World 6: Awakened - RP Thread

I don't need any help, thank you, he replied tensely, shaking his head. He made to close the door on them both. Blaine interrupted.

Really?! he asked harshly. Did you really think no one would find the bodies? Or work out what they meant?

The man was now gaping like a stunned fish.

I don't know what you're on about, he lied.

Seven corpses found around the park where you work over the last 4 months. Around the full moon each time. Dumped as if the killer had been in a real panic.

He continued to watch them with the same stunned expression as before, but the denials had by now died on his lips. These people knew.....

I bet you did just panic, didn't you? Blaine continued. You didn't know what had happened.... or not really. Just some wild feeling, glimpses maybe, seen through unreal eyes. Like waking up in the middle of a bloodbath.

Fine, we can do it later

How.... how did you know? he asked quietly, shocked, frightened. He didn't dare ask the second question in his mind: what were they going to do to him because they knew?

That doesn't matter, we just recognised the pattern, Blaine replied. You're the one who has to make a choice now: change things, or be dealt with.

He voicelessly mouthed the words "dealt with", undoubtedly imagining exactly what that'd entail.

How would I change things, though? he asked pleadingly. I can't control it or stop it.... it just bursts out of me....

Can't you lock yourself up so no one gets hurt?

I tried that, didn't work....

Soon the door was harshly opened and suddenly, Lance had a rifle, just inches from his face. He almost stopped breathing, untill Vicky said.

"He is a friend."

The man that was standing in the door, that probably was Vicky's leader, Scar, because of the giant, gross scar that was reaching from his left jaw to his right eye, then responded.

"I will be the judge of that." but he let them both in, though he looked extra carefully at Lance. It looked like the horrors wasn't over just because they had escaped the Nága.

You're kidding, right? Michael asked nervously. He turned to face Blaine. She is kidding?

Blaine didn't answer. In truth, he didn't know if Anya was kidding or not, and he didn't know if she should have been serious in the threat. The man's attitude sickened him just as much as it had his sister. But they'd agreed to try to reason with him....

We'll give you one chance, she offered. Full moon's approaching again tonight... from the last months, you'll be transforming all week. But if any body gets found - if you make us regret giving you this chance - you're a dead man.

And don't even think of coming after us straight away, you wouldn't even get time to turn back into a man, Blaine added before they exited.

??

(I just didn't want to make her seem like an awesome fighter straight away )

Cutting away blindly, it took her a while to realise that the wolf was no longer attacking her, a while longer again to realise why that was. She winced as she shoved its dead weight off her. Why hadn't the guy heeded their warnings? He'd been one person she'd hoped they hadn't had to kill. She dropped the knives, not caring about how she was risking staining her carpet with blood, and moved to the phone to call Blaine.

(I thought you were trying to kill her off already )

The case turned out to be a simple one, a coven of witches attacking each other. Dexter remained uninvolved, protecting Nayeli instead, since she didn't like facing witches, it made her nervous and guilty. Donny and Isaac took care of it, killing the only remaining two with surprising speed. They were on the road again in no time. After a call from their friend, Robert Pond, the gang went north, heading in the direction of Salinas and then San Jove and finally to Sunnyvale, not far from San Francisco, after a few attacks that seemed to be centred around a high school.

(Nah And nice )

Hi Blaine, she began a bit uncertainly. I just had a little visitor...

You ok?! he asked immediately.

Fine, not a scratch, she assured him, having already gotten the explanation of how werecreatures infected others. I just don't know what to do with the body...

I'll come over there now and help you get rid of it.

( And btw, Sunnyvale is a place and I'm beginning to believe that's where the name Sunnydale was taken.. )

The first disappearance hadn't raised a lot of surprise in the area, since the tall girl with long ginger hair was well known for flaking out of school. Her parents reported her disappearance after 24 hours but no one started to panic until a few days later. Her family got more and more concerned, talking to all of her friends and speaking to her teachers, looking for any sign to where she had gone. The mutilated body wasn't found for exactly twelve days, when a teacher was collecting old drama costumes from the basement where he found blood splatters and finally a body, covered in cuts. When the poor girl's body was pulled down from the hook where it was hanging, it was found to be almost completely drained of blood.

The body was confirmed to be that of eighteen-year-old, Cathy Greenlake, who had disappeared from the high school twelve days earlier, but identification was difficult. Her hair was gruffly pulled from her scalp and her body was almost unrecognisable due to cuts to the face. The police have also confirmed that they have several leads towards the killer, concluded from evidence that she was definitely not killed in the basement.

Vampire? was Dorian's first guess when Seth read out of the newspaper article to him. Nayeli shivered slightly and made a slight whistling sound to show her disgust.

Dexter interjected, I'd doubt it. Cuts all over the body, waiting twelve days? That seems far too much thought for vamps. Besides, not really enough victims..

I'm just hopin' whatever it is, it bleeds a lot, remarked Isaac blandly.

(And there was me thinking you'd mistyped )

She thanked him quietly, then hung up, and simply waited. She couldn't bring herself to do anything else, she didn't know what to do. The mere fact that she'd just had to fight for her life against a mythical monster in her own living room was too surreal. Blaine had arrived before she even noticed that she was still drenched in the wolf's blood, and he offered to dispose of the body while she washed it off.

(Nope )

By the time they arrived in town, it was exactly nearly two weeks after Cathy's disappearance and they were greeted with the news that there had been another disappearance. This time a black girl of the same age, and reportedly a friend of the first victim. She hadn't been seen for nearly ten days now. Worry was evident when Seth and Dexter visited Nancy's family, who were clearly scared that the same thing was going to happen to Nancy as it did to Cathy. Again, she had last been seen in the school building and again, there was no sign of departure.

Conversations with the police department and local residents proved fruitless, no one seemed to understand the disappearances. It was a small town, only one high school, one supermarket, one bar. A close knit community, with an unsurprisingly low death rate. Does the second disappearance bring vampire back into the picture?

There's an obvious pattern here, much too intelligent for vampire. These girls were friends, same high school, same classes, same ages. And the time lapse. Twelve days for the body. Only three after for another disappearance. If we wait another two days, I'm betting we have another body on our hands. I'd wager same scars, too.

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