Stiki

Well the infected being recruited are like well, you know you hear em say no one wants us, we are homeless, everywhere we go people are attacking us. If somone offers them a place in their army, offers them a purpose. Sure most would say get lost eat radiation, but a few would be like, somone don't want to beat us up? Someones offering to help us get mroe pwoerful etc, plus the vampire knack of hypnosis, I didnt think it was pushing things that far. If its a big problem though i'll change it no problem.

Same with the helicopters though Leeches does have a small army as shes been around a while so has gathered the money and so on to get that. So again, now two gunships is not really that much of a stretch. I mean a hero could probably take them out pretty easily.

However I am a little inexperianced in all this so I do applologise if I irritate anyone, it is a bit of a learning experiance for me.

Leeches saw the Nighthunters arrive and smirked to herself, she pressed a few buttons on the wall and her bodyguard unit of robots arrived. she knew this battle was not over, it was ammusing how the Nighthunters seemed to have came all this way in revenge just because their cathedral had been attacked and she said as looked at her robots and some old quote ran through her mind,

"It's laser time boys".

The robots activated their personal force fields and saluted and all said as one,

"Weapons systems fully activated mistress".

She put on her battle armour again slowly, loading two pistols with experimental ammo and slipping them into holsters with a metallic hiss. She then picked up both her swords and spun them in the air.

"Serve me as you have served my family".

She then slipped her swords into back mounted scabbards and another hiss locked them into place, she picked her vampire skull helmet up and stroked it slightly.

"Lets hope you are not a bad omen shall we humm?

Then she slipped the helmet on and pciked up a multi functional rifle and said down a communicator

"Activate the gun ships, we have a war to finish, it seems Bathory has attracted quite the crowd".

A few minutes later at Cap Au Diable:

Two heavily armoured and armed helicoper gun ships hovered over castle Bathory and Leeches floated in the air with her robots and said down her helmet loudspeakers,

"Nighthunters, withdraw immediately or prepare for the whirlwind".

With that ten armoured soldiers with laser rifles arrived wearing jet packs and they were in what seemed to be standard military uniforms but with green glowing eyes, Leeches had apparently recruited some of the Infected, into her army.

In Leeches base one of Leeches soldiers knocked the door to her rooms, he always had a slight feeling of fear when he did this. In fact the soldiers often drew straws on who would go and do it, she didn't always like being disturbed. The door slowly slid open and a huge robot pointed a pulse cannon at his head and grated in a robotic voice, "Password". The soldier lifted his hands and gave the password, the robot then stood away and let him pass.

The room was lit with a dim green light that seemed to be glowing from marks in the walls, he looked around nervously. the room looked more like a cave than anything but it was filled with ornate decoration, red lace netting hung from the celing and on the far wall was a huge tapestry of some kind of god with glowing green eyes.

"It was hand woven you know".

The soldier jumped startled as leeches came through a door behind him, in her usual manner not opening the door but passing though it. the soldier stammered and coughed, "It is, uhm, very nice mistress".

leeches chuckled and he chuckle echoed around the room and seemed to come from everywhere at once.

"No its not, it is rather horrific, it was made in Russia, the one who made it later had his eyes burned out so he could never make a thing of such beauty again. That act in itself makes it a horrible art piece, it is a pity he never was able to make more, anyway moving on from art, what is it you want?

"Well, reports from spy units say that there was a explosion at castle Bathory".

"I see, somones making their point".

"Well according to reports the doors have been broken inwards".

"Any fool stupid enough to go strolling in there desserves the painful death they are going ot get".

"Should we respond to it?

"Oh in time, I am sure Bathory can deal with it, if not I shall. Has that disgusting human who's name I forget gave us any information yet?

"You mean Randel misstress? No nothing, though he says he might have information on some other targets as it seems other are after that Big Game person".

"Thats something I suppose, it woudl seem the beacons wont be needed for Bathory, perhaps we can make them think they lead to my base. I am sure some want a piece of me by now, if not even better really".

"How so mistress?

Leeches resisted the urge to face palm and said calmly, "That way, I can still act with a degree of suprise. If I have became quite known, bring on the storm so to speak".

She looked back at the tapestry, "This is my storm".

"What mistress?

"The tapestry gives the clues, the clues on how to ressurect a god, now if that was all?

"Yes mistress".

