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Whats in a Name
Date of Scene: 11 August 2017
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: Gambit, Selene (Underworld), Jubilee




Gambit has posed:
It's the middle of the night, at two AM, and you're in the recording studio alone? What up? Explain yourself?

Only it's not the recording studio, it's a small gas station, and pulling up in his Buick, is Remy, stopping next to the fuel pumps and slowly climbs out of his car to step inside. It's a fairly quiet, secluded area, not much going on or around, but the lone clerk is inside. He is woken up by the jingling bells hanging next to the door.

Remy steps up, prepays for his gas and starts to step back outside when a murdered out SUV rolls in and screeches the brakes coming to a stop next to his old 'boat tail' car.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Seems this gas station just suddenly got a lot busier, because after the SUV arrives, the sound of a roaring sport motorcycle is heard down the street, it draws closer to the station and turns to drive into the lot... front headlight is a pale bright LED light that shines a sterile white down upon the pavement as the rider pulls into the refueling area...

The rider is a tall woman dressed from head to toe in glossy black, her attire is most easily summarized as 'without shame' as it clings to her body with very little left to the imagination to play with. The woman within the clinging black clothing, sits up on the seat of her black motorcycle, after deactivating it... she pulls her gloves off of her hands and then sets them on the controls.

She doesn't seem to be paying any heed to those others at the station as of yet as she swings her leg over her bike to dismount it and walk with a graceful ease toward the pump... even Vampires have to refuel their rides.

Selene's pale blue eyes start to scan the Station after she connects her bike to the pump and waits for it to do its thing.

Gambit has posed:
Remy steps over to his car and starts to fill it up as three guys climb out of the black SUV, each hooting and hollering at each other as a bunch of hoodlums usually do. The driver gets out and starts to pump a few gallons into the truck as the rest go inside and continue their boisterous banter and cavorting.

A straggler pokes his head out of the passenger window towards Selene and puckers his lips before making obscene kissing noises towards the woman and laughs towards the driver before a hand finds his face and pushes the immature kid back in the window.

"Haha, hör auf, solch ein Halbwitz zu sein."

The driver says before turning back to Selene and bowing slightly in apology.

Inside, the three punks seem to be trashing the place and with a loud THUNK a bottle of something explodes agaisnt the door and a large splatter covers the glass door, obscuring the view from any looking that way.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene didn't pay any attention to them, they weren't even 'there' in her world. She just kept doing what she was doing, up until that drink was thrown against the store's doorway. She did look up at that and watched for about three whole seconds before she looked back down to her bike when the pump clicked and it was filled.

Putting the gas gun thing back into its holder thing, Selene turned and walked toward the store, her hips swaying as she went. Her guns were not on her thighs, though the straps were still there... the guns though... were tucked into a black leather saddlebag on the side of her bike.

Selene opened the drink-covered door and strut into the building as though nothing odd was going on inside at all, she started to walk through the store, her pale face devoid of emotion as her eyes scanned over what was inside.

Selene would approach the register, ready to pay for her fuel.

Gambit has posed:
Outside, Remy's head snapped back towards the building and he frowned, not wanting tonight to turn into one of those nights. So he lets out a soft sigh, but just as he was about to approach, Selene steps past him and into the dirty door.

The driver and other guy in the car stay outside, for now with the three boys inside are acting beyond foolish. They are completely vandalizing this older man's store. His weak shaky voice tries to tell them to "Stop, you can't do that, you gotta buy that." And other such kindly worded phrases. He's not much of a fighter and is just trying to make his way through the world while these college age youngsters have pushed over and entire row of shelves, and one is back at the booze fridge with the door open and is throwing 40 ounce cans across the gas station to the two other guys who are hooting, hollaring and jumping around like they're at a frat party.

One spots Selene as she walks in and he licks his lips before he slides over to her and says,

"Was hast du gut aussehende Fotze?" Before grabbing his crotch and thrusting his pelvis against his hand pushing his knuckles up against her leg with his tongue rolling out.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene had her money out in her hand when she approached the register and was offering the man behind the counter a fifty dollar bill even through it was far more than her gas cost. She didn't seem to be registering any of what the boys were doing, nor did she seem to even register Remy's presence when entered the store.

Selene started to slide the bills over to the store clerk who was way in over his head when she heard the young german guy start talking to her and gesturing fouly at her.

"Schritt zurück, oder ich werde die Nase brechen." Selene said, her voice was sultry... husky... rich and alluring. She said these words without looking over at the foul mouthed young man aside her.

Gambit has posed:
"Das fuck?! Wer macht diese Hure?" He says, looking back over to one of his buddies with a surprised look on his face when they both shrug and he moves to put his hand on her shoulder to turn her around and starts to lift his free hand to bring down across Selene's face.

