Somewhere in the Big Easy...
During the day, she was - mostly - normal. Family curse or no, there was always something feral about Nina in the way she moved. She never really had martial arts training, and there was something otherworldly about her movements. It amused her as her prep school days had been spent in literary arts and foreign languages. In school she couldn't
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The engine roars.
"Ulysses Bloodstone was an immortal millionaire mercenary monster-hunter who killed himself to save the world."
A screech around the corner.
"Remains to be seen if his daughter's a trust-fund baby on safari or if she's really got what it takes."
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She turned to Elsa, "So your dad is immortal.... but dead?" that didn't really fit immortal at all.
"And here I am, full and along for the ride. This should be interesting, if nothing else," Nina said.
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"It wasn't immortal as much as it is extended mortality. He could have lived forever had nothing killed him before he died, I supposed. Honestly, I didn't know my dad too well. You'd have to direct the questions at my mother."
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Suddenly, the car barrels forward, heading straight towards a dingy, rusted out building.
"Arm up - the back seat has a hatch into the trunk if you need guns or swords. Make it snappy."
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"This'll suit me just fine if it turns out I can't fight vamps the old fashioned way."
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Okay, they had been driving too long now for Nina's comfort. She didn't mind when she knew where they were going.
"I'll just use my hands, thanks. Or my teeth, if it comes down to that," she said with a very wolf-like grin.
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"All my life in London, not a single ghost. I come here, away from the world's supposedly most haunted city, and suddenly there's monsters everywhere. Cripes!"
She's waiting now, to jump out of the car and to start fighting vampires.
"...Blade, how the hell do you know so much about my father?"
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Nina's little declaration of bare-hands work doesn't impress him.
"We're headin' in. Watch her back, Bloodstone, she doesn't know what she's gettin' into."
Then, without warning, the car drives straight through the front door, running over several poor saps in the foyer, spilling blood out of cups all over the place.
Blade is firing a gun out of the driver-side window with practiced precision, and people that he nails with them are immediately crumbling to dust.
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As a wolf she killed with tooth and paw. As a vampire, it was almost the same.
Instead of waiting for a crash course on anything, Nina shifted in the car. Smart little wolf that she was, she knew how to work an automatic car window. After that it was just waiting for him to slow down enough to leap out without killing herself.
She could smell living, non-vampire people here too... She hated it when that made her hungry.
I already ate, damnit, she thought and growled.
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"Yeah, a fucked up circle that I've somehow become a part of," Elsa replied, her hand on the handle of the door. "This'll be fun," she added as she saw the expression on Nina's face.
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"Go!"
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The blood tasted wrong. It made her wonder if her blood tasted like this. She couldn't even eat the meat off of a vampire, she realized.
This was how she worked, she ripped out throats.
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He circles around, busting caps in the heads of the suckapunks who manage to dodge the grill, trusting the omen to handle themselves. If they can't swing, they shouldn't have come to the fight.
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Dragging a screaming, flailing vampire across the floor by its neck, the wolf that was Nina - even when she was human - let out a throaty, eerie dog like laugh.
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I'm starting to understand why Dad was into this, She mused as she traded blows with a fourth vampire. Nina was nearby, doing her thing.
The laugh freaked her out a little.
Nina was clearly enjoying this more than Elsa.
Don't ever piss that one off, then.
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