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Having jumped well out of her line of site, Emily did not see the beast as she rounded the corner of the street. Asura was long gone by the time she made it around the corner, and the police cars were too far down the street to be able to tell what had happened. She had heard a howl... but with all the police cars, she figured someone had a dog out. It wasn't uncommon to have police dogs out if something big was happening.

She stared down the street for a long moment, then glanced around the street. With no sign of any police coming her way, or any sign of danger, Emily crossed the street and headed towards a Grocery building not far from her. Luckily for her, it was one of the few buildings that didn't lock up when the police screamed down the street. Emily quickly ducked inside the building, closed the door behind her, and made her way towards the back of the store.

There was no one else towards this area of the store, so she didn't need to worry about anyone seeing her. The police probably actually acted in her favor. The older couple who ran the store always moved upstairs where it was safer when they heard sirens. So... she was free to make her way towards the back area of the store, and through the stock room. There was a door back here that led straight into the extremely small alley separating the building from her apartment complex. The back door to the apartment complex was located right next to the store door... so it was very easy to just slip through one door and into the other unnoticed.

It also helped that the apartment complex was "closed for structural safety"... so there was really no one in the building other than herself. No one ever came into the building, and the side door was the only one that was unlocked and un-boarded.

The count listened to Asura speak only waiting for the moment the creature would attack. Then the strike came. It was easily avoidable he had given it off by flaunting his claws. The Count shuffled backwards avoiding the swing in time to fire the normal arrow directly at Asura. But eh did not stop there. He may have only had this chance. So he drew both the explosive and gas filled arrow. Then shot them both. The explosive blew first then the knockout gas arrow.

The Count ran from the alley he was in. He took his bow apart and set the three bits in the correct holsters on his belt before pulling out a knife. If Asura made it out of that the knife and two more shots was all he had. The wrist gauntlets only fires once. "Some things don't have to end..." The Count whispered.

"Then quit sniffing yourself!" The Count shouted as he sidestepped Asura and thrust his knife towards the creature's spine. This had become a close combat fight. He could manage because the beast seemed to make wide strikes which showed before he attempted but he had to be careful, the claws were very sharp.

*Feeling the blade go through his back he stopped as he was still on fire as the flames seared and cauterized his wound and slowly healed. Asura smirked a he look toward's The Count and turned his neck clockwise as he stared at The Count as he clenched his right fist, his claws digged into his palm making it bleed out in. In frustration Asura lashed out at The Count aiming multiple claw strike's towards his flank and chest, following with throwing out his right hand shooting out blood to his eyes as Asura finished with a leap and a downward slash*

Once inside the closed down apartment complex, Emily closed and locked the ally door behind her. With a heavy sigh, she turned and walked towards the stair well next to her. She unlocked the door, then carefully walked inside the small hallway and locked the door behind her. There she leaned against the door on her left shoulder.

"System command... Operation number four eighty-two." she said, her voice echoing off the walls of the small room.

With that, the lights of the hall burst to life with an electric hum. Lights going up the stair well flickered and began to hum to life, lighting the entire couple of floors. A door next to the long line of stairs slid open, revealing a fully functioning elevator. Emily carefully walked over to the elevator and stepped inside. Once in, the door she had entered from locked with violent little snap, and the doors of the elevator closed behind her.

"Home." she commanded, and the elevator slowly began to rise.

She was lucky she supposed... NSHU didn't make it to this world, the NYCG base didn't make it to this world... heck, nothing that was familiar to her had made it to this world. But this... her little New York City home and base of operations... it had made it to this world. Granted... it had moved to an entirely different city for whatever reason, but it was here. All of her equipment, armor, gadgets, weapons, security, all of it. It was all here.

She had no mission... no one to work for other than whatever she found for herself... but she still had everything she could ever need or want right here. And with the way todays events had played out... she was going to need all the help she could get. First things first though... take care of her injuries a little more, and see just what was going down.


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By the time Julianne and the little boy had reached the street, Rebecca and Stacey were standing next to Julianne's car. The little girl was bouncing excitedly, while Rebecca stood there and watched her with a large grin on her face. When the two came out of the building, Rebecca looked over and gave Julianne a smile.

"Well... I think we'd better get going before at least one of them decides to drag us all the way down to the Circus."

The Count stumbled forward as Asura used him as a table. Then the Alpha spoke again but the Count tried to center himself. The next thing he knew Asura had tackled him. A massive pain ripped through his side and he let out a scream. The Count pried Asura's jaws open and pushed the werewolf off before rolling away from him. Dantes stood up as his body temperature spiked greatly. He began to stumble. The fight was done, in this state he could not defend himself. Edmond reached into his quiver and pulled out an extra smokescreen top he had with him. After crushing it in his hand he dropped it onto the ground using the massive cloud of smoke to escape. He took off back to his base taking many stumbles through alleyways and side streets. Eventually he made it back. From the pain Edmond knew it had not been a normal bite. He needed something he always kept close. He had left it at his base though before leaving to find Asura.

Once inside he began pulling through drawers. Finally he found the small green leaves he had been looking for. Dantes set them on the counter only to fall over onto the floor. He struggled back to his feet as another surge of the pain hit him. Using the strength he could he put the leaves in his mouth and began to chew them. It was a complex herb he had found years before he started being a vigilante. After a few minutes a strange green liquid began to ooze out of his bit wound. It was the virus that the Alpha had put in him with the bite. The leafs he was chewing were very, very special and rare, so he did not always use them. This however was a case they had been needed in. It always cleared the body of every toxin inside. However not all of the virus had left and pain hit him again. Then the rest of it oozed out and the wound closed. Along with the four cuts on his chest. "What the hell did you do to me..." Dantes whispered to himself as he laid on the floor looking up at the ceiling. Asura had no way to find him and the herbs had barely prevented him from becoming a weaker form of the werewolf. Edmond had been lucky. Still he was afraid of why he had healed. It was likely a side effect of whatever had just left his body.

After a few more minutes Dantes got up and set his suit on a table. Then he changed from the rest of a suit into jeans and a black v-neck. For some reason he had left the mask on which he only now took off. His black hair fell over his eyes and he splashed water on his face. That fight had been far to close and he had run out of arrows to quickly. those two things he could adjust he just needed to be careful next time. Then Dantes began working on a new quiver. One that could hold more arrows then the last.

Blackjack looked at Merida with a little concern, gulping harshly. "Greeeeaaat. You don't mean that's the same type of pooch-dude that tried to turn Jack into chow, do ya?" he asked as he flipped through, fumbling to find the right incantation before he set off the spell. He secretly hoped he didn't wind up melding himself to the nearest person. That happened before. Sisten wouldn't speak to him for DAYS.