Then the soldier hurried out and Leeches pressed a few buttons on a hidden panel on the wall and a screen lowered from the celing and she started watching the feed from the scouts watching castle Bathory.

As for the powers question, I wonder if I overuse teleportation, not sure on the limits of it in game. As for a personal army well, everyone loves cannon fodder. I just mix the several versions of my char in question, Pistols, swords, robots, DA and trick arrow and Dark mesma I think its called I forget right now. Though I tend to only use Swords and the MM set as well a strict MM in IC RP, would probably get stabbed to death.

On her base Leeches was planning something again, she had been gathering information on Big Game, some of her contacts had found things. But not enough, so she was going to have to pay one a visit, she was not in the mood to really wait for things, the Priest had irritated her some what. Plus she had to remember that other surprising things were happen and this was not really a war, but a hunt. There would no doubt be a few new bounties issued, that rebel undead was irritating, Leon something humm. Typical undead he had a long winded name full of pomp, there would be a good bounty on him no doubt, he would be amusing to destroy to show her races superiority over some undeads. However, others would deal with him, let the udneads deal with undeads, there was no need to open that wound again. The sniper was being cloned now, there was of course some who questioned why not get a new zombie? there was no shortage, that was not the point though, not the point at all. That zombie had been the leader of the new children, she would be brought back. That was reason enough to want this Leon destroyed. She then moved on with her thoughts and plans.

Leeches chief overseer walked into the control room and said, "The testing of the beacons in complete, we should be ready to send the confusion signals at your command".

"Good, good, I have to pay a visit on someone, you have command of the base, dont botch it hummm?

"Yes mistress, what of the reports of something brewing with the court?

"What of them? My business not yours, remember my motto, what you dont know can't kill you later".

She didnt mention the fact that she didnt know what was being planned herself, she would find out at some point though. She then left the control room, she had somone to question and after that she would move her other plan forwards. She wanted to get back on the hunt now, the Nighthunter battle had been a amusing battle, now was the time for the lone wolf approach.

ST MARTIAL

A man called mr Randel was walking, or in his case woddling down a road, he was a severly over weight information seller. he puffed and panted after climbing some steps and muttered as he looked for his keys to his apartment. He finally got inside after using the wrong keys several times, his three bodyguards sat in the filthy kitchen around a dirty table drinking beer.

"Didn't you hear me outside?

One of them who was wearing a black bandanna said, "We are here to stop ya gettin killed not ta be ya slaves, open ya own stinkin door".

"Damnit, where you think your boss gets the money from to hire you fellas".

"Don care long as we get it".

Randel could tell he was wasting his time arguing and swore making his way up the stairs pointedly ignoring the pile of mail by his door, bills and money demands from his ex wife no doubt. He staggered into his bedroom and collapsed on his bed going to sleep almost instantly.

When he woke up it was not as he had expected, it was the dead of night and something felt strange in the room, opressive, disturbing, like he was being watched. He sat up and felt fear rising up inside him and looked around, suddenly a sound startled him.

"Boo!

Leeches appeared in front of him lifting out of the floor as shadowstuff fell away from her and she smiled showing her sharp dagger teeth and her eyes seemed to glow a dark purple colour. Randel screamed in alarm and then cought his breath, calming himself a little.

"Leeches, damnit, what the hell you doin?

"Randel, Randel Randel, you are slacking, I am here to motivate you a little".

"Look waht can I tell ya, that Big Game fella, he well, hes savage ya know, all I know is that".

"Randel don't lie to me, anything he can do to you, is nothing compared to what I can do".

As if to example she tapped a vial in her hand, "You see these little worms in here yes? their little fellows, well they bite through the flesh and craw under the skin boring through it till they gorge theirselves and explode and then baby worms spread through your body, eating chewing slowly at your flesh. My scientists call them the bore worms, they were fans of Flash gordon, so if you dont tell me all you know, i let these little things loose on you".

Randel swollowed and started to sweat, "Ok damnit, he lead the Hyenas, I hear somone he knew got wacked over in a church some preacher or some crap I dont know I ain't religious!

"Good, now more!

"There aint no more damnit, I swear ta god!

"I thought you were not religious?

"Look, I know some blue amazons were seen hangin about as well but I dunno if thats related, thats really everythin damnit".

Leeches put the vial away, "Randel, you really have to work harder, or these worms here are the least of your worries".

