I scrambled to get up. Marcus tried to keep me down, but a short, sharp jab to the base of his neck ended that as I looked out at the growing chaos below. Emergency lights were on, illuminating the interior of the club. The music had cut off, and people were scrambling for the emergency exits while a somewhat organized group was entering through the main entrance.

  The security teams were split between getting the people out of the club and reacting to the incursion. I also noted that some of the patrons were moving towards the security forces. I saw a fsh of a weapon and cursed as I vaulted out the window and towards the second floor.

  As I crashed to the floor, I rolled drawing my knives, and shed out without hesitation. The little part of me that still clung to being human, was horrified as the knives sunk into the other man's flesh causing warm blood to gush out covering my hands as they sunk into the attacker's flesh. The man convulsed in agony and dropped the heavy short sword he had about the plunge into the security guard's back, I twisted the bde in the man's throat before ripping both knives out of the dying man's body as he colpsed at my feet.

  The security guard looked back once as he drew a heavy crossbow, a thing of steel, brass cogs, and heavy cords, "Get somepce secure sir!" the man advised as he aimed towards the gaping hole in the wall where the front entrance had been and started firing.

  Each rge bolt glowed with a red-white light as it zipped across the intervening space and smmed into the invaders. More security moved to engage at a closer range as armor and weapons suddenly appeared on the security forces. "Not an option!" I told the man as I looked down at the dance floor where several figures had jumped down and were moving to engage the retreating patrons.

  A fsh of light revealed who and what was attacking the club and its people, "They are Enhanced, not fully Integrated!" I snarled at the security guard as I vaulted over the railing and towards the floor below.

  Enhanced were people who had been turned before they went through Intergration, it was against the w because it killed far more than it succeeded. Even if Tabitha hadn't tried to assassinate me, creating Enhanced was a death sentence.

  I heard a loud boom as I smmed into the basement floor and rolled, as I came to my feet one of the Enhanced exploded. I ignored the explosion and rushed to the nearest Enhanced, I ducked under the man's hands that were blindly shing out trying to cw my face, and buried a knife in his stomach. Using the knife as an anchor point, I swung up behind the feral man and buried my other bde into the base of his skull.

  I ripped the bde in the man's stomach upwards, opening a huge wound in his front as I kicked off sending the dying Enhanced flying across the dance floor. I heard the boom of the shotgun two more times as I turned as I twisted the bdes, to follow my forearms as I dashed towards the remaining Enhanced.

  Only five remained as two of their number exploded, another bright white-hot tracer fshed by me and buried itself in one of the oncoming Enhanced causing the woman to stagger. A second ter, she exploded as I felt a brief but intense bst of heat before something smmed into me from the side and sent me flying as half of my Health disappeared.

  <<< BATTLE LOG >>> Debuffs Added... Dislocated Shoulder: Suffer bouts of pain, cannot cast spells that require arm gestures from your left arm, Decrease Accuracy/Attack Speed of two-handed weapons by 25%. (Duration: 15 Minutes)Concussed: Suffer bouts of nausea, Decrease Accuracy by 15% and Critical Hit Chance by 3%. (Duration: 5 Minutes) <<< BATTLE LOG >>>Fuck!

  I managed to study the information as I slid to the floor after smming into the brick wall. While I had trouble focusing, I could see a Vampire stalking towards me. I focused as much as I could as I prepared the spell. While it wasn't intended for this purpose, it would still work in theory.

  As blue-silver light coalesced around my right hand, a phantom hand appeared hovering near me. I thrust my right hand out like I was trying to punch the bemused Vampire who chuckled at the impotent move right up until the phantom hand smmed into the Vampire's chest and flung him up and away from me.

  I heard a sickening crack as the Vampire smmed into the railing of the second floor before skipping up and over it to sm into the far wall before colpsing to the ground in a boneless heap. The spell ate up most of my Mana, but it was well worth it.

  I looked over to see how the shotgun wielder was going, two shotguns y discarded at her feet and a third was steaming in her hands as the st of the Enhanced colpsed near her feet. While a part of me wondered who she was, a part of me knew I would get little from the mysterious stranger. "Fuck!" I heard Adraina curse as she ran up to me.

