(The Spot)The Newcomer

[Joshua]

"Meet the Team," I said to the girl as Jessy morphed back to normal, "well, half of the Team anyway."

"Sorry, no Super Hero names yet," Mai told her with a slight sneer. I noticed she was still slightly winded from the blow.

"But we do have lots of embarassing nicknames we call each other," Aredhel commented.

[Charlotte]

(Ahh I think I missed the last post so I’m sorry if this doesn’t quite fit)

Ok I was kind of stumped by this group of –whatever you want to call them. I mean one at a time I could probably cope with the things they threw at me but to have so much happen in such a ridiculously short space of time was pretty damn scary. The gun particularly freaked me out-only humans use guns, but the guy wielding it was obviously not gonna have the patience, nor would want to hear me out.
I hesitated, I knew I was a damn good fighter, they seemed to have recognised I was a legitimate threat, but there was no way I could take on this gang. Suddenly an owl morphed into a blonde girl who looked about my age, it took me a moment to register what she looked like though because of the shock she gave me. ‘Great’ I thought. ‘More demon types.’
Suddenly they seemed to try and make conversation, I didn’t hear much though because the world was starting to spin.
I looked around at them to try and find some compassion, someone stupid enough to pity me and so let me go. Most of the faces were angry; the guy-Joshua I think he was called-who had just surrounded me in particular was standing aggressively, obviously trying to be intimidating. He would have been so if it wasn’t for the snide comment about being protected by a girl, even in my position I didn’t miss it.
It was the vampire who had decided to give me a chance, to tell my story-huh now isn’t that ironic, the one I most hated was willing to help. I wasn’t about to accept it and there was no way I was spilling my story to her. Instead I stuck to the time-old tradition of banter.
“Stupid?” I repeated, the last thing I had heard clearly was her calling me a ‘nice stupid vampire hating girl’ “To hate vampires? Even with a soul you’re no cuddly toy.” Ok I was running low on cool comments, I was exhausted from the fight and my heart was pumping wildly due to all the shocks I had just had. The vampire grinned at me.
“At the moment I’m nicer than you.” She said, I didn’t quite know what to make of that. It was true, though she was ready for a fight she had not yet laid one blow.
I turned towards the Slayer, Maya I think she was called, she was looking curiously at me and despite the fact that I had just tried to kick her ass didn’t appear too judgemental. She was still slightly winded I noted and slightly pissed off but I could tell, even in my woozy state that there was a tiny part of her that respected our fight.
“You’re a slayer?” I said and she nodded. “But you don’t have a watcher.” This time she shook her head as I knew she would. “And you hang out with a vampire?”<br>“Vampire with a soul.” She said and that was all I knew as the world seemed to spin and I collapsed onto the dusty ground.

[Cervil]

(((This is before we went inside)))

I looked at the two, small, guns that had been given to me in disgust.

'They expect me to fight with these tiny things, I need another shotgun!' I thought.

"Look, you can keep these, I'm going to get meself a REAL gun!" I said.

With that, I headed off.

[Maya]

I just managed to catch the girl before her head hit the concrete.
"Erm, Mai? What are you doing?" Joshua asked. I glanced up at him,
"She coulda been seriously hurt." I told him. "...Shes confused, but she's not evil."
"She threatened you." He said.
"I noticed." I drawled back, "But it was only cos i was with Del, and she clearly doesnt like vamps- no offense, Del, but neither do most of us... lets get her back inside."
I picked her up, and the group returned to the bar, heading for a booth instead of the bar wehre i propped the girl up in the corner. Then i took a little bottle out of a pocket, opened it, and held it under her nose.
The girl woke up with a start.
"Welcome back." I said.

[rachelle]

I hurried over to where the group had put the red head, and Maya put a bottle under her nose, and the girl woke up.

"What happened? I thought there was only one vampire!" I said worriedly. "Are you ok?" I said to the girl. She looked at me curiously.

"Demon."

I rolled my eyes. "Only half. What happened?" I said to the group.

[Maya]

"Girly here dusted the vamp before we even got there." I replied, "And then attacked me an' Del- we're trying to explain that we're the good guys... and still trying to work out who she is."

[killian]

"Another slayer maybe?" I said joining them. "So Red, care to tell us your name?"

[Maya]

"She's no slayer." I said, and Del nodded her agreement, but then we just looked to the girl herself for her answer...

[Aredhel]

I kept to myself, only nodding in agreement with Maya when she said something. She knew the story well enough without my input, and besides, I was a bit busy. There was something familiar about this girl, and I knew in my very gut that it wasn't a good thing. It was bad. Very, very bad.

So much pain. I didn't have to dig into her mind to see it. She had been hurt before, and judging by her vehement hatred towards the undead, it wasn't the regular kind of hurt either. A vampire had hurt her. Badly. Killed a friend maybe. A family member perhaps.

Oh sh*t. I suddenly knew why I recognized her.

[Joshua]

(((To Cervil: ARE YOU $#!**!&@ ME!! "Desert Eagles" can blow hollow point bullets through five feet of CONCRETE and STILL have enough destructive power to blow a very LARGE, MESSY hole in somebody on the other side of the wall. They're Armor-piercing guns equipped with Armor-piercing rounds!!! IDIOT!! The Gun that "Agent Smith" in the very first Matrix used to shoot Morpheous in the leg in the Helicopter scene. *THAT* was a Desert Eagle.)))

(((And for the record, I'm not pissed or overprotective, I'm actually kind of amused by the whole thing.)))

"How are you feeling though?" I asked Mai in what could be considered a mocking tone. Rubbing her stomach, she glared at me. Then hit me upside the head.

"Ow."

[Charlotte]

“Welcome back.” Was the first thing I heard after a really really strong smell invaded my senses. I blinked a couple of times and a several faces swam into fuzzy focus. Then a face became clearer and I knew why, it wasn’t human no matter how much the dark haired girl looked it.
“Demon.” I said weakly but she merely rolled her eyes and conversation continued but I wasn’t really aware of exactly what was being said, something about a slayer. I was gradually regaining conciousness and I realised that I was back inside the bar, apparently in a booth with the ‘people’ I had just been fighting. Suddenly I noticed they were all staring at me, the vampire with a look of horror on her face, I still couldn’t place her though. I opened my mouth to speak but there was a temporary distraction as two of the group started bickering. They were quickly stopped by a cough from another member and I was once again centre of attention, not somewhere I particularly wanted to be.
“Who-who are you?” I asked but there were several shaking heads and the guy Maya had just hit (and now had her arm around) looked indignant.
“No way. We asked first.” He said and I was left with no option but to answer.
“Charlotte.” I said and to my surprise the vampire closed her eyes in distress. I don’t know what my name meant to her but obviously something.

[Jessy Jackson]

I smiled at Charlotte. "So, I'm Jessy. Shapeshifter. Not a demon. No offence, 'Chelle." I sat down next to her.

[Nicola Next]

'Charlotte. Well not only do you smell good but you're from England... I like you' I hesistated 'Well I mean as long as you don't suddenly try and kill me for the uh problemo because girls who go for vamps usually go for the other types too'

[Jessy Jackson]

"Like shapeshifters and um, different kinds of-" I stopped.

"You can say it Jessy."

"Werewolves."

[rachelle]

"So, what brings you here Charlotte? And why did you attack Maya and Del?"