Daciana Lupei
Fenrir Descendant
Ceresa Farm
As Daciana dug her claws into the undead bull one more time, it disintegrated into smoky wisps before her very eyes, and then disappeared. She looked down once, panting, more before resuming her human form and turning her head to the sound of ghostly growling and howling. The two shadowy wolves stood amidst the dissipating bodies of the undead cows, their eyes glowing. She smirked to herself. Easy fuckin' peasy, she thought cockily before striding over to the wolves rubbing their heads roughly. The dark one remained impassive and stoic, while the red one nuzzled her almost instinctively. She knew that she had to think of names for them soon, before Ana would take it upon herself to name them, that is. Little Red...didn't exactly have the best taste in names.
BANG!
A nearby gunshot pierced the air, the sound of which startled the redhead, shifting her back into her animal form. While she was gaining better control of it, she was still far from perfect, and sometimes found it difficult to control the shifting. She headed out the barn door, willing herself to change back. She succeeded with some effort, though it tired her out more than she cared to admit, and she took off, the shadowy emissaries in tow as she raced towards where she thought the shot was coming from. What caught her eye first, however, was a blaze coming from the edge of the farm, where Andre's limo was parked.
"Damn, just damn...who's discovered uncontrollable fire powers now?!" She grumbled as she raced towards said car, the flames growing brighter as she neared. Once a short distance away, however, she noticed it dissipate, as if someone took care of it. Craning her neck, she saw Anima clutching a fire extinguisher. Andre, Alain and Derek seemed to be fine too, judging from the voices she picked up. She continued on towards the car, noticing a pair of golden stags standing behind it as if keeping it from rolling backwards. Stags...nah, my wolves are 100% cooler, the redhead mused to herself. Once she reached the scene, she looked around, taking the time to chuckle at the soaked occupants of the pink limousine.
"Hey, that's what happens if you just sit around in your fabulous pink hidey-hole, dudes," she snarked. She wanted to say more - and she would have - had she not heard the strange sound of a cat screeching. She gritted her teeth at the sound. It was close, in fact, too close for comfort. Daciana hated cats, and always did ever since she was a little girl. She knew that she was going to upset more than a few club members if she took out said offending cat...but frankly, she didn't care. She just hated them, and it wasn't as if she was directly harming any of them! She turned around, growling wolfishly under her breath, her cold blue eyes fixing themselves on the source of the screech...before they widened at the sight of a Russian Blue cat engulfed in bright purple flames.
“So, look what I caught. What do you suppose we do with it?” Sullivan stated almost matter-of-factly. Daciana facepalmed. Did that require such a question?
"DAMN, SULLIVAN! FOR THE LOVE OF WHOMEVER YOU'RE SLEEPING WITH, KILL THE FUCKER!" She roared. Her words were probably lost to the wind, however, as Anima's scream pierced the air. She had somehow burst into flames, flames the same color as those that surrounded the damned cat. Thankfully, the girl quickly stopped herself, regained her wits, and tried to roll on the ground to extinguish the flames. They dissipated for a moment, but they returned, glowing even more brightly. Surely, it wasn't a normal fire...and the cat definitely wasn't a normal one. Daciana took a quick look at the now-limp cat in Sullivan's hands and noticed that its tail was forked. Somehow, said tail reminded her of a fellow club mate's shifted form, one that she had to will herself to get used to over the past few weeks...
Immediately, Sullivan acted, slamming the cat down to the ground and knocking it unconscious. He then stood in front of Anima, cautioning her not to move, before allowing some golden flames to engulf him. Undisturbed by this, he hugged Anima, sharing the golden aura that surrounded him. It took a while, but the purple flames burned out and this time, they didn't return. Daciana looked at the ground and noticed the cat lying there, still unconscious. Her expression grim, she picked it up grasped its body with one hand and her head with the other. She quickly snapped its neck, her expression daring anyone to question her.
"Anima!" The familiar voice of Daniel called out. The way things looked, all of them had survived the night.
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Daciana's Apartment
Living alone had its many perks, and one of them included not having to answer to anyone. No maids or housekeeper to bother her, and no mom to worry about her overmuch. Last night was something she did not want anyone, save for the club, to pry about. Just after she had snapped the neck of the demon cat, she had found out that Andre's driver had been collateral damage during the incident, and while she didn't exactly know him - she drove her own vehicle and didn't need lifts on a pink limo - she didn't expect anyone to die last night, especially not in that way. Physical violence, bullet wounds...those were things she was all too used to seeing people die from during her time on the streets of Romania. Those were easy to wrap her mind around as well. But this? Then again, she didn't exactly believe in magic until the day of the fair either.