  The Brazilian had switched out her dress for a mix of chainmail and pte armor, a rge sword was in her hand wet with blood and gave mute testament of who had killed the st few Enhanced, but despite all of that she had no problem yanking me to my feet. "Give me a second." I managed to get out as I staggered and leaned against the nearby wall.

  The Concussed Debuff continued to count down, but I managed to clean my knives and store the extra one away in my Inventory, "We need to leave sir, now!" Adriana commented.

  I shook my head and almost made myself puke, "No, how are the others? How is Yuki?" I managed to get out as I closed my eyes and just leaned against the wall.

  Then I felt a warm set of arms enveloping me, "Right here Victor, can we please leave!" Yuki pleaded.

  I squeezed her to me, "Not yet, I need to check on the others and make sure they are ok then get the hunt organized before we can leave. I am sorry." I told her.

  Before I could respond, four figures jumped down from the floor above, it took me a moment to recognize Marcus and the others as all of them were decked out in various pieces of armor and wielded weapons. "We are fine." Marcus quickly reported, but I could see fresh scratches and a scorch mark here and there on their armor.

  I pointed to the corpses, "She made Enhanced, Neil, An, and Menie I want House Shawn dead by dawn. No survivors.' the three nodded their heads as I turned my focus elsewhere, 'Marcus, inform the local council and Adventurers Guild of what Tabitha did, better for them to learn of it from us than w enforcement. See if they are willing to throw some bodies at the problem and help us out. We also need to catalog any Vampires that were killed and belonged to House Shawn to remove them from the list." I told them.

  The first three already had their phones out making calls, "I will also notify w enforcement, will you please tell Lady Bell of the attack and that you are still alive?" Marcus inquired as he produced his phone.

  I nodded my head, "We need to get him out of here sir, he needs blood and to recuperate from the sucker punch he took." Adriana reported as I staggered away from the wall as the timer on the Concussed Debuff ran out and suddenly the slight warping of the world around me stopped as everything snapped back into focus.

  Before I could open my mouth to protest, the Tiger-Kin grabbed me by the colr and started to drag me away. I hissed in pain, "Dislocated shoulder!" I managed to get her to stop pulling me like I was an unruly child. I looked around but didn't spot her, "Where is your new friend?" I asked as Adriana led us up a set of stairs that led to one of the emergency exits.

  Yuki shook her head, "I don't know, she disappeared after Adriana killed the st Enhanced. Too bad, she was hot." the Japanese woman commented.

  As we emerged onto the street, I could hear the bde of sirens as they drew closer. "She looked pretty. What was her name?" I asked Yuki as Adriana escorted us toward a trio of SUVs loitering across the street.

  The door was already open, and the security team that had come with us was out in force keeping anyone back as the Brazilian shed her armor and weapon as we got into the back of the SUV, "She told us that her name was Levia and she was using a modified Dragon's Breath shell I hadn't seen or heard of before." Adriana reported as the security guys loaded up and we pulled away.

  I grunted as the light tingling in my arm slowly worked its way up to my shoulder as it continued to heal, "Is that normal, for someone to be carrying arms like that in the club?" I asked her.

  Adriana shook her head, "No, it's not. The club is warded, anyone carrying arms or armor would have lit up like a Christmas tree." another oddity for the night.

  I patted Adriana's thigh, "She is not the priority, we can look into her ter. House Shawn is the priority, ok?" I squeezed her thigh as I felt a short, sharp pop and the st Debuff disappeared. I rolled my shoulder, the tenderness fading so I looped my arm around Yuki and pulled her into my p.

  The Japanese woman seemed to melt into me as she smiled at me and snuggled into my p, "Sorry your night of dancing and rexing was ruined." I told her as I pced a kiss on top of her head.

  Yuki looked up at me and pulled me down into a soul-searing kiss before releasing me, "It's not your fault, Tabitha chose this path. As for dancing and rexing, something tells me we will have plenty of nights like this in our future." Yuki assured me as I pulled her in closer and slowly trailed kisses down her neck as I palmed her ass.

  I was delightfully surprised that Yuki was wearing a skimpy thong, so my hand was unimpeded. I thoroughly enjoyed palming the globe with my hand as Yuki shuddered and moaned slightly against me. I had to visibly restrain myself from going any further, "Naughty temptress!" I spped her ass lightly, earning a smile and giggle. I looked over at Adriana who had a bemused smirk on her face, "You were right, I need blood." I told her.