then they will have gone, who knows how long it'll take the other's to get here, we have the element of surprise and we're much better trained then they are, I say we should attack now!" Tais saw that there was no convincing Lester, he was as loyal to Miryia as a soldier can be. Tais looked to Max. "What about you, Max? Your with me arn't you?"

Max crossed his arms and frowned. "It can't hurt to wait," He started.

"Bah!" Tais yelled and whipped around the corner pistol pointed ahead, he was not waiting, he would have his revenge now.

But they were gone.

Tais cursed and stomped his foot. He ran over to Matt's body.

Max and Lester came around the corner when they realized the werewolves were gone. They saw Matt's bodie and looked in confusion, "What happened to him?" Max asked.

Lester noticed another dead werewolf by the train's doors. "Take a look at this guy," He said examining him. "He's not one of ours."

Max and Lester seemed more concerned about the dead vampires. But not Tais. Sniffing the air Tais looked back and forth in two directions.

Max and Lester noticed this, "What is it, Tais?" Lester asked.

"I've got two scents..." Tais said, but was concentrating more on the individual scents then the other two vampires.

Four more Vampires came into the subway guns drawn. Max and Lester were buissy answering the wondering newcomers' questions when Tais suddenly bolted into the subway tunnels.

*****

As Tais(*) chased the scent of a small number of werewolves and a similarily sized number of strange scents Max(X), Lester(X), Jason(X), and Chester(X) follwed closely behind him.

And back in the subway Miryia(***) arrived and waited for the rest of her Night Hawkes to arrive.

fourteen Vampires gathered in a small subway station and prepared to follow the werwolf scents.

NeoVenom, Zeno, and Draco walked towards the same route they took towards the palace. NeoVenom stood dead in his tracks. "What's wrong sir?" asks Draco. "I caught sometime. Scents of vampires." NeoVenom growled and drew out his guns. Zeno and Draco drew their guns as well. NeoVenom fires into the darkness and looks around. "Quick, let's go thru here." NeoVenom lead Zeno and Draco thru a tunnel not far from them. They gain speed as they ran thru the tunnel.

Tais runs through the tunnel with nothing but vengance in his mind. The other four running at a slower pace behind glance around in a worried manor, none of them like running blindly through random passeges. They start to wonder how keen Tais' senses really are.

Suddenly Tais stops, he sniffs the air a bit noticing the scent of werewolves getting stronger. then gunshots sound from up ahead and he ducks in a reflex action. The other four see blue flashes from the Ultraviolet bullets but don't know what they are.

Tais takes off running again at a much faster pace.

As Tais rounds a corner he sees three fleeing werewolves. Tais fires two burst rounds then chases after them firing more less well aimed shots as he runs.

Max, Lester, Jason, and Chester follow Tais, each with a walther P99A.

((OCC: The Walther P99A is a semi-automatic pistol for those of you who haven't seen underworld.))

Fifteen lizardmen soldiers from the underground company was mobilized to check if the werewolfs would be safe. They saw the warewolfs being chased by vampires and reported. The soldier chased the vampires, but left ten to the subway. The ten left back, walked slowly towards the metro station and stopped when they senced vampires. They requested backup and only four minutes later, ten other lizardmen from the underground company came to assist. The soldiers ran swiftly and quietly only a few meters from the station and stopped. They waited for a good time when the vampires would be not looking at their way. The lizardmen attacked.

The five lizardmen kept chasing the vampires that were chasing the werewolfs. They caught up with the slowest vampire and one of the soldiers threw a very fine made spear that with only a luck hit the vampire to the leg. The lizardmen hid in the darkness and waited if the vampires would turn.

Sshaka walked to his men. "You know what you are supposed to do... Get your vampire suits and attack Asshakar when he is checking the perimeters..." Sshaka said and then left his men. He walked to the main gates and looked around. He started to plant somekind of a bomb when four royal guards(Asshakar's loyal guards) took a grip from him. Two stayed there and took the bomb. The guards walked to the palace and gave Sshaka to the palace guards that got Sshaka into the jail. The royal guards walked to Sshaka's loyal men and tolf them to be at a precise spot in the palace when Asshakar would start his perimeter check. The time past(You can continue from the time before this) and Sshakas men got to the spot. Suddenly, twenty guards opened fire at the ten spies. They were executed at the same time Sshaka was being held in a jail closed for everyone. He was going to be there until he was executed for tratury.

The group of vampires looked up at Tathar's Tower. They went in, and blended in. Finally one of the one's protecting the others took up his pistol and shot four times.