With that she slapped him so hard he was flung across the room and smashed into a mirror and Leeches said calmly, "That's seven years bad luck, now get me more information, or I will be coming back".

With that she sunk into a wall, she hated dealing with scum like that, she would kill him and he probably knew she would which was why he withheld information. It gave the little cretin power, she was just reminding him he was a little fish in a big pond. She had heard something else was going on according to activity she had been informed of so decided to head back to her base, her work here was done.

Randels bodyguards walked in, they did not really move with much haste or interest and only one had a gun out and he idlely waved it around, "What the hell happened in here?
Randel got up slowly and said grumpily.

"Nothin I errm fell over summat, thats all get tha hell outta here".

He wiped his brow and panted, Jesus what was he going to do? He was going to have to take some risks, or she was going to kill him.

The three hovering cyborgs seemed to focus on dodging the incoming attacks more than attackiong back, and two of them said, "Combat units to lead unit, we are being attacked, do we retaliate?

"Lead unit to combat units, negative, this fight is unimportant, transmission no longer requested, we will now signal our willingness to enter join negotiations with the court, hero units would not agree to giving us human cargo, Court units would, we have what we need to know, fall back to unit base zero zero one".

"Orders recived, units retreating, targets marked for future alteration or termination, withdrawl commencing".

With that the three cyborgs lifted higher and their hoverboards powered up loudly as they sped away as fast as possible, though there was some reluctance in their movements, almsot like they wanted to fightback. However the elad unit had commanded they had no choice but to leave.

Leeches watches all this, so she was right to fall back when she did, excellent, she quietly ate some cockroaches and said, "All units, stand down, the battle is over, prepare for the next time".

*Swiftley side steps mentions of rectums, or in that case a wreckedum*

Ok that was bad, moving on, I have a question. Does the Kidnapping at the wedding plot happen after the battle at Moth Cathedral or before? I am assuming after, but am not sure.

Leeches watched what the allies were sending her, it seemed the war mach was soon to become active again. The hero who attacked it was being carried away by what seemed to be the grim reaper, she shook her head at that notion, all skeletons looked the same anyway more or less. Despite common belief skeletons could walk again if a magic user was about, or you had magic tech like she did.

The beacons would prove useful, she had planned to send a transmission out long ago, back when Mechano used to do it. However that had never came to pass, she had though sent her enforcer to plant three in Paragon city, and two in the Isles. Though it was originally only intended to be used to shield her tranmission if she had ever made it, she now had a better idea. She would transmit a message from a place that would look like it was coming from the courts base, the beacons however would transmit false locations. This would not trick all the hunters but one or two would fall for it probably, the beacons were set in Mercy, Skyway City, Sharkhead island, Steel Canyon and Talos Island. It would be a interesting situation either way.

AT MOTH CATHEDRAL

The three figures on the hoverbards moved lower under the fog to see better, they hovered over the hero reinforcements and seemed to scan them. Then they moved on to seemingly scan the Cathedral its self, they avoided any strey gunfire though they were starting to activate their weaponry in case they were hit. They contiued transmitting though, they were being paid in human cargo for this spy mission and they were not going to jepodise that.

The robots on the roof focused so much on destroying the tower that the approaching hero had been deemed low priority. That coupled with the internal self destruct explosives cemented the robots doom, the hero cut though thir armour setting off internal explosions that in turn destroyed the robots.

In her base Leeches punched her fist though the monitor she was watching the battle though and swore savagely. The news report had also not pleased her, she hated the media, however it could be a usefull tool perhaps, she would work on that idea later. She was going to have to improve her robots armour and shield her elite soldiers from magic, even from failure something useful could be gained.

Leeches overseer came in, "You want me to send in the werewolves then, as the robots failed?

"They damaged the target, and where is your respect hummm?

Hebowed slightly, "Sorry mistress, I just hate baby sitting".

"Understood, once we activate those beacons it may lure some hunters to us, it really does seem that battle is over though. Tell our other allies who are still nuetral in all this to do a fly over, I want a situation report".

"Right and what of this Pious fool? want me to smash him?

"No, fate will lead him to his end, he is fighting for what he believes in, as am I, hatred of him would only give him strength."

"What about those companies in that report?

"Yes Dr Mechano getting involved in hunter protection was unexpected, the other company was no real surprise, the murmurings of them have been around quite some time. Plus you cant really blame anyone for trying to profit off war can you? Leave them alone, unless they get directly involved".

