Prelude:



Blood covered every inch of the room. It was spattered against the walls, pooled all over the floor and dripped from the ceiling. A woman's mutilated body lay about the middle of the room, or most of it anyway... Her legs and one of her arms were strewn about the room with her flesh torn from her body in places.

"This is the third one in less than a month," One officer sighed, turning to the investigator. The investigator stared at the body, finally turning to look at the officer addressing him, "We may be looking at a serial killer," he finally concluded, glancing at her leg across the room, or what was left of it. He finally took a good stare at the woman's torso, noticing rounded hunks of flesh ripped from her body. "Bite marks?" He knelt near the body, observing it more closely. "Cannibal?" The officer questioned, raising a brow and standing from his crouched position. "Most likely," the investigator responded, "That or some kind of animal."

The investigator slipped one hand into his caramel-colored trench, pulling out a small evidence bag. "Find something?" The officer inquired, intrigued as to what he found. The investigator lifted his hand with the baggy, now with a white chip sealed inside. "I think this may be a tooth," He answered, standing up, "I'm going to analyze this back in the lab." The police officer nodded.

"If you find anything else, call me," The investigator stated, walking out of the room and using his forearm to lift the yellow crime scene tape and hunching under it. There were police officers all about the hallway; interviewing some people, talking with other investigators, and so on.

The investigator wondered out of the apartment building with the evidence at hand. He opened his car door, slipping onto the driver's seat and closing the door after. He sat there for one moment, looking at his ID tag...

'Hideyo Mamoyata. Age 43. Head CSI Investigator...'

"I can't wait to retire," He murmured, starting the car and joining the midnight traffic.

Reminaka sat atop of the apartment building with one knee tucked into her chest and one foot hanging over the edge of the building. "This is the third one in a month," She thought to herself, looking down the side of the building to the balcony of the apartment that was now the crime scene.

"I haven't been able to catch this bastard yet," She clenched her teeth, "I'm usually good at this," She lifted her head to look into the brilliant moon, "There's no scent, no track, no signs: this is going to be a hard one."

Tamaj walked slowly up to Reminaka, staring at her, she seemed to be in deep thought, perhaps it was the demon that slipped through both of their hands.

"still no demon," he stated walking up to her as he peered over the side of the building. "I couldn't find any trace of this one, crafty bastard," Tamaj stated as he turned so that his back was to the edge of the roof. He sat down beside Reminaka and smiled, "don't worry. We will catch it. It can't hide forever." Tamaj tried to reassure her, truth be told, Tamaj was a little worried. It had been the third attack in less than a month and they still hadn't caught the demon responsible. Could the demon be that illusive? Why was it so hard to track down?

Tamaj held the positive attitude, trying to reassure Reminaka that she was one of the best demon hunters he had ever met.

Tamaj stood up, letting the wind blow through his hair. He felt that Reminaka needed time to herself, deciding to talking with the authorities as the scanned the scene. Tamaj back flipped off the top of the roof, landing on the side rail of the building with a loud thud, gaining the attention of the police officers.

"what has happened," he asked as he turned and looked at the officer in charge. The officer began to explain what they thought may have been the cause of such destruction. Tamaj thanked the officer and lept from the side rail in a backwards motion, leaving the officer is awe as he landed atop a car roof with ease, leaving no dent in the roof of the car. Tamaj jumped off the car and look up at the top of the building, Reminaka still seemed deep in thought.

He gathered himself before rushing off towards his headquarters, only thinking of Reminaka and the demon that got away. What was she thinking? He constantly asked himself this question the further he strided away from the building. Tamaj shook away the question as he rounded a corner nearing his headquarters, "how did the demon escape so quickly?" He wondered as he skidded to a halt, standing in front of what looked like a broken down shack. He walked up to the door of the building and tapped on the wall, a keypad appeared. He typed in the security code, the computer responded, "welcome back Mister Jones," as the door swung open. He walked inside, the walls decorated beautifully, the carpet imported from the best, a giant computer monitor installed within the side wall. The lights flashed on, illuminating the once dark room.

Tamaj stood for a moment taking in his handy work. He had rebuilt this building from the floor up, and had formed the outside to make it look broken down, but the inside was luxurious. He sat down in front of the computer monitor and began typing, inputting the results of the hunt today.

