Wandering

[Leo Silvêr]

Leo paused for a moment and thought about the question. "No" Leo said at length, "There is not" He paused again, "Is there a reason you speak that way?" he asked with a smile.

[Nico Smith]

Nico laughed.
"No" She replied. "It's just the way I learnt, I suppose."
They had come to a fork in the road. Nico thought for a second, before taking the left-hand road, making sure Leo was following her.

[Leo Silvêr]

Leo followed silently, thinking Nicola knew where she was going.
Leo was walking slightly behind her to her left when something caught his eye. It was a piece of paper stapled to a telegraph poll. He stopped and ripped it off. He read the text once and frowned. He then read it again.
La Belle Gabrielle Grand Opening Tonight
A few unimportant lines then the one that Leo was interested in
Owner Mr Vincent Lémartes
He growled slightly at the back of his throat. He turned to Nico thrusting the paper at her.
"Take me here!" He demanded.

[Nico Smith]

Nico started in suprise at Leo's sudden burst of emotion.
"I.... I can't." she said, blinking in shock.
"I don't know where that is. I've only just got here, remember?" She said, regaining her composure.
"Maybe we could ask somebody for directions?" She suggested.

[Leo Silvêr]

Leo looked at the bit of paper again. "If you cannot help me I will find someone who can" He said marching across the road and into a nearby alleyway. He marched down it until he found what he was looking for a resident to the town.
"You" He called to the man.
The man looked around from the bin he was searching through. "What?" He asked looking at Leo. He swallowed hard. "Oh... eh... I ain't done nothing mate! I d'int do it! I swear it weren't me" He told Leo.
"Here" Leo said taking a step forward thrusting the piece of paper towards him.
The man looked at Leo with wild-eyes. He then made a sound kind of like a cross between a scream and a choking gulp. Then quickly turned and bolted.

Leo looked confusingly after the man. Then continued down the alleyway the same way the man had fled.

[Nico Smith]

Nico stood watching Leo as he approached the man. She was still a little shocked from his sudden outburst.

As the man fled, she crossed the street and followed Leo into the alley.

"Calm down." She said when she caught up with him. "Why is it so important to find this place anyway?"

[Leo Silvêr]

Leo continued following the alleyway.
"It is important" Leo said, it was the only answer he could give.

As he turned a corner in the alley he caught up with the man who had just fled he now stood with three others. Another human, a vampire and a lycan.
"Their he is!" The man who had fled called to the rest. "Theirs the man Old Trevor sent after us!"
"Quiet!" The lycan growled at the man.

Leo walked towards them still holding the bit of paper. "Take me here" he commanded them.

"We aint taking you nowhere old man!" Called the human.

"Steve shut up!" The Lycan said giving the man who had run at first a disapproving look. "Anyway he aint a man. He's a Were just like me" He smiled a sick evil smile.

The Vampire looked at Nicola and hissed with delight.

"And look what he brought us" Said the man called Steve. "She looks like she could give us quite a good time before we give her over to you Owen" The vampire smiled at that comment.

"Can you take me here?" Leo asked.

"We aint taking you anywhere!" Shouted the other lycan.

Leo sighed and turned around to leave.

"Don’t turn your back on us!" Shouted Steve, "Their are four of us and you aint going nowhere!"

Leo turned back around and sighed. He then began to take off his shoes and placed them on top of a nearby dustbin. He then took off his coat and hung it on a piece of pipe that protruded from the wall. When he turned around the vampire was right next to him about to jump on him. Leo grabbed the vampire named Owen around the neck with one huge hand and smacked his head against the wall with enough force to daze him. He then dropped him on the floor.

"Nicola. Those two are yours" Leo said indicating the two humans. "Him" he said pointing to the lycan. "He is mine"

[Nico Smith]

Nico stared, amazed, as Leo grabbed and stunned the vampire. The action dispelled all the assumptions she had made about the old Lycan.

"Mine...?" She asked, confused. "You... you want me to kill them?"

The two men and the lycan stared at Leo for a second.
"You bastard!" shouted one of the men. "What've you done to Owen?" He rushed at Leo, followed quickly by the Lycan.

The third man considered it for a second, before deciding to try his luck with Nico instead. He advanced on her slowly, giving her what he thought was a menacing grin. Nico pulled one of her Brownings from her belt and aimed it at him.

"Stay away from me" She said, quietly.

[Leo Silvêr]

Leo quickly grabbed the human and picked him up and threw him down the alley a way.

By the time he turned around the lycan was on him. He had picked up a peice of lead piping and weilded it in one hand like a club. He was holding it above his head and about to bring it down on Leo.

Just in time Leo grabbed the pipe and bend it out of shape. While his hand was still on the pipe he lifted his right leg and placed his foot on the lycans stomach and kicked into him sending him following the human down the alleyway.

[Nico Smith]

Nico resisted the urge to turn her head to see if Leo was alright. The man advancing on her reached around to the back of his belt and pulled out a large, very sharp-looking knife.

Steadying her pistol, she aimed it at the mans hand and squeezed the trigger. The impact of the bullet and the shot of pain forced him to drop the knife. Angered, he ran at her.

She fired the pistol again and missed. Cursing, she backed away. Her attacker closed the distance and grabbed the hand holding the gun, attempting to force it from her fingers. Panicking, she brought her knee up. The man groaned and loosened his grip as her knee collided with his groin, but didn't let go.