Remy had stepped into the gas station not too late and his quickly snaps out to grab the man by the wrist but the cajun wasn't strong enough to stop the blow from being throw, as the man's hand flies out to hit Selene.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene allows herself to be turned around by the man, but she sees his hit coming as though it were being thrown by a drunk five year old. She tilts her head to the side to dodge the strike and then grabs his arm and spins him around until his back is pressed up against her body.

Selene pressed her face up against the side of the man's head and her cold lips whispered into his ear. "Die Hure, die Ihre Nase bricht."

A second later and she used her enhanced strength to slam the man down onto the counter, face first, to deliver his nose right into the edge of the counter and crush it without remorse. She'd then step into the back of his knee and spin him around to shove him down the aisle behind her.

Her pale blue eyes would look at Remy for a lingering second or two... before she'd turn back to the Store Clerk and wait for her change, picking up a small tin of mint gum and adding it to her purchase.

Gambit has posed:
"Uh, I'll clean that up." Says the clerk as he hands back Selene her entire fifty as she helped him, he's not going to take any money from her in this situation. The man on the ground with a blood fount spewing out of where his nose used to be. The man was much stronger than a normal man, but Selene caught him way off guard.

The other two guys in the gas station shout up and start to approach Remy and Selene, having seen him try to stop the fight and her breaking their friend's nose in one attack.

"Hey, fuck diese beiden Arschlöcher. Sie brach römische Nase!"

With that both start to approach Selene and Remy, their gait awfully primal and gorilla-esque with low swinging arms and their chests seeming to get bigger, and maybe even hairier faces and arms.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
At first, Selene had thought that Remy was WITH these people... but more-so simply on better behavior... but now she assumed that he must not be at all. He smelled quite different from them as well which was a pretty big tip-off in itself.

When the other two started toward her and Remy, Selene just bent over and grabbed the Gusher by his shirt and lifted him easily back up to his feet. She started to walk then toward the door (after grabbing her money back) and she used the Gusher to slam the door open and go back out into the parking lot.

Selene's eyes were glowing blue now, almost like windows into an icey wintery realm. If these men had any brains in them at all, they'd see these features about her... strength and others, that would show them she might not be the best to mess with.

Selene held their bleeding friend up and she stood there in the center of the lot in front of the store, waiting. Proudly standing there for the otehrs in the SUV to see her as well, inviting them all to challenge her if that is how they wanted to end their Crazy German Night.

Gambit has posed:
The two in the store continue to press forwards, stepping on spilt foods and fluids all over the floor, watching them take their friend out to the parking lot. The two quickly split up, and one closes the distance towards Remy who's dropping back into a defensive combat stance (Thanks Scott), and the other steps out the door to follow Selene. The entire time they continue to get larger, more animalistic in their size, gait and smell, as well as appearance. Dark grey fur covers their arms and even up to their faces where their faces elongate and their eyes grow red and a muzzle pushes out of their nose and jaw lines.

The two in the SUV are quickly up behind Selene, their clothes shreded as they quickly changed form to match their brother's.

Selene would recognize the shape, but maybe not the cause, these particular warewolves were not changed by any phase of the moon...

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Which is precisely why she didn't spot them sooner....

As soon as Selene realized what she was dealing with she no longer cared to preserve the stupid humans' lives. In fact, she brutally snapped the neck of the man she'd broken the nose on and then tossed him right at the two from the SUV!

Selene rushed at them right after tossing the now-dead-body!

The Death Dealer had the intention of tripping both of them and going for her guns in the bag on the side of her motorcycle!

Up to this point she had no idea who Remy was and had intended on separating them from him, assuming he MUST be just a simple store customer afterall.

Gambit has posed:
The two rushing Selene are tripped up by the body of their former friend though them tripping doesn't halt their progress as much as Selene would have planned. They are warewolves, sort of, so them having to take a stride on their arms isn't too much of a problem for them. Though the one climbing out of the car had to take a while longer than the guy that was already out.

The lead guy moves in to try and bite out of Selene, her torso, arm, anything he can get a hold of.

When Remy comes flying through the window next to the door and lands on the pavement in a hard clap with his shoulder bouncing once and sliding, rubbing away with a tear of his black t-shirt.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
These drunken idiots weren't on Selene's level so the bite attack was countered with a sharp and decisive kick to the creature's face, which she used the momentum to shove herself forward and land beside her bike. She tore the leather saddlebag from the side of the vehicle and raced around the fueling pumps while drawing her guns out of the bag.

Selene appeared again around the edge of the gas pump, both guns drawn and aimed... she started to unleash a hail of gunfire at the creature tha just tried to take a bite out of her!