They’d both heard about it. Those depraved and gruesome attacks upon people, how many had it been now in this short while, and the two did not want to count. Larmica, though sickened by these happenings and knowing truly that she could do nothing about them other than see them coming she was urged to follow things as best she could. She worried not of being caught in the middle of these rather… demonic happenings. If anything she feared her own power, but Kayel was here. As long as he was here she’d be fine. Though they both knew that sometimes he wasn’t enough.
The girl had that look in her eyes again, the one Kayel dreaded with all of his heart because he never knew what would follow after. She was seeing again. She only wished at times that her power was stronger than this in waking moments. She’d constantly dream of these murders so she never needed to see what was beyond the walls of the places attacked. Then… in the waking moments there were these images. Too vague to be helpful at least not until something was closer to happening, still, that did not prevent her from seeing near constant bloodshed in her mind and that… those things.
Kayel shook her slightly jarring her from what little train of thought she was having. “Look at me.” he said simply as he put his hand under her chin and forced her to look up a little into his eyes though she averted them frustrating him further. It was that strange power again. The thing that went beyond her seeing and beyond her strange empathy that led straight on into a bloodthirsty rage. He knew it from the look in her eyes. They were far more intense than usual and that tell tale sign that the difference in the two colors in her eyes was increasing. It proved she was looking beyond the reality and into whatever she wanted to see. “Look at me.” He said again trying to forcibly redirect her. “Do it.” His voice was only slowing seeping into her system.
Slowly the colors became closer to what he was used to and she looked at him for just a few moments before she fainted. Kayel was used to this routine and as usual caught her and helped wake her again pulling out a bottle of water from a pack he nearly always kept on him for these instances. The slightly older male put the bottle to the girls lips and tilted it slightly as to let just a little water fall into her mouth. After a few moments Larmica took the bottle and drank a bit more on her own accord before returning to her feet. “I’m sorry.”
“It’s alright, that’s what I’m here for.” The other male insisted trying to make her feel better about her situation.
“These attacks… they’re making me worse.”
“You’ll be fine. Don’t worry. It’ll be fine.”
She hated to think so but she had no choice but to believe in him and so she did.

"Morel! Get off of the phone!"

"Leave me alone! I'm doing important things!"

Kol grit his teeth, a muted growl fighting its way out of his rigid control. He rubbed a towel over his silvery blond hair as he stalked out of his bedroom, dressed in a pair of sweats and a black wife beater. Morel was folded up into herself on the couch as usual, with her cell phone plastered to her ear. He had heard the conversation from his room, her plan to meet up with some kid or another on the sly. It was a bad idea. She was probably already planning on getting into some kind of trouble.

With nothing more than a sigh to announce him, Kol leapt over the back of the couch and tackled Morel, yanking the phone away from her in the process. They had no coffee table for just these kinds of situations. Kol growled playfully at her and she growled back. Unfortunately for her, he was much stronger.

"What did I tel you about getting involved in human turf wars?" he asked in an annoyed huff. Morel struggled again, and then went limp with defeat.

"I wouldn't have done anything..." she whined completely unconvincingly. Kol laughed and released her, flopping back onto the couch and swiping the remote.

"Then it's a good thing you aren't going, eh? It would have been a momumental bore." MOrel seated hersle f beside him, pouting all the way. They flipped through the channels in silence for a while, until suddenly, Kol paused on the news. His expression darkened steadily as he listened and he shot a dirty look at Morel, whose eyes were wide. She held up her hands quickly.

"No, no, I've been good, I swear," she told him before he could speak. She leaned closer to the set, peering at the screen. "Anyway, that isn't one of us, a fearie. Too... carnal."

Kol's eyes remained dark. "Maybe we need to get out of town soon. Things are going wrong around here."

Alarms blared in the once quiet headquarters, "this is it," Tamaj stated jumping to his feet. He withdrew his staff, uttering a few words, vanishing in a cloud of smoke.

He appeared atop a building, "damn I still haven't got that down pact yet," he stated as he looked around, analyzing his surroundings. He was close to the Yakima Tower, he could see it in the distance.