With her free hand, she slid her other gun from its holster and raised it above her head, bringing it sharply down on the mans skull. He collapsed onto the floor, unconcious.

Breathing heavily, Nico turned to Leo. As she started walking towards him, the other human came running at them from the alleyway where Leo had thrown him. Without thinking, Nico raised one of her Brownings and fired at him. The bullet hit him square in the shin, knocking him off balance. Nico moved to stand beside him, aiming one of her guns at his head.

"I wouldn't try to get up if I was you." She said coldly.

[Leo Silvêr]

From down the alleyway there came some insane laughter. "You shouldn't have done that! You should not have done that!" the lycan called to Leo and Nico.

Leo moved so he was in front of Nicola. "Get back!" He barked at her.

The lycan began to walk towards them still laughing. As he approached he began to shift and change into his were-form. The laughter changed with him becoming a deep hunger filled howl.

Leo still stood perfectly still an impenetrable wall between the lycan and Nicola.

The other lycan stared at the man lead near Leo with the bullet wound through his leg with hunger in his eyes.

[Nico Smith]

Nico shuddered at the laughter, her skin crawling. Keeping tight hold of her guns, she backed down the alley, shivering with fright. It was not turning out to be a good day.

As the lycan began to shift, her eyes widened and she gasped, clutching her guns tightly. She tried to scream, but it stuck in her throat.

She backed away slightly more as the lycan howled, shaking in fear. Panicking, she raised both her guns and emptied almost two full rounds into the approaching lycan. As she fired the last bullet, she let out a shuddering breath and dropped the empty guns on the floor, her arms limp.

[Leo Silvêr]

As soon as the first bullet hit the lycan he was running at Nicola. He ignored Leo and the bleeding man next to him and charged.

Unfortunately Leo stood in the way of the wolf and its prey. He began to charge at it. As he ran it let the wolf take over. He transformed into his colossal grey mountain wolf form, clearly a foot taller than the other lycan in front of him.

As they neared one another the other lycan tried to pounce over Leo. But Leo dived on him and tackled him to the ground. They were caught in an onslaught of fang and claw, ripping one another’s flesh apart.

They came apart for a second growling at one another circling. Suddenly the other wolf howled sensing he was winning. Leo took this chance. He dived on his opponent and bit down savagely on the other lycans neck ripping out his jugular. They both toppled backwards the howling was cut off and replaced by a gurgling cries of pain then, nothing.

By the time the wolf died Leo was once again in his human form stood mournfully over the body. He was bleeding heavily and his shirt and trousers were ripped beyond repair. He turned his back on the fallen lycan and walked over to the vampire he had slammed into the wall earlier. He tried to scurry away but Leo picked him up.

"Can you take me there?" Leo asked pointing to the piece of paper that was now on the floor in the alley.

"Yeah! Sure wherever you want!" The vampire cried.

"Thank you" Leo said dragging the struggling vampire by the arm over to where he had placed his coat and shoes.

"Would you mind holding him while I put my clothing back on Nicola?" Leo asked her indicating the vampire.

[Nico Smith]

Nico slumped against the nearest wall and watched helplessly as the wolf charged towards her, her Brownings lying discarded on the floor. She didn't see Leo change and dive towards it, but she did see the collision between the two lycans. Keeping her eyes rooted on the two brawling wolves, she slid one of the straps on her bag from her shoulder and swung it around, almost unconciously.

Staring in amazement as Leo fought the attacking lycan, she unzipped the main part of the bag and pulled out her Colt 45, fumbling around with her free hand to find the case she kept the bullets in. Still with her eyes on Leo, she slid six bullets from the case and loaded the gun, snapped the case shut and slid it back into her bag. She holstered the newly-loaded gun on her hip and unzipped a small almost hidden pocket inside the main bag, pulling out a small knife, sheathed in leather and attached to a leather arm band.

She watched in horror as they came apart and began to circle each other, the younger lycan still howling. She closed her eyes as Leo pounced and heard the lycans howls die away into painful whimpers, punctuated buy a sickening crack.

When she opened her eyes, Leo had resumed his human form. The other lycan lay dead, his throat ripped out. Nico looked for the source of the crack and almost vomited when she saw it - the lycan had landed on the head of the man she had wounded, crushing his skull.

She fastened the small knife onto her arm and then bent and picked up her two Browning pistols and slid them into her bag, swinging it back onto her shoulder as Leo questioned the vampire.

She nodded silently when Leo asked her to hold him and walked to him, taking the vampire by the arm, deliberatly keeping her eyes away from the scene of carnage now behind her.

[Leo Silvêr]

"Do not bite her" Leo told the vampire as he handed him over to Nicola. "Or what you saw thier will be only a taste of what I shall do to you."

He put his shoes on and covered himself with his jacket pulling the hood up. He then walked over to where the piece of paper still lay on the floor and picked it up. He walked back and took the vampire back from Nicola and held him in a firm grip.

"Take us here" he said trusting the peice of paper into the vampires hand. The vampire glanced at it and smirked for just a second.

"Of course mate. Whatever you want. You're the boss" the vampire said eagerly.

The vampire began to lead then to La Belle Gabrielle, while Leo kept a firm grip on him.