Gambit has posed:
Remy's slowly picking himself up off the ground with a hiss from his gritted teeth, though he moves a hand to pat at his damaged shoulder raw and rubbed by the ground. Then gun shots ring out and Remy ducks quickly and slowly moves over to press his back against his car, the cold metal against his reddened skin causing him to gasp.

The man that tried to bite Selene is quickly filled with two large slugs of silver nitrate filled projectiles in his jaw and shoulder, blood spewing from the wounds. He cries out a yelp in pain but quickly recoils to close the distance again trying to slash at her with his lengthy claws.

The one from the SUV is catching up and going in to attack Selene opposite from the driver warewolf.

Lastly the remaining two that are coming out of the gas station one goes after Remy again, in a slow crawling hunt, while the last joins in the fight against the vampire.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene is rushed by the Loup Garou she'd just shot twice... she rushed him in return and when he slashed at her she dove up and overtop of him, rolling down his back in a frorward sommersault that ended with her on her feet behimd him, reaching her right hand back to line the gun up with the back of his neck where she'd pull the trigger again, now aimed right at his spine!

The other gun in the Death Dealer's hand aimed forward at the other ManBeast coming from their SUV and she squeezed the trigger on said gun aimed at his face next! She'd trained with a lot of weapons in her 600 years, but the guns were her favorite of them all.

Gambit has posed:
The two immediate loup garous near Selene are dropped to the ground in heaps of blood, fur and anger.

The one that was hunting Remy looks up just as he was sniffing around the car and the two remaining shapeshifters circle around the woman, giving them enough distance to avoid the bullets from the vampire huntress and yet close enough to close the gap the moment she drops her guard.

Remy's back is against his car still, bleeding on his green car with a hiss and a deep exhale as he worries about being eaten by the warewolves.

Jubilee has posed:
Frank was passed out cold when Jubilation left him. The fact that she managed to disentangle and find her clothes in the sheets, then leave without waking him, was evidence enough. She just needed to ride. It didn't matter where. She began to pull in where she used to stop for a strawberry soda now and again. Nowadays she carried her own beverage. In a leather roll, in the saddlebag of her Harley. Taking them in the safehouse would be way too risky. But the scent of blood was already on the air here. Blood and gunpowder...and something else.

As she halted her bike short of the scene, she saw the woman who'd given her the roll of vials...and no another man...being stalked, and likely attacked...by....the hell WERE those things?? And then, a gut-churning realization. She flew off her bike, faster than she had ever moved in her life. Of that, she was certain. "REMY!!!" She screamed without coherency. She knew nothing other than she had to protect him. And that whatever these motherfuckers were, if they were Remy and this woman's enemies, they were her own, too. She flew at one of the creatures, stopped short, and stuck her hands out, blasting with a plume of blue plasma that could have melted a VW Beetle.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Three Dead Loup Garou litter the lot of this gas station. The Police have surely been called as well. Time was running out.

Selene stared at the two remaining that were stalking around her perimeter, she knew they were gauging her and studying her for weaknesses, she stared out from the dark strands of hair that framed her face, her blue eyes were glowing with a bright blue fire inside.

"Mein Krieg ist nicht mit Ihnen. Jetzt verlassen Sie und ersparen Sie sich die Umarmung des Todes." Selene said to those she had her guns drawn on.

She could hear Jubilation's bike pulling into the lot, she heard his scream but she did not look at the newest vampire sired into her coven, not yet at least.

Gambit has posed:
"Fick dich. Fick euch beide." Growls the newest alpha as he rushes towards Jubilee in her sudden appearance but is quickly disolved away in the heat of the attack, a pair of chared and burnt legs landing on the ground with barely a pelvis left holding them together.

The smell is awful, burnt hair, burnt flesh and the sound of blood and meat boiling away.

The last wolfman takes a step towards Selene but uses the momentum to turn around and bolt for the woods just beside the gas station, the lone lights from the outpost wouldn't illuminate the creature for long and would quickly disappear into the darkness if there was a moments hesitation from anyone.

"Jubes?" Remy asks weakly as he lifts his head towards the sound of Jubilee before she quickly steps away to do her fireworks thing and totally ruin some schmoes day.

Jubilee has posed:
But she didn't hesitate. She could see him running as clearly as if it were a Walmart parking lot. Taking to the trees in blinding speed, she overtook him quickly, as the gymnast hurled herself from limb to higher limb as easily as if they were parallel bars. With a leap from a treetop, she hurtled over his head and landed before him, letting loose a spiraling pink plasmoid that encircled him like a lasso, coiling around him tighter until it was singed his fur. Then, without preamble, it exploded into a bright pink plume that burned thirty feet into the air.

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene turned just as Jubilee started her display... She hadn't known the woman was a mutant. Mutants suffering the effects of Vampirism did not always retain their mutations, but it would appear that at least some part of her mutation was remaining, quite obviously.

