“Welcome to Seattle Now, morning news. Sixteen people are dead as gun violence shattered the peace of Seattle streets last night. Gunshots rang out in a usually quiet neighborhood as several cars raced through the area. The violence came to an abrupt and fiery end in a Walmart parking lot. Seattle Police are asking for anyone with footage of any of violence to step forward. Two individuals who seemed to be the target of the gun violence retaliated with what sources close to the investigation have claimed were incendiary rocket propelled grenades. These two individuals are considered armed and dangerous. One is described as a Caucasian female of small build approximately five foot eight feet tall with red hair. We do not have a description of the second individual at this time. We have video footage of the assault in the Walmart Parking lot. Viewers are warned about the graphic nature of this video footage.”

Grainy security camera footage began to play showing a tall red haired women wearing a blouse and skirt launching a grenade an SUV with four passengers and the insuring fireball. Then it shows her aiming at another SUV and another fireball. The camera seems to lose tracking on her. The individual she is with has a blurred image and the camera cannot seem to focus on him.

“Hard to watch. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those who lost their lives last night. Police requested we reiterate that these individuals are considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached. If you see someone matching their description, you should notify the police immediately and retreat to a safe distance.”

Lucius threw his tablet on the table and looked at Gaius his yes man on the council.

“You had one task. You knew where she was going to be, you had one of her Seers and yet she escaped. How did she get her hands on rocket launchers?”

“My lord we had no way of knowing she was immune to stakes. You said you wanted her alive. Based on, our spies around the world, she has access to far more then rocket propelled grenades. We believe she has access to nuclear weapons. Perhaps further antagonizing her is, not in anyone’s best interests.”

“I know what is in our best interests. I should be Emperor. Not this… low born woman from a barbarian tribe. I have the council, the imperials, most of the domains under my control. Yet she still evades us.”

“My lord she is more powerful than any of us had assumed. You saw the footage from last night. We can assume based on the blast she let lose and killed six vampires with that the European event you were concerned with was her as well. We cannot contain her. Bringing her in alive is going to be impossible without the ability to stake her. This man she was with, perhaps, we could use him as leverage.”

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“That man was her mortal father, who she swore to me she would kill if she saw him again. She is using him for something and that is the only reason he is alive. He would be of no value to us. She will cut him lose the moment he is of no use to her. My wife is many things, but merciful she is not.”

“What does that mean for us then my lord?”

“It means she is coming for me, you, the council and she will eradicate us. Yet still they debate whether I am the true ruler fearful of her wrath. She believes they murdered her sister, the only reason they still live if she has nuclear weapons at her disposal is she wants to see their faces when she destroyed them with that blade of hers. She told us all she would kill us; You remember as well as I do.”

“Do you think perhaps My Lord she hasn’t made a strike against us because is she is worried about collateral damage?”

“Gaius, she razed a templar keep and salted the earth to get one single witness. What makes you think she cares about the mortals at all? Or let me put it this way, how much do you care about the mortals?”

“They are food nothing more.”

“You see my point. She has even less love for them then you do. No we are alive because she is planning something.”

“Do you think she is in league with this Sarah person? The superhero that has been fighting BMC’s experiments?”

“I doubt it, she’s mortal, probably another one of their freaks who has grabbed a bunch of stories from the past to make herself seem religious, demons, pfft I doubt she has seen a real one.”

“She seems to know an awful lot about your wife’s past My Lord.”

“I suppose it would make sense. I do not know how she would get such a nice copy of the sword.”

“Perhaps, Sarah is Enid in disguise?”

“She’s been seen in sunlight. Does that sound like a vampire too you?”

“Your father may have granted her…whatever power he had.”

“No, he and my Uncle and mother are the only ones who can walk in sunlight. Beyond our experiments with BMC, no other vampires have managed it. You are right, they must be allied. That means my wife has the Vatican under her sway. With all the Russian connections we’ve found out about recently I’m starting to think we have vastly underestimated her influence on the mortal world.”

“Well, it would explain why a forty-six-year-old woman looks eighteen and like one of our crafters had a run at her. Perhaps she is a long-serving blood slave. Should we lock down Seattle?”

“No, there is no point much like us she can fly.”

“But she has her father to worry about he is…Pugmentia is he not?”

“She is not one to waste time in a dangerous situation. She will have killed him and flown away. No. Pull our resources from the area. Have them start searching again.”

“Where do you think she went, sire?”

“I predict, Russia, or the Vatican. Those are where her closest allies are. Focus our efforts there.”

“Yes sire.”