"OK mistress, i'll go send the signal to our allies".

KINGS ROw

Dultan Mace saw the news report also as he walked passed a shop in Kings Row, he had just returned to Paragon after one of his leads had turned up dead in Port Oakes. So this Leeches was the one who was after him, he would have to deal with her. Perhaps these nighthunters would need another soldier?

On the TV now was the symbol of the Etole Island News Corporation and an arachnos official was giving a statement and he said, "Due to Paragon media accusing the protection of Arachnos being ineffectibe we have a response prepared. If the hunters had not started attacking some of our citizens this situation would not have occured, plus unlike Paragon we do not lock our citizens behind war walls. There is freedom here something Paragon seems to have little concept over, the situation is being investigated, however it is a low priority as we know where the real blame lies, that is all".

With that the Tv went back to the normal news and pretty much started to shoot down the Arachnos speech. Dultan laughed and walked down a street, yep politics was a hell of a thing, even a war came down to political sniping.

BACK AT MOTH CATHEDRAL

Over the battlefield suddenly was a high pitched whine sound as three figures in red 'exproto' style armour and featureless motorbike rider like helmets arrived on hoverboards, they flew over the battlefield and the centre one said,"Combat units transmit images to unit Leeches, no units to enter combat unless attacked".

"Understood lead unit, recording and transmitting now".

On the rooftop it seemed the robots had overode the command to self destruct, they seemed intent on completing their destruction of the tower no matter what. Plus they belived they were serving the mistress better by giving Bathory some cover, as they understood it keeping her around was important to the mistress.

In her base Leeches watched her snipers explode, it was a trick though, they simply used a one jump teleportation device that let a explosvie charge off as the wearer teleported. Her snipers all appeared in the base and saluted her awaiting their next orders. Leeches was proud of her newest creations and said, "Deactivate, sleep well my children".

With that the Cyberzombies all stood to attention and the cybernetics closed down and the magic powering them seeped into a holding container, some of her scientists ran forwards and moved the Cyberzombies to the back wall of the room to await commands to activate. Perhaps pulling them out was rash, however she was not going to waste them.

With that she turned back into her more human form, she made her way to her bases medical wing. She looked at each soldier in turn, they would recover, losses had been light considering and she had learned things. She learned about the church, that Pious feared fighting her, that taking him down would take more than might alone and she wanted a soul sword. As she thought this a hulking figure of her Cybernetic bodyguard and chief enforcer entered the room and she smirked and said, "Oh about time you showed up, how did your mission go?

"It went well mistress, the beacons are in place, want me to join the battle you errm left?

"No I believe that battle is coming to a end, though be ready with that gang of werewolves just in case. I am sure you can 'persuade' them to be patient".

The overseer chuckled and smiled evilly as stone chunks lifted out his body and a stome hammer appeard in his hands, "They will be kept right in order mistress".

Leeches swore and smashed into a table and slowly got up, typical hero, a coward, there would be a next time. she activated her communicator, "All sniper unites operation kamikaze is a go, bodyguard unit, target the bell tower till the bell tower collapses, that way he is wounded, then self destruct".

With that she stormed out of Pocket D and a few of the patron scuttled out of her way, she had other hunts to go on Pious was but one man. Bathory would deal with him in due course, Leeches knew what she needed to know, harm the church, harm the man. As that annoying advert on TV said 'simples'.

As soon as she left Pocket D she teleported to her base and recalled her downed soldiers with teleporters built into their armour, "No prizes for you priest, my soldiers are mine forever".

On the roof top the bodyguard robots targeted the bell tower, they opened fire with high explosive rockets, they seemed almost happy to be raining down destruction.

The snipers all stopped firing and screeched, and blades lifted out of theres hands, their eyes glowed red and they jumped off the roof and randomly ran into the approaching army screaming insanely. As soon as they reached the army though and got in striking distance the Cyberzombies seemed to explode violently.

The robots fired two more volleys of missiles and then started beeping their self destruction sequance had began but they were ready to fire more missiles, the tower would be destroyed. The mistress ordered it, it would be done.

Leeches looked at the approaching hero backup and smirked under her helmet, "I see need a army to give you courage".

She sent a telepathic message to her snipers, "Give me covering fire".

She then stood ready, "I am sorry, I wont be surrendering today, though, if you would like to surrender im sure Bathory would be, greatful, you wanted peace did you not? Then surrender, kneel before her, then your war shall end".