"We would like to speak with whoever's in charge of this floor."

NeoVenom took a quick glance to the back and notice that the vampires were still after them. One they reached a long narrow passage way, NeoVenom says to Zeno and Draco, "Now we lose them...". With that said, they picked up tremendous speed and speed off to the end of the long tunnel. Once they reached there, they went thru a serious of tunnels zig-zaging left and right.

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(Out of Character: By me saying "...they picked up tremendous speed...", they are running as fast as when Lucian (in Underworld) was running after the car that Selene and Michael were in.)

((Oops sorry Jokemaster, forgot about you waiting in front of my place.))

Tathar was sitting at his dining table eating with his wife when a pair of guards entered the room. "Sir, there are some vampires from the Glorious Shadow faction outside, I think they may want to speak with you."

Tathar mused about this in his mind, "...hmm...Send Sain to meet them, let them believe he is our leader until we find out what their true intentions are." Tathar dismissed the guards.

*****

Sain, escorted by six Night Hawkes with some twenty regular soldiers standing nearby aproached Tathar's Tower.

Sain shouted up to them, "Come down from there so we may talk. What is it that brings you here?"

*****

In the sewer tunnels

Tais raced on ahead after the three werewolves while the other three vampires turned to the wounded Jason.

Jason pulled the spear out of his own leg, he shouted in pain and swore. Max and Lester aimed their guns into the shadows behind them, despite their enhanced night vision they could see nothing. Chester helped Jason limp off to the side. When he was seated behind a chunk of rubble Max and Lester began to advance slowly.

Tais, still chasing the werewolves, soon found himself in a maze of tunnels with nothing but their scent to follow, which he soon lost within the sewer's smells. He walked through the tunnels cursing the whole way, waiting to be pounced on.

***

The train station

When all the Night hawkes gathered Miryia dished out their orders. One pair was sent back to the mansion with Matt's partly desintegrated body while the others made to follow the werewolf scent through the door. First Miryia tried to contact Tais and the others over the radio.

"Tais come in! Where are you? Report!" Miryia half shouted.

But it wasn't Tais who reported, it was Chester, "We're in the sewer tunnels chasing werewolves, but I think we may be under attack by something else."

Miryia swore, "You guys are causing us alot of problems. I'm splitting the remaining Night Hawk in half, you six will be met by another six and then return to base while the other six of us follow the werewolves until we find where they have gone, tomorow night we shall return in full force and eliminate the werewolves if indeed they do lead us to their base."

"Yes that's a good plan, but Matt's dead so there's only five of us, Jason was wounded by a spear which we still don't know where it came from, and Tais has run off chasing some werewolves by himself. Just get here fast before we're all dead you should find us easily, just follow the scent."

Miryia swore repeatedly before answering. "You shall all be held responsible for gepradizing the mission when we get back," She growled, "Especially Tais!"

"Yes mam." Chester said solemly.

"Just stay where you are, if Tais comes out of there alive he's in big trouble. out."

Miryia divided the vampires in two and went with five others through the subway door the werewolves had come from. While the other six headed for the sewer tunnels.

The six at the sewer tunnels suddenly stopped as they saw a large number of lizardmen rushing forward. Six Walther P99As opened fire on the lizardmen then the vampires split up taking cover where they could.

Clive(X) headed into the train and fired out it's open door. Sam(X) walked backwards firing constantly as the others bolted off and remained fairly out in the open. Derrik(X) ran behind a pillar and shot from behind it. Adam(X) took cover behind another pillar. Lucus(X) went behind a wall and leaned out from behind it to open fire. Jack(X) ran straight towards the lizardmen firing, when he neared them he holstered his gun and drew out two small blades, he leapt into the heart of them blades slicing.

((Tepe, it might be a good idea to let us know what kind of weapons your using, knives and spears are all you've used in the past.))

[ooc: When the lizardmen do something in the darkness and hide, they use spears or knifes. When they really start attacking, they use old model M-4's]

The lizardmen opened fire, ssome taking cover but somethat had vest's kept advancing. The vampires hadn't yet realized that the stomach was the weak point, so the lizardmen had the advantage. They shot many bullets and hit many vampires. As jack advanced to melee combat, the attacked lizardman took swiftly a nice made blade under his long coat. The blade cut nicely the vampire head off. Two lizardemn fell down from Jack's blades.Four lizardmen took Sam as their target and many times shot him on the leg and arms. Then one bullet hit the vampire on the head. The row of the advancing lizardmen was scattering to the sides after third of the row was gone. There was only 12 lizardmen standing now and half of those took took Adam as their target, half of the last took Derrik as their target and those that were left opened heavy fire on Luckus.