She rubbed her head, unable to sleep for more than a couple of hours, even after a number of drinks. She was having the same dream again, where someone taller than her was wrangling her down into a cellar and locking her in. The cellar was a familiar one - during a party just a little under a week ago, she might've had one too many drinks, surpassing even her normally high tolerance, as she had woken up in that very same cellar the morning after, without any memory of what kind of mess she had caused until Alain told her that she had gone wolf in the middle of the party. Someone had to have wrestled her in there, and she was sure as fuck that it wasn't Alain. Somebody strong and able to keep up with an intoxicated beast...but who? The whole club was there, but she knew quite a number of them had enhanced strength...and she was already one of the tallest on top of that. She shook her head, blinking a few more times. Why was she going back to that incident again? It was obviously one of the club members, no one else.
The redhead took a shower and dried herself and quickly fixed her long hair into a careless, messy loose braid. She then got dressed in a ripped black muscle shirt with an outline of a wolf howling at a blood moon, tight black leather pants with lace-up detail down the sides, a bullet belt and heavy black knee-high boots with skull buckles. She smudged black kohl over her eyelids, put on her usual black leather fingerless gloves, and took her black leather jacket with her as she walked to her kitchen, draping it over a chair before opening her fridge to check what she could make for breakfast.
She was in the middle of cooking her skull-shaped pancakes (which of course, wasn't complete without a couple of dashes of rum to the batter) when her phone rang with its unmistakeable Cannibal Corpse tone. She grimaced, switched off the stove and looked at the caller ID. It was Anima. When she accepted it, Anima's voice greeted her, though her tone was hurried. The young girl was telling her that there was a meeting at the clubhouse in just an hour. Before Daciana could ask her any questions, Anima already hung up. The nineteen-year-old looked at the clock, decided that she only had a few minutes to spare, and scraped the half-cooked pancake from the pan and into her mouth before taking her jacket and heading out the door.
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Super-Myth Club HQ
After Daciana parked her motorcycle, she hopped off and headed in the familiar direction of the clubhouse. Once she got there, she heard voices from outside. She peered right into the window and saw that some of them had already arrived. Andre was among them, seemingly unscarred from the night before, and dressed in one of his girly ensembles complete with a wig. Now, she had seen Derek come to school in dresses on some occasions, and while Andre did put on a dress occasionally for his film roles, this was the first time that she saw him all dolled up...and it admittedly wasn't a bad look for him, as horrible as the pink was. Her heightened sense of smell caught the scent of alcohol on Alain...not that he would ever be drunk or hungover, thanks to being the descendant of Dionysus himself. He was half-asleep, however. Quinn was there, as were Sullivan, Kit, Kaede and Lanaya.
"Anima, what's this about you, André, Derek, Alain and Deepak being gods?" Daniel queried, adjusting his glasses as he read some papers.
"Oh, that. Well, again, I'm not sure since it was just only the words of the nekomata last night and--" Anima replied, before the taller guy cut her off.
"Wait, it talked?"
"Y...eah... I was creeped out too. But, anyways, it really hated us badly. I mean, it was glowing red." Anima continued, before diverting and explaining to everyone that she could in fact, sense particular auras. She then continued her story, focusing on how the demon cat mentioned "gods" and describing that she had a particular aura that took the looked like a bipedal grey dog. Daciana strode into the room just as the younger girl finished, and sat down casually on an empty chair.
"And is that it?" Daniel asked.
"Yeah, that's it. At least for the cat. Now, that's not why I called for a meeting, right? Well, here's what I called it for. I think that sinkhole wasn't an ordinary sinkhole and I wanna know for sure. Why? I saw the souls of the ones that died from the stuff falling from the ceiling but not the ones at the bottom of the sinkhole. So I think there's some creature down there that woke up or something and did that sinkhole to absorb souls or something."
Daniel took a few minutes to write down what Anima had said, before looking up at everyone else.
"So, who wishes to join Anima in her investigation?" He asked.
".. No?" Alain mumbled, clearly tugged out of his reverie. Daciana cracked her knuckles as she bobbed her head once.
"Hell yeah, dude. Sinkholes, dark spaces, creature, danger...count me in."