He burst into a speed, jumping from roof top to roof top, he suddenly caught Reminaka out of the corner of his eyes, she must have picked up on this as well. He smiled as he raced towards Yakima Tower.

It took him a mere five minutes before he was standing outside the Tower, he could hear a car approaching, and he knew Reminaka wasn't far behind. He uttered a few words and vanished again, appearing upon the Yakima Tower roof top. He peered over the edge, he was nearest the top floor, and he could hear screams coming, but from what room.

He jumped off the roof top, in a backwards flip, and crashed through one of the windows to a room. Nothing seemed out of place in this room, so he opened the door silently, peering out into the hallways.

It seemed liked a normal night. Duhlan felt no presence of any sort. Like usual he sat atop Yakima tower watching the dull city below.

He was prepared to go find some food but was interrupted by a shadowy blur in the corner of his eye.
“Whats this?” he whispered so confidently with a smile on his face.

It had been so long since he had any sort of entertainment other then hunting for food. He didn't hesitate to leap from the art fixture he loved to perch from. As he landed he heard a scream from inside and confidence quickly turned to absolute fear. The scream sounded like Jessy. Then his fear was slightly settled as he reminded him self that Jessy wasn't as fragile as she seemed.

An impulse of curiosity forced him to turn and jump back to the tower but he was interrupted by another blur flying into a window. Duhlan couldn't help but find the connection between the humans talk of a murderer and the events happening on this night. He decided when the first murder occurred that he wouldn't go trying to do right by the humans, again...But now it seemed that their troubles had found their way to him.

Then he saw another shadowy object moving in the distance and decided to act. He quickly hopped from ground level to the roof of a near by house. From here he saw the distant moving blur coming closer.

The sound of a car didn't surprise him so much as did the blur. The once unrecognizable figure was now clear. It was a girl? Or Woman? He was very unsure at that point as to what to do. How was she moving at that speed? She “seemed” human enough. Then she slowed to a stop about five feet from him with a look that was surprising. It wasn't the usual reaction he got from humans. No fear, it was almost as if she was ready to fight. Duhlan though to himself "Does she really think she can take on a Vampire"? He shrugged this thought off and decided he'd rather get answers then a meal.

Duhlan took one step forward and stuck out one hand and asked calmly, “My name is Duhlan, could you please explain whats happening here?”

The tension seemed to fade away as if the girl knew Duhlan was of no harm. She reached out and shook his hand and Duhlan jumped back so quickly he scared himself. Duhlan has always had a profound ability to “learn” curtain things about people just from one simple touch, but this girl seemed to have a very closed in mind. All he learned was her name.

Duhlan apologized and said very quietly in a curios tone “Reminaka”.

Not too much earlier Larmical and Kayel had found themselves passing nearby the tower and once again Larmica had stopped though this vision was much closer. “Ael… something isn’t right… that tower… that thing… it’s…”
“Hush… Don’t think about it.” He knew her thinking about it too much would trigger her again. He quickly reminded her that the things she was seeing could be changed by intervention of others. The things she saw didn’t have to occur.
“But it’s soon… they… they won’t make it!” she insisted fear settling in her voice as Kayel wrapped his arms around her.
“It isn’t your job to save people. It isn’t your job to warn people. Let it go. Let it all go… all you need to remember is there is you and me and there is nothing else you need to worry about.”
“Then why… be given this sight… if I can’t use it… I have to do something!” Larmica had always been a willful child and this had always been against her and Kayel’s best interests though there was still something deeper inside the two of them. Something almost inhuman that neither was aware they’d hidden at birth. But only together had they done this, so only together could they ever unlock their true abilities.
A blur… a scream and what the two saw as several blurs later they’d knew things had fallen out of their hands and into the hands of any who possessed the things to prevent what Larmica had envisioned. “Let’s just wait.” Kayel was strangely calm but he knew he had to be to keep Larmica in a controlled state. “We’ll figure everything out when it’s done… no matter what the outcome we’ll figure everything out. “
“Okay…” she murmured clutching her head for a moment trying to stop any vision she could see a few minutes ahead to cease. She didn’t want to know. The girl knew there were things in life that people weren’t meant to see and this, to her, was one of them. She didn’t want to see death anymore, she didn’t want to see pain or suffering or anything else. She wanted to go on with life oblivious of things as most humans did but… she knew she wasn’t like most humans, just as she knew Kayel wasn’t too. Though, there was still so much left for them both to understand about it.

