Even after the Cure, there was a need (legal, practical, and psychological) for a human presence on the force who were not pokegirls. She had known one Thresholder, a girl named Dynah who had become a Kitten. Once upon a time in the Blue League, that would have been something horrible. Nowadays, a little less so. Oh, there was no getting around that pokegirls were different from human. MRI studies at New Edinburgh proved THAT. Brain chemistry and such changed, pack dynamics became reinforced, and so on. Last she'd heard, Dynah was now employed at NEU (New Edinburgh University) as a librarian's aide.
Her own plans had gone a little worse off. She'd been with a small group of others when word had come around that something nasty was out and about on a particular night, and she'd gone with those others in response to an alarm.
Natty and Jill had both been Domesticates, the former a Growlie and the latter a Peekabu. Neither had survived the initial attack. The humans in the squad, unused to working together, had not lasted much longer. Tiff, Mike, Davien, Suren, Akhman - all had died in quick order. She herself had been thrown hard against a wall, been pinned there as her ribs had cracked under the force of the attack.
It had been a Vampire, one drunk on her own power. She had drunk deeply of Seras blood, then threw her to the ground and began bringing the storage area down around her.
Eventually the Vampire had been killed. Eventually Seras had been found.
Not in time though.
Now she was a pokegirl herself, the Vampire's transformative bite having progressed past a point of no return before the storage area had been completely excavated. Seras Victoria could still be in law enforcement, but as a pokegirl instead of as the handler of one.
However, it turned out that the Vampire that had attacked New Edinburgh had not been alone. It had been an uprising, with one Vampire turning dozens of victims into more of the same then releasing them in a mindless bloodrage. Sentiment against the species was pretty strong right now back in the Blue. The original Vampire who'd sparked the incident was believed to have gone to ground in the Old Underground somewhere and remained on the loose.
The victims who'd survived were scattered now, just in case that Master Vampire had the Control ability - in which case the victims could be influenced by a will not their own. There were three Vampires, two Goths, four Ingenue, and six human women from that night.
Seras Victoria heard about a dimensional traveler, heard how he was foreseen to return to his own world soon, and saw an opportunity. There would be law enforcement of some kind in any society, and her own abilities could contribute to a force that didn't have any anti-Vampire prejudice.
Of course, because she HAD been in training for a position in law enforcement, she knew something about the use of weapons.
She jumped, bounding especially high as she followed the pack on this hunt. She had to have a clear line of sight without any other members of her impromptu pack in the way. Seras reached back behind her and slid the shotgun-like device from its holster with one hand as the other hand grabbed something from her belt. With practiced ease, she slipped the shell into the open breach then clicked the breach closed again.
As soon as her feet touched the ground, landing in her selected spot on a large rock, she brought the gun up and began firing.
"What the hell is THAT?!" asked one of the other girls in the pack.
"Volcanic .45 breechloading rifle," said a more technically proficient member of the pack. "Looks like Magma shells."
Seras was in the zone and so just inclined her head slightly in acknowledgement. Load, aim, fire. Load, aim, fire.
"A GUN?!" asked the less proficient girl.
"Yes, Jehana Corporation recovered the Lostech and they've worked out a way of imbuing the ammunition with elemental properties," said the more technically proficient one. "Magma shells use a combustible substance."
"No kidding," said the less technical one as the shooting stopped and flames roared up around the target area.
The Ouzou reared out of its hole, revealing a naked girl floating inside the goo.
"Sakura!" yelled the boy. "What is it doing to her?!"
Seras glanced at the boy, Master 'Naruto' was apparently his name, and explained as if it should be obvious.
(Posted Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:16)
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