It had been a long time since Sailor V had contacted her old comrades in Interpol. It was generally assumed and agreed that the senshi had stumbled onto enemies a bit beyond the ability of most earthly organizations. Still, Minako, or at least Sailor V, still had a generally good relationship with the international law enforcement group.
As long as the subject of back pay was not brought up.
The agent she knew best in the Japanese branch office walked into his office and sat down well before he noticed the magical girl sitting on the window sill. When he finally caught her reflection in the glass, he spit out his coffee and almost choked.
"Gee, calm down Michaels," Venus said. "It hasn't been that long."
"Why don't you ever just give us a call?" he asked, recovering his voice.
"I don't like to be tracked back home, thank you," Venus said.
"What are you doing here anyway?" the agent asked. "Last we heard, you and your friends were dealing with things that were a planetary threat. We still have our hands full keeping Shadoloo under control."
"FREAKS," Venus said.
Michaels paused and looked up at her seriously.
"There was some activity in Hong Kong," Michaels said seriously. "But Helsing shut that down."
"Gah, I'm falling out of date," Venus said. "Last I heard, that stuff was limited to Europe."
"Springing up all over the place now," Michaels said. "And Helsing's taken some serious casualties of late and they're running into bureaucracy issues that keep them from acting in some places or following up some leads to the source."
"Not good," Venus said, calculating the ability of the senshi to help out this and still be ready for any cosmic-level threats. She didn't like what she was seeing. "What about the BPD?"
"America doesn't like trading information with us," Michaels said. "But the bit we're getting says that the BPD has the situation under control right now."
"Japan isn't in a position to handle this yet," Venus said. "APD outcontracts to a psychic with some good skills and contacts in that biz, but they don't have any real agents themselves yet. And I really can't promise Senshi help. If anything big starts up, we have to focus all effort on that."
"Like I said," Michaels repeated. "Our paranormal agents have their hands full with Shadoloo."
"Arrggg!!" Venus said. "This should be simpler! Now we have Helsing's pet vampires wandering around Japan. When the Outers run across one of them, it'll be a huge fiasco."
"Yeah," Michaels said while smirking. "I guess since you're the only member of your group with real professional experience, it makes loose cannons much more difficult to deal with."
"You haven't even heard the best part yet," Venus said, knowing that the information would get to the right ears. "We have a new type of vampire now."
"A variation on the FREAKS?" Michaels asked.
"No," Venus said. "Similar, but not the same. We talked to two of them so far. Broad daylight." She met his eyes for that information to let the significance sink in. "Body temperature, cool, but self-maintaining, not dependent on the surrounding air. Mercury said they had a life-force even. Even FREAKS are basically spirits bound into dead bodies, and true vamps are almost pure-death energy given the appearance of a human. There shouldn't be a life force in either. I couldn't pick up any sort of evil intent from either of them."
"Do you have a name on these two living vampires?" Michaels asked.
"Students at Furinkan High School in Nerima Ward," Venus said. "Ranma Saotome and Nabiki Tendo. Lovers, trying to hide it from everybody they know. Kids, one serious about her education and future, and one serious about his martial skills. Both serious about their loyalties."
"So, still the thought patterns of reasonable sentients. As I recall, Nerima has some other rumors right now," Michaels added. "The Lady in White and the Phantom, thought it was just some loonies fantasizing something off that Blade movie before you came here today."
"APD's mess," Venus said, shrugging. "Not ours." It was a way to shrug off their lack of awareness of the situation, but both knew it was a mere excuse.
"Well," Michaels said. "Maybe we can give APD a bit of a heads up."
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