Tamaj opened the door that led to the hall. He was on the top floor, moving slowly but carefully through the hall. Tamaj could hear the screaming, but it was coming from more than one source. It sounded as though there was more than one screaming.

Tamaj slowly rounded the corner of one of the rooms the screams where coming from. A vampire stood draining a young woman against the wall, Tamaj acted quickly pulling the vampire away from the young lady, but it was too late, she was dead. Tamaj felt sympathy for the young woman, caught in between this war. Tamaj closed the eyes of the lady as he uttered a few words, her body turned into shimmering dust and blew into the night by way of a crack in the window.

The vampire recovered from being thrown away from the young lady, slowly rising to it's feet.

"you're a fool to have come here and interrupt our feast," the vampire stated in a deep death tone. Tamaj turned to face the vampire, "foolish vampire, your blood lust has led to your end," Tamaj summoned his staff, which gleamed in the moonlight. He gripped it tightly as the vampire charged towards him. The vampire was quick, throwing punches and clawing at Tamaj, but Tamaj was no average hunter, he had speed greater than that of a vampire and strength that was also greater. He caught the fist of the vampire and began to squeeze, crushing bones in the hand of the vampire, whom gave out a loud scream of pain.

Tamaj twirled the vampires arm, breaking it, his staff whacked the vampire in the temple and chest, sending it crashing through the wall of the next room. To Tamaj's surprise, another vampire was sucking the life out of another woman, "oh I see, an army of bloodsuckers, how many more are you?" Tamaj asked walking into the room by way of the shattered wall.

The other vampire stood this his feet, tossing the body of the young lady out the window, Tamaj uttered a few words and as the body fell it transformed into glittering dust, flowing away in the wind. Tamaj now stood in a room alone with two vampires. The one whose arm he had broken, stood up, reconnecting his broken arm and smiling at Tamaj, "now what hunter?" the vampire asked smiling, showing his fangs as they glistened with blood.

Tamaj gripped his staff tightly. The vampires lunged forward, clawing at Tamaj. Tamaj took two good hits and was thrown back into the neighboring room. Tamaj recovered quickly as he saw one of the vampires jump into the air towards him. Tamaj twirled his staff, it began to glow a dim blue. He whacked the vampire in mid air, in the head, the staff flashed a deep blue when it made contact with the vampire's head. The vampire was thrown against the wall and began convulsing, its body began to freeze over. In less than a minute, the vampires body was completely frozen. The other vampire saw this and fear gripped it's conscious, but before it could run, an icy aura beam was shot, making contact in the chest of the vampire. It too began to convulse as it lay on the floor, its body freezing solid in less than a minute.

Tamaj walked out of the room and peered down the hall, to his amazement, his little bout had not interrupted the screaming and feeding that still took place. He sighed, "I have a lot of work to do," he stated smiling as he levitated down the hall to the next room.

(OOC: I'm Sorry. When I read your first post you didn't include any OOC link or other OOC information so I assumed It was open to everyone. Also I posted a Character profile but I think a I saved it as a draft by mistake and I never actually posted it...silly me)

Tamaj had cleared several rooms, some vampires stronger than others and proving to be a neusense but Tamaj overcame and continued his work. He was able to save two of the victims, who escaped the tower and ran when they reached the bottom.

Tamaj had two more rooms to view, just to make sure there where no more vampires. As he rounded the corner for the final rooms, he heard a growling, snarling sound that came from the direction of the staircase. Tamaj raised a brow before looking into the otehr rooms.

One vampire was trying to attack a young lady, but she was proving to be too agile and speedy for him to grab. Tamaj interrupted the dance, and killed the vampire, telling the young lady to run and forget what she saw. The young lady was so shaken that she didn't hear him, running out of the room in a rush. Tamaj had cleared the entire top floor in a matter of minutes, but he was tired. He was about to leave out, and head for his headquarters, when he heard the growling again and rushed to open the door leading to the staircase. He continued to hear the snarling until he was in sight of the beast, Reminaka was in front of the beast. Tamaj decided to watch from a distance to see how Reminaka dealt with the beast.