She closed her eyes and slowly her form started to get bigger, bat like wings sprouted out her back and her armour adapted itself to cover them as her feet turned to armoured claws and her hands did also still clutching her swords.

"Honour will not allow me to surrender, let this be our battlefield".

Then moving inhumanly fast she ran at pious pointing both her swords at him.

Yeah they basically were like council soldiers, sort of fed a super serum, and pretty much had forcefield and the energy set time powers. Plus they are sort of trained to be brutal and savage like arachnos soldiers so that could probably give them a tainted aura. So yup works fine.

Leeches considered that and pondered it a little and swung her swords around slowly starting to circle Pious, and she said in a almost respectful tone.

" I am simply driven, you fight for your god I fight for my people, god will see that, who is the biggest monsters? you hunters never understand do you? To my people you are the monsters, the child killers, I am a hero and you are the villain!

She swung her swords faster and circled more and chuckled a bit trying to convice Pious she was crazy, "You like that speech? I wrote it myself".

Leeches stopped ehr advance, pious was attacking her, he dared! she turned her bodyguards firing at Pious and she chuckled, "Oh hello there pious and yes ill tear your church down, after I tear you down!

She nodded to her soldiers, "Give hima fight my children fire your energy pulses, fire everything".

"The soldiers rocket launchers popped out their shoulders and opened fire as they fired bullets and energy pulses at Pious, Leeches smirked inside her helmet she knew the knock back of energy weapons was infamous. She put her rifle away and pulled out her two ancient swords, it seemed the priest was angry. She watched her soldiers fall one by one, almost counting them off to herself, a pity they showed so much promise. A soul sword humm? She funneled Dark energy into ehr armour and around her to shield herself from this and raised her swords.

"So Pious finally we meet in combat, I have been waiting for this moment, you harmed my soldiers, my chosen, so much for diplomacy hummm? Oh well let us fight, lets see who god is truely with".

Leeches saw the explosion on the mech and could wait no longer, things were getting out of control, she swore her snipers continued their attack, they had failed but it was ok there were other plans. She then recived the command, and jumped in to attack, her teleporter seding her and her troops close to the cathedral and she and her soldiers opened fire with all their might. At the same time ehr robots opened fire with gas and high explosive rockets and Leeches fired at anyone she could see as she and her soldiers stood in the way of the Cathedrals doors.

"Anyone who wishes is welcome to surrender and throw theirselves at my mercy, otherwise me and my soldiers will take you down!

Some of her soldiers possitioned theirselves behind her ten behind and ten in front, Leeches said to four of them, "Come with me, we must get to the bell tower, somone interrupted the teleport, the rest of you capture or destroy the fools here!

With that she hovered inside with her four bodyguards following her, she in turn was following the heroes that had just entered.

Leeches patted the snipers back, "A good hit my child, a good hit, it seems hes a resiliant one, must be rather old. It seems we may have to deal with this one differently".

She said telepathically to ten of the snipers, "Cover that war machine, someones tampering with it, fire at will, we need that machine as our heavy support".

So ten of the snipers stopped firing at the Cathedral and started firing to protect and cover the war machine, thir aim was improving it seemed. Leeches sighed, she wanted to wait for the attack command, she was not sure what she should do. She would act soon though, she was making sure there were no more surprises and she looked at her waiting soldiers who were getting eager.

She smirked at there eagerness and said quietly,"Soon".

Leeches was tracking the movements, it was interesting. It seemed there was some kind of negotiation going on, this was unexpected. That renegade vampire was proving a unexpected problem, undeads were always so fickle. She turned to her armoured soldiers, their built in weapons systems humming as they stood to attention, she smiled like a proud parent.

"You are my chosen, you know what I expect of you, do me proud when the time comes".

She was proud of the impervium armour she had made, it gave the impression of a silver and red armoured skeleton and muscle system. The silver vampire skull face plates and samurai styled helmets made them look noble and savage all at once, she smiled again bareing her sharp teeth. The armour also had two underlayers one of spidersilk kevlar and one of old fashioned chainmail. The armaments were not lacking either, a force field system, hand mounted energy cannons, machine guns, arm blades and mini shoulder mounted rocket launchers. The soldiers felt powerful and that was half the battle, win in the mind and fate would let you win in the world, in theory.

Leeches nodded at them and said in a commandig voice, "The teleportation point is set in the tower, on my command we will teleport and unleash hell".