The five lizardmen, now looking at the hidden vampires stayed in their positions. One lizardmen stood up from a corner and walked from their towards the vampires. "Hello? I heard ssomething here... Do you need help?" it said and hissed in a very quiet tone. It looked the vampires like searching. It was one of the spy trained soldiers. The lizardman walked forward as the other changed very quickly places to get a more clear firing place.

The dark sewers tunnels and smell provided NeoVenom, Zeno, and Draco to flee. "We will feast on their bloods." NeoVenom says thru clenched teeth. They were tired of running. All three tossed their guns and clothes to a ledge that was above them and growled. They began to morph into their werewolf forms and hide away into the shadows, waiting for a chance to finish off their chasers.

Back at the Dark Shadows

Solnina approached Ziltro and spoke to him. "Ziltro, you and 10 others head off and find NeoVenom, Zeno and Draco. They are taking too long to return." Ziltro nodded. The gate of the Dark Shadows opens as Ziltro, Peters, Jacks, Smith, and others walked thru. Some of them carry Uzi's, while others carry Glock-18's (similar guns to the Walther P99A). They make their way to the tunnels leading to the subway station.

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(Out of Character: I didn't rush on Tais because he is a (*) character. So after you post, I'll post their actions.)

*In the sewers, relitively near NeoVenom, Zeno, and Draco,.. Five Pagans(5*X) whom were on recon, picked up the sent of their warewolf form.*

*They looked at each other, then attempted to localise where the three Vampires are. They pull out strange sticky orbs, roughly the size of a football. [american :D]*

((OCC: Just a note, Night Hawkes are the vampire version of swat, or navy seals, or spec ops. So don't dispatch them like regular thugs. Just because their (X) doesn't mean you can kill them in one easy hit. Just letting you know for futur refference. When fighting them remember, they are extremely accurate and deadly, and most of them are pure bloods and are much stronger than regular vampires.))



The train station

Jack flew threw the air and landed with each blade stabbing into a lizard man. He pulled them out, blood sprayed from the wounds, and blocked a blade on either side of him. He felt a pain in his leg as a lizardman stabbed him, that lizardman was shot and fell to the ground. Jack pulled the plade out of his leg and looked up just in time to see another blade coming straight for him, but it was too late. His head flew from his body and rolled away, his body fell flat on it's stomach a stiff corpse, blood sprayed from the severed neck hole.

Sam layed the cover fire and when the others had reached cover he turned to take some cover of his own. As he leapt over a bench he felt a bullet peirce his leg and arm. He landed on the other side of the bench and clutched at his wounds. Poping up from behind the bench he fired another burst just before a bullet peirced his skull. His body went limp on the bench.

Adam leaned out and fired at the lizardmen, when a large number of them fired at him he ducked back behind his pillar, dust and tyles flew past as bullets tore at the pillar.

Adam looked over at Derrik who was sitting with his back against the pillar and holding a bloody arm. His pillar also being torn by bullets.

Lucus turned back behind his wall as bullets zipped past. He keyed his radio, "Miryia we're under attack by some strange lizarlike men. They came out of the tunel behind the train and just opened fire on us, we're all pinned down."

Miryia's voice came back, "We're hot on the werewolf trail Lucus, we need this lead, can you take them or do we need to come back?"

Clive, the closest to the Lizardmen noticed they didn't seem to realize he was there, or so close. As the lizardmen advanced Clive decided not to give away his position and stayed out of sight in the train. Then he saw the window at the front of the train in the cart ahead. Seeing the oportunity he ran towards it and leapt through it. He landed in a roll as shattered glass crashed all around him. Now he was behind the lizard men. He took this advantage and usued the rais from the track to the station platform for cover and fired over it at the lizardmen who were now caught in a cross fire.

Of the twelve remaining lizardmen most of them were quickly wounded or killed from behind with no chance. Adam noticed the stop of fire at his pillar and leaned out pumping lead into the green skinned lizards. Derrik remained uninvolved as he was wounded. Lucus saw the turn of the tide and also fired at the lizards.

When the dust settled there were no lizardmen standing.

As quickly as it had started it ended.

"It's okay Miryia, we've got it under control." Lucus said into his radio.

"Good because we're hot on the werewolves trail. Report if you find anything else."

"Sam is dead, and Derrick is wounded."

