"Wait a minute," Akane said. "What do you mean by 'not human'?"
Nabiki flinched as Akane caught on to that particular fact and tried briefly and futilely to signal the Senshi not to say anything."
"Well," Sailor Mercury said hesitantly. "Their body temperatures are about ten degrees too cold and they're practically oozing necromantic magic. There are other things but from there it starts to get a bit technical."
Sailor Saturn looked up as if she'd been struck.
"Steeped in death and destruction," Sailor Mars said strongly, nodding.
"Oneesan," Sailor Saturn said plaintively, sniffing as she tugged at Sailor Mars' skirt.
"What is it? Don't you remember we're dealing with evil dealers of death and...OH!!" Sailor Mars turned pale as she noticed the shine of tears developing in Sailor Saturn's eyes. "Well, I wasn't saying that all death-magic is evil, you know I don't think you're evil, don't you?"
Sailor Saturn sniffed again.
"What about..." Akane started to ask.
"What about," Nabiki interrupted, "we call this off now and schedule some time to deal with it later."
"Yeah," Ranma said. "We've got problems enough with homework and vampires and..."
"He said the V word," Nabiki mumbled as she rolled her eyes.
"Ah aha!" Kuno declared loudly. "Why could I not see it before, Saotome is obviously a prince of the undead,"
"Vampires don't have life-force," Sailor Mercury tried to interject over the sound of Sailor Saturn crying, Sailor Mars trying to apologize and Kuno ranting.
She wasn't really heard that well.
and Nabiki Tendo is his first victim. Or perhaps she went willingly?"
"Hey!" Nabiki said forgetting herself for a moment. "I never asked to have some freak jump out at me in the middle of the night!"
"Ranma!" Akane gasped. "How could you do that to my sister!"
"I ain't done nothing!" Ranma shouted.
"If they're vampires, then why don't they burn up in the sun?" Sailor Moon asked curiously.
"They're not vampires," Sailor Mercury tried to reiterate.
"In the name of Buddha," Kuno declared thrusting a string of prayer beads in Nabiki's face, "I demand that you leave defiled creature."
"I'm Catholic, Kuno," Nabiki said irritably, brandishing the small crucifix she'd recently taken up wearing again. "And Ranma's ignorant."
"Yeah, that's right!" Ranma said before pausing to consider what Nabiki had just said. "Wait a minute."
"Foul undead thing," Kuno growled low. "I shall take this and ram it through both your dark hearts."
"You want to touch Nabiki," Ranma said, instantly in Kuno's face. "You gotta go through me!"
"That is easy enough, cur!" Kuno declared.
"Rei-Oneesan thinks I'm evil!"
"Hey, watch the name, watch the name!"
"Don't worry, Nabiki, Dad will get an exorcist and you'll be fine!"
"They're vampire-like, not real vampires. Vampires don't have working internal organs."
"So they're not going poof in the sun because they're stomach is growling?"
****
A certain gymnast touched down on a nearby building and started checking over her costume and items. She was a bit stressed and was a bit overdue for some relaxation with her "friends".
Ranma and Akane never failed to brighten her day, they just behaved in such an amusing manner. She'd long gave up trying to win Ranma, but that didn't mean she couldn't play the game for fun.
And right now she...was going to turn right around and go find some other person to draw amusement from. Maybe that boy that turned into a pig.
Yep, anywhere but near the Senshi, one close-call was enough, thank you very much. Her brother apparently could stand around them unnoticed, but she knew they had a hair trigger.
"UranYou might still want to sit and watch, Countess," a voice said, drawing Kodachi's attention to a green-haired woman she could have sworn wasn't sitting there a moment ago.
"What do you mean Countess?" Kodachi asked, still keyed to break and run.
"It is a heritary title, passed from generation to generation or by marriage," the woman said, standing up.
"I know what it is," Kodachi said. "But why'd you call me that?"
"Not like humans, not like us," the woman said. "Not like those two down there and not like the dead things that walk the night. What will history say about Kodachi Kuno? Will she be the demoness responsible for centuries of pain and torment, or will she just be one of many of a new race that will finally come forward to share the life of humanity? And do I risk the one in order to hope for the other?"
Kodachi was chilled as the woman seemed to be considering whether or not to kill her, at least that was how Kodachi translated the last comment.
"Or perhaps I just enjoy tormenting random people."
As the woman said that, she smiled and vanished before Kodachi's eyes.
The gymnast fled wildly, mind reeling with the mantra "Not helping the stress! Not helping the stress!
****
As the confusion started getting worse, Sailor Venus pulled from the mess and walked next to Nabiki.
"So, these vampires," she said. "What are they like? Do they wear military uniforms or red coats or anything."
"Umm just a bunch of street punks really," Nabiki said nervously. "Long tongues, but there was a woman in a uniform recently. I think she was an Australian, she had a big gun."
"This isn't Helsing's jurisdiction," Sailor Venus muttered. "But we haven't had FREAK problems here until now either...I'll have to ask some of my Interpol friends..."
Nabiki arched an eyebrow at the other girl.
"Let's just get out of here," Sailor Moon shouted. "False alarm! Venus, coming?"
"Yeah, just a moment," Venus said thinking to herself as she followed the other Sailor Senshi.
"Wait, you can't leave," Kuno said. "You have yet to smite the evil doers into dust."
"Akane, Ranma, we've got classes starting soon," Nabiki said wandering off.
"I still want to know what exactly happened," Akane said.
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