9:10 PM,  Outskirts of Starlight Bay,  The Marino Safe House.    Ever since the day a young man had sat in his office and called himself a werewolf, Antonio had realized that the world as he knew it had fundamentally changed. Soon after all sorts of crazy impossible things had started popping up in his radar. Things that must have been there previously, but he had not noticed them in the past simply because he had thought them to much of a stretch of the imagination to be real.   Even later when he had been quite rudely introduced to the world that lay beneath the visible through the attack on his daughter and her subsequent kidnapping by a demon of all things, Antonio Marino had thought that he would be able to resolve the whole thing by using a tactic that had never failed him in his past with the mafia's dirty business.   If you can't kill it with a knife, get a gun.  Followin

  September 15th,  9:29 PM,  Outskirts of Starlight Bay,  The Marino Safe House.    Squads of men in suits and body armor poured out of the house all armed with a variety of heavy duty firearms. A wave of hesitation passed through them as they came face to face with a literal army of giant fierce shadow monsters. Their red eyes blazed like crimson lamps in the darkness, with some of them having even more than one pair.   "Lucio!" One of the men called out. "What the hell are these things?!"  "The heli if I know?" The Italian man shouted back and reloaded his rifle in a swift movement. "Just start shooting and don't stop until everything's dead!"  The moment the order was given, the men all raised their weapons and unleashed a storm of explosive armaments. The monsters fell into a frenzy, growling snarling and roaring as they surged forward recklessly under the command of thei

  September 15th,  10:40 PM,  Starlight Central Academy,  The Hunters/Witches Dorm Building.    The atmosphere in the common room was laden with a heavy tension. Despite there being three different supernatural races in the large room at the moment, neither of them had any negative thoughts regarding the other at that point. An unconscious Lisa lay on the biggest couch in the room while Leva sat beside her, a deeply concerned look on her beautiful face as she watched her resting friend. Although there were still many blood stains on her clothes, Lisa's body bore no sign of any wound or injury thanks to the healing applied on her by Olivia soon after Leva had stumbled into the dorm some time ago. A little ways away from them, a dark haired young man leaned against the wall in an aura of near visible darkness that seemed to repel light away from him. Dean's face remained in its perpetual flat state but his eyes bore an

  "Ryusuke Sakai, Rin Sakai, Koya Omori, Shin Chibana and Tetsuro Kasai," Michael listed out the names with all the sternness of an army drill officer. "Each of these individuals are suspected of having been to sent to assassinate the participants of this Peace Program. As they have proved to be a valid threat to our efforts, I am designating them with an Elimination Target Class 2 status."  "What does that mean?" Veronica asked tersely.  "What it means, little princess..." Lee taunted in reply. "...is that all of them have been deemed to dangerous to let them run around in one piece. In other words, it's open season for the Hunters as far as they're involved."  The dark grin that appeared on his face at the end of his sentence was enough to lower the room's temperature by a few degrees. Both the vampire princess and Mia gave the Asian man weird looks but neither of them spoke. Although each girl's silence was for different reasons. &

  1400 AD,  England.  There was a rumor that had been circulating around the countryside for the past few decades.   A tale that was passed around in hidden corners, that was spoken of in hushed tones in taverns and alleys.   It was a story that was so full of darkness and malevolence that new wives were forbidden from speaking of it to avoid attracting the evil to their homes. Mothers even used it to scare their unruly children into obedience lest the evil take them away.  The tale of a monster who brought death wherever it went.   Dean Hanson had been born to a family of four. A caring father who worked hard to provide for his family, a loving mother who never failed to on her duties to her children, and an adorable little sister who absolutely cherished her older brother. For the first seven years of his life, he had, as any child at tat age would, held all of them close to his heart