"Just do your best and hold together, this is getting out of control and you need to find the others and get out of there as quickly as possible."

"Affirmative, Lucus out."

The radio conversation ended.

((OCC: I have to go to work now so didn't get to continue the Tais part in the tunnels. It's okay for you to engage him and even beat him, I'll let you know when and if you can kill him.))

Miles away from their base, Ziltro, a pureblood, and the other members of the Shadow Hunters, half purebloods and half turned, toss several small gas gernades into several holes and tunnels. Once the liquid in these new gernades are exposed to air, it forms into air and kills the scent of werewolves. "Hopefully, McKain will find a way for all of us to be unscented, but these will do." Ziltro says. He then stops and holds out his hand in an upright position. Ziltro motions to the group to split up in groups of five. "Proceed steathly" Ziltro whispers to his group. With their guns drawn, they split up.

Back at Dark Shadow...

McKain mixes a small portion of werewolf's blood with the same liquid that is found in the small gernades.. "Ah ha!" he exclaimed. Solnina walks into the lab and looks at McKain. "Have you discovered something new?" She crosses her arms in front of her as she waits for McKain to answer. "I found out that if we inject the same liquid which are in these small gernades into our blood system, we will become unscented. I've tested it with a small portion of my blood and it works. At first I thought it wouldn't work, but by trial and error, it did!" He grins at his new discovery. Solnina approaches and says, "Inject me with this liquid then." McKain nods and gets a needle. She sits down, relaxes, and suddenly feels a small prick on her arm. "It is done." McKain says. "In about a minute, you will be odorless Madam. I will arrange for everyone to be injected with this. We should get it done by today, if I have assistance." Solnina nods. The news about this new discovery spread throughout the headquarters.

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(Out of character: I'll hold back on the part with NeoVenom, Zeno, and Draco part. Also, If this whole thing about werewolves being unscented is not fair, then please tell me. I created McKain, the scientist, so that he can improve on such things. I believe that such a thing can be done, but that's only me. It's a new discovery such as the discovery of silver nitrate and ultraviolet light bullets.)

The beaten lizardmen were beaten with heavy injuries and deaths. Asshakar got this message and wanted to see himself what were these super-creatures that had beaten twenty of his well trained soldiers. He equipped his two blades, M-4, USP and a sharp souvenir for the one that would now be the only to survive. The sharp souvenir was a knife kind of but in the end of the handle, was the Green hate's logo, Two green knifes and a M-4 in a cross. He mobilized five of his most elite troops that he had trained himself. Their vest's were thick and some had helmets.
Asshakar(***), Shimmer(X), Arssess(X), Assodyrrill(X), Hatassess(X) and Hissimyri(X) travelled the long way where their fine soldiers were slaughtered. They saw nothing of the vampires that had killed them, so they started to "sniff around". Arssess got a slight smell of blood and they followed it.

The lead vampire went up to Sain.
"We do not come to fight."
To empazise, he dropped the clip currently loaded in his gun.
"Now you do the same. "

((OOS: Scent is caused mainly by bodily odor, etc, I believe - the meta-science there seems a bit iffy >.>

I think I need to post faster, dammit. :D))

Rooftops, York outskirts

Gargoyles drop from the sky onto the cluster of rooftops. The tallest gargoyle, a female with long, backswept horns and black skin, folds her wings regally as she lands and approaches Rasserk. Rasserk bows and greets her.

Rasserk: Welcome, High Priest of the Gods, Black Crystal, Re'lethi. My scouts have found and prepared sanctuaries throughout this city for our kind to rest. We have completed the temple for you and the lower priests. We shall take you there now.

Rasserk steps to the edge of the roof, opens his wings and leaps off. The other gargoyles follow in an eerie train. They circle higher, cloaking themselves in the clouds to avoid human detection, before heading outwards.

Re'lethi: What have you found about the inhabitants of this city?

Rasserk: Their world of light is controlled by the Tira, the humanfolk. Their underworld is controlled by a clan of Tira vampires called Red Shadows. Other clans of Tira wolven lycanthropes, other Tira vampires, vigilante pure Tira, and Letha lizardfolk battle them in the dark and shadows. Other creatures of smaller numbers lurk amongst them as well, but not in numbers of significance.

Re'lethi: If they are consumed with their infighting, so much the better. All shall fall before the gods of Black Crystal.