She didnt have to give the robot orders they would follow her without question, however it would get a little crowded in that tower if that was the case. She turned to them and gave orders.

"You stay here, fire the missiles as I teleport, only come to me if my emergancy signal is activated".

"As you command."

Now all she could do was wait for the signal to either retreat or attack, she wondered which it would be. She idly watched her snipers continuing to fire at anything marked as a enemy, she had no indications to call them off so the attack would continue. She checked her weapons a pulse rifle she had heavily modified and her two ancient swords, they had been passed down for generations and had served her well. Perhaps soon, very soon they would again.

She recieved the signal to keep track of the rebel vampire and called a sniper to her, "Load tracker bullets, mark that rebel vampire, take it down if it starts its violence again".

The Cyberzombie nodded and loaded the new ammunition, it was not all though, the robots would also open fire as soon as the sniper did as that would indicate the talking was over. Leeches would not enter the tower with her soldiers yet though, only on Bathory's signal, she did not want to disrupt anything.

I'm working to improve my punctuation, been a while, sorry about that.

Sorry I went slow on replies there, had to go to work, think ive covered everything, giant robots and stuff while I was at work no fair :P

((sorry I had work, is it ok if I just assume leon killed the zombie sniper? if not I can edit later))


Leeches grumbled, so a vampire had killed the sniper irritating, she pressed a communicatiosn button, "Send in more, slowly i want them to close in, this could be a good oppertunity, send in the rest of the cyborg zombies, my latest children, send them in, all fifty of them".

Leeches swore, that sniper was one of her favourites she would have to clone it later, she would travel to the rooftop herself and get the sample, but this battle was Bathory's and Leeches had no intention of stealing the fire.

She put oh some battle armour and a helmet fashioned in a grinning vampire skull way and activated her personal shield and walked for a teleporter, her personal bodyguards of robots following her as well as a group of twenty armoured soldiers, she smirked, just like old times.

Back at Leeches base a gang of werewolves had arrived and one of Leeches scientists nodded to them, "The mistress has had to atend to business, however she wanted you to have these force field bracelets".

The lead werewolf said, "What? Bracelets we look like the sort to wear them to you?

The scientists sighed and rolled his eyes before going on.

"They, once worn will activate a strong force field around you in your werewolf form to protect you from silver bullets and such, though it probably too late for you to get involved she asked me to ask you if you minded being on standby".

"If these bracelet things do what you say, you have our support, we will be waitin".

Back near Moth Cathedral

Leeches gave some orders to her snipers as she moved to the edge of the roof watching the situation and eager to get the go signal and order her soldiers and robots to open fire, she could wait though, it was not blood lust, simply the desire to fight. She didnt care if her targets lived or died, it was simply business, the joy of battle was what she looked forwards to.

"Ok, snipers distract the nighthunters, and that vampire I get my clone sample and watch the battle personally".

She knelt over the downed sniper and stroked its head almost affectionatly, "Such a waste".

She took a skin sample and then stood up to carry on watching what was unfolding, she was tempted to move in closer but would not risk it, this was not really her battle, yet.

"Now we wait and see soldiers, we wait and see, we are ready for the call if needed though the snipers may fire at will, we and our new missiles on my guards here will wait for Bathory to ask for us".

"Will Bathory know that she has to ask mistress?

"She will, telepathy see?

"Understood".

Leeches then sent a telepathic signal to Bathory, "I shall be ready to open fire on your command".

with that the fifty snipers opened fire with a type of laser sniper rifle and more laser blasts rained towards the cathedral and the heroes huddled there and one of Leeches zombie snipers said arrogantly, "Its l...like shooting f...fish in a b...barrel".

The sniper on the building near Moth Cathedral lifted her sniper rifle and made a drooling noise and thought to herself, "One last Nighthunter running for the door m...must target m...must serve mistress, k...kill nighthunters".

Leeches watched the sniper take aim and sighed, "Oh if you must open fire on that last one, just dont hit any of them demons, and only fire once then change position, and keep recording, aim to slow whoever it is though, let the demons deal with it, then it looks like the demons got one".

"Understood...u..understood mistress, firing now".

She carefully took aim at the last heat signal outside of the cathedral and opened fire with a heat seeking explosive bullet, then started to move to a new position and used cybernetic enhancements to jump to another roof then ressumed recording.