Selene slid her handguns into the holsters on her thighs and she walked toward Gambit's location. "She said 'Remy'." Selene's smooth voice spoke out. "Is that you?" She inquired. "Are you a friend of hers?" Selene nodded in the direction that Jubilation had gone, she could hear more of those Plasmoid attacks, assuming she'd killed the last of the Loup Garou's, which didn't bother her in the slighest.

Gambit has posed:
Jubilee's attack wasn't only flashy, but damn effective, the beast is split in two by the super heated plasma and is quickly caught up in the bright and colorful explosion. The man-beast is easily defeated by the vampire mutant.

"Yeah, Ah'm Remy." The cajun says, pushing up from his car and working back to his feet with a groan escaping his lips. "I used t' know her, but Ah nevah knew she could do dat." Rerferring to ... everything she just did...

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilation backtracked the way that she came, hurling herself through the trees until she reached the clearing and leapt, landing with a thump, thirty yards from Remy and the woman. She dusted herself off, and trotted the rest of the way. "Remy. Are you okay?" She shot a spiteful look at the woman beside him. "Did anyon--thing hurt you?"

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
"She's garnered quite a lot of new traits, I do believe." Selene replied to Remy moments before Jubilation returned in a triumphant fashion. Selene's icy blue eyes went to the young woman and she watched her intently. "He's fine. By all accounts. He was thrown through the front window, so there may be some soreness, possibly even a concussion, but he looks like a well traveled man. I have to assume he's lived harder nights than this."

Selene's eyes seemed to roam over Jubilation's face, searching for 'something'.

"You're a mutant?" She asked then. "The... powers you displayed, they did not come from my people."

Selene glanced down at Remy again, but she didn't see him display a shred of powers beyond that of the average human man, so thats all she assumed he was... aside from his eyes, which could be contact lenses for all she knows.

Gambit has posed:
Some heavy duty contact lenses. Remy gives Selene a nod as she answers his unasked questions about Jubilee. "And what ARE you're people?" The cajun asks looking over to Jubilee wit ha frown on his face and a hand testing the sore rubbed raw of his shoulder with another hiss. "What happened t' ya?"

Jubilee has posed:
Jubilation swallowed hard. She answered the easy question first. "I am a mutant." Then, turning stormy grey eyes on Remy. "The easy answer is...I don't know. I got s-sick." She stumbled over the word, knowing it was only partial truth. "I had to resign."

Selene (Underworld) has posed:
Selene stood there at equal distance from either of them. She let her gaze sweep from one to the other, her eyes watching their mannerisms. "The police are on their way here, I can hear their sirens." Jubilee likely could as well, but Remy might not yet hear them.

"The shortest answer to what you both are seeking, is that she's been sired into the same lineage of Vampires that I was sired into, six hundred years ago."

Selene allows that to sink in for a spell before continuing. "I've been searching for her since the night it happened, the Vampire who did this to her is in captivity under the watch of my guards. We're a coven hailing from... far away, we've come here now because the battlefield of our war has shifted to your country's shore. Its nearing its long end, and we hope to find its finale here. We're at war with Lycanthropes... what you may more commonly refer to as a Werewolf. My people and I have been chasing them for centuries, thinning their numbers and hoping to put their entire species to an end."

Selene's eyes went to Jubilee's, they were so similarly shaded now and anyone who knew Jubilee's brown pupils would be likely shocked at their sudden change as they are now.

"You can join us, if you wish. Train to fight with us. Or... just learn what you need to survive. This is what I had hoped to offer you if you followed-up on what I said to you previously."

Gambit has posed:
"I... I'm sorry to hear about dat." Remy says with a frown towards Jubilee. The cajun looks over to Selene and nods once, as if he's not too surprised to hear about the existance of vampires or warewolves, seems the cajun had a superstitious upbringing. "But 'ey, you do you, you know where t' find us." Remy says towards Jubilee as he moves back over to his dark green Buick, pulls out the fuel gun and sets it on the pump and climbs into his car to roll off finally. Sad night.

Jubilee has posed:
"But this isn't..." Jubilation began as Remy got into the car. "...me." But it was too late. He didn't hear. He didn't want to hear. This was her life, now. Rejection and fear. She turned those grey eyes that still feigned innocence, on Selene. For a moment, she just stared. "IF...I ever decide to follow up, I'll find you." Jubilee pulled a pack of watermelon Bubblicious from her pocket and shoved a piece in her mouth rebelliously, then turned on her heel and returned to her motorcycle. Mounting it, she shot one last look at the thrashed store and shook her head. No more strawberry soda. No more of a lot of things. She started it up with a roar, turned it around and sped out of the parking lot into the night.