((I need to psot more too))

*Woods outside York...*

*A circle of pagans whom enplant themselves in the ground. At one portion of the circle at a slight incline, was the oldest and wisest among the Pagans.*

Talon "Children of Terra, our time grows near. For long our kind had become setient, and did not protect the Mother from the tyranny of Mankind and all whom had been created from such! They'd be better off if we'd destroy them rather their own kind, fighting their wars amist themselves, for them to kill massive amounts of their kind, only for truce till they fight once more!!"

*All* "For mother Earth, Terra, we fight for her!"

Talon "Grendal, how are the preparations?"

Grendal "Thus far proceeding as forseen, scouts have penitrated the city. One of Human strongholds scouted will fall tonight. The lizardmen's hide out shall be located and flooded with our Frog Spores."

[OOC: Frog spores, which i got my pagans carrying in the sewers. each 'orb' or 'egg' rather, spawn three frogs, that move fast at the nearest non pagan, and explode rather harshly, due to their chemical make up.]

Talon "As for the Vampirical and Lycan factions?"

Chimera "Their strongholds will be found, and exploited. during their slumber at a time more permitted by Mother's plan..."

[OOC: IE: weather permitting, aka clear skies :)]

Talon "The Lycans?"

Chimera "Mining the Mother, to procure a supply of their weakness, is unthought of. We'll have to find other means to eliminate them."

Talon "Speak no further. We'll attack Vampircal strongholds, at one time and pin the blame on the Lycans. This will infurate the Vampires, causing them to hunt down those abominations one by one."

Grendal "My lord, what of the Gargolyes we spotted?"

Talon "Truely they want every threat eliminated. But out plan is to eliminate the humans, and what was once human. The gargolyes on the other hand, aren't human. And are threat to us. Even if they deside to attack us, they'll soon relise they need us to survive as their air thins."

The sewer tunnels

Tais walked slowly, his feet splashing in the small puddles of water formed by leaky pipes which dripped from the celing. Suddenly he caught a wiff of werewolf scent but he couldn't tell where it was coming from. He slowly readied his Walther P99A and continued forwards...then stopped suddenly, he caught a scent which seemed to come from above him. Slowly he continued walking, pretending he hadn't noticed, then spun around and fired up at the place he had smelt.

*****

Chester kneeled beside Jason with a large chunk of Rubble behind them shielding them from the direction the spear had been thrown from. Chester aimed his Walther P99A into the shadows up ahead covering the backs of his other two companions.

Max and Lester each took cover at oposite sides of the tunnel and aimed their guns at the oposite wall. Their they remained, waiting for the others to arive.

*****

Adam helped Derrik walk by letting the wounded vampire lean on him. Lucus carried Sam's dead bodie over his shoulder. The weight was no burden, Lucus was a strong pure blood. Clive took point and lead the group.

As they neered the place where Lester and the others were waiting Clive radioed Lester, "Lester, it's Clive, we're coming in now, we can smell your scent. How are you guys doing?"

Lester replied on the other end, "Fine so far, the attackers don't seem to be making a second attempt."

"Good, well just hold on there, we're almost there."

*****

The train station's back areas

Miryia finished talking on the radio and the group moved on. The werewolf scent suddenly became extra strong and Miryia sensed they were near the werewolf HQ.

((OCC: NeoVenom, describe what your base looks like from a spy's view please. Or as much as we can see without being spotted. Remember, Night Hawkes are excelent stealth soldiers and could smell if a guard was nearby, so unless somthing unavoidable happens don't let us get spotted. Like no guard casually walking past and decides to look somewhere he wouldn't normally, cuz we'dd smell him and move. Okay? thanks. Corse I'm not going to strangle you if you do spot us....anyway I'm babling and abusing my own OCC rule haha.))

*****

Sain had not drawn his weapon, nore was it visible, and he made no move to do as the other vampire did. "You'll forgive me if I don't, I simply don't trust you. But if you want a truce I will not refuse it. We are battling the Lycen now and have no particular desire to fight you. If you would like to talk peace I am willing to do so now, here." The guards around Sain kept their distance and seemed a little less tense now that they overheard the other Vampire's intentions.

Sain spoke again, "What terms of peace would you like? Do you propose a truce? or an alliance?"

[OOC: Scar, I yhink you should ease off a bit. You're like: "My soldiers come immediatly into the sewers and attack with something called Frog spores to the very well hidden nest of the lizardmen and the very well hidden base of the werewolfs"]

Asshakar lead his soldiers towards where the vampires went. They noticed that the place was the same where the lizardmen attacked one of the vampires. They radioed the lizardmen to prepare themselfs to be attacked from the back. asshakar continued and soon hid behind a small corner so the travelling vampires wouldn't see them.

