DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters from Underworld, nor am I claiming to. I am merely playing with them for my own enjoyment and for the enjoyment of other fans... I am making no money off of this... so don't sue me, you won't get anything anyway... I'm a poor college student. The character Phoenix however is mine... so ask before you use her if you're inspired by my fanfic...

The moon peered out from behind inky black clouds... and from some perch high above the city, two figures stood watching. Crouched there between archaic stone gargoyles they watched... one male, one female - both clothed in black and shadows. Then they were gone... one moment they were there and the next they were gone... the only sign was the sound of their coats fluttering behind them. Where they had gone so quickly was anyone's guess...

They weren't the only ones watching... there were lots of moving shadows keeping their eyes and ears open for any bit of news... any information they could capture. The shadows weren't the only entities out and about... they were just the darkest ones. Somewhere down on the city streets there were many people bustling about the ancient looking city.

Among them was one young woman who wouldn't stand out if she were all alone in the square. She was dressed simply if not plainly... jeans and a t-shirt with a faded, well worn leather jacket and equally well worn boots. Her hair was a curtain of faded reddish brown curls and it hung limply in her face... It wasn't exactly that she didn't care, it was more that she didn't have time to care.

Things were being set into motion... forces were acting to bring these odd people together... but it was working slowly, staying subtle... so as not to alert anyone to just exactly what was going on. However, things were going to come to a head very soon. And so the pieces were slowly moving into their places. Soon time would reveal just what plan was going on involving these people from seemingly different worlds.