The night started as so many other nights with hunting. At least for Bael, Simon and William who all started for blood. I went on a trip around the city, moving thru the catacombs to count the probable holy men gathering in town.
After a couple of hours I had counted three groups of at least a dussin men in each. So we could estimate that the town now held between 40 and 50 men looking for undeads. And one among them was hunter James.
We met back at the chantry. After a while William felt that something was wrong. He got a feeling of something bad closing in. Someone or something must have found us and we started to speculate about it. I thought about Simon who I now knew was tainted. Holy men can feel that.
We got ourself into position. Bael on the roof, I at the gate down to the sewers, and the other two ready at the main entrance. But nothing happened. I then saw my chance to test astral walking. Now or never, I thought. So I did what should be a walk thru the door out on the street to see what was there. I managed to hang on to the silver cord and seconds later I stood on the street. Outside stood a man with a plain face looking all around. Suddenly he stiffened. He grabbed a small drum he had in his belt and started to drum at it. A moment later he turned around at watched at me. I didn´t think straight. i just walked back into the house without thinking on that I just told him where I came from. William reacted like a lightning, cloaked himself and Bael who came right behind. They started follow the drummer who fled fast targeting the high city walls.
Simon and I took the sewers and followed the other two that way. And so we got separated as two pairs.
William and Bael followed the fast running man all the way to the city wall. There he climbed up the stairs and jumped down at the other side. William tried reading the runners aura and made sure he was a werewolf. As that garou now knew the location of our new chantry he had to be stoped. Bael, who earlier had got his hand on a silver spear, flew up and took speed down at the garou as if he was battling a dragon with his lance held firm. The hit was truly brutal. The spear nailed the warewolf to the ground with such force that he died instantly. bael then took the body, still stuck on the spear, and flew up in the air.
Back at the wall William cloked them all and started to collect the potent warewolf blood in a sanguinus vial. But bael had had a drop of it in the air and starts getting into a frency. He couldn´t hold himself back. William tried to calm him with all his power but failed. Bael attacked him snatched the vial and flew away towards the woods outside city. William couldn´t do anything more but collecting the silver spear Bael forgot and take care of the body before leaving for the chantry.
Meanwhile Simon and I tried to follow when suddenly they came down to a huge water cistern. Standing there in the darkness, in an opening into the dark void, they saw a group of men poking around, probably searching for kindreds. Simon choose to attack.
He took of like a projectile targeting one of the men, leaving me behind watching what would come. And down in the dirt he went. A true belly flop. The target got so stunned by the acrobatic act he broke down. Simon rose and paried a swordblow and in the next moment that swordsman was no more. Simon got into frency.
One of the men wielding a huge morningstar opened his lantern and threw a powder in. The flashlight was blinding. That would have taken out most kindreds sight for a while but I have gotten some resistance against daylight and Simon must have closed his eyes in frency, because next moment the morningstar man was torn into pieces.
This is when things could have got realy ugly. A third man thrusted a silver spear right thru Simon who went down on his knees. I jumped down and used my newly found powers of putting people to sleep. The man fell down in the water face first. Simon, still in frency, got a blow by a sword but the sword didn´t give any damage at all. The swordsman died quickI held down the head of the sleeper under the water and contemplated the next move. When he softened enough I dragged him up. Not much life left in that body, but after a while he came by.
Simon and I started to try finding out if the man had any knowledge where to find hunter James. Simon tried Murmurs of false wind without success. He even got hurt as the man seems to be somewhat holy. I tried to read the mans mind with telepathy. Nothing. Then I tried to follow where the weapon he held had been to see if I could get a glips of the latest days. But I got picture of its creation instead. Hammered under a flow of holy water. Newly made for this mission. Simon started to intimidate the man and after a while we got an adress. James was in one of the churches in town. Simon got a picture of where.Simon, William and I met at the chantry later that night. Bael stumbled in just before daybreak. in time for the sleep.
Thsi was the first part of hunter James closing in on us.