After the lisardmen warriors got the message from Asshakar, they drew their M-4's out and started heavy firing towards the vampires. One of the soldiers took an eye on the back and would alert the other if attacked from there.

Asshakar lead his men after the vampires that went in from the small door and towards the other vampires.

((OOC: Well Tepe, Scar's creatures have been around for....a long time, so it's not impossible that they already knew where it was. You may be upset that it may seem like your gonna loose or something, but it's not a win loose situation, it's a progressive story and whatever happens hopefully will be for the better of the story. If you feel like Scar's not being fair perhpas there can be some compramising. But let's see what Scar has to say first.))

The sewer tunnels

Max and Lester ducked behind their cover as machine gun bullets tore at the weak crumbling walls. Lester took out a Silver Nitrate Grenade. Despite the lizardmen not likely to be weak to the silver it would still be effective. Lester pulled the pin and chucked it up ahead into the midst of the five lizardmen. The grenade exploded sending balls of silver in all directions injuring most of the lizardmen. Then Max and Lester peeked from their cover and opened fire on the lizardmen.

*****

Clive and the other's heard the gunfire and began to run towards it, then an explosion sounded and finally more gunfire.

Lucus set Sam's dead bodie down and Adam let Derrik lean against a wall, then Lucus, Adam, and Clive ran around the corner and finished off the lizardmen.

When the dust settled Clive, Lucus, and Adam stood looking past the dead bodies of five lizardmen at Max and Lester on the other side.

Lucus and Adam went back for Sam and Derrik while Clive went up to Max and Lester.

"We'd like to propose an alliance." The men carrying the bag came out. They opened the bag and dropped the body of one of the Lycan's important leaders onto the floor.
"I think you'll find this appropriate. "

In the sewer tunnels

Seeing the opportunity NeoVenom, Draco, and Zeno pounced on Tais while his was busy firing upon the ledge. NeoVenom came from behind, Draco came from the left side, and Zeno came from the right side.

In the train station's back areas...aswell

Ziltro and his group continue to walk silently thru the hallways and tunnels. Ziltro pauses as he hears something. "What's that? Quickly hide....hide." he whispers. Some hid behind pillars while others hide in shadow.

In Dark Shadows

"Why haven't my scent diminished, McKain?" Solnina angrily asked. "Well, my calculations have been wrong Madam. It takes about two to three days for the odor to dissipate. My apologize, Madam. In the meantime, I had the liquid installed into our ventilation system until all of us no longer have our scents."

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(Out of Character: Ziltro and his group were heading the same direction as Miryia and her group was, so they were bound to run into each other. Don't worry, I know how well trained the Night Hawkes are, but there are about six well-trained Dark Hunters in the Shadow Hunters group. Peters, Jacks, Smith, Bickler, and, and Jones [X] are not members of the Dark Hunters, so therefore they don't have the same training as the others. Also, Tais is firing at the clothes, right?

Now about the base. The only part a spy can see of Dark Shadows is it's pair of large steel doors, which are opened from the inside. The walls surrounding the door is thick tunnel walls. In front of those door are about 10 highly trained Shadow Hunters know as Dark Hunters (There are other Dark Hunters inside the base aswell.). There are exits and hidden exits inside the base, in case of invasion.)

((You see Frog spores are a mere creation, they aren't perfect.

although I may have to think of new weapons that the pagans would use, I certainly cant say that they'll use guns.

For that matter they have a very strict technology curve that everyone else doesnt have

even the gargolyes, cus red used radios to communicate with each other from the tower to the sky (i think)

as for me gitting the advance on ya, sorry, besides it doesnt mean that I'll win ;)

just not easily :)))

*sewers*

*The pagans heard the gunfire and thought it was aimed towards them, they scatter to courners in attempt to blend in with the walls.

The head pagan threw a frog spore in the direction of Max and lester. It hits the ground sliently, and spilts open, where two toads crawl out.

One of them senses Max, and starts hopping innocently towards him. Then the other searching in another direction.*

((Scar, sorry 'bout that... But just don't try to get in two minutes throught the gates that can be opened only from the inside and the gates are very well hidden. They look like its a dead-end...))

Asshakar heard the gunshots and walked in front of his men to towards the gunshots. He saw the vampires only by a small flash, but then hissed. He saw the vampires stop and draw their weapons at him. "Hmm... Shoot me, please do... So my people will have even more reasons to kill every one of your kind" Asshakar hissed and stepped towards the vampires as his men hid.