Leeches seemed surprised by some rapid movement, humm another vampirec cresature it looked like, no heat signature just a vague outline, interesting, she continued to watch this was interesting, she flciked on a communicator.

"Are my body guards activated?

"Yes mistress

"Humm, and what do you have on this Big Game?

"Not much, all we can fidn on him is, hes a hunter, which we knew, hes dangrous though and ruthless".

"They always are, I suppose you tried, thank you, now await my command, the show goes on".

In her base Leeches was reflecting on the current situation, one of her snipers had reported the mass of Nighthunters and Pious at the cathedral, it seemed her intended targets were in a trap, she opened communications with her sniper.

"Do not take any action, move into position and observe, this is Bathorys fight, now we see how she deals with things, observe for me".

The sniper who was on top of a wind swept building was a strange looking creature a zombie in short with cybernetic enhancements, she had no jaw and drooled and jibbered to herself as she looked through the sniper rifle, it had a heat tracker on it so weather and mist and such conditions did not hamper its aiming ability and she said telepathicly to Leeches

"Yes mistress, we...i...have beent racking them for for for, a long, t...time, they did not notice me in the c...con....confusion, I serve well yes?

"yes, observe the situation that is all they are too powerful for you to take them all, keep me informed of all developments".

Leeches was pleased by this, one of her first cybernetic zombies had proved herself well, the others were still being made. She was satisfied to watch the battle through the sniper guns battle camera. She still needed the zombie to tell her what she saw though as heat signitures could be difficult to track.

She turned to one of her soldiers and chewed on one of her fingers thoughfully bareing her shark like teeth for a moment.

"Find out what you can about this Big Game person, i wish to know all we can about him before we need to move against him".

"Yes mistress, what of our hunting of that hunter from earlier?

"Oh, dont worry, we will deal with him in due course, prepare my bodyguard unit, we may need to assist Bathory should she take place in this battle in person".

"Why would she need our help?

"She possibly wont, be on standby, we dont know if she is the historical one, we do know though that she is too powerful to lose".

"Understood, will the robots be fitted with the new missile system?

Leeches nodded, "Now leave me alone a little, I need time to think about all this".

With that the soldier saluted and walked out of the control room and Leeches reclined in a padded command throne and watched the sniper cam, this promsied to be most interesting, and perhaps hunting this Big Game fellow would be an amusing distraction.

Sharkhead Island

The monkey fight club was as quiet as usual, a few drunk patrons staggered or luched around, one or two were singing drunken songs. the Villain and part time hunter known as Shrieking Violent walked in, she was in ehr wite and black cat suit and seemed to wear a doctor reflector on her head, she looked around and smirked and said in what she thoguht was a cute voice, "Hi, now have any of you naughty little people seen any vampire around here?

One man stood up slowly and swayed alrmingly and said, "Yes, I know where theres a vampire".

"Oh really where?

The man pointed behind her as he collapsed as the beer got the better of him and he said in a drunken slurr, "There".

She spun around and saw Leeches walk in, "Oh were you looking for vampires?

"Yeah, theres a bounty on you, you put a bounty on hunters some of us hunters put a bounty back ya got that stinking paracite?

"Oh I expected that, so come on then show me yours and i'll show you mine".

Shrieking Violent smiled, "Oh really?

With that she screamed eltting out a ear piecing glass shattering scream and Leeches collapsed on her knees holding her ears and screaming in pain letting otu inhuman screams and screeches and Shrieking carried on screaming as she pulled out a sword

"Well leeches, looks like you wern't all that after all, ya stinking vamps always so arrogant, say hello to hell for me!

Shrieking then felt a pain in her throat and frowned, and tried to talk as her mouth filled with blood, she looked at Leeches, she had pressed something on one of her gloves, Shriekings vison went blurred, and she gasped for air and collapsed looking confused as darkness closed in.

Leeches slowly got to her feet and rubbed her head and snarled and said, "Self defence my dear, had a dart gun in my glove and i'm a very good shot".

Three of Leeche's soldiers ran into the bar lifting assault rifles and they covered the Patrons who were still covering their ears from the sound attack and Leeches picked up Shriekings sword and kicked the body.

"I am sorry, but it was you or me, I will see your body is treated with respect, i'll need your head though, there might be some money on you".

With that she swiped with the sowrd removing Shrieking's head and she put it in a box and hovered out followed by her three soldiers. One of the soldiers said, "What if the spiders get involved? You know Recluse don't like murder mistress".

