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CHAPTER 5: THE RUNAWAY DEMON
The next morning the king is awoken by his phone. He answers it to hear a girl's voice on the other end. "You have to help me" cries the girl. "Where are you and who are you?" asks the king. "I'm at your club and I'm not important, at least not anymore. You're the only person I got to rely on I have no one else" claims the girl. The king sits up thinking, unsure what he should do. After a minute he goes to wash up and get dressed. He meets with Theresa about the phone call he got. "It sounds to me like someone may need you and she believes no one else can help her, but you." says Theresa. "Can you tell if it's a trap or a set up?" asks the king. "No your majesty, but just in case I would not go alone" says Theresa cautiously "I wasn't" says the king as he raids the weapons trunk.
The king walks to the club, followed by Bo, Kenzi, Dyson, Reaver, Agent Bering, Agent Jinx and Kahlan. They look around the rundown nightclub and the king spots a woman sitting down at the edge of the stage. "Careful my Liege, I sense demonic power in her. A seductress" cautions Dyson after getting an uneasy feeling. "I'll be careful, but why would a seductress call us for help?" The king approaches the woman and they talk in private for several minutes. The team watches the doors and windows for any sign of trouble when Kenzi spots several dark fae coming towards the club. "FAE" cries Kenzi, alerting everyone. Everyone stands at the door, weapons drawn, prepared to fight.
The king hides the seductress in the dressing room then marches back out to the dance floor upholstering his guns. The group bursts in but are met by the king's men. Dyson shifts into a wolf and begins ripping apart any fae that gets near him or the king. Kahlan slashes her way through the enemies with her twin daggers. Shots ring out, and bullets pass through the air from the guns of the king and Reaver. Myka and Steve meanwhile are paired off with several fae attackers fighting them hand-to-hand. And Bo and Kenzi tag team another group of Fae. Myka grabs one of the thugs in a reverse choke hold, strangling him using the skills she learned both from her years in the secret service and her training from working with the king. Bo takes a guy as he tries to attack Kenzi, touches his face and he becomes her thrall, attacking the other dark fae thugs, then Bo's eyes glow an icy blue and she gets up close to him, almost kissing him, and inhales, robbing him of his soul. Kahlan uses the dark side of her confessor power and instead of getting a thug to confess to why they attacked the king, she causes him to die at her touch. Reaver grabs a dangling curtain and uses it to wall-run up to the higher level, perfect to land one of his famous long shot kills. He aims his Dragonstomper .48 flintlock pistols and fires a shot, taking out a thug on the far side of the club. As a pair of thugs rush the king he turns vamp, his fingernails turn into 3" long claws and his eyes turn pure black, and he roars out showing his bloodstained fangs. He slashes at one and grabs the other snapping his neck.
After the last five thugs are dealt with the king reverts back in his human state as does Dyson. The king checks on the seductress and sees her hiding in the corner. He assists her up and leads her outside where the others are waiting. The ride back to the castle is a quiet one. No one talks about what happened the rest of the day. The seductress thanks the king and pledges her services to the him. The king knows the power of a seductress and says for her to stay away from any of the male team members unless she's being trained by them. She accepts and goes upstairs. The next day, the king meets with the seductress and asks her who is after her and why she would seek the king for refuge. "My tribe. I never believed in hunting humans, I feed yes but I do not support needless killing as other demons do. And you were my last option. I'm a pariah in the underworld now, I can not return."
The king looks at Agent Steve Jinx, whose powers of telling whether people are lying or telling the truth, reveals the seductress is telling the truth. After learning the truth, the king calls a meeting in the war room. For an hour, the clan debates about what to do with the seductress. "She should be stripped of her powers" argued Javik, a prothean soldier revived after a 50,000 year hibernation after the destruction of his race. "I agree, a seductress, any demon for that matter, is dangerous." adds Shepard, the king's second in command. Majority of the clan agree, so the king makes a decision to strip the seductress of her powers, rendering her human. The king orders the witches make a fresh batch of the power stripping potion, since the last of what they had was used years ago and they never got around to making more, due to their busy schedule and personal issues.
The kitchen and attic are busy with mixing and spell casting, using every herb in stock. Soon the potions store is restocked, and one is reserved for the king to administer to the seductress. In the throne room, the king holds court, making a show of the seductress losing her powers. At the order of the king and his royal court, she drinks the potion. She feels her powers leave her, after centuries of being a demon, she is left human. After that, the king orders Angel to turn her. Angel comes to the front of the room, shifting to vampire form along to way. He takes her close to him, biting her neck. He drinks her blood till she passes out on the gilded floor. She awakens the next night, no longer a demon, but a vampire.
The newly created vampire joins the King and Shepard in the war room as they plan the attack on the demons' underworld lair. Selene, Garrus, Rayne and others join the war council and add their opinions and tactical advice. A holographic layout of the lair is shown in the middle of the table. The girl looks amazed at the high tech display, but quickly gathers her senses and adds her own thoughts and opinions based on her own personal experience. After an hour they feel they have a plan and they then begin preparations.
The clan leaves the room, and goes out to the cullis gate out back of the castle, which Garth is tuning to reach the underworld. The clan teleport in small strike teams consisting of a team leader, a tech expert, a heavy and support. The king takes his team down the main corridor while Shepard and Bo lead their groups down a passage to the right, and Hawke and Jeremy lead teams down the left path. The new vampire follows the king to an opening. "Looks like a meeting room, not the main room" says the king. Carrying armfuls of ANFO and C-4, Nightcrawler teleports from point to point then Adam and Tory wire the fuses and blasting caps and program them for remote detonation.
The other teams rendezvous with the main team at the main room, where the pack of seductress demons are gathered by the seductress queen. The clan surprise them with ammunition filled with vanquishing potions. Two of them are dead before the rest are aware, making the following fight that much easier. The king rises from cover, his heavy revolver aimed at the queen, but one of the demons knocks it from his grip. The king, however, unphased uses his other gun to vanquish her, then picks up the first one from the floor. With a roar, the king shifts into his vampire state and claws and bites his way through the rest of the demons. After minutes of back and forth, the king lands a critical blow to the queen. His claws tear through her stomach, then with his martial training, lands a pinpoint spinning round kick to her jaw then an elbow to her spine. The killing blow comes from two potion laced bullets through the mouth. She explodes almost immediately and the former seductress is free of her old pack. The clan set the rest of the bombs and teleport out and arrive in the bunker just as Kari hits the arm button. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, FIRE IN THE HOLE" yells Kari as she triggers the bombs. The explosions makes the whole area quake as the underworld is destroyed. The clan celebrate as another threat is vanquished.