"Oh, it was not murder, simply self defence, she attacked me first, now lets get moving, hunters are like cockroaches kill one three more spring up".

Port Oakes

It was a quiet night for a change and a tramp shuffled down a road as a door to a bar opened into the street. A figure in gold and white metallic armour walked out, he had two swords on his back and two pistols in his belts as well as a row of metal stakes. He put a helmet on and clipped it around his chin, this place had proved a good hunting ground for easy targets before. This hunter was known as Dultan Mace, he was one of the leaders of a band of hunters who had nearly been wiped out by a vampire squad some time back, now he was out for revenge. The bounty the vampire scum had put on him amused him, probably not only vampires would be seeking him out. He didnt mind this though, it added to the excitement of the hunt and it ment he didnt need to work hard to find his targets, they would find him. He made his way down a road into Oil Spill a few Hellions gathered in a truck park laughed at him as he strolled by, he ignored them, just kids trying to find a path in the world. He moved on and turned right, he started to make his way down that road and came to a stop.

In front of Mace, down the road were three figures in trenchcoats and low hoods that shadowed there eyes, the middle figure stepped forwards towards Mace and lifted its face and showed a bare skull. Mace backed up and pulled a sword from his back in one swift movement and the skeleton figure said in a voice full of mockery, "Oh, you must be one of them hunters".
Dultan smirked, "What gave it away?
"Must be your garb fleshy, anyway, I just brought the entertainment my work here is done, gonna let the boys deal with ya now".
With that the figure faded from view like a ghost almost but Dultan suspected it was probably a teleporter of some sort, that creature seemed too solid to be spectral. He switched his attention to the toher two now who slowly walked into the middle of the road and slowly as they approached they seemed to grow bigger and rip out of their clothing as it was revealed they were werewolves and the hulking masses of muscle and fur both roared loudly and their eyes glowed red angrilly staring at him.

Dultan swung his sword around showing off a little, "Ok boys, lets party then".
One of the werewolves picked up a dustbin lid and put it in front of him and charged at Dultan. Dultan jumped back and brought his sword down but the bin lid deflected the blow as the othe werewolf pounced Dultan spun sideways out of the way of the pounce and pulled out a gun as he swung his sword back to defend himself from a clawed attack from the werewolf who as losing the lid for a shield. He fired some bullets at it and the werewolf roared the bullets ripping through the lid and into its flesh. Dultan smirked, "Silver bullets, have a nice trip to hell".
With that the werewolf fell to the floor roaring and slowly it fell silent and lay still the body slowly burning away.

Dultan turned to the last werwolf putting the gun away and swaying his sword and he said with a vocie full of contempt, "Ok i'll play this one fair sword v claws, want to play puppy dog?
"Your die now".
Growled the werewolf angrilly an it charged at Dultan dodging the first sword swipe and lashing out with its claws Dultan parrie this blow and swung down deep into the werewolfs body and it collapsed and the body burned away. Dultan chuckled, "Well that was easy, they obviously were just gutter scum who thought they could get lucky, sloppy boys, very sloppy, easy money".
He chuckled to himself and had a last look around and put his sword away, they cant have been too smart, what hunter didnt have something silver to deal with those guys?
He walked away whistling and chuckling, it was a beautiful night and in Port Oakes that was a rareity in itself.

On a nearby roof top the skeletal figure appeared and two people in military gear and gask masks lifted their rifles at the figure and a echoey womans voice said, "Lower the guns boys, hes one of us".
The figure bowed, "Greetings mistress, I had no idea you would be here in person".
Leeches stepped out of the shadows or it looked like she liturally pulled herself out of the shadows on a wall. She was in black combat armour and had a flowing ornate looking cape on, "Well, I like to check on my people, I take it the werewolves failed?
"Missirably mistress, I am not sure why you sent them against the fool".
"They were all too eager, inform their pack, more allies in the fight against the hunters".
"Of course mistress".
"We will kill this hunter later, let him be confident, it will lead him to his death, probably quite soon, I ahve a little trap in mind for this one, combat testing of my latest creations, go now, tell the wolves what happened".
"As you command mistress".
With that the skeletal figure teleported away again and Leeches slowly walked to the edge of the roof and breathed in the cool night air, her two soldiers nervously looking around in case of attackers as she did so.